LEGO
By Joseph Collier and Mike Sullenger
Photography by Mike Sullenger

SAN DIEGO JULY 15, 2005--LEGO presents the same set up they had at Celebration III, bringing along the massive custom Republic Assault Ship decorated with a full LEGO brick space dogfight overhead. While slightly downsized from C3, the booth did feature the demos of the LEGO Star Wars game and samples of two new LEGO products as well us the upcoming UCS Death Star II.

The LEGO Shop shared exclusive Sandcrawler was shown with its heapful helping of 11 LEGO Star Wars mini-figures which include Uncle Owen Lars, 3 Jawas, R2-D2, C-3PO, R5-D4, R1-G4, ASP droid, Gonk droid and Treadwell droid. The Sandcrawler is available at their website as a Lego.com exclusive is with a list price of $139.99.

While there was an announcement earlier this month of 5 new sets for 2006 along with a Target exclusive Ultimate Space Battle set, only the new B-wing Fighter with two pilot minifigures (one pilot appears to be a Sullustan) was shown. The ship can be displayed vertically on the service tower and comes with foldable wings, a cockpit that rotates gyroscopically, and launching bombs. The B-wing is slated for release in January '06 with a retail price of $34.99.

LEGO held a "Guess the number of bricks" contest at the Con and also was giving away free LEGO posters to folks who visited their booth.