The second LEGO Star Wars volume of the collection Build Your Own Adventure is now available and I take this opportunity to give you some thoughts on the content of this box called "Galactic Missions" which mixes book of ideas and set of parts to build an "exclusive" model.

As usual with the boxes of this collection, it is especially the model and the minifigure provided that motivate the fans. Here we will be satisfied with a Cloud Car of 65 parts in microfighter and a Bespin Guard already seen in the sets 75146 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2016 et 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City.

The generic guard delivered in this box also bears a name: it is Seb Astro. The story that serves as a common thread for the presentation of the different models takes the courageous guard who is also a pilot in his spare time from Naboo to Jakku via Bespin, Corellia or even Scarif.

Logic would have liked the publisher to provide us with a Cloud Car Pilot with the machine, but it was missed this time. For those who haven't bought the set 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City, it will therefore be necessary to wait for this year's LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar (ref. 75245) to install the pilot at the controls of this Cloud Car.

The good surprise comes this time from the 80-page idea book included in the box. The different models offered are created by Rod Gillies, a MOCeur who regularly collaborates with the publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK) and whom you already know if you are a regular at flickr galleries: he posts his creations there under the pseudonym of 2 Much Caffeine or 2MC with in particular a small series of Star Wars micro-dioramas very successful.

In addition to the more or less inspired mini-models, we therefore find over the pages of this book of ideas a few small unpublished staging more or less easy to reproduce and based on the same principle of the base without apparent tenons which highlights value the micro-structure placed on it.

As usual in this collection, the building ideas book contains only photos of the assembled models. Apart from a few exploded views of the more complex models, there are therefore no instructions strictly speaking in these pages and you will have to call on your deduction skills to determine some of the techniques used. The instructions for assembling the Cloud Car are however provided, they are of the level of the instructions usually delivered by LEGO in the classic sets.

In short, this box does not revolutionize the genre with its dispensable Cloud Car and a minifigure far from unpublished but the book that accompanies the set of parts deserves in my opinion a glance for the few pretty creations in the format microscale that he proposes.

In this specific case the lack of detailed instructions for the most complex models is really felt, and that's a shame. The possibility of obtaining them, even by downloading them on a dedicated mini-site, would make it possible to give more consistency to the product and make it a real toy more than a simple collection of ideas to leaf through.

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Note: The box set shown here, provided by publisher Dorling Kindersley, is included as usual. To participate in the draw, all you have to do is post a comment (avoid "I participate, I try, etc ..." be a little more constructive) on this article before the September 8, 2019 at 23:59 p.m.. You have every right to disagree with me, this is not eliminatory.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

We no longer present Rod Gillies, alias 2 Much Caffeine (See these articles), Talented MOCer and appreciated writer who offers us a new very successful micro-MOC with this scene of the X-Wing sinking into the marshy waters of Dagobah.
Once again, the MOCeur shows great ingenuity and gives a few pieces a very special dimension in this miniature context.

To see more and discover his other creations on the same scale, go to the dedicated album from his flickr gallery.

These MOCs are also subject to Cuusoo project.

2 Much Caffeine is at the top of its art in micro-scale MOCs: The one it offers today is still a fine example of miniaturization and original use of parts usually devolved to another use. The scene is simple but effective, I just maybe regret the size of the SandCrawler which seems to me slightly out of proportion. 

But let's not quibble and appreciate the man's creativity. Take the opportunity to go for a walk on his flickr gallery.

Rod Gillies aka 2 Much Caffeine is not unknown to you if you have a little memory and you read what I write here (and I humbly thank you ...). It was he who offered us a Micro MOC of the Echo Base on Hoth very successful a few months ago.

He does it again with this still microscopic reconstruction of the Boonta Eve Classic pod race on Tatooine. Tan galore, a pretty well-tiled tray, ingenious bleachers and original podracers made from blue and orange droid torsos, this is the recipe for this clean and efficient MOC.

Note that this MOC was designed for a competition (Iron Builder / see the group Builders Lounge on flickr).

End of the Eurobricks LEGO Batman Contest and Batman Returns de Legomaniac finished 3rd in category 1 behind the winner: The Dark Knight by Skrytsson and the 2nd: Joker makes a withdrawal by TooMuchCaffeine.

A well-deserved place for this technical and creative MOC which once again demonstrates that the work of the French MOCeurs is largely at the level of what can be seen on the most famous English-speaking blogs or sites.

So if you are a little creative, risk yourself in one of the many contests organized on the web. You will probably not always win, but you will have the opportunity to rub shoulders with the cream of the MOCeurs and benefit from the opinion of a whole community about your works. With a little patience and humility you will progress and you will be able to have the satisfaction of having been able to show your work to many AFOLs across the planet.

In the meantime, you can find out the full ranking of the competition on the dedicated topic at Eurobricks. Also come congratulate LEGOmaniac on the topic dedicated to its MOC at Brickpirate.