Legos, anyone?

[danth]

7 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

I have just a single copy of the new Renegade (for now) and I've only built the main model, as I'm not all that plussed about the inspired Alienator model. I watched JANG's review, and I agree with his thoughts on the Alienator build: it looks better as a ship if you remove the leg assembly. After building the 10355 Renegade, I'm rather impressed by the integration of the large trapezoidal flag at the nose as a creative solution in lieu of the non-existence of an analogous wedge brick. That's been a point of contention, and while there are certainly other ways the designer could have realized the nose that would appear more 'brickish', I thought it a simple but elegant solution. YMMV, of course. I also agree with Huw Gilliam's opinion that there is far too much yellow used, especially around the cockpit. The original Blacktron sets used the yellow accents far more sparingly, and I wish the designer had followed suit with this set. As an update, it's just ok to me. Mike Psiaki, the designer of 10497 Galaxy Explorer, essentially upsized and improved on every aspect of the original. Jae Won Lee, the designer of the Renegade, exercised far more liberties in his interpretation which removed a certain salient aspect of the original and just didn't quite deliver on the same level as the new Galaxy Explorer. I still prefer my original Renegade to this, and I feel sad saying that, as I vehemently want these homages to both continue and to improve on their originals. Well, here's hoping that they take the feedback to heart and the next update will be more 10497 and less 10355.

 

I haven't built mine yet, but I'm in total agreement.

[Scyla]

Some improvements to the new Lego Renegade by Jangbricks:

While this looks better the biggest issue, the empty space in the middle is still there. Also the missing swan neck behind the cockpit is distracting.

Argh, I really need to track down an original set 

[Chronocidal]

Cargo area aside, yeah, that's more like it.  Both the new Renegade and the Invader set suffered from a lack of good wing structures on the nose, and that looks much better than the dinky wedges they used.  Love the bigger engines too, and the much more subtle use of yellow.

I'd really like to find a better canopy though.  I know they love getting use out of the parts they have on hand, but I'm frankly just tired of seeing them re-use the UCS X-wing canopy on everything now.

Only other option I know of for a recent yellow canopy is much smaller though, just the longer skinny one that came from the Invader, which I actually have spares of from the Buzz Lightyear ship set a while back, so I might make more detachable pods.  I might also scrounge some bigger black wing panels and structure from some of my Batman sets.