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

[Kaijumeister]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Day #84 of Tie Avenger lobbying.

At this point if the TIE Avenger does happen, they need to give you a shoutout in the instruction manual 

I’m hoping the lack of clarity on this being an ‘Imperial set’ does mean it’s based on a newer piece of media and is therefore the Avenger.

Regarding location builds, the Tantive hallway and Mandalorian bunker builds from last year were AWESOME. I personally thought they’ve been a big step up for Star Wars location builds compared to what we’ve received in the past. More location sets with this sort of quality would be most welcome.

What’s everyone’s favourite non-UCS set this year? It’s looking to be the MTT for me just because of the droid rack mechanism. I do quite like the V-19 as well despite the proportions and lack of wing mechanism.

Edited July 17 by Kaijumeister

[Yperio_Bricks]

1 hour ago, Kaijumeister said:

What’s everyone’s favourite non-UCS set this year? It’s looking to be the MTT for me just because of the droid rack mechanism. I do quite like the V-19 as well despite the proportions and lack of wing mechanism.

To answer this question I was browsing through the list of sets at brickset and realized that I bought only one Lego Star Wars set in 2025: Plo Koon's Starfighter. I guess that has to be the best set for me this year 

Next year we have at least the Vanth/Bane set, which I'll plan to get for the minifigs, although I would have prefered a Mos Pelgo bar (facade) instead of a speeder. Maybe the unknown rebel and imperial sets turn out to be good?!

[Darth_Bane13]

5 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

What’s everyone’s favourite non-UCS set this year?

Plo Koon microfighter, none of the other sets appeal to me.

[BrickBob Studpants]

5 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I’m hoping the lack of clarity on this being an ‘Imperial set’ does mean it’s based on a newer piece of media and is therefore the Avenger.

Time to huff some rhydon… I mean hopium! Maybe @TheDapper is onto something and they’re indeed delayed 2025 sets, but based on Andor rather than M&G  No clue why they’d do that, but we can’t rule it out just yet!

[icm]

6 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

What’s everyone’s favourite non-UCS set this year? It’s looking to be the MTT for me just because of the droid rack mechanism. I do quite like the V-19 as well despite the proportions and lack of wing mechanism.

I suppose it would have to be the V-19. It's the starfighter-size build that has the least flaws and best price overall, even though it doesn't dominate any category of comparison. The Ahsoka Eta-2 is heavily overpriced, the U-wing is great if you use one of the no-extra-parts rebuilds on Rebrickable but is very flawed according to the instructions in the box, the ARC-170 has bad proportions and dinky wing guns, and the Jango Fett Slave I is just kind of boring, in my opinion. So the V-19 is the only one in the starfighter playset class without major flaws, even though the price is a little higher than I'd like and there's no wing synchronization or landing gear. (The Slave I has no major flaws either, I just think it's boring. It's not a very swooshable shape even with the handle on the back, and I don't like the way the minifigs are stuffed in the cockpit, though I recognize there's no other way to fit them both in.)

Honorable mention to the brick-built logo. While it's an 18+ display set with no playability whatsoever, it is incredibly well done, it looks great, and the price is decent.

[BrickPrick]

18 hours ago, CaptainMarvel said:

Because I have a severe mental illness I went back over the last 10 ish years to find the majority of sets that are a 7+ rating and came back with two major categories, with one being more likely.

The two major categories that kept coming up were medium vehicles (A great deal of the starfighers and interceptors were 7+, as were the last vulture droids, tri fighters etc along with the republic fighter tank, landspeeder, the aat, pod racer and a-wing)
The other category was buildings/scenes like: 75386, 75299, 75270, 75269, 75259, 75246 and 75229. 

So my guess based on it being rebellion and empire would be some kind of buildable scene for both (since $70 and $100 are very high costs for medium vehicles) just as an example, a hoth base set (to go with the two rumored at-at's) or perhaps endor bunker to go along side some of the episode 6 stuff. I also have to imagine Lego might want to disperse some of their new Imperial figures from the death star into a cheaper set. Perhaps a playscale deathstar scene with a bunch of the named imperials.

Alternatively, I considered the possibility of a spiritual successor to the old Ultimate Space Battle set. A couple jedi starfighters and CIS fighters in one big set. But since the rumours are empire and rebellion my dreams are crushed.

Those are some good observations on your part. And i would appreciate more location based sets again. 

8 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

At this point if the TIE Avenger does happen, they need to give you a shoutout in the instruction manual 

I’m hoping the lack of clarity on this being an ‘Imperial set’ does mean it’s based on a newer piece of media and is therefore the Avenger.

Regarding location builds, the Tantive hallway and Mandalorian bunker builds from last year were AWESOME. I personally thought they’ve been a big step up for Star Wars location builds compared to what we’ve received in the past. More location sets with this sort of quality would be most welcome.

What’s everyone’s favourite non-UCS set this year? It’s looking to be the MTT for me just because of the droid rack mechanism. I do quite like the V-19 as well despite the proportions and lack of wing mechanism.

I will actually be disappointed if that doesn't happen. Because that means there won't be an actual TIE Avenger. Put every one of his postings in the instruction manual as if it was the creation of a UCS set. Also put his profile picture on the bricks breakdown. Heck, while you are at it, put this man's nickname on the front page. Lego could use some actual design anyways, so you would be killing two birds with one stone. 

While the chances of it happening are still ludicrously low, we now at least have a shot at this. 

I second this. A more steady flow of location based sets would be most welcome indeed. 

Since i only got four 2025 set so far, i gotta go with @Yperio_Bricks and @Darth_Bane13... It's Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter Microfighter. While it's kinda difficult to compare this to different formats, for what it's worth, it delivers the best out of the box value. 

[Swordy]

$70 Imperial set is for sure a TIE Avenger, right? TLG speed-ran through the greenlighting and developmental processes based off the campaigns of @CloneCommando99, our brother in arms, and will in less than a year’s time deliver the set of our dreams—right?
(After all, it only took them 5 years to deliver on MandR’s demands.)

 

The $100 Rebel set is intriguing. My guesses are:

B-Wing & A-Wing combo pack (the two RotJ ships together a year ahead of potential rereleases for the Y-Wing and X-Wing)

Home One Briefing Room Playset (a remake of a beloved classic set that could finally reintroduce OT Ackbar and Mon Mothma)

or, if I may lean into reckless speculation, a Y-Wing vs TIE Advanced? Although I could easily see a X-Wing vs TIE Advanced instead, for I believe the RtG TIE-Wing v X-Fighter retires at the end of this year.

 

The Mando Speeder Bike is intriguing by price alone. That said, I look forward to price steadily increasing to $20 until when it’s revealed.

I find the $60 AT-AT most interesting. $20 less than the Gingerbread AT-AT, while with that it loses its exclusive minifig. It’s presumably minifig-scale, but will it belong to the Starship Collection—for which it doesn’t exactly have the qualifications—or to a new line entirely? Billund is going to have fun with product marketing here.
It just dawned in me—does this mean we won’t see an AT-AT playset… oh wait. If we got a UCS and playset Jango Slave 1, surely we can see two AT-ATs next year. (In fact, let’s expect doubles of vehicles every year! Two TIEs Avenger, two X-Wings, four Landspeeders!)

I’m interested in seeing the Venator, but I likely won’t buy. Besides my lack of interest in non-minifig scale, it already looks to be overpriced, judging by price-per-piece purely.

Grogu and BB-8 don’t interest me. The Clone Shock mech annoys me, if anything. (If it turns out to be a Kamino Shock, though… )

Cobb Vanth and Cad Bane is exciting! It’s 50% marked up from where it should be, but at least those two minifigs will be out there.

Siege of Mandalore BP? I’m actually excited. 332nd clones only slightly intrigue me, but the Maul-Commandos is worth the price of admission, in my book. Can’t wait to see how they do them, and curious if they’ll reuse the Gar Saxon or Moff Gideon molds, or not at all. Regardless, I’m very much looking forward to this.

 

On 7/17/2025 at 4:44 AM, Kaijumeister said:

What’s everyone’s favourite non-UCS set this year?

The U-Wing, for sure. Most of the other sets this year, while wonderfully shaped and detailed, are ruined in my eyes by their price; but not so with the U-Wing. That’s not even mentioning the wonderful connection to Andor Season Two’s best episodes.

Edited July 18 by Swordy

[CaptainMarvel]

21 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The only thing I'll say- and I may have missed something, you've clearly done your research- is that if they are Mando Movie sets, they're almost certainly a Razor Crest and AT-AT rather than two location sets. Location sets are much rarer than vehicles in SW and we already know those two are coming.

 

The last AT-AT was $170(I want to say in 2020, but i actually can't remember if this was one of the sets that got a price increase in like 2022). If they do a $100 AT-AT (which is the rumored price point of one of these) that's going to be CRAZY undersized by 2025 lego pricing standards. Same goes for the razorcrest. That was $140 so again it'd be undersized at $100.

I'd HATE to see what lego would do if either of these sets were the $70 set. Also both previous models were 10+ so they would have to be simpler to reach 7+ as well. 

[icm]

75288 was $160 on release in 2020 but it was bumped to $170 in 2022.

[Mandalorianknight]

14 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Then again, there were quite a few last year and none this year. Many of the 2024 sets will retire at the end of this year.

True, but they were all (except for the sarlacc+skiff, but that's a grey area in being considered a location playset) under $55, whereas these are $70 and $100. Plus, unfortunately some of them don't seem to be doing too well- for one, Peridea's been hitting $25 around me pretty consistently (I'm resisting the urge to army build Thrawns and sell off the rest to recoup my losses)

12 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

What’s everyone’s favourite non-UCS set this year? It’s looking to be the MTT for me just because of the droid rack mechanism. I do quite like the V-19 as well despite the proportions and lack of wing mechanism.

That's tough- I haven't bought a single 2025 star wars set. The only one that I'll probably end up with is the night trooper pack, and I refuse to spend $23, so I don't know if I'll get it this year. 

3 hours ago, Swordy said:

The Mando Speeder Bike is intriguing by price alone. That said, I look forward to price steadily increasing to $20 until when it’s revealed.

Reminds me of the time they tried to pull a fast one and price the first 332nd battle pack (my head actively physically hurts writing that) at $27. You know they're just waiting for the chance to jump the battle pack price up further.

3 minutes ago, CaptainMarvel said:

The last AT-AT was $170(I want to say in 2020, but i actually can't remember if this was one of the sets that got a price increase in like 2022). If they do a $100 AT-AT (which is the rumored price point of one of these) that's going to be CRAZY undersized by 2025 lego pricing standards. Same goes for the razorcrest. That was $140 so again it'd be undersized at $100.

I'd HATE to see what lego would do if either of these sets were the $70 set. Also both previous models were 10+ so they would have to be simpler to reach 7+ as well. 

This is absolutely true, but also absolutely something I could see lego doing.

[Lordhelmet]

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Peridea's been hitting $25 around me pretty consistently (I'm resisting the urge to army build Thrawns and sell off the rest to recoup my losses)

I was tempted with the cheap peridea sets until I saw the Paz visla battle for $15 at target.  And the barc for $12 also at Target, grabbed both and was quite happy with two sets I had no intention of ever buying.

[CloneCommando99]

22 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

At this point if the TIE Avenger does happen, they need to give you a shoutout in the instruction manual 

13 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

I will actually be disappointed if that doesn't happen. Because that means there won't be an actual TIE Avenger. Put every one of his postings in the instruction manual as if it was the creation of a UCS set. Also put his profile picture on the bricks breakdown. Heck, while you are at it, put this man's nickname on the front page. Lego could use some actual design anyways, so you would be killing two birds with one stone. 

They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it.

That someone like me could get inside their (Lego) house, walk their floors, enjoy their food (the honey pork chop is delicious), build their sets.

(Day #85)

uj/ I’d be honoured but it’d never happen. I’ll just be happy if the set gets made.

16 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Time to huff some rhydon… I mean hopium! Maybe @TheDapper is onto something and they’re indeed delayed 2025 sets, but based on Andor rather than M&G  No clue why they’d do that, but we can’t rule it out just yet!

Let it in boy Sponge! That’s freedom calling! Let it in! Let it run! Let it run wild!

22 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

What’s everyone’s favourite non-UCS set this year? It’s looking to be the MTT for me just because of the droid rack mechanism. I do quite like the V-19 as well despite the proportions and lack of wing mechanism.

U-Wing. And it’s not even close. @Swordy has done his schtick yet again with his assessment.

13 hours ago, Swordy said:

$70 Imperial set is for sure a TIE Avenger, right? TLG speed-ran through the greenlighting and developmental processes based off the campaigns of @CloneCommando99, our brother in arms, and will in less than a year’s time deliver the set of our dreams—right?
(After all, it only took them 5 years to deliver on MandR’s demands.)

 

In fearful day, in raging night, with strong hearts full, our souls ignite. When all seems lost in the war of light, look to the stars, for hope burns bright!

13 hours ago, Swordy said:

The $100 Rebel set is intriguing. My guesses are:

B-Wing & A-Wing combo pack (the two RotJ ships together a year ahead of potential rereleases for the Y-Wing and X-Wing)

Home One Briefing Room Playset (a remake of a beloved classic set that could finally reintroduce OT Ackbar and Mon Mothma)

or, if I may lean into reckless speculation, a Y-Wing vs TIE Advanced? Although I could easily see a X-Wing vs TIE Advanced instead, for I believe the RtG TIE-Wing v X-Fighter retires at the end of this year.

These all sound good!

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

True, but they were all (except for the sarlacc+skiff, but that's a grey area in being considered a location playset) under $55, whereas these are $70 and $100. Plus, unfortunately some of them don't seem to be doing too well- for one, Peridea's been hitting $25 around me pretty consistently (I'm resisting the urge to army build Thrawns and sell off the rest to recoup my losses)

Touché. Quite a lot of sets quickly go on clearance these days actually. That might be concerning for the future of the theme.

[BrickPrick]

18 hours ago, Swordy said:

$70 Imperial set is for sure a TIE Avenger, right? TLG speed-ran through the greenlighting and developmental processes based off the campaigns of @CloneCommando99, our brother in arms, and will in less than a year’s time deliver the set of our dreams—right?
(After all, it only took them 5 years to deliver on MandR’s demands.)

 

The $100 Rebel set is intriguing. My guesses are:

B-Wing & A-Wing combo pack (the two RotJ ships together a year ahead of potential rereleases for the Y-Wing and X-Wing)

Home One Briefing Room Playset (a remake of a beloved classic set that could finally reintroduce OT Ackbar and Mon Mothma)

(In fact, let’s expect doubles of vehicles every year! Two TIEs Avenger, two X-Wings, four Landspeeders!)

Yeah, it's practically all but guaranteed at this point and i don't know why Lego hasn't already revealed this thing by now. 

Very solid picks. It's about time for a new General Lando minifigure. It also annoys the heck out of me that i own an Ackbar Trooper but not the man, the myth, the legend himself. 

I don't know why... But this very last bit got me pretty good. My body didn't know whether it should be laughing or coughing, so it was both. 

14 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Plus, unfortunately some of them don't seem to be doing too well- for one, Peridea's been hitting $25 around me pretty consistently (I'm resisting the urge to army build Thrawns and sell off the rest to recoup my losses)

That's tough- I haven't bought a single 2025 star wars set. The only one that I'll probably end up with is the night trooper pack, and I refuse to spend $23, so I don't know if I'll get it this year. 

Reminds me of the time they tried to pull a fast one and price the first 332nd battle pack (my head actively physically hurts writing that) at $27. You know they're just waiting for the chance to jump the battle pack price up further.

This is absolutely true, but also absolutely something I could see lego doing.

That's interesting. For whatever reasons, this particular set just stopped being available on Amazon DE, as if it was retired. I literally can't get it. That might be due to the aforementioned poor performance, but in this case it would typically end up being heavily discounted. 

You still don't got any decent discounts on that? 

By the maker... that was just insane. They really meant business back then. As i remember seeing the 27€ even made it into the german Lego  catalogue. I think that might be where the source originated from. 

If Lego does a drastically downsized AT-AT for a hundred bucks, it will make the Turbo Tank look like an even worse deal than it already is.

 

JUST WHY, LEGO? OF ALL THE SETS YOU COULD HAVE SCREWED UP... WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE THE TURBO TANK?! YOU LET SOME FANS WAIT UP TO NINE YEARS AND THIS IS THE BEST YOU HAVE IN STORE FOR US?! 

Will reserve capital letters only for short bursts of impulsive, emotional responses such as this. 

Edited July 18 by BrickPrick

[CloneCommando99]

DC has fallen

75421 and 75423 are going to have to do some serious heavy lifting for my morale.

[BrickBob Studpants]

16 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

75421 and 75423 are going to have to do some serious heavy lifting for my morale.

Apparently, Maxbautde spoke positively of them in a podcast, without revealing what they are

[Mandalorianknight]

19 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

I was tempted with the cheap peridea sets until I saw the Paz visla battle for $15 at target.  And the barc for $12 also at Target, grabbed both and was quite happy with two sets I had no intention of ever buying.

Sounds like I need to visit target this weekend, I've been waiting for something like that on the Paz battle.

15 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Touché. Quite a lot of sets quickly go on clearance these days actually. That might be concerning for the future of the theme.

It really is- not that lego star wars is ever going to get to quite this level, but the larger transformers figures started going on clearance, and it got bad enough that walmart no longer stocks anything leader-class ($55) or above. To more directly tie it to lego this is why bionicle was cancelled the first time around- they were hitting enough sales that they knew if they kept pumping them out retailers would stop stocking them.

13 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

That's interesting. For whatever reasons, this particular set just stopped being available on Amazon DE, as if it was retired. I literally can't get it. That might be due to the aforementioned poor performance, but in this case it would typically end up being heavily discounted. 

You still don't got any decent discounts on that? 

By the maker... that was just insane. They really meant business back then. As i remember seeing the 27€ even made it into the german Lego  catalogue. I think that might be where the source originated from. 

If Lego does a drastically downsized AT-AT for a hundred bucks, it will make the Turbo Tank look like an even worse deal than it already is.

JUST WHY, LEGO? OF ALL THE SETS YOU COULD HAVE SCREWED UP... WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE THE TURBO TANK?! YOU LET SOME FANS WAIT UP TO NINE YEARS AND THIS IS THE BEST YOU HAVE IN STORE FOR US?! 

Will reserve capital letters only for short bursts of impulsive, emotional responses such as this. 

Odd- it's a good set, though definitely overpriced, I hope you're able to find it somewhere (or given these US prices on it, just buy one on ebay. The shipping might be worth it with how discounted they're getting.)

I honestly haven't been looking much. If it's not there when I browse walmart and target every few weeks, I don't see it. I'm not yet at the point of actively hunting it down.

The precursor to the 327th pack.

It absolutely will. It could be the action battle AT-AT and it'd still look like better value than the turbo tank.

[BrickPrick]

13 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Odd- it's a good set, though definitely overpriced, I hope you're able to find it somewhere (or given these US prices on it, just buy one on ebay. The shipping might be worth it with how discounted they're getting.)

I honestly haven't been looking much. If it's not there when I browse walmart and target every few weeks, I don't see it. I'm not yet at the point of actively hunting it down.

The precursor to the 327th pack.

It absolutely will. It could be the action battle AT-AT and it'd still look like better value than the turbo tank.

Well yeah, i could probably get it somewhere else. But i think i'm gonna pass on this one. Besides the plethora of 2025 sets of which i will get the majority next year, there are still a fair few 2024 sets i wanna get before they retire. If Lego was my only hobby... okay, sure thing. But alas, can't have everything, i guess. 

I see. Well, please let me know once you picked it up. 

Indeed... Let's hope this madness does at the very least just apply to the Super Battle Packs going forward and not extend to the regular ones. I know this very BP we were talking about got this hefty price increase, but seeing it go back to $20 for next year is somewhat encouraging right now. 

Nearly everything inside the Lego Star Wars cosmos looks like a better deal than the cursed Tiny Turbo Tank. And that is actually saying something. For instance, the Justifier, overpriced, obscure and otherwise flawed as it definitely was, was a behemoth of a set. It at least had this thing going for it. The CTT on the other hand... more focused on minifigure madness over the actual set than ever. I rarely, if ever, saw such a huge discrepancy.

[icm]

40 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

Nearly everything inside the Lego Star Wars cosmos looks like a better deal than the cursed Tiny Turbo Tank. And that is actually saying something. For instance, the Justifier, overpriced, obscure and otherwise flawed as it definitely was, was a behemoth of a set. It at least had this thing going for it. The CTT on the other hand... more focused on minifigure madness over the actual set than ever. I rarely, if ever, saw such a huge discrepancy.

True, the new CTT makes even the Justifier look like a good deal. I didn't think anything could make the Justifier look like a good set at a good price, but here we are.

[Kaijumeister]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Apparently, Maxbautde spoke positively of them in a podcast, without revealing what they are

Avenger, Avenger, Avenger, Avenger (pretty please Lego)…

Cassian in the Sienar Test Pilot suit would make for a brilliant minifigure, and hopefully this time they can use Harry Potter’s Goblet of Fire for him. 

It’s weird how TLJ Luke’s mullet piece has been used for both Cassian and Ezra in the past, when Harry’s GoF would work so much better.

@BrickPrick Honestly, I feel your frustration. This theme has been pushing its luck with value for money over the past few years, but the bigger summer sets have at least been consistent in overall volume of ‘stuff’ (as Jang would put it) over the past few years:

- ISD

- Dark Falcon

- Ghost

- Coruscant Guard Gunship

- AT-TE

- Justifier

- Imperial Light Cruiser 

etc.

But this year, it’s like they’re hardly even trying. It’s all the more egregious when the volume of system sets has fallen so precipitously, how can there not be a single set this year on the same level as those above? 

Heck, as much as I like the MTT, I can’t help but wonder how much better it could have been with a few hundred more pieces. Enough has already been said about the Juggernaut.

I just hope this doesn’t portend a new trend with this theme where objectively large vehicles that merit large sets are all given ruthlessly low part counts but still sold at the same price point as the large vehicles listed above. Ironically I can imagine it must be so frustrating for the designers to have to work against constraints this harsh.

Edited July 19 by Kaijumeister

[BrickPrick]

On 7/19/2025 at 3:08 AM, icm said:

True, the new CTT makes even the Justifier look like a good deal. I didn't think anything could make the Justifier look like a good set at a good price, but here we are.

I imagined something would make it look like a good set... but not this soon. And certainly not the Turbo Tank, even though i grew more sceptical about it by the minute. What about the First Order AT-ST, though? I mean, all things considered, it's really tough to beat that miserable monstrosity. 

On 7/19/2025 at 3:13 AM, Kaijumeister said:

@BrickPrick Honestly, I feel your frustration. This theme has been pushing its luck with value for money over the past few years, but the bigger summer sets have at least been consistent in overall volume of ‘stuff’ (as Jang would put it) over the past few years:

- ISD

- Dark Falcon

- Ghost

- Coruscant Guard Gunship

- AT-TE

- Justifier

- Imperial Light Cruiser 

etc.

But this year, it’s like they’re hardly even trying. It’s all the more egregious when the volume of system sets has fallen so precipitously, how can there not be a single set this year on the same level as those above? 

Heck, as much as I like the MTT, I can’t help but wonder how much better it could have been with a few hundred more pieces. Enough has already been said about the Juggernaut.

I just hope this doesn’t portend a new trend with this theme where objectively large vehicles that merit large sets are all given ruthlessly low part counts but still sold at the same price point as the large vehicles listed above. Ironically I can imagine it must be so frustrating for the designers to have to work against constraints this harsh.

Pushing it's luck? Yes. Until i thought "they went too far in a few places". That's how i would describe the Turbo Tank debacle. Whether or not Lego will see it this way as well, as always depends on how many people will vote with their wallet. 

It's crazy. Every set you just listed is or was obviously pretty expensive, but quality-wise they are also at least two levels above the current Turbo Tank. When i was gifted the 2020 AT-AT and 2022 AT-TE, it felt good when i put it together and all, you know? I certainly won't feel the same way if i ever get to build the CTT, which is a terrible shame. 

Yeah, the MTT is clearly the better deal compared to the CTT and i won't be as hesitant to get it. But compared to most of the aforementioned sets, even that still feels overall lacking. And i can't help but wonder how much better the so called "Juggernaut" could have ended up, if they didn't do brick build wheels and instead used those pieces to beef up that Tank, make it much more sturdy and accessible via technic handle etc. Scale-wise, it could have easily been on the same level as the 2016 model and inflation adjusted, it would have made sense at this price point. But for what limited value they delivered, plus also falling apart when you sneeze, i deem it unacceptable. 

Yeah, i actually don't envy some of the Lego designers working with all these tight deadlines and making decisions based on that. And if you look at some of them, you can basically feel their frustration too. They sometimes give away their best "yeah, i know it sucks and i would want to make it better, but i am not allowed to do that, so believe me, i am just as unsatisfied as you are"-facial expression. 

Edited July 20 by BrickPrick

[icm]

The First Order AT-ST was pretty bad, but it's in a different size and price class for the purposes of this comparison.

[CloneCommando99]

Day #86 of asking for Lego to make a Tie Avenger 

9 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Apparently, Maxbautde spoke positively of them in a podcast, without revealing what they are

He also said that SW fans would eat good this summer, when that only turned out to be clone fans.

But I’ll admit I’m cautiously optimistic now.

Edited July 19 by CloneCommando99

[BrickBob Studpants]

51 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

He also said that SW fans would eat good this summer, when that only turned out to be clone fans.

He wasn‘t wrong tho, since every playset has something people were asking for for years  Sure, the August wave seriously lacks variety, but 327th CTs, Bly, Baraca, Galactic Marines, a new General Kenobi, a Snowspeeder canopy piece, a blue MTT, and a new CTT are all things people were clamouring for

[BrickPrick]

Last post about the Clone Turno Tank for the time being. Having just watched MandR's review of it, i kinda reached peak confusion now. Never have i ever seen such a polarising set that i still wanna get some day. From a design standpoint, there are many redeeming qualities to my liking. And the stability issues doesn't seem that dooming in this in-depth showcase. As the couple of spots where it can easily fall apart are places where it's never supposed to be picked up anyways. Problematic for some kids? Maybe. An actual adult? Unlikely. Driving it around, to me the most important playable aspect of the CTT, functions really well. So i think you can still have fun messing around with this thing. Back to deep discount mood for this set. It's just so weird that it appears to be designed and constructed by many people all with their own ideas. 

Edited July 20 by BrickPrick

[Darth_Bane13]

7 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

He wasn‘t wrong tho, since every playset has something people were asking for for years  Sure, the August wave seriously lacks variety, but 327th CTs, Bly, Baraca, Galactic Marines, a new General Kenobi, a Snowspeeder canopy piece, a blue MTT, and a new CTT are all things people were clamouring for

Can't forget the buildable Ewok of course