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

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Huh, I never even thought to ask ChatGPt to come up with set ideas  Just for fun, I wanted to see what garbage it would surprise me with. It did not disappoint. Behold!!

I meant moreso that chatgpt has a tendency to just create information that's not real- and then when you ask for a source go "whoops yeah I just totally made that up", but these sets ideas are amazing. Part of me wants to MOC these, especially the "every dark side adjective speeder" with TIE apprentices and whatever a "revolving flame module" is, but I'm already so far behind on my mocs...

2 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

No, you don't get it, they're slightly higher than they should be if you use an antenna, LEGO should never add aditional circles for connectivity, which is why if LEGO cared for their fans they're remove all studs from sets

If lego really cared about their fans, even moreso than removing all studs, they'd need to radically fix the figure design. These guys have trapezoidal torsos, claw hands, that's not accurate to clones? They should create a new set of molds much closer to actual clone trooper physiques, maybe unique ones for every figure they do, and they should be larger to have more detail. To keep cost done, just remove the builds, it won't matter, and don't bother with this connectivity stuff at all, just make them one piece with articulated points. They might face some lawsuits over still calling them building sets, so what if we used a different name? Something about... they're figures... they're used to play (or sit on a shelf) in an action setting... what would we call them...?

[Swordy]

5 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Are you using Chat GPT in your writings? I've never seen anyone use dashes in their writing like that, except AI.

Ha-! How dare you…

I’ve been using those dashes in my writing since 2020. I prefer them over regular dashes since they provide better visual clarity—plus it feels like I’m interjecting something in whilst passionately ranting about my preferred writing style. Messy, yes, but true to my thought pattern.
Furthermore, I despise the thought of using AI in my personal writing process completely. (Here we go, yet another soap box moment for which nobody was asking…) The creative process itself, writing or otherwise, is innately human: the struggle of writer’s block before achieving revelation, the torture of a blank page before an explosion of worlds and character, the satisfaction of connecting ideas far apart into a cohesive theme, the  realization of truths about our world and ourselves, the joy of challenging, of overcoming, of creating itself. Why would I give all the experience I have gained through pencil or keyboard to a heartless and spineless robot? I’d cheat myself as much as my reader. If only for that sole reason, I refuse to use AI in any part of my drafting process. (My only exception is that I have used AI to critique my manuscript for grammar and creative direction, and like any good artist I both listen to the advice and ignore it entirely based on gut feeling.)

To be clear, I’m not offended by you asking, sarcastic “How dare you”’s or otherwise. When I found out AI use em-dashes too, I knew it was bound to come up sooner or later. However, I guarantee you that I never have used AI, and never will. The cost of using it outweighs any ease it would bring. ‘Nuff said.

 

6 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Don‘t worry, I‘ll return to my previous profile pic eventually, this is temporary  I‘ve had that since 2010-ish? Or maybe I‘ll update it with HELMET HOLES

Edit: Wait, I used a TCW Phase I helmet, they had holes before it was coo… I mean the worst thing ever

Glad to hear! Alas, terrible news for those of the Mara Jade Brigade.
I figured the picture had to be old, but to hear “2010ish” still blows my mind.

Helmet-hole-itis has afflicted you for too long. You know what must be done: update with the only helmet-hole-less P1 in existence… the droopy 2002 minifig.

10 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

100%. I would think that the optimum decision would be to do two years of HP sets. Switch to another classic licensed theme with similar limitations for 2-3 years (eg: POTC or LOTR). And then repeat the process.

But that’s just creatively. Not financially I guess.

 

100% yet again on the affordable sets. Now we’re getting £100 X-Wings, I think things might actually come to a snap sooner rather than later.

Yeah, I’d love that too. Then TLG could always return to HP in a rotation of a decade, which holds the promise of an always improving Hogwarts instead of needing a lackluster ‘21 system in between two “definitive” systems. (Apparently the ‘24 system will end up larger than the $400 D2C castle, and far more expensive, so I guess either HP fans have incredibly deep pockets or LEGO is stupid.) Nevertheless, TLG has shown preference for evergreen themes, likely a result of the 2003 bankruptcy. It seems ever since LEGO Minecraft became a hit success that TLG has been on the hunt for their next evergreen IP, Pokemon being the latest example.

A Snap Wexley, perhaps? XD
I think so too. The exponential increase of prices can only and will accelerate us to the point of disconnect between LEGO and their customers. In fact, I believe it’s already taking place. Dozens of people across the world have already enlisted without realizing… Nemik’s speech, etcetera, etcetera.

4 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The leaks say the whole march wave has "smart" integration, and while only a few sets are confirmed to have smart bricks, given the number of figures the leaks say are "smart" we can assume most sets will include at the very least smart figures. (and that one of them is a cantina, one of them's likely the falcon, one of them is yoda's hut, etc)

So mara's less than 25% black widow... less even, since that doesn't really fit the color or style of her hair in most of her appearances.

The phase 1 troopers having had helmet holes since 2008 is one of the funniest things to me about the complaints- paradoxically the helmet holes must be emblematic of some recent horrific issue at lego, either due to laziness or some sort of prequel-sabotage goal, but they were prominent on phase 1 clones in what those same arguments will call the golden age that lego needs to return to. It's amazing logic.

Plus if Swordy was AI he'd be including "it's not a ____, it's a ____", bullet points in every comment, and referencing sources or sets that just don't exist.

Right, I had forgotten that, and wrongly equated “smart brick” with “smart minifig.” If all ”smart” aspects are distributed across the March wave, then who knows whether we’ll see “smart” figs repeated in multiple sets or even more than those currently rumored.
I myself doubt we’ll see a downscaled Falcon, much less a “smart” one. Given the midi-Falcon is $85, and the years of trial and error to achieve the correct shape with LEGO wedge plates, I can’t see a playset that does all that the 2019 model can at any cheaper. If it does happen, by that point inflation will keep the price “consistent”.

If the whole March wave is “smart,” then more likely than not the rest of the releases next year will be spared from “smart”ification.

I disagree on Mara’s hair. It’s not the perfect shape, but few LEGO pieces are, and dark orange is a fine approximation when considering Shannon McRandle‘s portrayal. Above all else… it’s the exact same hairpiece I’ve used on my purist Mara for the past five years. 

Ah, yes, the “golden age;” from when clones didn’t use leg printing to when the 212th were yellow. The most ironic part is that if TLG fitted the P2 helmet for accessories during their “golden era,” then none of these complaints would’ve began in the first place. It’s the mistake from the golden era that’s messed up clones in the modern era.

I mean, I’m always open to try new writing styles.
“Here’s three very compelling reasons for a LEGO TIE Avenger:
• It’s not a P-Wing, it’s a TIE Avenger.
• It’s not from the Sequels, it’s from Andor.
• It’s not the mother of General Hux, it’s the father of the TIE Interceptor.”

Technically, though, gut instinct or memory isn’t a source that exists, thus I’ve been hallucinating sources for a long time… which causes me to question the nature of existence but I digress. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

48 minutes ago, Swordy said:

You know what must be done: update with the only helmet-hole-less P1 in existence… the droopy 2002 minifig.

Well, if you ignore the giant T-shaped hole

Also, nicely put together argument for why not to use AI in writing ^^ Couldn‘t agree more! I just finished a script for one of my courses and a paper I‘m about to submit, and I refused to use genAI for any of it. Besides dehumanising the entire process, it all sounds like the same homogenised drivel in the end.

[Renny The Spaceman]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Well, if you ignore the giant T-shaped hole

Does Bionicle Cody have a hole, would you classify the cup of a balljoint a hole? If not then that is the only good clone helmet

[MKJoshA]

It’s honestly fascinating how this page alone captures almost every corner of the LEGO Star Wars fandom — from clone trooper helmets and pricing complaints to philosophical debates about AI and writing style. It’s like a microcosm of modern LEGO discussion culture.

A few things jump out to me reading through everyone’s points:

1️⃣ On AI and LEGO ideas:
Yeah, asking ChatGPT for set predictions isn’t going to give you insider leaks — it’ll mostly remix known concepts or “invent” sets that sound vaguely plausible. But it is interesting as a creative tool. Think of it like talking to a friend who doesn’t know what’s real but will happily toss out weird mash-ups until something sparks inspiration. The value’s not in accuracy, but in idea-fuel.

2️⃣ On clone troopers and design drift:
The passion here is real. The hole-in-the-helmet debate has officially lasted longer than most Clone Wars arcs. But that shows how deeply people care about these details. LEGO is constantly walking a tightrope between nostalgia, production limits, and visual upgrades. Maybe the question isn’t “classic vs. modern,” but rather, “what feels the most LEGO about Star Wars minifigs today?”

3️⃣ On price and accessibility:
The “£100 X-Wing” talk hits home. Inflation and licensing explain some of it, but fans are right to want approachable entry points. Ideally LEGO keeps mixing “flagship” collector sets with those smaller, affordable ones that still nail the look and feel. Those mid-range sets are often the true gateway into the theme.

4️⃣ On “smart bricks” rumors:
If LEGO really is moving toward connected or digital features, I hope it’s done in a modular way — optional layers of tech, not something that alienates the tactile builders. Star Wars already sells on nostalgia and physicality; it would be a shame to lose that to screens and firmware.

5️⃣ On AI in writing and forum culture:
The pushback here is totally understandable. Writing is a human thing — but tools like AI can still serve as scaffolding for human expression, not a replacement. The key’s transparency and intent: using it to think better, not just to type faster. The irony, of course, is that this conversation about authenticity is happening in a LEGO forum, a hobby built on reusing and remixing pre-made pieces. There’s poetry in that.

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At the end of the day, we’re all still doing the same thing: trying to imagine, predict, and debate a galaxy made of bricks. Whether that’s with a keyboard, a set of hands, or a few lines of generated text — it’s all part of the same creative ecosystem.

I, for one, can’t wait to see what March actually brings. My bet? Something half the people will call “lazy” and the other half will call “genius,” which means LEGO probably nailed it.

[MKJoshA]

Spoiler

Yes, that was a ChatGPT response. I hope it was different enough from my regular responses! 
Here's what I asked it:

"Hello, I need the most ChatGPT response possible to this page worth of posts: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/forums/topic/200728-lego-star-wars-set-discussion-2025-read-first-post/page/192/"

 

And here's it's initial response:

 

"Here’s a “most-ChatGPT” style response (i.e. friendly, thoughtful, with context, insights, and playful tone) to the page you linked — a reaction / summary / reply that could fit into that LEGO Star Wars discussion, or help you engage with it"

 

"Friendly, thoughtful... and playful tone" AI is so full of itself!

 

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Swordy said:

Right, I had forgotten that, and wrongly equated “smart brick” with “smart minifig.” If all ”smart” aspects are distributed across the March wave, then who knows whether we’ll see “smart” figs repeated in multiple sets or even more than those currently rumored.
I myself doubt we’ll see a downscaled Falcon, much less a “smart” one. Given the midi-Falcon is $85, and the years of trial and error to achieve the correct shape with LEGO wedge plates, I can’t see a playset that does all that the 2019 model can at any cheaper. If it does happen, by that point inflation will keep the price “consistent”.

I disagree on Mara’s hair. It’s not the perfect shape, but few LEGO pieces are, and dark orange is a fine approximation when considering Shannon McRandle‘s portrayal. Above all else… it’s the exact same hairpiece I’ve used on my purist Mara for the past five years. 

I'm sure we'll see more than the current rumors, Leia at the very least. I could see 2025 lego just forgetting to include a major character generally, but lego's been big on putting diversity into sets the past half-decade or so and there isn't a single "smart" female minifigure in the leaks, which seems unlikely.

The only potential flaw in your logic is that you're assuming a new "smart" falcon WOULD do everything the 2019 model can. We've already seen what they did to the X-wing to make it "smart", I wouldn't at all be shocked to see them dismantle their progress on the falcon in the same way.

All depends on your preferred Mara design. I like a more reddish shade of hair- they mention a few times in the books that her hair is extremely red- and very few illustrations of her that I've seen have that asymmetrical front part the piece used has. 

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Well, if you ignore the giant T-shaped hole

As any REAL clone fan will tell you, every single clone trooper sucks except for like two minifigures in 2014. You can only be a REAL fan of lego clone troopers if you hate almost every single lego clone trooper.

14 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

I, for one, can’t wait to see what March actually brings. My bet? Something half the people will call “lazy” and the other half will call “genius,” which means LEGO probably nailed it.

Responding to the discussion about what writing styles signify AI with a bulleted list containing long dashes, the "it isn't ___, it's ___", etc is really funny. I can't tell for sure if AI was used to make this, but if not it was certainly written to emulate it or poke fun at it- it's definitely different from your standard writing style.

31 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Does Bionicle Cody have a hole, would you classify the cup of a balljoint a hole? If not then that is the only good clone helmet

Bionicle Cody has plenty of holes- I think the torso alone has a ton of pin holes- but I don't believe the helmet has any through holes. The cup of the balljoint has a blind hole in it, but if we're counting blind holes literally every clone helmet has holes since there's one to fit the head inside.

2 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

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Yes, that was a ChatGPT response. I hope it was different enough from my regular responses! 
Here's what I asked it:

"Hello, I need the most ChatGPT response possible to this page worth of posts: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/forums/topic/200728-lego-star-wars-set-discussion-2025-read-first-post/page/192/"

 

And here's it's initial response:

 

"Here’s a “most-ChatGPT” style response (i.e. friendly, thoughtful, with context, insights, and playful tone) to the page you linked — a reaction / summary / reply that could fit into that LEGO Star Wars discussion, or help you engage with it"

 

"Friendly, thoughtful... and playful tone" AI is so full of itself!

 

Spoiler

I thought so- part of me was thinking you wrote it yourself, but specifically to sound as if AI wrote it, but that last bit about half the fans likely calling the march wave genius had me suspicous. I haven't seen a single person positive about the smart bricks and I doubt you have either.

I'm glad to see chatGPT immediately trying to pump up it's ego, maybe it's more human than we give it credit for. 

 

[Darth_Bane13]

7 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The phase 1 troopers having had helmet holes since 2008 is one of the funniest things to me about the complaints- paradoxically the helmet holes must be emblematic of some recent horrific issue at lego, either due to laziness or some sort of prequel-sabotage goal, but they were prominent on phase 1 clones in what those same arguments will call the golden age that lego needs to return to. It's amazing logic.

Using dashes like that is a pretty common sentence structure in both articles, books, and even posts here by me and other users since long before chat AI was a common thing. You might not remember it off the top of your head but if you read articles and/or books on any sort of even semiregular basis you'd have to have seen it before. Plus if Swordy was AI he'd be including "it's not a ____, it's a ____", bullet points in every comment, and referencing sources or sets that just don't exist.

Yeah you're right, I swear I was never taught how to properly use those dashes in school so I never use them personally. He also used them a lot more than I see in normal writing; but yeah I've just gotten paranoid about AI. I also sometimes forget not everybody has poor grammar like myself 

 

I disagree about P1 clones because the holes don't distort the helmet printing and are in the correct place. I do not understand why this is so hard for people to understand, it is a perfectly valid complaint. I don't see why people get so offended if you criticize a multibillion dollar company's product.

[BrickBob Studpants]

4 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I don't see why people get so offended if you criticize a multibillion dollar company's product.

Nobody‘s offended. Reasonable criticism is more than welcome! However, I think it‘s perfectly valid to poke fun at people who have been complaining about a rather minor issue like that for years while acting as if helmet holmes ate their hamster and killed their grandma

[Darth_Bane13]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Nobody‘s offended. Reasonable criticism is more than welcome! However, I think it‘s perfectly valid to poke fun at people who have been complaining about a rather minor issue like that for years while acting as if helmet holmes ate their hamster and killed their grandma

Most people I've seen critiquing the helmet holes do so when it's relevant to the LEGO discussion. People continue to complain for years because it is still an ongoing issue... At worst the complaint is repetitive, which just happens if you frequent discussions about the current state of Lego Star Wars. I remember a lot of users here complaining constantly because Lego wasn't making enough OT playsets which I found quite repetitive, especially because there were plenty of OT sets on shelves and continue to be in 2026. Lastly poking fun at people is fine I guess but it often just resorts to name calling and is mean spirited in nature. Also I can see how complaining about Lego is silly to people and I do agree it's a very first world problem. I would never think to talk about helmet holes outside a Lego discussion; some of us are just long time fans that are passionate and enjoy talking about and critiquing the product we love. In my opinion if something is objectively inaccurate it is a valid complaint, even if you don't care.

[CloneCommando99]

Another day of Tie Avenger searching (#188)

11 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

A few things jump out to me reading through everyone’s points:

Good one. You had me for a minute there.

[CallumPears]

 

21 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I disagree about P1 clones because the holes don't distort the helmet printing and are in the correct place. I do not understand why this is so hard for people to understand, it is a perfectly valid complaint. I don't see why people get so offended if you criticize a multibillion dollar company's product.

Yeah it's not so bad on here but e.g. on Reddit you'd think you committed a murder or something if you dare to point out that maybe, just maybe, the LEGO designers should *try* to make figures like Bly a bit more accurate. 

Yeah, the helmet holes were never an issue on P1 troopers because they're in the right place. The P2 ones are not (they're the right height for the old visor pieces, which in my opinion should've retired by now anyway, but wrong for the rangefinders, binocular visors, and any trooper who doesn't have accessories). CAC has the perfect system for helmet accessories which might not quite fit LEGO's requirements in terms of how strongly they clip onto the helmets but I'm sure there'd be a way to adapt them (e.g. maybe they could have small dimples in the temple dips on the helmet where the visor attaches, like the ones the LEGO motorcycle helmets have, rather than full-on holes). 

Edited Wednesday at 07:30 PM by CallumPears

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Yeah, the helmet holes were never an issue on P1 troopers because they're in the right place. The P2 ones are not (they're the right height for the old visor pieces, which in my opinion should've retired by now anyway, but wrong for the rangefinders, binocular visors, and any trooper who doesn't have accessories). CAC has the perfect system for helmet accessories which might not quite fit LEGO's requirements in terms of how strongly they clip onto the helmets but I'm sure there'd be a way to adapt them (e.g. maybe they could have small dimples in the temple dips on the helmet where the visor attaches, like the ones the LEGO motorcycle helmets have, rather than full-on holes). 

The issue is if you change things you ruin compatibility between the different helmets that use those accessories, and I assume lego (rightfully in my view) would rather keep it so you can swap them around between the three than create specialized molds for P2 troopers with a different set for mandos and P1 troopers. At the end of the day lego is a building system, and ensuring the pieces fit together in situations like this is more important than perfect accuracy. If you want your clone troopers to be more focused on accuracy than compatibility with the building system, action figures better fit those criteria. That's not to say lego shouldn't try to make sure their clones are accurate within the constraints of the system, or that things like printing light colors on dark pieces aren't an issue, but with things like the helmet holes at a certain point you have to step back and remember that these are lego minifigures and they need to be compatible with the other lego minifigures because, you know, they're legos.

 

14 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Another day of Tie Avenger searching (#188)

How dare you put the razor crest up there, it's the single best ship design of the disney era. I'll give you that the TIE Dagger is erratic (It's not awful but it's odd) and the xyston's downright sloppy, though.

[CloneCommando99]

19 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

How dare you put the razor crest up there, it's the single best ship design of the disney era. I'll give you that the TIE Dagger is erratic (It's not awful but it's odd) and the xyston's downright sloppy, though.

The Razor Crest is fine. It’s just the M&G Razor Crest as pictured is creatively bankrupt.

[BrickBob Studpants]

15 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Another day of Tie Avenger searching (#188)

Hey, leave the TIE Dorito out of this, that‘s a great TIE design  

50 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

[…] and the xyston's downright sloppy, though.

Yeah, not a fan. It‘s basically a regular SD with some red lines. Riveting. Even a completely red version would‘ve been better! Not sure if this is fanart or leaked concept art, but something like this would‘ve been so much cooler:

 

[Darth_Bane13]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The issue is if you change things you ruin compatibility between the different helmets that use those accessories, and I assume lego (rightfully in my view) would rather keep it so you can swap them around between the three than create specialized molds for P2 troopers with a different set for mandos and P1 troopers. At the end of the day lego is a building system, and ensuring the pieces fit together in situations like this is more important than perfect accuracy. If you want your clone troopers to be more focused on accuracy than compatibility with the building system, action figures better fit those criteria. That's not to say lego shouldn't try to make sure their clones are accurate within the constraints of the system, or that things like printing light colors on dark pieces aren't an issue, but with things like the helmet holes at a certain point you have to step back and remember that these are lego minifigures and they need to be compatible with the other lego minifigures because, you know, they're legos.

My solution is simple, create a second helmet mold with the holes in the right place for regs and clones with antenna's. I own a GCC helmet with the holes in the correct place and it looks so much better. At the very least a character like captain rex should have them in the right spot since most people aren't going to put a visor on him anyway, I don't even think the new antenna piece comes with a visor anyway. I don't really think two molds for clone helmets is really that extreme at this point in the minifigure evolution. There's no reason we can't have accuracy and compatibility within the building system.

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The Razor Crest is fine. It’s just the M&G Razor Crest as pictured is creatively bankrupt.

I'm not a huge fan of the paint job but I have absolutely no issues with them bringing it back, the ship was destroyed too early on.

32 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

My solution is simple, create a second helmet mold with the holes in the right place for regs and clones with antenna's. I own a GCC helmet with the holes in the correct place and it looks so much better. At the very least a character like captain rex should have them in the right spot since most people aren't going to put a visor on him anyway, I don't even think the new antenna piece comes with a visor anyway. I don't really think two molds for clone helmets is really that extreme at this point in the minifigure evolution. There's no reason we can't have accuracy and compatibility within the building system.

It's the same issue, though. It creates a situation in which some of the accessories meant to fit the mando/clone helmets would no longer work on one of the clone helmets. If anything, it makes it worse by creating two near-identical helmets, but where some accessories only work on one. It would prevent a kid from, for example, putting a visor on Rex or any other clone with that new helmet type. At that point, if you're creating a new mold with the "holes in the correct place for regs and antenna clones", why not create a holeless one for regs and an asymmetrical one for clones with antennas? It's only one more mold proposed than your version, after all.

Do you see the issue this makes in terms of compatibility? 

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeah, not a fan. It‘s basically a regular SD with some red lines. Riveting. Even a completely red version would‘ve been better! Not sure if this is fanart or leaked concept art, but something like this would‘ve been so much cooler:

That design is sick. I assume the lucrehulk-core looking thing would have held the superlaser, which is still absurd powerscaling to minimize the size of a death star laser that much, but would at least have been a better visual signifier than "we put a big gun on the bottom of the ISD"

[Kaijumeister]

Huh, I just realised we never actually saw what the Sith Eternal TIE Pilots looked like. Even the 2020 TIE Dagger set just reused a First Order TIE Pilot 

Edited Thursday at 01:13 AM by Kaijumeister

[Darth_Bane13]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It's the same issue, though. It creates a situation in which some of the accessories meant to fit the mando/clone helmets would no longer work on one of the clone helmets. If anything, it makes it worse by creating two near-identical helmets, but where some accessories only work on one. It would prevent a kid from, for example, putting a visor on Rex or any other clone with that new helmet type. At that point, if you're creating a new mold with the "holes in the correct place for regs and antenna clones", why not create a holeless one for regs and an asymmetrical one for clones with antennas? It's only one more mold proposed than your version, after all.

Do you see the issue this makes in terms of compatibility? 

The only issue would be visors and macro binoculars not working on a character like Rex, but who cares? 99% of people would put the rangefinder on Rex anyway since visors don't even come with rangefinders anymore. We used to have a p2 Rex with no holes at all and kids played with him just fine, so not being able to put a visor on isn't that big of a deal. Lego makes tons of different helmet molds, making 1 more slightly different one is fine. I guarantee if Lego did this in the first place no one would be making a fuss.

 

At the VERY least they should've made the right helmet for Rex in the Venator since it is obviously for adults.

[BrickBob Studpants]

5 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Huh, I just realised we never actually saw what the Sith Eternal TIE Pilots looked like. Even the 2020 TIE Dagger set just reused a First Order TIE Pilot 

…excellent point, never even thought about it! It’s never been clearly explained whether the Final Order / Sith Eternal was cut off from the rest of the galaxy or if some FO members were in contact with them. The prominent FO characters definitely weren‘t as the existence of the Sith Eternal was a surprise to all of them.

Minimal or no contact would explain why they use older designs, like the xyston-class SDs being based on the Imperial rather than the FO version. In that case, FO TIE pilots don‘t make sense unless the TIE Daggers were only manned once the First and Final Orders joined forces.

…but then again, both Jumptrooper versions look identical apart from the colour. That one is trickier to explain since the helmet and armour follow FO rather than Imperial design conventions and thus can‘t be explained away by being based on old discarded Imperial designs

That‘s the least of TROS‘ issues, but I still wish they thought through things a bit more. JJ gonna JJ!

[anothergol]

Just finished building the UCS AT-ST, and I'm now wondering why I bothered. 
I mean I had watched reviews and I knew it looked bad, but I buy anything AT-ST anyway.

Remember the last time you've built a Speed Champions set and it was full of cool techniques and assemblies in all directions? None of that here!
It's not just that it LOOKS almost the same as the 2006 one, the build also feels very dated. I just can't believe 20 years have passed and they release this.

It looks like their only models were the 2006 UCS and the toy versions, because it suffers from the same wrong proportions everywhere. They could just have bought a Bandai kit to know what an AT-ST is supposed to look like.
It's just big, it's not UCS. 
Yeah I'm bitter but I love the AT-ST and they had no respect for it.

I mean, look at the big Mario kart, it was made with love, it looks great, smooth & modern, and it's not even called UCS. This AT-ST was an intern's side project.

[CloneCommando99]

9 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Hey, leave the TIE Dorito out of this, that‘s a great TIE design  

Yeah, not a fan. It‘s basically a regular SD with some red lines. Riveting. Even a completely red version would‘ve been better! Not sure if this is fanart or leaked concept art, but something like this would‘ve been so much cooler:

 

Oh. That actually looks like an awesome combination of the Lucrehulk, SSD and Venator. And would have been symbolic of how this is the culmination of all of Palpatine’s efforts by taking design cues from all the factions he had previously used.

Even more evidence that TROS was rushed.

 

How do you guys prefer your (Tie) Avengers? New? Uncanny? Dark? Savage? Young? Astonishing? Ultimate? Mighty? Secret? West Coast? Great Lakes? (Day #189)

Edited Thursday at 08:26 AM by CloneCommando99

[Tariq j]

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

How do you guys prefer your (Tie) Avengers? New? Uncanny? Dark? Savage? Young? Astonishing? Ultimate? Mighty? Secret? West Coast? Great Lakes? (Day #189)

I’m going to say Secret. I did really like the TIE Crawler Lego released ages ago. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Even more evidence that TROS was rushed.

Oh, it absolutely was! The Didney execs wanted to make the pre-set deadline at all cost, and it shows. While I like TROS more than most people do, it‘s apparent it was rushed and a lot of plot points sure would‘ve resonated more if A) there was a plan for the ST from the get-go, and B) there was more time to develop some of the ideas.

There are still way too many holes in the timeline of events, and now The Acolyte created even more of them with the reveal that Qimir is the founder of the Knights of Ren. 

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

How do you guys prefer your (Tie) Avengers?

Medium rare.

[Darth_Bane13]

6 hours ago, anothergol said:

Just finished building the UCS AT-ST, and I'm now wondering why I bothered. 
I mean I had watched reviews and I knew it looked bad, but I buy anything AT-ST anyway.

Remember the last time you've built a Speed Champions set and it was full of cool techniques and assemblies in all directions? None of that here!
It's not just that it LOOKS almost the same as the 2006 one, the build also feels very dated. I just can't believe 20 years have passed and they release this.

It looks like their only models were the 2006 UCS and the toy versions, because it suffers from the same wrong proportions everywhere. They could just have bought a Bandai kit to know what an AT-ST is supposed to look like.
It's just big, it's not UCS. 
Yeah I'm bitter but I love the AT-ST and they had no respect for it.

I mean, look at the big Mario kart, it was made with love, it looks great, smooth & modern, and it's not even called UCS. This AT-ST was an intern's side project.

2007 AT-ST playset was peak