Darth Malgus

The incessant need to make Clone battle packs is a little nauseating at the moment, I wish they did a Chima like wave, where we could get a few factions at a good price point. I would love to see a return to the play set scenes, perhaps they should take a leaf out of the Harry Potter approach (number of sets that make up a building/scene). Lego could tap into some of the moments (Genosis Arena, Endor, Mos Eisley, etc...) and sell a few sets for each to build out scenes, it may work for technique and budgets. With the scaling (downsizing) of sets, I'd be somewhat OK with it if we got better minifigures and build techniques than before, unfortunately we don't these days, I fear for an updated AT-AT with the current modus operandi. Minifigs have gotten progressively worse, I think the change to the Clone helmets was an unnecessary change and the lack of fabric for kama's is not really acceptable at current prices, worse when you consider that other sets (looking at you Lisa Simpson) just released and in the recent past are still getting them. I'd happily work with the designers at SW Lego to help bridge the gaps that exist now, which didn't in the past... 😉

Hopefully the clones will be done this year for a few. Personally I don't mind the keeping stormtroopers out of this year, save for the rumoured DS UCS. I just wish we had the old stormies back as opposed to the family guy ones in present circulation.

Happy with the minifigs, but damn. The shrinking of this ship is crazy. The original one is still superior in shape and size IMHO. The engines just look like a hot mess, I heard someone elsewhere describe it as a MOC they would've done because they couldn't afford the original set from back in the day.

I think we need a Mon minifig. I can understand why we won't get it. On the subject a page or so back about new moulds for mfs, perhaps they are being used in the Death Star set? Although, I'm not too sure what you could do a new mould of... most imp characters would be face and torso prints.

The order is less important for a pattern in this sense, however over a small sample size (3 years) it remains. The Rex MF was new as TLG were at pains to point out in the UCS Venator set, I digress.

I was more taking the angle that in the past few years MFs have used minifigs from other sets. 2 x Mando, 1 x Boba and Capt Rex and all the Venator shenanigans that ensued there. It's a reasonable deduction based on the previous few years that there could be more than one application for Plo.

I wonder if there is another D2C set we don't know about where Plo appears...

Regarding clones, it makes sense to have a few well requested ones this year being the 20th anniversary of ROTS. With respect to saturation, I expect TLG when planning their slate expected to have 2 movies to account for when planning, while we know we're only getting one, who knows what gets announced at Celebration? Perhaps they look at gaming sets like they have previously... With respect to MandR, I don't believe that he'll ever truly be happy with what comes out, however some of his gripes are reasonable (I'm not his demographic), especially the cloth kama's. The Fox figure was just plain lazy and terribly executed for a character that we'll probably only get the one time.

If the UT-AT rumour is true that would be a nice little ROTS order 66 nod from LEGO. Plo Koon microfighter/ARC-170 and Ki Adi Mundi with this. Hopefully Bacarra and a couple of Marine Clones. This would be a great buy.

It's a shame that TLG built a set based on the Black Spire novel tie in and won't build a Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor set, especially when the Mantis and Purge Troopers are so cool.

Next year could be the calm before the storm as 26, 27 and 28 are supposed to be movie years. I suspect Lego have held back on some sets to see what LFL have on their plate show/movie wise. I'll gladly take a Mantis set though.

Interesting to say the least, think I'll need to see pics before I settle on it one way or another... Not too sure about the MF, feels like they should've rolled with the deleted scenes ROTJ characters on it.

He went in hard on that review, he is not wrong though. Amazing how they give you what you want in terms of sets yet miss the mark in execution. Shrunken set here, no back printing on Ahsoka's T-6, poor minifig execution (2 clone commanders that aren't accurate at all, no kamas while other sets have them), I hate to say it but TLG need to seriously reset their department/team heads here. Also their mining print person, clearly not enough research being done here.

With you on the Chewie figure. Ahsoka sets look like a really solid wave, still not Rogue One solid, but damn close. Shuttle needs a wider cockpit piece, nice to see it retains the rotation element. Having a 2 pack is nice, hope they continue with it, the red and yellow are interesting colour choices, nice to see some colour in the SW universe again.

The E-wing and X-wing have some similarities, perhaps the person on reddit has just got it wrong... One can hope that they have. An E-wing would be great, better if they were from Rogue Squadron or Wraith Squadron as a further nod to the EU.