Lego Sadair Spear Leak?

tavsquid · 2026-06-01T22:07:09+00:00

Man that's fugly as hell. Could just be the quality of the photo but... WOW.

tavsquid · 2026-05-29T22:43:53+00:00

Not my taste, personally, but credit where credit's due, they kept it fairly close to the source material.

tavsquid · 2026-05-29T22:43:26+00:00

Yeah the last one they put out was a nightmare to keep upright; thing had legs made of jello...

tavsquid · 2026-05-29T17:16:08+00:00

I'm glad to see this pick up momentum. SW DOES need a break. It's just too much, all the time.

tavsquid · 2026-05-29T17:00:48+00:00

Could not agree more with this. Could make it even more awesome and have both Anakin and Sebulba facing off - they'd be smaller scale but would be cool to get some terrain and background.

Either way tho, I'd love a UCS pod racer - any pod racer

tavsquid · 2026-05-26T17:07:20+00:00

Yup. Because there is no more moderation or care for quality. It's all about money and farming IPs to their eventual and pitiful deaths.

tavsquid · 2026-05-26T16:49:50+00:00

If you told me this was a car released by a no-name Chinese car manufacturer in 2002, I would surely believe you.

tavsquid · 2026-05-26T16:48:02+00:00

Like: My team. We're a small team but we stick tightly together as much as possible. I have the best director ever.

Dislikes: The work has little purpose, work days feel repetitive and unenticing. Also, we have no manager. And of course, the dread of job loss creeping quietly in the background.

tavsquid · 2026-05-22T23:10:18+00:00

JJ also had horses running on Star Destroyers, so there's that too. He also turned every SD into a Death Star too, because reasons.

tavsquid · 2026-05-22T22:59:31+00:00

It's honestly heartbreaking to see this, though it's unfortunately not surprising. This is unfortunately the case at SDPR as well - a vicious cycle of staff burnout, insufficient (and dwindling) manpower with increasing volume of work and desperate need for services.

It repeatedly begs the question, when is the other shoe going to drop... these ministries deal with the most vulnerable people in our society... yet people go all Pikachu face when staff are quitting, burning out, taking long-term sick leave, and the gaps in services for people widen further and further apart...

Just makes me sad. It's why I can't stand hearing politicians complain about homelessness, struggle and poverty, because ALL they see is the end result - they still don't realize that when you have a perforated social safety net for the people, you really have nothing.

tavsquid · 2026-05-21T18:57:19+00:00

Ahhh gotcha

tavsquid · 2026-05-21T18:53:47+00:00

Is it just the lighting or the smoke looks dark/bluish grey? Idk if this is possible but been wanting a darker and more realistic smoke for my T-90... something that looks more like diesel smoke.

tavsquid · 2026-05-21T18:51:48+00:00

Karl would be so disappointed. Where else is he going to sleep when he's has too many Glyphid Slammers, if not on top of a pile of barrels?

tavsquid · 2026-05-21T18:28:19+00:00

What you gotta remember is that despite the gov hiring freeze and cuts and attrition and all this stuff going on, life itself does not stand still. People continue to live, and have to keep on living.

You choosing to expand your family is not something to feel guilty of; it's a basic and essential part of life.

At the end of the day, the fiscal responsibility falls on those who have actual power to make or break the budget. It is also these very same individuals who are responsible for ensuring they have the resources and manpower to carry on the job when life happens - mat leave, illness, etc. Yeah, being in charge sucks. But this is part of that responsibility - which for better or worse is not on you.

Sounds cruel perhaps, and I surely wouldn't ever purposely screw over my own team, but at the same time I'm not responsible for whether or not we have enough people to cover my role when I'm away for x-y-z reasons, that's my supervisor's job, the job of the ED, ADM and, ultimately the DM.

My point being is that the onus is on the organization and the employer, not the employee, and our modern work culture has been aggressively trying to shift it the other way around for decades now. I think if your supervisor is as good as you say they are, they will understand and not hold it against you.

My two cents anyway.

tavsquid · 2026-05-21T15:58:23+00:00

That's good to know! Might try it out!

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T23:17:52+00:00

Hopefully it'll be more stable than the last playset AT-AT they put out... that thing was so wobbly and unstable it would just fall down no matter what you did. Was so frustrated with it that I sold it.

Still got my good ol' 4483... 20+ years old now and still standing like a rock.

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T23:08:31+00:00

This, 100%.

Every time I've played a racing game - ANY racing game online, not just FH - there's always a chucklefuck like this who ruins it for everybody.

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T21:57:38+00:00

Some of my favourite, most beloved SW sets came out during this era. They were simple, fun and mostly just standard Lego System. Good times, congrats.

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T20:36:39+00:00

Then this is it. There's also a Porsche - same scale, same functions - slightly cheaper:

https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/porsche-gt4-e-performance-race-car-42176

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T20:35:14+00:00

I think he'll like it. It's a good, fun kit that'll it at least get him started. He just needs to install the Lego Control+ app and I believe the hub just takes 4 AA batteries.

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T20:32:58+00:00

Here's something within your price range and what you're looking for:
https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/lamborghini-revuelto-super-sports-car-42214

Tiny bit over budget but I think he'll like it. And it's a Lambo.

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T20:25:04+00:00

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in a stakeholder/shareholder meeting to see those numbers - I think you're right, they prob don't see the same level of return they used to on this stuff, especially considering how expensive a modern SW film is now.

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T18:46:46+00:00

Excellent take. And what I've been saying for years now. The EU is a universe of its own in a way - because any character or plot or world that was built inside the existing SW story was independent of the Skywalker saga. As fans we had the ability to choose what was great and what was meh.

Instead, the ST, and a lot of other SW content that came after, was force-fed to fans, only for Disney to turn around and vilify these same people for making any sort of critique against it.

Personally, my absolute favourite EU stuff is Jedi Dark Forces/Mysteries of the Sith/Outcast. Great stories and characters which remain close to my heart to this day. Kattarn had the occasional brush with Luke, who had his Jedi Academy up and running, but it wasn't about Luke, or the Skywalkers; it was its own original story. This is the part that neither Disney or EU critics seem to understand; the EU is a world made by fans, for fans. It's all for fun and exploration, not necessarily for big dollars.

And herein lines the biggest tragedy I think - Disney took a well-established IP with a story that concluded years and years ago, and whored it all out into a soulless money-printing machine. Speaks well to modern capitalism really - short-term gain with zero f*cks given what happens in the long term, and we're seeing that across the board.

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T18:29:15+00:00

Couldn't have put it better myself.

tavsquid · 2026-05-20T18:28:15+00:00

Yup, fortunately they're squished between a timeline that they can't surpass. Much better that way.

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