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[Virginia_Bricks]

5 minutes ago, TotoMagnus said:

I just listened to the latest Podcast Episode with Maxbaut. He has a „very very very good feeling“ that August will bring us a Slave 1 Playscale set, with 707 pieces and 3 minifigs: Jango, Boba and Kaminoan. 70 Bucks. 
Also: Death Star 2 with 40 minifigs. 
 

I don‘t know what to think of this. I like him and his reputation is sky high. But still…I have some doubts. 
 

What do you think?

A UCS Jango's Slave 1 and playset Jango's Slave 1 in the same year is basically a 0% chance.

[CloneCommando99]

7 minutes ago, TotoMagnus said:

I just listened to the latest Podcast Episode with Maxbaut. He has a „very very very good feeling“ that August will bring us a Slave 1 Playscale set, with 707 pieces and 3 minifigs: Jango, Boba and Kaminoan. 70 Bucks. 

[lego the hutt]

10 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

A UCS Jango's Slave 1 and playset Jango's Slave 1 in the same year is basically a 0% chance.

UCS boba and system scale boba slave 1 were on shelves at the same time.  It seems likely from a reusable parts stand point.

 

That being said, a 70$ version sounds horrible.

Hopefully it's at least similar to the 20th anniversary Slave 1.  I would definitely buy that.  A 70$, tiny, version is assuredly a pass.  🤦 

Speaking of, the 20th anniversary version was a very quality model.  Just a rerelease in Jango colors is what I would want personally.

Edited January 27 by lego the hutt

[icm]

I dunno, a $70 version with 707 pieces sounds alright to me - a little larger and a little more detailed than the 2021 version, without breaking the bank. Lots of people have built recolored versions of the 2021 version anyway, so this would just be formalizing that idea.

[lego the hutt]

10 minutes ago, icm said:

I dunno, a $70 version with 707 pieces sounds alright to me - a little larger and a little more detailed than the 2021 version, without breaking the bank. Lots of people have built recolored versions of the 2021 version anyway, so this would just be formalizing that idea.

I didn't like that one either.  We all understand Lego has been producing these small, less detailed, sets to keep the cost down and target kids and they have separate lines targeted at adults 

I understand it but it's too bad we don't get many quality system scale sets anymore.  It leads me to pass on a lot of sets. If you had the 20th anniversary Slave 1 there was no reason to pick up the "lesser" version from 2021.  That was an easy pass.

Edited January 27 by lego the hutt

[CallumPears]

9 minutes ago, lego the hutt said:

That being said, a 70$ version sounds horrible.

Hopefully it's at least similar to the 20th anniversary Slave 1.  I would definitely buy that.  A 70$, tiny, version is assuredly a pass.  🤦 

Yeah agreed. 

I got the 2021 Boba's Slave 1 and was initially on board with the idea of downscaling but once I'd got it built I realised just how tiny it is. I already had all the previous models and it looked absolutely ridiculous next to 75243, 8097, etc. Downscaling worked for the TIE and X-wing, but Slave 1 really needs to be at that larger size (and tbh it's more that the previous TIE and X-wing sets were oversized rather than the smaller ones being undersized). 

Yeah the 20th anniversary one is easily the best playset so a Jango version based on that would be great. I do agree that it's unlikely though with the UCS one coming up. (There actually wasn't any crossover between the UCS and system versions of Boba's, unless some 3rd party stores still had the UCS one in stock by the time the 20th anniversary one released. Officially the UCS one retired December 2018 and the anniversary one came out April 2019.)

[Brickwraith]

If the Kaminoan is Lama Su that would be awesome

[lego the hutt]

5 minutes ago, CallumPears said:

Yeah agreed. 

I got the 2021 Boba's Slave 1 and was initially on board with the idea of downscaling but once I'd got it built I realised just how tiny it is. I already had all the previous models and it looked absolutely ridiculous next to 75243, 8097, etc. Downscaling worked for the TIE and X-wing, but Slave 1 really needs to be at that larger size (and tbh it's more that the previous TIE and X-wing sets were oversized rather than the smaller ones being undersized). 

Yeah the 20th anniversary one is easily the best playset so a Jango version based on that would be great. I do agree that it's unlikely though with the UCS one coming up. (There actually wasn't any crossover between the UCS and system versions of Boba's, unless some 3rd party stores still had the UCS one in stock by the time the 20th anniversary one released. Officially the UCS one retired December 2018 and the anniversary one came out April 2019.)

From a scale stand point the smaller sized/cheaper price point ships work better being down sized.  From a general model build/detail standpoint they still feel lesser than old versions. 

We agree but I'd still rather have older TIEs and Xwings than the smaller versions.  That TIE is when the term "chibi scale" really started being used in the fandom.  

No one should be super picky about scale with Lego.  Close enough for display/play purposes is all we are going to get.  At that point the better build/model is what matters imo.

[Lego Nostalgia]

37 minutes ago, lego the hutt said:

UCS boba and system scale boba slave 1 were on shelves at the same time.  It seems likely from a reusable parts stand point.

 

That being said, a 70$ version sounds horrible.

Hopefully it's at least similar to the 20th anniversary Slave 1.  I would definitely buy that.  A 70$, tiny, version is assuredly a pass.  🤦

70$ will get you a Slave 1 the size of the Arc 170

[BrickBob Studpants]

If that rumour was true, why did leakers claim the secrecy was understandable? To avoid self-cannibalism? That makes no sense since we might already have some images of the August wave by the time the UCS Slave One gets released

And 40 minifigs in the DS?! Yeah, sure. If it wasn‘t Maxbaut, I‘d dismiss it immediately.

Edited January 27 by BrickBob Studpants

[TotoMagnus]

4 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

And 40 minifigs in the DS?! Yeah, sure. If it wasn‘t Maxbaut, I‘d dismiss it immediately,

Yeah, that’s where I stand. I want to trust him due to his track record but this time it is hard to do so 😁

[lego the hutt]

14 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

70$ will get you a Slave 1 the size of the Arc 170

I wouldn't be surprised if it was pretty close to a remake of the 2021 bobas version which is much smaller dimensions than Arc 170 but more pieces.  So that checks out...

[BrickBob Studpants]

At least it‘s not a Clone shi… WAIT A SEC. It‘s the ship piloted by the donor of the Clones, hanging out on the home planet of the Clones and the cloner species who created them, his copilot is a clone, the set is a smaller clone of a UCS set, and the ship is famous for escaping from Obi-Wan, who some fans in the 80s believed to be a clone (look it up).

Are the Clone Bros holding the design team‘s families hostage?!

…aslume, here I come

Edited January 27 by BrickBob Studpants

[ArrowBricks]

Must be a mistake somewhere here, however much I want it to be true. 

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I might be the only one here happy it's a blue and grey MTT, its a nice change compared to the last 2 brown ones, it will go well with the AAT from 2020, happy to get Bly aswell 

Yeah I mean it's not a world-ender as far as the wave's concerned, I probably wouldn't have gotten it anyway unless I found a solid discount.

2 hours ago, TotoMagnus said:

I just listened to the latest Podcast Episode with Maxbaut. He has a „very very very good feeling“ that August will bring us a Slave 1 Playscale set, with 707 pieces and 3 minifigs: Jango, Boba and Kaminoan. 70 Bucks. 
Also: Death Star 2 with 40 minifigs. 
 

I don‘t know what to think of this. I like him and his reputation is sky high. But still…I have some doubts. 
 

What do you think?

I don't see it. They're both possible, but I think it's unlikely lego puts out UCS and playscale slave ones within a few months of eachother- there's been SOME overlap before, but I don't think they've ever released that close.

For the death star, 40 sounds logical given the cost and fig count of the last one, but at the same time since this assumably has an exterior (so they can't use figs from both death stars), and just the overall unfortunate push away from MBS... I feel like this ends up being a "display plaque with 6 figs" type of set.

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

If that rumour was true, why did leakers claim the secrecy was understandable? To avoid self-cannibalism? That makes no sense since we might already have some images of the August wave by the time the UCS Slave One gets released

And 40 minifigs in the DS?! Yeah, sure. If it wasn‘t Maxbaut, I‘d dismiss it immediately.

Clearly they were keeping it secret because they knew it'd be the cloned straw to break the dewback's back in terms of clone related sets.

21 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

At least it‘s not a Clone shi… WAIT A SEC. It‘s the ship piloted by the donor of the Clones, hanging out on the home planet of the Clones and the cloner species who created them, his copilot is a clone, the set is a smaller clone of a UCS set, and the ship is famous for escaping from Obi-Wan, who some fans in the 80s believed to be a clone (look it up).

Are the Clone Bros holding the design team‘s families hostage?!

…aslume, here I come

I'm still cautious on this, I just don't see it, but if so, someone should go confirm that all the Clone Bros are accounted for and none of them are currently in Billund.

OB-1 is the rational version of Bigger Luke Theory. I wish visions did an episode that explored these.

Edited January 27 by Mandalorianknight

[BacktoBricks]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

And 40 minifigs in the DS?! Yeah, sure. If it wasn‘t Maxbaut, I‘d dismiss it immediately.

Can you imagine if it's 40 microfigs. 

[Llewop]

2 hours ago, TotoMagnus said:

I just listened to the latest Podcast Episode with Maxbaut. He has a „very very very good feeling“ that August will bring us a Slave 1 Playscale set, with 707 pieces and 3 minifigs: Jango, Boba and Kaminoan. 70 Bucks. 
Also: Death Star 2 with 40 minifigs. 
 

I don‘t know what to think of this. I like him and his reputation is sky high. But still…I have some doubts. 
 

What do you think?

A Jango slave 1 at the scale of Bobas from the Mandolorian would be good imo.

40 figures sounds like a good number not sure what the last ones had. I wonder if they’ll just base it off ROTJ or add ANH scenes and even R1.

i know im in the minority here but iam genuinely looking forward to these summers sets hoping to get more details and eventually pics (i know they are months away) 

[Meaf]

Is 40 minifigures in the $1000 Death Star really that crazy? The last one had 25 actual minifigures, so given how much more expensive this one is that number seems believable to me. They could throw in some other imperial leadership guys and probably more troopers, and that'd probably get you close to 40. 

The most interesting part to me is that 40 minifigures implies it's got a fully detailed interior and won't just be a giant gray ball. I don't think we've had any confirmation on that so far, but I think it makes sense cause I just don't think there's much of a market for a big gray sphere with no interior. They could even include plates on this one since the rooms would only be able to fit on the left half anyway, though I do wonder if it might get too heavy on that side.

[CallumPears]

4 minutes ago, Meaf said:

Is 40 minifigures in the $1000 Death Star really that crazy? The last one had 25 actual minifigures, so given how much more expensive this one is that number seems believable to me.

My thoughts as well. 40 was basically the bare-minimum (and so knowing LEGO the most likely) number I had in mind for a set costing this much. Compare with, say, the Avengers Tower which costs half the price and has 31 figures. Of course we've seen with Jabba's Barge that it's not always reliable to correlate price and figures (yes I'm still salty about that set) but given the context of the previous Death Stars having 24 and 27 minifigures I was expecting more in this one. 

The only way it wouldn't have a large number of figures would be if it is indeed just a big ball with no interior, but that seems extremely unlikely for the price.

[itsfaytrid]

On 1/26/2025 at 12:01 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Indeed. Initially, I was happy to hear it was based on TCW, but I‘m taking it back  They wasted the minifig potential completely!

Plo, yes, Death Troopers, no. I don‘t count reintroduced moulds that are virtually identical as new. And even so, the last few years would still wipe the floor with 2025  

So we have Plo, the Clone Pilot, Bacara, and Dedra who might have new pieces. Out of those, only Plo‘s head is pretty much guaranteed to be new since they don‘t do rubbery heads like that anymore. They could cheapen out with the pilot and the latter two aren‘t even confirmed to appear in their respective set yet! 

There's no reliable rumors of a dedra figure yet, we might not even get her in the uwing

[AD_Bricks]

6 hours ago, TotoMagnus said:

I just listened to the latest Podcast Episode with Maxbaut. He has a „very very very good feeling“ that August will bring us a Slave 1 Playscale set, with 707 pieces and 3 minifigs: Jango, Boba and Kaminoan. 70 Bucks. 
Also: Death Star 2 with ~ 40 minifigs. 

This sounds great! The UCS one was never going to be an option for me, and I'm still missing a Jango for my collection, so I very much like the sound of this. Plus, the 2019 version was unnecessarily large imo (especially for having no interior beyond the cockpit) so I'm glad that this one is keeping it on the cheaper end, while still being an improvement on the already adequate 2021 version.

40 minifigs seems like a good number. If true, good job LEGO. Now they just have to be decent figures.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

53 minutes ago, itsfaytrid said:

There's no reliable rumors of a dedra figure yet, we might not even get her in the uwing

D—don't say that. My sanity depends on her appearing in that set.

[SketchBrick]

19 minutes ago, AD_Bricks said:

This sounds great! The UCS one was never going to be an option for me, and I'm still missing a Jango for my collection, so I very much like the sound of this. Plus, the 2019 version was unnecessarily large imo (especially for having no interior beyond the cockpit) so I'm glad that this one is keeping it on the cheaper end, while still being an improvement on the already adequate 2021 version.

Agreed! Having the new Jango and young Boba available at a cheaper price point is great for everyone (except investors), and hopefully it's a fun toy to boot.

[Mandalorianknight]

6 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

Can you imagine if it's 40 microfigs. 

Don't give them the idea.

6 hours ago, Meaf said:

Is 40 minifigures in the $1000 Death Star really that crazy? The last one had 25 actual minifigures, so given how much more expensive this one is that number seems believable to me. They could throw in some other imperial leadership guys and probably more troopers, and that'd probably get you close to 40. 

The most interesting part to me is that 40 minifigures implies it's got a fully detailed interior and won't just be a giant gray ball. I don't think we've had any confirmation on that so far, but I think it makes sense cause I just don't think there's much of a market for a big gray sphere with no interior. They could even include plates on this one since the rooms would only be able to fit on the left half anyway, though I do wonder if it might get too heavy on that side.

I just can't see lego putting like 8 stormtroopers in a set. Removing the DS2 specific figures from the 2016 set, you've got like 20ish, and your only additions you can throw in are the other named officers and then a TON of nameless troopers. Now I'd be cool with that but I don't see lego doing it.

5 hours ago, CallumPears said:

My thoughts as well. 40 was basically the bare-minimum (and so knowing LEGO the most likely) number I had in mind for a set costing this much. Compare with, say, the Avengers Tower which costs half the price and has 31 figures. Of course we've seen with Jabba's Barge that it's not always reliable to correlate price and figures (yes I'm still salty about that set) but given the context of the previous Death Stars having 24 and 27 minifigures I was expecting more in this one. 

The only way it wouldn't have a large number of figures would be if it is indeed just a big ball with no interior, but that seems extremely unlikely for the price.

Here's the thing- assumably, this death star has an exterior, and as such, will have to represent only one of the two DSs (the first, assumably), which limits the amount of figures they can shove in a bit- no Royal Guards, Palpatine, or ROTJ Luke. I'm sure they could get it to 40, but we'd have things like "8 stormtroopers" or "7 imperial officers", which as much as you and I might be fine with, I just can't see lego doing.

I honestly think that we're going to get either a limited interior or straight up no interior, and I don't see us getting more than 20-25ish figs for the former and like 8 on a display stand for the latter.

2 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

D—don't say that. My sanity depends on her appearing in that set.

I thought you went insane and became the joker because of no official movie superman tie in?

Though I suppose if they snub Dedra from the U-wing you might gain a Syril Karn profile picture?

[Meaf]

50 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I just can't see lego putting like 8 stormtroopers in a set. Removing the DS2 specific figures from the 2016 set, you've got like 20ish, and your only additions you can throw in are the other named officers and then a TON of nameless troopers. Now I'd be cool with that but I don't see lego doing it.

I agree it seems a little uncharacteristic, but they threw five snowtroopers in the AT-AT so I wouldn't say it's out of the realm of possibility.

54 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Here's the thing- assumably, this death star has an exterior, and as such, will have to represent only one of the two DSs (the first, assumably), which limits the amount of figures they can shove in a bit- no Royal Guards, Palpatine, or ROTJ Luke. I'm sure they could get it to 40, but we'd have things like "8 stormtroopers" or "7 imperial officers", which as much as you and I might be fine with, I just can't see lego doing.

I honestly think that we're going to get either a limited interior or straight up no interior, and I don't see us getting more than 20-25ish figs for the former and like 8 on a display stand for the latter.

Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought Maxbaut was essentially confirmed that it's the Death Star II and that it has 40 minifigures? Or is that just speculation on his part?

Assuming he was confirming that though, I don't really think it'd be an issue for it to include scenes from both even if it's got an exterior based on the DS II. The first DS set was ostensibly based on the original DS seeing as how there isn't a half of it under construction, but they still threw in scenes from both. And just from a practical standpoint, that'd be a weird self-imposed limitation since the only especially iconic scenes on the DS II are the final battle and the arrival scene (which seems like it'd take up too much space for it to be included at anything remotely approaching accurate scale). I just can't see how they'd include 40 minifigures, which to me implies a robust interior, and then base it entirely on the DS II.