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

[Darth_Bane13]

The "Jango Fett Starship" on the plaque and the Boba Fett hairpiece kind of ruin an otherwise pretty good set, and the stickers aren't great either. Can't say there are many sets this year I'm interested in.

[icm]

I'd say they tarnish it, not ruin it. Neither affects the build of the main model. The hairpiece is easily replaced and you can leave the plaque off the model or buy a custom sticker. As unforced errors with the minifigs go, it's not as egregious as giving bikini Leia dual molded shorts. But yeah, those are annoying flaws that decrease the quality of what is otherwise an excellent set. To my eyes, the model looks so much better than the 2015 version. The curved base is especially a night and day difference.

[MaximillianRebo]

5 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Kylo’s helmet looks decent, however the reliance on stickers to provide the bulk of its texturing does detract from it a little.

I’m not a Brickheadz fan but that Grievous looks brilliant. Reaffirms my opinion that Brickheadz are the most interesting when the characters aren’t human.

My first reaction to the helmet pic was "wow, they've really captured it well" but on closer inspection it turns out every major detail is a sticker (or print), none of the silver is brick built. 

Non-humans making the best brick built characters is a lesson Lego should have taken to heart more after Constraction; the only Brickhead I own is the Tusken, for exactly that reason. I agree with others that Palpatine should have looked more like the Chancellor than the Emperor (he looks more like his ROTJ appearance), especially with Mace included in the set, but this plays back into the earlier point about human Brickheadz - a robed Palpatine does look better in this form. 

I'd be really curious to know how much it will cost to part out Kylo's shuttle (minus the printed plaque), it's gotta be considerably less than the exorbitant retail price. 

Regarding the Slave 1 naming situation, one of the booklet photos shows a reference to 'Oovo 4' and how Jango got his ship; I guess TLG is indicating that they're aware of the origins of the ship's name, even if they've been instructed not to use it for the set.

[Llewop]

There’s a new image comparing the 2 u-wings shows the size difference and design differences. I think build wise if you’ve got the original then that’s the better one. But I want this one only for the figures. The new one is good though for those who never got the old one. 

[Swordy]

On 4/8/2025 at 4:50 PM, CloneCommando99 said:

I think the wording of my point was quite confusing. You’ve @Swordy’d me.

On 4/8/2025 at 8:13 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

Glad that I can pass on what I have learned and @Swordy others

The worm now becomes the master.  Also I guess I’m a verb now, lol.

 

 

Seeing Kylo’s shuttle, it’s an easy pass. The cockpit looks laughably pinched, and overall looks way too small to be a display piece.

Kylo’s helmet looks like a standard helmet—too standard. Creating details with prints is always a boring route for me; I might as well buy a tub of white bricks and decal it myself. Moreover, the top has one too many studs, and as a result bulges out further than the rest of the mask. I was hoping for something truly novel in this case, but as is it’s not terribly interesting to me. Shame only the AT-AT Driver seemed to have any passion or care put into it.

Why oh why does Brickheadz continue to see stellar character selection while the playsets only include clones? It feels like a lame cop-out from TLG whenever people complain “Where’s the main characters from the movie?” Luckily, I don’t collect Brickheadz, so I can still complain.

As for those saying Obi-Wan should’ve been included, his Brickheadz from Kenobi is still available, so including him in a very similar outfit for RotS would’ve felt redundant.
I don’t know how I feel about Mace having studs on top of his bald head. Looks like either his scalp is bumpy or he has very thin curly hair on top.

12 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

As great as it is to see ST representation like this, nothing would’ve beaten a system set.

Sums up my thoughts for the ST and RotS sets. These are great fine collectibles, but, as representations of two of my favourite SW movies, they don’t quite cut it. Sure, it’s not just me for whom TLG makes these sets, but I have to wonder how many people are going to buy these anyway? Most teens and young adults spew snarky comments anytime the Sequels are mentioned. So then, if the kids of the generation  who grew up with the Sequels are the target demographic to go after, where are the 7+ and 10+ Sequel sets? Oh right, those are the army-builder clone sets targeted toward, yet again, teenagers and young adults.

[Yperio_Bricks]

Printing on Dedra's legs looks horrible as expected. I wonder how it looks when you keep the hips but change the legs for the dual-molded ones?

I hope the ISB tactical agent will show up in a magazine next year. Fingers crossed!

Edited April 12 by Yperio_Bricks

[saibot]

Hope those pics of the GWP are legit, dual molded legs and arm printing. Looks good.

[BrickBob Studpants]

38 minutes ago, saibot said:

Hope those pics of the GWP are legit, dual molded legs and arm printing. Looks good.

They are  That’s an excellent GWP!! It’ll be “sold out” very quickly I imagine.

[CallumPears]

GWP build is meh (not bad, just meh. Think the enforcer ship is a bit too skinny and ideally you'd be able to fit a Kaminoan in there but don't think there's enough headroom) but the cadet figures are spectacular 

Edit: actually now I'm looking at pictures of the ship side by side with the model... yeah it's not great. Has some parts, notably the 3x1 slopes, which seem to just be in the wrong place.

Edited April 12 by CallumPears

[Ringwraith]

The GWP figures look great with a meh build as is expected but it is slowly beginning to bug me how these incredible figures with arm printing and leg printing (splutters in Dedra Meero) are stuck behind a hefty paywall. I may be naïve in lego economics but maybe the great gwp battle pack could be you know a battle pack... 

[MKJoshA]

Wow, I'm actually impressed by the GWP. I might have to try to get two.

[Tariq j]

Those Cadet figures look excellent. A shame the build wasn’t better but I do want to pick that up.

[BacktoBricks]

Do we know the GWP threshold yet?

[CF Mitch]

The GWP looks very nice. I don't get the robot or whatever it is, but the black pillar is a nice reference to the TCW episode Clone Cadets.
The minifigures are of course the highlight and I hope I can get my hands on this set, though that's going to be very difficult, since I don't want any of the upcoming sets as much.
Everything I'm looking forward to won't be released till august...

Regards,
Mitch

Edited April 12 by CF Mitch

[Shiva]

The vessel is a KE-8 Enforcer Ship.

[Something_Awesome]

16 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

The "Jango Fett Starship" on the plaque and the Boba Fett hairpiece kind of ruin an otherwise pretty good set, and the stickers aren't great either. Can't say there are many sets this year I'm interested in.

I agree. They should have used the correct name: Jango Fett's Boba Fett's Starship.

2 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

Do we know the GWP threshold yet?

I've heard a threshold of "150 dollars." I want confirmation, too. I also want to know about sales or quadruple points etc. Double points and a GWP is not enough for me to participate this May. I need sales or a huge Honey cash back offer. I think one or two years ago Honey stacked with big cash back offers.

Edited April 12 by Something_Awesome

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, Something_Awesome said:

I agree. They should have used the correct name: Jango Fett's Boba Fett's Starship.

I've heard a threshold of "150 dollars." I want confirmation, too. I also want to know about sales or quadruple points etc. Double points and a GWP is not enough for me to participate this May. I need sales or a huge Honey cash back offer. I think one or two years ago Honey stacked with big cash back offers.

Since disney is assumably behind the name, perhaps "uyhgur one" would have been ok to print on the plaque.

I'd be careful with honey, there's reports that it hides a lot of the better discounts.

 

GWP is crazy good. 3 sets of arm printing and dual molded legs in one GWP? That's a huge budget for a gift set. Not sure how this works out exactly budget wise but I do feel like this could have been an obscure commander like Fordo or Doom alongside some generic clones instead, but this works pretty well. A super obscure vehicle and some noncombatant clones. For this year and coming with the Slave One that's fine.

[Lego Nostalgia]

8 hours ago, saibot said:

Hope those pics of the GWP are legit, dual molded legs and arm printing. Looks good.

Crazy how we can never get stuff like this much in normal sets but a GWP gets it

[mirkwoodspiders]

GWP is awesome. 3 of a unique fig is pretty good.

[CallumPears]

Ok after letting it settle for a bit my overall thoughts on the GWP are the build could've been better (a few details on the Enforcer aren't quite right but easily moddable) but the figures are flawless. I've wanted clone cadets since 2013 (back then I was just sticking angry clone heads on some plain red bodies I got from Advent calendar Santas) so I'm gonna try to get at least 2 of the GWP. One with Slave 1, one probably on eBay or something. Hopefully it's not too hard to get (like last year's droid carrier- there was nothing I wanted to buy to meet the threshold back then so I got it on eBay and only cost me £25 which felt pretty fair). 

[Virginia_Bricks]

It’s funny how much people love these GWP figures when all that is new is the torso print. The legs are on PAB and the face and head are super ubiquitous as clones.

And because of that Lego had the budget  for arm printing on it.

[Kit Figsto]

50 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

It’s funny how much people love these GWP figures when all that is new is the torso print. The legs are on PAB and the face and head are super ubiquitous as clones.

And because of that Lego had the budget  for arm printing on it.

I'm guessing that the fact that they can repeat the same figure 3 times also helps budget-wise, since whatever overhead costs are associated with designing the print and setting up the machine to print it can be factored out of the equation.

I still don't quite understand the logic sometimes behind what does/doesn't get printed arms or dual molded legs, but this instance makes some sense to me.

[Mandalorianknight]

12 minutes ago, Kit Figsto said:

I'm guessing that the fact that they can repeat the same figure 3 times also helps budget-wise, since whatever overhead costs are associated with designing the print and setting up the machine to print it can be factored out of the equation.

I still don't quite understand the logic sometimes behind what does/doesn't get printed arms or dual molded legs, but this instance makes some sense to me.

I feel like that's counterbalanced by it being a GWP, though, right? Assumably they make significantly fewer copies of GWPs, especially theme-specific ones, than retail sets. Even repeating three times I doubt as many of this torso are being produced as a standard system set figure's.

[Kaijumeister]

That's quite an impressive GWP! And as 'Battle Pack' builds go, the ship isn't too shabby either. This might just push me over the edge to order the UCS Slave I - unless we learn any details about the playscape one that warrants going for the smaller version instead. 

I couldn't for the life of me figure out what hairpiece Jango and the Clone Cadets are using, then it hit me that it's T'Challa's hairpiece. Looks pretty good on them!

The composition of the GWP is honestly one of the better Battle Pack ideas we've seen in a while. I'd love to see this sort of thought go into BPs moving forward - as much as we're all rightfully sick of clone saturation (or at least, we will be after this summer), I do think a sub-200 piece BP with a small, accurately scaled AT-RT and BARC Speeder would kill. Oversized vehicle builds just to bump up the price without necessarily improving playability just hits the point of diminishing returns eventually.

As for the in-hand U-Wing photos, my only contention is the lack of a proper interior (although I notice the way the side doors are built up uses transparent pieces for the 'windows', which is quite nice) which is honestly unacceptable for a ship that's intended to be a transport. I also vehemently dislike when minifigures practically have to lie down in cockpits but that's easily modded. But for what the ship is, I'm still a fan.

[Agent Kallus]

9 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

It’s funny how much people love these GWP figures when all that is new is the torso print. The legs are on PAB and the face and head are super ubiquitous as clones.

And because of that Lego had the budget  for arm printing on it.

To be honest all a lot characters need that's unique is the torso.