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[starlego98]

next paperbag plain clone trooper

[Yperio_Bricks]

2 minutes ago, starlego98 said:

next paperbag plain clone trooper

Yeah, just saw a review of the Vader issue with a preview of the next one. Boo!

When will we get Sabine??

[BrickBob Studpants]

16 minutes ago, Swordy said:

I’m not used to a large UCS set releasing in October and not on Black Friday. When did the Venator leak last year, if anyone remembers?

It leaked on the 9th of September  Technically, we had two leaks already (last year‘s survey leak plus one of the inner boxes recently), but these don‘t really count, I know

[CallumPears]

2 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Yeah, just saw a review of the Vader issue with a preview of the next one. Boo!

When will we get Sabine??

According to the guy who posted it on Reddit the Clone is in the issue after Sabine so we'll get her first

 

Edit: Done some looking through YouTube videos and you're right- the Clone is advertised as the next issue after Vader. Weird. I saw somewhere that Spain isn't getting the Vader one so maybe Sabine is just for them instead? That'd really suck if true though. 

Edited July 11 by CallumPears

[Yperio_Bricks]

1 minute ago, CallumPears said:

According to the guy who posted it on Reddit the Clone is in the issue after Sabine so we'll get her first

So i hope we get her after the Clone then (in Germany).

[MaximillianRebo]

Just curious, as I wasn't following forums back then, but what was the reaction to sets from Freemaker Adventures and Yoda Chronicles back when they released? The media landscape wasn't as cluttered then with so many shows/movies vying for sets; when Yoda Chronicles released Clone Wars had finished (for the time) and Rebels was just about to start, and while the Freemaker sets released during the Sequel years, they released in June while the film orientated sets released later in the year.

On a side note, I can see the Onyx Cinder becoming the new 2014 Ghost: a ship design not seen before from a new show that people don't know much about, with the ship only becoming popular later in the show's run after the set has retired.

[Mandalorianknight]

20 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I‘m seemingly one of the few people who didn‘t much care for the show, so I can chime in with some reasons

• I don‘t like Cassian. He was my least favourite character in Rogue One, and the show did little to improve my opinion on this selfish backstabbing a-hole. The show should‘ve focussed on actually interesting and more likeable characters like Luthen.
• The sideplots go nowhere, at least in S1. Usually, sideplots merge with the main plot at some point. Here, it‘s the opposite, Mon Mothma‘s sideplot starts off connected, but has less and less to do with Cassian‘s shenanigans as the show progresses to the point I‘m wondering why it‘s even there. Seriously, unless they explain it in S2, what is the point of having Mon Mothma in this? For instance, Vel being her cousin is treated like a big twist, but it doesn‘t affect anything (so far).
• A lot of the side characters are super flat and flavourless. You have fascinating characters like Nemik, but also ones that just exist, like Teremyn, Cinta, that jealous boyfriend guy, or most of the prisoners. Having next to no aliens doesn‘t help things.
• Cyril. Just Cyril. Why do we have so many scenes with him getting berated by his mother? One would have sufficed. Also, why does he get so much screentime? He’ll obviously expose Luthen at the end, but we don‘t need to see his boring life for that.
• Where‘s the espionage? This was advertised as a spy thriller, and the eponymous character doesn‘t do any spying  Granted, there‘s the ISB and Lonny, but still.
• The show blatantly breaks the „show, don‘t tell“ rule. They talk so much about certain characters only for them to die off-screen (like Kreegyr).
• The action pales in comparison to the build-up. Great speeches, very mediocre action that follows them.

What I do like are some of the characters (Luthen, Kino, Nemik, Saw) and the speeches. Just my 2 cents  

I don‘t hate the show, but I do hate the fact that after 24 episodes, Andor will likely end up as a top contender for the SW character with the most life-action screentime, and he‘s not worthy of that title in my opinion 

That said, I‘m looking forward to S2 since K2 and other characters from RO will be in it  And the Fondor would make for an excellent set!

1. Cassian's a better guy in this, though? We start off with his colder side but we also see him really help the people he cares about. But he's definitely not a Luke-like figure, and that's sort of the point. It's how a normal dude, starting off just looking for his sister, can become a heroic figure, even if his true actions are very morally complicated.

2. Many of them do, but the two main ones I hear are Cassian's sister and Mon Mothma. Sure, Cassian's sister doesn't really go anywhere. It's a hook to get us into the story as he loses more and more links to his past. But I think we'll hear about it again in S2. People had similar complaints about Loki and it ended up delivering the best ending in MCU TV history. As for Mon, it's directly related to not only Andor but Luthen. We see Andor's much more ground-level work and sacrifices, and we see what Mon has to sacrifice up at the top.

3. Some of them, sure, but I'd argue that's more than true of most SW shows. Only difference is they just look like normal people- because that's a major point of the show, these are normal people, not force users or spys or crazy looking aliens. 

4. Cyril's one of the major characters, that's why he gets so much screentime. He's there to show how someone would get radicalized into the empire. It's a parallel to Cassian entering the rebellion.

5. There's a ton of cloak-and-blade, spying, etc. There's a heist where one of the main players is an imperial colonel who's working with the rebels. There's the ISB and Lonny. There's Luthen's double life and Mon's double life. Just because the main character isn't sneaking around listening to conversations doesn't mean there isn't spying or espionage.

6. The show shows plenty and tells when it makes sense. We don't see Kreegyr because he's not meant to be seen. He's meant to be an expendable group Saw and Luthen let die to show how fine they are letting people get killed to keep a source, and a scene where some rebels get blown up in space wouldn't have added much. In fact, I'm sure many of the same people would complain if we spent time with Kreegyr only for him to go out like that, in a plot that "goes nowhere".

7. The action isn't the point, but I'd argue what we do get is awesome. Both big spaceship fights- the Eye and the Fondor escape- the escape from Ferrix with Brasso's chopper kill, the prison escape, the INCREDIBLE Rix Road finale. But the point of the show isn't the action scenes, it's the ideas around them. 

47 minutes ago, MaximillianRebo said:

Just curious, as I wasn't following forums back then, but what was the reaction to sets from Freemaker Adventures and Yoda Chronicles back when they released? The media landscape wasn't as cluttered then with so many shows/movies vying for sets; when Yoda Chronicles released Clone Wars had finished (for the time) and Rebels was just about to start, and while the Freemaker sets released during the Sequel years, they released in June while the film orientated sets released later in the year.

I'd also like to know this. There was a TIE Phantom lookalike released during it, but the rest really had no inspiration in non-lego star wars content, and were more different than even the RTG sets which are at least just modified versions of canon/legends vehicles, so I can imagine the reaction being harsh,

Edited July 12 by Mandalorianknight

[ARC2149Nova]

53 minutes ago, MaximillianRebo said:

Just curious, as I wasn't following forums back then, but what was the reaction to sets from Freemaker Adventures and Yoda Chronicles back when they released? The media landscape wasn't as cluttered then with so many shows/movies vying for sets; when Yoda Chronicles released Clone Wars had finished (for the time) and Rebels was just about to start, and while the Freemaker sets released during the Sequel years, they released in June while the film orientated sets released later in the year.

On a side note, I can see the Onyx Cinder becoming the new 2014 Ghost: a ship design not seen before from a new show that people don't know much about, with the ship only becoming popular later in the show's run after the set has retired.

Jek's original outing was fairly well-received, it was seen as a one-off, the ship was from the EU (the superior E-Wing ), and the figs were pretty cool. Then when we next saw him, again it was one set, and we got an Ithorian (years before we'd get ol' Hammerhead from the Cantina).

Freemakers was when things started to get testy. We at least got new ESB Bounty Hunters out of it, Rebels fans got Quarrie, and there were some decent figures otherwise, sets like the Non-TIE-Phantom were also nice. But people weren't happy overall when the Freemakers debuted.

And now, LEGO's Star Wars OCs have worn out their welcome, I think.

[Lego Nostalgia]

7 hours ago, starlego98 said:

next paperbag plain clone trooper

Wish they'd do the Clone Gunner from the AT-TE in a Paperbag

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

And now, LEGO's Star Wars OCs have worn out their welcome, I think.

They‘ve been way too infrequent to have already outstayed their welcome  Maybe if OC sets were a yearly thing!

We had two YC sets (one in 2013, the other in 2014), two FM sets in 2016, three in 2017, and now three RTG sets in 2024. That‘s fewer sets in 12 years than individual movies have received within a year after their debut  

Also, kids won‘t mind since a lot of them weren‘t around or too young for LEGO when the FM sets dropped. I wager most collectors won‘t mind either with all the cool exclusive minifigs, even though they‘re not canon.

I‘ll take a Falcon with a crazy colour scheme and bonkers minifigs over the same old boring OT Falcon with the same uninteresting minifigs any day  Now that we finally have Nien Nunb, there‘s pretty much nothing an OT Falcon could offer in terms of new minifigs.

Edited July 12 by BrickBob Studpants

[BrickBob Studpants]

According to exabricks, buildable logos will be coming next year, with Marvel and SW ones making the start (assuming they‘ll not be the only ones). That could be pretty neat to display alongside your collection!

[Agent Kallus]

April's not for a while so I guess this logo thing is serious? 

And it's not even in universe logos like the empire, the Nihil, the CIS, the Ascendency, the jedi or anything? 

Well some people thought Andor was boring ( it was good imo, a slightly slow start but from the prison onwards it was incredible, biggest flaws were the relative lack of aliens and using the ISB but without any agents in Agent Kallus style gear but Book of Boba is overhated and the Accolyte is too.), but this this is boring. I sorta get how people might like a SW logo alongside Thier collection to label it in a fun way but that's got to be a small niché. I can not of very many set ideas that would be less interesting than this.

12 hours ago, starlego98 said:

next paperbag plain clone trooper

That's pretty good in my eyes, and we've had quite a few figures in a box ow now which is good, they feel like a better value for money than the mini-builds. Which are often kinda lame, though there have been some stand ours such as the mini AT-TE 

12 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Yeah, just saw a review of the Vader issue with a preview of the next one. Boo!

When will we get Sabine??

I used to think that Germany was just a little ahead of the UK, in terms of what comes with the magazine ( though I remember buying the magazine when I was in Germany and it was an issue I never saw in the UK presumably because it was on sale in the UK whilst I was away from the UK in mainland Europe). Now though it starting to feel pretty random which order they come out in different countries, because you guys had the imperial shuttle before the 501st sniper whereas we had them the other way around and now I find out Spain is different too, I really just thought it was one order with my country just getting it's issues slightly later.

I did say earlier that it's good that Sabine will out alongside the Peridea set that she compliments well.  But who knows anymore? She's got to be soon right? Maybe she'll come to UK at a different month to Germany as we're definitely out of sync ( but despite that I think we're still getting the small things just in a different order for whatever reason).

5 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Wish they'd do the Clone Gunner from the AT-TE in a Paperbag

Honestly one of least useful trooper types in recent years imo but he's still possiblity, though if he's coming I hope it's sooner rather than later. 

I'm hoping that we might at somepoint get: Dark Rey, Marrok ( I do have one but his parts could be useful outside of a SW context),  Celebration Luke ( his torso would be great for Cal as it's one I used a lot in survivor), 187th clone ( though I've sorta given up hope for that now, it's a bit too late but you never know they might gave excess stock), White Vader ( feels unlikely but then again so did cloud city Luke or Ninjago's Miss Demeanour), the Night Trooper, Any impetus officer ( preferably lower ranked to be more miserable). I'd also like to see Cal, Young Leia and Nein but I feel like the Anniversary figures are probably off limits for the magazine.

[Sentinel_Brix]

What I would have loved for the Episode 1 anniversary were either a Naboo troopers or Gungan army battle pack with a Kaadu. That would have nicely complemented the B1's that came as May the 4th special. Maybe we'll get that someday 

An alien "battle pack" would also be something I'd definitely go for...

Edit: sorry I think it's the wrong category. It's more part of wishlist 

Edited July 12 by Sentinel_Brix

[CloneCommando99]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

According to exabricks, buildable logos will be coming next year, with Marvel and SW ones making the start (assuming they‘ll not be the only ones). That could be pretty neat to display alongside your collection!

It somehow sounds fun and boring at the same time. They could make it sell well by adding a bunch of desirable minifigs that represent each meaningful part of the franchise. Yord, Jecki, Young Vernestra Row, Eli Vanto, Armoured Obi-Wan, Senator, Jar Jar, Mon Mothma, Rebel Kallus, Jaina Solo, Mara Jade!!!!!!!, Dedra Meero, Prune Face, Merrin, Mara Jade!!!…. You get the gist.

 

 

Edited July 12 by CloneCommando99

[MaximillianRebo]

How reliable/trustworthy are these leakers? Lately there's been several 'such and such on Insta says we're getting something out of left field' and people just run with it. Given how all over the place some of this year's rumours have been - Death Star playset with 10+ figs turns out to be an ISD - I say patience; there'll be more reliable information in time.

[Duke27]

3 hours ago, MaximillianRebo said:

How reliable/trustworthy are these leakers?

If a rumor turned out to be false it does not necessarily mean a leaker is not reliable or even a rumor is not reliable.

[Swordy]

What purpose would these logos serve? The Star Wars logo is already on every 18+ set. I’m guessing it would be in the vein/scale of the LEGO Shadow-Bat-Box, which would mean it’d be over $150 easily. Would it be to display minifigs, that will be caked in dust as a result? Would it be to just sit there as a dust magnet? Would it be a storage solution? A waste of a slot if so, in my opinion. 

5 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

It somehow sounds fun and boring at the same time. They could make it sell well by adding a bunch of desirable minifigs that represent each meaningful part of the franchise. Yord, Jecki, Young Vernestra Row, Eli Vanto, Armoured Obi-Wan, Senator, Jar Jar, Mon Mothma, Rebel Kallus, Jaina Solo, Mara Jade!!!!!!!, Dedra Meero, Prune Face, Merrin, Mara Jade!!!…. You get the gist.

 

 

I’m sorry, but you seem to have forgotten a true icon of Legends, this being our beloved Mara Jade.

(I appreciate the tip of the hat to Jania Solo.)

Fan favorite minifigs locked behind a high price point…. I don’t know if that would go over very well—especially if one of them’s a clone trooper.

[CallumPears]

4 hours ago, Swordy said:

What purpose would these logos serve? The Star Wars logo is already on every 18+ set. I’m guessing it would be in the vein/scale of the LEGO Shadow-Bat-Box, which would mean it’d be over $150 easily. Would it be to display minifigs, that will be caked in dust as a result? Would it be to just sit there as a dust magnet? Would it be a storage solution? A waste of a slot if so, in my opinion. 

My thoughts as well, especially when we're already getting all those other "buildables" rather than system sets, which as we've seen on the past couple of pages a lot of us already aren't too thrilled about. 

[Llewop]

I’m not keen on Legos shift to making more and more sets specifically aimed for adults. 

Adults = more disposable income which means the sets are more expensive for what they are. 

the dioramas looks good but they take what should be a £30 system scale set and turn it in to a premium product that just ain’t worth the money. In the past Endor speeder chase would have been a cheap set, yodas hut was a cheap set even the pod racing one was a cheap set back in the day

i got the Mando helmet from my in laws as a present and when I built they were shocked at how small it was for the price of it and I kind of agree. 

the buildable figures have never sold well, the exception is probably baby yoda but then you can put baby yoda on anything and it would sell. My local independent toy shop still have rogue one Jin Erso, force awakens Rey and Finn buildable figures that they can t even give away. 

Nobody is shouting on you tube or crying on Instagram for a buildable C3P0, or R2. 

[Yperio_Bricks]

QT-KT/R2-KT leaked. Although it looks more like QT-KT. Was the R2-KT rumor wrong?

[BrickBob Studpants]

22 minutes ago, Llewop said:

Nobody is shouting on you tube or crying on Instagram for a buildable C3P0, or R2. 

Just because nobody's demanding it on social media doesn't mean that people don't want it  "WhO aSkEd FoR tHiS" is not a good argument as lots of popular things are things that nobody actively asked for. As for the buildable figures: the fact we're still getting multiple a year, making it one of the most consistent subthemes next to the microfighters, can only mean they sell fairly well. If they didn't, they would've stopped, simple as that. Nobody's holding a gun to the design team's heads, forcing them to release more buildable figures

20 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

QT-KT/R2-KT leaked. Although it looks more like QT-KT. Was the R2-KT rumor wrong?

Yeah, this looks a lot more like QT-KT rather than R2-KT! I don't blame anyone for confusing the two though. 

[Agent Kallus]

Yeah those hazard stripes at the top the dome are very D- squad.

A shame I'd have preferred R2-KT but I understand that there might have been some rights issues or something. Maybe they didn't want to be seen as profiting on a creation made for charity ( though have part of the sets profits passed on to charity would have been a nice gesture)

[Max_Lego]

1 hour ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

QT-KT/R2-KT leaked. Although it looks more like QT-KT. Was the R2-KT rumor wrong?

Remember leakers promising an Enoch minifigure? Turned out to be a silly Nighttrooper. And now we get QT-KT instead of the beloved R2-KT. Reddit users speculated that this is due to R2-KT being a charity character (which, I presume, didn't stop other manufacturers from producing merch with R2).

IMAO QT's minifigure is bad. Not only it lacks much of the white markings (which is justified, since TLG isn't currently capable of decorating those areas with printing), but the colour looks considerably darker and more 'toxic' than the original 

[Mandalorianknight]

14 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

*OC Sets thing I accidentally deleted all of instead of some of and am too lazy to go re-qoute*

While I agree with the general sentiment, I do think the actual fully OC characters in this are pretty lame. The ones like white vader or darth jar jar, where they represent things beyond just lego, are cool, but every OC post Jek is just... some human civilian looking person. Darth Dev looks intimidating but also just like a generic inquisitor. I think a lot of the lego OCs work because they either aren't intended to be big OC things and star wars fans latch onto them in the classic star wars spirit of wanting to know more about that slightly different guy in the background (Rebel friend, moustache trooper, jedi bob), or they just do something totally crazy (Jek being a force sensative clone trooper with an arm, like, made of the force or something)

12 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

And it's not even in universe logos like the empire, the Nihil, the CIS, the Ascendency, the jedi or anything?

This is what confuses me. I've been wanting (and since I joined the site, advocating for in the future sets threads) for a big starbird with the main players of the rebellion (and same for the imperial cog, republic cog, jedi symbol, etc) since the minifigure stand in the UCS Helicarrier. But a star wars logo doesn't interest me. 99% of my collection is star wars, I don't need to advertise that it is. And I don't really see how anyone, existing lego fan or not, would rather have the star wars logo than a ship or faction logo or vader mosiac or what have you.

1 hour ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

QT-KT/R2-KT leaked. Although it looks more like QT-KT. Was the R2-KT rumor wrong?

Unfortunately it appears to be that way.

58 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeah, this looks a lot more like QT-KT rather than R2-KT! I don't blame anyone for confusing the two though. 

Not just looks like- it is. This isn't R2's design with pink instead of blue, this is a fully pink droid with the D-squad caution stripes.

I'm actually pretty annoyed. I overlooked the whole "final anniversary fig is an astromech" thing due to R2-KT's special place in the fandom, but this is just... some random astromech. It's not even the SECOND most iconic D-squad droid.

46 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

A shame I'd have preferred R2-KT but I understand that there might have been some rights issues or something. Maybe they didn't want to be seen as profiting on a creation made for charity ( though have part of the sets profits passed on to charity would have been a nice gesture)

This can't be the case as they put her in the droid builder set that comes out next month.

[CallumPears]

10 minutes ago, Max_Lego said:

IMAO QT's minifigure is bad. Not only it lacks much of the white markings (which is justified, since TLG isn't currently capable of decorating those areas with printing), but the colour looks considerably darker and more 'toxic' than the original 

Yeah my thoughts as well. The pink they used is too... pink? The "real" droid has a much more muted and reddish shade, and a lot more white areas too.