![]() ![]() Firstly we have everyone’s favourite bounty Hunter, Boba Fett, who is virtually identical to the version included in the £170 UCS Slave 1. This will probably be the most interesting part for most according to Bricklink 3 of the minigures are new. Your own, small but perfectly formed Carbon-Freezing Chamber! Most of the platform built, part of the elevator in progress Note the torture chamber(?) located on the bottom-right of the set which uses the 4 x 6 Dark red plate. Technic assembly completed and Chamber platform partially built. The partially built Technic assembly to raise/lower/rotate the Carbonite block I’ve included photos at around 15 page intervals. In keeping with my previous reviews, the weather in the UK is typically dismal at the moment and best described as ‘grey and overcast’! The instruction booklet is 68 pages and is broken into 75 steps. It also includes a Dark red 4圆 plate, and a bright Yellow Technic axle which I haven’t encountered before – an interesting addition!įirstly apologies for the rubbish photos. The great news is that the set is DSS (Dreaded Sticker Sheet) free! Another TLG oddity is the lack of consistency in the back (numbering) styles I’m sure that there’s a reason why each of the bags are different but it does seem a little strange! The set consists of 231 parts and there’s a nice array of LBG, DBG, Trans-Orange and Black. The box is almost filled with two bags plus a set of instructions. My initial impression was that it was worth the cost it’s quite heavy for that price point at about 363g (especially compared to the new Escape Pod). Top marks TLG designers, the box-art for SW sets keeps raising the bar The reverse is just as good, with a nice array of images showing specific details and play-features of the set. Ok, I’ll admit that I’m a bit biased about this, but it’s a thing of beauty! They’ve captured the feel of the scene really well and, if it wasn’t for Kylo Ren lurking in the top-right corner, it would be just about perfect. I usually wait for a decent sale before buying sets for my personal collection, but I was happy to pay the full RRP for it. ![]() I kept thinking that a new version would be produced and, after 5 years of waiting, my dreams have been realised, well sort of, with the release of a brand new and shiny Cloud City-based set for 2016! I'd intended to buy this from Shop at Home as soon as it was available, but it seems to have been on a continual ‘back-order’ since the start of January, so I ended up picking it up from a local store. I’d always wanted a 10123, but I just couldn’t bring myself to spend the sort of money that a MISB version cost when I left my dark-ages a few years ago, and the cost has spiraled upwards ever-since. Considering that Cloud City takes up a decent percentage of the screen-time in The Empire Strikes Back (aka Episode V) that’s a pretty dismal show over a 15 year period in my opinion 7111, 8012, 7252, 624 to name just a few!) and yet whilst we’ve had multiple Droid carriers, AT-ATs, AT-STs, X-Wings, Y-Wings etc, if I recall correctly there’s only been three previous Cloud City-based sets:įirstly, we had 7119 (Twin-Pod Cloud Car) which although adorable is seriously out-dated, 10123 (Cloud City) which is looking similarly a little ‘tired’ these days if I’m being honest, and finally 9678 (Twin-Pod Cloud Car & Bespin) which was released in 2012. Several of which seem to have very little appeal to anyone (e.g. I’ve said it before, but I really don’t understand TLG’s apparent disinterest for Cloud City, especially when you consider the huge array of sets that have been made since 1999. ![]() Did it meet my high expectations? Well, read on and find out! Longer-term members of Eurobricks will probably be aware that I’m just ever so slightly obsessed by all things Cloud City, so when I heard the first rumours of a new Freezing-Chamber set I was rather excited by the prospect.
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