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On 7/8/2021 at 8:24 AM, Kim-Kwang-Seok said:

Who know's if we'll see any sequel sets again in the future :pir-laugh:

I think most sets you describe would actually work better even at that smaller scale. My A-Wing for 25 bucks for example captured the sharp edges much closer than the recent 50 bucks versions that were super bulky.

But the B-Wing - I have no idea how to do with less parts. The last version was like 60 bucks and still way neither too big nor did it have the necessary detail. Unlike X-Wing's or Snowspeeders where the expensive Lego sets were waaay out of proportion (too big) and still not accurate with the elegant curves.

My main gripe with the sequels stuff was the main ships were too expensive. I actually like the appearance of some of the characters and the colours of the X-Wings/Tie’s etc. So I’d be happy enough. Plenty of scope for new figures too as I listed. 

They’d have to transform the way they do the B-Wing I would imagine, whether they can is another matter. 

Yeah Lego need to improve their A-Wing’s in my mind. 
 

TO ADD to the discussion I can certainly see a Falcon released around £99.99-119.99. It would have to be either Empire Strikes Back (Cloud City) or Return of the Jedi for me! Can’t see any new stuff otherwise in the Minifigures. Shame the Imperial Spy came out in the mbs, could have worked amazingly in a scaled-down Falcon. 

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10 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

My main gripe with the sequels stuff was the main ships were too expensive. I actually like the appearance of some of the characters and the colours of the X-Wings/Tie’s etc. So I’d be happy enough. Plenty of scope for new figures too as I listed. 

They’d have to transform the way they do the B-Wing I would imagine, whether they can is another matter. 

Yeah Lego need to improve their A-Wing’s in my mind. 
 

TO ADD to the discussion I can certainly see a Falcon released around £99.99-119.99. It would have to be either Empire Strikes Back (Cloud City) or Return of the Jedi for me! Can’t see any new stuff otherwise in the Minifigures. Shame the Imperial Spy came out in the mbs, could have worked amazingly in a scaled-down Falcon. 

Im sure you can do even a good looking B-Wing. But not one that captures the original design. The new X-Wing may have some downgrades but actually even some parts that look better. The Tie Fighter is for sure a bit small but isshhh I still think that Solo version was looking soooo baaaaad. It was just big for no reason.

Falcon: There's actually some MOCS out there with quite a bit of functions and smaller than the official versions. I'm sure they could do it!


Another intersting thing is that figure inclusion seems to have found a new low point. As cool as the Darktrooper and Fennic are in the new Venator set - with Ninjago wave you could have gotten like 4 times of the amount of the figs plus much more new molds. Just putting in another dark trooper would have already made things much better (not that I would buy the set anyway but it's just not the best value this way).

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I like the idea of the next Millennium Falcon being released at a more affordable price range. While I don't think the size of the set needs to be drastically reduced they could certainly streamline the build to bring down the piece count down to a more reasonable level.

But it should still retain all the features we've come to expect since the original 2000 set - a spacious interior, the ability to fit two characters in the cockpit, boarding ramp, landing gear, smuggling compartment and gunner station. I don't think any of those elements should necessarily be sacrificed.

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A MF could easily be released in a scaled down version next year, if the 1HY wave follows the pattern of 2021, and we get one large ship and two small starfighters, for a example  MF, Y-wing and TIE advanced could work well, I agree detail doesn't necessarily need to be sacrificed for the set to work at a cheaper price, in fact it would be hard to reduce the scale without also reducing the cockpit size, and at a scale smaller than 6-wide either the size of the craft (and hence its functionality) or the proportions would have to be sacrificed, hence I would assume any parts reduction would be from less figures, less interior detail and also exterior details, which could be easily fixable.

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I do not follow any Star Wars thread real closely. Anyways, I would love to see Star Wars CMF Series so it could be easy to obtain and collect minifigures. 

Oh and one more to add… I would love to see Obi-Wan’s starship return. The one from Episode II movie that was hunted by Jango’s Slave ! Ship.  I had that ship back in mid-2000s and I loved it a lot. 

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Before I abuse the news thread; a question to anyone:

Where can UCS and 200€ go from now on?

Nowdays we get a lot of them each year - I believe we got most OT sets covered.
 

Missing: AT-AT (coming soon?), Death Star II (remake), AT-ST (remake) super ISD (remake), Lamba Class (also remake!) Lukes Landspeeder, Tie Advanced (remake) - I don't see much more possibilities beside remakes. Maybe some kind of Endor bunker in the style of Mos Eisley Cantina?

As much as I also respect the prequel designs I think the current Gunshop set might be a good test for Lego if they can tap more into the prequel waters. Because there's maaany designs left to do while the OT is covered for a while.

Disney SW doesn't give us that many possible sets I think:

Kylos ship: very worthy but the question is if they wanna invest in a 200/400€ sequel set
U-Wing: very worthy as well and might appear in other media
Razor Crest: even though this was destroyed in no time I would give this one a high chance
In a year I could really see them doing an updated Slave I. Would piss off so many costumers of the last 3 versions.

fun side note: I remember back with EP7 people were speculating about the possibility of a Death Star like Starkiller base set. Good luck with that :pir-huzzah1:
 

Cartoons:
The Ghost: would be so amazing but it could not be done smaller than the Falcon. And it's pretty improbably anyway if it doesn't get big in the new shows.
the same goes for any CW or BB vehicle I think.
 

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It will be bonkers if Lego doesn’t start ramping up the Prequel UCS stuff. 
 

Episode 1: Trade Federation Battleship, Naboo Starfighter, MTT, Naboo Royal Cruiser 

Episode 2: Petranaki Arena, AT-TE, SPHA-T 

Episode 3: Invisible Hand, Arc-170, Jedi Temple, Clone Turbo Tank 

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I could talk for England about UCS sets I'd want made, but here's a brief non-OT wishlist with some MBS thrown in for good measure. Tried to be semi-realistic but I might have got carried away in some areas.

TPM: Radiant VII, N-1 starfighter, Royal Starship, Sith Infiltrator, pretty much any podracer (a two-pack of Anakin's and Sebulba's would be mega, even if it was like $300). MBS: Theed (or maybe Otoh Gunga, but not sure that could be made interesting enough).

AotC: Royal Starship (the other one), Dooku's starship, Zam's airspeeder, Aethersprite starfighter but with this time with a hyperdrive ring. MBS: Petranaki arena.

RotS: ARC-170, Venator, Eta-2 starfighter, AT-RT, Invisible Hand. MBS: Kashyykk (not dissimilar to the Ewok village from a few years back).

TFA: Black One, Quadjumper (partly for the meme, partly as I do actually quite like that ship). MBS: Maz's castle. (This has been at the top of my MBS wishlist for a hot minute.)

TLJ: Resistance bomber, Kylo's TIE Silencer. MBS: ... Crait, I guess? Or that casino planet?

TRoS: Rey's sea skiff, Night Buzzard, Ochi's ship (long shot that one). MBS: frankly, no idea.

RO: U-wing (of course), Zeta-class freighter, Krennic's shuttle. MBS: Jedha or Scarif would be cool, but it has to be the Masasi temple.

Others: Razor Crest, the Ghost, Dryden Vos' yacht.

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3 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

It will be bonkers if Lego doesn’t start ramping up the Prequel UCS stuff. 

They'll wait until they see how the gunship sells. If it does well, that opens the door for an ARC-170 or something in 2023.

Here's my UCS ideas. I try to focus on things that would actually be made, so not, like, a UCS Boss Nass's face or something.

Prequels: 

UCS Naboo Fighter ($199.99): Child Anakin and R2-D2.

UCS ETA-2 ($199.99): Anakin Skywalker (mechanical arm printing), R2-D2

UCS ARC-170 ($299.99): Captain Jag (arm printing) and a clone pilot (arm printing)

MBS Pentaki Areana ($349.99): a semicircle formed of the stands along with the main gate, balcony, catacombs for the interior behind the stands, 3 pillars, and buildable Nexu, Reek, Ackley, and Orray, along with a 350-ish piece small republic gunship. Comes with Anakin, Obi-wan, Padme, Yoda, a clone commander, clone pilot, 2 clone troopers, Pablo-jill, Kit Fisto, dooku, jango, nute gunrey, wat tambor, 4x geonosian, 4x battle droid, 2x super battle droid.

UCS AT-TE ($399.99): Clone captain, Clone Trooper.

UCS Venator ($699.99): Clone officer (plainclothes), clone trooper (phase 2).

Originals:

UCS Luke's Landspeeder ($199.99): Luke Skywalker (hat, poncho), Ben Kenobi

UCS AT-ST remake ($299.99): Chewbacca (arm printing) and AT-ST pilot (arm printing)

MBS Battle for Endor ($349.99): Massive endor bunker (interior includes command center, reactor, armory, etc, with ewok glider, ewok catapult, mid-scale AT-ST, and 2 speeder bikes. Figures are endor Han, Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Rex, Chewbacca, 2x rebel commando, Paploo, Wicket, Chirpa, Logray, 1x imperial officer (black), 1x AT-ST pilot, 2x imperial officer, 2x imperial navy trooper, 3x stormtrooper, 2x scout trooper.

UCS TIE Interceptor remake ($199.99): TIE pilot (arm printing), Moff Jerjerrod (dual molded legs).

Sequels:

UCS Black One ($299.99): Poe Dameron (arm printing), BB-8.

UCS Special Forces TIE fighter ($199.99): First Order special forces TIE pilot (arm printing), first order stormtrooper commander (arm printing, pauldron).

UCS Resistance bomber ($399.99): Finch Dallow, Paige Tico, resistance Bombardier, resistance gunner.

TIE Silencer ($199.99): Kylo Ren (arm printing, TLJ design with no helmet), BB-9E

UCS First Order Star Destroyer ($699.99): General Hux (dual molded legs), Supreme Leader Snoke (dress piece instead of legs, arm printing).

MBS Exogol ($349.99): Two-sided build similar in overall shape to the cloud city set. One side is the hull of the first order star destroyer with turrets and an interior bridge. Other side is Exogol's sith temple with the sith statues, sith throne, science equipment, and omnic harness. Also included are midi-scale Luke's X-wing, Millenium falcon, TIE fighter, and TIE dagger, as well as two brick-built orbacks. Comes with Rey, Ben Solo, Palpatine (zombie-like), Palpatine (reborn), Trudgen, Vicrul, Cardo, 2x soviergn protectors, 2x sith troopers, 2x sith order jet troopers, general pryde, 2x sith eternal officer, Finn, Jannah, BB-8, 2x first order tie pilots, Lando, Chewbacca, and Beaumont Kin.

Shows:
The Razor Crest ($399.99): Mandalorian (beskar armor, arm printing), Grogu in pram, Cara Dune, and Greef Carga.

The Ghost ($399.99): S4 versions of Kanan, Hera, Chopper, Zeb, Sabine, and Ezra.

Havoc Marauder ($399.99): Hunter, Tech, Wrecker, Echo, (all arm printing), and Omega.

Slave 1 ($299.99): Updated model with Boba Fett (arm printing, leg printing, new helmet color), and Fennec Shand (arm printing, helmet and hair).

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I only really want/need two PT UCS: ARC-170 & Venator, with Trade Federation and CIS ships later on.

They are probably running out of OT options outside of a few Rebel craft, so I expect we'll see more PT sets by default.

If I had to make a shortlist, this is it:

ARC-170 ($249.99-$299.99): Odd Ball & R4-P44 or Captain Jag & Plo Koon

AT-TE ($349.99): Yoda, Clone Captain (Deviss)

Venator Star Destroyer ($699.99): Republic Officer (Captain Needa) and Phase II Clone Trooper

I'd absolutely love to see a Droid Tri-Fighter too, to see how its curves are done. Wouldn't really have good figures, maybe accurately built (UCS-scale) Buzz Droids instead?

For MBS, Petranaki, maybe Kamino, Jedi Temple (if they ever would), Theed Palace.

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Thank you for the feedback so far! But I feel like most sets are pretty much wishlists - as cool as they sound :pir-grin:

Realistically I feel like we will be covered by the mentioned OT sets and - hopefully have a few Disney SW and PT sets fill the gaps.

I'll make a list how things could go (with maybe one or two gram of realism):
2021: AT-AT
2022: Lukes Landspeeder, Razor Crest
2023: Death Star II (without interior and figures), Tie Advanced
2024: large Endor bunker playset, Slave I (like with the Falcon they could do a set from several areas and update look + interior slightly.
2025: Imperial shuttle, Jedi Starfighter

I really doubt some sets will ever see the light of day as they didn't even do them when there were no sequels, new media - and all SW from before Disney is getting old already in a way. So you gotta look at what ages well and what doesn't. While not being a fan of the prequels I think the arena would be a hell of a set but if there's no apparent prequel hype I think we only have the chance of a small set at some point.

There's just so many OT sets I didn't even mention in the list now that would already fill us up for years. My hope is just that some more diverse sets can squeeze in between sometime. If I could bet I'd only bet on the Razor Crest and the U-Wing. ARC-170 and Kylos ship I'd give some slight chances.

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OT UCS stuff I expect to see in the near future: 

Nebulon B Frigate 

Tie Bomber 

Jabba’s Sail Barge 

Death Star II 

MBS Endor Bunker + Generator 

AT-ST Walker 

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AOTC 20th anniversary wave. Would be my dream. The Jedi will have the little specs of Geonosis terrain alike Windu in the Gunship. Movie accurate Geonosians etc. 
 

75XXX Obi-Wan’s Jedi Starfighter £24.99: Obi-Wan, R4, Lama Sue

75XXX Homing Spider Droid £29.99: Shaak Ti, Clone Trooper, Geonosian Battle Droid (x2) 

75XXX Geonosian Starfighter W/turret £29.99: Geonosian Pilot, Winged Geonosian, Luminara Unduli (new cloth/skirt brick) 

75XXX Coruscant Airspeeder Chase £49.99: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Zam Wessell 

75XXX Jango Fett’s Slave One £49.99: Jango Fett, Boba Fett, Taun We

(EXCLUSIVE) 75XXX Petranaki Arena £74.99 (Watchtower spire, stands, one pillar, gate, brickbuilt Nexu + Orray): Anakin Skywalker, Padme, Count Dooku, Poggle the Lesser, Bultar Swan, Sora Bulq, Geonosian Picador, Geonosian Battle Droid (x2) 

Republic AT-TE Walker £84.99: Ki-adi-Mundi, Pablo-Jill, Clone Sergeant, Super Battle Droid (x2), Droideka

Republic Gunship £139.99: Yoda, Kit Fisto, Clone Pilot (NEW MOULD) (x2), Clone Trooper (x2), Geonosian Battle Droid Commander, Geonosian Battle Droid 

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On 7/16/2021 at 9:25 AM, ARC2149Nova said:

I only really want/need two PT UCS: ARC-170 & Venator, with Trade Federation and CIS ships later on.

Same here. I don't normally buy UCS (I only have Slave One, which I just bought a couple weeks ago), but a UCS ARC-170 would have me emptying my wallet instantly.

On 7/16/2021 at 10:35 PM, ArrowBricks said:

OT UCS stuff I expect to see in the near future: 

Nebulon B Frigate  Tie Bomber  Jabba’s Sail Barge  Death Star II  MBS Endor Bunker + Generator  AT-ST Walker 

These are pretty good and I'm on the MBS endor bunker hype train harder than I was on the <spoiler bc they actually showed up> in loki hype train, though given the vote percentage the bomber got, we're not seeing it anytime soon. I hadn't thought about the sail barge until you mentioned it, that's a genius idea.

 

Ok, say we get a 25th anniversary wave for LSW in 2024. 

I'm going to add a couple sets to the origional list of 5, choosing remakes of some fan-favorite sets:

Clone Battle pack: 25th anniversary edition ($19.99): Remake of 2007 clone battle pack. Contains a BARC speeder with sidecar and a small turret. Figures are 2x p2 clone troopers, 1x 327th trooper, 1x shock trooper, and 1x p1 clone trooper (2002)

Rebel battle pack: 25th anniversary edition ($19.99): updated rebel scout speeder with 3x rebel fleet troopers, 1x rebel fleet trooper (red undershirt), and R2-D2 (1999)

Speeder Bikes: 25th anniversary Edition ($29.99): 2 speeder bike builds with some endor terrain and a tree to crash into. Comes with Endor Luke, Endor Leia, a Scout trooper, and a scout trooper (2000)

Ultimate Space Battle: 25h anniversary edition ($79.99, the original is the top-rated set on brickset): Ultimate space battle remake (Obi and Anakin's ETA-2s, tri-fighter, 1x vulture droid), with Obi-wan, Anakin, R2-D2, Obi-Wan's Astromech, 2x buzz droid, 2x battle droid, and Anakin Skywalker (2005)

Poe's X-wing: 25th anniversary edition ($79.99, hey it'll be nearly a decade old by then): Poe Dameon's Black One with Poe Dameron, BB-8, Finn, a First Order stormtrooper, and chewbacca (2000).

Republic Gunship: 25th anniversary edition ($139.99): system scale republic gunship with 2x clone pilot, 4x clone trooper, 1x clone captain, 2x super battle droid, and... jedi bob (2002)

UCS Slave One: 25th anniversary edition ($299.99): Larger, more detailed version of the 2015 set with a passanger deck. Comes with Boba Fett, Han Solo (carbonite), Lando Calrissian, a Stormtrooper, and boba fett (2003).

Polybags:

Mini Luke's X-wing ($3.99, highest rated minibuilt on brickset)

25th anniversary Emperor Palpatine figure (GWP)

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8 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

These are pretty good and I'm on the MBS endor bunker hype train

I was just thinking about this, and it makes a lot of sense. We've had one MBS from Empire, and one from A New Hope, the next one should be from Jedi.

My ideal MBS Endor Bunker Assault ($349.99): Down-scaled AT-ST, complete bunker with a variety of interior rooms, such as a command center. Ewok Glider and catapult, and two speeder bikes.

Minifigures: Han Solo (Trenchcoat), Princess Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, Luke Skywalker (Endor Hat and Poncho), Lieutenant Renz, Wicket, Logray, Paploo, 2x Rebel Commandos, 2x Stormtroopers, 2x Scout Troopers, AT-ST Driver, 2x Imperial Navy Troopers (Death Squad Helmets).

Maybe throw in a Commander Rex/Nik Sant figure and another Ewok for 21 figures (same as Mos Eisley and Cloud City).

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40 minutes ago, ARC2149Nova said:

I was just thinking about this, and it makes a lot of sense. We've had one MBS from Empire, and one from A New Hope, the next one should be from Jedi.

My ideal MBS Endor Bunker Assault ($349.99): Down-scaled AT-ST, complete bunker with a variety of interior rooms, such as a command center. Ewok Glider and catapult, and two speeder bikes.

Minifigures: Han Solo (Trenchcoat), Princess Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, Luke Skywalker (Endor Hat and Poncho), Lieutenant Renz, Wicket, Logray, Paploo, 2x Rebel Commandos, 2x Stormtroopers, 2x Scout Troopers, AT-ST Driver, 2x Imperial Navy Troopers (Death Squad Helmets).

Maybe throw in a Commander Rex/Nik Sant figure and another Ewok for 21 figures (same as Mos Eisley and Cloud City).

It’s a solid idea. The only issue I have with a set like this is the lack of options for exclusive figures. Apart from the Ewok’s and Luke there’s is nothing new. They’d have to change some of the designs of existing figures etc. 

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I’ve always hoped an Endor MBS would place less emphasis on the bunker, it being the same scale as the play set version from ‘09, just more detailed, as it could easily incorporate all the necessary rooms at that size, then having a U shaped forest assembly projecting from either side of the bunker build in which the catapult and log traps can be implanted, and including three or four large-ish trees, as well as an AT ST and several speeders

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1 hour ago, ArrowBricks said:

It’s a solid idea. The only issue I have with a set like this is the lack of options for exclusive figures. Apart from the Ewok’s and Luke there’s is nothing new. They’d have to change some of the designs of existing figures etc. 

I mean, I think they'd give us a remaster of 2015 Han (from the Tydirium) with the new hair, maybe dual-molded legs, Leia would be a (long overdue) update from the 2009 Bunker w/helmet, Threepio could finally get his silver bot, new faces on the commandos & Imperial troops, slightly better designs for the Imperial Navy Troopers. Other MBS sets don't have a lot of "highly desired" exclusives, just scene-specific versions of the main cast, and a few background characters (which are really for the hardcore collectors).

 

25 minutes ago, Stuartn said:

I’ve always hoped an Endor MBS would place less emphasis on the bunker, it being the same scale as the play set version from ‘09, just more detailed, as it could easily incorporate all the necessary rooms at that size, then having a U shaped forest assembly projecting from either side of the bunker build in which the catapult and log traps can be implanted, and including three or four large-ish trees, as well as an AT ST and several speeders

But a bunker like last year's Mos Eisley would be so much cooler. Add in this year's (rumored) UCS AT-AT and that would be a banger display. It still could have a few trees and whatnot (and a chibi-scaled AT-ST like Cloud City's Slave-I).

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1 hour ago, ARC2149Nova said:

I was just thinking about this, and it makes a lot of sense. We've had one MBS from Empire, and one from A New Hope, the next one should be from Jedi.

My ideal MBS Endor Bunker Assault ($349.99): Down-scaled AT-ST, complete bunker with a variety of interior rooms, such as a command center. Ewok Glider and catapult, and two speeder bikes.

Minifigures: Han Solo (Trenchcoat), Princess Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, Luke Skywalker (Endor Hat and Poncho), Lieutenant Renz, Wicket, Logray, Paploo, 2x Rebel Commandos, 2x Stormtroopers, 2x Scout Troopers, AT-ST Driver, 2x Imperial Navy Troopers (Death Squad Helmets).

Maybe throw in a Commander Rex/Nik Sant figure and another Ewok for 21 figures (same as Mos Eisley and Cloud City).

IMO the MBS Endor Bunker would have to go above and beyond with figures for it to be worth it because as @ArrowBricks point out we've seen most of the figs possible already. WE'd need to see exclusive figs, arm printing, maybe a new mold or two to make it worth it. 

At the 350 dollar price tag: 

A very detailed bunker with many rooms and exclusive imperial molds for crates and other stuff inside the bunker, Midi Scale AT-ST with space for driver, Ewok Launchers, a tree or two for ambiance, functionality to open and close bunker (Similar to Cantina) 

Strike Team: Trench Coat Han (w/arm-printing), Endor Leia (w/speeder bike), Chewie, Luke Skywalker (w/speeder bike), C-3PO, R2-D2, Wicket, Logray, Paploo, Teebo, 2x Rebel Commandos, Endor Rex (w/arm-printing that indicates his clone armor) - 13 Rebels

Imperials: 2x Stormtroopers, 2x Scout Troopers (w/bikes), AT-ST Driver, 2x Imperial Navy Troopers, and a Lieutenant Renz (w/arm-printing) - 8 Imperials

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On 7/16/2021 at 4:25 PM, ARC2149Nova said:

I only really want/need two PT UCS: ARC-170 […]

Not a bad idea, but they seriously would have to come up with some techniques to make sure the middle wings don‘t droop after a while, an issue that has plagued both of the previous models and could be even worse at this scale :hmpf_bad: Maybe a sort of technic skeleton hidden within the wings, but then the set would have to be pretty large

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The only way an Endor MBS set can really warrant the $350 price tag is if it included both the Shield Bunker and Ewok Village under one package - especially when the previous releases only went for $100 and $250 each and there were quite a few characters and builds duplicated across both sets.

New figures should be pretty well covered if they include Force Ghosts of Anakin, Obi-Wan and Yoda along with updated versions of Luke, Han and both Leia costumes.

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4 hours ago, kidtheboss611 said:

IMO the MBS Endor Bunker would have to go above and beyond with figures for it to be worth it because as @ArrowBricks point out we've seen most of the figs possible already. WE'd need to see exclusive figs, arm printing, maybe a new mold or two to make it worth it. 

At the 350 dollar price tag: 

A very detailed bunker with many rooms and exclusive imperial molds for crates and other stuff inside the bunker, Midi Scale AT-ST with space for driver, Ewok Launchers, a tree or two for ambiance, functionality to open and close bunker (Similar to Cantina) 

Strike Team: Trench Coat Han (w/arm-printing), Endor Leia (w/speeder bike), Chewie, Luke Skywalker (w/speeder bike), C-3PO, R2-D2, Wicket, Logray, Paploo, Teebo, 2x Rebel Commandos, Endor Rex (w/arm-printing that indicates his clone armor) - 13 Rebels

Imperials: 2x Stormtroopers, 2x Scout Troopers (w/bikes), AT-ST Driver, 2x Imperial Navy Troopers, and a Lieutenant Renz (w/arm-printing) - 8 Imperials

Isn't that like, the lineup I just listed? 4 bikes is a tad overkill considering it would be the same side build 4 times. Also, Endor Rex shouldn't hint at his clone armor as it's not in the movie (for obvious reasons), the headprint we got in 2015 would suffice. (Galaxy of Adventures is not canon nor does it trump what's in the actual film)

Also, how/why does Han need arm printing? The camouflage pattern? I'd imagine that would be difficult to achieve at mass retail. As for Renz, I'm assuming the arm print is for the Imperial insignia, which I could see.

The only new figures/updates we'd absolutely need/are likely to occur (be real here people) are as follows: Han in trench coat with dual-molded legs and his new hair (something that the 2015 fig didn't have), Leia (updated 2009 print with helmet), Luke (with poncho either cloth or printed, and helmet), new prints for Logray/Paploo/Teebo, new faces for the Commandos (One & Two), maybe a new face for Old Rex/Nik Sant. Update the Navy Troopers ever so slightly, and give them and Renz the patches, boom, figures done.

Does it even matter if the figures are rehashes/remasters? It's a location that's severely underrepresented in Lego, and there are only so many figures that would make sense. Unlike Cloud City or the Cantina, there are no masses of random side characters for the minifig selection. And all of the best molds for the characters have already been made, so new ones aren't happening.

3 hours ago, wesker said:

The only way an Endor MBS set can really warrant the $350 price tag is if it included both the Shield Bunker and Ewok Village under one package - especially when the previous releases only went for $100 and $250 each and there were quite a few characters and builds duplicated across both sets.

New figures should be pretty well covered if they include Force Ghosts of Anakin, Obi-Wan and Yoda along with updated versions of Luke, Han and both Leia costumes.

That's not entirely true. The bunker may not be massive but neither is the Cantina honestly. A Cantina sized bunker could be cool, throw in a sizeable AT-ST and a few Ewok weapons (gliders, catapults, log traps) and you're set. Combining the Bunker with the village will just muddy the set. Either give us two separate models or one over the other, and seeing as how we already have an incredible Ewok Village, go for the bunker.

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1 hour ago, ARC2149Nova said:

That's not entirely true. The bunker may not be massive but neither is the Cantina honestly. A Cantina sized bunker could be cool, throw in a sizeable AT-ST and a few Ewok weapons (gliders, catapults, log traps) and you're set. Combining the Bunker with the village will just muddy the set. Either give us two separate models or one over the other, and seeing as how we already have an incredible Ewok Village, go for the bunker.

The cantina is still a pretty large building and the bunker doesn't need to be anywhere near that size. The scale of the 2009 set was already a perfect match to the film and the only interior details needed are the control room and generators. Even with an increase of detail the bunker just isn't a location that warrants a $350 price tag. Just remake the Battle of Endor at a similar price to the original and save the next MBS spot for a better suited location like Yavin IV, Geonosis Arena or Jabba's Palace.

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4 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

As for Renz, I'm assuming the arm print is for the Imperial insignia, which I could see.

I've just checked and he doesn't actually have insignia patches on his arms, so arm printing is kinda redundant for Renz

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9 hours ago, kidtheboss611 said:

Endor Rex (w/arm-printing that indicates his clone armor) - 13 Rebels

Cool ideas overall, but Rex just objectively does not have clone armor in that scene.

 

There are a couple ways I could see them doing it. Either a larger bunker with trees on either side (what I would personally want), or the bunker and the imperial landing pad/AT-AT dock.

My guess:
MBS Battle for Endor ($349.99): Huge Endor Bunker exterior with sliding door mechanism and tall trees on either side for ambiance, with some small ewok village elements in the trees, as well as the log trap. Bunker interior contains the command center, a hallway, an armory, the generator core, and maybe a maintenance bay for speeder bikes or something. Other builds include a small AT-ST, Ewok Glider, and 2 speeder bikes. Figures are Endor Han, Endor Leia, Endor Luke, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, 2x rebel commando (one is rex), Paploo, Chirpa, Logray, Wicket, 3x stormtrooper, 1x AT-ST driver, 1x imperial officer (Renz), 2x scout trooper, 2x navy trooper.

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