Star Wars Stormtrooper 3D Glasses Comparison

Left: Rogue One - Stormtrooper
Middle: Rogue One - Deathtrooper
Right: The Force Awakens - First Order Stormtrooper

LEGO Star Wars First Order General Hux Speech Scene MOC

This LEGO MOC scene is one of the iconic moment in The Force Awakens movie. In the scene, General Hux gave the speech to the army before The Starkiller Base launched the weapon to destroy the New Republic Government.

The reason for me to start this small project was about storage of First Order Officer minifigures from the battle packs and Kylo Ren Shuttle set. I thought they should have a "story stage" for display. Because of the limited space, I decided to build it on a 32 x 16 studs white board. Everything was built in a much smaller scale. It looked quite cute (unexpectedly).



After watching some YouTube reviews of the UCS Hoth Echo Base set, I decide not to get one. Other than the "play set" issue, the unfinished back side of the base and cannons really destroy the whole thing. The CAD300 set simply looks like being designed by a newbie builder. I feel bad for the one who approved this unfinished product in LEGO company.

LEPIN Star Wars: First Order Snowspeeder (First MOD) & LEGO Standard Issue

I actually purchased the LEGO First Order Snowspeeder before the The Force Awakens in cinema. I returned it to Toy R Us after I found out the whole scene was cut from the movie. During the process of writing blog post about LEPIN, I purchased its Transporter and this Snowspeeder. The experience this time is a bit better because there is no missing parts.

I don't like this Snowspeeder because of the scale problem. It's much larger than the "actual" thing. It should be about the size of a minivan. Other than toys showing you the scale, you can see the official scale and details in the book below...





I believe if LEGO designers could make it smaller, they would do it. However, LEGO has its "LEGO Standard" which is everything has to be firm. Nothing will fall off. At the same time, the "play element" at the engine's stud shooters makes the engine much larger. I think the engines will be the next thing I will work on.



I move the gun 2 studs backward first. It looks a bit closer to the actual thing.



From top: Only the walls occupy 1 stud of space when the speeder should be a car size vehicle. This problem also happens in LEGO's sports car models. When the size is the right ratio with the minifigure, the model can't even hold 2 minifigures side by side.

There are a lot of other MOC online. You can use them as reference to build yours. I don't think I will spend time in this Snowspeeder MOC.



I want to point out the way LEGO designers building the wheels are pretty good (You like the wheels or not). It's not easy.

If you like this model, I strongly recommend the LEGO one. Don't take the risk with LEPIN.

LEGO Star Wars: First Order Transporter MOD Mark II Completed

The right color 12 x 6 studs plate and a few L-Shape black bricks arrived to finish my second First Order Transporter.



Now the the whole thing looks much better



Front: 2nd version. Back: 1st version

Project Update: Second Star Wars First Order Transporter Built

With the parts from LEPIN version and the left-over from the second LEGO set, I built the second First Order Transporter for storing my Stromtroopers. I'm pretty much ready for the Jakku Invasion scene (The Force Awakens opening scene).



Two Transporters take 20 Stormtroopers, 2 Pilots (not shown in pic), 2 Gunners (not shown in pic), 6 Frametroopers and Captain Phasma (Total 31 soldiers).

I have Kylo Ren's Shuttle still in package but I don't think it will be built in a short time. I'm not sure if I will change all the grey parts into black (It will cost a lot of $$$).

This Is Why You Should Stay Away From LEPIN (Fake LEGO)

If you are curious about LEPIN (the fake LEGO) like me, this blog post is absolutely for you. Let's jump to conclusion first (I like to write reviews like this). If you get it for filling gaps and rare missing parts for your own project, it should be ok if not affecting the structure. If you get it for your kids, you must stay away from it. Why? It doesn't come with numbered bags. I bet modern kids will be very frustrated to build something close to 800 pcs without numbered bags.



The only thing that help you to find the parts is each bag has logically similar bricks inside. You must use 3 to 4 trays to separate them before put them together. It's zero problem to adults but not kids.The instruction menu is about the same size but it condenses about 1.5 page (original) on 1 page. No different from the original but it doesn't come with the part pages at the end. Reason? LOL... It has missing parts!My set has two technic sticks and two technic bars with holes missing. Therefore, I can't build the gunner's moving seat and two back engines in LEPIN set.If you like having stud shooters and the shooters on it, you will be very disappointed, stud shooters can't shoot the green studs out. The shooter can't hold the green bar bullet.LEPIN's plastic is much better than the older fake LEGO bricks. Color accuracy improves a lot too. BUT... I don't think it worth 40% of the original LEGO price. If you are building General Hux speech scene on Starkiller Base, Mm... maybe... maybe they are ok for as the back row extras (like low budget movies' extra). I only strongly against people buying LEPIN Millennium Falcon. You should get a nice and problem-free iconic Star Wars ship, no matter what.Consider twice before buying LEPIN.

LEGO Star Wars First Order Transporter (792 pcs) 75103: MOD Version

My name is Raymond. I'm a professional wedding photographer. This is my first blog post (actually a test post). I wanted to start a blog about Lego stuff for a long time. Because of time, I didn't have much time to take the action. I spent most of my time updating my wedding photography business' Facebook Page, Instagram, and Blog. It was tough to management one more blog for hobby purpose.

Recently, I found I had too many Lego models at home and I had to pack them into boxes (too bad). I thought they should have a record for each of them especially those I really liked. Not only Lego but also my figures were packed in boxes recently. Therefore, I expected this blog would be a place showing my collections.



The first blog post is about my newly finished Star Wars First Order Transporter Mod. I bought 2 sets for this project. Why? The original design was too short comparing to the version from actual movie: The Force Awakens. Other than that, this set was very well built by Lego designers. They used the limited budget to build something very very close to the real model. I thought I was just building something that they originally built before being cut down to the retail version. How do I know? If you studied the instruction booklet carefully, you should see 12 studs at the middle of this vehicle were missing. By adding the original rectangular technic part and two black 1x6 bricks at the base, you should see how easy to fill up the missing 12 studs of contents.



See the side view from the photo above. If I had time, I would rebuild the back part of the Transporter to match the real thing closer. Main structure wasn't changed much.

I rebuild the cabin (control room) to reduced 1 stud depth. It made it looked taller and narrower.





However, I kept the play feature as the Lego designers did. The back door could be opened. The door was a 4x4 plate with 16 studs on it. I changed it into a 4x4 plate with 4 studs on one side to make it look smoother. The control room (pulled out) was modified a bit for fitting the door. I still could put a Stormtropper standing inside the cabin as the original design.



Let's look at the back. Very simple... Just turn the 4x4 with 4 studs plates around to hide the studs on the 4 engines.



I added something under the 4 engines to hide the unwanted technic parts, too.

Now, let's look at the change that I really like...



I'm not a fan of stud shooters. I super hate that and I think Lego knew adults hate them too. So, I rebuilt the cannons at the top. Simple and no tricks.

Let's take a look at interior.





This mod took 14 ~ 16 troopers (the real thing took 20). Frametroopers took up more space with the gas tanks at their back. As you could see, the original design had 3 transparent red flat 1x1 on each side and my simple mod was extended to 6 on each side. Just follow the structure pattern for the extension area.

Next thing I really cared about was the two "deflector shield" devices.



Lego's original design of the "deflector shield" devices was made into two shooters. I saw most of the adult Lego fans just mod them away. I didn't have two 1x6 light grey plates for both sides. Therefore, I just used two dark greys instead (I will change it later).

I will update the change if I have time.

Finally, I bought a knockoff version of Transporter other than my two boxes of Lego's. I thought I might need some special parts to fill the gaps but it ended up two Lego sets plus my stocks did the job very well. I will post the result of that "Lepin" version in this blog later