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By the way I found that the titles and synopsis for the next few episode were released. Here they are (Note source I got these from say they are translated from german)
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3×08 “Iron Squadron”
3×09 “The Wynkahthu Job”
The Rebels join forces with ruthless pirates to salvage a freighter full of weapons the Rebellion needs. However, the mission turns out way more dangerous than they expected.
3×10 “An Inside Man”
Looking for information on a new Imperial weapon, Ezra and Kanan break into an Imperial factory on Lothal. However, they have to trust an enemy to escape from a building that is about to be locked down.
3×11 “Visions and Voices”
Haunted by visions of Maul, Ezra has to journey across the galaxy. Upon arriving at his destination, he has to participate in a strange ritual to sever his connection to Maul.
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with episode 8 being released of season 3 being releases on November 19th, almost a month before rogue one I believe episode 10 will be the tie in episode. Episode 11 will be the last episode before the holiday break. I also noted these episode were tagged rebels 3.1 which I presume means we are getting a 22 episode season.
Anyone for a Mandalorian Imperial Super Commando battlepack?
I just still don't get the fascination with those bucketheads...
Interesting last two-part episode woth plenty of lightsabre action from Kanan, Esra, Ahsoka, 3 Inquisitors, Maul and Vader!
How long before Season 3 gets released on DVD I wonder?
My favourite scene from the entire season:
For some reason I now feel compelled to acquire the promotional Darth Maul polybag too...
I am sure somewhere along 2017 a set will be released that contains (Darth) Maul. Well I am not sure, but I would not rule it out, since he has also appeared in an episode of season three, and is supposed to appear in more future episodes. So I think it is most likely he will be put in a future set too.
Resist that urge dude! ...... If you can?!
Don't buy that polybag, just wait for a Rebels set to be released containing him.
(Any way that is just my opinion, if you are willing to spend 15 quid on a minifig, maybe you can buy it cheaper loose via bricklink, or spend some more and just buy the Sith infiltrator, and have an entire set)
I would love a big Malachor Sith Temple set, based on the final double episode of season two. A big black rotating, and transforming pyramid with transparent red highlighted details, and a hidden Sith holocron at its core (and some light-up push button bricks), containing the following minifigures: the three inquisitor minifigs (seventh sister, fifth brother{OK I already have him, so technically I don't need him again}, eighth brother), Maul, Ahsoka Tano, Darth Vader, and of course Ezra and Kanan, and maybe Chopper and definitely a couple of these little flying droids that always accompany Seven Sister (if given the relative small size of them that is even possible in Lego).
Anyway if I worked in Billund as a designer over at TLG, would love to create and lobby for such a (+/-1250 piece) play-set to be released.
Besides, IMO season two is still the best Rebels season, so far. Another reason to go for a Sith Temple set. Of course I don't know what season three will hold in store for us, which I am very excited to find out, but some of the six episodes (including the first TV-movie double episode, next to the five regular ones) have been a tiny bit lacklustre compared to the high-note / cliff hanger which ended season two. I loved the opening double episode, as well as 'Holocrons of Fate', 'The Antilles Extraction', and 'Hera's Heroes', these are all fine episodes IMO. 'The Last Battle' was good too (but not as good as the previous ones IMO), and 'Imperial Super Commando's' had some nice action scenes but as an episode overall has a weak story line. The episode on Mandalore was poorly executed, especially since that planet and history offer plenty of material to work with. As if the writers just had some bizarre brain fart, resulting from writers block. I was even wondering if a bunch of animators had been laid off. Repetitive barren scenery, and backgrounds. Mandalorians wearing bum scorching and roasting jet-packs. The viceroy of Mandalore patrolling around like a lowly infantry soldier, and other plot twists, and character decisions that seemed unconvincing and untrue to how we have come to know these protagonists (thinking of Sabine here especially).
The thing is so far with season three (and this is of course just my opinion), that they don't build much, or anything at all, on the episodes which follow each other; they are or seem pretty much stand alone episodes. And that is somewhat of a shame I think, but perhaps I am just very impatient to find out where things will be going with the main protagonists, the fledgling Rebel fleet, various rebel cells, and their impeding doom with the introduction of admiral Thrawn, as well as the story line of Maul.
I hope this weekends new episode, after twice having had to wait for two weeks for a new episode to be premiered, will be much better than the last one!
It looks to be the same size to me, but just by looking at these pics I have no idea whether or not the Phantom mark II will actually fit and link up with the Ghost like the original Phantom does. I agree with you that this would be really fantastic. The Ghost/phantom combo is one of my favourite SW sets.
Lets hope it does connect and can be docked to the Ghost like the Phantom mark I.
Looking at the screengrab from the latest series and comparing the two sets I reckon its a yes. The back looks to be 6 studs wide, same as the cargo gap on The Ghost. Its going to sit higher up though.
The new Phantom is definitely on my list, the old version can then sit on the landing platform of Rex's AT-TE thats on route from Amazon next week!
I hate to party-poop on all your excitement, but this separatist shuttle renamed 'The Phantom mark II' might very well not be able to dock with #75053 'the Ghost'. Look at how high the back of its body is. The old Phantom slides into the ghost, and is held in place by this Lego element:
http://brickset.com/parts/4261694
a four by four plate with forks/hinges.
I don't think that part will be able to clamp down on the Ph. M.II
That is the cool thing about the old Ghost/Phantom, it will even stay in place when you hold the ghost upside down, except that the dorsal gun turret (with Zeb or which ever other fig you put in there) will fall out, and the top storage compartments holding what ever loose missiles and weapons you keep in there will fall out too (not Kanan's weapons and the one extra missile though). If it wasn't for those things this ship would be super swoosable. Still it is pretty swoosable I imagine for a kid holding on to it with both hands.
Also the bottom of the new Ph.M.II is probably too wide.
I hope I am wrong though.
ps.
No bothan spies were killed getting you this intel.
pps.
Don't ask me why the pic got as stretched as it did!?!
$39.99 HD
$34.99 SD
But you were probably wanting the whole thing once the season is over.
This though is the next best option.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Advanced_v1
Lego set #75082
http://www.starwars.com/databank/inquisitor-s-tie-advanced-prototype
The only non-standard TIE's I saw in a couple of episodes were those belonging to the mining guild(s) with the front diamond shaped square cut out of the otherwise standard hexagonal shaped wings/solarpanels, turning the wings/solarpanels into 'C' shaped ones.
Btw.
Funny, they seem to have changed the info regarding the TIE Advanced-v1 on wookieepedia, I am pretty sure I remember having read in the past that this particular prototype does feature a hyperdrive, contrary to the standard TIE Fighter. I thought certain scenes from SW Rebels also suggest this experimental/prototype TIE Advanced-v1 has a hyperdrive. How else could all the inquisitors utilize this spacecraft when they often operated independently, and unaided by Imperial capital ships, as well as even sometimes outside the knowledge of the regular Imperial Navy etc. ?!?
With regard to a TIE-bomber, and a TIE-Interceptor, I agree, it will be nice if TLG at some point in the future develop some new sets containing those ships, as well as huge CR 90 corvette / blockade runner.
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Anyway I just saw the latest episode, and I am glad to see this was a good one contrary to the last couple of episodes, which IMO were sub-par / somewhat lacklustre. Okay last week's episode with Hondo wasn't all that bad either, however this week's episode picked up the 'larger' story, including important and interesting characters such as agent Kallus and Admiral Thrawn.
Just one more episode next week before the mid-season stop, after which they will resume with new episodes somewhere towards the end of January next year (2017) I read somewhere.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hotwheels:star+wars&prmd=svin&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI5KuhwdnQAhXr24MKHYBfCk4Q_AUICSgD&biw=1280&bih=752#imgrc=eLVfJ3hYyAyWxM:
I was really tempted to get a TIE/LN, but in the end I fell for the the Rebels TIE Advanced Prototype. That was the set that broke me out of OT-era collecting...
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Inquisitor's_TIE_Advanced
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tie_Advanced_x1
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Advanced_x1
And indeed I was correct when I wrote that I was pretty sure having read it before on, among other 'official' places, wookieepedia.
I checked the 'internet archive wayback machine':
http://web.archive.org/web/20160409045510/http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Advanced_v1
recorded date: 2016-04-9
citation: "The TIE Advanced v1 was an experimental TIE fighter model of the Imperial Navy. It was heavily based off Republic Sienar Systems' own Scimitar.[1] The starfighter was fitted with a hyperdrive and basic shields, and unlike the TIE Advanced x1, the v1's S-foils could fold in around the cockpit when not in flight, conserving hangar space. Unusually for a TIE model, it had solar panels only on the inside surface of the wings, instead armor-plating the outside surfaces in order to make it more resistant to enemy fire from the sides (although it still lacked shields). This resulted in lower power output from the panels, requiring the engines to run on fuel instead of the solar reactor, which only powered weapons, sensors, and auxiliary systems. The TIE Advanced v1 was armed with dual chin mounted laser cannons, and had the ability to launch warheads, including an XX-23 S-thread tracker."
They therefore stripped the hyperdrive out of the v1 and the 'canon' line is now that the TIE Advanced x1 has advanced shields and a hyperdrive while the TIE Advanced v1 has only basic shields.
I don't know the details but am given to understand that all Star Wars vehicles and technology underwent a process whereby the size and power demands of certain items were fixed so they could be consistent in future. For instance, a class 4.0 hyperdrive such as that on the original Phantom is supposed to be about the size of a microwave.
I always just assumed the 'x1' was just an all over superior spacecraft. After all, the biggest most relentless villain in the SW universe is likely to pilot the ultimate star-fighter of its time with menacing specifications and capabilities that match his prowess! Just like Batman always needs to have the most awesome car (tumbler!), and James Bond the smartest little gadgets (wrist watch with a laser in it, and what have you....) etc.
So how hard is it to state about Vader's x1 compared to the v1 and other (similar) ships, it has:
Voila!
Instead of tinkering with past events, and earlier written fiction, they should just be more considerate and thoughtful when adding and writing new scripts for films and TV-episodes, that way they do not need to keep messing with what has already been established. Retconning is dirty business!
(Though I do understand why they wanted to get rid of a whole bunch of the stuff from the expanded universe with ep. VII and all that is still to come in the future. The Exp.Un./Legends does contain some excellent stories but also plenty of abysmal pulp)
I have always been under the impression that they handled all this much better in the Star Trek universe, and that all the science fiction: relating to the in-universe science and technology is soooo much more interesting, and way more convincing, as well as sometimes even based on theories that have, or may some day even become fact.
Anyway as some of the last things I just wrote go way beyond SW Rebels I will stop (for now) here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20151215023220/http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE/LN_starfighter
"As part of the five year plan for the industrialization of the Outer Rim Territories, TIE fighters were produced on a number of planets, including Lothal.[13] TIEs produced in Sienar's factories on Lothal had shorter, sturdier wings. This allowed the fighters to make surface landing, a feature not included in the standard TIE."
I know they showed this happen in the show a few times. Looks like another case of "retconning" like what happened with the hyperdrive in the Inquisitor's TIE advanced.
I'm still hoping the new phantom isn't the only lego set based on the Rebels show coming next year.
The last episode was pretty good, it'll be interesting to see where Kallus goes from here.
Part 1 :
"The crew returns to Geonosis in search of a missing rebel team sent to investigate suspicious activity there, and are surprised by what they find."
Part 2:
"After finding a missing rebel team member, the Ghost crew discovers another surprise on Geonosis, and work to conceal it from Imperial forces."
Star wars Rebels season 3 returns January 7th 2017 on Disney Xd (USA)
Good thing I'll be going back tonight to see it with the masses, hopefully they snuck it in and it didn't get cut!