This would have been cooler if the twin-pod cloud car was red.

I had the Tie Intercepter and Death Star 2. I lost the Death Star a few years later.

I owned a few of these sets and used the planets as Christmas tree ornaments for sure. That Christmas I had a Star Wars themed tree. I own this particular one of the Cloud Car and Lobot.

@Shadowcloner said:
"This was a pretty cool series back in the day. Admittedly very few of the planets themselves were interesting, but it was a neat concept. "

I have most of these and all the ones I have are identical planet halves except the Death Star, because of the parabolic dent in the top half (aftermarket prices on it are astounding). But the swirls and patterns on the parts do a good job at the equator that you can’t really tell. This one though, kind of reminds me of Venus.

I got the plaque for this and a bunch of the other sets in this series from bulk years ago. This summer, I decided to find the parts for the vehicles. I completed this one a few months back and just bought Lobot from Bricks and Minifigs a week ago. I still need the two planet halves. Very timely RSOD for me.

Ah yes, the Cloud Car. I wouldn’t mind a new minifig-scale version.

Guess it's unlikely, but I hope this series will see a comeback someday...

This little subtheme was cool and all, but you've got to admit that Bespin being a big beige blob makes it probably the least interesting of all of the little planets they did. For the most part the others all had some detailing that made them different or noticeable, I could replace this with a bath bomb and no one would notice

As a proud owner of set 7119 I approve of today's RSotD!

I never got into the planets sets because Star Wars is expensive and those planets were so large that they stuck out of the boxes. It wasn't very enticing for someone who isn't big on display. I briefly had some FOMO when I read about the aftermarket prices, but let's be honest, these parts make storage difficult too. I'm happy to own the 2003 mini builds again and that's nice enough for me. Much more compact :)

I wish I had the planets, they woud look nice side by side on display. I do not care for the vehicles.

It's the first time I see this series. It took me a while to notice that that ball was supposed to represent Bespin.

You know it funny: "Retroblasting" (YT channel) pointed how the majority of SW:ESB stuff (esp. toys) are "Hoth-based"...which, while I understand (Snowspeeders, AT-AT, and fights oh-my); but...the only SW vehicle I ever got (by Kenner NOT Lego...let's clarify) was the 'Cloud Car'...never hated Besin, but what a 'tonal shift' from the rest of it (Hoth, Dagobah...)...

On the one hand, most of us know and appreciate the effort, the clever techniques and the sheer volume of curved and rounded pieces it takes to make something approaching a sphere out of Lego.

On the other hand, let's not forget how difficult it is to stack four of these orbs in a 2x2x2 formation just to get something resembling a cube.

I had nearly all of these sets back in the day. My personal favourite was Coruscant and the Acclamator assault ship!

Looking at the secondary market prices we also need a return to cloud city 75222, which was also a great play set as well as build and display.

I collected all 12 just to be able to hang them in the christmas tree. I don't like christmas (or christmas trees), so my girlfriend saw it as an opportunity to get some enthousiasm going. So now we build 10293, all the planet sets' planet and vehicles and some other polybag builds. Good fun for all.

For the sets themselves: turns out I quite like them, although I find it odd that Endor is in two of the sets, but look totally different...

This particular one is nice, because I really like the cloud car consept.

@Jo3K3rr said:
"Honestly wish something like this would make a return. I like them better than the microfighters. They look better and you get a cool minifigure."
I totally get what you're saying, and I wasn't a fan of the Microfighters at first since I saw them as the replacement to my beloved Planet Sets, but after all these years, I love them. While I do like having 3 things instead of just 2, and one of those things is super exaggerated, I also can appreciate how the Microfighters can still resemble things from Star Wars at a small scale without having to be proportionate, and yet still find a balance that feels right. Some ships do it better than others, and all the animals they've done are precious. And you do still get a cool minifigure. They've certainly explored most of what they can though, the Planet Sets definitely had more things they could have done, but hopefully without repeating the planets. I had a list of a ton more they could have done had they added Clone Wars to the options, but we'll probably never see them. Looks like the Mechs might be the new trend.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"This would have been cooler if the twin-pod cloud car was red."

Red? Booooo! Twin pod cloud cars must be orange!

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
" @Brickodillo said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"This would have been cooler if the twin-pod cloud car was red."

Red? Booooo! Twin pod cloud cars must be orange!
"

you're both wrong! pink is the clearly superior color!"
Then i’ll need some lavender and magenta jawas flying it!

Btw weren’t the superior colors black and transyellowgreen or something?

Another wave of six planets would have been great. Geonosis, Utapau, Kashyyyk, Felucia, Mustafar (trans-orange?), Death Star II.

I was very intrigued by these sets as they came out during my dark ages. Anyways, I picked up a few of the cheaper ones. Then I picked up a few more reasonably priced ones. Then I splurged on the last wave that didn’t get released in the US. So now I have them all and I really like them. I want to hang all the planets from my ceiling above my Star Wars display, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

@Graupensuppe said:
"Another wave of six planets would have been great. Geonosis, Utapau, Kashyyyk, Felucia, Mustafar (trans-orange?), Death Star II."

Or….
Kronos/Bird of Pray/Klingon Warrior
Romulus/War Bird/Romulan
Terra/USS Enterprise D/Captain Jean Luc Picard
Deep Space Nine/USS Defiant/Captain Benjamin Sisko

@Ridgeheart said:
"On the one hand, most of us know and appreciate the effort, the clever techniques and the sheer volume of curved and rounded pieces it takes to make something approaching a sphere out of Lego.

On the other hand, let's not forget how difficult it is to stack four of these orbs in a 2x2x2 formation just to get something resembling a cube."

Yes, it is hard to make a cube of four of these... You need eight! :-D

I loved these, have most of them. I once found 3 of the AT-ST & Endor set for 5€ each and decided to use that as a sort-of Imperial Army Trooper battle pack. I still have the planets, most are in storage right now but the Death Star is part of my Tri-Droid MOC

Literally the only time Lego has made a twin pod cloud car in the right color.

I got the Yavin planet recently, as well as the forest moon of Endor plaque.

I remember seeing these on the shelves at Kmart, but not Walmart back then. Dang, I feel old as we haven't had a Kmart in almost ten years now.

This set contained the first Lobot where the printing for his head implant looks correct all the way around the back of his head.

While the planets looked odd for the most part, they were great sets to get what I considered a decent polybag model with an often-exclusive minifigure. I was able to buy the first three waves on sale for $5 each, and they were totally worth it. I'm just sad wave four never came to the U.S.; I really wanted the B-wing model and pilot. I still have the Death Star sitting on a bookcase in my office next to my 10188.

I kick myself for not getting some of these planet sets. I was dead set against them at the time because of the $10 price tag and I really only wanted the minifigs. And the Death Star. But CMF were selling for $3 so I spitefully refused to buy. Never found them on clearance. Now I wish I had the Death Star, Lobot, and some of the Rebel pilots. And those printed tiles look sweet. Talk about "Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face..."

This is one of the few Christmas balls (planets) I went out of my way to pick up on eBay. One reason: there are not enough Twin Pod Cloud Cars in my life. Period.

It just clicked with me that these were basically star wars X-Pods. Although you're not really encouraged to build creatively with them (imagine trying to incorporate the planets themselves!).
And I doubt you're supposed to carry the sets in the planets on trips, even though the parts do fit inside.

@GSR_MataNui said:
"I think I had one or two of these planet sets back in the day, this was one of 'em for sure, but looking through the others none ring a bell. Pretty cool idea, but they probably went about as far with it as they could. Loved the Christmas Ornament vibe, and I always thought it would be cool to hang 'em up like a solar system on the ceiling but I never had enough to do that. "

I do exactly that with mine every year--the planets go on the tree, and the little micro-builds and minifigs go in the display cabinet. I still have a few of these on my wishlist, probably doomed to never own because several were never released here and are a lot more expensive because of it.

@Librarian1976 said:
" Kronos/Bird of Pray/Klingon Warrior
Romulus/War Bird/Romulan
Terra/USS Enterprise D/Captain Jean Luc Picard
Deep Space Nine/USS Defiant/Captain Benjamin Sisko "

Terra, not Earth? I see you prefer your humans treacherous and your Vulcans with goatees...

I got the Sebulba one so I could get 2 pink lightsabers.

@brick_r:
Well, consider where all of Ep5 takes place vs Ep4 or Ep6. The Cantina and Jabba���s palace/sail barge were cornucopias of aliens, where the biggest concentration in Ep5 was just standing around.

Ep4 had what was essentially a dungeon crawl followed by a large space battle. Ep6 had a particularly brutal game of tag, a large skirmish, a large ground battle, a large space battle, and some tag-team dueling. Ep5 had some target practice, a large ground battle, a brief skirmish, and a one-sided duel.

Ep6 essentially repeated all of the main locations from Ep4, while Ep5 had a location that has never come close to being repeated in any of the six Star Wars films.

And then look at what other locations Ep5 has to offer. Nothing really happens on board the Executor. Dagobah is all of _four characters_ in two interior settings and a bunch of random swampland. The space slug is just mynocks and teeth that would dwarf any toy Kenner produced for this franchise. And Bespin really boils down to that duel, the carbon-freezing scene (same room where the duel starts), and wandering around some space-apartment hallways.

@Klontjes:
One is supposed to be the planet, and the other is supposed to be the moon where all the Ewok stuff takes place.

@alfred_the_buttler said:
"I was very intrigued by these sets as they came out during my dark ages. Anyways, I picked up a few of the cheaper ones. Then I picked up a few more reasonably priced ones. Then I splurged on the last wave that didn’t get released in the US. So now I have them all and I really like them. I want to hang all the planets from my ceiling above my Star Wars display, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. "

Same!
I collected them 1 by 1 over a couple years, initially thinking I’d only buy 4 or 5 of the most interesting ones …. But they all look awesome, and the mini-builds are great too …, so I ended up buying all 12 eventually!
The 4th series I don’t think made it to Australia, so they were a little expensive here - but this was 4 or 5 years ago, and I didn’t spend much on any except the final couple of planets.
Great and underrated series!

@jhuntin1 said:
"This set contained the first Lobot where the printing for his head implant looks correct all the way around the back of his head."
The first of only two, right? The other being included in 75222: Betrayal at Cloud City. Both being rather unique in that they have head printing on the sides that continue all around to the back with no gaps - shows that Lego can do it, shame it's so rare.

@PurpleDave said:
" @ozbrickcreator said:
" @Endermen39 said:
"I had the Tie Intercepter and Death Star 2. I lost the Death Star a few years later."

Sorry to be "that guy" but they never made a Death Star 2. They only made the first Death Star in 9676."

Which is ironic because the TIE Interceptor that comes with it wasn’t even in production when the Death Star “planet” became the one from 75008."

Yeah sorry about that mess up. I always associate Tie Fighters with the Death Star and Tie Intercepters with Death Star II.

@Endermen39:
What do you have to be sorry for? Did you design an official set where an Ep6 fighter was bundled with an Ep4-ended-with-its-destruction “planet”?

Anyone know why the fourth wave was not widely released? I got mine several years ago on ebay. I thought this last wave was one of the superior ones for the mini-builds, like the B-Wing.

I remember the Sebulba and Death Star sets hung around forever. When my local KMart went kaput, they were going for dirt cheap but no one was interested, even at that price.

I bought a boat load of these on discount when I first was ending my dark ages. I still have a disproportionate number of orange cones and Lobots in my collection. Those tan domes tho

Nice that the mini-scale Twin-Pod Cloud Car (and Bespin) set gets a second day!
Let's hop into the other pod!

@MandalorianCandidate said:
"Anyone know why the fourth wave was not widely released? I got mine several years ago on ebay. I thought this last wave was one of the superior ones for the mini-builds, like the B-Wing."

A lot of the MSRP was tied up in that bulky "planet" shell, which also jacked up the shipping costs. These sets sold terribly over the first three waves, and it's likely that stores in the US just weren't interested in buying a fourth wave. If enough backed out, they may have just cancelled any remaining orders and reduced the release to Europe.