Well, that was certainly quick. The highly anticipated new set 10188 Death Star is now available for preorder from the LEGO Shop online.
3,803 pieces. 399.99 USD. Ships on September 16, 2008.
EDIT: Jesus Diaz over at Gizmodo has the full list of minifigs and features. What the heck is a Phlutdroid? Oh, I see.
UPDATE: 10188 Death Star is now available for preorder from the LEGO Shop.
The intrepid Eurobrickers who comb the LEGO.com image cache for new files have found photos of the upcoming LEGO Star Wars set 10188 Death Star.
The box art:
At least twenty-one (21!) minifigs:
The set even comes with a small TIE Advanced fighter (aka “Darth Vader’s TIE fighter”):
Check out Eurobricks or reader Will’s photoset for a couple more pics.
Check out this well-built model of the Droid Tri-fighter from Star Wars by Brickshelf user rack911. While there has not been many recent noteworthy UCS (ultimate collector series) Star Wars creations, there has been two good tri-fighter models in the past by Reto and wintermoog.
Eurobricks has the first pictures of the newest Star Wars sets: Homing Spider-Droid and The Twilight. While we can’t make out much details from these images, I can see that there will be new unique minifigs, including Ahsoka. The Homing Spider-Droid looks especially well-designed while The Twilight can be a good set for more bley colored pieces. I look forward to these as with any Star Wars set.
So now that I’m an Ambassador, is this post legal? ;)
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:
Castle builder Piotr Lewandowski has recreated several iconic scenes from the Star Wars universe as Castle vignettes.
Here’s “Duel of Mates” (inspired by “Duel of the Fates” between Qui-Gon Gin and Darth Maul in Episode I):
And another duel, on “BestPin,” between Luke Groundwalker and Darth Father (heh heh):
(Via VignetteBricks.)
A group shot of the upcoming Star Wars minifigs in the summer ’08 sets were found in the latest issue of Star Wars Insider. Start getting excited! :)
Via Eurobricks
UPDATE: Voting on this set ended on May 17, 2008.
The LEGO Company and Toys R Us want to create the perfect set to add to your 2009 LEGO Star Wars collection. Vote on the scene you like best!
Here are the options:
Click here to see more details and cast your vote.
Via Eurobricks
The ever so whimsical and wild Shannon Young adds a new touch to the classic droids from Star Wars, making them totally bad@$$.
Well, this was somewhat unexpected. The new LEGO Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sets are now available from the LEGO Shop.
All four new LEGO Indy sets:
Even more unexpectedly, the new 10186 General Grievous figure is also available:
One of the things that got me into Star Wars back in the 90’s was the PC game Dark Forces (released in 1995).
Tim “RogueBantha” Goddard has created a vignette to showcase his microscale Moldy Crow (an older creation):
I wasted far too many hours late at night blowing stormtroopers away with the concussion rifle and avoiding thermal detonators thrown by three-eyed Grans (“Tink tink tink…BOOM!”). Ah, good times…
Tim’s latest is actually a lovely little Theta-class shuttle, shown here with Palpatine and a pair of clones:
Flickr member 713 Avenue recently developed an interest in photo shooting Star Wars trooper minifigs with Apple products and other whimsical settings. The results are interesting and comical, they definitely define some personality underneath the helmets of these minifigs.
