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LEGO Star Wars Slave 1 MOC Microfighter Build DIY

Follow along to build your own LEGO Star Wars Slave 1 MOC microfighter.

Boba Fett minifigure stands beside a LEGO Star Wars Slave 1 MOC microfighter
Boba Fett and his Firespray ship, the Slave One

While LEGO has released many Star Wars microfighter sets over the years, Boba Fett and his Slave One have been left behind. LEGO has created many other versions of the Slave I – from UCS to minis, but only a couple that are microfighter scale. And those are not widely available. So we created our own Star Wars Slave One MOC at microfighter scale.

SIde view of Boba Fett seated in the cockpit of the LEGO Slave 1 MOC microfighter
Boba Fett in the Slave 1 MOC microfighter

The custom ship seats a LEGO minifigure in the cockpit in two orientations. When the Slave One is vertical, the single control panel piece is removed so that the minifigure can sit upright.

The Slave 1 (or Slave One) is a Firespray model ship. This Firespray creation uses many speciality parts and several rare parts in colors that required special ordering from resellers. It includes a small clear LEGO attachment to allow the ship to stand vertically. Vertical is the standard flying mode for the Firespray.

Back view of the Star Wars Slave 1 MOC
Back of the Star Wars Slave 1 MOC

Here’s our Rebrickable page where you can get the plans and parts list for a small fee.

The Slave 1 was made infamous by the bounty hunters Jango Fett and his son Boba Fett. It was originally part of a small fleet of prototypes, but when Jango stole the Slave I from the prison planet Oovo IV he destroyed the other ships during his escape. Jango and later Boba modified the ship to become the Slave I. For many years the Slave I was the only Firespray in existence. Years later the Firespray design was revived by its manufacturer Kuat Systems Engineering to serve in its original role as a small patrol and attack ship.

LEGO Star Wars Slave 1 MOC Build

Follow along to hear about our MOC design process and to see official LEGO Slave 1 models. Then watch the MOC build here in our Toy Terrain video from our Youtube channel

 

Parts List and DIY Build Instructions

If you want to just get the plans (for a small fee) rather than watch the video, check out Rebrickable.com. (See our eBay seller page for any built ships that might be for sale.)

Star Wars Slave 1 MOC Microfighter profile
Build your own Star Wars Slave 1 MOC Microfighter

Thanks for checking out our Star Wars Slave 1 MOC microfighter. Take a look at our Star Wars Celebration post while you are here.

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GKR Heavy Hitters Unboxing and First Play

King Wolf, the orange GKR Heavy Hitters robot
King Wolf

GKR Heavy Hitters – The Board Game

GKR Heavy Hitters is a board game for 1 to 4 players. The basic scenario takes us to a post-apocalyptic dystopian future. Large cities lie in ruins. In these ruined cities, salvage rights are battled over by four different corporate-sponsored factions using giant robots. It is a media spectacle. The game allows players to pick a faction and take their robots into battle to compete for salvage, achievements, fame, and glory.

GKR Heavy Hitters Unboxing

Let the GKR Heavy Hitters unboxing begin! (More on gameplay below.) Our GKR unboxing video shows lots of clear close-ups of the robots and other detailed game pieces. Weta Workshop made some beautiful robot miniatures for this tabletop game – take a look.

The Game Box

On the cover you can see here King Wolf, one of the four giant robots, called Heavy Hitters, in the game. The back of the box shows the basic game components and the setup at the start of a game.

Close up view of GKR Heavy Hitters game box front
GKR Heavy Hitters Board Game box
Details shown on the back of the box for GKR Heavy Hitters
GKR Heavy Hitters Back of Box

GKR – the Game Pieces

Here you can see all the base-game robot miniatures in their clear plastic tray. Underneath are the game board, cardboard buildings, player mats, and achievement track.

Below is a close-up of the Heavy Hitter figurines. These not-so-small miniatures are about 3 1/2″ to 5″ tall. And, yes, the paint schemes are awesome!

GKR Heavy Hitters Unboxing - view of the robots in the plastic form with game board visible in the bottom of the box
Unboxing WETA GKR Heavy Hitters Board Game

Game Play – an Intro

Sign up for a faction. Choose a pilot, and get ready to throw yourself into a full-on robot showdown.

In the world of GKR, each corporate faction has four color-coded robots: one large Heavy Hitter and three smaller support unit robots. The Heavy Hitters are piloted by celebrity pilots with different skills. With the Kickstarter version, there are also four small mercenary robots which can be hired one-at-a-time by the different factions.

Three small GKR support unit robots figurines
Support Unit Robots

In the board game, players pick a faction with its associated robots, and then select one unique pilot from a pool of eight. Each player is supplied with a faction deck of 25 cards, from which they draw 6 cards for a hand. The cards supply: deployment capability, attacks, defense, and extra movements. Each player uses their robots toward two goals: destroy the other opponents’ robots and tag buildings to establish salvage claims. Each turn consists of five phases: deploy, move, attack, tag, and reset. When a Heavy Hitter takes damage, the amount of damage becomes the number of cards a player loses from their hand or faction deck. The lost cards are sent to the damage deck. When a player sustains damage to where he/she has no more cards in his/her hand or in the faction deck or on the board, then his/her Heavy Hitter is destroyed along with its support robots. Players also try to tag buildings with their robots. When a player gets four tags on a building, that building is destroyed and that player gets to claim salvage rights for his/her faction.

The game can end in three ways. 1.) All opposing Heavy Hitters are destroyed until only one remains. The last Heavy Hitter standing is the winner. 2.) Alternatively, after the first Heavy Hitter is destroyed, the game ends. The player with the highest point total wins. 3.) The first player able to destroy and claim salvage on four buildings is the winner.

Kickstarter

GKR was developed by Weta Workshop in conjunction with Cryptozoic Games. They ran a Kickstarter campaign in 2017 where they raised almost 1 million dollars.

Kickstarter box for GKR Heavy Hitters
GKR Heavy Hitters Kickstarter Stretch Goal box

The Kickstarter versions of the game include a number of stretch goals beyond the base game: additional cards, foil cards, additional robot figurines, pilot figurines (for the Pilot’s Edition), special dice, terrain tiles, additional branded buildings, and a backside alternative terrain for the game board. Backers could also purchase special add-ons: unpainted Heavy Hitters figurines with the Painter’s Edition, extra robot decals, plastic buildings plus top ornaments and upgraded tags with the Wasteland Expansion, extra colored Faction Themed Dice in a Hapsi Cola can, and a special robot figurine The Big Little Buddy.

Let the Games Begin …

Yes, we have played it! And we loved it.

The game play is a straight-forward smack down. No complex resource management to ponder here.

GKR Heavy Hitters game board with robots and buildings
GKR Heavy Hitters Gameplay

Each turn you get some energy. You start with your faction stack of 25 cards, and draw a hand of 6 cards that  give you options for each turn. Burn up energy to move your HH robot and use your cards. Cards give you your attacks. You can attack other robots in direct line-of-sight or ones that are partially obscured. Robots totally blocked by buildings cannot be attacked. Unless…. A Heavy Hitter can attack another blocked Heavy Hitter if the attacker has a support robot with direct line-of-sight on the defender; this is called spotting. Attacks involve dice rolls which mediate damage, and add an element of luck. As the game goes along, you get achievements for certain actions, and move along an achievement track. Movement on the achievement track gives you bonuses. You also get sponsor cards for tagging buildings. Sponsor cards give you one-time special abilities that can be extremely handy and troublesome to your opponents.

We played with elements from the Wasteland Expansion: plastic buildings, building toppers, and sentry guns. We also employed the mercenary mechs from the Kickstarter stretch goals, though you can’t see them here. The sentry guns were used to great effectiveness and annoyance.

All in all, a great time was had by all players!

More GKR fun:

GKR Heavy Hitters website by Weta Workshop

GKR Heavy Hitters on Kickstarter

GKR Heavy Hitters Facebook page

GKR: Heavy Hitters forum on Boardgamegeek.com, with discussion and more GKR videos.

There are more GKR Heavy Hitters unboxing videos out there on Youtube. Go check them out!

Side view close up of yellow Diamondback
Diamondback, Robot by Weta Workshop

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Simple LEGO Spinner – Flame Star

Simple LEGO spinner flame star shows a small 4 arm LEGO spinner with alternating flame and horn pieces at the end of the arms
Simple LEGO spinner – Flame Star

Here is a simple LEGO spinner – flame star. The flame star LEGO fidget spinner uses only 16 pieces. It is Spinner 4 in our Spinner LEGO Star Designs video. (The same video is also embedded below.) This is a simple spinner, with flames and horns to create a flaming star look.

LEGO pieces used to make the flame star spinner laid out on a LEGO plate
Pieces used in the flame star spinner

Below is the DIY step-by-step video of our Fidget Spinner LEGO Stars. The stop-motion video acts as a tutorial to show 5 star designs total. Flame star (Spinner 4) starts at 5 min 56 seconds.


You can see many more complex LEGO spinners (all MOC) on Toy Terrain on Youtube. Follow this link for our entire LEGO spinner MOC playlist.

For an easy LEGO spinner made with technic gears, see our post here.

After looking around at our designs and other designs, we hope you feel inspired to build your own LEGO spinners.

LEGO spinner with flames and horns
Flame star – simple LEGO spinner

If you like more complicated LEGO MOCs, check out our version of Boba Fett’s ship, the Slave 1, from Star Wars.

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Filed Under: LEGO Spinner Tagged With: LEGO, Simple

Easy LEGO gear spinner

LEGO fidget spinner easy gears - technic gears and bars
Simple LEGO gear spinner using LEGO technic parts

LEGO gear spinner – easy technic gears design. A very easy and fast DIY, this LEGO fidget spinner has a solo video here. The spinner uses technic gears, bars, and pins. Gears are meant to mesh rather than spin freely. So, LEGO gear spinners tend to spin less quickly, but they look great as they spin.

Inventory of LEGO pieces used in this fidget spinner
LEGO pieces used in simple gear spinner

This very easy gear spinner can also be seen as Spinner 2 in our longer Youtube gear spinner video. The stop-motion video shows 6 spinners total. Spinner 2 starts at 1 minute, 46 seconds.

We have created many more complex LEGO spinners (all MOC). Some of our favorites will be featured in other posts on this site. Take a look at our Toy Terrain on Youtube for more LEGO spinner videos.

To see another simple LEGO fidget spinner, check out our flame star spinner.

We hope you enjoy the video and that you are busy building your own LEGO spinners or other MOC.

LEGO fidget spinner - easy technic gears design
Easy and fast – LEGO spinner made with LEGO technic gears

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Filed Under: LEGO Spinner Tagged With: DIY, Easy, LEGO, MOC, Simple

BB-8 Real Droid at Star Wars Celebration

BB-8 Real Droid in the Convention Center
BB-8 Real Droid at Star Wars Celebration

BB-8 real droid (BB8) from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, was out among the fans at Star Wars Celebration Orlando. Several BB-8 droids made appearances over the weekend, in the Droid Room, on the Exhibit Floor, and in the Droid Parade.

BB-8 Real Droid at Star Wars Celebration

Watch BB-8 join R2D2, other Star Wars droids, and cosplayers to give real life photo ops to Star Wars fans at Celebration.

BB-8 was everywhere this Celebration, as a real droid, as the Sphero BB-8, in LEGO, and even as a custom car.

Custom BB-8 car painted white and orange and with a BB-8 dome on the roof
Custom BB-8 Car

Thank you to the BB-8 droid builders, custom car owners, cosplayers, and Lucasfilms for sharing their work with the rest of us. The official Star Wars displays and the talks were great. But other fans were a big part of making Celebration so fun. Thank you!

BB-8 and R2D2 LEGO minifigs at Star Wars Celebration
BB-8 and R2D2 LEGO minifigs

And here’s BB-8, out to meet the fans.

BB-8 real droid at Star Wars Celebration
BB-8 Real Droid

Go here for more Star Wars Celebration.

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