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

[Mandalorianknight]

11 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Are you sure?

Oh yeah. I’d like that, though I’d prefer we get 2-3 Battlepacks a year. Maybe 2 normal and 1 super versus?

I also consider the 2016 or 2017 Imperial and rebel BPs to be great candidates for this sub theme. And honestly the 2015 Resistance and First Order BP as well, maybe even expanding the FO turret build to be a small outpost that the Resistance are assaulting.

The 2012 ARC Trooper and Geonosian BPs I don’t see happening unless they change half the builds. Because, let’s face it, opposing artillery likely doesn’t have the same appeal as speeders or a moving strike vehicle vs said artillery.

RAEL! I NEED YOU RAEL!

That would be nice, whether or not the vs was a D2C remake of older BPs like I'd been suggesting. Even something like 2 normal packs (Which I'm confident lego could get down to $18ish, and hopefully will given I haven't been seeing great sales on the $20-23 packs- even though the $45 one is doing horrifyingly well) and a pack like the coruscant one would be nice.

Yeah, I was focused on the original era of battle packs, but the 2016/17 FO/Resistance and Rebel/Imperial packs would also be good and have had enough of a design scheme evolution for a remake. Unfortunately they gave up on the opposing faction battlepacks in 2018, and the stud-shooter-intro set of packs in 2014/15 also lacked faction clash, but I guess they could also expand some of the two-in-one BPs from that 2012/2013 era.

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I wish they‘d go back to 4 yearly regular BPs, like we had from 2015 to 2018. There are plenty of fractions they could focus on besides just Clones

So long as they make the price a bit more reasonable again, PLEASE. This would be one of the best moves the theme could take. You could still even give us one clone battlepack every year, and there wouldn't be nearly as many complaints because we'd also be able to get any other faction alongside it.

3 hours ago, Meaf said:

That is so comically arrogant lmao. I guess we've always got other places to buy them from at least but still, not exactly a great look (not to mention one that does not inspire me to shop on their website).

Unrelated but are we seeing the 2026 sets soon? Feels like those blurry leaks were a while ago now and we're pretty close to the new year at this point.

Yeah, it's hilariously arrogant. Like we should be honored to purchase from them at (an extremely inflated) full price. I felt like I hadn't ordered from their store in awhile so I went back and confirmed that yup, the last time I bought from them was black friday 2024, where they A: had sales and B: I used up my VIP points to get the set for $3. There's just no reason to buy from them anymore- the GWPs are always at hilariously high thresholds anyway.

Usually we'd get high-quality leaks around thanksgiving and lego would reveal them shortly after, so I think one or the other will happen any day now.

1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Yeah the scene with Fox is what I was thinking of, it's been a while since I've seen the CW movie though.

I don't think I've seen it since around it's release when I was a kid so I'm pretty fuzzy here too.

2 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

That honestly isn't news to me. They have been this way for a long time. Only difference is they now publicly communicate in such a manner to us. Seriously, screw them. If they feel like projecting their own obvious greed onto consumers who actually made them this successful in the first place, let alone certain longtime fans who saved Lego from pure bankruptcy in the early 2000s, so be it... arrogant pricks. If Black Friday isn't all about sales, which then again can result in a win-win situation for both the company and customers, I don't know what is. 

Yep, this is why I completely forgot about their Black Friday deals actually being a thing. Like you said, you usually get sales based on either soon to be retired sets and/or extremely poor performing products. You rarely feel like they went out of their way and went the extra mile. Which is freaking disgusting in my book. Just because business isn't a charity doesn't mean you can't be a little more generous and forthcoming to your loyal fans. It's like Lego opened one too many Pandora's boxes in their lifetime. 

Oh, I absolutely agree. Even getting one big Battle Pack in addition to two regular ones would already go a long way. But at this rate, I think two big ones at the expense of regular ones is more likely. 

Yup. It's wild to me that this was publicly stated rather than hidden behind some sort of smokescreen about double points and GWPs. It's so arrogant.

And that's the other part of it that's wild to me, is that black friday isn't an "out of the kindness of their heart the company takes a big loss" sort of thing either. It uses the principle of loss-leaders- items that the store will take a loss on to generate significant traffic to their storefront/site, leading to other sales on full-price items while they're there. Black Friday also serves to clear out old stock so a company can move the Christmas inventory onto shelves. With the takeover of online shopping it doesn't work quite as well as before, but the principle still generally holds. You CAN be profit-motivated and make moves to increase profits that are also beneficial to consumers, lego just doesn't seem to remember that. But as you point out, they also don't remember that Bionicle saved them from bankruptcy just 20-25 years ago, so...

They're essentially already here, with how well that stupid 327th pack is selling when it's quite literally 50% more than the coruscant pack for the same amount of stuff. I still can't get over that. I LIKE the 327th. They were the legion I used in battlefront for ages. I think a lot of people like them just off the "rule of cool" schema that they all have pauldrons and kamas. Had it been a normal pack, they would probably have been one of the last legions I was still willing to buy. But that price is just gross, and the fact that it's so easily compared to a set of better value makes me retch.

[Renny The Spaceman]

22 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

So long as they make the price a bit more reasonable again, PLEASE. This would be one of the best moves the theme could take. You could still even give us one clone battlepack every year, and there wouldn't be nearly as many complaints because we'd also be able to get any other faction alongside it.

It's weird they don't at least do 2 normal ones, they used to for ages. 

[CallumPears]

Looks like Australia is getting an interesting deal- you get the midi scale Falcon, buildable Wicket, and the Star Wars Logo when you buy the Death Star. Presumably they've seen people displaying the Falcon in the DS hangar bay, and presumably they're struggling to sell the latter 2 so are palming them off as a GWP to boost Death Star sales

Edited November 26 by CallumPears

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, CallumPears said:

Looks like Australia is getting an interesting deal- you get the midi scale Falcon, buildable Wicket and the Star Wars Logo when you buy the Death Star. Presumably they've seen people displaying the Falcon in the DS hangar bay, and presumably they're struggling to sell the latter 2 so are palming them off like a GWP. 

That's actually an excellent deal, what is that, $250ish of free lego for buying the death star? 

 

More horrifying black friday news, the US site now has a list called "Lego Star Wars Black Friday Sets" and literally none of them are on sale. It's just an article about sets you can buy at full price. Some especially hilarious bits-

-They wrote about the gingerbread AT-AT (honestly a good one to write about, it's a fair price and cute set), and due to them putting up a display of the set listing, the article is showing that it's out of stock. You can't even buy it.

-In a similar vein, due to including the set listings in the article, they are proudly displaying a 1-star average review under their blurb about the juggarnaut.

-The article calls the firespeeder a "highly desirable display piece" (This doesn't seem like it was AI written, but it's harder to tell with corporate speak), which... what? It's from a lego special- as well as claiming it's the first set to include a Sig Greebling Figure... aside from being a weird thing to brag about, that's not even true.

-They have a blurb about helmet sets saying they have helmets of "many iconic characters, and we're not just talking about Darth Vader and Stormtroopers", which is good because neither of those helmets are sold by lego anymore.

They also include $30 sets in their "small sets" list, which... fine. That one's not really on lego, and more on the inescapable march of inflation, but still puts me in a dour mood.

 

Edit: For those of you in the US, amazon has the following deals at the moment, though they don't have any of them marked specifically as black friday:

Tantive IV $40 (50% off), Tantive IV Hallway $33 (40% off),  Peridea $33 (40% off), Maul Mech $11.3 (37% off), Plo Koon's Microfighter $9.4 (37% off), Droidika $42 (35% off), Luke Mech $11.18 (30% off), TIE Fighter and X-wing mashup $82.5 (25% off),  And of course about half the sets from the past year or two at 20% off as is normal for amazon.

Edited November 26 by Mandalorianknight

[Darth_Bane13]

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I don't think I've seen it since around it's release when I was a kid so I'm pretty fuzzy here too.

Ok so I just rewatched the scene and it's 1 assassin droid with around 5 b1s that fight the clones, although it is Padme who kills the assassin droid.

[CallumPears]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The article calls the firespeeder a "highly desirable display piece" (This doesn't seem like it was AI written, but it's harder to tell with corporate speak), which... what? It's from a lego special- as well as claiming it's the first set to include a Sig Greebling Figure... aside from being a weird thing to brag about, that's not even true

They're calling one of the few non-18+ sets a display piece? 

It is the first set to include an orange lightsaber, which a lot of people commented on when it released. Maybe they did indeed use AI to write this (hence the generic "desirable display piece" description) and it got confused when it was writing about the "exciting new thing" it had pulled from other people's reviews and went for the character's name instead of his weapon. 

Or maybe it's written by the same people who design the modern clone figures, given their proclivity for inaccuracy. 

[CloneCommando99]

We’re going back in time to the first Lego 2025 set selection meeting to put the Tie Avenger on the menu.

That’s right. We’re going back in time to the first 2025 Lego set selection meeting to put the Tie Avenger on the menu.

(Day #217, and happy Thanksgiving to American members of the forum)

 

Edited November 27 by CloneCommando99

[CallumPears]

Huh, the duel on Peridea set is now out of stock in the UK. It's been fully available until today, and never went on a discount. I was hoping it'd get something off for Black Friday but I guess people were still buying it :/ 

Tbh I only wanted the Thrawn figure so hopefully we get another set with him when S2 of Ahsoka comes out (with the correct number of code cylinders this time please). 

I was kinda hoping the set would sell poorly enough that they'd offload the figures in the magazines lol

Meanwhile Amazon in the US has it at 40% off (it's basically a LEGO exclusive here in the UK, with only a very brief period of it being available in Smyths and the Disney store, though I only ever saw it online and never in person)

Edited November 27 by CallumPears

[BrickPrick]

18 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yup. It's wild to me that this was publicly stated rather than hidden behind some sort of smokescreen about double points and GWPs. It's so arrogant.

And that's the other part of it that's wild to me, is that black friday isn't an "out of the kindness of their heart the company takes a big loss" sort of thing either. It uses the principle of loss-leaders- items that the store will take a loss on to generate significant traffic to their storefront/site, leading to other sales on full-price items while they're there. Black Friday also serves to clear out old stock so a company can move the Christmas inventory onto shelves. With the takeover of online shopping it doesn't work quite as well as before, but the principle still generally holds. You CAN be profit-motivated and make moves to increase profits that are also beneficial to consumers, lego just doesn't seem to remember that. But as you point out, they also don't remember that Bionicle saved them from bankruptcy just 20-25 years ago, so...

They're essentially already here, with how well that stupid 327th pack is selling when it's quite literally 50% more than the coruscant pack for the same amount of stuff. I still can't get over that. I LIKE the 327th. They were the legion I used in battlefront for ages. I think a lot of people like them just off the "rule of cool" schema that they all have pauldrons and kamas. Had it been a normal pack, they would probably have been one of the last legions I was still willing to buy. But that price is just gross, and the fact that it's so easily compared to a set of better value makes me retch.

Yeah, I'm not gonna do one of those "companies are not your friends TM" kind of speeches again. I just think there are... smarter ways when it comes to communicating to your audience. PR is obviously supposed to move people to shell out as much money out of their pockets as possible... even for stuff you don't necessarily know you want to. But when I don't believe in your average PR fluff piece, in my eyes, that's s bad PR... predictable and ineffective. It's a failed mission, then. 

The "kindness out of their heart"-thing was exactly what I was thinking... it ain't even about that. That's why their cockiness is bothering me. It reads to me like "we know our sales suck and we could offer you more than that, but guess what... we won't. As it's suddenly not only about that." No commitment to be able to deal with constructive criticism, no aspiration to do better as a multi billion company, no nothing. Just being arrogant out of corporate's greed. 

I also agree with your remaining paragraph and previous ones (especially the part of "as if we are supposed to feel honored to buy something from them at full price"). Besides being too lazy right now, I don't feel like repeating everything you just said. So for simplicity sake, let's just say... It's true. All of it. 

In terms of pricing, yeah, we might have already reached that point. In terms of actual sets, we have not... yet. This would be a stupid question for Who Wants to be a Millionaire or something. How do you think will the Lego Star Wars Battle Pack situation continue to evolve? A: It will stay the same with one super BP, one regular, B: two Super BP's, C: one super BP, two regular, D: four regular. 

I think it will be A for some time, fear it to be B in the foreseeable future, would be fine with C and would love to have D again. 

[CallumPears]

Sales in the UK are nothing too exciting so far except for the Sith Infiltrator. Annoyingly the sale prices seem to have not kicked in until about 5 minutes after midnight, so my sitting waiting at 11:59 was pointless and in the time it took for me to do the 200->1000 points thing the sales had activated and the Infiltrator was already out of stock (I want it for the Saw Gerrera figure and nothing else since I already have 2 of the older sets of it)

Probably the biggest surprise to me is no discount on the Imperial/Rebel super battle pack. 

Edited November 28 by CallumPears

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, CallumPears said:

Probably the biggest surprise to me is no discount on the Imperial/Rebel super battle pack. 

They're taunting me. They have the discount in the US, it's listed under black friday deals, but they didn't restock it. 

There was an excellent costco deal- the UCS AT-ST AND the 327th pack for $150 total- so 25% off the AT-ST and a free 327th pack- but it went out of stock before I could personally snatch it. Still on the lookout, but I have to make sure I'm not getting into the "I have saved money on this set I didn't want in the first place" trap. If the 327th pack for $36 starts looking tempting, that's when I know it's time to get off the internet.

Edited November 28 by Mandalorianknight

[Lordhelmet]

3 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Sales in the UK are nothing too exciting so far except for the Sith Infiltrator. Annoyingly the sale prices seem to have not kicked in until about 5 minutes after midnight, so my sitting waiting at 11:59 was pointless and in the time it took for me to do the 200->1000 points thing the sales had activated and the Infiltrator was already out of stock (I want it for the Saw Gerrera figure and nothing else since I already have 2 of the older sets of it)

Probably the biggest surprise to me is no discount on the Imperial/Rebel super battle pack. 

I wanted the sail barge at 20% in the US, that was the one I was hoping for this year, I suppose there is next year to hope for that deal (barring a surprise).  I thankfully grabbed the infiltrator from Walmart here with the discount and bonus set but the sold out quickly.

[CloneCommando99]

You know what Black Friday would be perfect for? A Tie Avenger!!! But alas, maybe next year.

(Day #218)

[CallumPears]

Happy to report that I went to a physical Lego shop and they had the Sith Infiltrator 

Also grabbed a C-3PO keychain to do the leg switch (wish they did the leg in silver instead of grey, but it's still an upgrade) since that was also reduced. 

The sad part? The 327th pack at full price was on a shelf labelled "top ten bestsellers"  clone slop will be the death of us

[CloneCommando99]

On the Andor season 2 rewatch

Day #219.

On 11/28/2025 at 10:37 AM, CallumPears said:

The sad part? The 327th pack at full price was on a shelf labelled "top ten bestsellers"  clone slop will be the death of us

Yes. The theme will eventually become oversaturated with clones. And what will happen then?

[Renny The Spaceman]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Yes. The theme will eventually become oversaturated with clones. And what will happen then?

Not to be a doomer or anything but before investment bros and army builders became the most common punching bag for the community wasn't the main thing LEGO Star Wars fans were made fun off for was buying slightly different remakes the same sets 700 times? There's a real chance this clone thing lasts a while longer, this theme isn't really known for set diversity 

[CloneCommando99]

Hello Lego. Where is the Tie Avenger?

Day 220 of asking for a Tie Avenger.

 

 

 

Edited November 30 by CloneCommando99
Unspanished

[Murdoch17]

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Hola Lego ¿Donde esta el Tie Avenger?

Dia doscientos veinte de pedir por un Tie Avenger 

 

 

@CloneCommando99 You might want to put that in English, lest you run the risk of mods seeing it. EB is English language only site.... just sayin'!

[CloneCommando99]

6 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

@CloneCommando99 You might want to put that in English, lest you run the risk of mods seeing it. EB is English language only site.... just sayin'!

Oh whoops. I thought I might try something different. Oh well.

 

 

Edited November 30 by CloneCommando99

[Renny The Spaceman]

2 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

@CloneCommando99 You might want to put that in English, lest you run the risk of mods seeing it. EB is English language only site.... just sayin'!

Mods take down people for not speaking English?

[Murdoch17]

2 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Mods take down people for not speaking English?

They usually just ask people to translate / edit the offending post into English.

Edited November 30 by Murdoch17

[Tariq j]

The BB-8 has leaked. I gotta admit I actually quite like it, I still prefer the older one but this one still looks good.

[CloneCommando99]

20 minutes ago, Tariq j said:

The BB-8 has leaked. I gotta admit I actually quite like it, I still prefer the older one but this one still looks good.

Huh. I kinda forgot that was coming.

It looks decent. Definitely not spherically accurate. But an alright attempt Lego-wise.

Edited November 30 by CloneCommando99

[Swordy]

Massively disappointed in the leakers and TLG for ignoring the three-year standing Thanksgiving tradition. At least we’ve gotten a leak, even if it was two days late.

BB-8’s head looks a bit chibi, which is fine in my eyes. The mechanism of deploying the “Thumbs up” is messier than the 2017, and the detailing this time around seems more reliant on prints, a trend for which I don’t care in the slightest. Even the SNOT technique is messier than it was in ‘17. I wish I had a positive spin in mind, but this is yet another buildable character (we’ll see whether it’s overpriced or not) and not a particularly great one. Sad to see the character that truly kickstarted this subline of sets given a subpar rendition a near decade later.

Totally random: I found an IKEA droid in Phantom Menace whilst rewatching the Nubian Starship escape Naboo, although it looks more like the McDonald’s/L3-G0 droid but the blue swapped out for the red. (So further proof why the X-Fighter vs TIE-Wing has the worst minifig line-up of the past five years.  I will die on that hill, lol.)

 

 

Oh, the Venator got leaked. (Again, a full two days late, but I digress…)

The front end appears maybe one stud too wide. Other than that, another solid midi-scale ship—just definitely overpriced. Love the use of the NEXO Knight shield on the main red stripe and the barrels representing engines.

Edited November 30 by Swordy

[Lobot]

75441 - Midi scale Venator has just leaked and it looks very impressive!

Probably one of the best to date....