"Our larger (UCS series) sets often require an internal frame constructed with mostly LEGO Technic elements to make them stable and sturdy enough. Seeing Crosshair’s new set of armor for the first time made me very excited to watch the new Bad Batch series! I can’t wait to see how and why he gets it."ĭesigner Hans Burkhard Schlömer on making a kid-friendly play set for Star Wars fans 9 and up. We wanted to make sure to capture all of these fun features in the minifigures, and we created a few new elements to help with that as well. Also, despite the fact that they are clones, they each have unique facial features whether that be scars, face paint, goggles, tattoos, and even cybernetic implants. "Each member of the Bad Batch has a distinct personality and a unique set of armor. Senior Graphic Designer Madison O'Neil on creating those amazing new minifigures - including a revealing look at Crosshair. is excited to exclusively debut the new Star Wars: The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle from the LEGO Group, including insights from the team that helped create it. (Hint: One of these clones is looking a little different than his brothers.) Star Wars: The Bad Batch has arrived on Disney+, and today the LEGO Group has revealed a new buildable playset inspired by the unique squad's ship. The set includes six minifigures - Hunter, Tech, Wrecker, Echo, Crosshair, and a Gonk droid - and at least one spoiler from the super-sized premiere. Beyta, First Officer Hawkins, Chopper and a decidedly not green-headed Jacen Syndulla.Hunter, Tech, Wrecker, Echo, and Crosshair hit the bricks after Order 66. Regardless, you can get your hands on your own LEGO set on September 1, 2023, along with “Ahsoka Tano’s T-6 Jedi Shuttle”-with minifigures Ahsoka, Sabine Wren, Huyang and the Inquisitor Marrok-and a brand-new “Ghost & Phantom II” build, including minifigures Hera Syndulla, Lt. The question is: Will this new canon E-Wing go the way of the ship of Legends? Or, seeing as the starfighter doesn’t appear in the Resistance fleet, does it meet with some unfortunate end? Is it phased out, or commandeered? Will it continue to be the New Republic’s first bit of starfighter glory, or another testament to the government’s inevitable failure? The E-Wing itself is an example of Ahsoka’s own words: “There’s always a bit of truth in legends.” Animated LEGO to plastic LEGO to actual ship. In a way, the jump from The Freemaker Adventures to Ahsoka by way of a new LEGO set makes sense. In both cases, the E-Wing was more of a collector’s piece than a formidable starfighter. So, where has it shown up? It’s first canon appearance was in Charles Soul’s comic Poe Dameron 23 its first non-canon appearance was in an episode of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures entitled “The Embersteel Blade.” That episode committed the E-Wing’s developer, FreiTek Inc., to canon-from a certain point of view. The Resistance in the sequel trilogy continues to rely on the X-Wing, and we’ve seen no hint of the E-Wing in other live-action Star Wars projects. We’ve already seen Palpatine resurrected in current Star Wars canon-and we’ve also already seen the E-Wing, though barely. Its versatility, speed and shields saw the E-Wing gain in popularity, and it continued to play a role in galactic combat throughout the Second Galactic Civil War. Nonetheless, the E-Wing was used by the New Republic in response to Grand Admiral Thrawn’s attempt to rebuild the Empire, and later to combat the resurrected Emperor Palpatine. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as reliable, and pilots continued to resort to the older, more trustworthy starfighter. Introduced in Tom Veitch’s 1992 comic Dark Empire 3: The Battle for Calamari and developed by FreiTek Inc., the hope was that the new E-Wing would replace the legendary X-Wing. In Legends, the E-Wing was the first starfighter commissioned under the New Republic. I went down the rabbit hole on the E-Wing so you don’t have to. The wings don’t open into that classic X-formation but curve downward-like an X-Wing if you tore off one of the S-foils and hopelessly bent the other.īut that all makes sense. It’s got the feel of a New Republic X-Wing: blue lines over a metallic-white body. Take a look at that New Republic E-Wing escort starfighter. The set in question: “New Republic E-Wing vs. But a day when the build in question is a ship I’ve only ever seen mentioned deep within the archive of books now considered Star Wars Legends? Fantastic. Any day that a new Star Wars LEGO set is announced is a great day.
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