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Unless that turns out to be the young Leia set and the whole thing of her coming with a big creature build was just wrong? (assuming they didn't mean the sarlacc when they said creature, which I doubt they would) Death Star sounds great, probably my most-anticipated set this year aside from the UCS Sail Barge (and Barad-Dûr for LotR). Hopefully one of those officers (or one of the unknowns) is Tarkin. Do we know if Cal is one of the 4 unknowns or if he's in addition to this list? (so 11 or 12 figures in total)

And it specifically can't be used for the GWPs. Absolute madness. I'm quite happy to wait a few months for it to inevitably be discounted at some other retailer (I will actually cry if it ends up being an exclusive though).

If the GWPs are AAT poly at £35, Yavin coin thing at £80 and Droid Carrier at £145 (change currency as appropriate), what about that 25th anniversary logo keychain that was also leaked? Presumably it's a GWP for something else, maybe the Sail Barge? Or perhaps an Insider Points redemption, though I couldn't see it with the other May 4th stuff in the rewards centre.

100% agree with all of this. The price threshold for May 4th promos has become absurdly high to the point that I've basically given up on ever getting even one of them, nevermind multiples. To have a set which many people want multiples of locked behind such a barrier is ridiculous- things like Darth Revan were interesting figures which you'd only want one of. While I still don't like the way he was locked behind a promo, at least he made sense as a character to choose for such a promo (and this was back when the threshold to get him was £50, not £150- absolutely mad).

Ugh, in the fine print of the May 4th promos the new book is specifically excluded from the thresholds. It's pretty overpriced anyway so I wasn't considering it too seriously, at least not without a discount or promo of some sort, but it was a contender to get for the GWP. I wouldn't read too much into that- it also has figures like the original Cloud City Luke and Zam Wesell with flesh-toned heads. Doesn't mean they're being made. (We're fairly sure Jedi Bob is coming, but it's probably just a coincidence that he's on this poster.)

Same. With all the discussion of Night Troopers, Incinerator Troopers, and so on over the last couple of pages I keep having to remind myself that even if they do get made I won't be buying them unless they change the helmets. At least with standard Stormies I can get the old helmets on Bricklink or wherever, but for these new designs that isn't an option.

Yeah that'd be good. Both Paz and the Armourer had their visors printed weirdly low down on their helmets in the forge set.

If they did 2 or 3 unique full-figures it'd give us a load of possible combinations which I'd be happy with. Ideally we'd get 2 with fully-white helmets, and one with a darker helmet since those are less numerous in the show. Nah if they do make them they'd almost certainly have random faces like all the Stormtroopers, Snowtroopers, etc. we've had over the past few years. They're just normal troopers until a few of them get zombified and even then they wouldn't have any decomposition yet. (Except the Death Troopers we see at the end)

Tagge or Motti are the obvious picks. For a slightly more obscure one, maybe General Romodi since he also has a brief appearance in Rogue One.

Source on this? Really hope it's true as I've wanted an Imperial Dropship ever since Rebels S1 came out but this is the first I've heard of it being a possibility.

To be fair the Jet Trooper is super inaccurate. For me 75280 was the start of the downfall of LEGO Clones. I made a post in the 2020 thread going over the Jet Trooper in particular back when that set first came out. Aside from the (in my opinion) awful hybrid armour style of Clones we've had for the past few years, he reuses the same leg print as the standard 501st trooper which is a bit lazy and inaccurate but at least it can be justified by saving a bit of money (even if we know they can afford to make it accurate). My main issue is the random patch of blue on the helmet between the visor and the black rim which just shouldn't be there. My guess is that they made the standard 501st trooper first, forgot to save a blank template and then just erased the blue markings to make the Jet Trooper but missed that spot. Honestly it's a similar issue to the new Commander Fox- something which could've and should've been easily caught if the designers actually cared enough to just double check their work.

I feel like eating away at the budget shouldn't be a concern in a $550 set, especially when they had her perfect in the 2013 set alongside Jabba, Max Rebo and Ree Yees. Also will be really disappointing if they do reuse Bib; he's completely different in RotJ vs The Mandalorian.

Really hope not- the 2013 hairpiece is already expensive enough without the price being driven up further by people wanting to replace the hair on a new version- but it's definitely something they might try to get away with (like Padmé using Jyn's head while the 2013 version had a great exclusive print). Even so that would be laziness, not censoring. The only thing I can think of is removing the "chest details" present on the 2006 version but they were gone in 2013 anyway so wouldn't be anything new.

I was thinking the same, though the red pattern on the side extends pretty high up so probably wouldn't look right. Could wipe it off, but depending on how valuable those legs end up being you might as well buy customs at that point. Really wish they'd just used dual-molding for the Shock Troopers (and with the colours swapped for Fox) to begin with.

Well, they got leaked so clearly someone would've fallen for it (or did fall for it if they are indeed fake)