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

[BrickPrick]

42 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I may never recover from this

I hope you actually do, though. The Eurobricks as I know it wouldn't be the same without you. 

But on a more serious note, given your seasoned passion as hardcore Lego Star Wars collector, wouldn't it have been awesome if the Smart Play sets at least featured a handful of new exciting minifigures... anything out of the ordinary? 

[Mandalorianknight]

9 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I still think the molded Rancor just looks better.

Well of course the CEO of Lego could always say no, but they're not going to say no... because of the implication.

The same thing happened to all the AT-AT's with bits of DBG until 2020.

Agree to disagree on that one, I just prefer anything that large to be made of bricks. Assumably there's got to be some cutoff- I doubt many people would want a $100 set that's just a giant molded Zillo Beast action figure.

Lego even has a character canonically named Frak, it all fits. This has all been leading to a Smart Brick UCS Paddy's Pub that plays the Dayman song.

They definitely do it for plenty of sets, I'm just not sure how they develop the criteria for what can be monochrome and what requires color variety in canonically monochrome sections. I assume the reason they do it at all is concern over kids getting mixed up/instruction clarity when building a primarily monochromatic build, but the fact that they do let monochromatic segments stay that way sometimes implies there's more criteria we aren't seeing.

14 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Aren‘t the Smart Bricks supposed to be pre-charged? I bought all 8 sets while I was in the US and they were not charged when I dumped everything into my suitcase

Lego says they have a 45 minute battery life- and that's optimistic, a lot of reviewers have reported theirs aren't performing to that level. If they got jostled it's entirely possible- not even in your bags but it could have happened when they were put on the shelf- I didn't buy any so I don't know how they're packaged, but they do have a tendency to read the light they generate as an input, so I could see them getting jostled on, then registering the light they generate as a new light input and cycling the refueling noise/light until they die.

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

They are not a great choice for BP remakes since they are a severely planet and timeframe locked unit.

If don’t want to run the risk of a Clone Wars Y-Wing until the other 3 Republic Starfighters retire. We are in desperate need of a villain starfighter of any sort as it is.

 

You sir are suffering from the Amidala effect (I looked through every single to Avenger post to make sure after you brought it up)

… That was the plan for Sunday. Damn you. I’ll have to postpone that one now.

Yeah they're pretty much the worst option for a legion aside from named characters, since they're limited to about three days and one planet- actually, one dome city, right, at least as far as actual battle goes?

Oh, obviously not a republic one, a rebel Y-wing. Figures could be Dex Tiree, a rebel astromech and then a Spacetrooper and/or Tarkin. I've got nothing against the republic Y-wing, but it's been about 10 years since the last rebel one. I feel the same way as about the 2025 MTT- it's not bad inherently but given how long it's been since the last set of the more iconic version, just do the more iconic version. And unlike the MTT, you could just do the other variant in a year or two anyway.

 

I'll trust the expert on this, maybe I was going to suggest it to you once and then forgot, or it was on my playlist while I was reading the forum.

No need to postpone it, if it works it works.

43 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I may never recover from this

The Smart Bricks are going to take over in your sleep, this is how Skynet starts.

2 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

But on a more serious note, given your seasoned passion as hardcore Lego Star Wars collector, wouldn't it have been awesome if the Smart Play sets at least featured a handful of new exciting minifigures... anything out of the ordinary? 

This is a very dangerous double-edged sword. They could get new exciting minifigures, but then you're condemned to the smart sets to get those exciting figures. Even for those with the resources to just buy every set, there's also the risk that some of the "new, exciting" figs have electrical coils shoved in their torsos and big "smart" symbols on the back with recyclability symbols on the sides.

[BrickPrick]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

This is a very dangerous double-edged sword. They could get new exciting minifigures, but then you're condemned to the smart sets to get those exciting figures. Even for those with the resources to just buy every set, there's also the risk that some of the "new, exciting" figs have electrical coils shoved in their torsos and big "smart" symbols on the back with recyclability symbols on the sides.

I totally get your point. Despite the fact that you would have added some much needed value to sets delivering deliberately disgusting deals, it could have done more harm than good. But given my passion for collecting these puny plastic puppets, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale, plus the fact I don't care neither for the set design nor the play functions, some interesting minifigures would have been the only way I actually bought any of those things on a massive discounts. Other than that, the aftermarket obviously is still an option. And of course, they could have easily been dumb figures. Otherwise, forget it. Let's say they added at least one brand new and exclusive Cantina character... I doubt that would have been a "smart" minifig, as these are more reserved for actual main characters. We can at the very least say that it wouldn't have been the dumbest idea on Lego's behalf from a mere business standpoint. But they immediately went full force with their test balloons this time around. 

 

Rancor preference? A magnificent mould. Much can be done with a brick-built approach by today's standards, yes. But there is this level of elegance and excellence coming from a mould that is next to impossible to replicate or resemble by bricks. Some say it's not Lego to them, but I respectfully disagree on this one. 

Edited March 14 by BrickPrick

[Black Falcon]

22 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Aren‘t the Smart Bricks supposed to be pre-charged? I bought all 8 sets while I was in the US and they were not charged when I dumped everything into my suitcase

17 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

I believe so, yes. (If I'm remembering the press release correctly)

It's not a good sign if they aren't doing what they're advertised as doing!

You have to activate them first by putting them on the charger. Which is very very likely, so they don´t get activated during their journey from production to your home ;)

[CloneCommando99]

323! 323! 323!

 

10 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Rancor preference? A magnificent mould. Much can be done with a brick-built approach by today's standards, yes. But there is this level of elegance and excellence coming from a mould that is next to impossible to replicate or resemble by bricks. Some say it's not Lego to them, but I respectfully disagree on this one. 

My philosophy is if it’s just a really tall humanoid on scale with Hutts and Hulks big figs are necessary. If it’s anything larger like a Rancor or Dragon it should probably be brick built. I know the moulds are cool but I personally don’t see the point of having action figure sized moulded figures in construction toy sets. A mixture of moulded and brick-built parts would be suitable for the Rancor.

 

I know it’s an abomination. But for some reason I can’t get the idea of Rotta ending up having a serpentine tail and Axle torso out of my head.

12 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I‘m a Sith Lord, remember?

But even Sith don’t aid the destruction of the entire galaxy.

 

Edited March 14 by CloneCommando99

[BrickPrick]

On 3/14/2026 at 2:09 PM, CloneCommando99 said:

My philosophy is if it’s just a really tall humanoid on scale with Hutts and Hulks big figs are necessary. If it’s anything larger like a Rancor or Dragon it should probably be brick built. I know the moulds are cool but I personally don’t see the point of having action figure sized moulded figures in construction toy sets. A mixture of moulded and brick-built parts would be suitable for the Rancor.

A mould x brick-built hybrid can definitely be effective as a sweet spot. It ultimately comes down to the same thing, though. At the end of the day the actual execution remains key. It's not that I necessarily think it has to be this or that. I may prefer some good old moulds, because I think they are asthetically pretty pleasing to the naked eye. But if Lego can pull off something similar for the Rancor in brick-built or aforementioned hybrid form, I wouldn't be opposed to that. I shared the same sentiment for the recent BS Dewback. I gave a possible brick-built version the benefit of the doubt. Of course, that was pre-reveal and before Lego obviously proved me otherwise. By the maker, is it a hideous little something beyond belief. 

No matter how you stand on the brick-built/mould debate for bigger creatures, I think we can all agree on paper that it would be welcoming to finally get another Rancor at all... even at first regardless of the form factor.

Edited March 16 by BrickPrick

[BrickBob Studpants]

I‘ve had sets with a duplicate sticker sheet or other weird extra parts like an additional Grogu head before, but this is new: in my copy of the Throne Room Duel, I got three cape boxes, each with all four capes!  Weird.

[CloneCommando99]

Day #324 of asking for a Lego TIE Avenger

59 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I‘ve had sets with a duplicate sticker sheet or other weird extra parts like an additional Grogu head before, but this is new: in my copy of the Throne Room Duel, I got three cape boxes, each with all four capes!  Weird.

Fortune favours the blasphemous I guess.

 

75458 is a June set. Yet we’ve heard nothing about it. Not even its content affiliation unlike all the other M&G sets. Weird.

[Mandalorianknight]

On 3/14/2026 at 9:09 AM, CloneCommando99 said:

My philosophy is if it’s just a really tall humanoid on scale with Hutts and Hulks big figs are necessary. If it’s anything larger like a Rancor or Dragon it should probably be brick built. I know the moulds are cool but I personally don’t see the point of having action figure sized moulded figures in construction toy sets. A mixture of moulded and brick-built parts would be suitable for the Rancor.

 

I know it’s an abomination. But for some reason I can’t get the idea of Rotta ending up having a serpentine tail and Axle torso out of my head.

I can understand both POVs on the Hutts, though I personally think at this point we have the technology, but when it comes to the larger creatures I agree brick built is the only way. I will never understand why someone would want a giant $20 chunk of plastic over, you know, being able to build the lego set you purchased. It's one of the reasons I never had much interest in the jurassic park theme, though that excellent brick-built spino is definitely tempting me (And also, IMO, proves my point that they can indeed pull off brick-built creatures with not only shaping just as good as the molded ones, but superior coloring.

I can see the vision. A vision I'd prefer either brick-built or jabba-style molds to, but a vision nonetheless.

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Day #324 of asking for a Lego TIE Avenger

 

Fortune favours the blasphemous I guess.
 

75458 is a June set. Yet we’ve heard nothing about it. Not even its content affiliation unlike all the other M&G sets. Weird.

Another happy meme landing. Hopefully the $70 set really is Pepe Silvia a TIE Avenger.

Fr. The most I get are misprinted heads or missing parts. I got the double wrecker armor once, but I think everybody did.

Do we know the price point?

 

 

I saw the cantina review, and it leaves me if anything more confused then ever. A few interesting bits:

1. The droid detector and Han/Greedo scenes have no smart integration. This seems very odd- why? Why go to the trouble of making a whole giant "smart" blender thing but you don't have smart integration for an iconic scene and one that actually would benefit from "smart" functionality (I.e. if it's in place and senses 3PO or R2's smart coils, it plays an alarm.)

2. The blender thing doesn't really work. I'm not entirely sure what the point was in the first place or why this needed to be a tile over the aforementioned features, but the execution unfortunately lacks regardless.

3. They actually DID get the cantina music! If you rapidly tap that area of the build when the brick is in place, it plays a facsimile of part of the song. This is I think the first smart function I've seen that really works as intended, and it works fairly well- provided you don't put a "smart" figure in front of it, as it'll make beeping noises that impact the music.

4. You can pet the dewback. I take everything I've said about that build in respects to either my MOC or the 2019 microfighter back. You can pet the dewback.

5. This is the only set to include covers for the smart elements. The boombox isn't really something that makes sense here and the fridge-sized blender just doesn't fit the scene regardless, so it's the set that benefits from covers the least, but hey, they are there. Which opens up the question as to why the other sets don't include them.

It seems like the best "Smart" set in general, just because unlike the others it'd be very easy to remove the "smart" bits and have just a competent enough playscale cantina for kids. I think the Falcon was overall executed better, but requires more work to actually make "dumb".

[BrickBob Studpants]

55 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

[…] though that excellent brick-built spino is definitely tempting me […]

That‘s funny, because I see that spino as proof for why moulded creatures are superior  In my mind, no brick-built Rancor could ever beat the awesome 2013 version.

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Fortune favours the blasphemous I guess.

It must, because for some reason I‘m getting everything I‘ve been asking for, and not just SW-wise  Maybe I should blaspheme some more to will our glorious TIE Avenger into existence! Umm, Mara Jade makes Grogu cry.

Edited March 15 by BrickBob Studpants

[Kaijumeister]

Count me in as someone who also prefers brick-built creatures past a certain size. A huge part of the value of a Lego set for me is the building experience itself. Huge moulded creatures are nice, but they just…exist for me I guess. Basically like action figures.

The caveat is brick-built creatures actually need to be good. It’s something the Lego Creator team excels at, they’re like the Speed Champions team but for living creatures. 

Back on topic, but has anyone else realised that outside of the Smart Play sets, not a single playscale set this year actually includes a lightsaber wielder? I suppose the Imperial Shuttle will give Gideon the darksaber but nonetheless, I find this genuinely bemusing.

[BrickPrick]

10 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I‘ve had sets with a duplicate sticker sheet or other weird extra parts like an additional Grogu head before, but this is new: in my copy of the Throne Room Duel, I got three cape boxes, each with all four capes!  Weird.

That's alright... you basically only got half the amount of capes you just mentioned by default. 

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

In my mind, no brick-built Rancor could ever beat the awesome 2013 version.

Yeah, this is basically where I'm at, too. Any approach can serve up a good solution, but not nearly everything has been actually good in execution. I saw a lot of terrible or at least subpar Lego brick-built creatures. But I rarely, if ever, saw a terrible moulded monster by TLG. So yeah, I'm inclined to go with the better track record. 

 

I have it on good authority that if set 75458 isn't turning out to be an actual TIE Avenger, @CloneCommando99 intends to storm Lego HQ when they least expect it. Unless there happens to be a lot of stairs. He doesn't like those. Because they're always up to something. 

Edited March 16 by BrickPrick

[Darth_Bane13]

6 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

 In my mind, no brick-built Rancor could ever beat the awesome 2013 version.

Yeah this is why I'm fine with a molded Rancor because the one we got was already perfect. If it aint broke, don't fix it kind of thing. I see people bring up the fact that they wont get to build it, if it's molded; so you miss out on what? 15 minutes of build time?

[Mandalorianknight]

6 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Count me in as someone who also prefers brick-built creatures past a certain size. A huge part of the value of a Lego set for me is the building experience itself. Huge moulded creatures are nice, but they just…exist for me I guess. Basically like action figures.

The caveat is brick-built creatures actually need to be good. It’s something the Lego Creator team excels at, they’re like the Speed Champions team but for living creatures. 

Back on topic, but has anyone else realised that outside of the Smart Play sets, not a single playscale set this year actually includes a lightsaber wielder? I suppose the Imperial Shuttle will give Gideon the darksaber but nonetheless, I find this genuinely bemusing.

Yeah, exactly. If someone wants a super-accurate rancor, just buy a rancor action figure or statue. In the lego set, the rancor should be made of lego bricks- and not a 53g chunk of plastic that can't ever be used for anything else.

Yeah- nobody's arguing that we need more Smart Dewbacks, but the fact is a lot of creatures around that size or larger CAN be done accurately with lego bricks. 

This is the "no OT imperial troopers in retail sets for the first time (either ever or in 25 years depending on your definition)" of this year, and it might honestly be worse. The Jedi and Sith are a pretty big part of the franchise, it is crazy that if there's no august wave there may not be any of them in normal old, "dumb" sets for the first time in theme history.

7 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

It must, because for some reason I‘m getting everything I‘ve been asking for, and not just SW-wise  Maybe I should blaspheme some more to will our glorious TIE Avenger into existence! Umm, Mara Jade makes Grogu cry.

She does, because Grogu knows no matter how good his movie is it'll never match her introductory trilogy of books.

1 hour ago, BrickPrick said:

I have it on good authority that if set 75458 isn't turning out to be an actual TIE Avenger, @CloneCommando99 intends to storm Lego HQ when they least expect it. Unless there happens to be a lot of stairs. He doesn't like those. Because they're always up to something. 

Not unexpected- it was a little too early to be one if lego decided to make it after Andor launched.

10 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Yeah this is why I'm fine with a molded Rancor because the one we got was already perfect. If it aint broke, don't fix it kind of thing. I see people bring up the fact that they wont get to build it, if it's molded; so you miss out on what? 15 minutes of build time?

Clearly the issue isn't build time- otherwise people would be saying we should get molded BARCs, AT-RTs, speeder bikes, Luke's Landspeeder, STAPs, and anything else that takes under 15 minutes to build. The issue is that when I buy a lego set, I'm buying a building set, not an action figure. The rancor's main body part alone- a single piece- weighs almost as much as your average polybag, and is significantly larger. 

It's just the idea, like with some of the complaints about clone figure detail level, that these are construction sets, not action figures. Something the size of a rancor should not be a giant chunk of plastic and a few special limb molds with ~8 pieces slapped on. 

Another aspect is articulation- the rancor plastic chunk had no leg articulation whatsoever and was locked in the same pose in that respect. The Dewbacks are even worse, with one singular point of articulation in the jaw and nothing else. Brick-built models can actually articulate- even the undersized microfighter dewback could move it's neck and tail.

[BrickPrick]

19 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Not unexpected- it was a little too early to be one if lego decided to make it after Andor launched.

I'm usually the type of guy who used to get this a lot, but now I'm gonna reverse it up: you must be fun at parties. 

What timeframe do you exactly refer to? Andor launched in April 2025. There's at least a chance a potential TIE Avenger set can happen this June. Are you saying that's a little too early? Or what wave beforehand was? In any case, we know there have been extremely short production cycles for specific sets. The N-1 Starfighter comes to mind. But that's probably a different beast considering it's based on Mando/TBOBF alone and was still released in the same year the show did. 

All I'm saying is @CloneCommando99 will strike the beast's belly when it least expects it. Which could be anytime... really. 

Edited March 16 by BrickPrick

[Kaijumeister]

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yeah- nobody's arguing that we need more Smart Dewbacks, but the fact is a lot of creatures around that size or larger CAN be done accurately with lego bricks. 

This is the "no OT imperial troopers in retail sets for the first time (either ever or in 25 years depending on your definition)" of this year, and it might honestly be worse. The Jedi and Sith are a pretty big part of the franchise, it is crazy that if there's no august wave there may not be any of them in normal old, "dumb" sets for the first time in theme history.

Exactly. This leads me to wonder how much Lego encourage cross-pollination of design talent across its themes based on where certain teams excel. For instance, I think one of the Speed Champions Team was moved to the City line (after which the quality of City vehicle builds has improved dramatically). Similarly one of the Creator designers worked on this January’s buildable Iron Man, which is probably considered the best buildable figure (and an all round phenomenal set) to date.

I’d be interested to see some of that in Star Wars too, especially for smaller vehicle builds and creature builds. It’d be fascinating seeing the design thinking behind Speed Champions builds applied to Jedi Starfighters for example, or having the Creator designers take a stab at a Dewback, Rancor, Bantha, Varactyl (Boga), etc.

And yeah man I totally agree. You can argue that representing certain eras or ‘content’ in Lego Star Wars, as important as that is, is secondary to covering the basic play patterns that the franchise is known for, I.e., ships, creatures, lightsaber fights, blaster battles, and I guess to a far lesser extent (unfortunately) locations too. When you start overlooking these core aspects of the theme, that’s when you know there’s a disproportionate focus.

Edited March 16 by Kaijumeister

[MKJoshA]

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yeah, exactly. If someone wants a super-accurate rancor, just buy a rancor action figure or statue. In the lego set, the rancor should be made of lego bricks- and not a 53g chunk of plastic that can't ever be used for anything else.

I beg to differ. I used three arms for my bonsai tree:

That said, I love my molded Rancor but would love to see a well built brick Rancor and brick built Hutt. Both molds are great, but I think certain Lego designers could achieve a similar level of greatness out of bricks.

[Darth_Bane13]

12 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Clearly the issue isn't build time- otherwise people would be saying we should get molded BARCs, AT-RTs, speeder bikes, Luke's Landspeeder, STAPs, and anything else that takes under 15 minutes to build. The issue is that when I buy a lego set, I'm buying a building set, not an action figure. The rancor's main body part alone- a single piece- weighs almost as much as your average polybag, and is significantly larger. 

It's just the idea, like with some of the complaints about clone figure detail level, that these are construction sets, not action figures. Something the size of a rancor should not be a giant chunk of plastic and a few special limb molds with ~8 pieces slapped on. 

Another aspect is articulation- the rancor plastic chunk had no leg articulation whatsoever and was locked in the same pose in that respect. The Dewbacks are even worse, with one singular point of articulation in the jaw and nothing else. Brick-built models can actually articulate- even the undersized microfighter dewback could move it's neck and tail.

I think there are good arguments in favor of brick built. I just personally don't have a problem with the molded one we got and would have had fun playing with it as a kid. I had the Tauntaun and Wampa as a kid and I thought they were really cool. I wouldn't be opposed to a brick built Rancor if it looked good though.

[Shiva]

On 2/26/2026 at 10:42 PM, BrickPrick said:

Having watched all of the BS sets reviews by now, despite a fair few bright design spots here and there, this thing is an absolute disgrace to the Lego Star Wars theme as a whole. Seeing everything in action only strengthened my stance of the compatible sets resulting in a lose-lose situation. Pay less but see it be too comprimsed and weak to stand on their own. Or pay much more for just a little bit added value. 

And by the maker, not enough the voices and sound effects do not even remotely resemble anything Star Wars, on top of that, the sound quality is so out-of-this-world terrible it's embarrassing to even release something on this low level to begin with. I mean, Yoda sounds like a vomiting ape and Wicket sounds like a drunken parrot or something.

It may be a good thing the actual BS experience only lasts half an hour. As I have a tough time imagining any kid would want to play for much longer in the first place. It's not that I'm clearly not the intended target audience for amy of this stuff. No, there are simply put just next to no redeeming qualities at play here. 

Anyways, for anyone's viewing pleasure: 

 

Ahh, Smart play? I'll pass those. Maybe some will like those?

 

That LEGO 75447 Star Wars: The Razor Crest set is quite swooshable.

Looks better than the 75292 Razor Crest, in my opinion. And similar price to what 75292 could have had now.

A bit too expensive? Yes.

[Kaijumeister]

New Shadow Lord trailer just dropped. Seems like a huge missed opportunity not to allocate at least one set to this and release it alongside the show 

[CloneCommando99]

20 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Back on topic, but has anyone else realised that outside of the Smart Play sets, not a single playscale set this year actually includes a lightsaber wielder? I suppose the Imperial Shuttle will give Gideon the darksaber but nonetheless, I find this genuinely bemusing.

Damn. Odd choice in a year where the founder of the double lightsaber and participant in one of the most beloved lightsaber duels is getting his own show.

 

New Maul Shadowlord trailer has now released. The animation is gorgeous. And yet again: why couldn’t it have been TK Troopers in the January BP? The new walker seems to be very prevalent. 
 

8 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

All I'm saying is @CloneCommando99 will strike the beast's belly when it least expects it. Which could be anytime... really. 

1807! It was me Barry!! I was the admiral who bombarded Copenhagen!!!! (Day #225 of trying anything to get a TIE Avenger)

22 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Hopefully the $70 set really is Pepe Silvia a TIE Avenger.

Do we know the price point?

It’s the next $70 set 

Smart Play has really screwed this year’s allocation of sets up huh.

10 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

New Shadow Lord trailer just dropped. Seems like a huge missed opportunity not to allocate at least one set to this and release it alongside the show 

Looks like Lego’s going to go 2 for 2 on severely missed series opportunities. 
 

Can we please just get some of the Ninjago guys? They evidently put a lot of thought into balancing. (Look how evenly spread the Ninja are in each wave)

Edited March 16 by CloneCommando99

[Mandalorianknight]

9 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

I'm usually the type of guy who used to get this a lot, but now I'm gonna reverse it up: you must be fun at parties. 

What timeframe do you exactly refer to? Andor launched in April 2025. There's at least a change a potential TIE Avenger set can happen this June. Are you saying that's a little too early? Or what wave beforehand was? In any case, we know there have been extremely short production cycles for specific sets. The N-1 Starfighter comes to mind. But that's probably a different beast considering it's based on Mando/TBOBF alone and was still released in the same year the show did. 

We can reasonably assume it takes roughly 1.5 years for lego to produce a standard playscale system set. This is evidence by things like the No Way Home set, which we can assume they were speeding to production ASAP, or the Mando sets actually kicking into high gear in summer 2021 (1.5 years after the tail end of 2019). In Mando's case, the Crest was already in production and simply retooled to include baby yoda- you can actually see this in a promo video where 99% of the crest is ready but there's a little 3-D printed baby yoda- and they rushed a brickheadz out only ~9 months after seeing Baby Yoda, but it's reasonable to think brickheadz are easier to produce than normal sets.

If the Avenger wasn't in the works before the show released, the earliest lego could get it out would likely be 1.5 years later, so at the start of 2027. As a counterbalance, if they had planned the avenger from the start, it would be odd for them to release it a year after the show- it's not exactly a spoiler set.

6 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Exactly. This leads me to wonder how much Lego encourage cross-pollination of design talent across its themes based on where certain teams excel. For instance, I think one of the Speed Champions Team was moved to the City line (after which the quality of City vehicle builds has improved dramatically). Similarly one of the Creator designers worked on this January’s buildable Iron Man, which is probably considered the best buildable figure (and an all round phenomenal set) to date.

I’d be interested to see some of that in Star Wars too, especially for smaller vehicle builds and creature builds. It’d be fascinating seeing the design thinking behind Speed Champions builds applied to Jedi Starfighters for example, or having the Creator designers take a stab at a Dewback, Rancor, Bantha, Varactyl (Boga), etc.

And yeah man I totally agree. You can argue that representing certain eras or ‘content’ in Lego Star Wars, as important as that is, is secondary to covering the basic play patterns that the franchise is known for, I.e., ships, creatures, lightsaber fights, blaster battles, and I guess to a far lesser extent (unfortunately) locations too. When you start overlooking these core aspects of the theme, that’s when you know there’s a disproportionate focus.

They do a thing with their interns where they spend one week on a different theme than their assigned one, I would hope the designers have some motion between themes as well. I know there's one guy, I think it's Adam Grabowski, who's the "car guy" for a lot of licensed themes, so other designers will ask him to do the car side build in their sets.

If we could get the Speed Champions guys on the ETA-2..... Though with some of the larger creatures I honestly don't think you even NEED the creator guys, they're awesome but respectfully the dewback really isn't even that hard to make brick-built. The two we've gotten are just a lot smaller than the molded one for some reason- if you emulate the size of that part you can make a really solid one that's got about the same shaping as the mold but can actually articulate.

Yeah- a year without "dumb" jedi and sith is legitimately absurd. I really hope that there is an august wave with some of those sets from the list where "a lot" of them are 2027- Anakin and potentially Dooku could make sure we have a jedi and sith this year.

4 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

I beg to differ. I used three arms for my bonsai tree:

That said, I love my molded Rancor but would love to see a well built brick Rancor and brick built Hutt. Both molds are great, but I think certain Lego designers could achieve a similar level of greatness out of bricks.

Aha! I specifically referenced the 53g body rather than the arms because I knew someone like you would find a way to use them. (The arm/leg pieces in general I don't have as much of an issue with as they're often too thin to properly brick-build unless you want grey mixel joints showing- though I think in the rancor's case they can pull off brick-built ones- in which case we would also gain elbow articulation)

Yup- neither mold is bad or anything but I think especially in 2026, lego has the pieces availible to make a good looking brick-built one.

3 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I think there are good arguments in favor of brick built. I just personally don't have a problem with the molded one we got and would have had fun playing with it as a kid. I had the Tauntaun and Wampa as a kid and I thought they were really cool. I wouldn't be opposed to a brick built Rancor if it looked good though.

Oh, yeah, I think the ones we had look cool and would be fun for kids to play with, I just think they can be done brick-built, and my philosophy is if it can be done well brick-built, there's not much reason for a big specialty mold.

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

1807! It was me Barry!! I was the admiral who bombarded Copenhagen!!!! (Day #225 of trying anything to get a TIE Avenger)

It’s the next $70 set 
Smart Play has really screwed this year’s allocation of sets up huh.

Immortality/time travel/long life is a new addition to the Clone Commando Lore

Unless the august wave is real, yeah, it really has.

[Brickify]

Soo after seeing that new trailer I definitely want that AT-AC 

Edited March 17 by Brickify

[ArrowBricks]

18 minutes ago, Brickify said:

Soo after seeing that new trailer I definitely want that AT-AC 

Been wanting it for years since seeing it in Bad Batch. 
 

Any ideas everyone when we might see May pictures? Assuming and of this month. 

[CloneCommando99]

23 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Immortality/time travel/long life is a new addition to the Clone Commando Lore

Unless the august wave is real, yeah, it really has.

I can go wherever/ whenever the plot (of the TIE Avenger campaign) demands. (#326)

A hypothetical August wave should include:

1. Imperial Remnant BP (M&G)
2. AT AC (Shadow Lord)
3. Jedi Starfighter
4. Clone set 
5. TIE Avenger
6. Hutt Starfighter (M&G)

But Lego will not because I guess Mando must have all the sets.

23 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

If we could get the Speed Champions guys on the ETA-2..... Though with some of the larger creatures I honestly don't think you even NEED the creator guys, they're awesome but respectfully the dewback really isn't even that hard to make brick-built. The two we've gotten are just a lot smaller than the molded one for some reason- if you emulate the size of that part you can make a really solid one that's got about the same shaping as the mold but can actually articulate.

You’ll get a Luke’s Landspeeder and you’ll like it!!

 

Wait, what if they get the Speed Champion guys on the AOTC Bounty Hunter Pursuit next year? That’d be fire.

34 minutes ago, Brickify said:

Soo after seeing that new trailer I definitely want that AT-AC 

Wholeheartedly agreed