Here are photos of Lego’s upcoming Star Wars themed summer releases. Those of you who are fans of their Star Wars line might be as disappointed as I am.

Images from Rebelscum

Why the disappointment? These are all rehashes of previous models. A Naboo Starfighter was originally released eight years ago! The MTT — a boring model that didn’t move well if I recall correctly — was released a year later. Updating these are very odd choices: were either so popular as to justify redesigning and re-releasing them? Also puzzling is the release of the Episode III Jedi Starfighter: as memory serves, we never saw them with the jump-rings, and if you really wanted to release a jump-ring with it, you could’ve done it with Anakin’s starfighter in 2005.

C’mon, Lego, work with us here. Stop rehashing shit like you’ve been doing for the last few years — yeah, the new Millennium Falcon kicks the old one’s ass. Same for the new X-Wing, and the new Snowspeeder. And the new AT-ST looks rad too. But I’m pretty sure this is the last year you’ve got the Star Wars license — unless you reupped it — and me? I want some motherfucking Tauntauns. (I like this guy’s computer-animated extrapolation of what a Lego-designed Tauntaun might look like, and his idea for a set featuring them).

Well, at least there’s a Kit Fiisto in the new Jedi Starfighter.

That’s something.

The Toronto Star:

Momofuku Ando, the Japanese inventor of instant noodles – a dish that has sustained college students for decades – has died. He was 96.

Thank you for saving our wallets, and does your name really end with “fuck you”? You must’ve loved meeting Americans after the war. “No, really, my name: mo-mo fuck you.”

… why I’m getting dozens of hits from a French-language gaming site with no clear links to me, I’d be grateful.

UPDATE: I think I’ve got it somewhat narrowed down — they’re all visiting my blog about Frackville, PA.