After the visuals of the box, here is the video made in TLC of this set 10221 Super Star Destroyer. We find Kurt, the designer who designed this model and who should attract the wrath of purists, who announces that this set will be available for sale on September 1, 2011 on the LEGO Shop and in official LEGO stores.

We obtain confirmation of the specifications of the machine, namely 124.4 cm long, 3.5 kg and 3152 pieces. The 5 minifigs provided are therefore Darth Vader, Admiral Piett, Dengar, Bossk & IG-88.

The friend Kurt explains to us that he tried to respect the design of the original ship seen in episode V: The Empire Strikes Back both from the point of view of the angles and the profile.

He reveals that this model is the longest ever made by LEGO, and he thinks fans will love this set because it is the first "official" version of this contraption. He insists on the greebs of the upper part and he presents the mini "Command Bridge" hidden under the greebs in which you can stage [store] the supplied minifigs.
Finally, the friend Kurt announces that he is very proud of the result obtained after wondering how he was going to be able to design this machine.

The information went around the forums of the planet: LEGO was invited by Marvel Studios, like more than a hundred other manufacturers of licensed products (Hasbro, THQ, ...), on the set of the filming of movie The Avengers directed by Joss Weldon and scheduled for release in May 2012.

Some AFOLs have [too] quickly interpreted this presence of LEGO as the beginning of a future LEGO Avengers range ....  

If nothing has been officially announced to date, and probably will not be for a long time, one can easily imagine that LEGO, Marvel which holds the rights and Disney which produces the film, would be interested in the commercial potential of such a license.  

Disney, which bought Marvel Entertainment in 2009 for the modest sum of $ 4 billion, knows only too well that LEGO is capable of generating a lot of cash with its licenses, as with the Pirates of the Caribbean and Prince of Persia ranges.

In addition, LEGO has already touched the super heroes with the ranges Batman (DC) in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and Spiderman of 2002 2004 to.

But let's not forget that MEGA Brands already has licenses in its MEGA Blocks range. Iron Man 2 et Marvel, and one can wonder if Disney / Marvel will accept the idea of ​​scattering on directly competitive products with the fans. Whatever the French AFOLs say, MEGA Brands figures are compelling to licensees. As proof, the Canadian manufacturer has just signed a partnership with Blizzard, and renews its agreement with Microsoft for the HALO range.

In this context, we can fantasize about a range of LEGO Avengers, the minifigs of Captain America, Hulk, or Iron Man that would result from it, and the pleasure for AFOLs to find their favorite super heroes in a series of sets based on the Marvel films to come up.
We will also note the many custom minifig creations proposed by fans on the theme of super heroes with in particular the work of tin7_creations visible here in his flickr gallery.

But are today's children fans of superheroes about whom they know next to nothing because of films that are too violent and attentive parents (Batman The Dark Knight, Iron Man 2) or cartoons that are too rare on television ? What is the real commercial potential of such a license for LEGO?
We'll probably know more in the next Comic Con to be held in San Diego from July 21 to 24, 2011 ...

In the meantime, I suggest you below the movie poster with minifig sauce created by Justin fung alias tin7_creations...

And it's all over again about the set 10221 Super Star Destroyer with these photos of the box published by Nannan z on his flickr gallery ....

And as I expected, it will be a playset with removable bridge to recreate the scene of the meeting between Vader and the Bounty Hunters. No mention of Ultimate Collector Series on this box (which could only be a preliminary version) which therefore contains 3152 pieces, measures 124.4 cm long and whose back has the removable part of the upper deck giving access to a small playable space ( !!).

Strangely, the back of the box has three sets, the 10198 Tantive IV released in 2009, 10212 UCS Imperial Shuttle released in 2010 and  10215 UCS Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter also released in 2010. We don't quite understand what the 10198 set does here, even if it is a playset halfway between the System sets and the UCS versions in terms of its size and number of parts.

Note that Darth Vader holds a hologram brick with a priori Darth Sidious and that the mini ISD accompanying this Super Star Destroyer is a little "light".

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Not really news regarding LEGO Star Wars in this Store Calendar of July 2011, but rather an overdose of LEGO Harry Potter ....
The upcoming release of the last part of the saga in the cinema is probably not for nothing ...
Worse, not a word on the SW range in this calendar. I would gladly put my hand in the fire that LEGO awaits the Blu-ray release of the Star Wars saga to create the event ... If you want to download this Store Calendar in pdf format, you can do so at this address or by clicking on the image.

Still taken from the poster I told you about in this news, here are two images showing a close-up of two of the next minifigs in the set 10221 UCS Super Star Destroyer (Executor).

Contrary to what we thought we saw, it will therefore not be Admiral Kendal Ozzel, but theAdmiral Firmus Piett, Commander of the Executor, who replaces Ozzel who died following minor troubles with Vader.
Piett will command the Imperial fleet in particular during the Battle of Endor before crashing on the Executor deck with his A-Wing Interceptor.
The minifigure is classic, well screen printed and the face looks very expressive.

Nothing really stunning, but we'll be content and it will swell the ranks of the imperial staff with the minifigs Imperial officer (sw046) from set 7201 Final Duel II , Imperial officer (sw114) from set 7264 Imperial Inspection, Imperial officer (sw154) from set 6211 Imperial Star Destroyer, Big Moff Tarkin (sw157) from set 6211 ISD or 10188 Death Star, L 'Imperial officer (sw261) from set 8084 Snowtrooper Battle Pack, General Veers (sw289) from set 8129 AT-AT Walker, or theImperial officer (sw293) from set 10212 Imperial Shuttle.

 

The other minifig that we discover in close-up is that of theGI-88, an assassin droid, a member of the Bounty Hunters team recruited by Vader to hunt down Han Solo.

This minifig, which will advantageously replace the model sw151 already seen in the set 6209 Slav I, has a screen-printed head of the most beautiful effect, adding to the realism and fidelity of the reproduction. great effort on the part of LEGO.

We have already had a slew of assassin droids, especially with the versions sw215 (White) from set 10188 Death Star, sw222 (Black) seen in sets 7930, 8015 and 8128, or the version sw229 (Silver) from the 8015 Assassin Droids Battle Pack set.

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