Future Star Wars Sets

[MAB]

The Nebulon-B Frigate 77904 sure looks nice and is done quite well at that scale. Probably going to be another one to bricklink rather than try to buy boxed.

 

[Paul11283652]

2 hours ago, TeddytheSpoon said:

Technically the UCS Falcon is from the sequels as you can swap out the sensor dish. 

I agree that it would probably be Kylo Ren-related. Since his shuttle lasted more than one movie I would say that's the most likely, but his TIEs would also look great.

The problem is the sequels don't really have any unique ship designs that are also iconic enough to be UCS sets. There's plenty I'd like to see - Rey's speeder, the Resistance bomber, the Sith ship they find on Pasaana (can't remember the former pilot's name...), even the Quadjumper. I can't see those being popular enough with the masses to warrant LEGO making a UCS set.

I would be very surprised if the first sequel UCS was not a T-70 X-wing. I agree that Ren’s shuttle would also be a good option however. There’s plenty of prequel era vehicles to be made first anyway.

[TeddytheSpoon]

4 minutes ago, Paul11283652 said:

I would be very surprised if the first sequel UCS was not a T-70 X-wing. I agree that Ren’s shuttle would also be a good option however. There’s plenty of prequel era vehicles to be made first anyway.

I was wondering about the X-wings actually, initially I thought if they were going to make an X-wing it would be an OT one since they would (probably) sell better. That said, if it were Poe's black and orange one I think that would do pretty well; even if it got destroyed in TLJ I feel like that's the one that everyone associates with Poe and the sequels. And it would look awesome. So you could be right.

Edited October 1, 2020 by TeddytheSpoon

[Legoman123]

Anyone think we’ll ever see an UCS/MBS Jedi Temple? Personally it amazes me that we still don’t have one yet given it was such an iconic and used building in the first 3 movies.  

[ArrowBricks]

On 10/1/2020 at 6:30 PM, Legoman123 said:

Anyone think we’ll ever see an UCS/MBS Jedi Temple? Personally it amazes me that we still don’t have one yet given it was such an iconic and used building in the first 3 movies.  

I think it will be a set at some point - hardly any UCS sets are from the Prequel era. With the Gunship hopefully the trend starts shifting. There’s still 5 years of UCS sets I reckon based on the OT they could do. 

[wesker]

Only thing holding back the Jedi Temple is that MBS sets tend to come out every 2 years and there's still a few OT locations that are likely to come first. Could be a while before we see one made.

[ArrowBricks]

What makes a good Lego Star Wars wave? (Would love responses) 
 

Anyway looking at the 2014 and 2015 Winter waves I was amazed to see they had 12-13 sets released. Lego should have done that this year especially with the Clone Wars. Here’s my ideas: 

Anaxes Clone Troopers (Red + Grey Barc Speeder) £12.99: 212th Clone Trooper (x2), Mace Windu Clone Trooper (x2)

Mandalore Forces 2v2 Battle Pack (Red + Black Mandalorian Speeder, Blue and Grey turret) £12.99: Nite Owl Mandalorian (x2), Mandalorian Super Commando (x2)

Imperial Remnant Troopers (White Speeder bike, E-Web turret- or something similar seen in last episodes of Mandalorian) £12.99: Stormtrooper (x2), Scout Trooper, Incinerator Trooper 

Resistance Troopers (New speeder, Command station) £12.99: Ovissian Gunner, Caphex Spy, Human Resistance Soldier (x2)

Ahsoka’s Speeder Bike w/Loadlifter £24.99: Ahsoka Tano, Trace Martez 

Obi-Wans Blue Jedi Interceptor £24.99: Obi-Wan Kenobi, R4-G9

Babu Frik’s Workshop £24.99: Babu Frik, Sith C3-PO, Rey (new torso)

Pyke Patrol Ship £49.99: Marg Krim, Rafa Martez, Pyke Syndicate Pilot

Separatist Tri-Droid £54.99: Anakin Skywalker, Commander Cody, Super Tactical Droid, Battle Droid (x2)

Yellow Republic Y-Wing Starfighter £64.99: Yellow Clone Pilot, Mace Windu, Clone Flight Crewman, Astromech Droid 

Moff Gideon’s Outland Tie Fighter £69.99: Moff Gideon, Beskar Mandalorian, Death Trooper, The Child

Mandalorian Gauntlet Fighter £74.99 : Darth Maul, Governor Almec, Rook Kast

[Mandalorianknight]

21 hours ago, wesker said:

Only thing holding back the Jedi Temple is that MBS sets tend to come out every 2 years and there's still a few OT locations that are likely to come first. Could be a while before we see one made.

Not only that, but the temple itself has a problem. Usually these sets have action features and tons of iconic rooms. With the temple, there are only three rooms that are somewhat iconic; the council chambers, the library. and the youngling training room, which is really just an empty room. (there's the briefing room and medbay from clone wars, too, but the medbay is super obscure and even with the briefing room, that's three areas. So, there aren't really many iconic rooms, and no action scenes. You might think this could be solved by adding that main hallway area with the statues and stuff from operation knightfall, but I guarantee lego will avoid that area due to, uh, genocide of children being it's most prominent scene. So you end up with 2-3 iconic rooms and no rooms with action scenes, and no conflict in general without going way darker than lego will ever go.

IMO, we should get these instead:

Temple library ($29.99): holocron shelves, table, some of the lost twenty busts. Probably a sliding door, lego loves sliding doors in SW playsets. Figures: Obi-wan (episode 2 with old luke's hair in dark orange), Jocasta nu, youngling (with youngling training helmet).

jedi Council ($49.99): council chambers with sliding door at one end. Comes with anakin, Obi-wan, Yoda, Plo Koon, Mace Windu, and Oppo Rancisis.

9 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

What makes a good Lego Star Wars wave? (Would love responses) 

Objectively:

Balance between trilogies/eras, skewed to new releases (I.e. if the mandalorian season 2 comes out a few months before/after the wave, mandalorian sets will be a plurality.)

Battle packs with mainly army-building figures, microfighters of iconic ships with iconic characters or desirable variants.

Playsets included as well, not just vehicles.

Subjectively:

Balance between trilogies, with a slight OT plurality.

battle packs with 3 generic soldiers and a specialist or officer, microfighters that provide new variants.

At some point some OT capital ships, c'mon we need something besides a star destroyer at some point!

If it could be whatever I wanted:

Rebel fleet trooper and stormtrooper battle packs, as well as a pack with 2 clone shinies, a 212th and coruscant guard, and a pack with the resistance aliens (caphex spy, ovissian gunner) from battlefront 2.

Another U-wing, an MC-80, an arquitens or quasar-fire, more endor sets and a venator.

a $2,000 life sized UCS gonk droid.

Edited October 4, 2020 by Mandalorianknight

[ArrowBricks]

On 10/4/2020 at 11:51 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

Objectively:

Balance between trilogies/eras, skewed to new releases (I.e. if the mandalorian season 2 comes out a few months before/after the wave, mandalorian sets will be a plurality.)

Battle packs with mainly army-building figures, microfighters of iconic ships with iconic characters or desirable variants.

Playsets included as well, not just vehicles.

Subjectively:

Balance between trilogies, with a slight OT plurality.

battle packs with 3 generic soldiers and a specialist or officer, microfighters that provide new variants.

At some point some OT capital ships, c'mon we need something besides a star destroyer at some point!

If it could be whatever I wanted:

Rebel fleet trooper and stormtrooper battle packs, as well as a pack with 2 clone shinies, a 212th and coruscant guard, and a pack with the resistance aliens (caphex spy, ovissian gunner) from battlefront 2.

Another U-wing, an MC-80, an arquitens or quasar-fire, more endor sets and a venator.

a $2,000 life sized UCS gonk droid.

Interesting, cheers. I actually think balanced waves are the issue imo. It ends up trying to include the main characters and ships of each era, rather than provide interesting and unique sets and figures, constantly each year. Hence, imo, what makes good waves are the one’s that are heavy-leaning in a particular era, with then a 2/3 sets from accompanying eras. By rotating the plurality of a specific era for each wave I think the scope of sets we would get increases for each era; whilst the OT may not get as many sets consistently as it does now, it will eventually get a wave that has many of the sets from it in one go which crucially go beyond the standard ships they release each year (thus different Minifigures as can’t just have loads of sets with Luke all the time). I hope that makes sense! 

[TeddytheSpoon]

An idea prompted by @Redroe - what other microfighter beasts could we see? So far we've had a Dewback and a Bantha, and we're getting a Tauntaun next year. Since they're double packs, I've tried to keep them to one named character and one 'generic' character. Some are more far-fetched than others...

The obvious one is Boga vs Wheelbike. I'm not sure they'd put Grievous and Obi-Wan in a set this small (though stranger things have happened) so maybe swap him for a magnaguard or B2 battle droid.

Kaadu vs MTT - Captain Tarpals or Jar-Jar and a pilot droid. This one would also be high on my 'want' list out of all of these.

Bongo vs Gooberfish - Jar-Jar and... a B1 battle droid, I guess? To be honest I just want to see a gooberfish, and it could be a funny alternative to the above.

Reek vs Acklay - two for the price of one! AotC Obi-Wan and a Geonosian. Obi could be swapped out for Anakin or Padmé.

Zillobeast vs Gunship - probably zero chance of this one happening, but it was the first animal that came to mind when I thought of TCW. A Dug and a Clone pilot.

Rancor vs Skiff/Sailbarge - the rancor trainer (I should know his name as I literally just read the Aftermath books...) and Lando in his Skiff disguise. Lots of brown pieces in this one.

Rathtar vs Erevana - Guavian Death Gang member and TFA Han. Like the gooberfish, the idea of a Rathtar microfighter is quite funny to me.

Fathier vs Canto Bight Police Speeder - Rose Tico and Canto Bight Policeman.

Orbak vs Sith Star Destroyer - Jannah and a Sith Trooper. I thought I'd be scraping the bottom of the barrel with the sequel ones but I think this one especially would be pretty neat.

EDIT thought of another one, from Rebels this time - Lothwolf vs TIE Defender. Ezra and a TIE pilot. Lothwolf could be swapped for the weird spacefaring whales but I thought a Lothwolf was a bit more memorable. As with the Zillobeast, chances slim to none.

Edited October 6, 2020 by TeddytheSpoon

[icm]

Wampa vs Snowspeeder, Luke and Snowspeeder Pilot.

Space Slug vs Millennium Falcon, Princess Leia and TIE Fighter Pilot.

[TeddytheSpoon]

1 minute ago, icm said:

Wampa vs Snowspeeder, Luke and Snowspeeder Pilot.

Space Slug vs Millennium Falcon, Princess Leia and TIE Fighter Pilot.

Of course! How did I forget the Wampa?! Great shout.

I did consider the Space Slug... I did wonder if they would make the whole thing or have it coming out of its hole.

[icm]

There are a number of reasons that Space Slug vs Millennium Falcon wouldn't work very well, the landscape being one of them.  It just came to mind because the Space Slug is one of the large iconic beasts of Star Wars, whatever else it may be. I would much rather see Fathier vs Canto Bight Speeder, Boga vs Wheelbike, or Reek vs Acklay.

Edited October 6, 2020 by icm

[Redroe]

On 10/4/2020 at 11:51 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

Not only that, but the temple itself has a problem. Usually these sets have action features and tons of iconic rooms. With the temple, there are only three rooms that are somewhat iconic; the council chambers, the library. and the youngling training room, which is really just an empty room. (there's the briefing room and medbay from clone wars, too, but the medbay is super obscure and even with the briefing room, that's three areas. So, there aren't really many iconic rooms, and no action scenes. You might think this could be solved by adding that main hallway area with the statues and stuff from operation knightfall, but I guarantee lego will avoid that area due to, uh, genocide of children being it's most prominent scene. So you end up with 2-3 iconic rooms and no rooms with action scenes, and no conflict in general without going way darker than lego will ever go.

IMO, we should get these instead:

Temple library ($29.99): holocron shelves, table, some of the lost twenty busts. Probably a sliding door, lego loves sliding doors in SW playsets. Figures: Obi-wan (episode 2 with old luke's hair in dark orange), Jocasta nu, youngling (with youngling training helmet).

jedi Council ($49.99): council chambers with sliding door at one end. Comes with anakin, Obi-wan, Yoda, Plo Koon, Mace Windu, and Oppo Rancisis.

'Iconic' is an overused word when it comes to SW i think. Nothing about the temple is iconic other than the outside and arguably the council room. Cloud city as a set includes a ton of stuff that isn't really iconic but is there for the amusement of fans who register extreme detail and little architectural flourishes and that's where a Jedi Temple would be perfect. The rooms inside don't have to be exact representations, it can ve more like the Death Star with suggestions of the different locations. I did a plan of a JT MOC some time ago but will probably never build it. I clocked:

Ground floor: Library, doorway to entrance steps, little comms room and security recording area.

First floor ( sort of extended balcony): walkway with detail like AotC where Mace and Yoda put Obi wan in his place. Half a council chamber. A window like in RotS and commonly shown in CW. 

Details that can be thrown in anywhere, like lamps, Statues etc will evoke the location in the minds of fans wuthout being truly faithfully located relative to the film.

[Redroe]

On 10/6/2020 at 11:34 PM, TeddytheSpoon said:

Fathier vs Canto Bight Police Speeder - Rose Tico and Canto Bight Policeman.

Orbak vs Sith Star Destroyer - Jannah and a Sith Trooper. I thought I'd be scraping the bottom of the barrel with the sequel ones but I think this one especially would be pretty 

But then I'd have to acknowledge that TLJ and TROS exist and I think it's too soon. 

What about Quadjumper and Luggabeast. My two fave sequel things.

[Redroe]

On 10/1/2020 at 11:33 AM, TeddytheSpoon said:

even the Quadjumper

The very thought of a UCS quadjumper makes me shiver with glee.

[TeddytheSpoon]

5 hours ago, Redroe said:

But then I'd have to acknowledge that TLJ and TROS exist and I think it's too soon. 

What about Quadjumper and Luggabeast. My two fave sequel things.

Good shout! I couldn't think of any beasts from TFA other than the Rathtar, but that's a much a better idea. And as you said, anything Quadjumper related I'm all for. 

[ArrowBricks]

What do we really expect this summer to look like?

I know it’s super early but I’ve never been less inspired by a wave than this winter 2021 list...

If Lego have committed to these smaller models it could be a run of repeats...please no Lego.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

What do we really expect this summer to look like?

I know it’s super early but I’ve never been less inspired by a wave than this winter 2021 list...

If Lego have committed to these smaller models it could be a run of repeats...please no Lego.

It's about a 50/50 shot as to whether or not we'll get a new wave of these cheaper models, IMO. They seem to have gone all-in for this wave but they might want to wait to see how well they do before making more. That said, on the issue of them being repeats, "Oh, I don't think so." They've done the hexagonal TIE, X-wing, and imperial shuttle this wave, so the odds are nearly 100% that we won't see similar vehicles next wave. I think it's possible we could see these smaller styles for ships from the sequels and prequels (The ARC-170 and TIE silencer would both be done very well at a smaller scale IMO, and a $15-20 Vulture sounds nice.)

On 10/8/2020 at 6:43 AM, Redroe said:

'Iconic' is an overused word when it comes to SW i think. Nothing about the temple is iconic other than the outside and arguably the council room. Cloud city as a set includes a ton of stuff that isn't really iconic but is there for the amusement of fans who register extreme detail and little architectural flourishes and that's where a Jedi Temple would be perfect. The rooms inside don't have to be exact representations, it can ve more like the Death Star with suggestions of the different locations.

You see, that's the problem. Only the exterior and one room are really iconic, and even then it's not nearly the level of the death star, or cloud city (at least, the "No, I am your father" scene, which is arguably the single most iconic movie scene in history). The other big problem with an MBS jedi temple is that unless it was super expensive, it would have to be more like the death star or cloud city to work, not a full exterior like the cantina. So then you're relying on the iconicity of the interior, and the only thing there is the council room. IMO they should just do a council room 18+ set for say, $80, in the style of the I am your father set.

Jedi Council (18+, $79.99): Jedi council room comprised of the floor, seats, and the wall behind the seats. Comes with Anakin, Obi-wan, Yoda, Mace Windu, Plo Koon (new head mold), Kit Fisto (new head mold), Shaak Ti, and Coleman Kcaj. Trans-light blue builds have holograms of Stass Allie, Agen Kolar, Sasee Tin, and Ki-Adi Mundi included as stickers. 

 

As for a summer wave, I'll do it as if it were a normal summer wave, with the exception of battle packs being added. Last summer wave had 8 sets ranging from $30-160, so adding battlepacks in that's 10 sets. I will attempt to spread them out to every era, it appears the OT has more but that's because it's including the Mandalorian, Squadrons, and Rogue one. There are Two TIEs, but I thought it would be acceptable given how different the reaper is from a standard TIE.

Imperial remnant battle pack ($14.99): two remnant stormtroopers, a scout trooper and a incinerator stormtrooper with flamethrower. Comes with a grey imperial speeder bike and a small bit of terrain with room to place a stud shooter.

Siege of mandalore battle pack ($14.99): Comes with 2 death watch mandalorians and 2 mandalorians. build is a small bit of the mandalore sewers with an explode feature and small launcher-type thing to make the mandalorians "fly"

Speeder Bikes ($29.99): 2 speeder bikes, a tree build with a small ewok catapult on it, and a build of some terrain like a fallen trunk and some ferns (where Leia meets Wicket). Comes with Endor Leia, Endor Luke, a scout trooper, and Wicket.

The Emperor Reborn ($39.99): Comes with the Sith Throne, Ommin Harness, and some minor details like the jar of snokes. Comes with palpatine (ommin harness-reliant), Palpatine (reborn), Ben solo, and Rey Skywalker.

Battle of geonosis ($59.99): more accurately sized Hailfire Droid, BARC speeder and some terrain. Comes with 2x clone trooper, 1x clone captain, 1x clone seargent, and 2x geonosis battle droid.

TIE outlander ($69.99): TIE outlander with Moff Gideon (darksaber), the mandalorian (beskar, jetpack), greef Karga (season 2), a Mortar Stormtrooper, and some character from season 2 we haven't seen yet.

TIE reaper ($79.99): TIE reaper with TIE pilot, Coastal defender pilot, 2x death troopers, Terisa Kerrill, and Director Krennic.

U-wing ($89.99): Vanguard squadron colors, slightly bigger cockpit/underside and more accurate wings. Comes with 2 U-wing Pilots (one of which is Gunni), 2 scarif rebel troopers, Lindon Javes and Mon Mothma.

AT-TE ($109.99): AT-TE with dwarf spider droid sidebuild. comes with 3x clone trooper, clone commander, clone lieutenant, 2x super battle droid, count dooku and yoda.

Sith Star Destroyer($149.99): Final Order Star Destroyer with interior bridge, armory, hologram room, Figures are 2x final order crew, 2x final order officer, 2x sith trooper, general Pryde, Finn, Jannah, and Beaumont Kin.

[Redroe]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

You see, that's the problem. Only the exterior and one room are really iconic, and even then it's not nearly the level of the death star, or cloud city (

It is a problem but it's not a deal breaker. No one can pretend that the Death star or Cloud City or to a lesser extent sets like Jabba's Palace are source-material-accurate with the layout of their interiors, but they get the point across with a hugely recognisable shape/exterior, and detailed insides that evoke the location more than painstakingly recreate it. 

Well, I now have no choice but to build my long-gestating temple Moc and prove my point. Dammit Mando!

My big question on the summer wave is how much they double down on the new, scaled back approach because if they do, we will see remakes for years to come.  The upcoming Mando set will be the acid test. Are the new sets supposed to sit alongside continuing big detailed stuff as their own little subset, or do they replace it altogether and restart the line from the ground up?

9 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

What do we really expect this summer to look like?

I know it’s super early but I’ve never been less inspired by a wave than this winter 2021 list...

If Lego have committed to these smaller models it could be a run of repeats...please no Lego.

I don't have a problem with this really. I consider that the scaled down sets actually give more scope for new releases or less common rehashes because they aren't so heavily reliant on large piece counts and high prices. TIE bomber for example. Even (whisper it) Naboo starship.

I can't actually think of many ships that just haven't been done, full stop. Naboo, Nebulon B (almost), Invisible Hand. Any more?

Edited October 10, 2020 by Redroe

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, Redroe said:

Well, I now have no choice but to build my long-gestating temple Moc and prove my point. Dammit Mando!

I don't have a problem with this really. I consider that the scaled down sets actually give more scope for new releases or less common rehashes because they aren't so heavily reliant on large piece counts and high prices. TIE bomber for example. Even (whisper it) Naboo starship.

I can't actually think of many ships that just haven't been done, full stop. Naboo, Nebulon B (almost), Invisible Hand. Any more?

As for the temple moc....."do it. Strike me down with all your point-proving, and your journey to the MOC-builder side will be complete" . Your layout idea does sound like a possible way to get around the problems I've mentioned, I'm looking forwards to it.

I can't help but wonder if what they said about the TIE bomber was done knowing that they were moving to smaller sets, and that they would be able to do a TIE bomber since they're downsizing.

As for ships that have never been done, there's many, but out of ones that are actually plausible to be made by lego and not, like, random background ship #42, I can only think of a few besides the one you mentioned:

TIE reaper, AT-ACT (I'm not sure if that counts), Stinger Mantis, Sith Star destroyer, Lucrehulk, any Mon Cala Cruiser or capital ship. Most of them are variations of existing sets, somewhat obscure, or both, with the only ones that are really glaring omissions being the Lucrehulk and MC-80 Mon Cala capital ship.

[ArrowBricks]

14 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It's about a 50/50 shot as to whether or not we'll get a new wave of these cheaper models, IMO. They seem to have gone all-in for this wave but they might want to wait to see how well they do before making more. That said, on the issue of them being repeats, "Oh, I don't think so." They've done the hexagonal TIE, X-wing, and imperial shuttle this wave, so the odds are nearly 100% that we won't see similar vehicles next wave. I think it's possible we could see these smaller styles for ships from the sequels and prequels (The ARC-170 and TIE silencer would both be done very well at a smaller scale IMO, and a $15-20 Vulture sounds nice.)

Cheaper sets do sound interesting but at the same time worrying; that X-Wing for 2021 has 2 figures...

Imo they either go all in or not. They can’t have a summer wave where all there sets go against what they’ve done this winter surely? 
 

8 hours ago, Redroe said:

I don't have a problem with this really. I consider that the scaled down sets actually give more scope for new releases or less common rehashes because they aren't so heavily reliant on large piece counts and high prices. TIE bomber for example. Even (whisper it) Naboo starship.

I can't actually think of many ships that just haven't been done, full stop. Naboo, Nebulon B (almost), Invisible Hand. Any more?

I’ll respectfully disagree here. Surely with a newer take on the sets (cheaper and smaller) it will just see the classic ships getting this treatment before obscurity hence the scope is narrowed.  Please elaborate on what you mean because I’m struggling to understand it. 
 

I could probably make a very large list of Star Wars sets that have never been released or are in desperate need of an update/redesign. 

[Redroe]

1 hour ago, ArrowBricks said:

Cheaper sets do sound interesting but at the same time worrying; that X-Wing for 2021 has 2 figures...

Imo they either go all in or not. They can’t have a summer wave where all there sets go against what they’ve done this winter surely? 
 

I’ll respectfully disagree here. Surely with a newer take on the sets (cheaper and smaller) it will just see the classic ships getting this treatment before obscurity hence the scope is narrowed.  Please elaborate on what you mean because I’m struggling to understand it. 
 

I could probably make a very large list of Star Wars sets that have never been released or are in desperate need of an update/redesign. 

I shall endeavour to explain myself a bit better. But yes you are absolutely right. The most popular remakes, being the most popular and marketable ships, will undoubtedlt get the new treatment first. We have several years of this. What I mean is, when the "new wave 1" of sets is complete, they have a lesser bar to clear when releasing brand new ones, like the Bomber, so the new ones are more likely to be considered ahead of yet another remake. So, delayed gratification. A few years rest for AFOL wallets.

Ok, I'll really scratch my head and come up with a list of firstly, Never Done Before sets. 

Lucrehulk, as Mando says. I can see why they never made this. A big sphere and a big unsupported donut.

Some niche podracers. Gasgano could do with an update. (What do we count as recent history? AFOl memories are long. I still think the 2011 pods are 'new'.)

The Naboo royal starship. This is #1.

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

TIE reaper, AT-ACT (I'm not sure if that counts), Stinger Mantis, Sith Star destroyer, Lucrehulk, any Mon Cala Cruiser or capital ship. Most of them are variations of existing sets, somewhat obscure, or both, with the only ones that are really glaring omissions being the Lucrehulk and MC-80 Mon Cala capital ship.

Capital ships are kind of special case. They are either very organic looking or really skeletal or eff-off enormous. Nebulon B and Home One are extremely tricky prospects for designers.

Sequel stuff... there's probably still time to get sequel stuff as a first release. Ochi's ship top of the list. Resistance shuttle close behind. I think that the sequels will run out of gas very quickly though, and be limited to one ot two smaller sets a year, rather like TPM has become. 

The required rerelease of really old sets list is easier. TIE bomber and interceptor, Zam's speeder chase, Jango slave 1. Republic cruiser. They've never done a B wing I was happy with. 

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

do it. Strike me down with all your point-proving, and your journey to the MOC-builder side will be complete" . Your layout idea does sound like a possible way to get around the problems I've mentioned, I'm looking forwards to it.

Ok, challenge accepted. Patience. My building time is severely limited. God and corona willing you might see it withim 12 months. 

[Redroe]

On 10/6/2020 at 5:42 PM, ArrowBricks said:

. Hence, imo, what makes good waves are the one’s that are heavy-leaning in a particular era, with then a 2/3 sets from accompanying eras. By rotating the plurality of a specific era for each wave I think the scope of sets we would get increases for each era; whilst the OT may not get as many sets consistently as it does now, it will eventually get a wave that has many of the sets from it in one go which crucially go beyond the standard ships they release each year

This is very much the truth. They used to go deep on one film per wave. Like when AotC was slated for a 3d release, they redid just about the entire battle of Geonosis (I think it was 2013, a great year). Alongside we got some great OT sets (OK one was the Sail Barge remake, great for minifigs but pig ugly). The sequels and Rebels hadn't cropped up by then to muddy the waters, however. 

Releasing a bunch of related sets together maximises chance for a mix of star and supporting minifigs, and avoids awkward situations like having the AT AT retire a year before releasing Echo Base (then bragging about it in the instruction manual how cleverly marketed it is, forcing you to buy a set that OOPS isn't available anymore). 

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

Cheaper sets do sound interesting but at the same time worrying; that X-Wing for 2021 has 2 figures...

Imo they either go all in or not. They can’t have a summer wave where all there sets go against what they’ve done this winter surely? 

We don't know that, it turned out to be incorrect, as they were silhouettes from previous sets.

1 hour ago, Redroe said:

Capital ships are kind of special case. They are either very organic looking or really skeletal or eff-off enormous. Nebulon B and Home One are extremely tricky prospects for designers.

Sequel stuff... there's probably still time to get sequel stuff as a first release. Ochi's ship top of the list. Resistance shuttle close behind. I think that the sequels will run out of gas very quickly though, and be limited to one ot two smaller sets a year, rather like TPM has become. 

The required rerelease of really old sets list is easier. TIE bomber and interceptor, Zam's speeder chase, Jango slave 1. Republic cruiser. They've never done a B wing I was happy with. 

Ok, challenge accepted. Patience. My building time is severely limited. God and corona willing you might see it within 12 months. 

That's true, though I still hope they can make some of these. I've always wanted to try my hand at a mon cala cruiser...

That's true that there are many sequel sets waiting for release, I agree that they'll probably only do 1-2 for the next two years though, just because of how many were released while the films were coming out.

I 100% agree about those sets that need re release. Even the B-wing, while it hasn't been too long since it's last set, is definitely due for an improvement.

Edited October 10, 2020 by Mandalorianknight