LEGO Star Wars Set Discussion 2026 - READ FIRST POST!!!

[Kaijumeister]

@CloneCommando99 A true piece of art good sir. “On your left-I mean right.”

The Sandcrawler sketch does look really good. I’d love to see them tackle the Kuiil mould again given that the original one in the UCS Din Djarin’s Starship looked really off, but that’s definitely not happening. I understand making the vehicle grey for accuracy but this also highlights how grey pretty much dominates most of TMaG / Mando sets this year. At least the packaging is colourful.

YouTube reviews for the Genius Brick sets are trickling out too now. It’s definitely…interesting seeing them in action.

Edited February 19 by Kaijumeister

[Alex_South]

13 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

First the TIE Avenger and now this. Did Lego hire JJ Abrams?

i bet they will make that variant eventually, but I am ready to be let down because Lego would make it only seat 1 fig and it's supposed to have room for several. The design is still cool but my favorite part about that ship was the interior space for hyperspace travel.

 

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I personally wasn't a fan of that build- IMO the large molded chunks don't mesh well with the bricks.

yeah, I don't know much about creature builds, I just hope it looks good, if they are going to go through the trouble of doing the Mudhorn I sorta think they ought to do it right.

3 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

This has been on my mind as well. They may mould the head and the rest of the body will be brick-built, like the did for Fluffy from Lego Harry Potter in 2021.

That's another great example, there are just so many ways it could go.

 

I don't have a preference but I really hope it looks good, the Mudhorn is arguably the most character-significant monster in Star Wars. Din's whole journey is based on that encounter, so I hope Lego actually tries. I know that Luke and the rancor is iconic because it's OT, but in-universe luke never got a tattoo of it and made his entire career about that defining moment. I like what the mudhorn represents. It contrasts against how often Din wins his fights. The mudhorn was the moment he was without a doubt beaten and 100% would have died unless he had his "clan" with him, fate literally told him, "Din the solo bounty hunter is dead, you are part of a clan now" and as grogu's story continues, potentially past Din into new post ST eras that symbol and underlying message are going to become even more iconic. I know at its core it's just "The power of friendship" but it's done in a way that makes it cool, the idea of the clan symbol being a foe so great it took a clan to defeat it, a clan of 2 haha. It does make me wonder if we are going to see anyone else added to the clan. That's also my favorite episode of Mando, I love the Jawa wackiness. I am doing my best to talk myself out of the 200$ set so I tell myself if the Mudhorn build sucks I am out haha.

[BrickPrick]

4 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Yeah I suppose it is, I first noticed it happening to LSW in 2022 with the Hoth Rebel Pack. I've seen it get worse every year since, it seems like they have to fulfil a DEI quota with minifigs. If you want to argue it doesn't matter for kids sets, that's fine, but adult sets should prioritize accuracy first and foremost.

That's the thing, I don't even value accuracy in terms of minifigure details as much as some of you guys do. Creative freedom can be a good thing to some extent. However, to act like the Empire is this diverse, tolerant group of people and operates regardless of gender and skin tone, all these decades later because the world is apparently now "progressive" enough to artificially create and execute these arbitrary agendas, despite the source material clearly stating otherwise, then it can be annoying as heck. On one hand, I shouldn't care all that much, because I display Stormies with helmets on all the time anyways. But on the other hand, 99 % of people will do so too. Which gives you all the more reason to not waste precious resources on any of that stuff. Like you said, there should be a difference between a somewhat affordable play set aimed primarily at kids and a very expensive adult oriented display model. Look at how much efforts they put into all these different unnamed Imperials in the UCS Death Star, while the named ones were left in the dust as far as much more crucial decorations go. Someone at Lego should get their priorities right. The design decisions have to be more sensible and need to make more sense for the people you ask to purchase something you position as a $1000 premium product. 

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

We have this discussion every time it happens, but yeah, this is the dichotomy at play. For people who have been collecting for decades and/or have enough to buy every set when it comes out, the new color scheme is nice, but for the people that doesn't apply to it feels like a misstep.

While this ever so rarely has stopped me from voicing my personal standpoints, I may be in the absolute minority here... I don't mind the more obscure variants, despite not owning any of the original more iconic designed vehicles. I didn't mind the fresh coat of paint for the Coruscant Guard Gunship. I won't mind that for the Speratist MTT and new Mando Sandcrawler. I dunno... I just can't be really bothered with that. My general satisfaction of finally getting any desired variant of an iconic Lego Star Wars set at all may outweight any concern of it not being the most popular one. Though I can still definitely get behind people's desire of wanting exactly that first and foremost after waiting for it all this time. 

3 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

 

YouTube reviews for the Genius Brick sets are trickling out too now. It’s definitely…interesting seeing them in action.

Interesting is such an interesting word to describe even the worst stuff out there in a very polite manner. 

1 hour ago, Alex_South said:

That's another great example, there are just so many ways it could go.

Yeah, I'm just glad we get muddy Mando at last. Nothing could have prepared me for the potential "well, this is him before fighting the Mudhorn" Lego PR on why they just included the regular Mando minifigure. 

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, Alex_South said:

yeah, I don't know much about creature builds, I just hope it looks good, if they are going to go through the trouble of doing the Mudhorn I sorta think they ought to do it right.

I don't have a preference but I really hope it looks good, the Mudhorn is arguably the most character-significant monster in Star Wars. Din's whole journey is based on that encounter, so I hope Lego actually tries. I know that Luke and the rancor is iconic because it's OT, but in-universe luke never got a tattoo of it and made his entire career about that defining moment. I like what the mudhorn represents. It contrasts against how often Din wins his fights. The mudhorn was the moment he was without a doubt beaten and 100% would have died unless he had his "clan" with him, fate literally told him, "Din the solo bounty hunter is dead, you are part of a clan now" and as grogu's story continues, potentially past Din into new post ST eras that symbol and underlying message are going to become even more iconic. I know at its core it's just "The power of friendship" but it's done in a way that makes it cool, the idea of the clan symbol being a foe so great it took a clan to defeat it, a clan of 2 haha. It does make me wonder if we are going to see anyone else added to the clan. That's also my favorite episode of Mando, I love the Jawa wackiness. I am doing my best to talk myself out of the 200$ set so I tell myself if the Mudhorn build sucks I am out haha.

Yeah. I think it can be made well brick-built since it's pretty big, but we'll see.

I really like this analysis, it's a neat way of looking at it.

Regarding that last bit about adding anyone into the clan, in early mando S2 with all the "mandalorian is a creed, not a people" theming and the buildup towards removing his helmet, I thought after baby yoda was captured, there'd be a scene where Din confronted the armorer about what it meant to be a mandalorian. Since their covert was wiped out and she didn't have the numbers to help him, she wouldn't want to, and he'd give a speech about what it meant to be a mandalorian to convince her to make new armor sets. Than we'd get a scene where all his allies- Cara, Greef, Cobb, etc- get their own armor and help him, Boba, and Bo save Baby Yoda.

It would have done a few things (Capped off "what it means to be a mandalorian" better than I think S3 did, actually show some growth for the armorer, and I think there's a neat dichotomy in the final fight being extremely armored dark troopers vs similarly armored mandalorian armor users. Gideon's army would be built by him, where Mando's would be the friends he gained. And as much as I love the scene where Luke appears, this would avoid the deus ex machina of him being the one to defeat all the dark troopers.)

3 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

@CloneCommando99 A true piece of art good sir. “On your left-I mean right.”

I didn't realize this was day #300, I got a present for @CloneCommando99:

[Llewop]

Having seen pictures of the F1 helmets I do feel Lego have shafted SW again. First Sauron helmet has a minifigure, now the F1 helmets have figures. Just shows it is possible and Lego have chosen all these years not to include one. Even though 90% of the helmets all have figures that are accessible (accept for probs p1 Cody) it would still add something to all these sets. 

[MKJoshA]

18 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Why are so many Lego Imperial officers, Stormtroopers, and Rebel troopers so diverse with women and POC? The Death Star set for example is pretty ridiculous, it's clearly not accurate to what we see in the movies. Are we really prioritizing diversity over accuracy? 

Hollywood has been prioritizing diversity over accuracy for years now. It's a divisive subject online and I request that we leave it at that. It's a valid topic of conversation since TLG is including it in their sets. But for sake of peace and harmony as we discuss together on Eurobricks we need to save that discussion for PMs or other channels. 

[CloneCommando99]

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I didn't realize this was day #300, I got a present for @CloneCommando99:

Oh my… I think I’ve found my lantern failsafe construct. On day #301 of the crusade.

6 hours ago, Llewop said:

Having seen pictures of the F1 helmets I do feel Lego have shafted SW again. First Sauron helmet has a minifigure, now the F1 helmets have figures. Just shows it is possible and Lego have chosen all these years not to include one. Even though 90% of the helmets all have figures that are accessible (accept for probs p1 Cody) it would still add something to all these sets. 

Boushh would have been a bit more problematic, but yeah. 5 years of helmet sets and we got scammed.

 

Soooooo… is Rebuild The Galaxy going to have a 3rd season this year? We’re this close to a Mara Jade appearance. And perhaps a back door TIE Avenger set.

Edited February 20 by CloneCommando99

[Murdoch17]

47 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Soooooo… is Rebuild The Galaxy going to have a 3rd season this year? We’re this close to a Mara Jade appearance. And perhaps a back door TIE Avenger set.

I sincerely hope it gets a third season!

Edited February 20 by Murdoch17

[Darth_Bane13]

11 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

That's the thing, I don't even value accuracy in terms of minifigure details as much as some of you guys do. Creative freedom can be a good thing to some extent. However, to act like the Empire is this diverse, tolerant group of people and operates regardless of gender and skin tone, all these decades later because the world is apparently now "progressive" enough to artificially create and execute these arbitrary agendas, despite the source material clearly stating otherwise, then it can be annoying as heck. On one hand, I shouldn't care all that much, because I display Stormies with helmets on all the time anyways. But on the other hand, 99 % of people will do so too. Which gives you all the more reason to not waste precious resources on any of that stuff. Like you said, there should be a difference between a somewhat affordable play set aimed primarily at kids and a very expensive adult oriented display model. Look at how much efforts they put into all these different unnamed Imperials in the UCS Death Star, while the named ones were left in the dust as far as much more crucial decorations go. Someone at Lego should get their priorities right. The design decisions have to be more sensible and need to make more sense for the people you ask to purchase something you position as a $1000 premium product. 

Well said.

2 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Hollywood has been prioritizing diversity over accuracy for years now. It's a divisive subject online and I request that we leave it at that. It's a valid topic of conversation since TLG is including it in their sets. But for sake of peace and harmony as we discuss together on Eurobricks we need to save that discussion for PMs or other channels. 

I wont bring it up again.

[BrickPrick]

3 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Hollywood has been prioritizing diversity over accuracy for years now. It's a divisive subject online and I request that we leave it at that. It's a valid topic of conversation since TLG is including it in their sets. But for sake of peace and harmony as we discuss together on Eurobricks we need to save that discussion for PMs or other channels. 

From now on, I will no longer speak about any of this stuff in here as well. 

1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Well said.

I kinda wish I didn't. 

 

Going from the Sandcrawler sketches, what size are we expecting the new one to be? Contrary to Lego's ongoing mantra of downscaling sets in favor of improved design and stability, I'm under the impression it looks a little larger or at least the same scale as the 2018 one. The fact the Mando version is supposed to include 400+ pieces compared to the last one doesn't have to mean much when you factor in both the Mudhorn and more modern building techniques consisting of many small pieces. 

[Alex_South]

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Regarding that last bit about adding anyone into the clan, in early mando S2 with all the "mandalorian is a creed, not a people" theming and the buildup towards removing his helmet, I thought after baby yoda was captured, there'd be a scene where Din confronted the armorer about what it meant to be a mandalorian. Since their covert was wiped out and she didn't have the numbers to help him, she wouldn't want to, and he'd give a speech about what it meant to be a mandalorian to convince her to make new armor sets. Than we'd get a scene where all his allies- Cara, Greef, Cobb, etc- get their own armor and help him, Boba, and Bo save Baby Yoda.

It would have done a few things (Capped off "what it means to be a mandalorian" better than I think S3 did, actually show some growth for the armorer, and I think there's a neat dichotomy in the final fight being extremely armored dark troopers vs similarly armored mandalorian armor users. Gideon's army would be built by him, where Mando's would be the friends he gained. And as much as I love the scene where Luke appears, this would avoid the deus ex machina of him being the one to defeat all the dark troopers.)

Maybe they might still do something like that down the road, it's a good idea, even if it's not full armor but more like beskar friendship bracelets it would be cool to see the clan signet given to someone new. Mando culture lore is hard, there's always been several competing visions for as long as I have been a fan, even back in the EU days it was that way. I like how simple the new movie looks, I am kinda done with lore after S3, I want adventure now.

I am excited to see the rest of the sets leak, it's fun to be excited about a creature build, I have never really cared about star wars creature builds. This set especially could have so many fun easter eggs like the literal mudhorn egg. My dream would be that it somehow also came with a blurgg and the parts sled. Just no way though.

[BrickBob Studpants]

14 minutes ago, Alex_South said:

This set especially could have so many fun easter eggs like the literal mudhorn egg.

Well that is a must. You can’t have a Sandcrawler and a mudhorn in the same set without including the thing that connects the two  The question is if they’re just gonna reuse the regular egg piece in brown or dark tan or provide a brick-built egg ^^ I’d prefer the former, despite it being a bit undersized.

Edited February 20 by BrickBob Studpants

[Mandalorianknight]

12 hours ago, Llewop said:

Having seen pictures of the F1 helmets I do feel Lego have shafted SW again. First Sauron helmet has a minifigure, now the F1 helmets have figures. Just shows it is possible and Lego have chosen all these years not to include one. Even though 90% of the helmets all have figures that are accessible (accept for probs p1 Cody) it would still add something to all these sets. 

I have some hope in that department, it's entirely possible that Lego has just decided to start adding figures to helmets. We don't have any star wars helmets this year to go off of IIRC, but it's important to remember that it wasn't just star wars who didn't get minifigures in helmet sets- none of the superhero or sonic helmet/cowl/mask/heads got minifigures either. I think they might just be including them in all helmets now.

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Oh my… I think I’ve found my lantern failsafe construct. On day #301 of the crusade.

I'll have something small for day 365 as well. 

3 hours ago, Alex_South said:

Maybe they might still do something like that down the road, it's a good idea, even if it's not full armor but more like beskar friendship bracelets it would be cool to see the clan signet given to someone new. Mando culture lore is hard, there's always been several competing visions for as long as I have been a fan, even back in the EU days it was that way. I like how simple the new movie looks, I am kinda done with lore after S3, I want adventure now.

I am excited to see the rest of the sets leak, it's fun to be excited about a creature build, I have never really cared about star wars creature builds. This set especially could have so many fun easter eggs like the literal mudhorn egg. My dream would be that it somehow also came with a blurgg and the parts sled. Just no way though.

Maybe something a little more substantial than bracelets, but yes, it would be fun to see Mando build out his clan a little.

You might have a shot- the sandcrawler, while a little larger than the 2018 one, doesn't seem to be too many more pieces- and the 2018 one included some droids and the cart. Let's say 1400 to be safe. I doubt the mudhorn is 300 pieces. I would be fairly confident we'll see some sort of cart or sled. Blurrg is a maybe, but it's also not too many pieces and I think it would help sell the $200 price point. (Though this is already shaping up to be one of the best larger sets value-wise of the past year or two.)

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Well that is a must. You can’t have a Sandcrawler and a mudhorn in the same set without including the thing that connects the two  The question is if they’re just gonna reuse the regular egg piece in brown or dark tan or provide a brick-built egg ^^ I’d prefer the former, despite it being a bit undersized.

the former would be nice, but I also wouldn't mind if they used something like the lower balloon and 2x2 dome so you could crack open the egg like in the show.

[ArrowBricks]

Here’s hoping there’s a good villain vehicle (minus the AT-AT) that can go well with the X-Wing and the RazorCrest. I like those sets. 

[Kaijumeister]

21 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Interesting is such an interesting word to describe even the worst stuff out there in a very polite manner. 

Yeah, I'm just glad we get muddy Mando at last. Nothing could have prepared me for the potential "well, this is him before fighting the Mudhorn" Lego PR on why they just included the regular Mando minifigure. 

Sometimes politeness in the face of absurdity is the highest form of indictment  Seriously man, the Dumb Yoda audio genuinely sounds traumatising. At least the Dumb Luke and Vader audio is somewhat reminiscent of the classic Lego Star Wars games. 

I’m looking forward to the muddy Mando figure too (bonus points if we get a new faceprint of Pedro Pascal just not having a good time). And yes, our crusade for that General Skywalker minifigure shall hopefully end this summer!

1 hour ago, ArrowBricks said:

Here’s hoping there’s a good villain vehicle (minus the AT-AT) that can go well with the X-Wing and the RazorCrest. I like those sets. 

I find it ironic that we’re seeing this issue 2 years in a row where we receive a deluge of hero vehicles (clone vehicles last year. Mando / New Republic ones this year) with not a single villain starfighter to actually dogfight against. But hey, maybe the Smart Play vehicles are the friends enemies we met along the way.

@Alex_South Really enjoyed your take on the Mudhorn, always appreciated when good takes deepen my appreciation of the story and characters.

Edited February 20 by Kaijumeister

[CloneCommando99]

12 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

Here’s hoping there’s a good villain vehicle (minus the AT-AT) that can go well with the X-Wing and the RazorCrest. I like those sets. 

 

11 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I find it ironic that we’re seeing this issue 2 years in a row where we receive a deluge of hero vehicles (clone vehicles last year. Mando / New Republic ones this year) with not a single villain starfighter to actually dogfight against. But hey, maybe the Smart Play vehicles are the friends enemies we met along the way.

If only there was a cool and recently relevant TIE variant that has lots of screen time and loads of potential play features, as well as being the perfect candidate to be a £60 companion set to the U-Wing and X-Wing. Gee if only it existed (#302)
 

Shuttle is also coming. But yeah the point still stands.

 

[Kaijumeister]

I just hope the Remnant AT-AT has a sizeable 1000 piece+ part count (and a decent minfigure selection), my excitement for this set has been growing significantly.

As much as I’m hoping for a new remnant stormtrooper helmet without the covering, I can see them also being a printed head with a white imperial helmet (like what Veers and the AT-ST drivers wear).

In other news, despite the absence of a firm release window for Ahsoka S2, more rumours continue to pop up at a good pace and the potential for Lego sets is fantastic in terms of colourful characters, ships, and locations. I hope one of these is a larger T-6 with a good size and piece count to truly do the ship justice.

[Mandalorianknight]

59 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

As much as I’m hoping for a new remnant stormtrooper helmet without the covering, I can see them also being a printed head with a white imperial helmet (like what Veers and the AT-ST drivers wear).

In other news, despite the absence of a firm release window for Ahsoka S2, more rumours continue to pop up at a good pace and the potential for Lego sets is fantastic in terms of colourful characters, ships, and locations. I hope one of these is a larger T-6 with a good size and piece count to truly do the ship justice.

That's a good point. I think mold wise the budget is certainly there, but I wouldn't mind it being a print with the standard white imperial helmet over it - especially if it comes with a new mask mold to make them look like standard snowtroopers. 

Seriously- I know the show wasn't the most well received, but I am one of it's biggest defenders. And Season 2 is shaping up to be probably the most toyetic live-action show they've ever done (with the exception of mando, but only because of Baby Yoda), so there's so much set potential. Obviously you have the widening scale of conflict between the NR and empire- we know the show will feature:

Spoiler

A-wings, X-wings, dogfights, ground battles, etc all on the Hera/Ezra side. Fights on dathomir and inside a republic capital ship or base. Thrawn's forces now include nightsisters and non-night trooper stormtroopers.

And the peridea stuff has some great set material too, with 

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aside from all the temples, those large ancient droids that would be great buildable figures.

I do also like the general way Thrawn's return seems to be going. Thrawn is very much a TDK joker "ends justify the means" type villain, and if we can't get a 1-1 of the thrawn trilogy I do like that in his goal to restore order he's ended up working with literal witches and zombies.

[ArrowBricks]

2 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

In other news, despite the absence of a firm release window for Ahsoka S2, more rumours continue to pop up at a good pace and the potential for Lego sets is fantastic in terms of colourful characters, ships, and locations. I hope one of these is a larger T-6 with a good size and piece count to truly do the ship justice.

Touché! 

[CloneCommando99]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Seriously- I know the show wasn't the most well received, but I am one of it's biggest defenders. And Season 2 is shaping up to be probably the most toyetic live-action show they've ever done (with the exception of mando, but only because of Baby Yoda), so there's so much set potential. Obviously you have the widening scale of conflict between the NR and empire- we know the show will feature:

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A-wings, X-wings, dogfights, ground battles, etc all on the Hera/Ezra side. Fights on dathomir and inside a republic capital ship or base. Thrawn's forces now include nightsisters and non-night trooper stormtroopers.

I do also like the general way Thrawn's return seems to be going. Thrawn is very much a TDK joker "ends justify the means" type villain, and if we can't get a 1-1 of the thrawn trilogy I do like that in his goal to restore order he's ended up working with literal witches and zombies.

Oh yeah. While I’m not expecting Andor level writing, I am very much looking forward to the spectacle this season will bring.

Yeah. The NR X-Wing was honestly a great choice by Lego. It does double duty for tying in. But if we don’t get a NR Trooper vs Imperial Remnant BP within the next 12 months, then they are grossly mismanaging the BP subtheme. (The NR armour design in the concept art is sick)
 

Also. On the lore side of things. I feel like Thrawn’s additional forces could depend on the status of 2 people. 

1. Gillad Pellaeon. We know he is definitely still around. The question is what size force does he currently control. I feel like he’s definitely in command of at least one full ISD (probably the Harbringer)
2. My girl Karyn Faro. She depends on whether she left to take command of the 11th Fleet before the Purgill jumped Thrawn. I feel like an individual of her tactical capability should have been able to survive the war. Therefore, if Filoni acknowledges the books, she’ll likely be bringing whatever’s left of the 11th Fleet to the table. And has maybe even been developing more TIE Defenders since she’s seen their effectiveness first hand.

As far as we know, Pellaeon and assumably the Harbringer is the only 7th Fleet ship that survived Lothal. 
 

There’s something really funny about an autistic military commander embracing chaos (you can’t convince me he’s not). And I say that as someone on the spectrum myself.

4 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I just hope the Remnant AT-AT has a sizeable 1000 piece+ part count (and a decent minfigure selection), my excitement for this set has been growing significantly.

I hope so too. But after the Turbo Tank I’m keeping my expectations low.

[BrickBob Studpants]

10 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

There’s something really funny about an autistic military commander embracing chaos (you can’t convince me he’s not). And I say that as someone on the spectrum myself.

 

I‘m also a huge fan of Ahsoka and can‘t wait for S2!  The concept art alone is amazing. 

[Alex_South]

On 2/21/2026 at 3:26 AM, Mandalorianknight said:

Maybe something a little more substantial than bracelets, but yes, it would be fun to see Mando build out his clan a little.

You might have a shot- the sandcrawler, while a little larger than the 2018 one, doesn't seem to be too many more pieces- and the 2018 one included some droids and the cart. Let's say 1400 to be safe. I doubt the mudhorn is 300 pieces. I would be fairly confident we'll see some sort of cart or sled. Blurrg is a maybe, but it's also not too many pieces and I think it would help sell the $200 price point. (Though this is already shaping up to be one of the best larger sets value-wise of the past year or two.)

Haha yeah for sure, I was just being dumb, I honestly think it would be sweet if it was an armor piece or something, I like the little Rondel plate Grogu has.

We will see, due to money and space I never own more than a few LEGO sets, and I don't have any currently. I am going to get the Razorcrest around the end of this year, it's my favorite ship and I really enjoy this playset, it looks great from all sides IMO. Now I am just waiting to see what other ship I might pair with it. I am going to do a small clone wars display, but I think for that I am just going to bricklink the figs and then get the midi- Venator. But the Razorcrest is so cool i gotta pair it with a second set and maybe a few smaller side builds like the speeders.

The Sandcrawler could be really cool, that one it will depend on the side builds, if LEGO delivers I will have a hard time saying no. But this year seems like it will be stacked with potentially great builds, the Imperial Shuttle has the part count to be really great.

 

23 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Really enjoyed your take on the Mudhorn, always appreciated when good takes deepen my appreciation of the story and characters.

thanks, I really like that episode and I think the design of the signet is awesome.

 

has anyone else been wondering where the N-1 goes? It would be fun if Mando trades it to Zeb for the Razorcrest as part of a deal they haggle out. This year is looking to have a lot of great redesigns, and I know some folks hate redesigns, but LEGO tends to botch the first attempt on most new ships so I wait for the redo, and I am curious to see if they take another pass at the N-1. It would be great if Zeb and the N-1 show up in Ahsoka S2 because I want a redesign. I owned the original set and I hated it haha, it needs to be scaled down to jedi starfighter size. I was also thinking as soon as Ahsoka's interceptor showed up that the new windscreen is perfect for a larger T-6

[Kaijumeister]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That's a good point. I think mold wise the budget is certainly there, but I wouldn't mind it being a print with the standard white imperial helmet over it - especially if it comes with a new mask mold to make them look like standard snowtroopers. 

Seriously- I know the show wasn't the most well received, but I am one of it's biggest defenders. And Season 2 is shaping up to be probably the most toyetic live-action show they've ever done (with the exception of mando, but only because of Baby Yoda), so there's so much set potential.

I keep thinking that outside of Grogu, the theme hasn’t actually introduced any brand new moulds this year. But then I remember that Zeb and the repurposed Shore Trooper helmet technically count as new moulds given how long ago those pieces retired. Nonetheless, I still think this year is really light on new moulds thus far so surely there’s room for a new Snowtrooper helmet at least.

And absolutely! I really hope Lego don’t fumble their tie-in sets for Season 2 by either ignoring it or making excess buildable slop. 

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

There’s something really funny about an autistic military commander embracing chaos (you can’t convince me he’s not). And I say that as someone on the spectrum myself.

I hope so too. But after the Turbo Tank I’m keeping my expectations low.

Man, I would love to see another Timothy Zahn book about Thrawn just putting up with Ezra during their exile. Their personalities are so utterly opposite and it’s a shame we never saw much of that dynamic in the Ahsoka show.

Yeah I should do the same. I’m glad the Sandcrawler has a good part count but this whole decision to utterly gut sets at large price points to be a fraction of the size and complexity (but not cost) and for some reason never exceed the 1000 piece mark really worries me about the theme. Buildable characters should not be the only large sets, and I wonder if we should just learn to never expect big builds that aren’t UCS sets moving forward. I can’t imagine it’s fun for the designers to be working under tighter constraints either.

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I’m also a huge fan of Ahsoka and can‘t wait for S2!  The concept art alone is amazing. 

Preach, so much set potential! It’s the one show I would really like to see an ‘Art of’ book. Never understood why one wasn’t published for it because the concept art for S1 was breathtaking.

2 hours ago, Alex_South said:

Has anyone else been wondering where the N-1 goes? It would be fun if Mando trades it to Zeb for the Razorcrest as part of a deal they haggle out. This year is looking to have a lot of great redesigns, and I know some folks hate redesigns, but LEGO tends to botch the first attempt on most new ships so I wait for the redo, and I am curious to see if they take another pass at the N-1. It would be great if Zeb and the N-1 show up in Ahsoka S2 because I want a redesign. I owned the original set and I hated it haha, it needs to be scaled down to jedi starfighter size. I was also thinking as soon as Ahsoka's interceptor showed up that the new windscreen is perfect for a larger T-6

Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if the N-1 was just replaced or retired off-screen which I have mixed feelings about. It makes sense for Mando to switch back to a Razor Crest now that he’s hunting Imperials again.

Yeah I thought Mando’s N-1 has been one of the worst LEGO sets in the theme. It’s unnecessarily large and captures practically none of the sleekness that made the source material so popular. It speaks to a wider issue within this theme especially where small and sleek ships are pointlessly large and overengineered, and large vehicles continue to be shrunken down for no discernible reason. I haven’t been into MOC building for years but that N-1 was one set I completely tore down straight after building to rebuild it into something smaller and sleeker.

I can understand concept art is not always easy to work with, especially when it comes to capturing a new ship’s silhouette and curvature, but I still think more effort could be put into these. I would love to see some of the Speed Champions designers take a crack at some Star Wars ships - especially the smaller starfighters.

Edited February 22 by Kaijumeister

[Alex_South]

1 hour ago, Kaijumeister said:

Yeah I thought Mando’s N-1 has been one of the worst LEGO sets in the theme. It’s unnecessarily large and captures practically none of the sleekness that made the source material so popular. It speaks to a wider issue within this theme especially where small and sleek ships are pointlessly large and overengineered, and large vehicles continue to be shrunken down for no discernible reason. I haven’t been into MOC building for years but that N-1 was one set I completely tore down straight after building to rebuild it into something smaller and sleeker.

I completely agree. This is why I am so curious to see if they are doing Anakin's Delta-7B again. I am still waiting for a designer to do that ship justice and I hope it gets a redesign. I would love for them to take another pass at the N-1 in a smaller scale. If they give it to another character who swaps the bubble for a normal astromech it would make down-scaling a lot easier. I wish they would let Hera and chopper fly it. They would be unstoppable. That N-1 is such a cool ship, it deserves to be in the Thrawn battle, but I do prefer Mando in the Razorcrest.

Edited February 22 by Alex_South

[avengers777]

I just realized that Mando has a new arm print... looks like he no longer has the whistling birds. Believe his right arm is exactly the same.

Edited February 22 by avengers777