LEGO Star Wars 2023 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[Kit Figsto]

6 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

75366: LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar - between 4-8 characters - Omega (Season one look), 212th clone trooper, others (B1?)

This one also has the Christmas Ewok that leaked a month or two ago.

[Zap Rowsdower]

12 hours ago, Fulcrumfan91 said:

I'm still gonna guess the mystery Ahsoka set is an E-Wing vs Headhunter 2 in 1 a la TIE vs Fang fighter

I'd love that, but I think an E-wing alone would cost $70-80. I don't think there would be room for a Headhunter. 

[Agent Kallus]

11 hours ago, Kit Figsto said:

This one also has the Christmas Ewok that leaked a month or two ago.

Thanks, I'll edit him into the list, make a few other changes ( I think I was wrong about a 6th figure in the ghost for example) and put it in the news thread later today.

1 hour ago, Zap Rowsdower said:

I'd love that, but I think an E-wing alone would cost $70-80. I don't think there would be room for a Headhunter. 

The last E-wing they did was £60 in 2013, I could see a scaled down one for £40-£60 which would leave enough budget for a decent z-95 headhunter ( I mean the head hunter is a much simpler ship it could easily work in the £25-£40 range depending on exact size). Though I don't remember seeing a headhunter in the trailer, I do remember the assumed E-wing.

[Agent Kallus]

Yoda fountain?!

[AD_Bricks]

10 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

Yoda fountain?!

They had better put those damn dual-moulded legs in the starfighter

[ginja]

Legos quality control is slipped. I'm building the razorcrest, and weirdly have a double of one of the bags. But also have a missing piece in another bag. Neither of which have I ever encountered before. Odd.

[AD_Bricks]

8 minutes ago, ginja said:

Legos quality control is slipped. I'm building the razorcrest, and weirdly have a double of one of the bags. But also have a missing piece in another bag. Neither of which have I ever encountered before. Odd.

If it has slipped at all, it hasn't slipped much. The simple fact that you've never had this happen to you indicates this. I personally have never heard an example of someone getting a double bag and missing a part in one set before now. I don't reckon things like this happen any more often than they have in the past. I'd wait for us to see an obvious increase in things like this happening before I get concerned.

Edited May 7, 2023 by AD_Bricks

[Flawless Cowboy]

Having the tie interceptor in hand now I can say I’m a little disappointed Lego still can’t figure out how to make spherical cockpits. It uses so many curved pieces and yet from a distance still looks like a square. The bomber is still the most accurately shaped tie (next to the UCS)

[ginja]

1 hour ago, AD_Bricks said:

If it has slipped at all, it hasn't slipped much. The simple fact that you've never had this happen to you indicates this. I personally have never heard an example of someone getting a double bag and missing a part in one set before now. I don't reckon things like this happen any more often than they have in the past. I'd wait for us to see an obvious increase in things like this happening before I get concerned.

You may be right and perhaps my wording was unreasonable. I realise why I received a double bag. Its because another bag is missing.

[Rwbricks]

9 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Yoda fountain?!

Apparently it’s going to be a special employee gift for those at Lucasfilm. 

[OCD_Chad]

Even with all the complaining I saw, 75355 is sold out at the US Lego site and at all three of my local stores.

[Mandalorianknight]

 

6 minutes ago, Rwbricks said:

Apparently it’s going to be a special employee gift for those at Lucasfilm. 

Dual-molded legs are interesting.

[AD_Bricks]

6 hours ago, ginja said:

I realise why I received a double bag. Its because another bag is missing.

Ah, damn, that's annoying. Gonna get LEGO to ship you a replacement?

[ginja]

43 minutes ago, AD_Bricks said:

Ah, damn, that's annoying. Gonna get LEGO to ship you a replacement?

Yea, I called customer service. Should be here in like 15 days, which is cool. And the extra parts might be useful for mocs, or finally building jeracs x wing.

[The_Chosen_1]

I hope instructions for the Yoda Fountain employee gift set show up online at some point. The dual molded legs on Yoda are an interesting choice though…

[QuiggoldsPegLeg]

The weirdest part of the dual-moulded Yoda legs is that Yoda doesn’t even wear shoes. So if they were going to do dual-moulding (which feels unnecessary) the bottom of his legs should be green, not brown or nougat like they appear to be in this set. I have no idea why they aren’t the normal tan legs.

[Archer]

On 5/7/2023 at 7:09 AM, AD_Bricks said:

If it has slipped at all, it hasn't slipped much. The simple fact that you've never had this happen to you indicates this. I personally have never heard an example of someone getting a double bag and missing a part in one set before now. I don't reckon things like this happen any more often than they have in the past. I'd wait for us to see an obvious increase in things like this happening before I get concerned.

Nah they've slipped a lot in the last five years or so I have personally experienced missing pieces, double /missing / ripped open bags, missing sticker sheets, poorly aligned sticker sheets in $500+ sets, my C-3PO from the UCS Landspeeder had his legs printed wrong (literally the deciding factor on why i bought the set and it was printed wrong).

For all this the company has a fantastic customer service department and they will make most of these issues right, but they are simply producing more than they used to and it shows in their quality control.

[Mandalorianknight]

After building the death star promo, I've completely turned around on it. I think it's an excellent promo. It looks great, is pretty sizeable, and honestly I greatly prefer it to something like the homestead, figure or not.

[AD_Bricks]

40 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

After building the death star promo, I've completely turned around on it. I think it's an excellent promo. It looks great, is pretty sizeable, and honestly I greatly prefer it to something like the homestead, figure or not.

Mhm, and now a bunch of people who couldn't get a DS before due to budget can actually have some form of DS that's not too tiny. I'm very happy with it for that reason. However, because of this, the VIP coin should definitely have been a figure.

Edited May 8, 2023 by AD_Bricks

[Hhalcyon]

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

After building the death star promo, I've completely turned around on it. I think it's an excellent promo. It looks great, is pretty sizeable, and honestly I greatly prefer it to something like the homestead, figure or not.

Yeah it's fantastic you can sell it for $35 to someone who missed the sale and wants it for some reason. VERY strange way to give out giftcards there Lego, I really would have preferred something i couldn't make on bricklink for 1/10th the promo requirement though. Got it as a bonus to my AT-AT w/ double vip points so i can't complain too much but damn it's worthless lmao.

 

[Matichado]

Hey guys, it’s been a while, any news on the gunship? I’m still hoping it got changed last minute into a regular classic LAAT

[Willsy]

I really don't mind the fact that the LAAT is a variant. We've had 3 play-scale regular versions and a UCS rendition using that livery. I see it as a win all-round: it's unique enough that long-time collectors who might already own past versions can justify it more, and gives newer fans who don't already own a gunship a chance to do so. 

The primarily dark red colour scheme should also look gorgeous, based on how the guard one looks in-universe.

Edited May 9, 2023 by Willsy

[omegabadbatch]

do we really needed 4 332nd clones in swamp speeder? kashyyyk clones would be better really. Its third 501 battlepack

[Flawless Cowboy]

11 hours ago, Matichado said:

Hey guys, it’s been a while, any news on the gunship? I’m still hoping it got changed last minute into a regular classic LAAT

That is not how toy production works

21 minutes ago, omegabadbatch said:

do we really needed 4 332nd clones in swamp speeder? kashyyyk clones would be better really. Its third 501 battlepack

I’m quite tired of the 501st as well, the specialist pack is not army buildable and they are less desirable to me than a new legion would be. Hopefully this means no more 501st going forward though 

[McMurder_them_softly]

I too, am over the 501st. Considering the 332nd different (in my view), I'll take it but then yeah other legions would be cool. 

Picked up both dioramas on Saturday (May 6th) since everything else was wiped clean. Got another set of promos in addition to my UCS X-Wing order from April 30th (midnight). X-Wing looks huge in-person. Speeder Bike diorama looked better than I thought as well.