Lego Toy Story, Star Wars 2010 new pictures

It's that time again. That's right, new set pictures have been leaked to EuroBricks, and several people have dumped them onto Flickr. Let's take a look at what we've got in this wave...

Note: I have taken pictures from Dano on Flickr. The pictures were first uploaded onto Flickr by 'Brickinater'. However, I find Brickinater to be extremely annoying, and he generally acts rather stupidly, with poor grammar and pointless comments (see picture). So, for those reasons, I have chosen to take pictures from Dano's photostream to avoid giving Brickinater the luxury of popularity. Until he gets his act together and finds a Caps Lock key, I won't be using his photos on this website.

First up is a large-scale model of Buzz Lightyear. There's some interesting domes, purple pieces and lime green as well. The head, to me, looks awful and garish - like something Mega Bloks would make - but I guess that's just the style Lego have used in these sets. Yeuch.

Then there's a set in the new slightly-stretched-minifig scale. The long legs have proved popular with the community so far, but I don't like them (stand by for a Brickspace Opinions rant about this). There's been some debate over whether the car is medium blue or normal blue. Medium blue would be very useful, with those triangular plates.

Now we get onto the Star Wars sets - all of which now have a Clone Wars banner at the top of the boxes. Uh oh.

First up is a new ARC Gunship, with snazzy-looking dark red parts and large wheels for engines. If this set isn't massively overpriced like most SW sets, we may also be getting Kit Fisto in a cheaper set, along with some new clone pilots and the grey-headed R2.

Now what's this monstrosity? A TIE Defender, apparently. To me, the cockpit looks angular and unfinished, and the under-plate showing is not very nice. Maybe others will like it, maybe not. I have never been a TIE Fighter fan, they were always too 'studdy' for me.

Moving back to remakes of sets, here's yet another Droid Tri-Fighter. This one's a bit meatier than the first, with new 2x4 tiles (:D), missiles, those weird-looking droids and the return of the camera-travis brick (see Legohaulic's note on the picture). Good move, Lego.

Finally, here's the blatantly-Clone-Wars-set 'Freeco Speeder'. Just look at the monstrosity of a head they've shoved in Han's hood and called Anakin. That face has a stare which could stare you down from a mile away. Some stickers on the ship look nice, and the Thi-Sun is strangely designed, but I guess that's just what they looked like in the TV series. There's even a pick axe on the sides for clipping rogue Wampa's heads off.

That's all for now!

~John