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Before his Vader turn, Anakin chose a ride with color

Swan Dutchman recreates the XJ-6 Airspeeder from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, not seen in LEGO since 2002’s Bounty Hunter Pursuit. Oddly enough, this is my favorite vehicle from that movie, just as it was also Anakin’s favorite for the “open cockpit and the right speed capabilities.”

Swan has captured great detail on both those fronts, showing us nice big seats with a good steering column and nicely greebled engines. Truly UCS worthy. Swan chose a great scale to capture the distinctive lines of this memorable speeder.

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A 21-inch UCS-scale Geonosian Starfighter is nothing anyone asked for

In a LEGO UCS (Ultimate Collectors Series) world of X-Wings and Millenium Falcons, Lino Martins (Hey, that’s me!) builds something no one wanted or asked for. It’s a Nantex-class Geonosian Starfighter from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, also known as a beak fighter. It boasts an opening canopy and working landing gear. That is all. Oh, and it’s 21 inches long; more than 53 centimeters to the rest of the world. This marks the first time I’ve built my own LEGO creation in a couple of years, so that should suffice as chest beating and a display of dominance right up until 15 minutes from now when something bigger and better comes along.

Here it is resting on its aforementioned landing gear.

And finally, a shot showcasing the strange cockpit.

Check out official LEGO sets as well as what others have done in a formidable UCS style in our archives.

August LEGO Star Wars sets and Soundwave now available [News]

May the Fourth may be behind us, but that doesn’t mean we’re done for big LEGO Star Wars set drops! Several LEGO themes are getting set releses this month, including Creator and Wicked, but the big draw for many fans will be the next line of Star Wars sets hitting shelves. We’ve been gradually reviewing them over the last few weeks, and if our reviews whetted your appetite, now you can get your hands on these new sets from a galaxy far, far away. It’s not all Star Wars, though – the third large-scale Transformer set, 10358 Transformers: Soundwave, will also be available in just a few days’ time.

There are plenty of others newly available – be sure to head over to LEGO.com (US | CAN | UK) to see what else is new!

Take a look at the galaxy far, far away’s latest offerings here!

LEGO Star Wars 75433 Jango Fett’s Starship: Slave I 2: Electric Boogaloo [Review]

Firespray-class starships appear to be like proverbial London buses. You wait 20 years for a specific one, and then two turn up within three months of each other! LEGO finally re-visited Jango Fett’s Slave I in style earlier this year, with the mammoth 2,970-piece 75414. But if that set’s $330 price tag is putting you off, good news! From August 1, you’ll be able to pick up 75433 Jango Fett’s Starship for a more modest US $69.99 | CAN $89.99 | UK £59.99 (and you may be able to find it on eBay or Amazon, too). This one’s only got 707 pieces, but it does feature an extra minifigure for a total of three. Read on to see if you should pick up one, both, or neither…

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LEGO Star Wars 75409 Jango Fett’s Starship: The Starship Who Shall Not Be Named [Review]

I don’t know if they have heirlooms in Star Wars, but if they do, the Slave I is surely one of the bounty-hunting Fett family’s. It made its first appearance in the Empire Strikes Back as Boba Fett’s ship, but Attack of the Clones revealed that it had once belonged to his father, Jango, albeit in a different paint scheme. The former has made up the bulk of the ship’s LEGO appearances, including a much-loved Ultimate Collector Series edition released in 2015. Ten years on, it’s the Episode II version that is getting the same treatment, in the form of 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship, containing 2,970 pieces. Release is slated for this Star Wars day (May 4th), with a retail price of US $299.99 | CAN $379.99 | UK £259.99. Is it worth a detour to Kamino? Strap in, let’s find out!

The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

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Reeks and Nexus and Acklays, oh my!

Despite being on the brink of its 25th birthday, somehow there are still locations and sets that haven’t been made into LEGO Star Wars sets. One that I’ve seen a lot of requests for recently is the Geonosian arena from Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Well, The Minikit Guy has had enough of waiting! He’s taken matters into his own hands and crafted a small section of this enormous arena. The stadium architecture is nice enough on its own, broken up with some nice texturing, and I like the way the balcony has been made with curved slopes. But the monsters are well worth a look too! You’ve got the cat-like Nexus; the rhinoceros-inspired Reek; and my personal favourite, the spidery Acklay. And look closely behind the Acklay – you might spot The Minikit Guy’s namesake hidden away in the walls!

Tim Goddard respects the planet

Well, at least Kamino, anyway. Tim Goddard recycles two great microscale Star Wars vehicles we hadn’t featured here before into a new vignette showing the intense battle between Jango Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi: