It’s probably due to my age, but I’ve always been incredibly fond of the Millennium Falcon.  My brother gave me a book about space when I was very small, which it included the classic image of it in Docking Bay 94, and I spent countless hours taking in every little detail.  To be honest, I’m not usually a fan of the ‘Chibi’ style as I’m a bit of a purist at heart, but I have to admit that this MOC by Do-Hyun Kim is brilliant!  It’s a great choice of scale, in that it large enough to be crammed with details, but it’s small enough to be still considered cute!  The docking rings and top cannon in particular are very cleverly designed, and it even has a display stand allowing the model to be displayed in a classic ‘flight’ position.  Head over to flickr to take a look.

Fellow Blogger and Star Wars Regulator, BEAVeR, has quickly developed a reputation for being an expert LDD builder, and he’s just posted some images of his latest project.  I’ve always had a quiet admiration for Imperial technology and, although the AT-ST won’t ever win any awards for beauty, it’s certainly an imposing piece of machinery.  One of the main attractions for me is that it’s a very efficient design, and BEAVeR has managed to replicate its angles and contours extremely well; the overall shape is just about perfect.  Although it makes a fleeting appearance in Episode V, it’s best known for its appearance in Episode VI during the battle of Endor where it’s used to battle the evil natives.  I’ll never understand how the ewoks managed to win, but it’s probably best if I just leave it at that!  Head over to the Star Wars forum and take a look at the look at the other images of this great MOC.

Ever since the Episode VII teaser trailer was released, brickfilmers all over the world have tried their hand at recreating it in LEGO. There are some impressive recreations out there, but one of the best and most accurate would have to be the one created by FinalFeature. It features some very good visual effects on top of the animation and matches the framing and colors from the original trailer very closely. He claims to have made it in 22 hours of non-stop work, which makes it even more impressive. You can discuss the video here and see more pictures of his MOC of the speeder from the trailer here.

The Microfighters might have made into most houses by now. They also make for a popular MOCcing theme. Quality blog The Brothers Brick decided to push it all a bit further, and has launched the Chibi Micro contest. The object: to turn any popular culture vehicle into a Microfighter style adorable creation! Although the contest lasts until the 4th of January, loads of entries have been posted, covering Ghostbusters, Harry Potter, the A-team, even Lord of the Rings, and – what interests us most – Star Wars. We’ve already had quite a lot of Star Wars Microfighter MOCs, but these two bring yet something new to our universe.

In the green corner, Grantmasters presents us with a stunning chibi Endor speeder bike. It’s adorable, minimalist and without any doubt recognizable, somehow (in fact with some incredible building techniques) combining the sleek and agile design with the chubby chibi aesthetic. Go applaud the magician who pulled this out of his brick bin on his Flickr! Or turn to the red corner, where Bob De Quatre fights for the Alliance with his Nebulon (chi-)B frigate. It sports some more parts, giving us some strangely cute and greebly details. Again, this model does the impossible of marrying the extremely fragile and complex look of the ship with the adorable simplicity of the chib. Be sure to give this wizard a thunderous applause as well, right here on Eurobricks. And let’s hope for many, many incredible spacechibs to come. I want all of them in my Christmas tree right now!

Just a few days ago, the micro model behind the door of the LEGO Star Wars advent calendar was Luke’s landspeeder. Not a bad model, but completely overshadowed by _Tiler’s marvelous rendition. To be fair, it’s in a completely different category, but boy is that model gorgeous. The shape is exactly what it should be, not an easy feat with that curved nose and sides. What’s even better, those markings are incredible. Instead of going with stickers, the builder found the perfect brick layout to convey the patterns, with so much more nuance and authenticity. And the more I look at it, the more details I see, all true to the original model. Apart from making a beautiful model, _Tiler has succeeded in bringing authenticity and texture together, with just the right amount of each. All we can do is marvel at this detailed model, right here.

6kyubi6 couldn’t resist adding some more fun to our speeder spectacle. He brings a completely different model with his microfighter-style landspeeder (indeed, for that same contest we talked about earlier). And boy is it amazing. There are some stickers, but that doesn’t mean 6kyubi6 took the easy route. He came up with a different solution to the striping enigma, taking the opportunity to add some more surface texture to the model: the perfect solution at this scale. The engines have just the right proportions to make it chiby and to give us enough detail, and that windscreen was just made for this mini model. What’s most incredible to me though, is the insertion of the little minifig antenna in the front hood. It shows that one part really can make a difference, even if it is not the focus of the model. It makes it clear that even small models take big thoughts. So it deserves great praise, right here.

You might have found the lack of articles disturbing the last couple of weeks. We’re sorry, but the Imperials finally found out about our secret Rebel blog. If it hadn’t been for these brave and beautiful ships, the Death Star of real life might have destroyed us. This battalion of micro Rebel fighters is under the command of incredible MOCcer Miro Dudas. He rebuilt his already awesome creation he made a year ago, making these ships absolutely spectacular. The shape of both of them is incredibly accurate, and even beats a lot of system-scaled creations. And everyone thinking micro tiny creations can’t be detailed, has to alter his opinion. The variety of parts, and even the way they are attached, add a lot of depth to both models, making them seem bigger than they are. So this creation is all beauty, isn’t it. What if I told you it features functionality in the form of a retractable landing gear as well? These truly are fit to take on Death Stars of any size. So head to Miro’s Flickr for your briefing, soldier!

The thing with building Star Wars creations is that it seems that everything has already been done before. In the Shadows of Nar Eurbrikka, the builders get the opportunity to expand the universe. And LucasLaughing, the Empire’s finest, shows how creative you can be in the universe. His entry for the seventh episode depicts a holoflick studio, where one of the adventures of Starman Jones (Why does that name ring a bell?) is being made. There’s a massive and beautiful set, with some stunning architectural features that seem just fit for futuristic ‘archaeology’. He actually succeeded in making those prefab skull pieces look terrific. And that monster is the most terrifying and best looking dianoga I’ve ever come across, with the complicated hydraulics making it even better. Because there is a lot going on behind the scenes as well. There is a beautiful crashmat, drones whizzing around, spotlights, chairs, photo shoots going on… LucasLaughing did a marvelous job depicting two very interesting scenes in one, with a very interesting look at what a film studio in the Star Wars universe might look like. Don’t forget to take a look at the smaller, but equally detailed present scene, and be sure to read the story… not what you might expect from a first class trooper.

Longterm Eurobricks member thire5 has just posted some photos of his latest project, which is amongst the very best Hoth MOCs that I’ve seen.  It’s a truly epic build; overall dimensions are an impressive 3.5m x 1.5m and it includes over 120,000 parts.  It’s been built in a ‘modular’ format, and there are several other photos in thire5’s flickr stream which show it in various stages of construction, I just wish that I was able to view this in person.  It’s taken thire5 6 months to build and includes lots of movie-accurate details including 4 AT-ATs, T-47s, defensive trenches, cavernous hanger, shield generator, Ion cannon and even a working Bacta tank!  As a final touch both the UCS Falcon and Rebel Base are also beautifully lit via LEDs.  Head over to the Star Wars forum and take a look at this masterpiece.

So you want your first creation for the AFOL community to leave an impression? It seems that fresh Eurobricks member Psyence can teach you a lot then. He makes quite an entrance with his UCS Luke’s Landspeeder. We featured some landspeeders a while ago, but these 2798 pieces just blow them out of the water, no matter how beautiful those were. Because on this scale, there is no need for abstraction: every single detail is present. Sure, those fancy greebles or the smooth cockpit might be the most obvious, but it goes farther than that. The markings are beautifully executed, and the shaping of the grill along the front is amazing. The builder didn’t use the common approach of using flexible tubing, but went for a collection of segments of overhanging plates. It remains smooth enough, but the clear lines convey the technical feel maybe even better. And those round mudguards recreate the shape of the original speeder perfectly. It is smooth, and yet the studs don’t feel off, but give the model some more texture. You would say Psyence has been doing this for years. But he’s only just begun. Well done, and I think we’re all already awaiting your next project. Until then, this is the place to leave your words of praise.

UCS, Ultimate Collector’s Series. Those three words fill the harts of Star Wars AFOLs with images of big, detailed models. It are the sets everyone wants. And it are the creations that everyone remembers. We had such a creation earlier this week, and now another newcomer to Eurobricks, ‘usfighting’, presents his UCS Red Five X-wing starfighter. Over two years in the making, it doesn’t give the impression a better rendition will ever be made at this scale. Everything is so smooth and so well shaped: the angles of the fuselage are just perfect, and the cockpit fits in beautifully. I love all the slopes going on, and the main hexagonal shape going all through the ship, something that I’ve never seen built before. The engines are also notoriously hard to get right, but here the brick built solution solves all problems, and the thread pieces over the exhausts look brilliant. The X-configuration of the wings is spot on, and I adore all the angled details in the back. And when writing about this kind of model, you always forget to mention this little detail, that genius solution… And apart from the excellent build, there are those beautiful, custom made stickers. Normally, I favor brick built solutions, but here the level of realism they give lifts this model in a higher orbit. Oh, want to go on and on about this creation, but maybe it’s better if you’d witness everything with your own eyes in the topic. I’m pretty confident this is one of those creations that you will remember.

When Obi-Wan Kenobi declared that “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” about Mos Eisley I always felt that he was being a touch unfair, but I guess that’s just a different perspective!  To me, it looked an interesting place, bustling with a vast array of life who, to paraphrase a certain Jango Fett, are just “…trying to make their way in the universe.” Anyway, before I get carried away with my quotes, here’s I Scream Clone’s latest MOC. It’s in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone as far as I’m concerned; not too big, not too small, but just right!  It’s also crammed with details and colourful characters including a few cameos from other themes; it’s just a shame that a certain Mr Binks has made an appearance, but you can’t have everything I suppose!  Head over to the Star Wars Forum and make up your own mind.

When it was still summer (at least, on the Northern hemisphere), Mangetsu shared with us his digital model for the ultimate UT-AT. He has kept his word and now he presents it in bricks. He says the transition from a digital to a physical model was quite hard due to gravity, even for an Unstable Terrain Artillery Transport. But he succeeded in building it, keeping all the good elements of his digital prototype. The model still magically captures all of the angles, and sports little details to make it look like an actual vehicle. I especially like the ‘spine’ of the model with all of its ridges and beautiful cannons, tucked away behind some lovely plate geometry. There’s something incredibly satisfying about those neat pads too. The model comes with a nice surprise as well: a full interior! Due to the lack of source material, Mangetsu mostly made it up, but you wouldn’t say it. He manages to get 26 minifigs and two speederbikes in it. Don’t ask me how he still has room to support all the angles. So it’s an incredible vehicle, and incredible playset, an incredible contstruction… the ultimate, definite UT-AT.

The Force Awakens draws ever closer. We know there will be an updated version of the X-wing in it. And Elliot Feldman built what we can only hope to be the updated version of the Y-wing. The apple clearly didn’t fall far from its tree. The cockpit, the guns, the engines, the astromech… this model has all features that make it a Y-wing. But look at the amazing ribbed effect of the cockpit, and those beautiful split domes, or that big curvy shield generator on the back, the pipes on the underside, the fancy arrows on the side, and the superb nose detail, and the intriguing cockpit… A familiar model never held so much surprises! I love how this ship looks more modern, but only logically so. It clearly is the next step in the history of the Y-wing. The mere conception of all these innovative changes is amazing – it is hard to be satisfied with any modifications you make to an existing model you love. Elliot Feldman’s bold creativity goes hand in hand with some incredible techniques too, to construct that intricate head or those domes. And have you noticed how big this beauty is? Drool over all 96 studs on Flickr, or see it in person on the LEGO California Star Wars Days. And keep your eyes open for more beautiful offspring of our beloved vehicles!

No, it’s not another rendition of Luke’s Landspeeder this time. In fact, the last couple of days multiple renditions of the Desert Speeder seen in the trailer for The Force Awakens have popped up. We can thank a small internal contest on German LEGO Star Wars forum Imperium der Steine for that. On a coming exhibition, they want to show a bunch of these nice speeders. So builders on the forum can submit their designs. The catch: it has to be buildable in 20 minutes.

Two of the best entries come from Vaionaut and blog regular markus1984. Vaionaut‘s version on the left captures the shape perfectly with a lot of intricate techniques. It looks very realistic as a play set. Markus1984‘s version on the right features some more details, like the incredible piping and other subtleties in the shape. Even before the movie has come out, it already looks like the definite version. So both creations have their individual strong points. If they could be combined, that would make for an awesome model… And guess what? After seeing each other’s entries, Markus1984 and Vaionaut contacted each other and built the model below. A rare piece of collaboration that combines a great shape with great details. The result is stunning. Vaionaut has provided instructions for his original speeder on Imperium der Steine. Markus1984 posted his original version here on Eurobricks. And the wonderful combination model can be found in his topic on Imperium der Steine. Go check them out, and let’s hope more of these wonderful collaborations will happen in the future!

Talented builder Vitreolum is building one masterpiece right after the other. He masters every subject from spaceships to pirate dioramas. And he seems to have a real knack for character building. Opposed to a lot of the ships you’re used to see here, character building has the challenge of achieving difficult shapes in an incredibly tight space. It’s hard not to build just any human (and relatives), but one character in particular, because the human eye is hard to fool. And yet here we see everybody’s second favorite bounty hunter as if we are looking at a picture. The details are all there: the beautiful and characteristic guns, the nice belt, the iconic helmet, the wickedly designed holsters… But including some details doesn’t make the character. With the proportions and the posing, Vitreolum managed to convey the strong and athletic air of the bounty hunter, with his broad shoulders but carefully placed legs. This really is the Jango Fett minifigure grown up. Let your thoughts flow in the topic.

Don’t recognize the ship above? But how is that possible – it certainly looks and feels like a real Star Wars ship? It’s not your Star Wars knowledge failing. It’s ridiculously talented Bob De Quatre’s own work of art. He’s known throughout the galaxy for beautiful ships, full of impossible curves and angles, right from his imagination. It’s remarkable how he keeps inventing new ships and shapes, and executing them with our familiar, blocky bricks. This Crimson Pilgrim features the characteristic curves, with the beautiful cockpit emerging from the ship, it getting beautifully bulky towards the back, with some impossibly beautiful engines at the back. Bob De Quatre keeps getting better in details as well. Mechanics never looked as gorgeous as on the underside of the cockpit of this ship, those radar dishes are genius, the ship is speckled with offsets and flaps… everything right to the landing gear has a lovely depth to it. Everything to make it the UCS Falcon of the Old Republic. But that comparison isn’t entirely on its place. Because Bob De Quatre went further and applied for the job as interior designer as well. It’s a fully operational ship, equipped with all the awesomeness to make your day. So undertake a pilgrimage to the topic and join the choir of praise!

The contests held by Techlug, a French forum specialized in LEGO Technic and Star Wars, always feature a very creative objective. Take that time the participants had to imagine and make an All-Terrain Dewback Transporter, or had to come up with a tribute to Jabba or Artoo. The question around which the last contest revolved is “What’s at the bottom of the Great Pitt of Carkoon?”. A Jawa juice distillery, is DanSto’s answer. He built an impressive creation showcasing the most gruesome part of the Sarlacc, it’s belly, and a wound in it. Through that wound, digestive saps flow that the Jawa’s discovered and learned to distill in a supposedly delicious drink. They named it, inappropriately poetic, the Sarlacc’s nectar. And did you know this is the way Boba Fett managed to escape? You see DanSto is a very creative storyteller. But he’s an incredible builder as well. The sculpting of the layers of sand and rock is beautiful, the technical installations are very interesting and the organic texture of the Sarlacc is… frighteningly realistic. There are loads of small details and techniques to be admired in this creation. The rich textures are my highlight though. I love the use of smooth versus studded surfaces for the dunes, or the expert mixture of different browns to give depth to the great expanses of soil and rock. And I’ve never seen anything quite as interesting and disturbing as that Sarlacc’s stomach. It’s a welcome change from all of the technical greebles we get to see all day. So let those debris of some recent explosion behind, enter the hatch, discover the Jawa’s quarters and facilities, and investigate the Sarlacc in the topic, if you’ve got the guts.

Techlug‘s “What’s at the bottom of the Sarlacc” got some very creative answers. DanSto already showed us there’s a Jawa juice distillery down there. And now PierroLego16 confirms how good the Sarlacc really is good for economy, by showing off the Jawa’s recycling plant. Who would have ever guessed the Jawas were so environmentally concerned? Assisted by a small army of droids, they recover whatever precious resources they can, from what/who people think they can’t use anymore. They transport it with a series of cranes and small vehicles to other parts of the factory to give it a new life. Those vehicles are completely electrically powered and rechargeable by the way. Yes, here we see yet another very creative and talented builder at work. PierroLego16 really managed to capture the gritty and dark industrial look, matching it perfectly with the Star Wars universe. The factory with its browns, its small details and seemingly haphazard elements reminds of the Sandcrawler, making it perfectly natural. And details like walkways (with railings), power core, air vents and communication equipment make it realistic. This build is a perfect and beautiful example of how something new and creative can still feel right if you introduce the right elements. And that an interesting concept, combined with some amazing building contraptions and the sweet charm of a playset, remembers us why we love the bricks so much. So go underground once more and check out all corners of the facility on Techlug (in French).

Forget about that Sarlacc. There are worse things out there, and right now you should be running from this Rancor Cavern. Because Outworlder shows everything to give you the creeps. Above the big, black, ominous entrance to the cave a clear warning sign towers. The cave itself looks like a dark and twisted fortress, invincible with its crooked towers. It stands alone in a barren wasteland, breathing dead: even the trees look like they would kill for food… This creation really inspires some dark and gloomy thoughts. It speaks to the advantage of the amazing talent of the builder that every single brick in this creation contributes to the atmosphere: even without any fancy backgrounds, the creation has a strong presence. Apart from the obvious dark things, an important factor in the atmosphere being so moody, is the realism of the creation. The terrain is dusty and inaccessible, the rocks are sharp and have an interesting presence of both natural and artificial shapes, the vegetation is dry and dark, the bones are everywhere. All the natural details and textures make it more believable, and much more to be feared. It’s a unique Star Wars creation, amazing and terrifying. If you’re ready to face it in its full terror/glory, with a new kind of horror on every corner, check out the topic. We don’t guaranty that you’ll return.

There are a few builders who have the ability to regularly create MOCs of such an exceptional standard it’s almost like they have a magical touch.  And, for Anio’s latest creation, it’s certainly true as he’s managed to convert a humble array of LEGO elements into pure Gold!

I’ve seen several attempts at creating a ‘definitive’ C-3PO, but I think that this is the best yet.  Although the parts have been chromed, and his waist has been constructed on non-standard parts, it’s still instantly recognisable as LEGO, and Anio has managed to capture the ‘character’ of C-3PO perfectly.  I don’t want to guess how much the parts cost, but if you’re looking for the ultimate version of everyone’s second-favourite droid, this may be the opportunity that you’ve been looking for!  Head over the Star Wars forum to see some other great images of this truly beautiful creation.