LegoFjotten

Thanks for the review! I've picked up a lot of these packs (30+) at a good price and I think it is a great BP. All figures are proper army material which is a huge relief. Mostly interested in the Stormtroopers so I'm in the process of selling off most of the Death Troopers. Don't really care much about the builds in the BP's anyway, just consider them random parts for my collection (although I'll admit this walker is subpar).

Vixen looks like a nice fig, Deadpool Duck doesn't really do anything for me. Glad they didn't do figs I'd really like... like Jean Grey or Arsenal.

Probably gonna get this, but I must admit I'm a little less enthusiastic about it than the other Creator cars. The section between the headlights and the front wheels bother me a little, wish there was a fancy build that would give it a proper arch above the wheels and a little depth/texture.

That looks like a great set! Will probably pick it up even though Ninjago is not really my thing.

Finn looks nice, but not sure about that helmet... hopefully it will look better from another angle. The First Order must be very close to their silly-looking hat/helmet limit by now.

So... one local shop throws a 40% of all LEGO to make room for the new sets... and mixes it up by actually putting the new sets on the shelves during the sale... The downside is that their selection is pretty bad (usually no big sets), but I did pick up the Bounty Hunter BP, First Order BP and Dart Vader Transformation set. Over the last few weeks also picked up: 10 x 75165 - Imperial Trooper Battle Pack (at 70% off) another 10 x 75165 - Imperial Trooper Battle Pack (at about 40% off)

The head is from Boromir The goggles and helmet are both in a lot of sets in various colors.

I'm soooo jealous... wish I could have been there with you all! After tough negotiations with my wife, "we" decided to go a teddy-bear convention in Münster that weekend instead... Oh well, next year!

I think that is a pretty cool exclusive, just wish I could get my hands on one!

Sorry, that's not it. Even though printed parts are more expensive.

You should have read the whole conversation.

That is simply not true. If you have ever built any of the other LEGO "compatible" construction toy it is pretty clear who is cutting corners. Go watch one of the YouTube videos from one of the LEGO factories which covers the storage area and you will see that it is not so trivial to just add storage space. They did product testing with the target group (kids in the appropriate age range), and they wanted stickers. I think there was a bit about this in one of the LEGO documentaries, I don't recall which one. I agree, they did the same thing in the Hoth playset. I hate those pilot expressions, wish they would retire that head and replace it with one with at least one good neutral expression. I'm 100% sure that if the designers were allowed to all the relevant parts would be printed and each figure would have a unique face & torso. I'm sure most of us at one point or another have disagreed with rules & restrictions imposed by our bosses, but that's just the way it is.

It's the same reason why they reuse an existing head for the minifigures; Each unique printed part will need room in the storage system, and the storage system is already operating at capacity. To make room for new printed parts, new parts, or color changes (existing parts in new colors) they need to retire other parts. A single D2C set will not be allowed to introduce that many new parts. LEGO is well aware us AFOLs don't like the stickers, I bet they hear it every Q&A session they host with LEGO designers / Community managers. For regular sets it's a bit different since the stickers are considered a part of the experience, they probably wouldn't want to get rid of them even if storage capacity was not an issue.

I think the new UCS Snowspeeder looks great, it's been quite a while since the previous one so I don't mind that it's a remake. I have the old one, but will get this anyway.

As part of the national LUG I assisted at a local ToysRUs event in Norway last weekend ("LEGO building days"). One of the promos they had were the R3-M2 polybag. I would guess they had somewhere between 100-200 of them. I handed out quite a few of them over the weekend, but there was a still a fair amount left when the store closed on Saturday.