LEGO Star Wars 2017 Pictures and Rumors

[Legoman123]

8 hours ago, EbTheGuy said:

Is anybody a bit disappointed that the bounty hunter pack includes Dengar? Like yeah he's a great fig, but we just got him in a reasonably priced set. Should have got Zuckuss instead. Other than that the set is really good. Waiting on what those final fig designs will be. Glad they still gave IG-88 a sniper.

It's great were getting 4-Lom, but I just don't understand why they didn't include Zuckuss.  I mean lets be honest, when will he actually show up in another set.  

[H3ssian]

Re Ucs falcon rumors, People in the know here in NZ say that stores cant order or have any info at all about it etc, so either a no go, or lego store exclusive?

[Martinouchou]

10 minutes ago, H3ssian said:

Re Ucs falcon rumors, People in the know here in NZ say that stores cant order or have any info at all about it etc, so either a no go, or lego store exclusive?

Why would stores be able to get any info about it or order it this soon ? If it's released in September, I don't see LEGO sharing info with stores just yet.

Edited March 4, 2017 by Martinouchou

[Sneakguest]

36 minutes ago, Martinouchou said:

Why would stores be able to get any info about it or order it this soon ? If it's released in September, I don't see LEGO sharing info with stores just yet.

Yes, they can't even say anything about the snow speeder yet (can't say or don't know, not sure) and that is going to be released within 2 months. Generally they don't seem to get much info at all at before hand or at least not be allowed to tell. In end of september, just like 2 days before force friday, I asked them to confirm the promo figure and the 3x VIP points, but they couldn't.

[BigGuy4U]

10 hours ago, EbTheGuy said:

Is anybody a bit disappointed that the bounty hunter pack includes Dengar? Like yeah he's a great fig, but we just got him in a reasonably priced set. Should have got Zuckuss instead. Other than that the set is really good. Waiting on what those final fig designs will be. Glad they still gave IG-88 a sniper.

Actually, I've been watching The Clone Wars and I don't care at all about The Freemaker Adventures, and I'm not enough of a Dengar fan to spend $30 on a set just for him, so I'm glad he's in the battle pack.

[benderisgreat]

13 minutes ago, BigGuy4U said:

Actually, I've been watching The Clone Wars and I don't care at all about The Freemaker Adventures, and I'm not enough of a Dengar fan to spend $30 on a set just for him, so I'm glad he's in the battle pack.

I second that! I also wasn't interested in that 30$ so Battlepack is a welcome addition for me.

[LL924]

2 hours ago, Sneakguest said:

...3x VIP points...

Is this likely for Force Friday this year?

[Boromir]

3 hours ago, LL924 said:

Is this likely for Force Friday this year?

It's happened before so of course it's possible to happen again. Whether or not it's "likely" however, is purely speculation at this point.

 

Anyway, regarding the rumours of a UCS Millennium Falcon, if it does happen, I hope TLG has learnt the lesson that if you rereleae or remake something, at least make improvements on the original, or face bad PR, bad sales and disappointed customers.

[Brikkyy13]

16 hours ago, seahawkeye said:

Every living SW fan in this particular galaxy here and now is disappointed about this

I'm not. I don't have Dengar yet so this will be a fast purchase for me

2 hours ago, Boromir said:

Anyway, regarding the rumours of a UCS Millennium Falcon, if it does happen, I hope TLG has learnt the lesson that if you rereleae or remake something, at least make improvements on the original, or face bad PR, bad sales and disappointed customers.

If this is referring to the Death Star, I'm pretty sure the only people disappointed with it are the AFOLs. Remember that we're not the target market for LEGO, and the AFOL community alone cannot support LEGO. It was a proven seller the way it was so there was no need to improve it beyond what they did. 

[Legoman123]

1 hour ago, Brikkyy13 said:

I'm not. I don't have Dengar yet so this will be a fast purchase for me

If this is referring to the Death Star, I'm pretty sure the only people disappointed with it are the AFOLs. Remember that we're not the target market for LEGO, and the AFOL community alone cannot support LEGO. It was a proven seller the way it was so there was no need to improve it beyond what they did. 

I don't either but you could always order him online.  Where as now we have to wait for Lego to make a Zuckuss, which imo is going to be a long wait. 

[EbTheGuy]

inb4 Zuckuss becomes exclusive to a oversized UCS Cloud City playset.

[Darth Malgus]

46 minutes ago, EbTheGuy said:

inb4 Zuckuss becomes exclusive to a oversized UCS Cloud City playset.

Do you know this or mere speculation?

[RogueTwo]

A propos of all this Bounty Hunter speculation, is anyone else concerned that the set may be delayed from its reported June 1 release date (particularly in North America)?  Obviously, TLG has a pretty good instinct for staggering releases across regions so as to maximize profit, but even so, they seem notoriously bad at estimating quantity to meet demand.  For example, several of the two-week-old sets in the United States are already backordered until April.  That's just poor form, in my opinion.  I don't mind waiting two extra months for the 2017 wave, but when that really turns into "two extra months PLUS whenever they come back in stock," that's kind of disappointing, especially considering the retailer exclusives.  I don't mean to complain, or to open up an old can of worms, but my main point is this:

With the second set of battle packs already delayed until June, and with the Bounty Hunter set potentially poised to be one of the most popular small sets of all time (at least among AFOLs, who are usually the ones responsible for making stuff go backordered/out of stock ), I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Bounty Hunter battle pack gets delayed until September or later, ESPECIALLY given that the final set wasn't even completed for ToyFair, just a mock-up of the box and minifigures.  

Edited March 5, 2017 by RogueTwo

[EbTheGuy]

1 hour ago, Darth Malgus said:

Do you know this or mere speculation?

Nah just kind of a joke tbh. It wouldn't surprise me though. Lego has pulled tricks like this before.

12 minutes ago, RogueTwo said:

A propos of all this Bounty Hunter speculation, is anyone else concerned that the set may be delayed from its reported June 1 release date (particularly in North America)?  Obviously, TLG has a pretty good instinct for staggering releases across regions so as to maximize profit, but even so, they seem notoriously bad at estimating quantity to meet demand.  For example, several of the two-week-old sets in the United States are already backordered until April.  That's just poor form, in my opinion.  I don't mind waiting two extra months for the 2017 wave, but when that really turns into "two extra months PLUS whenever they come back in stock," that's kind of disappointing, especially considering the retailer exclusives.  I don't mean to complain, or to open up an old can of worms, but my main point is this:

With the second set of battle packs already delayed until June, and with the Bounty Hunter set potentially poised to be one of the most popular small sets of all time (at least among AFOLs, who are usually the ones responsible for making stuff go backordered/out of stock ), I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Bounty Hunter battle pack gets delayed until September or later, ESPECIALLY given that the final set wasn't even completed for ToyFair, just a mock-up of the box and minifigures.  

The BH BP will likely come out before the Episode Eight sets, seeing as how it'll use the Rouge One box art, unless that changes last minute. But yeah I agree with this post. It's silly that most  sets are already out of stock especially since they waited so long. Reminds me of the Nintendo Switch stock issues at the moment. But I don't mind it as much as others, I live in a small area so sets are still around in good numbers which reminds me, I need to go buy the Landspeeder at Walmart. 

[Magmafrost]

5 hours ago, RogueTwo said:

A propos of all this Bounty Hunter speculation, is anyone else concerned that the set may be delayed from its reported June 1 release date 

I can tell you right now that beyond a shadow of a doubt they wont be in Australia by June first anyway. August at best, every time.

5 hours ago, EbTheGuy said:

But yeah I agree with this post. It's silly that most  sets are already out of stock especially since they waited so long. Reminds me of the Nintendo Switch stock issues at the moment. 

The difference there being that TLG probably isn't doing this on purpose, where Nintendo almost certainly is

[Legoman123]

12 hours ago, EbTheGuy said:

inb4 Zuckuss becomes exclusive to a oversized UCS Cloud City playset.

Well they did include Dengar, IG-88 & Bossk in different versions of the Slave 1 so I wouldn't put it past lego to do that.  Does anybody actually know why we didn't get to see images of the Bounty Hunter BP at NYTF?

[ChiefPie]

19 minutes ago, Legoman123 said:

Well they did include Dengar, IG-88 & Bossk in different versions of the Slave 1 so I wouldn't put it past lego to do that.  Does anybody actually know why we didn't get to see images of the Bounty Hunter BP at NYTF?

We did get some pictures but all we saw was the speeder and the preliminary box. The minifigs were just stand ins. 

[Robianco]

Just new designs or moulds that weren't ready. I'm sure the mould would have been the biggest block on showing them.

[will]

There's better pictures of the new snowspeeder pilot on an auction on eBay.

You don't get a good look at the arm printing but you can see it's there. Nice detail on the torso and legs (same as recent ones). Helmet printing looks a bit out of line. No pics of the set though.

not sure if I'm allowed to post them, so just search.

Edited March 5, 2017 by will

[Brickweiser]

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but the Imperial Officer in the upcoming Advent Calendar is a new figure. The rank insignia for 4 red and blue pips, denoting General, similar to General Veers' rank insignia in ESB.

 

[Legoman123]

3 hours ago, ChiefPie said:

We did get some pictures but all we saw was the speeder and the preliminary box. The minifigs were just stand ins. 

I thought that was the case.  It's a shame because that was one set I was most looking froward to seeing. 

[RogueTwo]

2 hours ago, will said:

There's better pictures of the new snowspeeder pilot on an auction on eBay.

You don't get a good look at the arm printing but you can see it's there. Nice detail on the torso and legs (same as recent ones). Helmet printing looks a bit out of line. No pics of the set though.

not sure if I'm allowed to post them, so just search.

Just looked into this, thank you!  I wonder whether the printing on the flak vest has been improved with an extra coat of white, like the one from the new (2014-) X-Wing pilot torso.  The helmet printing doesn't look great, but I've seen worse on some minifigures I've bought.  The arm printing looks promising, but as you said, it's difficult to tell for sure.  Really, the only thing that truly bothers me is the overused smiley head, but I'm sadly, I'm pretty sure that's final, given how lazy TLG has been with that sort of thing.

[VaderFan2187]

1 hour ago, RogueTwo said:

Really, the only thing that truly bothers me is the overused smiley head, but I'm sadly, I'm pretty sure that's final, given how lazy TLG has been with that sort of thing.

+100! I'm really tired of seeing that smiley head, it's just so lame!

When it came out for Dak I was okay, as Dak is the kind of young guy whom you can picture smiling like that. But every single rebel pilot since?

[Cyberfounder]

On 3/5/2017 at 0:38 PM, Brickweiser said:

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but the Imperial Officer in the upcoming Advent Calendar is a new figure. The rank insignia for 4 red and blue pips, denoting General, similar to General Veers' rank insignia in ESB.

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Well spotted! I don't think it has been mentioned before. :)

Edited March 7, 2017 by MKJoshA
Please don't quote pictures

[VaderFan2187]

1 minute ago, Cyberfounder said:

Well spotted! I don't think it has been mentioned before. :)

It was, when prelim images of the calendar first appeared on reddit.