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

[CallumPears]

3 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

The front cannons are way too short, the stud shooters are ugly, it only holds 6 droids, overpriced. The last 2 complaints are the biggest problems and hold it back from being a great set imo.

The weird thing is that the MTT easily has room to store 8 B1s for very little modification (just put them closer together). In fact, the actual footprint of the rack is the same as the 2007 one so it totally could hold 16 if you replace the folding mechanism with an extra layer (I do like the folding mechanism though).

 

Gonna copy/paste my thoughts from a R*ddit comment I made about the 2in1 set (this got me downvoted to hell on there for some reason lol- they seem to absolutely hate any criticism of their favourite multi billion-dollar company): 

 

Overall pretty good, but just a few minor changes to the sets would probably make this the best 2in1 ever:

First one is obviously to fix the inaccuracies on the minifigures. For the Clones: the helmet stripe should have a gap over the visor, they should have 3 pouches on their shoulder straps, and Bly's torso stripe should match the brown of the one on his helmet. Aayla's lips should be pink. The Commando Droids should be brown. Maybe not dark brown like they did in 2012; the lighter colour they used for Bly's helmet stripe might work quite well, especially if they could also print the orange highlights they're supposed to have. 

Move the 2x2 round plates on the MTT's rack closer together, allowing an additional droid on each side for a total of 8. Honestly not sure why they didn't do this since B1s are very cheap for them to produce (at this point they are no different from any 4 regular unprinted pieces) and they know one of the main complaints in the 2014 set was that it didn't hold enough droids. 

A bigger one is to change the AT-RT's colour scheme to the standard red and grey republic colours, since we see in RotS that the 327th don't put legion colours on their vehicles. Keep the design, just change the colours (they already changed the colours from what they were in the preliminary images so evidently it isn't a difficult thing for them to do). Or, even better, switch out the AT-RT and just have the Clone vehicle be a Swamp Speeder since we actually see them use those in the movie, and we haven't had a proper one since 2010. Unlike a simple recolour this would be a more significant design change though so not something they could do at the last minute like my other suggestions are. 

Of course, they also need to be significantly cheaper but hopefully the multipack discount will help with that.

Edited July 3 by CallumPears

[Darth_Bane13]

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I won't be buying any of these either. I might get the firespeeder at discount because it's fun, but most of these I wouldn't get for anything less than 50% off. As Cloneopatra says, the entire wave is "Set containing General Grievous" priced.

Interestingly the 2014 grievous wheel bike and arguably the 2010 grievous starfighter felt pretty fair price wise. 

[CloneCommando99]

Day #70 of Tie Avenger asking

 

Reliable January 2026 news will hopefully be upon us within a fortnight.

[joebiwankenobi]

19 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Yeah, I won't be getting a single one of these sets. Even the V-19 Torrent, one of my favorite Clone Wars ships. The prices are ridiculous and with quality continuing to go downhill I'm voting with my wallet. Amazon (at least in the US and France) always has Star Wars sets on deep discount a year after release, especially around Christmas time. I may get a few of these sets around Christmas 2026 when I can get them 40-60% off. But until then, I hope others will follow my example and only buy at a discount. As many of you have said, if we don't vote with our wallets Lego will never change.

I haven't bought a new set during its release window in 7 years now. Waiting for discounts is the wise way of going about purchasing anything as of late. I suspect that there will be larger discounts than what we are used to in the near future, as I feel that a lot of these new sets will be abundant on store shelves at these high MSRPs. 

The one thing that's somewhat hilarious to me is to consider that the 2024 Clone Battle Pack will be on store shelves alongside the new 327th one with roughly comparable piece counts/box sizes/contents, but the new one is 50% more than the one from only a year ago. That's going to cause people to pause. 

One funny nitpick on the 327th pack I haven't seen anyone cover yet... Why did TLG give one of the troopers regular IRL binoculars when the clone should have macrobinoculars? Even Bly has Macros in the MTT? Such an odd substitution. LOL

[Nolaheru]

Luckily for me the 327th battle pack isn't too bad, only being 4 AUD more than the clone vs droid battle pack at Kmart according to that one price leak. 49 AUD is still too much for a day one buy though, but the discount I wait for won't have to be too big.

[MKJoshA]

7 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Gonna copy/paste my thoughts from a R*ddit comment I made about the 2in1 set (this got me downvoted to hell on there for some reason lol- they seem to absolutely hate any criticism of their favourite multi billion-dollar company): 

And that is why Eurobricks will always be better   I am happy to see traditional forums like Reddit making a comeback, but if you don't have a good control system in place for the users anything can go sour. 

[BrickPrick]

As far as the 2025 summer wave goes, if i am able to get the 327th Battle Pack (heavily discounted) and at least one of the mid-range priced sets (reasonably discounted), while also catching up to some more 2024 sets, all in the second half of the year, i am already a happy man.  

Come to think of it, is there any thread like last purchased Lego set already available? Or is it on-topic to talk about it here? I know this info is also given on any given profile, but that's for spam preventing, not for the sake of an actual conversation...

Edited July 3 by BrickPrick

[Yperio_Bricks]

44 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

As far as the 2025 summer wave goes, if i am able to get the 327th Battle Pack (heavily discounted) and at least one of the mid-range priced sets (reasonably discounted), while also catching up to some more 2024 sets, all in the second half of the year, i am already a happy man.  

Come to think of it, is there any thread like last purchased Lego set already available? Or is it on-topic to talk about it here? I know this info is also given on any given profile, but that's for spam preventing, not for the sake of an actual conversation...

Here you go:

 

[BrickPrick]

2 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Here you go:

 

Ah yes, thank you. Will regularly use this thread, then. 

 

In the meantime, patiently awaiting more Death Star plans. I could have sworn we would at least get one piece per day at this point. 

[Lordhelmet]

2 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Ah yes, thank you. Will regularly use this thread, then. 

 

In the meantime, patiently awaiting more Death Star plans. I could have sworn we would at least get one piece per day at this point. 

I just want the minifigure list at this point, I don't expect good pictures for a few months, but getting the minifigure list would be awesome.

[Meaf]

14 hours ago, CallumPears said:

The weird thing is that the MTT easily has room to store 8 B1s for very little modification (just put them closer together). In fact, the actual footprint of the rack is the same as the 2007 one so it totally could hold 16 if you replace the folding mechanism with an extra layer (I do like the folding mechanism though).

I thought that was really weird as well, and it just seems kind of silly that my droid carrier from 2011 holds more than B1s than a MTT. Maybe they just didn't want to have to include that many, but they're not expensive to make and they could have even left a few spots empty yo encourage people to buy other sets that include them (obviously you could just bricklink them but I suspect most consumers don't know that or would be interested in other sets anyway). Only holding six just makes it feel so much smaller.

[CallumPears]

4 hours ago, Meaf said:

I thought that was really weird as well, and it just seems kind of silly that my droid carrier from 2011 holds more than B1s than a MTT. Maybe they just didn't want to have to include that many, but they're not expensive to make and they could have even left a few spots empty yo encourage people to buy other sets that include them (obviously you could just bricklink them but I suspect most consumers don't know that or would be interested in other sets anyway). Only holding six just makes it feel so much smaller.

Yeah at this point B1s are no more special than any 5 random normal pieces. Nothing's printed, and everything except the head has been used in non-SW sets as regular building pieces (and all of them have been in production for decades). 

So, including their blasters and the 2x2 round plates to go on the rack, that's a grand total of 14 pieces which would do wonders for the set's image in people's minds. 

[Llewop]

Been thinking about it now seeing as the MTT and the BP are linked to Felucia. I just wished that instead of the CTT Lego had done and AT-OT for the 327th and made the big BP for the galactic marines. 

of these 2 legions I’d rather build up more marines than the 327th, to me all I need is B2 in orange and green in the same style as the 501st etc and we’ve got a bloody rainbow of clones. But yeah the marines are unique look and design whereas if I went colour blind tomorrow I wouldn’t be able to tell which legion is which for all the others. But I know I’m on my own with this little moan

this wave could have been the greatest in a long time but it’s been let down by Lego greed these rrp prices are not inflationary. Maybe the designers are trying to bankrupt the clone bros so that they can be free to make other sets again :D

[Sucram]

When can we expect death star news?

[Darth_Bane13]

51 minutes ago, Llewop said:

Been thinking about it now seeing as the MTT and the BP are linked to Felucia. I just wished that instead of the CTT Lego had done and AT-OT for the 327th and made the big BP for the galactic marines. 

of these 2 legions I’d rather build up more marines than the 327th, to me all I need is B2 in orange and green in the same style as the 501st etc and we’ve got a bloody rainbow of clones. But yeah the marines are unique look and design whereas if I went colour blind tomorrow I wouldn’t be able to tell which legion is which for all the others. But I know I’m on my own with this little moan

this wave could have been the greatest in a long time but it’s been let down by Lego greed these rrp prices are not inflationary. Maybe the designers are trying to bankrupt the clone bros so that they can be free to make other sets again :D

CTT should've been a UT-AT and the 327th build should've been a swamp speeder or homing spider droid imo.

[Kit Figsto]

I'll say this once again, but this is yet another example of the downsizing stuff with part counts that seem okay on the surface, but are overengineered with tiny pieces (IMO, just for the sake of boosting the piece count) and somehow ending up with a smaller piece count.  What the heck is LEGO's aversion to using, like, actually decent sized pieces these days?  

Looking at Jango's ship here, it looks like it's about 8 bricks tall at the top of the cockpit and slopes up another 2-3.  Compare that to the model from 2006, almost 20 years old, which had about 200 fewer pieces and looks to be either 13 or 14 bricks tall all the way across, while also being wider.  That one cost $50, which, accounting for inflation, is $81.  So we've got a price difference, in theory, of $11, yet the actual size is significantly smaller than that.

I truly think that this is mostly a Star Wars problem - there's a number of sets out right now that seem to have completely reasonable pricing (most of Dreamzzz's prices seem fine, the recent Indiana Jones stuff was priced well, City seems to be okay, HP and Marvel don't seem too bad, and some of the Disney stuff is well priced, like the Up house).  The only other series that seem to have consistently terrible pricing is DC/Batman.  I just don't get it. 

Where is the value?

[Kaijumeister]

What’s really irking me is not a single System set this year has even touched the 1000 piece mark yet 4 of the 5 buildable figures have.

I know all the cases to be made for small parts inflation etc. but just imagine how good the CTT and MTT could have been if they had similar piece counts to last year’s ISD and Dark Falcon. 

Despite the chibi design, I quite like the V-19 Torrent. Explicitly labelling Obi-Wan as ‘General’ makes me hopeful there’s a General Anakin Skywalker minifigure coming next year.

The lack of a wing mechanism sucks though. Star Wars System sets really lack innovative play functions these days.

[Nobricksleft]

At last, the UCS Wicket reveal! Pretty sure he was chubbier in the movies. Can't wait for Giant Wicket vs UCS AT-ST funny dioramas. 

Well, there's always K2 coming out in August, just gotta fix the eyes.

Edited July 4 by Nobricksleft

[CloneCommando99]

7 hours ago, Kit Figsto said:

I truly think that this is mostly a Star Wars problem - there's a number of sets out right now that seem to have completely reasonable pricing (most of Dreamzzz's prices seem fine, the recent Indiana Jones stuff was priced well, City seems to be okay, HP and Marvel don't seem too bad, and some of the Disney stuff is well priced, like the Up house).  The only other series that seem to have consistently terrible pricing is DC/Batman.  I just don't get it. 

I’ve seen theories that the price increases may be a result of increased licensing costs charged by Disney to recuperate costs from recent financial failures such as Acolyte, Outlaws and Skeleton Crew.

It could also be the fact that Lego’s been as of yet unable to ‘find’ a substitute for petrol to make bricks. At the beginning of the decade, petrol was estimated to run out by 2052, however since then 2 large scale wars, each involving a oil superpower, have broken out, almost certainly bringing the deadline forward (and making it harder to acquire petrol as well.) Without petrol, Lego can’t produce their staple ABS bricks, without bricks they can’t produce sets, without sets they lose all profits and go bankrupt. This could just be Lego squeezing as much money as possible by the time of their ‘currently’ unavoidable demise by 2045-7. (And I think it’s possible the reason why they ‘haven’t found’ a renewable substitute yet is because it’d eventually become cheaper than petrol and they know they’d have to lower prices if they did.)

I however, believe this is more just due to greed rather than a logical reason. 

8 hours ago, Sucram said:

When can we expect death star news?

As soon as Lonni gets to the bench.

The only question we need to answer is how tight to close our fist.

(Though the “MuH eXClUsIvE FiGurE” guys won’t be happy since Yularen’s torso got leaked.)

 

Day #71 of asking for Lego Colonel Yularen to fund a Tie Avenger program.

[BrickPrick]

15 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

I just want the minifigure list at this point, I don't expect good pictures for a few months, but getting the minifigure list would be awesome.

Yep, i reckon, we will get lots of pieces for the minifigures as a basis, a better description of the set sometime in between and major leaks of the whole thing won't be shown until September. 

15 hours ago, Meaf said:

I thought that was really weird as well, and it just seems kind of silly that my droid carrier from 2011 holds more than B1s than a MTT. Maybe they just didn't want to have to include that many, but they're not expensive to make and they could have even left a few spots empty yo encourage people to buy other sets that include them (obviously you could just bricklink them but I suspect most consumers don't know that or would be interested in other sets anyway). Only holding six just makes it feel so much smaller.

I already find it hilarious that my 2024 Droid Carrier holds the same amount of B1s as the upcoming MTT. 

5 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

What’s really irking me is not a single System set this year has even touched the 1000 piece mark yet 4 of the 5 buildable figures have.

I know all the cases to be made for small parts inflation etc. but just imagine how good the CTT and MTT could have been if they had similar piece counts to last year’s ISD and Dark Falcon. 

Despite the chibi design, I quite like the V-19 Torrent. Explicitly labelling Obi-Wan as ‘General’ makes me hopeful there’s a General Anakin Skywalker minifigure coming next year.

The lack of a wing mechanism sucks though. Star Wars System sets really lack innovative play functions these days.

I'm not too big on price per piece ratio by any stretch of the imagination, but this is quite concerning for me, too. 

Yep, i imagine it all the time. The Star Destroyer Vs. Clone Turbo Tank are the perfect recent examples of when the downsizing is still fine and when it absolutely isn't. 

Yeah, i catched up on this, too. A General Skywalker figure should already have been included in Ahsoka's Starfighter, though. 

This is true as well. In terms of play features, it all got very by the numbers. It doesn't go much beyond "here are your stud shooters" or "hey look, there you can open something" anymore. And even if Lego does something else, it can be at the expense of the design, like the probe droid drop function of the Sith Infiltrator. I don't know, feels like Lego used to be much better when it comes to implementing neat functionality without impacting the set's aesthetics. 

Edited July 4 by BrickPrick

[Kaijumeister]

2 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Yeah, i catched up on this, too. A General Skywalker figure should already have been included in Ahsoka's Starfighter, though. 

This is true as well. In terms of play features, it all got very by the numbers. It doesn't go much beyond "here are your stud shooters" or "hey look, there you can open something" anymore. And even if Lego does something else, it can be at the expense of the design, like the probe droid drop function of the Sith Infiltrator. I don't know, feels like Lego used to be much better when it comes to implementing neat functionality without impacting the set's aesthetics. 

Completely agree, even if it wouldn’t have been ‘screen accurate’, including the General Skywalker variant in Ahsoka’s Eta-2 would have been awesome. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ahsoka’s Eta-2 was initially planned to be her Delta-7b from the earlier seasons (with a Clone Wars armour Anakin), but Jedi Bob’s Starfighter from last year changed that.

I’m willing to bet that with the introduction of the P1 Clone Pilot this year, there will be something with another pilot and Anakin next year.

And exactly. Most features right now consist of firing stud shooters or accessing the interior of a vehicle. Maybe I’m feeling this more strongly because I just built the Indiana Jones Golden Idol Temple diorama from 2023, and kept thinking to myself how cool it would be if Star Wars sets had ingenious functions of that calibre too.

Edited July 4 by Kaijumeister

[BrickPrick]

45 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

Completely agree, even if it wouldn’t have been ‘screen accurate’, including the General Skywalker variant in Ahsoka’s Eta-2 would have been awesome. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ahsoka’s Eta-2 was initially planned to be her Delta-7b from the earlier seasons (with a Clone Wars armour Anakin), but Jedi Bob’s Starfighter from last year changed that.

I’m willing to bet that with the introduction of the P1 Clone Pilot this year, there will be something with another pilot and Anakin next year.

And exactly. Most features right now consist of firing stud shooters or accessing the interior of a vehicle. Maybe I’m feeling this more strongly because I just built the Indiana Jones Golden Idol Temple diorama from 2023, and kept thinking to myself how cool it would be if Star Wars sets had ingenious functions of that calibre too.

Ah well, considering how far Lego is willing to go, i wouldn't mind this screen inacuracy at all. Like you said, it would have been an awesome addition. Just feels weird to have Mace Windu and now General Obi-Wan with splendid arm printing, while plain old Anakin is still missing out. 

Or Lego might be about to bombard us all with Phase 1 Clone Troopers. 

Yes, it all feels so generic. You take a look at the back of the box and when you see the same things over and over again, you begin to ask yourself why they even bother to put them on there anymore. Obviously for newcomers... but as a more accustomed customer, it gets rather tiresome. 

Although, to be fair, they are still able to do the occasional cool play feature. Pressing down on the ramp to open up the UCS Jango's Slave 1 was pretty neat, i thought. It just feels more like the exception rather than the standard nowadays. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

13 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

The lack of a wing mechanism sucks though. Star Wars System sets really lack innovative play functions these days.

I think the issue is that the pneumatic piece that enabled that function in the 2008 version was exclusive to that set. I don‘t follow Technic set news at all, so there might be other pieces still in production that work just as well, but I understand them not wanting to resurrect that specific part 

[CF Mitch]

On 7/2/2025 at 7:57 AM, CloneCommando99 said:

My fellow Eurobrickians! If you must get a 327th BP, please just wait for it to go on sale and don’t get it full price.

I plan on BL-in Commander Bly as well as the regular 327th troopers. I'm not getting an entire MTT and whatnot just for that fig really. 
Same with the BP. The AT-RT(?) is way too bright and I have no interest in the other builds and figures. Also, no Felucian side build 

I did pre-order the CTT, V-19 Torrent and playscale Jango Fett's Slave One, though at quite a discount already, I believe  

Regards,
Mitch

[Kaijumeister]

28 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I think the issue is that the pneumatic piece that enabled that function in the 2008 version was exclusive to that set. I don‘t follow Technic set news at all, so there might be other pieces still in production that work just as well, but I understand them not wanting to resurrect that specific part 

To be fair I’m sure the mechanism should be doable without the pneumatic piece, but I haven’t MOC’d anything in years 

Overall my buy list for the summer is the V-19, MTT (once discounted), and Juggernaut (again once discounted). I still haven’t bought any sets this year but the Night Trooper Battle Pack, Plo’s Microfighter, U-Wing, and UCS Slave I are on my list too.

Compared to previous years, it’s a (relatively) super light year for me with respect to Lego Star Wars purchases.