Review: 9509 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012

[Ultron32]

I like day 20.

[Flynn]

So I'm not the only one that thought the Nolan films were an uninteresting take on the character and, while good, had their fair share of flaws that kept them from being great and certainly made them inferior to the Burton films?

[Brainslugged]

So I'm not the only one that thought the Nolan films were an uninteresting take on the character and, while good, had their fair share of flaws that kept them from being great and certainly made them inferior to the Burton films?

Not to derail the thread further, but I loved the movies with the exception of Batman's voice. It's one thing if Batman wants to put on a gruff voice to scare the baddies, but he kept it up even when he was at home with Alfred and still in costume. If I was Alfred I'd have been like: "Bruce, you can stop doing the stupid voice now - it's just the two of us". gorram - that's just reminded me of Bane's stupid voice now.

Back on topic, cool little build today. I know three of the final four are going to be great, and I just pray I'm misremembering what the fourth one remaining will be.

[Athos]

Mine came without the brown (or are they dark red) 1x1s...

Steve

[Ultron32]

I'M ALIVE!!! Happy No Apocalypse!

[Ultron32]

I heard the world's not ending till 6:00 PM.

[Brainslugged]

Super Battle Droid sux. At least we know there's at least 66.6% awesome to come in the last three days.

[captain sambuca]

Lego is a rip off these days. Star Wars lego even more so. The advent calendar is all the proof of this anyone should ever need. That said- i find myself deeply fascinated seeing what is going to be behind each of those little doors. That flash speeder seems the only decent thing on the whole menu so far. And I don't even remember that appearing in that Film That Should Not Be Seen Twice.

Episode Seven just round the corner? Heaven help us all.

[The_Chosen_1]

Is there still a problem with the durability of Super Battle Droid minifigs? My minifig from 7163 Republic Gunship had an arm clip that broke for no reason at all...

[GIR3691]

Is there still a problem with the durability of Super Battle Droid minifigs? My minifig from 7163 Republic Gunship had an arm clip that broke for no reason at all...

I've found them to be really brittle. The legs clip weakens fairly quickly. I keep mine unassembled.

[Cradok]

The blue ones from 7163 are terrible, they will probably break on you, legs especially. The grey ones are still fragile, but a lot less so, I've got about a dozen and no breakages.

It's a shame that the one from the calender was the normal version, rather than the gun version, because at least that would be something slightly different to usual. Ah, well, today's was good, and the next two days are both great.

[onions]

Lego is a rip off these days. Star Wars lego even more so. The advent calendar is all the proof of this anyone should ever need. That said- i find myself deeply fascinated seeing what is going to be behind each of those little doors. That flash speeder seems the only decent thing on the whole menu so far. And I don't even remember that appearing in that Film That Should Not Be Seen Twice.

Episode Seven just round the corner? Heaven help us all.

naboo fighter from day 7 didn't do anything for you?

[Ultron32]

I personally liked day 22. It looks like the ship (basically) and then it had those transparent parts too.

[Brainslugged]

I thought the Sith ship was awesome too. Maybe I've just lowered my expectations a lot, but I thought it was a really cool little compact fighter with some great pieces and an interesting build.

[drdavewatford]

Yep - another vote for the Sith Infiltrator here. Nothing wrong with that one at all, grumpy !

[buriedbybricks]

Or, you can just stick a few blocks together in the right basic shape call in a Sith Infiltrator and laugh it up because we’ll buy whatever you throw at us.

Thanks for illustrating that point my easily impressed comrades. It's a Festivus miracle!

[CloneEmperor]

Not to be a negative nelly, but your Sith Infiltrator is built mildly incorrectly. The cheese slope at the front should be oriented opposite to how it is in your picture.

[Ultron32]

"They won't"?!?! I think DM looks cooler than R2. I guess I haven't opened it yet though. We'll see tomorrow.

[buriedbybricks]

Not to be a negative nelly, but your Sith Infiltrator is built mildly incorrectly. The cheese slope at the front should be oriented opposite to how it is in your picture.

Looks like crap either way.

[Ultron32]

That was fun. let's do it again!

P.S. I still think the sith infiltrator was pretty cool.