CABGOII Phase IV Entry: 7128 Speeder Bike Showdown

7128 Speeder Bikes Remake

7128 Speeder Bike Showdown (A new name than the original)
Ages: 7-14 --- Pieces: 159
Luke is on a secret mission on the forest moon of Endor! After getting separated from Leia and the rest of his friends, Luke finds himself being attacked by two scout troopers on their 74-Z speeder bikes. Have Luke draw his lightsaber and take the speeders head on or take cover in the grass and hide behind tall Cambylictus tree. Includes Endor Luke Skywalker, and two scout troopers. $19.99

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Notes:
For this phase of the CABGOII, I was really short on time. I was on vacation for most of the time and it took me a really hard time to decide on what to choose. But I finally decided on 7128 Speeder Bikes.
For actually making the speeders, I looked around at all the official Lego speeders and took little hints from them on design, because I wanted one that was not only realistic, but also had playability. After three trys, I finally got a design I was happy with, although there is one thing that I was not able to get on no matter how hard I tried (See if you can figure it out).
And for the "tree" instead of making a humongous tree like in the movie, I wanted to go with a more SWU approach and have it be realistic, so I created a Cambylictus tree. But having a just plate with a tree wouldn't cut it. I thought the grass would make it "pop", if you will, and once again, make more realistic like in the movie.
And that's how I went about making the MOC. My little brother loves to play with it, and it does actually have around 160ish pieces or so.

If you like it, you can vote for it here (Although I do believe you have to be a guild member to get it). I'd really appreciate that.

Thanks to everyone who voted for me (or didn't in certain cases), it's been a blast making this stuff for the contest. I can't believe I made it this far. Constructive criticism is always welcome, so if you think you would do something different, let me know.

Wish me luck!
Casey a.k.a. "Ruitath"

P.S. By the way, the Darth Vader mosaic is all done, and even destroyed. It will be posted shortly.

Hard to see what you did with the bikes. Maybe post a close up if you got one in the gallery.

Rook wrote:Hard to see what you did with the bikes. Maybe post a close up if you got one in the gallery.

Yeah, there are 8 pictures of the speeder in the flickr set. (Link to the left or above in original post)

Casey a.k.a. "Ruitath"

I guess I like it. It's simple, but it gets the job done. I would buy it!

Nice speeder bikes, like how there's no 'bike' piece. The tree is nice too.

This is, as Rijulskywalker said, simple; but it's great and gets the job done.

I like it. It's pretty simple, I'll tell you that right now!

A bit late on this, don't you think you should be Dairy Queened?

But this build isn't that good IMO. The bikes look like the ones from the original set and the tree needs more greeness.

Oh my god! I was going to email a suggestion to the Lego company today to make a set like this! I love this! The reason being is I have a weak spot in me for scout troopers and speeder bikes .

Check my location ATP.

Meh, it's okay. It could be better. There's not much to improve on so much as redesign or drastically improve it.

Eh. It really isn't doing it for me. The speeders look like TLC's, and the tree is nothign new. Although the set it self is difficult to design, because of it simpleness.

I think it's pretty good, I like the Endor Luke.

It would be nice if you added more detail to the green plate but other then that it is fine.

I love the speeders. If this set were for sale I would definitely buy it. You even took the time to make sure the time to make sure that you made an accurate version of a canon tree!

Other than the fact that they are bulkier the speeders look like you use instructions.

Please don't post in topics older then 2 weeks. It bumps them up, it's much better and easier to have the newer MOCs at the top of the forum. -Tac