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And here are pictures of Cloud City, the playset, as it stands today:










Next up, as the top piece of the playset, is the Carbon-Freezing Chamber. To make it work, I had to install a little lift in the back of level 2 to allow for the figures to be lowered into the chamber. The circle on the roof will eventually be the center of the CFC:


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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Modular Cloud City
« on: July 15, 2005, 08:32 AM »
The last room for this level is Chewie's junk room. This is where I did the bulk of my work this summer.



I mad a ton of junk for this room (as shown earlier) and a half of it is "dedicated" (ie glued in place) while the rest is stackable around the room or on the conveyor or whatever. The above pic is the room with its bare bones junk, including dead IG-88:



No other real "play features" in here, but it's fun to have stuff for the ugnaughts to toss around:







The crate for the Threepio parts is actually the tray to a pack of Gummi-Savers I happened to scavenge at Halloween, painted white. I'd like to make a few more but I haven't seen a single pack of the "fun size" ones since!

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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Modular Cloud City
« on: July 15, 2005, 08:23 AM »
Onto the holding cell. I gave a bit of a detailed "putting together" of this room as I built the walls, but here it is finished:





I included the shelf for Threepio, as well as the fan/grill on the ceiling that annoyed Chewie so. I also made a removable bench for Han to crash on:





I'm very pleased with this room, it's fun to "play" in.






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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Modular Cloud City
« on: July 15, 2005, 08:16 AM »
Next is the hallway, also previewed a few times earlier in the year:







The problem I can see I'm going to have here is the rubbing off of the painted doors on their tracks in the walls...already the front door has needed a touch-up during photographing. I guess not everything works as planned.

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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Modular Cloud City
« on: July 15, 2005, 08:12 AM »
Let's start with the torture room.





The biggest deal here is the torture rack I made and previewed back in December:





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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Modular Cloud City
« on: July 15, 2005, 08:08 AM »
Hey guys, miss me?  ;D

This customizing section sure has blosssomed since my last visit around March or so. Lots of cool new work here, that's for sure, but that might be a topic for another time...

If I'm back, you know that means I have completed Cloud City level 2 pictures to show you all. Once again the project got put on the backburner as I got a new job this spring, then turned around and got married in May. As of June I went back to work on this monster, and here I am to show you the results.

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Vader's TIE / TIE Bomber Question...
« on: February 27, 2005, 08:47 PM »
Thanks, Jesse. You rock! My Vader's TIE has been packed away since 1998, so I barely remember what the thing looked like. This knowledge will come in very...handy...

 ;D

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Original Trilogy Collection / Vader's TIE / TIE Bomber Question...
« on: February 26, 2005, 06:06 PM »
A quick question for someone with a Vader's TIE and a TIE Bomber handy for comparison:

Are they the same dimensions? Is the Bomber wider? I can't imagine it would be taller or longer, since I remember hearing they have the same wing panels, but how do they compare size-wise?

Thanks in advance.

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: The Mustafar Playset...
« on: February 26, 2005, 05:43 PM »
Thirty bucks is just about right for that playset, though if you figure in the "Battle Arena" figures, you're really paying about fifteen bucks for the playset itself. Not too shabby, and definitely an incentive for those who would be wishy-washy on the subject.

Too bad they won't take a risk on a "knock your socks off" item at a fifty-dollar pricepoint (a la the OTC Millenium Falcon) for this last big push...unless that AT-TE or Turbo Tank materializes this fall.

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It's weird, I will probably go to this one, but I can't say I'll be buying much. Guess it's just the StarWars geek in me needing to gawk at all the new stuff as soon as I can.

I was getting ready to go to bed in April of '99 when a news story came on about the "Midnight Madness" for TPM, including some shots of some of the toys. I had stopped collecting at that point, but seeing the Jabba Glob and Sith Speeder on TV made me change my plans and drive out to the nearest Wal*Mart that night. I got there just before midnight to find a nice-sized crowd waiting. I figured, "eh, I'd like a young Obi-Wan and maybe that JarJar character" and wound up buying almost all of the first 18 that night. I even hung around a while til they restocked so I could get a Maul. Then I didn't buy another toy until the CommTech ANH figures hit.

For AOTC I had been seeing the pictures for months of the stuff leaking and at Toy Fair, but I was mostly hoping Bespin Luke and Vader would be out. I bought a ton of figures that night, pretty much everybody except the Jedi figures or Battle Droids. I felt lucky to get a Yoda and a Dooku, not to mention Hangar Anakin. Still, I didn't pick up any deluxes or beasts or ships (were there ships? I don't even remember).

This time I'm looking to pick up maybe three or four figures out of the initial twenty, but it feels like old times going out at midnight to see the display all shiny and new. I'll go just for the fun of it.

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: "Evolutions" assortment...
« on: February 22, 2005, 05:38 PM »
What I'd really like to see is a McQuarrie "concept" figure thrown in of each character somehow, too, that way you could work in some more of the iconic characters that don't change much through the OT, like:

Darth Vader (concept, ANH, unmasked)
Chewbacca (concept, ANH, ESB with dedicated sack o'Threepio)
Boba Fett (concept, toon, ESB)
Artoo (concept, ANH, ROTJ "shocked open")
Threepio (concept, AOTC, ANH)

But that's not ever going to happen...

(And doesn't it suck that there's no good ROTJ Han Solo yet? It was all I could do to use the slab.)

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: "Evolutions" assortment...
« on: February 22, 2005, 05:13 PM »
Ummm...it's a really craptastic Leia figure, that's all...

(I knew I should've gone with Slave Leia like JediMAC suggested...)

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: "Evolutions" assortment...
« on: February 22, 2005, 04:50 PM »
So, there was no hint of these at the Toy Fair, huh? I guess it's safe to say there's nothing to be excited about with them, then, just old figures in new packaging.

Still, it would've been great for them to surprise us with something OT like:






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Revenge of the Sith / Re: The Mustafar Playset...
« on: February 21, 2005, 09:48 PM »
I've been looking at these pictures and mulling over how I feel about this playset for the past few days...

While it's not jawdropping, or "take your breath away" toymaking, I think it's a worthy successor to the playsets of the Vintage era. I'd even go so far as to say it picks up right where the Ewok Village, Dagobah, and the Imperial Attack Base left off, if not the Death Star itself. Self-contained, a little bit cheesy, full of fun action features.

The two figures who come with it are on the boring side, but it just goes to show Hasbro could've just made this into a standard "vs." pack instead. As it is, it's sort of the ultimate "vs." set...at least they went with this form of dueling figures this time around. I would've hated to see this set ruined by "force-flippers" features.

In the end, this has to be the most looked forward to Star Wars playset of the past twenty years. Had you asked a kid in 1983 what playset they wanted most from the "new" movies, they wouldn't've said the Jedi Council...for that kid in 1983, this set would've been the bee's knees.

To sum up: I like it, in a vintagey way. I may even have to custom up some vintagesque Anakin and Obi-Wan figures for it.

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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Modular Death Star
« on: February 17, 2005, 11:31 AM »
NiubNiub has updated with news on his Modular Death Star, to be featured as the Diorama Workshop at this year's Celebration:



Now, while I called my playset modular, this is the real deal. Interchangable pieces that can be put together in a million different combinations, and likely will be as the thing comes together at the celebration. My one beef is the reliance on stickers, but it's designed to be an entry-level diorama so not much you can do there. At sixty feet wide or so, it's gonna be neat to see...

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