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

[NoOneOfImportance]

Just now, TheUnusualBuilder said:

Acclamator sounds interesting, I'm surprised to get what will presumably be a very sizeable model for only $50, though I suppose it is very flat. I'm curious whether it'll be the all-gray Attack of the Clones version (which was done for the only previous LEGO Acclamator in an Advent Calendar) or the Clone Wars version in Venator livery (which would pair more nicely with the Invisible Hand).

I'd guess they'll make it a companion to the Hand - Nice to have two $50 ones that pair with each other.

[TheUnusualBuilder]

Buildable Grogu isn't that interesting, but I imagine he'll be smaller to fit into the new builable character scale with R2-D2 and C-3PO (hence also getting the pram this time around).

[Swordy]

6 minutes ago, TheUnusualBuilder said:

According to Brick Clicker, the last two sets are a $50 18+ midi-scale Acclamator (prototype Star Destroyer) and a $100 Buildable Grogu in his pram.

I missed out on buildable Grogu last time, hopefully they don’t mess up his cute face this time around.

Acclamator makes sense. I never saw the logic behind having a UCS Venator alongside a Midi Venator, but an Acclamator is a fair compromise. It’s niche enough to never warrant a large playset or UCS set, but popular enough that LEGO sees value in making it.

I love both ships releasing in midi-scale next year, hopefully they turn out great.

Edited July 8 by Swordy

[NoOneOfImportance]

1 minute ago, Swordy said:

I missed out on buildable Grogu last time, hopefully they don’t mess up his cute face this time around.

Acclamator makes sense. I never saw the logic behind having a UCS Venator alongside a Midi Venator, but an Acclamator is a fair compromise. It’s niche enough to never warrant a large playset or UCS set, but popular enough that LEGO sees value in making it.

I love both ships releasing in midi-scale next year, hopefully they turn out great.

I'm curious on the scale of Grogu. Either they will pour a lot of pieces into the pram, and he will be R2 scale (which would be very small), or it'll be just it's own scale like last time.

[ToaDraco]

Midiscale Acclamator sounds great but buildable Grogu in his pram is an easy pass as we have the old buildable Grogu. Thank goodness for my wallet though. The ARC-170 and Ashoka's Interceptor will both be instant buys though, most likely.

[Yperio_Bricks]

So far none of the upcomming 2025 sets is interesting to me, but that fits nicely with my plans to reduce Lego money next year

Also in my opinion there are too many buildable creatures, buildable droids, mini and midi sets, helmets. etc in LSW nowadays.

[Alex_South]

I have completely put my foot in my mouth on Bob's starfighter, I was so wrong on proportions from that angled perspective shot, I thought it was a mashup of delta-7 with eta-2 proportions. Huge meh and a pass from me, I hate the delta-7 proportions especially in lego. It still looks like a solid version of that ship though.

I am now holding out hope that they overhaul the ETA-2 build in some way. Bob's starfighter is like 15 pieces more than the rumored ETA-2 and it's 5 dollars less, I have no idea what's going into that budget but it better be a slew of new molds and build techniques and several solid minifigures with arm printing.

[BrickBob Studpants]

I think it’s fair to assume that there won’t be a March wave then  Unless we get something amazing in May, the “2HY sets being vastly superior” curse continues!

[TheUnusualBuilder]

8 minutes ago, Swordy said:

I missed out on buildable Grogu last time, hopefully they don’t mess up his cute face this time around

Considering how much smaller he'll have to be for the set to also include the pram (and presumably scale well enough with R2-D2), I imagine they'll have to incorporate some prints for the face rather than fully brickbuilding him, so hopefully it'll be an improvement.

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, NoOneOfImportance said:

Oddly enough, I'm kinda expecting a UCS Infiltrator next year. They keep releasing a UCS for the movie with an anniversary the previous year (Venator being an exception), and a Scimitar would work well for a $240 UCS given its actual size. 

That actually makes a lot of sense as well. 

11 hours ago, wesker said:

I'm curious if this version will come with her re-imagined Clone Wars costume from Tales of the Jedi and the Ahsoka flashbacks.

I was under the impression that that only replaced the S1-S2 costume. Her S3-5 costume isn't nearly as bad.

8 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

N-1: If it was Mando‘s, it‘d be kinda hilarious to see a 4+ Mandalorian set  Not expecting anything new out of this one though.

Why? It's not the most child-friendly thing, but no less than the movies themselves. And it's by far their biggest cash cow in recent years- I honestly can't believe we haven't had it yet.

4 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Jedi Bob’s Starfighter looks great, but the Ackbar Trooper seems like a lazy kitbash even if it’s show-accurate. Does it bother anyone that the novelty and zaniness of Rebuild the Galaxy’s characters are essentially locked behind the Dark Falcon only? It’s the only RBG set that actually seems ‘out there’, character-wise.

Jedi Bob isn't "out there"? 

Though I agree in general. While I'm glad the X-wing/TIE pilot set has the standard pilots, we also needed an X-pilot and Tie-Wing pilot in that set instead of two OCs that look like generic civvies.

15 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Thanks to @Brick Clicker, we know what the other two sets are: a midi-scale Acclamator and a buildable Grogu + pram. Not bad, but not exactly standouts either  Fingers crossed for more AAA sets (Ahsoka/Acolyte/Andor) later in the year!

I was going to say "does this scale with the UCS Venator" but a quick google,  unless it's made of Duplo, it does not.

[starlego98]

I thought that in 2025 we would not get any Mandalorian set, but it seems Lego liked it

[TheUnusualBuilder]

4 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I think it’s fair to assume that there won’t be a March wave then  Unless we get something amazing in May, the “2HY sets being vastly superior” curse continues!

Can it really "continue" if it was impressively broken this very year?

[Mandalorianknight]

4 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

So far none of the upcomming 2025 sets is interesting to me, but that fits nicely with my plans to reduce Lego money next year

Also in my opinion there are too many buildable creatures, buildable droids, mini and midi sets, helmets. etc in LSW nowadays.

I agree- I wish we could tone it down to 4-5 dioramas/buildibles per year in total instead of half the waves being made of them. 

Also, more cheap sets! Marvel, despite other flaws, has been doing a great job with these little $10 sets with two figures and a small build. More of that, please!

3 minutes ago, Alex_South said:

I have completely put my foot in my mouth on Bob's starfighter, I was so wrong on proportions from that angled perspective shot, I thought it was a mashup of delta-7 with eta-2 proportions. Huge meh and a pass from me, I hate the delta-7 proportions especially in lego. It still looks like a solid version of that ship though.

I am now holding out hope that they overhaul the ETA-2 build in some way. Bob's starfighter is like 15 pieces more than the rumored ETA-2 and it's 5 dollars less, I have no idea what's going into that budget but it better be a slew of new molds and build techniques and several solid minifigures with arm printing.

Same here- it's just a delta with some add-ons, and not $10 of add-ons.

Seriously. Bob's fighter already seems pretty overpriced, and we're jumping it up another $5 for fewer parts?

[NoOneOfImportance]

Just now, Mandalorianknight said:

 

Seriously. Bob's fighter already seems pretty overpriced, and we're jumping it up another $5 for fewer parts?

I'm hoping that it includes some new moulded Buzz droids, or something else to justify the price... Also, if it's earlier CW seasons Ahsoka, I guess they'll just use the show Lekku? 

[Mandalorianknight]

Just now, NoOneOfImportance said:

I'm hoping that it includes some new moulded Buzz droids, or something else to justify the price... Also, if it's earlier CW seasons Ahsoka, I guess they'll just use the show Lekku? 

See that wouldn't do it for me. Bob's starfighter is already overpriced compared to Yoda's starfighter, which was overpriced compared to Obi-wan's. We're just jumping the price $5/year (or now, per HY) with no real increase. I don't think it's gonna be $5 overpriced- I think most likely this set has like 3 figs and is $15 overpriced, maybe $10 if it's molded buzz droids and/or more figs. 

I assume yeah they'll just use the show lekku. They never seem to keep multiple lekku molds around at the same time.

 

Grogu with pram is kind of annoying, but I guess it'll sell like hotcakes to adults who aren't otherwise lego fans. :/ Just wish we could get both those kinds of sets AND system sets instead of the either-or. Acclamator is fine.

 

 

This ARC-170 better be the greatest thing to grace the toy aisle or I think it's gonna be my first full HY skip in a LONG time.

[Kit Figsto]

12 hours ago, MaximillianRebo said:

Agreed, the only anniversaries they really follow are their own. Even the OT films which get more attention in this regard only have a couple of sets for each film (the only ROTJ anniversary playset was the TIE Bomber which was much more prominent in ESB ...), the 2003 Clone Wars anniversary got sets from the 2008 show, and this year's Sith Infiltrator is listed as a TLG anniversary only and the fact it's also the 25th anniversary of TPM is just a happy accident. Yet many people are still expecting a large contingent of ROTS sets to drop next year...

Yeah, we have this whole song and dance routine any time it's an anniversary (which, to my account, is literally every year now except those ending in 1, since we've had saga movies come out in years ending in 0, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9).  They've only ever done major acknowledgements of the LSW anniversary and of the 30th anniversary of ANH when they did the gold C-3PO promotion.  We basically can expect 2-3 actual movie tie-ins per year, and then they may label some other stuff with the anniversary branding if the Star Wars brand as a whole is using it (such as the TIE Bomber using the ROTJ anniversary logo on the box, even though that set has pretty much nothing to do with ROTJ).  This year we got the Droideka, Podrace diorama, and Sith Infiltrator (technically the AAT polybag and Trooper carrier GWP, but I won't count those).  Last year, we got the two ROTJ dioramas and the TIE Bomber.  I don't even know if 2022 had anything for the 35th anniversary of ANH, there were three ANH sets (two dioramas and the UCS Landspeeder) but I have no idea if they were actually branded or anything, they all seemed like sets that could've come in any year.

Point being, I don't know why everyone has to get all worked up over anniversaries quite literally every year, because they just don't go all out for them, yet from the way people talk, you'd think that EVERY anniversary is getting a giant wave of sets and it's only THIS specific year that we're getting screwed out of an anniversary wave.  

We've got the ARC-170 confirmed, that's already a big one and is pretty highly requested, so I'm betting we get some sort of 18+ set in the summer wave and then probably 1-2 more system scale sets too, and that'll be it.

[TheUnusualBuilder]

22 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Also, more cheap sets! Marvel, despite other flaws, has been doing a great job with these little $10 sets with two figures and a small build. More of that, please!

Oh, I'd LOVE if LEGO Star Wars could start doing some cute $10-$13 playsets, especially since Microfighters are all but extinct. Not holding my breath for it to ever happen, though.

[Alex_South]

9 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

See that wouldn't do it for me. Bob's starfighter is already overpriced compared to Yoda's starfighter, which was overpriced compared to Obi-wan's. We're just jumping the price $5/year (or now, per HY) with no real increase. I don't think it's gonna be $5 overpriced- I think most likely this set has like 3 figs and is $15 overpriced, maybe $10 if it's molded buzz droids and/or more figs.

Yeah I feel the same, but it could be a wild card in terms of quality. I re-watched that scene and I feel like it's gotta have a new Anakin figure, but it's late clone wars anakin is basically the ROTS version, if he had a new hairpiece of the quality of luke's new hairpiece I would be interested, but after the scenes in the Ahsoka show we all want an arm printed early clone wars version.

Also I am mentally preparing myself regarding the build to see them rehash the same core build they have been using for 20 years, but if they actually did something new, I would pay for it. It's a small ship but there is still a ton of room for improvement. That being said, I can't find any mocs that even look viable, so I have no idea how they would go about overhauling the design, it seems like there is nowhere left to go and we will just get a recolor of 2020 with some parts moved around.

[Lego Nostalgia]

I'm actually scared this theme is heading down a path like Marvel where we get buildable characters like Yoda/C-3PO and Grogu with his Pram, We had a good few Clone sets these past 3 years but there's still Legions and Commanders we're missing plus we need some Prequel Dioramas that aren't Microscale, this August Wave is kind of lacking so I fear the 2025 August Wave won't be anything special either.

[TheUnusualBuilder]

2 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

 We had a good few Clone sets these past 3 years but there's still Legions and Commanders we're missing

Everytime somebody complains that LEGO hasn't done ENOUGH Clone sets in the last few years, an angel gets its wings clipped and deep fried in peanut oil.

[NoOneOfImportance]

3 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I'm actually scared this theme is heading down a path like Marvel where we get buildable characters like Yoda/C-3PO and Grogu with his Pram, We had a good few Clone sets these past 3 years but there's still Legions and Commanders we're missing plus we need some Prequel Dioramas that aren't Microscale, this August Wave is kind of lacking so I fear the 2025 August Wave won't be anything special either.

There is more than just PT stuff we need...

[Classic_Spaceman]

ARC-170 and Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor LET’S KRIFFING GO!!!! 
The price for the ARC-170 is not bad (about $10 lower than I would have expected), but $45 for Ahsoka’s starfighter is crazy! I get that the canopy will probably bump up the price a bit when compared to something like a Delta-7, but this seems excessive. I would like to think that we are getting a few new moulds and a decent number of good Minifigs, but it is probably just an Ahsoka tax. 🫤

As for Minifigs, Ahsoka’s Eta-2 appears during the Battle of Cato Neimoidia, so the set should include her brown costume from the latter half of TCW (hopefully with arm printing for the diamond cutouts on her sleeves!), R7-A7, and maybe a buzz droid or two. The only additional characters who I can see appearing are Anakin (RotS version, as he had switched from his earlier armoured design by this point), Rex (reused, ideally with a jetpack as he is wearing one in the scene), or just a 501st Trooper. 
For the ARC-170, we are probably getting Oddball or Jag, at least one P2 Clone Pilot, an Astromech, and probably a Jedi to mix things up (likely Plo Koon if we get Jag). 
 

17 hours ago, FoggyFate said:

There’s no battle pack in those prices 

Can you say if we are getting a battle pack at all in January (number not part of this list), and if not, at least in March/May? Also, any Microfighters or mechs in 1HY? 
 

[Lego Nostalgia]

1 hour ago, TheUnusualBuilder said:

Everytime somebody complains that LEGO hasn't done ENOUGH Clone sets in the last few years, an angel gets its wings clipped and deep fried in peanut oil.

I'm just saying we haven't gotten everyone, I just want Bly and his Legion and Wolffe and then we can move on from Clones.

58 minutes ago, NoOneOfImportance said:

There is more than just PT stuff we need...

I know but PT isn't getting the same love as OT, there hasn't been one PT Diorama in Minifigure scale

We really need an Endor Bunker and some more Imperial Battle Packs

[NoOneOfImportance]

2 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I'm just saying we haven't gotten everyone, I just want Bly and his Legion and Wolffe and then we can move on from Clones.

I know but PT isn't getting the same love as OT, there hasn't been one PT Diorama in Minifigure scale

We really need an Endor Bunker and some more Imperial Battle Packs

I appreciate the note of needing more OT BPs and bunker, etc. 

I would agree that the PT would have some great scenes for dioramas, but they also tried to start with more iconic scenes (Except the speeder chase to a degree) from the OT to appeal to a slightly wider group of fans, and even that didn't pay off well for them, so we'll see what they do from here I guess. 

And I understand the desire for certain legions. There are a lot of good ones to remake/make.

My problem is that there is a consistent discontentedness from Clone fans in the community. If we got Bly, then people want Wolfe, and then people want the marine corps, and then people want... And then by the end of it all, people will complain that they haven't made 501st in 4 years. And people are allowed to want all of those. I'm not critiquing the desire. But too many people just keep acting like whatever LEGO does clone-wise isn't "enough" because for years they didn't make as many... Despite literally 6 years of Clone Wars sets up until a decade ago. I'm all for LEGO making more clone legions and doing unique things, but there are also OT fans who don't feel heard when they say they want OT packs, because all they get back is that "LEGO made those before, now clones." 
For the record, @Lego Nostalgia, this isn't directed at you, but it's just where I've seen the argument go, and why there is frustration at times from some when people say that they want a couple of other particular legions. 

[Lego Nostalgia]

4 minutes ago, NoOneOfImportance said:

I appreciate the note of needing more OT BPs and bunker, etc. 

I would agree that the PT would have some great scenes for dioramas, but they also tried to start with more iconic scenes (Except the speeder chase to a degree) from the OT to appeal to a slightly wider group of fans, and even that didn't pay off well for them, so we'll see what they do from here I guess. 

And I understand the desire for certain legions. There are a lot of good ones to remake/make.

My problem is that there is a consistent discontentedness from Clone fans in the community. If we got Bly, then people want Wolfe, and then people want the marine corps, and then people want... And then by the end of it all, people will complain that they haven't made 501st in 4 years. And people are allowed to want all of those. I'm not critiquing the desire. But too many people just keep acting like whatever LEGO does clone-wise isn't "enough" because for years they didn't make as many... Despite literally 6 years of Clone Wars sets up until a decade ago. I'm all for LEGO making more clone legions and doing unique things, but there are also OT fans who don't feel heard when they say they want OT packs, because all they get back is that "LEGO made those before, now clones." 
For the record, @Lego Nostalgia, this isn't directed at you, but it's just where I've seen the argument go, and why there is frustration at times from some when people say that they want a couple of other particular legions. 

I get what you mean, people will be asking for a random clone that appeared for less than 5 seconds on screen, for me I'd just like Bly and Wolffe and that's it, no more, we got the 501st,212th,187th,Shock Troopers and finally plain P2 clones which I'm very thankful for and it annoys me that people complain about helmet holes when we should be glad we've gotten all the main legions/types

I'm hoping for a Night Trooper Battle Pack with 3 Night Troopers and 1 Death Trooper, I'd actually love that instead of more Clones however I'm worried we won't get that Battle Pack at all, surely they'll reuse the Night Trooper somewhere right ?