Built Jedi Scout Fighter (#75051)

Jedi Scout Fighter in it's box

Today I finished my Jedi Scout Fighter (#75051) which I had ordered from Prisma for 55€. It is a set based on The Yoda Chronicles, so I'm not sure it'll have big value for money for reselling. But I want to complete my collection as well as possible and it wasn't that expensive, so I decided to pick it up before it retires. I'm quite sure it's gonna retire in the end of this year as I find hard to think of any reason why it should get one more year. OT or even PT fans might find it a disappointment and most of the fans of The Yoda Chronicles are kids. And they find it cool as "That's the fighter I saw on the TV!". And it's getting an old thing now.

Look at the cockpit, an Ithorian, yeah!

Whatever... it was a nice build, anyway. I had great time building it but I must say it was such a fast build. No problems, so good set to small kids who find battle packs too easy and want to build something bigger. For a long-time collector it's maybe even too easy.

How about the minifigs? Eh, they are interesting looking but not must-haves for a collector as they are not either iconic or army building minifigs. But on the other hand we get an Ithorian for the very first time and the head piece is cool and very unique. What comes to the three others, I'm not that exited.

Overall it's a nice set to have but not a must-have. If you find it for a price under RRP, that's a deal you have to consider. If not, don't buy it unless you are a 100% completionist or a fan of The Yoda Chronicles.

Death Star Is Retiring!

If you were planning on ordering Death Star (#10188) in the US, you just run out of time. It has been sold out! S@H has sold it out. Target and Walmart say "out of stock" which seems to mean sold out in this case. TRU hasn't it available either.

In Europe, it's still available, so hurry up if you want one.

On eBay, you can get it with about 400 euros.

Planets Got Series 4 - How About Microfighters?

Planets made it all the way to series 4. Anyway, they divided the opinions of LSW collectors. Some found them interesting, some didn't get it. Personally I kind of liked them but series 5 would have been maybe a bit too much anyway. Even there were planets left... Mustafar, Geonosis, Dagobah, just to mention some.

B-wing pilot was one of the most
interesting minifigs in the planet series.

During the planet series we got 12 planets (or other space objects), mini-vehicles and minifigs. Some of the minifigs were quite interesting like Lobot, but there were disappointments as well. I wasn't too exited about another standard Clone Trooper we got with Coruscant.

Then TLG annouced they'll start a similar theme, Microfighters. Microfighters are a bit bigger than the vehicles in the planet series and they have more play features. We didn't get planets anymore, but we still got minifigs. But the minifigs have been too usual for me.

We have 2 series of Microfighters so far so as many Microfighters as we got the planet sets. How many Microfighters will we get? Time will show it. The other question is, do we want it or do we hope TLG will come up with something totally new?

B-wing pilot was one of the most
interesting minifigs in the planet series.

Baseplates 2015

I've picked up quite a few new baseplates already for my MOC project. Sand baseplate (32x32 studs) was a really welcome add. Blue baseplates retired but I still have a few, waiting for use.

There are also available grey baseplates (48x48 studs) and green baseplates (32x32 studs), as well as CITY-themed road baseplates and DUPLO baseplates.

Baseplates are almost necessary when building large MOCs. What else can a SW MOCer ask for? A white baseplate for Hoth or a dark green for Dagobah? Maybe a red one for Mustafar and so on?

You can get retired baseplates quite cheaply from eBay. But I recommend to pick up a few sand baseplates as long as they're available in stores if you find them atleast a little bit interesting and useful.



There are multiple ways to use baseplates.

It's Watto Time

Watto from Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba's Podracers

TLG will release new Sith Infiltrator (#75096) this year and we'll get our third version of Watto. Personally I found Watto as one of the those more interesting characters in the prequels. When I had started collecting LSW, Watto was one of my first must-haves. But when I found out that the only set where Watto was included was Watto's Junkyard (#7186) from 2001 and that it cost about 200£ on amazon.co.uk, I was only toying with the idea of having Watto someday as I rarely bought single minifigs. I wasn't so up to date about Briclink and eBay and Amazon was just kidding with the minifig prices.

Then, in 2011, TLG released Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba's Podracers (#7962) and a remake of Watto. I was exited and bought the set. The new version of Watto was a lot more accurate which I found as a great thing.

The third version of Watto is quite similar with the one back in 2011. So, I won't buy Sith Infiltrator for Watto, atleast. But I don't have a Sith Infiltrator so maybe I'll pick it up anyway.