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

[Renny The Spaceman]

1 hour ago, BrickPrick said:

Ha, while I get the idea of reserving overpriced slop to TCW era only, I would like to see the reaction if it was something from the OT. Would you guys still be just as mad about the price policy? Or somewhat more forgiving, given your hunger for more Rebellion and Empire troops.

To be fair we have ample examples of that, 99% of the theme is overpriced slop. It's only been the past couple years the OT era's not been the dominant part of the theme. We have ample experience with overpriced OT slop

[BrickPrick]

6 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

To be fair we have ample examples of that, 99% of the theme is overpriced slop. It's only been the past couple years the OT era's not been the dominant part of the theme. We have ample experience with overpriced OT slop

You are obviously right about this. I don't see it any other way. The majority of Lego Star Wars sets is overpriced in my eyes. The question is just by how much. This has been the case for quite some time. So there are plenty of examples to choose from. However, what i meant is in regards for this particular format... or sub-format if you will. Would the reactions be any different for a 40/45 bucks OT themed Battle Pack in the same vein (more 327th Clone Troopers, less Rebel Scout Speeder Vs. Imperial Dropship), would there be double standards? Based on reactions for other overpriced sets... probably not. But i would like to see the reactions nonetheless. 

[Renny The Spaceman]

1 hour ago, BrickPrick said:

You are obviously right about this. I don't see it any other way. The majority of Lego Star Wars sets is overpriced in my eyes. The question is just by how much. This has been the case for quite some time. So there are plenty of examples to choose from. However, what i meant is in regards for this particular format... or sub-format if you will. Would the reactions be any different for a 40/45 bucks OT themed Battle Pack in the same vein (more 327th Clone Troopers, less Rebel Scout Speeder Vs. Imperial Dropship), would there be double standards? Based on reactions for other overpriced sets... probably not. But i would like to see the reactions nonetheless. 

Yeah, I was just making a easy jab, I think people here would complain it's overpriced but argue it's better by every metric despite that

Also, something we're not discussing is the bigger Battlepacks try justify their price by throwing in battle droids as they're half minifigures, can't really do that with any other faction but clones and they don't wanna set the precedent of a normal "super" Battlepacks coming with say, 4 stormtroopers and 2 rebels because then people would expect 6 minifigures in them going forwards. 

Edited Wednesday at 01:48 PM by Renny The Spaceman

[Mandalorianknight]

13 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

9k sold this past month in the US... by far the best selling summer set. I guess we know why Lego keeps making clone sets.

The Slop Must Flow. 

(Again, clones in general are not slop, but that set certainly is.)

7 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I’m personally of the opinion that 2014 and 2016 are the best Advent Calendars for LSW.

Though I do hope we see more ACs in 2025’s specifically themed style. Imperial and Rebel ones would be great to get in the next 2 years.

Those were two of the three years with the most minifigures, and 2016 specifically had the most ever recorded, including a Christmas chewbacca that could essentially work as a non-holiday albino wookie. Were it not for the microbuilds, I might agree. But 2025 managing to completely eliminate microbuilds makes up for it's lackluster figure count IMO. It's a generational leap for the franchise- if they keep it up in 2026 I think we've seen the biggest shift since the price increase/figure count nerf around 2021/2022.

I agree that an imperial or rebel one would be incredible. I'll throw some faction-specific ones in the future sets thread in a bit here so as not to clutter this one.

5 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Ha, while I get the idea of reserving overpriced slop to TCW era only, I would like to see the reaction if it was something from the OT. Would you guys still be just as mad about the price policy? Or somewhat more forgiving, given your hunger for more Rebellion and Empire troops.

I'd be more disappointed because it'd be a set I'd be more likely to buy at a fair price. Unfortunately, we're getting a great example of this in march, where it's hypothetically an OT playset wave, except exceedingly overpriced and entirely crippled by smart bricks.

[BrickBob Studpants]

6 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I agree that an imperial or rebel one would be incredible. I'll throw some faction-specific ones in the future sets thread in a bit here so as not to clutter this one.

Droids aren‘t a faction though. Themed calendars are a great idea, but I hope they continue with themes that encompass the entire franchise like this year‘s does, rather than era-specific themes like rebels or Imperials. A spiritual successor could be based on creatures, a location, or a broad group like bounty hunters  Okay, the last one isn‘t particularly jolly, but you know what I mean

[CloneCommando99]

18 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Droids aren‘t a faction though. Themed calendars are a great idea, but I hope they continue with themes that encompass the entire franchise like this year‘s does, rather than era-specific themes like rebels or Imperials. A spiritual successor could be based on creatures, a location, or a broad group like bounty hunters  Okay, the last one isn‘t particularly jolly, but you know what I mean

I feel like we’re ignoring the obvious Jedi one. 

Edited Wednesday at 05:05 PM by CloneCommando99

[Darth_Bane13]

8 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I’m personally of the opinion that 2014 and 2016 are the best Advent Calendars for LSW.

I'd add 2013 too

5 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

To be fair we have ample examples of that, 99% of the theme is overpriced slop. It's only been the past couple years the OT era's not been the dominant part of the theme. We have ample experience with overpriced OT slop

The diorama's were for the most part, overpriced OT slop imo.

[Lordhelmet]

EU/UK is getting 20% off on the sail barge this week?  I want that deal in the US, wonder if we will get it as a surprise deal or maybe better luck at May the 4th.

edit: plus the gwps and assuming 2xp

Edited Wednesday at 09:34 PM by Lordhelmet

[Mandalorianknight]

46 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

EU/UK is getting 20% off on the sail barge this week?  I want that deal in the US, wonder if we will get it as a surprise deal or maybe better luck at May the 4th.

edit: plus the gwps and assuming 2xp

Black Friday? 

We have "insiders weekend" the week before, but the only SW sales I see are 20% of the ROTS brickheadz and- fittingly for your question- the desert skiff.

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Droids aren‘t a faction though. Themed calendars are a great idea, but I hope they continue with themes that encompass the entire franchise like this year‘s does, rather than era-specific themes like rebels or Imperials. A spiritual successor could be based on creatures, a location, or a broad group like bounty hunters  Okay, the last one isn‘t particularly jolly, but you know what I mean

I get what you mean that many of the builds could take place in different eras, but I will be pedantic and point out that technically speaking the majority of the AC is sequel-set and depicts a specific location/scene. That said, yes, the mix of eras is nice. But I still think a Rebel/Imperial/Separatist/Yes, Clone advent would be just fine.

[CallumPears]

1 hour ago, Lordhelmet said:

EU/UK is getting 20% off on the sail barge this week?  I want that deal in the US, wonder if we will get it as a surprise deal or maybe better luck at May the 4th.

edit: plus the gwps and assuming 2xp

Where you seeing that? I'm in the UK and hadn't heard about it. 

I'm still waiting for them to put Peridea at 40% off like they did in the US so I can finally get Thrawn (and also the Rebel Speeder vs Imperial Dropship). Hopefully that'll happen on Black Friday. 

[Lordhelmet]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Black Friday? 

We

Saw on the usual place there was a calendar of events with sale prices listed.  You are right not for Black Friday but insiders week.  The list had a UK and EU section with the sail barge listed, US not so lucky.

[CloneCommando99]

The Tie Avenger is the hippopotamus of the Tie Fighter family. Lego please make one.

(Day #210)

 

[TeddytheSpoon]

10 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

Saw on the usual place there was a calendar of events with sale prices listed.  You are right not for Black Friday but insiders week.  The list had a UK and EU section with the sail barge listed, US not so lucky.

I saw the Coruscant gunship on the EU list there too. Might finally be my time to pick it up as i assume it's retiring at EoY.

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The Tie Avenger is the hippopotamus of the Tie Fighter family. Lego please make one.

(Day #210)

Is this a reference to something, or because hippos are badass and vicious, which they are?

The ability to crush watermelons is not unique to the Avenger tho

[Lordhelmet]

5 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The Tie Avenger is the hippopotamus of the Tie Fighter family. Lego please make one.

(Day #210)

 

I want a Lego tie avenger for Christmas.  Only a Lego tie avenger will do.  No more clones or juggernaughtavengers.  I only like Lego tie avengers.  And Lego tie avengers want me too.

[BrickPrick]

23 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Also, something we're not discussing is the bigger Battlepacks try justify their price by throwing in battle droids as they're half minifigures, can't really do that with any other faction but clones and they don't wanna set the precedent of a normal "super" Battlepacks coming with say, 4 stormtroopers and 2 rebels because then people would expect 6 minifigures in them going forwards. 

This is funny, because the Rebel Scout Trooper vs. Imperial Dropship set, while not officially branded as a Battle Pack comes with the same attributes, delivers exactly that... six full minifigures. Even though it's purposefully held exclusive to their Lego shops, as you are also supposed to buy it because of the R2-KT anniversary figure. 

21 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The Slop Must Flow. 

Those were two of the three years with the most minifigures, and 2016 specifically had the most ever recorded, including a Christmas chewbacca that could essentially work as a non-holiday albino wookie. 

I'd be more disappointed because it'd be a set I'd be more likely to buy at a fair price. Unfortunately, we're getting a great example of this in march, where it's hypothetically an OT playset wave, except exceedingly overpriced and entirely crippled by smart bricks.

Let the slop flow through you. 

The 2016 Christmas Chewbacca is another one of those special figures whose creativity is solely missed in today's Advent Calendars. The 2023 Holiday Ewok came close to that, though. Happy to own them both. The majority of AC figures, actually.

Yeah, this again goes to show that the disappointment is not supposed to be defined by the era of the sets alone. Sure, one person may prefer one sub-theme over the other, which is how we people work on an individual level. But the overall execution remains key. The 327th Battle Pack ain't a bad deal because of the subject matter, aka even more Clones. What's there is even solid in isolation, but falls apart when it comes to the limited value it does provide as a product this pricy. At the same time, the smart brick infested madness come fourth next March is not amazing by default just because it's based on the holy OT. If the value is not good enough, I don't think it's fair to blame specific sub-themes for that. Even though you may regret certain shortcomings in your favorite themes more than others. 

Edited Thursday at 01:38 PM by BrickPrick

[CallumPears]

Finally got a couple of the new 2025 sets through some auction wins on eBay. 

Bought the MTT with just the B1 droids for £40 and the ARC-170 complete with all the figures for £26 (both of them used with the stickers applied but fortunately the sellers were reasonably competent at that, and I might put in a request for the replacement canopies+stickers for the ARC anyway). Very happy with them both for the prices I paid but certainly would've never got them for the full amount. 

I do also have the 2007 MTT and 2010 ARC-170 so the downsizing is clear and I definitely prefer the bigger MTT, but the newer ARC-170 actually feels a lot more stable and swooshable at the smaller size (I was always a little annoyed with the droopiness of the wings on the old one when I was younger). 

Also I was happy to get the MTT without the figures since I already have the 2017 Aayla, 30 of the 2012 Commando Droids, and wasn't interested in Bly. The figures in the ARC-170 are great, though as I mentioned back when it first came out I do wish they'd made the legs grey (since making them white with a grey print is equivalent to giving AT-ST drivers black legs with a grey print which I think we can all agree would look ridiculous- dual moulding would obviously be the best solution but I can understand why they didn't) and given them an alternate facial expression (they do that for all the Rebel pilots and did it for the 2015 ARC-170 pilot- not a big issue really since most of the face is covered by the helmet anyway but it's just something we had before and don't have now). 

[Mandalorianknight]

18 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

Saw on the usual place there was a calendar of events with sale prices listed.  You are right not for Black Friday but insiders week.  The list had a UK and EU section with the sail barge listed, US not so lucky.

Hopefully we get some better deals for black friday, but most likely it'll just be a couple 20%s on some slower sellers.

4 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

This is funny, because the Rebel Scout Trooper vs. Imperial Dropship set, while not officially branded as a Battle Pack comes with the same attributes, delivers exactly that... six full minifigures. Even though it's purposefully held exclusive to their Lego shops, as you are also supposed to buy it because of the R2-KT anniversary figure. 

Let the slop flow through you. 

The 2016 Christmas Chewbacca is another one of those special figures whose creativity is solely missed in today's Advent Calendars. The 2023 Holiday Ewok came close to that, though. Happy to own them both. The majority of AC figures, actually.

Yeah, this again goes to show that the disappointment is not supposed to be defined by the era of the sets alone.

That's a really good point, the OT battlepack 2-pack one is just objectively better value as it does include more full minifigures, over a hundred more pieces and a lower price. (And while out of stock it was $24 for a bit on lego.com? WHAT? Probably good I didn't catch it while in stock, I would have hit the purchase limit on that immediately)

Lislop-al Giab, show us the way.

It is, it's a fun figure.

Yeah, no, as I've said before, a 327th battle pack in concept is something I'd have been very excited for a few years ago. Even being inundated with clones, had this set been $30 I would have picked up one or two of em. But the outrageous price gouging just makes me gag. Similarly, a TIE advanced has been one of my most wanted sets, but the smart brick integration means unless it's VERY limited I won't even consider buying it.

[CloneCommando99]

20 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Is this a reference to something, or because hippos are badass and vicious, which they are?

The ability to crush watermelons is not unique to the Avenger tho

Like Hippos, the Tie Avenger is bulky, armoured and has a deadly bite.

(Day #211 of the cause)

[BrickPrick]

As far as upcoming purchasing plans go, I first wait whether the aforementioned Rebel Scout Speeder vs. Imperial Dropship set receives a slight discount in addition to double VIP points for this "Lego Insider Weekend". Other than that, I hope for some extra price cut on the U-Wing for Amazon's Black Friday Week. As things stand, neither of those looks to be case right now, but let's just wait and see. 

[CloneCommando99]

The dark side of the force is a pathway to many things that some consider to be… completely natural in this case.

Also. There’s an interesting dichotomy of Luthen sacrificing everything for a sunrise that he’d never see, only for a child of the rebellion he created to sacrifice the said sunrise in order to gain everything. There’s also a very large contrast in the quality of projects.

 

Day #212. Sorry Cody, we don’t want to see you for a while.

Edited Saturday at 10:24 AM by CloneCommando99

[Renny The Spaceman]

5 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Day #212. Sorry Cody, we don’t want to see you for a while.

Made me think about retirement dates (I find this stuff interesting, sorry) Of course the oldest SW set currently in production is the UCS Millennium Falcon, with no retirement date in sight UCS sets generally seem to have more opportunity last longer than playsets if they're based on a massive, popular element of the franchise.  I believe the Rise of Skywalker Falcon was the uncontested champion of a regular playset staying on shelves cracking just over 5 years, the only things on it's level are UCS sets and one Tie Polybag last I checked. Weirdly though currently there are 3 running potentially going to take the crown as they have been in production since 2022 without retirement dates. They are the AT-TE, Obi-Wan's Jedi Star Fighter and the Mandalorian's Star Fighter all three are gonna crack at least 4 years I'd bet but if any of them are retired any point later than than February/March of 2027 they will take the crown. So out of pure speculation, I think the Mando Star Fighter will take it or get discontinued just shy of the crown depending on if the ship is straight replaced in the film, Obi-Wan's ship will go when the Jango Slave One does I'd bet so I think it's chances depend on how well Jango's ship sells and the AT-TE could go whenever, I have no guess on that one as I imagine it's purely sales keeping that one afloat given, unlike the other two, it has nothing in LEGO or in SW media to tie into. 

[Mandalorianknight]

On 11/21/2025 at 5:37 AM, BrickPrick said:

As far as upcoming purchasing plans go, I first wait whether the aforementioned Rebel Scout Speeder vs. Imperial Dropship set receives a slight discount in addition to double VIP points for this "Lego Insider Weekend".

I hope it does in Germany, because it's an excellent set and I want more people to get it, but for my own sake I almost hope it doesn't in the US- any discount on that thing and I'll buy up to the purchase limit.

8 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Day #212. Sorry Cody, we don’t want to see you for a while.

I think an AT-TE microfighter with Cody or a Cody mech would be really funny, but also a legitimately nice move to let kids who don't have $140 get ahold of him.

[CloneCommando99]

27 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I hope it does in Germany, because it's an excellent set and I want more people to get it, but for my own sake I almost hope it doesn't in the US- any discount on that thing and I'll buy up to the purchase limit.

I’ve already bought 3. It’s just a great set. And the value is actually decent.

[Renny The Spaceman]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I think an AT-TE microfighter with Cody or a Cody mech would be really funny, but also a legitimately nice move to let kids who don't have $140 get ahold of him.

I think that's a rule we all have here, no matter the character if they're only in an expensive set putting them in the cheapest possible sets is an equal parts funny and pro-consumer move and should be done