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75144 - UCS: Snowspeeder


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4 hours ago, Furious_george said:

Hahaha poofage. Always wondered why Americans where always saying "poof" on here till I realised  they meant disappeared.

Word poof is very different here. :)

Yeah, I was just watching "The Imitation Game" last night...very different slang across the pond

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2 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

And there's an AT-AT pictured on the box, which I read as a clear sign that AT-AT will be the other UCS set this year.  Actually, that would be really cool, though I can't imagine the two sets being to-scale with each other.

Er, never mind.  The pictured box is the one for the previous UCS Snowspeeder.

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8 hours ago, GhostDad said:

And there's an AT-AT pictured on the box, which I read as a clear sign that AT-AT will be the other UCS set this year.  Actually, that would be really cool, though I can't imagine the two sets being to-scale with each other.

Er, never mind.  The pictured box is the one for the previous UCS Snowspeeder.

I still think an UCS AT-AT is on the way which would nicely compliment this set.

Funny thing is all Lego really needs to do is beef up 10178 (leave in the motorized PFs) and mark it up to $300. Note: 2008’s 10178 $130 MSRP is about $150 after inflation.  If the PF elements were left out, then the AT-AT can be larger.

heck, just about AT-AT can be the basis for a UCS one.

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It seems mid-size as it's quite a few studs smaller than 10129. Yet another half-arsed utter disappointment from the deteriorating LEGO company. I'm no longer excited about the new "UCS" MF and I think 10179 owners are now safe. Diehard fans want bigger and better, not smaller and poorer! LEGO is going down the pan and, for that reason... I'm out!

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1 minute ago, TabbyBoy said:

It seems mid-size as it's quite a few studs smaller than 10129. Yet another half-arsed utter disappointment from the deteriorating LEGO company. I'm no longer excited about the new "UCS" MF and I think 10179 owners are now safe. Diehard fans want bigger and better, not smaller and poorer! LEGO is going down the pan and, for that reason... I'm out!

Fully agree...

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I cannot really understand, why to make UCS set from such marginal machine. For me UCS cathegory is for big machines, buildings and legendary items. Snowspeeder is not in such cathegory. What would be the next UCS set - landspeeder, or Rey speeder? And they are making this UCS set already for SECOND time !!! We have had already UCS snowspeeder, why to make another UCS from NOT-legendary machine, while we have still a lot of items, which were not created as UCS and are much important in SW space - A-AT, Jabba palace, Trade federation battleship, etc. If doing UCS remake, lets make just legends - falcon, DS II, ISD, etc.

Another bad point of this set is downsizing - the way how to keep same prices but for less pieces (another ugly method can be seen with DS - fake retirement and quick small update for bigger price). So we cannot expect miracles with new, rumoured falcon - they will not produce a set with more than 5000 pieces for just 500 bucks, but increasing the price to 600 could be risky. So they will produce something in range 3000-3500 for 400 bucks, or 4000-4500 pieces for 500 bucks.

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Just now, fantomas007 said:

I cannot really understand, why to make UCS set from such marginal machine. For me UCS cathegory is for big machines, buildings and legendary items. Snowspeeder is not in such cathegory. What would be the next UCS set - landspeeder, or Rey speeder? And they are making this UCS set already for SECOND time !!! We have had already UCS snowspeeder, why to make another UCS from NOT-legendary machine, while we have still a lot of items, which were not created as UCS and are much important in SW space - A-AT, Jabba palace, Trade federation battleship, etc. If doing UCS remake, lets make just legends - falcon, DS II, ISD, etc.

What planet are you on (not Hoth anyway)? The Snowspeeder is an iconic set from one of the coolest scenes in all of the movies, just because it didn't have much on screen time doesn't make it any less cool. Slave-1 got very little time in the OT too, do you think that's not iconic enough either?

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