Lego Star Wars Tie Fighter 75095 Coming May 2 in US

The new Tie Fighter 75095

Before i started collecting lego, i had been a vintage star wars fan for a long time. Tie fighters & pilots is one of my favourite character in the Star Wars legacy.

Here are some of my collection pictures. Vintage Star wars Kenner Tie Fighters from 1983.

Lego 10227 B-Wing Starfighter

Now you can experience the ultimate B-wing Starfighter from the Star Wars galaxy like never before. This fantastic model features everything you would expect from our premium collector range, including rotating, self-levelling cockpit and realistic wing configurations for landing and flight. And when you're finished battling in the skies above Endor or helping to restore freedom in the galaxy, place this highly detailed B-wing Starfighter on its own dedicated display stand and fact plaque. 


• A highly detailed Ultimate Collector Series B-wing Starfighter model
• Features rotating, self-leveling cockpit
• Features realistic wing configurations for landing and flight
• Includes display stand and fact plaque
• Model can be detached from display stand
• Measures 26" (66cm) wide and 15" (38cm) high in flight configuration, and 17" (43cm) high when mounted on display stand

Lego Star Wars & Friends Promotion Poster April 2012

Yesterday i received a new copies of Star Wars Minifigure 2012 & Friends Promotion poster plus the activity booklet. Both posters are printed on both side.

the star wars poster has the same design on both side

Lego Friends (2-sided poster)

map of Heartlake city

Lego Friends Activity Booklet 

Lego & Vintage Tie Fighters

meeting the classic figure (from 1983)

Recently I had less time on lego blogging due to work commitment. A week ago, i received the tie fighter pilot purchased from ebay, just adding an extra figure to a team of vintage tie fighters. I thought it will be cool to have a picture of this 2 figures.

Lego Star Wars 7964 Republic Frigate

Star Wars 7964 Republic Frigate, 1,015 pieces with 5 minifigures

Retail price in US 119.95. Singapore RP at S$299.90, after 20% discount at sales S$239.92. At an exchange rate of 1.25, the price in USA is at S$150. We pay S$90 more (after 20% discount), that's about 38% difference in price. Without the 20% sales, we pay an additional of S$149.90, around 50% more. I can certainly get a lot of lego with S$150!

Having paid less than USD 100 for this box including airmail from US, buyers can always source for cheap lego online. No doubt Lego Singapore is in business, but we hope they can review the lego prices here, we are having a 10-15% increament every year for the last 3 years. Lego is getting more expensive in Asia, but the prices in US are not increasing that much. The reason is we had a smaller market here.

back of the box

The minifigures, clone commander Wolffe, Wolfpack clone trooper, Eeth Koth, Quinlan Vos and Yoda. The loose minifigures of Eeth Koth & Quinlan currently cost more than USD20 each on US ebay (exclude postage)

Lego Pirates of the Caribbean Battle Pack (Jul Update)

The Pirates of the Caribbean Battle Pack is now out for sale in Singapore. The retail price at S$20.90, works out to around $4 for each figure which is quite good!

The 5 minifigures Captain Jack Sparrow, Gunner Zombie, Yeoman Zombie, Scrum and King George's Officer.

will update each individual figures in the next post

The new Star Wars KeyChain Shaak Ti at S$6.90

Hope to buy a Shaak Ti minifigure one of these days, she's one of the most expensive Stars Wars Jedi master figure.

The new alien conquest battle pack (reminds me of ipad game Tower Defense) the attacking aliens. Retail price at $24.90.

5 minifigures: Alien Invader Trooper, 2 Alien Defense Unit Soldier, Alien Invader Pilot and Business man.

The New Alien Conquest sets are avaliable in retail today (check the earlier blog post on each individual sets). They do look nice, but not into those at the moment. (waiting for discount & sales)

Lego Stuff Update for the week

Lego Golden Brick Keychain 50th Anniversary, for S$5.90. It is hard to get them at retail (even at lego stores), there is only 1 avaliable when i came across it at a small local store.

7754 Home One Mon Calamari Star Cruiser

Finally purchase this set last week, this is one of the lego set on my wanted list, bought it at a discount price. A review on the set will be made shortly. I will be using the minifigures from 8083 Rebel Trooper Battle Pack and 2 loose admiral ackbar in the photos.

Star Wars Jawa Sandcrawler MOC

Lego Sandcrawler MOC

Facts:
Minifigscale: 96 cm long, 100.5 cm long (lowered main ramp)
Weight: approximability 20 kg
Part count: over 10'000
Powerfunctions: 4 xl motors, 5 m motors, 4 receivers, 4 batterypacks, 22 Lego LED-lights

Powered radio-controlled Functions:
- driving: forward reverse
- stearing
- main ramp: up and down
- crane: up and down, in and out
- conveyer band: forward and reverse

Other features:
fully interior on three floors in the front half of the model and a detailed cockpit (removable roof) second crane in the back of the workshop, lighted smelter.

Building and planning time: 9 months

Comparing the moc sandcrawler with the Lego 10144 Sandcrawler, the later looks awful.

Star Wars Sandcrawler, from 2005 with 1,669 pieces & 8 minifigures

Lego Star Wars 66364 3 in 1 Super Pack

Lego Star Wars 66364 is avaliable in Singapore today, as i'm making this post, i believed all had been sold out.

The super pack consist of 7749 Echo Base, 8083 Rebel Trooper Battle Pack and 8084 Snowtrooper Battle Pack. Lego created super packs in order to sell them in bulk (reducing the large stock), we had already seen 8083 & 8084 on discount in retail store late last year.

back & side of the box, the start of the hoth battle scene

getting 4 boxes together with a friend

21 Jun 2010 Post on Lego Super Packs
Lego City Super Packs

10221 UCS Super Star Destroyer - Executor

Confirm release in Sept 2011 - 10221 Super Star Destroyer
Darth Vader with the bounty hunters, Dengar, IG-88, Bossk & imperial officer

"This is my personal battle cruiser…and I did not name it the Executor for nothing!"
- Darth Vader

Length of Executor: 19,000 m, with a crew of 280k, 1,590 gunners.
The mother ship with complement of 144 TIE series starfighters, TIE starfighters, interceptor, bombers, Darth Vader's TIE advance, including AT-AT walkers, speeder bikes and other combat, support ships.

Check Aryo Gono's photo link

My estimate for 10221, probably 5,000 pieces, more than USD400.

Source from Brickset:
10221 UCS Super Star Destroyer

Aryo Gono's photostream - Lego Imperial Star Destroyer Fleet
Aryo Gono's Photostream

Star Wars Information on Executor
Star Wars Wikia Executor's

Comparing Lego prices with other toys

Warcraft 3 Mountain King (dwarf). The 2 lego dwarf cost more than the mountain king (slight inflation), bought at a local sale for SGD10 (just a few years ago). Currently, you can't buy 2 lego dwarf at SGD 10. The mountain king weights 500g, 1/2 kg of plastic.

No point discussing behind my back, lego dwarves

Recent purchase of 5 legacy saga legends snowtrooper
(one of the best detailed action figure over the years)
The cost of 5 snowtoopers (including postage) is about the same price i paid for a box of Lego 8084 Snowtrooper battle pack.

The face behind the mask...
Cost of 1 saga hoth trooper = 1 lego hoth trooper

1980 vintage star wars German YPS hoth trooper (one of the rare variant) together with the lego figure, the german figure with description was first posted on my flickr album in 2007.
the lego figure will never reach the price of the vintage figure, it's quantity & history.

Been posting on lego for quite sometime, my other toys are looking forward for some exposure too. Lately, i have been looking at the current lego prices, it is easy to agree that lego prices has been increasing every year.

When a product gets more popular (higher demand), the market price don't drop with the increasing demand, but it just increases together with the market demand, this is the case for lego. This is profit maximization, however for consumers there is a way to control this.

i'm comparing action figures with lego minifigures, some of you might not agree with it.

post your comments below.

Lego Promotion Poster 2011

Lego 2011 Star Wars Mini Figure Gallery Poster

20 new Star Wars minifigures this year.

The new lego Jedi Master Shaak Ti.

Lego City 2011 is a two-sided poster

Hero Factory 2011

World Racers 2011

Duplo & Lego posters for kids

Recently Lego issued 7 new promotion posters, 2 Star Wars, Lego City, Hero Factory, World Racers, Dulop and the Lego poster. With the earlier 3 Ninjago Posters, there are 10 new posters this year.

Later this year, we will probably have Cars, Pirates of Caribbean and Kingdoms. Check the earlier post on the Ninjago posters and Lego Promotion Poster for 2010.

Lego Star Wars Ewoks Attack (2011)

Lego 7956 Star Wars Ewoks Attack (total 166 pieces)
USD24.99 (suggested retail price in US)
With 3 minifigures, Biker Scout, Logray (medicine man), Tokkat

Logray looks good!

Before I became a lego fan, I was a vintage star wars fan, ewoks was one of my focus area. I spend around 5 years buying up vintage star wars stuff. At the moment, I don't own a single lego ewok minifigure. This new set has 2 nice figures which i'm considering (might just buy the loose figures)

On this blog, I would like to share my vintage star wars ewoks moc (mint on cards), picture taken about 1.5 yrs ago. I'm short of the final 2 carded figures teebo (with coin) and wicket (with coin), i have no intention of buying them as it will cost more than USD 1,000 (furthermore they are not available in the market most of the time, simply too tedious to find one).

Vintage Star Wars ROTJ & Power of the Force MOC, total eight ewoks from Kenner

I enjoyed collecting all vintage ewoks related stuff (playsets & others), but stopped buying them about 2 years ago. By the way, i have yet to find out how many different lego ewoks minifigures are there *, knowing there are wicket, chief chirpa. The question is whether i'm going into building a lego ewoks army? Liked what i did for the vintage star wars ewoks and other figures, it is something i don't wish to start :)

* friend had updated me on the number of different lego ewoks. thanks!

Lego Ninjago Singapore

Ninjago figures selling S$20.90 each (a few cards and a minifigure)
there are buyers willing to pay in Singapore. A rip off?

2 smaller sets are Ninja Ambush 2258 S$13.90, the other Ninja Training outpost 2516, at $10.90

the white chinese dragon - 2260 Ice Dragon Attack

Spinjitzu Dojo 2504, S$79.90 (set with the old master figure)

Was in town last night for dinner, after dinner walked to the nearby departmental store Robinson and checked out the new lego prices. On sales are City Police, Star wars and the creator sets.

Not getting anything at the moment, but will probably buy the ninja training outpost later.

Ninja Training Outpost Retail Price:

In Canada it is $6.99, in the US it is $4.99.