This summer’s War of the Bounty Hunters crossover series has been incredible. The return of Qi’ra as the head of Crimson Dawn, Han Solo as a piece of furniture that everybody must have. While I am a trade waiter, I have been keeping up with what’s going on and I’ve really enjoyed it. We know what happens at the end of Empire and Han’s unfreezing in the beginning of Return of the Jedi, but we didn’t really know what happened in between. The majority of the action takes place at the Scoundrel’s Ball, AKA the auction for Han Solo’s carbon-frozen body. Said Ball is on the Vermillion, the giant yacht owned by Crimson Dawn, the criminal organization.
Now, onto the Lego portion. Lego has been creating exquisite Star Wars creations for over 20 years now, for all the movies and TV shows. I myself am no Lego expert, but I have been doing the Star Wars Lego advent calendar for the past several years. To my knowledge, they haven’t done a comic book-related Lego set. So how about one that takes place on the Vermillion, the auction for Han Solo!
Picture the box, with the Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters title on the top with an animated version of the bricks within.
The first thing you’ll need is a large “floor” area. On one side of the floor is a large dais/platform. Needs to be wide enough for Han Solo in Carbonite in the middle. Multiple drawings have Han either floating with some kind of anti-grav device or on a physical item that seems to tilt front and back. The best example I can come up with is a black clip-on item that a carbonite block that can just snap in, and can be secure on the raised platform. How about those wonderful Lego minds get working on that? Anyways, the platform has as a background a giant Crimson Dawn flag hanging down. The platform has a railing and funky-looking stairs to the ground floor. Once again, the platform needs to have enough space for a posturing Qi’ra and her aides as well as room for her to fight Darth Vader (and for him to threaten to halve Solo later in the story). This is essentially the centerpiece of the set and storyline it’s trying to tell.
The floor itself should also be large enough to have a circular bar in either the center or off to the side. Since it’s in comic book form, the dimensions and exact placement of everything and everybody is really up in the air. No one artist had to conform to each other. The bar itself has to be legit—think the one in the Mos Espa set but super upper-class. Needs to have some kind of bartender—I believe he is a droid, so it has to be large enough to fit him inside as well as the various space-bar accoutrements. Dr. Aphra and Sana Starros have a conversation with a disguised Boba Fett around the bar. The floor has a Crimson Dawn emblem in the center (of course). It also has to be big enough to handle several minifigures (more on that later) like Hutts, Falleens and Stormtroopers.
On the opposite side of the main platform has to be another platform (either directly across or to the side, complete with curtains). Leia, Chewie, Lando and Boba Fett have to be able to observe all the action on the other side of the floor (with the auction and the Vader and Qi’ra fight) and participate in their own little battle. Once again, there’s no clear location for their platform, the artists just drew what was appropriate to the action and storyline. Given we don’t see very much, I would assume this platform is identical to the main one, except without a Carbonite viewing area and apparently curtains.
All in all, this is a big set. It would contain a lot of minifigures, some of which have never been in Lego form. We’re talking collector’s favorites here. Dr. Aphra, Sana Starros and a disguised Boba Fett would be some of the new ones. You’d also need a new, older more experienced Qi’ra and her Crimson Dawn aides. At least two Hutts, a Vader and some troopers. And don’t forget Leia, Lando, Chewie and an undisguised Fett (maybe a mail-in offer for his all-black Jango disguise). Oh, and a new Carbonite Han Solo “figure.” He needs the ability to be clamped into the device on the main platform and doesn’t need to open up to reveal an unfrozen Han.
This was certainly a fun exercise to do. If I was a more enterprising or Lego creative person, I’d make one myself. Other Lego sets, both Star Wars and otherwise could easily be stripped for parts.
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