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Yeah I’m thinking the same. Here’s hoping they don’t shaft us with the exchange rate again because I really dislike paying the full retail price for system sets. Might just go through s@h or a certified store for a change to get the points and be done with it. Just a little hesitant since I want to get the gunship and AT-AT too, also didn’t pick up the new helmets and probe yet either (opted for the 66 batmobile and 66 robin off of bricklink instead). Feeling a little backwards this year as I’ll normally go for the D2Cs day 1 and hold out on the system sets, but as of late the D2Cs are the ones that are consistently in-stock. There’s clearly an abundance of the cantina here since it’s already being discounted by all major retailers.

I don’t think anybody is talking about the Mandalore Duel because we got Ahsoka last year, but hopefully this one will actually be available in Australia after day 1 unlike the AAT. I’m most excited for the Mando fighter, I’ve wanted a Bo-Katan figure since her debut all those years ago. Also keen for Gideon’s cruiser, love the big ship builds and Gideon is probably my favourite character out of anything Disney has produced with the Star Wars licensed. Really hoping Cara Dune didn’t get axed from it if only for the fact that it’ll really piss off the vocal minority. Planning on grabbing the whole wave sans the Slave I provided that Australia actually gets stock.

It might help you to know that this is a very frequent issue. To help combat it LEGO started changing the outline of the pieces in the instructions. In all newer instruction books dark grey pieces have a black outline and black pieces have a white outline.

I doubt that all 6 won’t be in the set, but they’re not above leaving out main characters so expect disappointment and you might be pleasantly surprised. Remember, these are the same people who most recently didn’t put Robin in the new Batmobile set.

We’ll have to wait and see. The only thing we know for certain is that LEGO works in mysterious ways, Joey and the rest of the friends might not even be in the set.

The figures in the Central Perk set were all from different seasons.

I’m hoping that this is the Joey figure included in the set. If it’s just Monica’s apartment I want to make a stop-motion remake of The One Where No One’s Ready.

If they did Ross’s apartment then why not Phoebe’s? And then Monica’s parents? I agree with @The Stud even though I would like this set to be both Monica’s and Joey’s, doing the two separately is perfect and realistically it’s probably all the mileage they could get out of the theme. As much as I love the show I don’t think I would buy Ross’s apartment. I think the initial leak specifically said “Monica’s apartment” so at the very least we’ll get the kitchen and the lounge room, and it will almost certainly be enclosed like Central Perk so the window is a given, the balcony might not be. Given the Monica figure is wearing an apron the kitchen will almost certainly be decked out, as it should be. Now, what about figures? We’re getting Janice, so with the 6 friends that brings it up to 7 which is the same as the central perk. With the increased price point I would expect more figures but we all know how LEGO likes to skimp on the minis. I’m already over the moon to see Janice, but in a perfect world we’d get Mike and Emma as well.

I’ll half concede here for the fact that I just looked on Brickset and a lot of the sets I would’ve pointed to to prove my point were released in 2017, so maybe it wasn’t all downhill as I initially proposed. But still, 2016 had incredible variety. Great sets from all eras, awesome D2Cs and a good selection of buildable figures... the Rogue One wave was just icing on the cake. Of course the point still stands that the best sets were inaccessible to people because of the price, but just like 2020 the large sets were particularly good. 75151, 75157 and 75158 all great, reflected now by their price on the secondary market. 75150 looks good too, but that doesn’t make the list because its another one of those sets that they didn’t bother stocking in Australia. Standout smaller sets: 75142, 75137, 75127, 75135, 75149, 75153, 75152 and of course 75133+75134. The Death Star update gave us great figures and Assault on Hoth is above and beyond the most underrated Star Wars set of all time (and I’m not saying that because I got the set through LAN, the haters need to screw their heads on and see it for what it is). It wasn’t the “amalgamation of rereleases” that so many claimed it was, it gave us a the first renditions of the big doors, shield generator and the giant boob nipple gun (Edit: my bad on the doors, see 7666). It had plenty of rebel soldiers, standout figures in the droids, snowspeeder pilots and Luke, excellent playability with the modular trench design, a Wampa, a Taun Taun and even a snowspeeder to boot. It was a brilliant play set and I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be sleeper set for the collectors in the long run since so many instantly dismissed it when it came out and you all flipped out because it was labelled UCS.

I have to disagree with the consensus here, 2020 was one of the worst years for LEGO Star Wars in recent memory. To start with the number of sets overall was quite low, not much choice anymore. I’ll preface the rest of this by saying that this has nothing to do with the amount of rereleases, of which there were many, as I think rereleases are necessary for the theme to stay relevant. This isn’t to say there wasn’t good last year, I just think the bad overshadows the good. The introduction of the helmet line was nice and both the AT-AT and Razor Crest are great sets... but they’re far too expensive to be accessible to most customers. IMO the best set of the year was 75265, and that speaks volumes for the rest of the releases. People are quick to point out that the collectors got a lot of what we wanted last year, a lot of sets that we as a community have asked for for years, but I say it was half baked. We finally got that UCS A-Wing, and while I loved building it it is very inaccurate for a UCS set. Obi-Wan’s hut was $45 for a tiny beige box with no substance outside of the Leia hologram and I still question the necessity of a $530 cantina when the $100 set from 2014 would’ve been enough had they not blown a decent portion of the part count on Luke’s Landspeeder (of which we got yet another one of in 2020, only this time with Poncho Luke to try and drive sales to our niche of the market). It kinda feels like LEGO gave the collectors a big middle finger last year with arguably the two most requested sets of all time. Of course there was the 501st “battle pack”, annoying origins of the set aside it was clearly designed to take advantage of collectors (and it worked), they could’ve at least given us 2 more clones instead of the droids, or given us the green droids from the AAT, or even just more droids... come on lego we know those battle droids cost next to nothing to produce or otherwise they wouldn’t show up in sets 20 at a time. It’s really disheartening to see sets like 71708 at the same price point with 10 minifigures. Had the BARC and ATRT actually been to scale with the figures there would’ve been enough plastic for that many clones, and since they’d be producing that many of the same figure it would be cheaper for them. But the real kick in the crotch was the Bespin Duel, a set that’s been at the top of a lot of people’s wishlist since 1999. We finally got that set and it was a goddamn convention exclusive, and thus inaccessible to almost everyone. And when the convention was cancelled it became a region exclusive, back-pedalling on a promise LEGO made months prior. The Nebulon B is in the same boat as Bespin duel, but to a lesser extent as I think most collectors would rather a larger model of the ship. Of course there were all the ludicrously overpriced sets like the Sith TIE, Grievous fighter, AAT and Knights of Ren ship, but there’s still more sets that need to be called out. D-0 was the biggest missed opportunity of the year, had he been to scale with R2 and BB-8 it would’ve been a slam dunk. Now he just rots on the clearance shelf. The resistance transport is an absolute joke since the source material is a theme park that is inaccessible for the overwhelming majority of the population. And finally we have the 4+ snowspeeder. I have nothing against the 4+ banner, this is another one of those things I see as a necessity, I just think the snowspeeder was a truly terrible representation (much like the 4+ X-Wings). The whole idea of building the model around a massive brand new mould instead of a simple build with existing pieces is detrimental to the theme as a whole since we know they have a budget for new parts. If they weren’t wasting the money on moulding half a snowspeeder in one piece maybe we could finally get printed parts in the D2C sets, or maybe we could get R2D2’s third leg, or maybe they could fix the goddamn printing machines and give us R2 figures with straight lines. Want to talk about the golden age of LEGO Star Wars? 2008-2013, before the Disney buyout when the Clone Wars was running and we got brilliant sets that didn’t have inflated piece counts or prices. We got a lot of awesome minifigs in cheap sets (as opposed to the best figures being almost exclusively in $100+ sets these days) and an incredible selection of sets spanning both Star Wars eras. Shoutout to 2016 as well. I would say 2016 was the last “great” year, it’s all been downhill from there.

Alright, against my better judgement I’ll bite. Are you going to tell us what it is or are you just going to keep adding fuel to the mindless speculation fire by dangling it over our heads like you would keys with a baby?

Calling bs on that because I just got 2 from justbricks.com.au two weeks ago that they got directly from LEGO. Also, I emailed LEGO last week too and they told me it would be back in stock soon, I will post the email later. Secondly, they most certainly did not have a poor reception to the set. Are they going off of sales figures? Perhaps the sales figures are low because they’re NOT STOCKING US UP.

Depends on how much detail they’re going for. A lot of parts would go into decorating Monica’s place for sure, if they go all out with it they might not even have enough parts to do the bedrooms. Central Perk had a few little side builds so if they want to go that route that’ll take up parts too. Holding out hope for Joey’s to be included but at the end of the day I’m excited just to be getting another Friends set.

We got the Azure Angel from the 03 CW in 18 so anything can happen. That Jedi Shuttle is one of the few Clone Wars sets that I would say is on the table since it is so prominent. I would also say a Twilight rerelease could be on the cards as well. Now, Hondo Ohnaka’s flying saucer, that’s one we’ll never get.

To be fair there, it was Mojang themselves who made the original submission. Just saw the figure leaks on instagram today... Janice's face is perfect. Never would've expected to get a minifigure of her, gives me hope for Newman or Mickey in the upcoming Seinfeld set. A new Friends set really slipped under the radar if its coming out next month and we know nothing about it. If it really is double the size of the central perk set I'm excited, would that be enough parts to do both Joey and Rachel's apartments together? Next to no info on this one floating around, can't wait for the reveal.

Logged out for a week and yeeeeesh some of these replies. I've never really delved into the whole leak thing beyond what pops up on here but if its as bad as you're describing then no wonder someone like me on the surface can see it. Only popped in to see if the bad batch shuttle photo I saw is real and turns out it is. The shuttle itself looks fine, but it's so small! Look at it next to those speeders! I like the green speeder, but reusing the same oversized BARC from the 501st set is annoying. Not the first time LEGO has reused a speeder build, won't be the last... just wish they could get the scale right for once.

I’ve been paying attention to these leaks long enough to know that those “broad strokes” aren’t as broad as you’re implying. Most of the people putting the info out there give off the vibe that they’re part of a clique, there’s no denying it. “Yes I’ve seen pictures. No I don’t remember everything your asking. Oh you’ve seen pictures too? Looks good, doesn’t it. You haven’t seen pictures? It’ll get to you... eventually.” Yeah it’s nice to know what releases are coming up but after years of this culture I’m ready to drop all this and just take the info as it comes from LEGO. It’s like watching a bunch of school kids who never grew up. I know that for every person who does post a leak there’s dozens more out there who don’t say anything like they’re supposed to, I don’t have an issue with those people since they’re not actively targeting others with what they post. Look at me ranting about immaturity on a toy forum, I need to stop wasting my life on this shit.

Nah these people just like being part of a club where they know things before we do. The info is out there, that much has been made clear, we just don’t know where to look and nobody will tell us. It’s been this way for years, it’s not changing any time soon. Case in point.

Well I'll be damned, the new R2 is a significant improvement over the old one. Maybe I'll mod the new features into the old one.

I will be very surprised if the $30US retail exclusive isn’t a Snowspeeder.

Very low. I think the last Star Wars GWP threshold was $250.

At this point I think we all want Petranaki Arena so much that it'll go down as a great set no matter what. Of the ones you listed I think a well executed Jabba's Palace would be a contender, provided it having the rancor pit and the figures to boot. A UCS C-3PO to scale with the UCS R2 would be jaw dropping.

Didn’t we already go over the ISD rumor a few pages back? I think someone pointed out that it originated from a known liar on Instagram.

CMF. Lightsaber hilts are chrome. 1. Luke in yellow jacket with lightsaber, blaster pistol and medal 2. Leia in white jumpsuit with new hairpiece and blaster 3. Episode IV Han with dual moulded and detailed print legs 4. Lando from 75222 5. Chewbacca with C-3PO on his back 6. Darth Vader with detailed printing 7. Boba Fett in animated debut colours with blaster rifle, this piece and flame 8. Stormtrooper with old helmet mould and pauldron 9. Queen Amidala 10. Clone Wars Anakin 11. Clone Wars Obi-Wan 12. Count Dooku 13. Darth Maul, shirtless with arm printing and cybernetic legs, red double bladed saber and darksaber. 14. Ahsoka Tano in her padawan outfit 15. Asajj Ventress with cloth skirt 16. R2-D2 with third leg

$60 Rebel Y-Wing with space for two in the cockpit. Figures are Luke wearing yellow jacket, Boba Fett in original animated debut colors, R2D2 and C3PO.