ArrowBricks Posted June 30 Posted June 30 (edited) I will wait for more photos, but it doesn’t look promising… Edited June 30 by ArrowBricks Quote
GlacierPhoenix Posted June 30 Posted June 30 Looks like Ki-Adi Mundi is the same as the battle pack from a few years agos so I already have a few of him. I long ago gave up on ever seeing Galactic Marines and Bacara so got a CAC commander and some some GM helmets and made some custom ones. While it would be nice to replace them with the official ones I just done need to especially with them only being on screen for less than 30 seconds. Quote
Agent Kallus Posted June 30 Posted June 30 Solitus looks quite brilliant. His robes actually give me Path of the Open Hand vibes. Which is a good thing. 19 minutes ago, BrickPrick said: The downsizing that i typically don't mind at all - on the contrary - even appreciate, has been taken too far on this one. Especially at this price point. Yeah I approve of the down sizing when it's a single person starfighter. But a troop transporting land vehicle is quite different as it should fit troops and they'd stand next to it on the battlefield. Quote
Llewop Posted June 30 Posted June 30 The MTT and commandos look pretty cool. its my first chance to get an MtT and CTT so im pretty hyped for them Quote
CallumPears Posted June 30 Posted June 30 (edited) Bly does indeed have the wrong colour for his torso stripe (it should match the brown one down the centre of his helmet but instead is yellow like his belt and cheeks)- very disappointing. Commando droids look great, definitely an improvement to have them in pearl dark grey rather than brown, and nice printing on the torso. Can't say I hate the MTT build but it has some parts I'm not a fan of like how the "weapons rack" is just the empty studs of some technic bricks. Feels a bit incomplete to do that rather than using proper clips. And the whole back section seems pretty empty aside from that "rack". The layered wedge plates do give it some decent shaping though. Glad to see Bacara does indeed have the 2 little red dots on his helmet since we weren't sure whether he would originally. However, his torso is inaccurate as he should have the same chest pad as airborne troopers do covering his whole right breast, not this tiny bit coming down from his shoulder. The Marines should not have the same kneepads and boots as regular Clones, and I mentioned before when we had the initial leak that the belt on the torso isn't accurate. Also disappointing that their backpacks are plain tiles with no print. The tank itself looks not too terrible (I like the actually-transparent windows though the blue isn't accurate) but again is just far too small. Barely any interior space and the back wheel axle sticks out too far. And the little "tower" is pathetic. Also not a fan of the amount of sand blue on it- where did that come from? The AT-ST is possibly going to be the first "oversized" set I buy. Looks great but as with everything will need a discount. 1 hour ago, Graupensuppe said: The Galactic Marines have the wrong knee armor and boots... Ah you beat me to pointing this out. Yep. All 3 of Bly, the Marines, and Bacara have pretty significant inaccuracies. Bly's torso stripe is the wrong colour. Bacara's chest pad is the wrong shape and is too small. The Marine has the wrong kneepads and the belt isn't accurate. It really should not take any effort for the designers to double-check reference pictures. I just did it right now for all of them and it took me about 30 seconds, and unlike the designers I'm not being paid to do it! Between these and the other inaccuracies from the past few years (Fox, Vaughn, etc.), I genuinely think the designer should be fired (assuming it's the same person for all of them). That might sound extreme but when it's your entire job to get the details right it's frankly unacceptable to get them wrong so many times. Edited June 30 by CallumPears Quote
BrickPrick Posted June 30 Posted June 30 (edited) 48 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said: Yeah I approve of the down sizing when it's a single person starfighter. But a troop transporting land vehicle is quite different as it should fit troops and they'd stand next to it on the battlefield. Yeah, in most cases the ships that got downsized were - at least in my eyes - too big and just bulky to begin with. So when i see the smaller model, it sorta looks like the appropriate scale to me. As long as a vehicle still ends up in the tier it belongs, i'm fine with it. Case in point, also on account of the downsizing already happening with the 2016 model, i'm not fine with the new CTT. It's supposed to be huge and now it's... i'm tempted to say almost midi-scale? Maybe something in between that and system scale? So strange... Kinda funny to see Lego going through with their "every Skywalker Saga set that includes clones gets the TCW branding on the box" rule. I fully expected it for the MTT and CTT, but they even did it for Jango's Slave 1! Sure, Boba's a clone too, but this ain't your average trooper. Package would look miles better with the blue stripe, though. Lama Su looks super slick. I'm impressed with the new head/neck/collar piece they made specifically for him. The fin looks really sharp, too. No complaints here. Like for many Lego Star Wars minifgures, i expect the back of the skirt to be printed as well. Edited June 30 by BrickPrick Quote
Yperio_Bricks Posted June 30 Posted June 30 What is the price of the snowspeeder? It's the only set I am mildly interested in. To bad interesting minifigs like Aayla never show up in a magazine. She looks great! As does Solitus! Quote
Tariq j Posted June 30 Posted June 30 It’s a shame they’ve modelled Slave I off the 2021 version and not the 2019 one which was far superior. Although Lama Su does look really good. The CTT isn’t bad but it looks way too small. One of the previous versions was able to fit a walker inside it IIRC, I don’t think you could do that here. Quote
Flawless Cowboy Posted June 30 Posted June 30 What is the purpose of the back half of the MTT? To hold the STAP perhaps? It’s a pretty large void but it’s detailed. Quote
CallumPears Posted June 30 Posted June 30 2 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said: What is the price of the snowspeeder? It's the only set I am mildly interested in. To bad interesting minifigs like Aayla never show up in a magazine. She looks great! As does Solitus! Rumoured price was 55 USD. And you never know; they did throw us that amazing Cloud City Luke that one time. I'm still hoping they have a huge surplus of Saw Gererra to get rid of (yeah he's an anniversary figure but we've had the Qui-Gon and Maul from the same set which to me suggests they overproduced it). I want him, but no way I'm buying that Infiltrator! Quote
Mandalorianknight Posted June 30 Posted June 30 (edited) 11 hours ago, CallumPears said: 75436 at $10 is interesting. Maybe we finally get a small playset in the style of the 76253 Guardians Headquarters or some of the smaller Minecraft sets, for what I think is the first time since Jabba's Prize/Message from 2003. This is the step in the right direction I'm looking for. C'mon, lego, make this the accurately sized AT-RT with Mando and Grogu, you know how well that would sell. 1 hour ago, Llewop said: Marines look amazing just on the box art one random marine looks like he’s flying. The first thought that went into my head was “they fly now?” I'm glad someone else pointed this out, I remember saying back when the images leaked that one marine had some immaculate hops on him. 1 hour ago, ArrowBricks said: I will wait for more photos, but it doesn’t look promising… No, it does not. 1 hour ago, Agent Kallus said: Yeah I approve of the down sizing when it's a single person starfighter. But a troop transporting land vehicle is quite different as it should fit troops and they'd stand next to it on the battlefield. Yup. Lego's starfighters were getting too big. The proportionate response was not to make the Slave One a starfighter. 30 minutes ago, starlego98 said: The jango ship on clone wars box art Just why? Because lego, overinfluenced by the influencers, views the prequels as a six-hour showcase of clone legions and vehicles. 7 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said: What is the price of the snowspeeder? It's the only set I am mildly interested in. To bad interesting minifigs like Aayla never show up in a magazine. She looks great! As does Solitus! It's somewhere in the range of $50, I don't know what the price is in euros. All the official images do is make me think the Turbo Tank and MTT look even worse than the leaked images, and cement my belief that the new slave one is the 2021 one colorswapped and with a $15 Lama Su Tax. The turbo tank boggles my mind, it honestly just looks bad and simplified. Lego's been getting more and more detailed and this just looks so plain and underdetailed. Snowspeeder continues to be the clear standout, somehow. Solitus looks awesome Edited June 30 by Mandalorianknight Quote
BrickPrick Posted June 30 Posted June 30 (edited) 1 hour ago, GlacierPhoenix said: Looks like Ki-Adi Mundi is the same as the battle pack from a few years agos so I already have a few of him. The wrinkles on his face appear to be darker than the last figure. The leg printing also seems to be ever so slightly different. But yeah, overall very similar. 36 minutes ago, starlego98 said: The jango ship on clone wars box art Just why? Because Lego inaccurately uses the TCW branding for every Skywalker Saga set that included some clones. 13 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said: What is the price of the snowspeeder? It's the only set I am mildly interested in. Already beaten, but apparently it's 50€. Edited June 30 by BrickPrick Quote
Yperio_Bricks Posted June 30 Posted June 30 (edited) 17 minutes ago, CallumPears said: Rumoured price was 55 USD. 15 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said: It's somewhere in the range of $50, I don't know what the price is in euros. Phew.... maybe with a laaarge discount.... We'll see.... 17 minutes ago, CallumPears said: And you never know; they did throw us that amazing Cloud City Luke that one time. I'm still hoping they have a huge surplus of Saw Gererra to get rid of (yeah he's an anniversary figure but we've had the Qui-Gon and Maul from the same set which to me suggests they overproduced it). I want him, but no way I'm buying that Infiltrator! Hehe yes, Cloud City Luke! Funnily I was thinking about him just yesterday, saying to myself "I wonder how many they overproduced. Someone must have made a typo in a excel table somewhere " The magazines are cool and a great way for starters to get some minifigs, but i wish they would throw in some interesting ones between all the Mandalorians and Clones. We had like 4 Mandalorians in the past years or so, comming with the magazines! At reddit I saw that we will get another Maul soon. Feels like we just got him recently with the magazine. (I don't remember exactly when Maul came last with the magazine, but I got him this way.) We'll get Ahsoka with the mag next month here in Germany, which is good, but there are more interesting minifigs like Aayla, or even Saw, like you mentioned. Edited June 30 by Yperio_Bricks Quote
AD_Bricks Posted June 30 Posted June 30 (edited) I wonder why the separatist STAPs in the MTT and RTG snowspeeder look so different. I understand them updating the design slightly since January 2024, but why two different updates at the same time? Do the designers just not talk to each other at all, and didn't realise they were making one for both sets until it was too late? Edit: Actually, I guess they had to be slightly different to accommodate a full figure vs just a battle droid due to the different way their hands need to grip onto the handlebars, but even so, why are the blasters and thrusters so different? Edited June 30 by AD_Bricks Quote
Darth_Bane13 Posted June 30 Posted June 30 1 hour ago, CallumPears said: Ah you beat me to pointing this out. Yep. All 3 of Bly, the Marines, and Bacara have pretty significant inaccuracies. Bly's torso stripe is the wrong colour. Bacara's chest pad is the wrong shape and is too small. The Marine has the wrong kneepads and the belt isn't accurate. It really should not take any effort for the designers to double-check reference pictures. I just did it right now for all of them and it took me about 30 seconds, and unlike the designers I'm not being paid to do it! Between these and the other inaccuracies from the past few years (Fox, Vaughn, etc.), I genuinely think the designer should be fired (assuming it's the same person for all of them). That might sound extreme but when it's your entire job to get the details right it's frankly unacceptable to get them wrong so many times. It's actually crazy how most of the clones since 2022 have had issues. Imagine how good all these clone troopers would look in the 2014 style... I would go broke buying so many. Quote
icm Posted June 30 Posted June 30 The Force Burner Snowspeeder looks awful. Well, I appreciate the new windscreen, and the nose angles look marginally better than on the previous snowspeeder, but what we can see of the lower body is far too deep, and the rest of the wings haven't been updated. If this is what the next TESB snowspeeder will look like, I'll have to pass on that one too. The Jango Fett Slave I looks ok. I'm glad it has the seismic mine bomb dropping feature from the original. Is it just me or does the nose/upper body look slightly longer than on the 2021 Boba version? Regardless, this is a set to wait for at least a 20% discount on. The Separatist MTT has good brick-built coloring, but the shape has been flattened out on the sides, making the vehicle even more of a brick than it was before. I like the back panel of the box art where the droids are all just having a picnic or something. I'm probably the only one to say this, but I actually don't mind the new Clone Turbo Tank now that we can see the whole thing. It's smaller than the last one, but the steering/suspension looks like it has a lot of play, which is good for rolling across all sorts of tabletop obstacles, and the midsection looks like it holds as many troops as the most recent AT-TE and AT-AT just as comfortably. It's too bad it doesn't have room for an AT-RT, but the AT-TE didn't have room for one either. At the right price, this could be a real fun playset. Of course, it's at the wrong price. I hope I can get it half-price without figs and then backfill it with the cheapest clones I can find - probably some 501st. Quote
Coryo Posted June 30 Posted June 30 When the earlier image leaks of the Slave I released I was worried that it would be too small to hold both Fetts in the cockpit, I'm glad they were able to manage it. I believe this is the first version with room for two minifigs since AOTC was in theatres, I quite like it overall. Although, it's a shame about the lack of arm printing for Jango, considering Din Djarin gets it in far cheaper sets. Quote
TeufelHund Posted July 1 Posted July 1 (edited) Kind of amusing that the playscale version of Jango Fett's Salve I gets a better minifig selection than the UCS version. Will be interested to see how the ATST compares next to the UCS ATAT (will probably look too big). Also it's a bit cheap that they include two seats but only one pilot... Also if you're into price per piece ratios these sets suck, especially the Juggernaut which is $160 for 813 pieces... Edited July 1 by TeufelHund Quote
CallumPears Posted July 1 Posted July 1 (edited) 1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said: It's actually crazy how most of the clones since 2022 have had issues. Imagine how good all these clone troopers would look in the 2014 style... I would go broke buying so many. Yep. Not just Clones either, e.g. Thrawn's missing code cylinders. Really would like to know how that happens considering how much they love to brag in all the behind-the-scenes stuff in reference books about how closely they check designs and cross-reference all the little details. Was that just a bald-faced lie? Maybe they staged the design area to have all the cross referencing for the couple of photos in the reference books, then for every other figure they make it's just done from memory after a pint of beer. I swear if they sent me these designs I could've fixed them all in about 2 minutes with MS Paint, so why can't the person they're literally paying to make their "only the best is good enough" designs manage it? Edited July 1 by CallumPears Quote
Nobricksleft Posted July 1 Posted July 1 CTT having the last set of wheels sticking out is very disappointing. Shame because I like the compact build, just not the price. Too bad, I really like those marines. MTT is better executed imo, and I prefer the unique CW colors. Worth getting since I don't think they'll ever make another one. UCS AT-ST suffers from the same limb thickness syndrome as the buildable B1. No amount of details can fix this for me. All in all a good year for my wallet it seems. Quote
Lordhelmet Posted July 1 Posted July 1 Sadly no death Star plans yet. Sets look better than I expected, same with the minifigures. Quote
Mandalorianknight Posted July 1 Posted July 1 2 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said: Hehe yes, Cloud City Luke! Funnily I was thinking about him just yesterday, saying to myself "I wonder how many they overproduced. Someone must have made a typo in a excel table somewhere " The magazines are cool and a great way for starters to get some minifigs, but i wish they would throw in some interesting ones between all the Mandalorians and Clones. We had like 4 Mandalorians in the past years or so, comming with the magazines! At reddit I saw that we will get another Maul soon. Feels like we just got him recently with the magazine. (I don't remember exactly when Maul came last with the magazine, but I got him this way.) We'll get Ahsoka with the mag next month here in Germany, which is good, but there are more interesting minifigs like Aayla, or even Saw, like you mentioned. I just wish they'd make the polybags availible in the US. Magazines aren't as big here, but just put the polybags in checkout aisles like they used to. Kids would love it and I personally would probably end up impulse buying one every other time I get groceries. 2 hours ago, AD_Bricks said: I wonder why the separatist STAPs in the MTT and RTG snowspeeder look so different. I understand them updating the design slightly since January 2024, but why two different updates at the same time? Do the designers just not talk to each other at all, and didn't realise they were making one for both sets until it was too late? I'm sure it's something relating to lego's standards for minifigures vs droids as you say, but I think it's a lot funnier to imagine that either these two designers literally just don't interact with each other, or they're rivals and the snowspeeder guy personally added the STAP just to mess with the MTT guy. 2 hours ago, icm said: The Force Burner Snowspeeder looks awful. Well, I appreciate the new windscreen, and the nose angles look marginally better than on the previous snowspeeder, but what we can see of the lower body is far too deep, and the rest of the wings haven't been updated. If this is what the next TESB snowspeeder will look like, I'll have to pass on that one too. I like the back panel of the box art where the droids are all just having a picnic or something. To be fair I believe the firespeeder is supposed to accommodate the speeder bike in some capacity, I imagine that's why it's so deep. Doesn't change the wings, but I doubt the next ESB speeder will be 1:1 anyway. Everything else aside, the box art guys were having fun between the droid picnic and the one marine double jumping. 1 hour ago, Nobricksleft said: UCS AT-ST suffers from the same limb thickness syndrome as the buildable B1. No amount of details can fix this for me. All in all a good year for my wallet it seems. It's mind boggling to me how little they updated this from one almost two decades ago and yet, after inflation, they're charging 54% more. Definitely a good year for my wallet as far as legos go. Quote
mirkwoodspiders Posted July 1 Posted July 1 59 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said: Sadly no death Star plans yet. Sets look better than I expected, same with the minifigures. It's either gonna be Death Star, or some combination of Black Pearl/USS Enterprise/AT-ST/Hogsmeade. Can't do all of them, and if the Death Star is excellent, it's the only one I can afford the rest of the year and into next. I've said it before and I'll say it again - I wish LEGO would spread some of these expensive sets out over more time so people could save up more money to afford them. Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted July 1 Posted July 1 I really like what I‘m seeing! The AT-ST is a significant improvment over the 2006 precursor and the playsets all look fun Quote
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