LEGO The Malevolence

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Making its original appearance in the premiere episode of the first season of The Clone Wars animated series, broadcast in July 2009, the quest to find and destroy the Malevolence formed a three-part storyline that culminated in October 2009 when Anakin Skywalker, in the fourth episode (titled Destroy Malevolence), caused the ship to crash into a moon. Initially designed by concept artist Erik Tiemens and modified by development artist Atsushi Takeuchi as General Grievous’s flagship for Revenge of the Sith, the original concept art had it looking more like the Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was dropped in favor of the smaller Invisible Hand, which served as Grievous’s personal cruiser at the Battle of Coruscant.

This change of mind return policy is in addition to, and does not affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law including any rights you may have in respect of faulty items.Tops photo of the finished Malevolence. I like the top view. It looks so sleek. I'm not to happy of the grey canards that jut out of the front sides. For the most part, it is symmetrical in shape. But there are a few greebels that make the left and right sides a bit different.

This front shot reminds me of old anime ship called the Space Battleship Yamato. At the bow of the ship, it had a huge cannon called a Wave motion gun.. Maybe the Malevolence was built with this ship in mind. But instead of a Wave motion gun, the Malevolence carried a Ion Cannon. Which instead of disintegrating the enemy ships, it disables them so the ships could be recycled for parts and booty. It’s like an evil, monstrous version of the Rebel transport, with a lot of jagged edges on the body panels. I wanted it to be intimidating and sleek, like a mega-mouth shark.” Source: Russell Chong via The Nexus Route Though this model is made up of common LEGO elements it was – until now – relatively hard to complete, so any intrinsic rarity comes from the difficulty in accumulating the necessary elements. However, it isn’t a one-off like the promotional builds – such as 8 foot long Venator that Varzegi built for the LEGO booth at Star Wars Celebration 3 in 2005 – that have come out of the LEGO model team so putting some kind of rating or metric to this set is impractical. Box Front. Very nice detail. I like how they show you the length and the side view of the ship at 23.6in. That's almost 2 feet long! I didn't think the Battle Droid Commander was new.Perhaps one way to determine its place in the LEGO Star Wars community is the fact that so few fans and collectors have made this model. Despite the effort LEGO put into The Quest For R2-D2 marketing campaign, the likelihood that only a dozen or so midi-scale Malevolence models were ever constructed is a reasonable assumption. And just think, each of those little yellow squares are supposed to be windows. This is one huge ship. Three MILES long! More on that later. I hope you like the build process. The table that I have to build my sets on is rather limited and makes it hard to photograph. Includes 6 minifigures: Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala, General Grievous, Count Dooku, Battle Droid Commander and Battle Droid Seven bags of parts. Not much to say except at least this time, they included the part separator in bag one. Sometimes they put it into last bag of parts, which never did make sense.