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So the new "battle pack" leaked. In my personal opinion it's horrible. Barc speeder is innacurate and just looks horrible which wouldn't be a problem in a $15-$20 battle pack, but we are paying $30 for it. Tri-Droid also looks really bad, like a child made it out of spare parts. STAP looks decent. How many years droid army builders waited for a battle pack just to have to pay $30 and get clones they don't want with it and one little decent build with nothing special like a tactical droid, magna guard or even a security guard? Clone figures are decent, but there is no leadership like an officer or a sergeant so not good for army building and you are also paying $10 extra to get only 4 figures you need and no useful builds. Bottom 5 battle packs ever made imo.

I don't think you understand what army building is. Lot of you guys devoid the "art form" of any creativity, imagination and canon and minimize it into this depressing and repetitive stacking of the same figure on a baseplate. Your superficial view overlooks the dedication and passion that drives half of people in the army building community. Speaking of the gunship build I really like it, especially the size. To nitpick a bit I don't like the stud shooters, but I understand I can easily remove them. I really don't like that the republic insignia (idk if the word is correct) is a sticker considering how much we are paying for the set. From the figures I love the Coruscant Guards and Padme. Would prefer Palpatine having legs and not the dress piece, but the print and everything else looks really good. I hate Fox from inacurate torso print to the lack of kama and would have prefered another figure like a pilot instead if they couldn't do him justice. I am definitely getting one, but not day one as I need to focus on clone battle packs.

You are completely right. I definitely see and understand that, what some of us want and need will be disasterous for others and whatever LEGO does will just make one of the sides "angry". When it comes to the 501st battle pack I really LOVE the officer figure and I will be switching helmets on some of them to have proper leadership for 332nd, but I think they could have done some things better like add pauldrons and kamas for heavy troopers. Those of us that don't like those troops could just remove those accessories and have regular troopers. Yes, LEGO has been giving us all the clones we asked for from Rex, Cody, Fox To Vaughn, but their executions on some of them is not really that great sadly. I am especially salty about the Vaughn helmet. Don't forget my boy Rune Haako who was in all 3 prequel movies.

Grogu's escape: this is the set I am looking forward the most. We can get barc speeder, pram, Naboo guards, clones, Kelleran and all those things are exciting to me. The skeleton crew ship: depends if I like the show or not Podrace Diorama: getting it unless it's miniscale Droideka and R2-D2: 0 interest Midi-Scale sets: 0 interest, hate midi scale stuff, but happy they stopped making those awful helmets Tantive boarding diorama: sounds like a great set, need to see how it looks though Clone and droid battle pack: I hate it, I have no use for B2 and super battle droids cause they are so outdated and brittle and they don't give us anything good like tactical droids or super tactical droids. Build will most likely be as awful, oversized and inacurate as the 501st $30 set was and I will end up paying $30 for 4 clones again. If the clones are all plain phase 2 they are awful for army building cause there are no proper ranks as in officers, sergeants, lieutenants, commanders, majors, generals. Will most likely not get them at all unless the builds are accurate and focus on current 501st and 332nd. I would have preffered 2x $20 battle packs over this one. Young Jedi adventure sets: not really interested as I don't watch the show, but if the set is looking good I might get it.

This Chewbacca thing is horrible. It goes under the same umbrella as brickbuilt helmets for me, even if you give me one for free I wouldn't take it. They could have done so many different things with this set budget and they decided on this.

Ghost set looks incredible, but wish it was $150 and the phantom was separately for $20 as I personally only want the phantom. Don't care about any of the figures, but the blue pilot looks really nice.

Jabba's palace was competing with the Emperor's throne room for a spot so it's either cancelled or pushed back. Lifebricks also said it didn't have the same features that made the 2012 "controversial" so we can assume it didn't get removed cause of it.

Gunship looks... Interesting I guess. I really hope the republic crest is a print and not a sticker. Color kinda bugs me cause I don't think bright red is accurate, but won't affect if I get the set or not as much as the print/sticker is. Commander Fox looks ugly and has an ugly helmet, not sure if it will look better with the visor. Torso and knee armor also look innacurate. Don't really care about the lack of waist cape or helmet holes personally. Definitely need better pictures for everything to make the final decision.

Oh that's fair. Honestly, I would take 2008 or 2002 stromtroopers over these new ones any day.

That's very interesting. If we put sentimental value aside, do you mind them not having shoulder cloth pieces or is that something that you don't care about?

For me: 1. Imperial Scout Trooper 2. Bo Katan 3. Boba Fett (from the mech) 4. 501st officer 5. Mandalorian Fleet Commander (might be biased) 6. Endor Leia (even though she is innacurate) 7. Snub fighter pilot

332nd Battle Pack is amazing apart from Vaugn's helmet and visor, even if the print on the visor was hard to pull off, they could have at least give him the proper color for it. That aspect is kinda annoying. Rest of the set is perfect, 3 figures of the same kind plus jetpacks on 2 of them, great for mixing and matching with the current and only 501st battle pack. Yoda's starfighter is terrible, I did have too high of expectation thinking it will be the battlefront interceptor though. Not having a third figure is horrible as well. Yavin figures look really good, but not into OT apart from Endor so pass. Definitely getting Boba Fett's mech and maybe Vader's if it hit any kind of sale cause otherwise I can just get the Vader figure for under $10 on bricklink. Stormtrooper mech looks decent, but they still use that disgusting family guy helmet so pass.

1. Actually if you go on bricklink and look up figures that are in the Cantina you would see that the figure of a sandtrooper with orange pauldron sw1123 is labeled as Squad leader or a captain which they leave for you to pick and use as your desire. 2. Actually according to wookipedia and star wars fandom that name 6 different notes and references Clone lieutenant and Sergeant were ranks in the Grand Army of the Republic held by clone trooper officers therefore you can use that officer from the only 501st battle pack for either position. Clone trooper pilots could also hold that rank and one of those pilot lieutenants served as a gunship pilot during the battle of Teth. Speaking of clone specialist most of them ended up serving as sergeants, commanders etc. For example Waxer who was a Platoon Sergeant for the 212th Attack Battalion, who led the platoon known as Ghost Company with his loyal partner Boil was one of the specialists. It's not my head canon it's just LEGO Star Wars fans crying at every minute detail and innacuracy and hold LEGO to the highest standards, but then they don't have the self respect to hold themselves to those same standards and find it silly and head canon when someone else does.

I am not army building based on a real life army organization. I am army building based on Star Wars books, reference books, star wars insider magazine articles written by people that specialize in that sort of thing. It is clearly said in for example Star Wars: Complete Locations book how big the clone army is and how it is built. Most books were written before TCW came out and did whatever looked cool and was cheaper to make. Even then for example in the Bad Batch episode The Outpost the commander there had a squad of 7 dead troopers (helmets were there) and two surviving ones so even in some of the media there is a clear and correct number. LEGO correctly named and labeled the proper ranks of multiple figures for army building no matter what you want to army build: we have 2 phase 1 clones labeled as lieutenants, 3 first order officers/lieutenants, rebel lieutenants and imperial officers, there is also Scarif squad leader, first order squad leader for both helmet styles, 3 sandtrooper squad leaders, there are stormtrooper sergeants, clone trooper sergeants, sergeant Hunter, sandtrooper sergeant and officers that you can use for any of it and ofc higher ranked figures like captains, commanders, generals. The Wolfpack would be a great idea. I am not suggesting people should army build full grand army of the republic with billions of troopers. Building squads and other units you can afford with clear goal of what you are doing is much better than sticking figures on a baseplate aimlessly cause you saw a youtuber did it. Squad of 10 stormtroopers and an officer to lead them is perfectly fine and so is 9 x 501st troopers lead by a 501st officer. That's $50. If you have more money get a platoon for $205 lead by a lieutenant. This is how armies are build with miniatures, in roleplay, with Hasbro figures it's just the LEGO community that copies youtubers who have no idea what they are doing. Ofc people can enjoy Star Wars and do whatever they want, but for me it's not fun to do things wrong and innacurately when there are clear canon references and sources on how these thing looked in the universe.

Yes we do need them. 332nd is separate from the 501st and has 144 troopers of the same kind + 16 sergeants + 4 lieutenants and a captain. You can't army build that from the $40 AAT set with one trooper. One trooper that's $20 a piece atm on bricklink while Kashyyyk troopers are $14 and already had their own battle pack for $12. The only 501st battle pack comes from 2023 and gives us much needed officer and specialist that can be used as a lieutenant and a sergeant, not only for the 501st, but also for the 332nd army by switching their helmets. They are essential for army building. The biggest issue imo is that people copy clueless youtubers that stick the same figure on a baseplate and call it army building so they don't really appreciate or understand the importance of officers, sergeants, squad leaders, lieutenants etc that are essential for army building and think of it as uselles and non army buildable. LEGO should just put 4 of the same figures in a battle pack for people that want to copy Solid Brix Studios and then leadership in a $15 accessory pack for us that want to army build.

There are 5x VIP points in Sweden, they only screwed most of Eastern Europe out of them. Deals are beyond horrible and so are prices, AT-TE is 1800 kr ($175) in the LEGO store and 1274 kr ($123) on the Swedish Amazon. Might as well have $50 over the promo and even if you get it off bricklink you are in plus.

To be honest I am not even sure what's happening. There are 3 LEGO stores in three countries in this area: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia. Physical LEGO stores look exactly like any other LEGO store in the world, but their sites are very different. I am not sure if any of these countries even got the coin GWP that I wanted so badly cause I was on all 3 of them midnight and didn't get it in any of the carts. They are also not doing 5x VIP thing and instead offering 10% discount on all Star Wars set, but the catch is that all sets are overpriced aka Endor Speeder Chase is set to 80 euros, but here it's actually 90 euros which is around $99.

Landspeeder 7110 in 1999 was my first Star Wars set , then I got the Droid Fighter 7111 in 2000 and then in 2002 I got final duel 1. Despite getting a set here and there as a little kid, I thought yellow heads on the figures are the lamest thing imaginable so I was more into action figures, collecting movie sticker albums and other star wars toys like micromachines. To this day I still hate yellow LEGO heads. In 2007 MTT came out and I got super into LEGO Star Wars. The Phantom Menace was (still is) my favorite Star Wars movie so being able to replay one of my favorite scenes from the movie with droids coming out of the MTT was a dream come true. I had so much fun with that set and red security droid was my favorite figure. The clone wars coming in 2008 made me love the theme even more and in 2009 my entire neighbourhood started collecting which made collecting better, easier and even more fun. 2009 was the absolute peak with the Endor Bunker set that gave me almost the same amount of fun as the MTT. We also had Clone battle pack, AAT, Republic and Separatist shuttles and most importantly my then favorite character Nute Gunray. I have been collecting ever since and I have been waitin for 24 years for Rune Haako and Nute Gunray minfiigures from episode 1.

Terrible planning by LEGO. I love the coin GWP so I wanted to get a battle pack and the Endor speeder chase (turn the base of it into a clone battle scene display + speeders and figs looked so good), but they were out of the coin in less than 20 minutes if they even had it in the first place.

This for USA @eldiano

I want normal stormtroopers if their helmets are reverted/changed. New ones are disgustingly bad. Imperial Mandalorians would be incredible in a $20 battle pack, but they will most likely go for dark trooper style of set for $35 cause they are greedy like that and know we will still buy them. If Moff is with them with the mando armor I wouldn't even complain.

If it was just a bit darker it would have been perfect.

Same, I love the new speeders. Hoping to get the set on sale or just bricklink it like you plan to.

I also disagree with his point cause there a ton of great sets under $150 that are amazing value like the trouble on tatooine, but I think some of the sets you named don't really have that value he was talking about. For example the $30 501st set( not a battlepack) had bizzarely innacurate and oversized vehicles that most fans that have any self respect didn't even build and had only 4 figures making the way for LEGO to keep robbing their costumers and pricing out people by charging $30 for upcoming swamp speeder, $35 for dark trooper attack etc. The builds were so bad people went above any beyond to make something else out of it. $60 for the old 501st set gave you 8 figures and now for $60 you can get 3 snowtrooper BP with 3 accurate speeders and 12 figures. Yes, Dark Trooper Attack set is really cool, but the value of 166 pieces and 4 figures with every detail being a sticker (11 of them) doesn't really scream value for $35. Things like the 4+ AT-ST are even worse. The mandalorian starfighter build was falsely advertised and looked like it can be displayed in 90 degree angle which it can't, because they cheaped out on the landing gear the set is tilting downwards, set also has gaps in the cockpit. Biggest draw were the figures of which 2/3 figures got released to half of Europe in foil bags and most of them got shipped to US. That set was 70 euros in Europe which is $77 for a bad build and only 1 figure being exclusive with a potential to be in the future foil bag making the value of the set even worse.

I actually really like the coin death star gwp thingy, but only an exclusive minifigure can justify me paying 150 euros for AT-TE in the LEGO store that's 120 euros in the retail store and 112 euros on bricklink. So it's gonna be a pass from me.