LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series 75181 Y-wing Starfighter [Review]
The latest LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series set is 75181 Y-wing Starfighter. Read our hands-on review, including comparisons to the previous UCS Y-wing from 2004.
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LEGO Star Wars set designers discuss 75181 UCS Y-wing Starfighter [Video]
Learn what it’s like to be a LEGO Star Wars set designer in this video interview with model designer Jordan David Scott and graphic designer Madison O’Neil!
B is for beauty, and B-Wing Starfighters too
Patrick Lacroix builds a beauty of a B-Wing that it rightly deserves.
LEGO Star Wars UCS 75181 Y-wing Starfighter Announced [News]
LEGO has just announced the next LEGO Star Wars USC set – a stunning 75181 Y-wing Starfighter!
Enforcing the law in a single-seat escort starfighter
With lovely details and great color blocking, we’d love to be captured by this Space Police spacecraft by Jeremy Williams.
Protect Naboo with a microscale Naboo Starfighter [Instructions]
Naboo is an idyllic world close to the border of the Outer Rim Territories in the fictional Star Wars world. It is a peaceful place inhabited by humans, called the Naboo, and an indigenous amphibian species called the Gungans. Protecting their home is essential, and the Naboo Starfighter is the sleek craft that patrols the Continue reading →
Classic Space Supra-light Starfighter
If like me, Jonathan Samson, you were a child of the 80’s, chances are higher than a snowflake in the White House that you’ll remember LEGO Classic Space. As long as I can remember I have always wanted my own Classic Space Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP – allow me to present the Fruit Bat. Affectionately named for the Megabat family Pteropodidae – due in part to its stunning manoeuvrability Continue reading →
DF-47 “Hawk” Starfighter
The DF-47 Hawk is a “polyvalent starfighter” designed by BobDeQuatre for the Mars Conglomerate. Built to patrol the borders and escort freighters, the fighter compensates for its lack of armor with excellent maneuverability. Another brilliant entry into the Real World +200 Starfighter Contest, this stud-less LEGO starfighter looks lighting-fast in white and red. Bob has done well to achieve Continue reading →
Get your helmet on and pilot this red-hot starfighter
Some spaceships are made for carrying cargo, others for deep space exploration. But there is no doubt that Leonard ZX is a ship designed for the offensive manoeuvres of war. Flavio has designed the starship Leonard ZX with speed and agility at the fore, with a sleek nose leading to a powerful, edgy hull. I Continue reading →
ORCA starfighter is a thing of beauty
Australian builder Shannon Sproule has once again created a stunningly unique sci-fi model. Shannon has a real knack for being able to use a minimalist parts palette to great effect in his builds. The repeated pattern of the white tiles on the side of this craft is what initially catches the eye, but the various Continue reading →
LEGO Star Wars 75172 Y-wing Starfighter from Rogue One [Review]
With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story available for purchase beginning today, we’re circling back to some of the 2017 LEGO Star Wars sets we haven’t reviewed yet, starting with 75172 Y-wing Starfighter. This is the fifth minifig-scale Y-wing that LEGO has released since 1999 and the largest at 691 pieces. 75172 Y-wing Starfighter depicts Continue reading →
Battle above unknown worlds in a vertical starfighter
Nick Trotta’s series of detailed and unusually shaped starfighters continues with a vertical fighter named Volkite. The verticality combined with excellent color blocking and smooth transitions between sections of the craft make an eye-catching model. On his YouTube, Nick shows a couple videos about Volkite. The video below shows how each chunk of the starfighter Continue reading →