LEGO Star Wars 2024 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[starlego98]

16 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Unless this is something about the rex microfighter, which I still can't find in-store, I haven't noticed any difference between the mandalorian and clone visor packs recently. Do you mean from the older accessories from when they first made the packs, back when it came with the flashlight attachments?

No, I'm not referring to the lack of the flashlight attachment. I'm referring to the material of the rangefinders and visors that were introduced with the phase two clones with holes in their helmets. If you look at a rangefinder from the official 501st battle pack clone, for example, compared to the rangefinder from Boba Fett's mech, you'll see that the small dot in the mold is deeper in Boba Fett's than in the clone's

[Alex_South]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I'd be fine with this. If it's not gonna have the sarlacc, I do think it needs a side build to add to the scene without needing another set. I also think that it needs a LOT more figures than what's currently rumored, this should be a daily bugle level figure count.

I looked at that old leaked prototype photo (I think I found the correct one) and it doesn't seem like a 500$ build, not seeing as drastic of a difference the way I did between the AT-AT UCS and playset, It does seem like it would need a side build and more figures.

[ForgedInLego]

4 minutes ago, Alex_South said:

I looked at that old leaked prototype photo (I think I found the correct one) and it doesn't seem like a 500$ build, not seeing as drastic of a difference the way I did between the AT-AT UCS and playset, It does seem like it would need a side build and more figures.

I looked back at the survey pics too, and the final Barad Dur model looks significantly different than the survey pic (although there are some details that are the same, like the tops of the turrets and the A wing fin door frame). With an even longer time gap between the survey and production, I think there is a ton of room for the size to shift around. TBH the survey pic looked like a very basic model, just plates with scattered tiles, not even the fins on the back or the deck gun. That being said, with how Lego's pricing has been lately, I don't have high hopes

[omegabadbatch]

battle on peridea is such a profitable set. Look at minifigures. For me the best one is night trooper and then thrawn. 55$ is very good price. This ahsoka set is the best one from all ahsoka sets. I think that lego wants from people to buy many of this set for night troopers. Just like people were buying aats for 332 clone.

[Kaijumeister]

1 hour ago, omegabadbatch said:

battle on peridea is such a profitable set. Look at minifigures. For me the best one is night trooper and then thrawn.

I understand the critiques comparing this to the Obi-Wan vs. Vader duel set, but the build for this one is far better. The presence of the black and gold pillars really helps, but even the way the surface of the model is split into segments helps break it up rather than just being grey plates piled together. Totally agree it’s a winner of a set.

I’d argue all the Ahsoka sets have been absolute winners though, it’s probably the Disney+ show with the best Lego representation at this point. The builds have been excellent and colourful as have the minifigures, and they easily surpass the Mandalorian Season 3 sets for me even though the June sets have been great. The only misstep IMO was the T-6 build being so small.

 

Edited July 7 by Kaijumeister

[Lordhelmet]

1 hour ago, Kaijumeister said:

I’d argue all the Ahsoka sets have been absolute winners though, it’s probably the Disney+ show with the best Lego representation at this point. The builds have been excellent and colourful as have the minifigures, and they easily surpass the Mandalorian Season 3 sets for me even though the June sets have been great. The only misstep IMO was the T-6 build being so small

I would agree, the ghost last year was excellent.  Definitely the best overall set selection from a Disney plus show.  Plus the minifigures have been awesome overall.  The only complaints I have heard about the minifigures have been Ezra’s eyes, more detail on trooper, and some really minor things overall.  Great group of sets.

Wish we had gotten some more Andor sets.  That show was focused more on adults though.

Also if your looking for a big T-6 build 2bricks has a few videos on YouTube building a UCS sized one, looks impressive.

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I understand the critiques comparing this to the Obi-Wan vs. Vader duel set, but the build for this one is far better. The presence of the black and gold pillars really helps, but even the way the surface of the model is split into segments helps break it up rather than just being grey plates piled together. Totally agree it’s a winner of a set.

I’d argue all the Ahsoka sets have been absolute winners though, it’s probably the Disney+ show with the best Lego representation at this point. The builds have been excellent and colourful as have the minifigures, and they easily surpass the Mandalorian Season 3 sets for me even though the June sets have been great. The only misstep IMO was the T-6 build being so small.

 

Exactly. It looks much more presentable and more like a display than the Obi-wan duel. It's an excellent set.

I totally agree that Ahsoka's been covered exceedingly well, but I want more! Night trooper battle pack, imperial dropship, Chimera, diorama of endgame Baylan on the statue (Ok maybe that one isn't as realistic), a larger shuttle, a small set with the Howler and bandits, etc.

 

 

I got excited about this Jedi Master Gift Set instruction listing I found before I realized it was just the walmart repack.

[CloneCommando99]

12 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I totally agree that Ahsoka's been covered exceedingly well, but I want more! Night trooper battle pack, imperial dropship, Chimera, diorama of endgame Baylan on the statue (Ok maybe that one isn't as realistic), a larger shuttle, a small set with the Howler and bandits, etc.

“I want more, and I know I shouldn’t.” 

You can either have a Night Trooper BP or a Patrol Gunship. A patrol gunship is probably our best chance at getting JFO trooper variants. Which one will it be?
Meanwhile: Ahsoka and Mandalorian already getting all the TV show sets whilst Andor is left with an overpriced gunship.

 

[Alex_South]

19 hours ago, ForgedInLego said:

I looked back at the survey pics too, and the final Barad Dur model looks significantly different than the survey pic (although there are some details that are the same, like the tops of the turrets and the A wing fin door frame). With an even longer time gap between the survey and production, I think there is a ton of room for the size to shift around. TBH the survey pic looked like a very basic model, just plates with scattered tiles, not even the fins on the back or the deck gun. That being said, with how Lego's pricing has been lately, I don't have high hopes

It has the potential to be an amazing display. If they reign in the desire to make the barge a shelf queen and keep the size closer to "beefed up play-set" and include a second skiff and got the price closer to 300-350 MBS with 5 more guard figures I think they would sell a lot more of these than if they do the inevitable 3' long 500$ barge. There are just so many other sets higher on my list before I would ever waste over $300 on a giant UCS pile of monochrome bricks, but that's just me.

4 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I’d argue all the Ahsoka sets have been absolute winners though, it’s probably the Disney+ show with the best Lego representation at this point. The builds have been excellent and colourful as have the minifigures, and they easily surpass the Mandalorian Season 3 sets for me even though the June sets have been great. The only misstep IMO was the T-6 build being so small.

Objectively I completely agree, but emotionally I wish they had done several things different and the biggest gripe I have is the T-6, I want them to re-release that set at the price and scale of the onyx cinder/millenium falcon, I am hoping we get definitive versions of mando-verse stuff once that era makes it's way into theaters. Up to this point it appears that mandoverse is the future of star wars cinema and I feel that reflected in the merch, Lego support for the other shows are hit or miss but they have been building the mandoverse era for several years now and I hope it leads to some incredible movie waves.

[Kaijumeister]

11 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

“I want more, and I know I shouldn’t.” 

You can either have a Night Trooper BP or a Patrol Gunship. A patrol gunship is probably our best chance at getting JFO trooper variants. Which one will it be?

The funny thing about JFO / Survivor is that there are so many classic Imperial vehicles in the games that Lego could just release those, throw in characters from the games and that’d honestly be enough to make a lot of people happy, myself included. 

I sound like a broken record at this point but it’s honestly so disappointing that the only Cal Kestis we’re supposedly ever going to get is the half-baked one from the ISD. If that figure had the same effort put into it as the likes of Fives and Saw, that would’ve tipped me towards buying the set on day 1.

@Mandalorianknight Totally agree that more sets from the show would be more than welcome, hopefully a battle pack in January is possible at the very least.

@Alex_South Yeah for sure. I think they made a mistake allocating a larger slot towards the E-Wing vs. Fiend Fighter, as great as that set was, the price point should’ve been allocated to the T-6.

[Mandalorianknight]

34 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

“I want more, and I know I shouldn’t.” 

You can either have a Night Trooper BP or a Patrol Gunship. A patrol gunship is probably our best chance at getting JFO trooper variants. Which one will it be?
Meanwhile: Ahsoka and Mandalorian already getting all the TV show sets whilst Andor is left with an overpriced gunship.

Night Trooper BP, especially if it comes with an Enoch. We can get the gunship from a different story in the franchise if we have to.

I understand the lack of andor sets. It's the best star wars show in many ways, but not a show kids would enjoy, and while it has some incredible scenes, not many lend themselves well to dioramas.

10 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

The funny thing about JFO / Survivor is that there are so many classic Imperial vehicles in the games that Lego could just release those, throw in characters from the games and that’d honestly be enough to make a lot of people happy, myself included. 

I sound like a broken record at this point but it’s honestly so disappointing that the only Cal Kestis we’re supposedly ever going to get is the half-baked one from the ISD. If that figure had the same effort put into it as the likes of Fives and Saw, that would’ve tipped me towards buying the set on day 1.

@Mandalorianknight Totally agree that more sets from the show would be more than welcome, hopefully a battle pack in January is possible at the very least.

@Alex_South Yeah for sure. I think they made a mistake allocating a larger slot towards the E-Wing vs. Fiend Fighter, as great as that set was, the price point should’ve been allocated to the T-6.

I don't get why they don't do this more often- it seems like a no-brainer. Have the main build be something everyone recognizes to counteract any risk of characters from a slightly less iconic part of the franchise.

Completely agree about the E-wing set being the weakest. Also gave us two characters we didn't really need- new pilot is nice, but not exactly one of the many desirable ahsoka figures we're missing, and the IKEA droid is only there because an astromech is needed for the ship.

[BrickBob Studpants]

58 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I understand the lack of andor sets. It's the best star wars show in many ways, but not a show kids would enjoy, and while it has some incredible scenes, not many lend themselves well to dioramas.

The speeches are great and easily the best part of the show to me. The ensuing action scenes… are not. Apart from the getaway on Aldani and Luthen’s escape, those two are cool. The others are competently made, but that’s about it. They’re not very memorable in my opinion and there are quite a few missed opportunities. Take the bell guy for instance. He’s dual-wielding giant hammers and when a Stormie approaches him, he… kicks him. Compare that to the badass scene with the Armourer from Mando S1

And it’s not hard to see why the Mandoverse has so much more set representation than Andor. One has cool-looking characters with awesome armour, Jedi, lightsabers, droids, new troopers, aliens, awesome baddies, colourful spaceships, and classic SW imagery in general; and the other has generic-looking people in brown and tan costumes, Imperials in regular uniforms, no new troop types, barely any aliens, only one droid that sticks out, and only one interesting spaceship  I still want the Fondor, but nothing else is really set-worthy.

[Alex_South]

53 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

I sound like a broken record at this point but it’s honestly so disappointing that the only Cal Kestis we’re supposedly ever going to get is the half-baked one from the ISD. If that figure had the same effort put into it as the likes of Fives and Saw, that would’ve tipped me towards buying the set on day 1.

I completely agree, but there will be a 3rd game and the series is doing really well so far, I believe a Mantis set is coming so I have no trouble skipping this cal figure, the fact that they put him in such an expensive set means they absolutely know the market is there. I think a mantis set also has good odds of being one of the best interpretations in recent years.

That's half the success of the ships like the onyx cinder, it's a basic design and easy to implement in lego, unlike the T-6 which is harder to make a playset out of at a good size with the right cockpit shape and proportions without wasting a ton of bricks on the stupid giant double sided wing, I still wish they tried though haha. The onyx cinder is a great build but a boring design imo, but the mantis is a more iconic design (especially if you play the game), it has a smaller rotating wing that won't be a piece-hog like the T-6 wing, and the body of the ship is sensible for a strong build with easy to access and usable interior, it's such a sensible design, which lends itself to being good lego.

I am holding out hope that we get some iconic builds for ships that actually have good source material in the next few years. To pass the time I think I will get the Jedi Bob starfighter and one or two of the little clone sets to do a fun minimalist clone wars era display on my shelf. I got rex for the fig(I'm not displaying the y-wing lol), I might also grab the grogu set for the incredible lamppost, speeder and 2 501st to go with rex.

Bob's fighter is white and red instead of dark red so I am not sure how it would pair with the speeder+sidecar which has the same coloring as the coruscant guard gunship I think, but in a funny way that lamppost will look great next to it since it's right out of the lego games.

[BrickBob Studpants]

We have a rumoured set list for January, courtesy of Childish Landino on IG:

• 75401: $44.99, 290 pcs
• 75402: $69.99, 497 pcs
• 75403: $99.99, 1048 pcs
• 75404 (18+): $49.99, 450 pcs
• 75405 (18+): $69.99, 559 pcs
• 75410 (4+): $29.99, 92 pcs

Interesting, if correct! I‘m a bit doubtful these are all January sets, given that the 18+ sets so far have consistently been released in either March or May  The lack of a BP is also a bit annoying, but there‘s potential for other cool sets!

[Mandalorianknight]

23 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

We have a rumoured set list for January, courtesy of Childish Landino on IG:

• 75401: $44.99, 290 pcs
• 75402: $69.99, 497 pcs
• 75403: $99.99, 1048 pcs
• 75404 (18+): $49.99, 450 pcs
• 75405 (18+): $69.99, 559 pcs
• 75410 (4+): $29.99, 92 pcs

Interesting, if correct! I‘m a bit doubtful these are all January sets, given that the 18+ sets so far have consistently been released in either March or May  The lack of a BP is also a bit annoying, but there‘s potential for other cool sets!

No battle pack actually concerns me a fair bit. Stuff like the Super Battle Pack is fun and all, but they can really only do it for clones/droids since droids aren't counted as full figures.

Two 18+ sets in january is also interesting- my guess is micro ships or something new, because I don't think we've had a diorama around $50 before. I hope the dioramas aren't dead- lego has a bad habit of quickly scrapping these sublines, and I like the dioramas. I want to be able to keep expanding them.

I'm also going to throw a crazy soul read out there and say that 75410 is a 4+ version of Anakin's ETA-2.

[NoOneOfImportance]

2 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Two 18+ sets in january is also interesting- my guess is micro ships or something new, because I don't think we've had a diorama around $50 before. I hope the dioramas aren't dead- lego has a bad habit of quickly scrapping these sublines, and I like the dioramas. I want to be able to keep expanding them.

I'm also going to throw a crazy soul read out there and say that 75410 is a 4+ version of Anakin's ETA-2.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were either 18+ buildables like the droideka, or 18+ midis. Given we got one measly diorama this year, and I'm guessing it didn't do well either, I wouldn't be surprised if they killed that subline of sets. 

[Llewop]

44 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

We have a rumoured set list for January, courtesy of Childish Landino on IG:

• 75401: $44.99, 290 pcs
• 75402: $69.99, 497 pcs
• 75403: $99.99, 1048 pcs
• 75404 (18+): $49.99, 450 pcs
• 75405 (18+): $69.99, 559 pcs
• 75410 (4+): $29.99, 92 pcs

Interesting, if correct! I‘m a bit doubtful these are all January sets, given that the 18+ sets so far have consistently been released in either March or May  The lack of a BP is also a bit annoying, but there‘s potential for other cool sets!

Six sets in January? Given the recent years I expect the 4+ and two others are in January and the 2 18+ sets in March. 

my money for the 4+ set is on either the young Jedi adventures series or another set based on what the summer stuff is on. 

One of those 18+ sets could be a new helmet and the other a midi scale ship.

hoping the 3 others are acolyte sets or (at least one or two) and maybe if we’re lucky an MTT. 

im concerned as well at a lack of a battle pack but if its right and it is 6 sets for January then maybe there is a battle pack coming for March and or May 

[Kaijumeister]

@Alex_South Completely agree with wanting some more ‘iconic’ builds from the line. I always look to the Ghost and Scythe as particular examples where the builds are close to flawless and are some of the best Lego sets out there even even without the Star Wars label attached.

2025 rumours let’s gooo. There’s no way at least one of those sets isn’t based on the Acolyte, I’d love another Ahsoka set as well as we’ve seen from the follow up Mandalorian sets that they’re willing to piece them out over multiple waves.

I’d be surprised if any of these sets are based on RotS as we’ve seen that previous anniversary tie-ins (TPM this year, TESB in 2020) usually release around summer time, but could be completely off the mark there.

Edited July 7 by Kaijumeister

[YourLocalB2]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The lack of a BP is also a bit annoying,

until the battle pack is revealed to be the $45 set

[brimbolet]

Perhaps the prices are Canadian$ ? 75372 clone trooper & droid bp is currently 40$

[FoggyFate]

There’s no battle pack in those prices 

$45 is a Jedi Interceptor 

$70 is an ARC-170

[ForgedInLego]

20 minutes ago, FoggyFate said:

There’s no battle pack in those prices 

$45 is a Jedi Interceptor 

$70 is an ARC-170

LETS GOOOOOOOO!

There goes $115 lol 

Any droid fighters?

[NoOneOfImportance]

20 minutes ago, FoggyFate said:

There’s no battle pack in those prices 

$45 is a Jedi Interceptor 

$70 is an ARC-170

Yay for Jedi Fighters being $45 now...

[FoggyFate]

Just now, NoOneOfImportance said:

Yay for Jedi Fighters being $45 now...

Yeah with 290 pieces lol, something is wrong there 

[NoOneOfImportance]

Just now, FoggyFate said:

Yeah with 290 pieces lol, something is wrong there 

Agreed. Hoping that there is at least something of substance there, because otherwise that's just an awful price..