2004/2005 Hunting Star Wars Sets and availability

[The Middleman]

I would've actually welcomed a new Luke - we don't have a flesh one yet.

[languages]

Ive already seen this set. Its really cool. One of the benifits of the Inside Tour..... :-D ;)

[Wolf04]

Oh, I think I need a new pair of pants...I just wet my pants because of excitement. Looks good, much better than I thought.

[Mr. Lego-builder]

Ive already seen this set. Its really cool. One of the benifits of the Inside Tour..... :-D ;)

We are narrowing down the details of the Insider Tour, Languages! You better spill the beans soon! :-D

[KimT]

Finally we get Uncle Lars Owen... about time. Perhaps there will be a set with Aunt Beru as well. The my collection would be perfect (give or take a few of the SW characters). I can't wait to get my hands on those jawas. Perhaps I should get 2 sets at once... I think the Sandcrawler is great. One of the better SW sets to come out of the LEGO factory in a while.

MUST HAVE...BRICKS SHINY....MUST HAVE

KimT

"Onwards Men"

"Victory Is At Hand"

-Famous Last Words

[ImperialJohn]

For me. A BIG disapointment. *sick*

What ever happend to the prototype plate one :(

The one that looked like the AT-AT

First the colors. With plates they could have made shadow effect . Now it is White/tan/black bricks :|

And the rest. Well.....

It might hit my shelf at one point - but way out in the future on 90% clearence.

[jonfett]

I actually really like this set. It has everything that I was expecting and I don't think Lego did a bad job at all. The colour scheme isn't too bad, but the stickers are (although expected) disappointing.

The figures looks great, Uncle Owen is a nice change from Luke (but now people are complaining that we don't have a Luke :| ) The 3 Jawas look quite neat and the selction of driods is good, is it just me or does the red one with the tan plate on its head look like a light up??

Anyway, I probably won't buy this straight away but I hope to get it eventually.

Jon.

[sam89]

For me. A BIG disapointment. *sick*

What ever happend to the prototype plate one :(

The one that looked like the AT-AT

There never was a prototype model with plates. Perhaps you are thinking of this MOC, because the prototype one was brick built, like the final version.

[ApophisV]

This page from a Lego magazin shows an early version of the crawler, as far as I remember the scan is at least three years old. If you compare both there hasn't been changed too much, mostly only colors...

[Starwars4J]

Personally I'm glad they went with the brick style instead of the plate style. To me plate always seems so much more fragile.

I love the number of figs, and the variety of the droids (though that gonk droid is getting at me...)

I also dislike the different colored bricks, but I might be able to replace them all myself if I can get ahold of a few more brown. I love the playability of it, it reminds me a bit of lego sets of old. I too am sad about the decal thing, but then again printed wouldn't have been much better for me. I'd rather they make it the right size and have a proper control room ;)

All in all I'm very pleased with this, and can't wait to add it to my collection (the THREE jawas was a nice plus, they'll really be a fortune for anyone looking for more on bricklink unfortunately)

[Darth Drew]

I think this is one of the best looking sets, next to the AT-AT of course.

[Starwars4J]

I never liked the head on the AT-AT though, that was my only complaint.

[Darth Drew]

I never liked the head on the AT-AT though, that was my only complaint.

Well, nothing is perfect.

[Gamma]

Crackers--! :oD :oD :oD :oo

IMO, this is one of the greatest LEGO sets ever.

G

[Mister Phes]

First the colors. With plates they could have made shadow effect . Now it is White/tan/black bricks :|

And the rest. Well.....

What did you think of the dappling effect with different shades of bricks? I'm sure I've mentioned enough times I don't like it.

[ApophisV]

The IDEA to make the hull shaded in different tones is just good! But taking colors that are so much different from another (White/Tan (I think the bright parts are tan), Brown, Black, Earth Orange) was a bad idea. The shades at Pepa's custom look very fine, since he is using the three colors old brown, new brown and Earth Orange. Those make a great rusty look. But the black and bright highlights of the official model... out of place.... :|

[yoda601]

Well to me it looks like an old fashioned classical LEGO model. That's a good thing.

[Cyclonis]

What parts are stickers? How come there isn't any bigger pics, and It looks like the red astromech has a chrome gold head (though they aren't making them anymore) or a white head or a dodgey light-up head. Are any of these true?

[xwingyoda]

I really doubt that the red astromech droid has any light up feature crap - they would have put it on the box with a "try me" insert !!!!

Its weird that the light on the box pic reflects like that on that droid though... Need more pics ;)

[snefroe]

The IDEA to make the hull shaded in different tones is just good! But taking colors that are so much different from another (White/Tan (I think the bright parts are tan), Brown, Black, Earth Orange) was a bad idea. The shades at Pepa's custom look very fine, since he is using the three colors old brown, new brown and Earth Orange. Those make a great rusty look. But the black and bright highlights of the official model... out of place.... :|

i agree.

i prefer the plates instead of bricks, but bricks are easier if you want to build a set with a very high playablity;

Cyclonis, the cockpit windows is a sticker.

i'm a bit puzzled by the threads of this thing. Sam said before that the crawler would only have 4 threads, not the 8 we see in the film. how can this thing move on only 4 rather small threads? in fact, the front picture suggests there are 8 threads...

[xwingyoda]

Sne,

The Crawler has 8 treads !!!!!!!!! (like we thought originally). However, each tread is not independant !!!!!! its a big block of 2 treads put together which gives the effect of only 4 treads totall.

I agree with you guys concerning the color of the crawler: it should need a little color change at least to get rid of the grey on the side...

We'll have a better view once TLC puts clearer pics on SAH ;)

[snefroe]

I really doubt that the red astromech droid has any light up feature crap - they would have put it on the box with a "try me" insert !!!!

Its weird that the light on the box pic reflects like that on that droid though... Need more pics ;)

yoda, this red droid is just the cilinder of the red droid+ tan round plate+round dome...

i believe it resembles the red droid in the film, which is, if remember this correctly, a bit larger than r2d2, with a full white "head". tlc had to do something to not to give the impression that this was an R4, basically a red version of r2

the reflection or whatever it is is problaby part of the front picture's drawing. that doesn't mean there's some sort of a special trick here... it refers to the red droid falling apart ...

[xwingyoda]

Sne,

if I remelmber correctly, the R4 unit doesn't have a "dome" like head.

At least the one in ANH has a conic head: weird that tlc did not provide us with this one !!!! (oh well, thats just details !!!).

Also, does anyone remember that weird green droid in the movie ??????????

[Cyclonis]

weird green droid....not really. 21B, maybe? but he was kinda blueish.

As for the droid, for the whole head instead of usind a plain white peice (oh dear!) they could have gaven him a 2x2 cylinder peice with a design on it, and then a 2x2 flat round white tile to smoothen out the top. If you understood that? :X:

[xwingyoda]

I see what you mean Cyclonis, that would have been better i'm sure - oh well it will be amelioration time !!!!!!!!!