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

[BrickPrick]

1 hour ago, Llewop said:

Do we know what/if there are any droids coming in the turbo tank? They always have like one of two at least just odd we haven’t heard anything on that just that it’s ki adi mundi, commander and one marines (hopefully 4/5 at least)

As far as we know, it's just gonna be Ki-Adi-Mundi, Commander Bacara and two Galactic Marines. Though it would hardly be shocking if Lego would throw in their usual two to three B1s as well. Like i can see this Turbo Tank would be more like the AT-TE and not like the Coruscant Gunship. However, still strange we haven't heard about any other figures for this set... 

Just to be clear, you mean four to five figures in total, or Galactic Marines alone?

1 hour ago, Agent Kallus said:

I presume we'll see the sets soon enough anyway. Would June 1st be an unreasonable estimate?

Nope, even though recency bias is a thing, i think starting from June 1st for some concrete leaks would be a good guess. 

 

Day #25 of asking Lego not to lessen the upcoming Clone Turbo Tank. 

Edited May 29 by BrickPrick

[Mandalorianknight]

15 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Also side note but is anyone else tired of GWPs that really should just be small sets with a regular release. It's annoying here in star wars but it's downright painful for castle when they get no small to medium sets but there are designs for smaller sets but TLG has locked them all into being GWPs. Infuriating if you ask me.

I guess, but I can't think of any in this theme, maybe barring the B1 carrier. (And even then, if it was a real set, we would have had SO MANY complaints about how there weren't any real minifigures). The Enforcer/unarmored clones battle pack would have been a total shelfwarmer, and the rest of the ones we've gotten haven't really fit the system set format.

12 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Neat torso, but I crave something more substantial  Fingers crossed the new pauldron is next! And I need to know if cloth kamas are back for real or if that was just a false rumour.

Given lego has been phasing out cloth pieces, I don't think we see them again- a return to those weird TCW box kamas is more likely.

7 hours ago, CallumPears said:

I quite like the size, but the thing throwing me off is how tall it makes the neck look. Maybe it's due to it being rounded instead of squared at the end like the backpacks and jetpacks are? 

Nobody's talking about this, but it's a big issue- you can't stack the kamas with backpacks or jetpacks anymore without the figure looking ridiculous. 

Now granted, we know plenty of people just seem to want tiny Hot Toys figures and could care less how usable the part is outside the circumstance it was created for, but even with canon onscreen characters we've seen plenty who have pauldrons and backpacks (Sandtroopers, all ARC troopers) or pauldrons and Jetpacks (Captain Rex comes to mind.)

The Fives pauldron was pretty much perfect. @Brickadeer's suggestion is really the only way I could see a plastic one working- otherwise we enter the era of sandtroopers having printed backpacks.

1 hour ago, Llewop said:

MTT I get why people are disappointed there is only 6 B1 but are we all not sick to death of B1s do we not already have 10,000 in our collection because save for last year the previous 10 years Lego only thought that the separatists only consisted of B1 droids. I have so many B1s and I don’t even go out of my way to collect them. I kind of wish we had a commander as it’s a little different but I feel like the inclusion of the commando droids does balance it out a little. Guarantee they’ll chuck them in the magazine next year as well to be able to get more. 

It's not the figure people want, it's the holding capacity. I wouldn't want a TIE reaper to include 10 stormtroopers but if it could only hold 4 figures I'd be pretty annoyed.

[CallumPears]

5 hours ago, Swordy said:

With the torso, helmet, and pauldron in view, I think it's safe to say that the Star Corps trooper looks well done. Curious to hear from a diehard 327th fan how he would feel about the complete minifig, aside from the overpriced set, of course.

Hello, diehard 327th fan reporting for duty (literally them and the Marines have been my 2 favourite clone designs for over a decade). 

They look pretty good, but some issues. The yellow shade should be darker, maybe the flame yellowish orange colour would be a bit closer. The pauldron strap printed on the torso should have 3 pouches but only has 2. The helmet print is too wide and should be closer to the fin on top BUT I've seen a comment from someone who claimed to have seen the final product saying the real one (the leak was a render) looks better, so we'll wait and see on that. Pauldron neck attachment point makes the head look too tall as I mentioned before. Also my general dislike of the hybrid style which automatically knocks a few points off any Clone we've had since 2020. 

A bit of a long paragraph there but don't get me wrong it's still a pretty decent figure overall. 

 

Weird coincidence that for both the Marine and the 327th trooper we haven't seen the legs yet. Hopefully they both look good (barring the printed kamas of course ). 

I also wonder what the Marine's pauldron will look like. Theirs are double sided so my question is will they make a full mould for that, will they be lazy and reuse the single one, or will they use Fives's cloth one from last year? 

Also, if they do use a plastic one I wonder whether they'll be able to have their backpacks. Maybe they could even do a combination mould of the backpack and pauldron as all one piece. 

Of course, even for figures like the Hoth Rebels which should always have backpacks they've been consistently "forgetting" them since 2017...

Edited May 30 by CallumPears

[AD_Bricks]

1 hour ago, CallumPears said:

Of course, even for figures like the Hoth Rebels which should always have backpacks they've been consistently "forgetting" them since 2017...

I mean, the one in the Hoth AT-ST in 2022 had a backpack, they just left them out of the figure accessory pack (probably due to limited budget?)

Don't know what was up with the action battle sets though...

[CallumPears]

2 hours ago, AD_Bricks said:

I mean, the one in the Hoth AT-ST in 2022 had a backpack, they just left them out of the figure accessory pack (probably due to limited budget?)

Don't know what was up with the action battle sets though...

Yeah weird that that one suddenly had a backpack after a few years without them. Should absolutely be the standard. 

The accessory pack not having them is especially annoying since it would've been helpful to cover their alternate faces which are clearly visible under the back of the helmet. 

Idk what it is but I swear some of the designers are allergic to backpacks or something. It also happened with the Endor Rebels who only got backpacks way back in 2009 then never again, not even in the 2012 sets that featured them, and the Snowtroopers from 2019 but that was due to the bracket piece getting a redesign which made it no longer compatible with their helmets (no excuse for the First Order Snowtrooper in the 2017 Advent Calendar though, or the Hoth Rebel in the 2016 calendar). 

 

Really really hope the Galactic Marines have theirs, and that whatever design they use for the pauldrons doesn't interfere with that (if they don't have backpacks in the set then that would already be very annoying, but if the pauldron piece is like the 327th one then that'd be even worse as it'd stop us from being able to add our own backpacks with how tall the neck would be). 

[Agent Kallus]

8 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Nobody's talking about this, but it's a big issue- you can't stack the kamas with backpacks or jetpacks anymore without the figure looking ridiculous. 

Having multiple accessories on one neck honestly wouldn't look to bad. I don't see how this would be worse than when combining cloth and plastic neck attachments which always tended to get crumpled or folded weird when put under backpacks or the like.

7 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Hopefully they both look good (barring the printed kamas of course ). 

I think there was a rumour about cloth Kanas returning. Personally I'd rather printed ones myself anyway though, going back to cloth now would be a backwards step IMO. Of course in an ideal world printer Kamas of a different colour to the legs would utilise dual moulding on the legs so the kama goes the whole way around, but for that to look go they actually have to apply a stronger layer of white paint than they have been lately (and we know they can as this didn't used to be a problem).

 

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It's not the figure people want, it's the holding capacity. I wouldn't want a TIE reaper to include 10 stormtroopers but if it could only hold 4 figures I'd be pretty annoyed.

Absolutely, well in an ideal world it'd include a full complement too but we're not even asking for that now, just a decent amount of space in the holding bay! Though B1s aren't proper minifigs so expecting a large amount of those wouldn't be as unreasonable as with stormies.

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I guess, but I can't think of any in this theme, maybe barring the B1 carrier. (And even then, if it was a real set, we would have had SO MANY complaints about how there weren't any real minifigures). The Enforcer/unarmored clones battle pack would have been a total shelfwarmer, and the rest of the ones we've gotten haven't really fit the system set format.

Yeah, the droid carrier was what brought it to mind but the most egregious examples aren't from star wars. Castle is another favourite theme and the only small sets it's getting lately are trapped as GWPs. So not really a Star Wars complaint but I guess I'm just getting a little jaded on the while GWP exclusive sets idea in general.

7 hours ago, CallumPears said:

The yellow shade should be darker, maybe the flame yellowish orange colour would be a bit closer.

Interesting that you say this just as TLG are introducing a new yellow shade (Ochre Yellow).

So far it's only been seen as a friends pony's mane and tail. But I like to think TLG learned their lesson on making extremely limited use colours so hopefully we'll see it more widespread soon enough. Maybe even on Bly?

 

11 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The new pauldron is going to work spectacularly well with the current stormtrooper helmet. The helmet’s chin is going to cover up the neck bracket.

Definitely agree here. Sand troopers in particular with both the Pauldron and a backpack will have less of that weird overhang chin.

[Graupensuppe]

13 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The new pauldron is going to work spectacularly well with the current stormtrooper helmet. The helmet’s chin is going to cover up the neck bracket.

Have there ever been stormtroopers with RotS-style clone pauldrons?

[Llewop]

11 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

As far as we know, it's just gonna be Ki-Adi-Mundi, Commander Bacara and two Galactic Marines. Though it would hardly be shocking if Lego would throw in their usual two to three B1s as well. Like i can see this Turbo Tank would be more like the AT-TE and not like the Coruscant Gunship. However, still strange we haven't heard about any other figures for this set... 

Just to be clear, you mean four to five figures in total, or Galactic Marines alone?

Marines alone of course. Kind of like similar number to what appeared in the AT-TE gave 

 

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 

It's not the figure people want, it's the holding capacity. I wouldn't want a TIE reaper to include 10 stormtroopers but if it could only hold 4 figures I'd be pretty annoyed.

I get that, didn’t the leak suggest it’s similar to the previous version from 2014? So how many did that one fit? 

44 minutes ago, Graupensuppe said:

Have there ever been stormtroopers with RotS-style clone pauldrons?

Think it’s more the pauldron could easily be repurposed and redesigned to suit stormtroopers in future sets. 

[BrickPrick]

22 minutes ago, Llewop said:

Marines alone of course. Kind of like similar number to what appeared in the AT-TE gave 

 

I get that, didn’t the leak suggest it’s similar to the previous version from 2014? So how many did that one fit? 

Oh man... I hate to break it to you, but that probably won't be happening. The AT-TE also just had three plain 212th Clone Troopers. So i don't know where your extra 4th and 5th unit is coming from. And if you include Cody and the Gunner for the AT-TE and Bacara for the Turbo Tank, it would be a 5 Vs. 3 cloning situation. I still hope there is at least more to it than we know on either galactic or separatist side. Because four figs for 160 bucks, while also having an even smaller model than before, is frankly a abysmal display. 

Six figs as well. 

[ForgedInLego]

11 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Also, if they do use a plastic one I wonder whether they'll be able to have their backpacks. Maybe they could even do a combination mould of the backpack and pauldron as all one piece. 

Maybe a hot take, but I'd rather they just have the backpack. I didn't notice they had pauldrons until you pointed it out, they are much smaller than almost any other pauldrons. This would mean they would either be way too oversized or a single use mold.

It also looks like the new pauldron mold works on either shoulder, so I'm guessing Bacara will use it and we may get some of the 327th with a right shoulder pauldron as well. Unlike the Night Trooper BP, this would actually work with the two of each thing as it appears to be about a 50/50 split in the movie

[CallumPears]

1 minute ago, ForgedInLego said:

hot take, but I'd rather they just have the backpack. I didn't notice they had pauldrons until you pointed it out, they are much smaller than almost any other pauldrons. This would mean they would either be way too oversized or a single use mold.

It also looks like the new pauldron mold works on either shoulder, so I'm guessing Bacara will use it and we may get some of the 327th with a right shoulder pauldron as well. Unlike the Night Trooper BP, this would actually work with the two of each thing as it appears to be about a 50/50 split in the movie

I think the Fives pauldron in all-black would be my preferred solution for the Marines. Hopefully they haven't abandoned cloth entirely. 

Yeah I was thinking about the new plastic pauldron being able to go on either side too. It would be really nice if at least one of the 327th troopers has the mirrored torso print to go with that. 

[BrickPrick]

The 327th Trooper now fully leaked from top to bottom. The legs look exactly like you would expect from Lego's modern standards. All in all it might look a little weirder than usual once the pauldron piece is applied as well. Like yay territory up there and nay territory down there.

Edited May 30 by BrickPrick

[Graupensuppe]

I'm worried about the Galactic Marines now. They should have dark red kamas, dark gray pants, and white boots; I don't think it's possible to properly do that without a fabric kama (or dual molded legs).

Edited May 30 by Graupensuppe

[Agent Kallus]

I think the 327th looks pretty great. All it really needs is daily molding for the kama to wrap around.

[CallumPears]

2 hours ago, Graupensuppe said:

I'm worried about the Galactic Marines now. They should have dark red kamas, dark gray pants, and white boots; I don't think it's possible to properly do that without a fabric kama (or dual molded legs).

Yeah ideally the Marines would have dual moulded grey/white legs AND cloth kamas, but no chance of that sadly.

I really hope they don't do what they did with the new ARC-170 pilots which look ridiculous with the white legs. I'd rather have grey legs with no boots at all than have the entire leg be the colour of the boot with a tiny bit of print on the front. It'd be like if they gave Imperial Officers black legs and just printed a dark grey patch on the front. 

 

The 327th helmet looks much better than the render. Aside from the kama and the minor inaccuracy on the torso it's a really good figure overall, even with my dislike of the Clone Wars animation style being used on minifigures. 

[CloneCommando99]

Day #36 of waiting for a big strong Tie Avenger to sweep me off my feet.

 

Death Star leaks have to start soon. Right?

[Max_Lego]

34 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Death Star leaks have to start soon. Right?

Nobody knows for sure when a set image is going to leak 

[BrickPrick]

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Day #36 of waiting for a big strong Tie Avenger to sweep me off my feet.

 

Death Star leaks have to start soon. Right?

Stay strong. 

They don't have to, no. But would it be nice to have some more leaks regardless? Yes. 

Prepare for the Death Star plans to be shared across... 114 days, so three parts per minifigure, a single head+hair/helmet/torso/legs reveal per day. Doesn't matter whether it's a familiar figure or not. It will just be merciless madness. Funny thing is, if starting in early June, this arbitrarisness would actually (almost) check out with the October release date. 

Edited May 30 by BrickPrick

[Tariq j]

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Death Star leaks have to start soon. Right?

We have to get Lonni Jung on the case.

 

I’m happy with that 327th figure, it looks good. 

[Mandalorianknight]

14 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Having multiple accessories on one neck honestly wouldn't look to bad. I don't see how this would be worse than when combining cloth and plastic neck attachments which always tended to get crumpled or folded weird when put under backpacks or the like.

 

Absolutely, well in an ideal world it'd include a full complement too but we're not even asking for that now, just a decent amount of space in the holding bay! Though B1s aren't proper minifigs so expecting a large amount of those wouldn't be as unreasonable as with stormies.

I can assure you, multiple plastic accessories around one neck looks bad. Try it with one of your figures. They get kaminoan level necks. The starchy cloth isn't the same because it's thinner and compresses easier than the plastic. The spongey stuff might be worse because of the thickness, but they've never made pauldrons out of it AFAIK.

Yeah exactly- it's even worse here because not only should the MTT be able to fit more than 6, but B1s are so cheap that you should be able to fit them all in. (That said, the overall number of figures+droids isn't an issue to me, it's sizable enough.)

25 minutes ago, Tariq j said:

We have to get Lonni Jung on the case.

Hasn't he done enough for us?

[BrickPrick]

I didn't even think of judging the new piece based on potential use cases for other minifigures. Just what i saw for the 327th Clone Trooper. And in that first impression, it looked pretty good to me. 

I reckon, the new pauldron plastic piece won't be an option for future OT Boba Fett minifigures, then. As he would look ridiculous combined with a jetpack. Doing both as one piece might be an option? Sounds weird as well, but considering Lego did a single piece for Jango's helmet/jetpack before, would it be outside the realm of possibility? 

Day #26 of asking Lego not to reduce the upcoming Clone Turbo Tank. 

Edited May 30 by BrickPrick

[CallumPears]

53 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

I reckon, the new pauldron plastic piece won't be an option for future OT Boba Fett minifigures, then. As he would look ridiculous combined with a jetpack. Doing both as one piece might be an option? Sounds weird as well, but considering Lego did a single piece for Jango's helmet/jetpack before, would it be outside the realm of possibility? 

I sure hope not tbh. Just bring back the cloth piece. Maybe they're making a decision to get rid of cloth pieces... but if they are then that's a stupid decision. 

[Mandalorianknight]

19 minutes ago, CallumPears said:

I sure hope not tbh. Just bring back the cloth piece. Maybe they're making a decision to get rid of cloth pieces... but if they are then that's a stupid decision. 

It's inarguable that they're doing their best to phase them out. It started with only a few figures who had specialty cape shapes (strange's cape that's known for retaining it's shape when not attached to a person, Keaton Batman's cowl/cape), but now there's a cowlless batman cape, a generic superhero cape, and the pauldrons are plastic. Not to mention kamas barely ever appear anymore.

I agree that it's a stupid decision. The rubber capes lack the poseability and, you know, cape-ness the cloth ones had. They can't trail up behind a minifigure anymore, or wrap around their side. The pauldrons could have benefitted more from being a more rigid material but now have the side effect not being able to stack with backpacks or jetpacks anymore.

1 hour ago, BrickPrick said:

Doing both as one piece might be an option?

This is another issue with removing cloth- those specialized molds are going to stack up FAST. People are already complaining about the galactic marines.

[BrickPrick]

1 hour ago, CallumPears said:

I sure hope not tbh. Just bring back the cloth piece. Maybe they're making a decision to get rid of cloth pieces... but if they are then that's a stupid decision. 

Well, sure... But will they introduce brand new pauldron pieces, while also keeping or bringing back the cloth ones? I imagine, they wouldn't. 

25 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

This is another issue with removing cloth- those specialized molds are going to stack up FAST. People are already complaining about the galactic marines.

Yes, like you said, it's appearant Lego is slowly but surely phasing out cloth pieces. But if specialized moulds gonna stack up this fast, can there even be some sort of middle ground? This is going to be interesting.

I certainly won't care if the Galactic Marines come with neither backpacks nor pauldrons. Personally, the biggest glaring omission will be the lack of physical waist capes. 

[CallumPears]

20 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

I certainly won't care if the Galactic Marines come with neither backpacks nor pauldrons.

For real? If they're supposed to have pauldrons and backpacks... then they'd better kriffing have their pauldrons and backpacks.

Zero excuse to not have them. 

The fact that from what we've seen so far the new helmet mould doesn't extend down the back of the torso does give me hope that they'll at least have their backpacks (as that's the reason Snowtroopers don't have theirs now: the new neck bracket piece isn't compatible with their helmets), which I actually think is much more important than the kamas (though of course they should really have everything). 

Edited May 31 by CallumPears