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Zahn's original trilogy (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, the Last Command) - set 5 years after ROTJ. From the opening scene with Luke and Ben, it totally captures the essence of the original trilogy. Most importantly, Zahn really understood the characters -- and created a new cast of characters that were equally as memorable and compelling. Thrawn and Pellaeon, Kaarde and Jade. The Noghri. You'll love it. Just keep in mind it was written in 1991-1993 -- well before the prequels.
Dark Empire -- set 6 years after ROTJ. Six issue comic series published in 1991. This is a little more action-oriented but still exciting. Retreads over familiar ground rather than lay out into new territory, and feels a little more like dated fan fiction, but it was definitely a highlight at the time.
The various "Tales of . . ." books. There were quite a few - Tales of Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales of Jabba's Palace, etc. Short stories about the various one-off characters. Many were quite good.
Truce at Bakura and Courtship of Princess Leia. Both single novels but I remember enjoying both quite a bit.
The X-Wing Series. Very well written.
At first I thought they would just be awful, video-game tie-in books (like a Halo book I read once, which was totally and utterly pointless), but they turned out to actually have some very good characters and actually a bit of proper sci-fi (ie, dilemmas around cloning, assisted suicide, etc).
The worst thing is the series was never finished, as the Clone Wars TV series totally destroyed the complex and carefully constructed Mandalorian society that Travis had been building up, and she couldn't be bothered arguing for her version over the others or getting some cheesy 'explanation' to show how they fit together and stay 'canon'.
the empire would really be doing themselves a favor by redesigning those helmets, firstly, there would be a whole lot less headaches from hitting the doors and secondly, maybe they could finally actually hit those rebels. :-)
So if the clones are clones of Jango Fett, does that mean that, when they went to war, they were only as good at combat as Jango was? They were never "trained" before the war, right? They automatically had his abilities.
Which then brings up the question of how did they decide who was what rank if they were all on the same level?
I also really enjoyed Shadows of the Empire, but that takes place between the movies rather than before or after them, so that doesn't exactly count in terms of material that can be used for the new movies/Lego :D
The original Zahn trilogy is amazing, and I also really enjoyed The Courtship of Princess Leia. The Corellian Trilogy and the three Black Fleet Crisis books are also really good. And truthfully, you can stop there. The books really start to plummet in quality once you get to Vector Prime, where they start relying on 'stunt writing' more than storytelling.
There are some fairly bad books prior to Vector Prime, but nothing in between The Courtship of Princess Leia and The Corellian Trilogy is truly abysmal, though I'd recommend skipping The Truce at Bakura. That book is nightmarishly bad and almost completely unnecessary.
The Spaarti flash trained clones do, rather they have the memories and knowledge and skills of whatever trooper was used as a template (Jango was dead by then).
Regarding the Kamino clones, some were better than others, those went on to receive Commando training, others were hand picked and went on to receive ARC training (Advanced Recon Commando) training.
The first batch of ARC troopers, 100 in all, were directly trained by Jango himself, and elite troopers they were indeed. One man armies all rolled into one.
Normal Commandos worked in 4 man teams, and the rest of the troopers were divided up into normal military units.
The millenium falcon, X wing, Tie fighter, Clone Tank, AAT and imperial star destroyer are small looking sets of mini versions of selected Star Wars vehicles and come with a figure included that can sit I. The vehicles. I find the idea an interesting one but it does look quite strange though with the figure having a space to sit on the models.
In terms of the other models, the battle packs look very interesting and are the best looking ones I've seen for at least 2 years. The Death Star trooper one looks very good. The battle packs appear a fraction larger perhaps which does worry me fora other price hike.
In terms of the other sets currently, the ATAP was already announced and looks an interesting set and decent remake which I expect to be around £60 when released. The droid gunship looks similar to the 2008 one however with noticeable improvements in terms of design.
The general grievous wheel looks an interesting one and a long overdue one at most.
As for the vulture droid, V wing and interceptor, I currently don't have much interested in them at the moment as they resemble recent models too much and space for Lego now is very limited.
btw, does anyone know when we will be seeing more pics of the new sets?
The Minifigures look great to me (although I wish Grievous had his cape), I only hope that the sets can live up to the same standard.
@CapnRex101 I agree, these figures are looking awesome so far! I'm really looking forward to getting the Droid gunship.
:o)
Not so much the droids vs clones & gunships bit, but the preceding part - execution sequence with the giant beasties and baying insect-y guys (can't remember names right now).
i.e. Anakin, Obi Wan, Padme vs the three giant monsters, with 'central columns' they're chained to, and some arena wall/gateway with bad guys looking on.
It could even (optionally) be created as 3 individual sets, that could be combined to make a bigger scene... perhaps with a 4th set that acts as scene builder battlepack thing (i.e. some more arena wall, with generic characters such as battledroids, clones, insecty guys), which you could if bought several of 'close the circle' of the arena and create an epic enclosed scene.
I don't go for Prequel sets much, but that i'd buy into.
^^ Oh yes! I so need that Wookiee so badly! Is that the one that appears in #75043 by any chance? Come on 2014! :-)
No no, I totally want them to make a crappy set with rubbish builds and utterly pointless figs. Lol
*/sarcasm* :oD
Well yes, it kinda' goes without saying when describing scenes we'd like to see done, we envision them with scene-appropriate figs and well-scaled monsters/builds. I simply meant to describe the scene they hadn't done yet, not indicate size of sets (except to say if it was split up (for whatever reason) it would still combine for an epic scene).
:o)