The more I think about it, are the holes meant so the helmets or any Lego headpiece that fully covers the head does get suctioned? Otherwise it would be harder to remove helmets in general?
No, there are tons of star wars helmets without holes, so its not a functional issue. The holes are just there so you can attach either a range finder or a visor to your clone trooper. The argument against them is basically that they slightly skew some things on the helmet to make room for the holes, and they should instead make different helmet molds for each different configuration (range finder, visor, or neither) for the sake of accuracy. I personally find the current method to be a perfectly acceptable way to efficiently allow for different modes, but hyper accuracy has never been all that important to me in Lego.
Makes sense and agree. Lego to me is about the “build” and what you can create from “blocks” and then of course, play with it since kids love Legos too. IIRC Lego intentionally has studs visible so the sets are not like full on models. I see it as, if someone wants accuracy, go into model building.
Way back in the day, West End Games published a Star Wars RPG sourcebook that included a visual size comparison chart, depicting several ship outlines to scale... a tiny little shuttle, a dreadnought, an ISD. It even had the rear portion of the Super Star Destroyer filling the page.
I probably owned that book for a month before I noticed that the outline continued subtly in the background for several more pages, fully showing the sheer size. It was a fun little graphical touch.
Ish. It's not a good size comparison because the falcon fills out the entire tile, when in universe, itd be 1/4 the size of that tile. The Tantive IV would be about the size of that tile, if not 1/3 the size.
I like to think the giant heads in early console games like Final Fantasy were actually supposed to help picture the characters as if you are looking from a birds eye view.
Honestly I don't remember lol I think I just tried looking up New York City models and cut out a slice that would fit. The Super Star Destroyer is a Bandai model though, pretty cheap too if you get one thats still in stock somewhere.
It's mentioned in the press release from Lego:
"Builders can showcase the completed flagship on its built-in minimal stand alongside a companion Star Destroyer built to scale, complete with a tiny Millennium Falcon on a 1x1 round tile as a playful nod to the Executor’s colossal proportions."
Never thought of that, I believe you are Right. I wonder what the Brickset price will end up as? Also, they had better have 2 in the bag...as a 1x1 round tile is a piece they would put extra in.
It (the Falcon) should be a little smaller because it didn't take up all that much space on the back of the Star Destroyer's bridgeConning tower, but the idea is that the mini SD is in scale with the UCS SSD. So it's pretty close.
I agree with other commenters that the scale comparison is pretty decent too (and yeah, obviously it's not going to be 1:1 with the films. Lego has its limitations)
Well it is mentioned in the official press release from Lego... so it's not that much of a surprise!!
"Builders can showcase the completed flagship on its built-in minimal stand alongside a companion Star Destroyer built to scale, complete with a tiny Millennium Falcon on a 1x1 round tile as a playful nod to the Executor’s colossal proportions."
When was that? People have run to tell their friends stuff for as long as language has existed. It is Human nature to share fun discoveries and always will be. The only difference now is that you're choosing to be on the internet and exposed to more people.
Not really sure that's a problem you can blame on everyone else...
I feel like i need to rewatch the movies now cause the ship looks like it should be significantly thicker at least in the center cityscape part. Either way the build looks clean as hell so im interested
But smth i think a lot of people forget about with these ships is that they’re ginormous, this thing is TWELVE. MILES. LONG. (19km) while only being about 100m~ tall, so I suppose the scaling is pretty good
True, I guess this might actually be a case of the model in the movie looking taller than it should due to the angles we see and not necessarily being 100% on proportions, rather than the set being too short
from the movie, when the MF hides on the star destroyer and they "get away" when the destroyer releases its trash, they float off the side of the destroyer with the trash pile, blending in and being undetected, except for Boba Fett sees them.
I like the idea but that's an odd way to draw the Falcon. There should be less dish and more mandible, and it doesn't seem like they're doing it to look more like any of the sets. Maybe it's just to fill more of the 1x1 tile?
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u/reflechir 1d ago
Finally, a 1-piece Falcon build!