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Q: The Battle of Hoth is one of the most famous battles in
the Star Wars™ universe, and was a major victory for the
Galactic Empire at the time. How does this determine which
vehicles or minifigures would be included in the set?
A: The whole LEGO
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Star Wars design team first built an early
sketch model of the set. We focused mainly on the Rebel
base and built items on our wish list – models we had never
done before like the Ion cannon, the power generator or the
smaller Rebel vehicle. Many other smaller LEGO Hoth sets
have been released over the previous years, but they will be
long gone by the time this set is coming out. Here you get the
entire battle in one set!
A new character I really wanted to have in this set is Toryn
Farr, the female combat operations officer who orders the Ion
cannon to open fire. She knocks out a whole Star Destroyer
so she just had to be in this set! Also on my wish list was
K-3PO, the white Protocol Droid, a returning character who
only appeared in one other set eight years ago.
Q: Environmental elements such as the jagged edge of the
snow drifts bring the set to life in a realistic way. How do
you consider the environment with regards to your set
design when creating sets for LEGO
A: For a designer it is important to be efficient when creating
environment details and to focus on the essentials, like
functions and play features. Having massive snow drifts
would certainly look impressive, but wouldn't add a lot to
the set in terms of play value. While there do exist fancy
building techniques to create snowscapes with LEGO bricks
(for example, building sideways with slope bricks or using
transparent elements), I kept that part rather basic to speed
up the building experience, so the customer can focus on the
fun items, like the Rebel equipment. Fortunately, snow isn't
hard to make with LEGO bricks!
Q: Hoth is an icy, snowy planet and the Hoth Battle set is built
using mostly white bricks. When working with so many LEGO
bricks that are the same colour, how do you make specific
sections of the set stand out?
A: Maybe I should mention that the surfaces of our designers'
desks are also white, so tell me about it! We always put off-
colour elements in LEGO sets to heighten visibility of bricks
and aid in the building process. Sometimes the bricks are
VERY off-colour. Think of me when you find those dark blue
bricks hidden inside the power generator!
But when all is said and done, snow still has to be white, and
Hoth is one big snowball. I did experiment with mixing in
elements in royal light blue as a different shade of ice, but
that didn't look right in the trench or on the gate. It worked
better inside the Wampa cave, which is more ice than snow
anyway.
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