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LEGO Star Wars is one of the most popular LEGO themes of all time. Far beyond X-wings and TIE fighters, there’s a whole expanded universe of inspiration, and an army of LEGO fans ready to build whatever comes out of George Lucas’s head next.

All the droids you’re looking for

It’s just over one week to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (a bunch of the TBB crew are seeing it Thursday night), so expect another spike in LEGO Star Wars creations here over the next while. Daniel Stoeffler has built C-3PO, R2-D2, and BB-8 from The Force Awakens to the same scale. This size lets Daniel show off a wealth of details, such as the actuators on Threepio’s neck.

BB8+R2-D2_C-3PO

As a bonus mashup, here’s the Star Wars trio with another pair of robots with winning personalities, Wall-E and EVE.

five_droids

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2015 LEGO Star Wars & LEGO Friends Advent Calendars (Day 8)

41102 LEGO Friends Advent CalendarWe’re on Day 8 of TBB’s virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series. Today’s installment, Day 8, brings us another set of mini-kits from both LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends.

We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.

Click to see the Day 8 mini-kits!

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2015 LEGO Star Wars & LEGO Friends Advent Calendars (Day 7)

75097 LEGO Star Wars Advent CalendarWe continue TBB’s virtual LEGO Advent Calendar on Day 7 with more mini-kits from LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends.

We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.

Click to see the Day 7 mini-kits!

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2015 LEGO Star Wars & LEGO Friends Advent Calendars (Day 6)

41102 LEGO Friends Advent CalendarDidn’t manage to get yourself a copy of this year’s LEGO Advent Calendars? We’ve got you covered with our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series. Today’s installment, Day 6, brings us more new mini-kits from LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends.

We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.

Click to see the Day 6 mini-kits!

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2015 LEGO Star Wars & LEGO Friends Advent Calendars (Day 5)

75097 LEGO Star Wars Advent CalendarWe pick up our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar on Day 5 with more mini-kits from LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Friends.

We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.

Click to see the Day 5 mini-kits!

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2015 LEGO Star Wars & LEGO Friends Advent Calendars (Day 4)

41102 LEGO Friends Advent CalendarWe continue our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series new mini-kits from Star Wars and Friends on Day 4.

We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.

Click to see the Day 4 mini-kits!

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2015 LEGO Star Wars & LEGO Friends Advent Calendars (Day 3)

75097 LEGO Star Wars Advent CalendarOur virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series continues on Day 3 with a new mini-kit from Star Wars and Friends.

We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.

Click to see the Day 3 mini-kits!

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TBB cover photo: December 2015

The highly anticipated new Star Wars movie opens in just two weeks – as if anyone actually needs reminding of that any more. So what better excuse to whip you all into a frenzy, dear readers, than by having a Star Wars themed TBB cover photo all month! And this previously featured AT-AT habitat by markus19840420 seemed like the perfect choice:

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2015 LEGO Star Wars & Friends virtual Advent Calendars (Day 1-2)

Because we here at The Brothers Brick have a time machine, we feel that there’s nothing particularly odd about starting our coverage of the new LEGO Advent Calendars a day late.

Each day until Christmas Eve, we’ll be revealing the mini-kits and minifigs from that day’s LEGO Star Wars and Friends Advent Calendars. Why not LEGO City? Because meh. To keep the secret alive, we’ll be posting pretty late in the day here on the US West Coast (GMT -8:00), and we’ll put that day’s reveal after the jump.

75097 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar

This isn’t really a review — we’ll save our thoughts until the end — more of a virtual Advent Calendar we can all enjoy together. So, follow along, and let us know what you think about each kit in the comments.

Click to see the Day 1 & 2 mini-kits!

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January 2016 Star Wars LEGO sets revealed, including new The Force Awakens sets [News]

Over the past few days, a bevy of new LEGO Star Wars sets have been revealed. It’s no surprise that these include sets from December 18th’s The Force Awakens, but there are also a number of sets from the previous six movies as well. We’ll keep all of The Force Awakens sets below the jump, so that you can avoid spoilers if you wish.

75137 Carbon-Freezing Chamber is an altogether new set. The only time we’ve seen any of Episode V’s Cloud City interiors previously was in 2003’s extremely rare 10123 Cloud City, the set that precipitated LEGO’s shift to flesh-colored minifigs. This set includes the new highly detailed Boba Fett and carbon-frozen Han Solo, with the Boba nearly identical to the one available in the Ultimate Collector’s Series Slave I but without arm printing. It also features a brand-new Ugnaught, one of the few characters from the original trilogy to not yet have a LEGO minifigure.

75137 Carbon-Freezing Chamber
75137 Carbon-Freezing Chamber 2


75138 Hoth Attack is a refresh of 2009’s Echo Base, and takes advantage of some newer curved slopes and LEGO’s newer, more detailed minifigure printing.
75138 Hoth Attack
75138 Hoth Attack 2


75135 Obi-Wan’s Jedi Interceptor is the third version of the Episode III-style Jedi Starfighter, following versions in 2005 and 2007. It looks snappy in Obi-Wan’s dark red and grey livery, versus Obi-Wan’s previous blue and Anakin’s yellow.

75135 Obi-Wan's Jedi Interceptor
75135 Obi-Wan's Jedi Interceptor 2


75136 Droid Escape Pod is also the third iteration of this brief scene in Episode IV, following versions in 2001 and 2012, and adds more detail and a pair of roaming Jawas this time around.

75136 Droid Escape Pod
75136 Droid Escape Pod 2


2016 will bring us another wave of the popular Star Wars chibi-sized Microfighters ships, beginning with this adorable 75129 Wookie Gunship.

75129 Wookie Gunship
75129 Wookie Gunship 2

See the rest of the 2016 Star Wars LEGO sets below! [The Force Awakens Spoilers]


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More LEGO Black Friday sales from Amazon [News]

The cheap brick just keeps coming, with more Black Friday LEGO sales from both the LEGO Shop and Amazon.com. Here are a few more I hadn’t noticed when I wrote my earlier LEGO sales & deals on Amazon roundup.

60080 Spaceport is $20 off, bringing it below a hundred bucks.

60080 Spaceport

75101 First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter from The Force Awakens is 20% off, at $55.99.

75101 First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter

Click here to see more LEGO sales & deals

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Han Solo’s “cocky” weapon of choice

Star Wars is clearly a hot topic at the moment and Rhys Knight has created his LEGO weapon of choice, Han Solo’s DL-44 Blaster.

Blaster

The BlasTech Industries DL-44 heavy blaster pistol was a powerful sidearm from the time of the Galactic Civil War. It was the weapon of choice for Han Solo and the Rebel Alliance and also wielded by Luke Skywalker throughout The Empire Strikes Back.

Rhys’ 1:1 model has a raised scope, and he shared with TBB that as the model is primarily black, he wanted there to be a clear separation.  He notes that the ‘fiddly’ aspect of the build was the rear of the telescopic sight as it had to be circular, but also flare out.  The trigger guard is actually upside down, and is attached to the grip via Part 60470 (1×2 plate with double clips) and attached to the power cell via a simple slot for the guard.

Best part for me — it cocks!

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