LEGO Star Wars 2025 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[CallumPears]

1 hour ago, Samppu said:

Namely, there are no aliens in the skiff set or in the barge really

Yeah that's my main issue with the barge. 

Zero guards at all in the skiff (ridiculous, especially with how overpriced it is) and only 4 in the barge with 1 being a reused Gamorrean, and 1 of the remaining 3 being a repeat of what was already the cheapest of them all anyway: Kithaba. He'd already been in the 2012 skiff and even 12 years later only costs like £3. They should've made either a new version of an actually hard to find character, e.g. Ree-Yees, or one we've never had such as the Weequay Luke pulls out of a hatch (though they also forgot to include any hatches on the model which is another problem), another green Nikto (Klaatu or Yotts Oren, both of whom could've reused Wooof's head and helmet) or a whole bunch of others (and the skiff should've included Vedain to fight Lando).

It's insane that it costs £100 more than the Mos Eisley Cantina but has half as many figures. 

And of course the figures we did get have issues (3PO's leg, Fortuna's lekku, etc.). 

Edited January 22 by CallumPears

[Mandalorianknight]

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The more I think about the „understandably being kept secret“ part, the less sense it makes. There‘s nothing new coming out beside Andor, and even if there was a second season of RTG, why would a set based on it be a secret? Last year‘s RTG sets were leaked alongside the rest, well before we even knew RTG was a thing!

It’s probably just a purposefully vague hint to spark some discussions  I compared it to the 1984 hint before, but it‘s more like the young Leia hints that sent us on a wild goose chase and bent ourselves into pretzels, trying to make sense of them.

I don't remember who specifically leaked this one, but I feel like if they're saying it's being kept secret, it's not like the young leia hints where it was a ton of random, unhelpful hints that I honestly still have some doubt as to whether or not young leia was even the end point in mind ("could beat jango" is a heck of a stretch because you have to A: make it a different version of leia fighting him and B: assume Leia gets far enough in her jedi training to stand a chance against the guy who went toe-to-toe with Obi-Wan.)

If it's a somewhat reputable leaker, I'm assuming they aren't just straight up lying and it is indeed being kept secret. Doesn't make much sense why, but you never know. Maybe it is another andor set- a U-wing and K2 don't exactly tell us anything new about the show. (I'm coping, normal p2 clone troopers show up in visions S3 somehow and this set is about them)

6 hours ago, Ringwraith said:

Don't get me wrong I'm happy as a clam as clone wars cool buuut this does seem like slight over-saturation. I'm happy to discount the UT-AT as RoS 20th anniversary set but is there a hidden lego dossier somewhere which says that Clone Wars stuff sells better lol or are they just running out of OT ideas 

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a mix of clone wars sets having done well the past few years and lego trying to use the youtubers out there as free market research. Similar thing with 18+- I imagine a lot of the stuff they made in 2020-2022 did pretty well and they've decided to go all in. It's a very short term strategy IMO, and I don't see it paying off.

1 hour ago, Samppu said:

Yes. This would be perfect, something akin to the Bountyhunter Battlepack.
Jabba's thugs would be a sensible addition now that we have the sail barge available.

Of course, I wonder how the bountyhunter pack performed, because there seems to be no excuse to not have released one with a toy scaled desert skiff along with the barge in the first place. Namely, there are no aliens in the skiff set or in the barge really, so a battlepack would not have decreased the incentive to buy them, on the contrary, it would have made it more appealing when the scene could be completed with more than just one Gamorrean guard...

I 100% agree with the general premise that more aliens would be nice, but there were certainly aliens in Jabba's sail barge. Even if you specifically meant skiff guards as opposed to Max Rebo or Bib, there are three alien skiff guards in the set. (Technically chewbacca's in the skiff too but obviously that's not what you meant.)

3 hours ago, Calanon said:

Admittedly I'm a white man so maybe not the best person to weigh in, but I like that we get more variety of heads for what are ultimately regular people in SW universe. There's also been a lot more diversity in Imperials in new canon in regards to human race and gender with the focus being anti-alien sentiment. The OT is rather a product of its time with how white everyone is. It's a huge galaxy, not Europe. I also enjoy how mad it makes some people that oh no we've got a Hoth rebel trooper with darker skin.

I do solidly agree though the rarity of Lando and Padmé is wrong.

Sure, the OT is "a product of it's time", but that if anything just makes it weirder that they're ignoring the human diversity that WAS present. The OT had a woman as the commander in chief of the rebellion, haven't seen her in awhile. There was a black B-wing pilot, be nice to see him flying his ship in lego. As mentioned, Lando's weirdly hard to get a normal version of. I don't think it's some terrible thing to prefer a set to come with the people on screen, and while the OT isn't bursting with human diversity (though it's got plenty of aliens as @Agent Kallus says and we rarely get them), there are at least SOME options, and lego for some reason ignores them. Even with the new canon stuff, we've had Sloane and that's it. If we're doing book stuff with Sloane, with Hoth rebels specifically, in the new canon Namir fights in the trenches, Howl's helping coordinate the defense, why not make them? Why not give us some sets with the Rogue One rebel troopers?

My point being there's a billion ways to increase human diversity in star wars sets and swapping heads on OT grunts while you can't get a normal Lando or Mon and we haven't had anything Rogue One in 8 years just feels like the wrong way to go about things.

[Lego Nostalgia]

45 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I don't remember who specifically leaked this one, but I feel like if they're saying it's being kept secret, it's not like the young leia hints where it was a ton of random, unhelpful hints that I honestly still have some doubt as to whether or not young leia was even the end point in mind ("could beat jango" is a heck of a stretch because you have to A: make it a different version of leia fighting him and B: assume Leia gets far enough in her jedi training to stand a chance against the guy who went toe-to-toe with Obi-Wan.)

If it's a somewhat reputable leaker, I'm assuming they aren't just straight up lying and it is indeed being kept secret. Doesn't make much sense why, but you never know. Maybe it is another andor set- a U-wing and K2 don't exactly tell us anything new about the show. (I'm coping, normal p2 clone troopers show up in visions S3 somehow and this set is about them)

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a mix of clone wars sets having done well the past few years and lego trying to use the youtubers out there as free market research. Similar thing with 18+- I imagine a lot of the stuff they made in 2020-2022 did pretty well and they've decided to go all in. It's a very short term strategy IMO, and I don't see it paying off.

I 100% agree with the general premise that more aliens would be nice, but there were certainly aliens in Jabba's sail barge. Even if you specifically meant skiff guards as opposed to Max Rebo or Bib, there are three alien skiff guards in the set. (Technically chewbacca's in the skiff too but obviously that's not what you meant.)

Sure, the OT is "a product of it's time", but that if anything just makes it weirder that they're ignoring the human diversity that WAS present. The OT had a woman as the commander in chief of the rebellion, haven't seen her in awhile. There was a black B-wing pilot, be nice to see him flying his ship in lego. As mentioned, Lando's weirdly hard to get a normal version of. I don't think it's some terrible thing to prefer a set to come with the people on screen, and while the OT isn't bursting with human diversity (though it's got plenty of aliens as @Agent Kallus says and we rarely get them), there are at least SOME options, and lego for some reason ignores them. Even with the new canon stuff, we've had Sloane and that's it. If we're doing book stuff with Sloane, with Hoth rebels specifically, in the new canon Namir fights in the trenches, Howl's helping coordinate the defense, why not make them? Why not give us some sets with the Rogue One rebel troopers?

My point being there's a billion ways to increase human diversity in star wars sets and swapping heads on OT grunts while you can't get a normal Lando or Mon and we haven't had anything Rogue One in 8 years just feels like the wrong way to go about things.

I'm probably gonna get shit for this and so be it but, I have a strong feeling that they made the Hoth Troopers Diverse to tick boxes, it doesn't feel genuine, if they were diverse in the movie then it would make sense but, they weren't, also I don't get why they have Female Stormtrooper heads, I'm 100% sure there was no Female Stormtroopers in the OT, Maybe in the books but I don't know, It doesn't feel Natural, maybe it's because the OT wasn't diverse, if you look at Harry Potter,Marvel and other themes it feels natural whereas SW it feels forced, but that's just me

I think the reason Lando is not that accessible is because he only shows up in a specific place (Millennium Falcon,Cloud City) so it's hard to have him in a small set unless he comes in a Millennium Falcon Microfighter, Same as Padme, they should be in more sets since they are highly popular and essential to SW

[icm]

Eh, I agree that it feels a little forced, but it doesn't bother me too much because I never take the helmets off the bucketheads anyway.

[Darth_Bane13]

15 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I agree. I think lego is now fully aware that by including multiple troopers in a sub-$50 set, the grey baseplate people will army build it, and that even children might be persuaded to buy multiple copies. Building off that (pun unintended only because it's really the inverse), I think they feel the builds don't have to be as good because the set'll sell a number of copies just for the minifigures. 

I feel like they realized this when they released the 2020 501st battle pack, pretty much no one cared about the builds despite that being 90% of the product they're buying. It should've been a $15 set, remove the droids and have a minifig scale AT-RT as the build.

52 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

My point being there's a billion ways to increase human diversity in star wars sets and swapping heads on OT grunts while you can't get a normal Lando or Mon and we haven't had anything Rogue One in 8 years just feels like the wrong way to go about things.

I feel like this in part due to the fact that we sadly don't get as many OT play sets as we used to.

[Lego Nostalgia]

2 minutes ago, icm said:

Eh, I agree that it feels a little forced, but it doesn't bother me too much because I never take the helmets off the bucketheads anyway.

I miss the balaclava style heads, they could print any flesh tone face on it, at least the gap on the bottom of the Helmet won't show the head

the Clone heads are 100% perfect, I hated those angry clone faces from 2013

I'm glad I can replace 2013 Angry Clone Jango with the accurate skin tone this year from the UCS Jango's Slave I

[THELEGOBATMAN]

12 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I'm probably gonna get shit for this and so be it but, I have a strong feeling that they made the Hoth Troopers Diverse to tick boxes, it doesn't feel genuine, if they were diverse in the movie then it would make sense but, they weren't, also I don't get why they have Female Stormtrooper heads, I'm 100% sure there was no Female Stormtroopers in the OT, Maybe in the books but I don't know, It doesn't feel Natural, maybe it's because the OT wasn't diverse, if you look at Harry Potter,Marvel and other themes it feels natural whereas SW it feels forced, but that's just me

I don't know, it's a really nice way to get a huge variety of faceprints from generic army builders.

If their faces were all the same, they wouldn't really be that useful. But since you can use their faceprints, they become more desirable altogether.

[Lego Nostalgia]

I hope those Family Guy Stormtrooper helmets go away but then again, it would ruin the consistency when a new mould comes in  and isn't like the ones before

Just now, THELEGOBATMAN said:

I don't know, it's a really nice way to get a huge variety of faceprints from generic army builders.

If their faces were all the same, they wouldn't really be that useful. But since you can use their faceprints, they become more desirable altogether.

Problem is that they keep reusing the same different faces for Stormtroopers and Rebels, it would be better if they used different skin tones that had different expressions, it's just the same generic angry/frown face

Whenever I see the same face used for a Rebel and Stormtrooper, I'm like, that's the same guy/girl, it's like having the Shang Chi and Bruce Wayne face on all of them, there's no individuality 

[Kit Figsto]

19 hours ago, Swordy said:

According to a guy on r/Legoleaks, he says that the battlepack includes four of the same 327th troopers. Could be nothing, could be everything.

The obvious answer - the set is actually a Commander Bly battlepack. Includes 4 Commander Blys, plus two Commander Bly battle droids!

[Lego Nostalgia]

probably cheaper that way to reuse, it's always the Hawkeye,Bruce Wayne,Rose Tico,Reva heads, they're not any use when you get loads of them from buying BPs, it's much the same as making  everyone the Bruce Wayne face, it's like Clones

1 minute ago, Kit Figsto said:

The obvious answer - the set is actually a Commander Bly battlepack. Includes 4 Commander Blys, plus two Commander Bly battle droids!

Don't give Lego ideas

[Max_Lego]

31 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I'm probably gonna get shit for this and so be it but, I have a strong feeling that they made the Hoth Troopers Diverse to tick boxes, it doesn't feel genuine, if they were diverse in the movie then it would make sense but, they weren't, also I don't get why they have Female Stormtrooper heads, I'm 100% sure there was no Female Stormtroopers in the OT, Maybe in the books but I don't know, It doesn't feel Natural, maybe it's because the OT wasn't diverse, if you look at Harry Potter,Marvel and other themes it feels natural whereas SW it feels forced, but that's just me

I agree that it feels forced. George Lucas said that Star Wars is not about human, but alien diversity. At least one black trooper was present on Tatooine in the 1977 cut:

25 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I hope those Family Guy Stormtrooper helmets go away but then again, it would ruin the consistency when a new mould comes in  and isn't like the ones before

They won't. The 2014 version is not perfect, yet it's better than the new one. I doubt they will create a new mold or bring back the old one - it would cost money, and TLG is lazy.

They did reject that nice Rebel pilot helmet mold though. It worked much better, at least, for Luke

[Lego Nostalgia]

6 minutes ago, Max_Lego said:

I agree that it feels forced. George Lucas said that Star Wars is not about human, but alien diversity. At least one black trooper was present on Tatooine in the 1977 cut:

 

That's cool, never saw this before, who knew you could learn something from a block toy forum

[Tariq j]

5 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

I do too.

I think we need more in-universe diversity too. More aliens! The battlefront rebel BP was decent for this but I'd love to see more standard galactic citizens with all sorts of aliens. Like a cantina patrons add-on pack, or Jabba's guards or background jedi or senators. Just more aliens!

Yes, one of the reasons I loved Skeleton Crew was because they included a lot more aliens. I’m still hoping we get a Captain Brutus figure at some point.

[ArrowBricks]

3 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Yeah that's my main issue with the barge. 

Zero guards at all in the skiff (ridiculous, especially with how overpriced it is) and only 4 in the barge with 1 being a reused Gamorrean, and 1 of the remaining 3 being a repeat of what was already the cheapest of them all anyway: Kithaba. He'd already been in the 2012 skiff and even 12 years later only costs like £3. They should've made either a new version of an actually hard to find character, e.g. Ree-Yees, or one we've never had such as the Weequay Luke pulls out of a hatch (though they also forgot to include any hatches on the model which is another problem), another green Nikto (Klaatu or Yotts Oren, both of whom could've reused Wooof's head and helmet) or a whole bunch of others (and the skiff should've included Vedain to fight Lando).

Couldn’t agree more. They should have included the secondary skiff in the UCS set - the one with Pote Snitkin, Brock Starsher etc. Then sold the main skiff like they have. 

29 minutes ago, Tariq j said:

Yes, one of the reasons I loved Skeleton Crew was because they included a lot more aliens. I’m still hoping we get a Captain Brutus figure at some point.

Would be a great May 4th figure, shame it’s a bit too obscure. 

[Swordy]

6 hours ago, Meaf said:

I was actually just talking about the Lando situation with someone the other day, and yeah I completely agree. It just seems like such an obvious oversight to make his ESB version so rare despite him being such an iconic character. I know we don't get a ton of Cloud City sets but I'm surprised he's never been thrown into any of them, he could have easily been in a Slave I or the carbonite freezing chamber. I guess it's just a matter of him being less important/iconic than Luke, Han, Leia, Vader, and Boba, but still, you'd think he'd show up at least once in a smaller set.

As far as the trooper heads go, I'm all for having them be more diverse. On the OT side of things I mostly just buy Stormtroopers, so it's more beneficial for me to have them be more diverse so I can reuse them elsewhere if I want. It's definitely an upgrade over the days of having all plain black heads, even if I do miss them a little.

His ESB look is his most iconic look, and I will throw the gauntlet down to anybody who says otherwise. He should’ve been included in the Carbon freezing chamber a couple years back, or they could remake the Cloud City Car and include him there (maybe Bespin Gown Leia too, if I may be greedy).

A small bit less iconic, sure, but it’s Billy Dee Williams. He’s undeniably cool for that fact alone.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for more diverse troops, since it offers a little more value. I’m more so upset that they’ve stopped the buck there, when you never even see the stormtrooper’s faces. This would be different if they were producing a bunch of Rebel trooper BPs and decided to diversify those troops, in my opinion. Even then, though, the most recent BPs have been clones (all the same face) or Mandos with blank heads underneath, so not much has been accomplished for inclusion.

7 hours ago, Calanon said:

The OT is rather a product of its time with how white everyone is. It's a huge galaxy, not Europe.

True, but I believe there’s more method to the OT than people give Lucas credit for.

2 hours ago, Max_Lego said:

I agree that it feels forced. George Lucas said that Star Wars is not about human, but alien diversity. At least one black trooper was present on Tatooine in the 1977 cut:

Do you have a date for that Lucas quote? Feels like something he’d say in response to a 2015 or 2024 Twitter campaign. Anyway, looking at the OT on face value, human and alien diversity seem to go hand in hand. All the faces we see in the Empire paint George’s picture of fascist regimes, no? Compare that to his vision of the free, hopeful Rebellion, with all sorts of different looking people involved.

I’m getting way off LEGO discussion, though, so I’ll concise my thoughts there. This is a touchy subject and not one on which I want to endlessly debate right now, lol.

2 hours ago, Kit Figsto said:

The obvious answer - the set is actually a Commander Bly battlepack. Includes 4 Commander Blys, plus two Commander Bly battle droids!

Brilliant! You truly belong with us in the Aslume.

1 hour ago, Tariq j said:

Yes, one of the reasons I loved Skeleton Crew was because they included a lot more aliens. I’m still hoping we get a Captain Brutus figure at some point.

A set with Brutus, a Ree-Yees, and SM-33 would be fantastic. No idea what they could do build-wise, but a man can dream.

 

Maybe the unknown set is a Pirate Snub Fighter reskin with Skeleton Crew figures. After all, we live in a society.

Edited January 22 by Swordy

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I think the reason Lando is not that accessible is because he only shows up in a specific place (Millennium Falcon,Cloud City) so it's hard to have him in a small set unless he comes in a Millennium Falcon Microfighter, Same as Padme, they should be in more sets since they are highly popular and essential to SW

But the thing is (I go through this in more depth below) you can fit lando into a number of starfighters without stretching much, and since we've set the precedent for playing a bit fast and loose with what specifically an OT set is based on, Lando should be able to show up in pretty much any rebel or imperial vehicle outside of something like Luke's landspeeder where he obviously never interacted with it.

Same for Padme in regards to seppie or republic sets. We've never had the best Padme outfit (white jumpsuit with cape, which still gives off royalty vibes but is worn in combat). Chuck her in the next Homing Spider droid or something (It'll be phase 2 clone troopers and yet somehow still have geonosis boxart)

3 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I feel like they realized this when they released the 2020 501st battle pack, pretty much no one cared about the builds despite that being 90% of the product they're buying. It should've been a $15 set, remove the droids and have a minifig scale AT-RT as the build.

I feel like this in part due to the fact that we sadly don't get as many OT play sets as we used to.

Agree (although given inflation, the $15 battle packs in 2017 would be $20 now so I wouldn't be mad if it was their current $20. Though saying that you know it'll be $25 next year.)

True, but you know my answer to that...

3 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Shang Chi and Bruce Wayne face on all of them

Completely unrelated to the point but I like this face print and I see people talk about how common it is all the time but somehow despite the fact that it's on 18 separate minifigures I think I've only ever gotten one, and it was a Bruce Wayne in an ebay lot or something.

2 hours ago, Kit Figsto said:

The obvious answer - the set is actually a Commander Bly battlepack. Includes 4 Commander Blys, plus two Commander Bly battle droids!

No, no, this can't be it-

The set supposedly has 3 SBDs (Super Bly Droids)

1 hour ago, Tariq j said:

Yes, one of the reasons I loved Skeleton Crew was because they included a lot more aliens. I’m still hoping we get a Captain Brutus figure at some point.

Me too, the Defel species are sick, even if this one never got to show off his special ability (if that's still canon).

45 minutes ago, ArrowBricks said:

Would be a great May 4th figure, shame it’s a bit too obscure. 

What's sad is back when we got minifigure polybag/GWPs for star wars more regularly, major villain of the show wouldn't have been too obscure. (Though perhaps requiring a new mold would be an issue, I'm unsure if there's a working mold for him out there at the moment.) 

Just now, Swordy said:

His ESB look is his most iconic look, and I will throw the gauntlet down to anybody who says otherwise. He should’ve been included in the Carbon freezing chamber a couple years back, or they could remake the Cloud City Car and include him there (maybe Bespin Gown Leia too, if I may be greedy).

Maybe the unknown set is a Pirate Snub Fighter reskin with Skeleton Crew figures. After all, we live in a society.

You can fit Bespin lando in the carbon freeze chamber as you say, (which would be a good set for a year or two from now as a good way to keep cheap boba on shelves once the mech retires), you can put him in Slave One, you could throw him in an ESB falcon, the next TIE fighter remake could have him if we want to stretch it a tiny bit, etc. There's plenty of spots for that, not to mention that ROTJ General Lando can be plopped into more or less any rebel ship from ROTJ- A-wing, B-wing, Falcon, capital ships, etc. I mean nothing's even stopping them from ROTJ X or Y wings if we want to stretch a bit.

[CallumPears]

1 hour ago, ArrowBricks said:

the one with Pote Snitkin

100%. I'm trying to make customs of all the missing figures and I think Pote Snitkin is the one causing me the most issues since there are no official face prints that are a close enough match, and the only custom one I can find is from Engineerio which looks to be kinda mid quality and the only way to get it is to buy the whole figure at like $25. 

24 minutes ago, Swordy said:

(maybe Bespin Gown Leia too, if I may be greedy).

I'll put in a vote for the other Bespin Leia (white jumpsuit) since that's never been made at all

9 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Completely unrelated to the point but I like this face print and I see people talk about how common it is all the time but somehow despite the fact that it's on 18 separate minifigures I think I've only ever gotten one, and it was a Bruce Wayne in an ebay lot or something.

Yeah I only have one too, from the Hoth figure pack

[Max_Lego]

33 minutes ago, Swordy said:

Compare that to his vision of the free, hopeful Rebellion, with all sorts of different looking people involved.

Yeah, especially in ANH and, to a lesser extent, ESB 

Fun fact: the word 'democracy' is never uttered in the entire OT. Compare to the Prequels (also a product of their time).

In the OT, the Rebellion's portrayal was very different from Disney's. ANH and R1 rebels have zero in common. In the OT, they are a serious military organisation first and foremost, and their primary interest is succeeding in whatever their mission is. In R1, they are... 

I hate to be off-topic, but I just can't leave that without a response 

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Me too, the Defel species are sick, even if this one never got to show off his special ability (if that's still canon).

Brutus is a Shistavanen tho, not a Defel  Either way, we need a minifig of his! And SM-33. And Kh‘ymm.

[Kaijumeister]

I do wonder if SM-33’s omission from the Cinder is simply because Lego couldn’t be bothered to spend money on a new mould for him. He was included in a lot of pre-release promotional material like posters and even the teaser trailer so it’s hardly like the character was kept a secret. Then again, even Hasbro haven’t tackled the character yet.

Given the abundance of Phase 2 clone sets we’re getting this year, I wonder if Lego will choose to switch things up and include Phase 1 clones / early TCW season characters in the MTT. I still have my fingers crossed for a Season 1 Anakin to pair with Obi-Wan from the V-19 and it would be awesome to get a modern P1 Rex too.

Edited January 22 by Kaijumeister

[Flieger]

4 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

I do wonder if SM-33’s omission from the Cinder is simply because Lego couldn’t be bothered to spend money on a new mould for him.

Maybe they believed SM-33 was not important enough, they included all the main characters, after all. It might have been a "one show, one set" situation, similar to Andor, and they got the five most important figures only. The cost argument, which I think is valid, probably was the final nail in the SM-33 coffin.

Lego had no way of knowing that the vast majority of the viewers actually liked Skeleton Crew. Even I was surprised to like it that much. But then, the total number of viewers was unfortunately low (thanks Acolyte, continue ruining the IP even after cancellation). Hence convincing Lego to do more SC stuff is not easy. That is so sad, because there is so much: vehicles, characters, locations; all of them fresh yet Star Wars-y.

But let's be honest, I would not have bought the Onyx Cinder had I not liked the show. Few watched/liked it, and thus the sales are probably bad, killing any chance for more sets and SM-33. Please, I want to be wrong on that one!

 

On 1/18/2025 at 7:50 PM, Darth_Bane13 said:

At least Dark empire actually attempted to explain how Palpatine returned

 

Indeed. And while it was derided, no one was angry. It was a comic book, and a nice exploration of a scenario many people wanted. Totally different scale, investment, expectation etc. compared to the final installment of the ST. It is still utterly strange to me that Disney did not have a pre-planned coherent story for that trilogy, not even in rudimentary form. Say what you will about Lucas, he developed such a plan and stuck to it from day one of the PT shooting to the end.

Lucas, while obviously not a fan of the EU, let things happen. He knew it did not concern his vision and made fans happy. Dark Empire was one of the stories I am sure he disliked but he allowed fans having fun with it.

[AD_Bricks]

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Completely unrelated to the point but I like this face print and I see people talk about how common it is all the time but somehow despite the fact that it's on 18 separate minifigures I think I've only ever gotten one, and it was a Bruce Wayne in an ebay lot or something.

My few Batman / Bruce Wayne figures use Batman-specific heads, so none of mine come on a Bruce minifig, and yet I still have 13 of it, making it the 9th most common minifig head in my collection, being beaten only by the likes of angry clone, actual clone trooper heads, the generic hawkeye one, Minecraft Steve, B1 battle droids, and plain black heads, so tbh I'm really bored of it now >_<

[Gontron]

8 hours ago, Kit Figsto said:

The obvious answer - the set is actually a Commander Bly battlepack. Includes 4 Commander Blys, plus two Commander Bly battle droids!

You joke but this is what happened when DICE put the 327th into Battlefront 2 initially. 

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, AD_Bricks said:

My few Batman / Bruce Wayne figures use Batman-specific heads, so none of mine come on a Bruce minifig, and yet I still have 13 of it, making it the 9th most common minifig head in my collection, being beaten only by the likes of angry clone, actual clone trooper heads, the generic hawkeye one, Minecraft Steve, B1 battle droids, and plain black heads, so tbh I'm really bored of it now >_<

Oh no from a practical standpoint it's super overused, it just coincidentally happens that I haven't managed to get any more than 1.

1 hour ago, Gontron said:

You joke but this is what happened when DICE put the 327th into Battlefront 2 initially. 

Lego now has a lore reason to produce it.

[lego the hutt]

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a mix of clone wars sets having done well the past few years and lego trying to use the youtubers out there as free market research.

It is partially YouTubers for sure but also, I think TLG has intentionally targeted younger and younger members for the Lego SW team and have given them a bit too much leash.

Someone needs to right the ship a bit.