Just built the Tie Striker. Now I just have to get the Hovertank (it's allready ordered) to get my Rogue One collection complete.
It's my least favourite set of the 4 RO sets I built. It looks great and imposing, but the built is pretty boring and repetitve (especially the wings), as Tie's tent to be. The minifig collection offers nothing special neither, though it is cool to have a ground force crewmember. The folding Wings-mechanism is great though, and I actually had to look closer to figure out how the manage to lock them in their position.
For now I would say: AT-ST > Krennics Shuttle (which looks exactly like the movie prop, I recognized so much stuff watching Rogue One) > U-Wing > Tie Striker, with Krennics just a tad above the U-Wing.
Can't wait for the Y-Wing, and might actually get that Scarrif playset too if it isn't too expensive
Well, I will stick to the law, but people writing the law should weight the interest of companies, of individuals, etc. I think, though, that currently, the balance is tilting strongly toward the largest companies, through aggressive lobbying from them.
I'm not talking about the video (I can't see it right now), but there's some changes of the low that should, I think, be discussed. Especially when DRM and digital content will play a huge role in the near future.
Sure, as I said, you can disagree with the laws as they are. I just took 'offence' with the claim that Disney steals public domain works, which is a blatent lie.
Also, a law that works for big companies, also protects smaller artists. It's easy to focus on Disney who has billions and forget smaller players. We can go into details or imaginary examples (like: imagine it as still 28, and there was a writer who wrote one moderate succes story. You can imagine him being dependent on the royalties to keep writing stuff.) It's also easy to point at the billions Disney makes, but with every movie they make they still take a financial risk (even though the succes of Star Wars is a given offcourse). Those big bucks allow them to do that.
I am a screenwriter myself (though in the much smaller Flemisch-Belgian market) and my copyright royalties are a godsend in times when I am developing new stuff. It enables me to pay my rent while I am working on something that hasn't been bought yet (and maybe never will). But European copyright is in my opinion better balanced to the benefit the creators themselves.
But, we're derailing here. Let's all agree Lepin should be avoided like the plague for many reasons, including stealing copyrighted stuff, but also probably having criminal ties and terrible work conditions.