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I know right, I’m married, one child second on the way, got a mortgage etc and enough after that to do a few things but when it’s like £70 for a video game and then like couple hundred a wave for new sets something has to give. I don’t just collect SW most of us dip into other themes and it’s just crazy. It’s the only problem with the UCS and some Icons sets are their exclusivity at Lego. You have to wait for a sale which is sometimes not that great at least when sets go to other stores they do bigger discounts on them. I’m still trying to pluck up the courage to spend some money on the Barad Dur set if the prices keep going up going to have to start a side hustle as a bank robber to be able to feed my Lego addiction lol

Is this a UCS or MBS for that price those figure selections are bad. I’d expect for a premium product to be all new prints no reuses and you know the skiff set is purely to go along with this so to get the full thing is more money I feel like Lego is taking the **** with this. For those who like it and love it fair play to you but I thought it was supposed to be bigger as well from the big leak last year? Has it been downgraded like the medieval town square set. Lego is too expensive now I wouldn’t even pay half of what the rrp is. Where do people get the money to afford these sets

I’m not surprised tbh, although we’ve had parts of different imperial bases. think of the OT only kind of imperial base is on Endor which we’ve had, everything else has always been rebels featured hence why we’ve had a Yavin and echo base and after that a lot of the films are on capital ships. outside of the OT in the imperial era, rebels focused on ships and land vehicles (tbf most of LSW does the same), rogue one we did have the scariff base set. Mando we’ve got the new set with Paz vizla and moff Gideon. I think the big issue is selling a set that is an imperial base most sets are kind of based on something from films/shows is there an imperial base that features prominently enough to warrant a set? also it’s Lego we can pretty much make and design our own bases, that’s what I’ve done in the past.

For those who bought the Star Destroyer what are your thoughts on it? I’ve seen it on sale (only a 10%) been debating whether to get it. Honestly I want the set mainly for Cal, but I can’t bring myself to spend £75 on a minifigure alone. ive also never owned a star destroyer set before so would be nice to get one but I’m not sure what the odds are of a bigger sale in the near future

Won’t it just be lukes lightsabre or is it a geo just when you buy the barge?

Has the price actually been confirmed yet though? Just think 45 is crazy considering the BP we got in January was 25. I know there’s an anniversary figure so I expect a small increase but not nearly double. I do want this set id even get two to get more fleet troopers but as it could be a Lego exclusive I doubt it’ll ever be on sale and if it is 45 then it’s too much to get more than one

Anything that isn’t a diorama, helmet, UCS, MBS, buildable figure, midi scale ships. I’d say anything that would be considered a normal Lego set 10-20 years ago ie a ship with some figures, or a building and some figures. so this year the RTG sets, the dual on peridia, Saarlac pit, the 3 Mando S3 sets, the Darth maul ship, the boarding set, battle packs and the 4+ set that no one bought from January (I might have missed a set) but basically there the normal playsets

All of everyone is saying is opinion. No facts really except for the fact that SW is one of the top selling themes. There is interest in all age groups but since Covid it’s obvious Lego is aiming more and more sets at an adult audience. From my experience a lot of my friends started collecting during the lockdowns and I’m sure they aren’t alone that’s the aim of the icons line and it’ll be a phase and eventually Lego wilL go back to mostly system sets. kids will always like SW but you don’t hear from them because they aren’t on social media they aren’t on this forum. There are different kinds of SW fans there are those who literally just watch the films and don’t bother with the animated stuff or comics or books and they are still fans as much as everyone else maybe what will hurt Star Wars in the long run is its recent reliance on cameos and fan service. Like showing Zeb in the Mando trailer only people who’ve watched rebels will know who he is others’ll think he some hairless wookiee. I admit it’s something which takes me out of the show, but it’s just Disney trying marvelify Star Wars

If we got a battle pack for inferno squadron, having one with Purge troopers isn’t completely out of the question. Could easily have a commander and 3 troopers and that would keep everyone happy. im of the delusion that they could easily turn the games in to a disney+ series. Fallout and last of us have proven it’s possible to bring games to TV and if they could do that then they would have zero excuses not to do any sets

All I can say is if it’s true more money saved for the 2 system scales we will get

A TIE advanced would be my preference but there have been to many Darth Vaders recently I’m kind of over getting him in a set.

Fair enough well if anyone wants to save some money in the U.K. then they know where to go Does anyone know when the battle pack gets released? And has a price been confirmed?

Really? I’ve never noticed very strange obviously sets are expensive and aren’t really worth what they are at rrp. If they are going on sale so early maybe alarm bells should be ringing at Lego to maybe stop hiking prices up

It’s about 10% on average but it’s not all of the August wave the sarlaac, duel on peridia and droid builder set are still at rrp. I know they go on small sales eventually after months they often go on the odd 10-20% off its just find it strange that 22 days after release they are already on sale. Don’t think it helps that the source material of those 4 sets hasn’t been actually released yet That is a good point smyths are very good at selling sets and they never seem to have sets that have been retired that they can’t get shot of, the local toy shop where I live still has the resistance pod, 1st order at st and buildable jyn, rey and Finn at rrp after like so many year of being on sale

As I suspected some of the RTG and the skeleton crew sets are already on sale over in Smyths in the U.K. its a first for me I’ve never seen a set go on sale the same month it gets released. I’m going to hold Out to see how big a sale some retailers will do on these because i doubt many have bought them for rrp