Star Wars LEGOs

[Ivan2006]

I interested in Chima *---*

Chima? All the LEGOs in the world to choose from, and you went with Legends of Chima?

Well, Chima looked like "least original LEGO franchise ever" to me...

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Poggle the Lesser's staff is brown in the set. Really, LEGO? Really? That was so easy. How did they manage to screw it up?

[Ivan2006]

Poggle the Lesser's staff is brown in the set. Really, LEGO? Really? That was so easy. How did they manage to screw it up?

I guess they didn´t have a production line for beige sticks?

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Poggle the Lesser's staff is brown in the set. Really, LEGO? Really? That was so easy. How did they manage to screw it up?

I guess they didn´t have a production line for beige sticks?

They could've gone with white, though. The staff is made of bones. They've got white sticks.

[Ivan2006]

Poggle the Lesser's staff is brown in the set. Really, LEGO? Really? That was so easy. How did they manage to screw it up?

I guess they didn´t have a production line for beige sticks?

They could've gone with white, though. The staff is made of bones. They've got white sticks.

They propably thought it was some roots and don´t have the background knoledge to think otherwise.
That´s the result you get EVERY time you let someone design merchandise for something he soesn´t even know...

[Chairman_Tiel]

If I'm not mistaken, all staffs in Lego Star Wars are just a brown lightsaber tube. It wouldn't be the first time the company's made a 'mistake' like that to cut costs.

At least it isn't like those old pre-mummified geonosians..

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If I'm not mistaken, all staffs in Lego Star Wars are just a brown lightsaber tube. It wouldn't be the first time the company's made a 'mistake' like that to cut costs.

At least it isn't like those old pre-mummified geonosians..

Palpatine came with a black staff in one of the very early sets. All staffs up to this point have been correct, though. I can't think of another time they've given a Star Wars character something of completely the wrong color, although early clone troopers came with blasters with orange bolts instead of blue.

[Prototype]

thats probably because untill then all lego blasters had orange bolts

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LEGO has released their Star Wars Day UCS X-wing. It is rare among Star Wars sets in that it is built at larger than minifigure scale. Despite this, its astromech droid is a standard R2-D2 minifigure, and thus noticeably too small for the rest of the fighter. Why would they do this, you ask, especially given that the UCS Delta-7 a year or so ago came with a larger, properly scaled astromech droid? I don't know. Presumably it was the same person who thought blue stormtroopers with shields were an acceptable substitute for new clone trooper minifigures.

[Prototype]

LEGO has released their Star Wars Day UCS X-wing. It is rare among Star Wars sets in that it is built at larger than minifigure scale. Despite this, its astromech droid is a standard R2-D2 minifigure, and thus noticeably too small for the rest of the fighter. Why would they do this, you ask, especially given that the UCS Delta-7 a year or so ago came with a larger, properly scaled astromech droid? I don't know. Presumably it was the same person who thought blue stormtroopers with shields were an acceptable substitute for new clone trooper minifigures.

It's Lego, just use the other ASM droid part rather than the one in the set, you are allowed to do that you know.

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LEGO has released their Star Wars Day UCS X-wing. It is rare among Star Wars sets in that it is built at larger than minifigure scale. Despite this, its astromech droid is a standard R2-D2 minifigure, and thus noticeably too small for the rest of the fighter. Why would they do this, you ask, especially given that the UCS Delta-7 a year or so ago came with a larger, properly scaled astromech droid? I don't know. Presumably it was the same person who thought blue stormtroopers with shields were an acceptable substitute for new clone trooper minifigures.

It's Lego, just use the other ASM droid part rather than the one in the set, you are allowed to do that you know.

Unfortunately the other figure is R4-P17, and the one I need is R2-D2. In any case, the set is designed to have an actual minifigure in that seat. It is both wrong and stupid, but that's how it is, and fixing it would require redesigning the set and rebuilding with parts I don't have.

[Prototype]

LEGO has released their Star Wars Day UCS X-wing. It is rare among Star Wars sets in that it is built at larger than minifigure scale. Despite this, its astromech droid is a standard R2-D2 minifigure, and thus noticeably too small for the rest of the fighter. Why would they do this, you ask, especially given that the UCS Delta-7 a year or so ago came with a larger, properly scaled astromech droid? I don't know. Presumably it was the same person who thought blue stormtroopers with shields were an acceptable substitute for new clone trooper minifigures.

It's Lego, just use the other ASM droid part rather than the one in the set, you are allowed to do that you know.

Unfortunately the other figure is R4-P17, and the one I need is R2-D2. In any case, the set is designed to have an actual minifigure in that seat. It is both wrong and stupid, but that's how it is, and fixing it would require redesigning the set and rebuilding with parts I don't have.

Simple, repaint it yourself, I did this to a storm trooper minifigure to turn it into a pigmask captain.

[Chairman_Tiel]

You know, there's a reason people build stuff in survival mode, there's a reason people don't make saves every 5 minutes in RPGs and reload if the slightest thing goes wrong, and there's a reason you don't mutilate your LEGOs to make them look like something else. For one, you can do some serious damage if you don't know what you're doing, and the end result almost always looks terrible if that's the case. Secondly, it shouldn't be the role of the consumer to correct idiocy on a corporation's part. Though it's fallen out of use in recent years, there's a saying - "the customer is always right". Unless they're a troll, that usually holds true.

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I've tried painting LEGOs, when I first wanted clone trooper officers. I painted three clones with green markings and one with blue, to get the officers I needed for my platoon. They looked horrible, and I ended up buying replacement helmets on Ebay and stealing new arms from Mars Mission astronauts. I can't say that I'll never try to modify LEGO pieces again, but I certainly won't do it like that, and I would never have done it with a piece as rare and complicated as the atromech droid head. I don't even like changing the build of LEGO sets, although I did in the past, and I've been working since last September on fixing the damage I did to my collection in the process. I still have months of work to do, at this rate. So modifying the LEGOs isn't really an option, which is why it annoys me that LEGO doesn't just do it right when they sell the product. As Tiel said, I shouldn't have to dig though my box of parts to make a set work or look the way it's supposed to. My AT-TE's cannons still usually fail to fire when you press on the panel, even with the plates I put under them, and I still haven't figured out how the Malevolence's flick-fire assemblies are supposed to work. There's a bunch of gears and @#$% there that's clearly supposed to do something and fire the missiles, but who knows what it is or how you activate it. Perhaps it's build wrong? I dunno, and I've been working with LEGOs for long enough that I generally know. That really shouldn't be the case. If I purchased Jek-14's Stealth Starfighter and, say, $100 worth of aftermarket grey parts, I could probably replace all the black bits and get an actual E-wing, and have a set that belongs in Star Wars and that's worth playing with, but I shouldn't have to do that. Likewise, when they sell one of only a half-dozen or so sets that are built at larger than minifigure-scale, they should make some amount of effort to ensure that it's not designed with a stupidly undersized astromech minifigure. I've already got one of the minifigure-scale X-wings, and it's one of my favorite sets, because it feels (with good reason) like they made and sold loads of different versions and refined it until it was perfect. The astromech droid looks great there. The properly scaled astromech droid looked great on the Delta-7. But this doesn't, and that annoys me a lot given that UCS sets are designed specifically to be accurate and look awesome on display.

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There are pictures of the Jedi Defender-Class Cruiser on Brickipedia. It comes with a Sith trooper and three people I don't recognize: a grey-skinned Sith with a red hood and two lightsabers, a Zabrak Jedi with a blue lightsaber, and an odd green Jedi wearing a white version of Luminara Unduli's hat with a double-bladed green lightsaber.