New in 2012: more space for the Extended Universe and SWTOR

Many of you are probably wondering where some of the ships in the sets of the second wave 2012.

Look no further, they come either from the Extended Universe, or from the massively multi-player online game. Star Wars The Old Republic whose official launch is scheduled for 20/12/2011. (Note the official Star Wars The Old Republic game logo at the bottom right of the boxes of sets 9497 and 9500)

So the set 9500 Fury Class Interceptor, reproduces the ship of Sith Lords used in the game. Originally designed to perform missions of very high importance, it was later adopted by the Sith Lords who have made it their preferred means of transport.

Although this ship does not belong to the canonical Star Wars universe, its distant kinship with the generation of Tie fighters and Tie Defenders and its obvious resemblance to the Sith Infiltrator especially at the level of the wings allow it to integrate rather well and I must admit that it is a priori rather successful.
This machine will be delivered with a Sith Lord whose name we do not yet know (Darth Malgus ??) and two Sith troopers.

This second wave of 2012 sets therefore marks the opening of the LEGO Star Wars range towards extensions of the canonical universe.

Some will see it as a logical continuation, with the main ships having already been produced and LEGO being forced to renew to perpetuate the license, while others will cry blasphemy and treason because they do not consider The EU or the video games drawn. of the license as canonical.

It is a vast debate that I would not launch here, but which deserves to be opened ...