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Providing Lego were clever, I think the chosen sets could sell well. I’d certainly buy them. But sadly, I think we are a long way away from them, and I don’t think Lego would be bold in their choices. Maybe we might see a little resurgence with TFA’s 10 year anniversary and the new Rey film.

Can pretty much put a Jetpack on the Vaugh’n versions too, to help.

No, I meant the variants you listed. Couldn’t think of anything worse than named characters, personally.

I would buy many a battlepack with these figures; way better than the 2023 variants.

It’s only 215 pieces or so, and based on modern standards I think I’d be surprised if Lego manages to incorporate all these things given the pieces. But, you never know! I think so, but the levels of purchasing will be really high if it’s standard clones and the builds are good, especially the CIS vehicles as we don’t really have any thus far. Battle Pack build interests are definitely subjective, and personally amazing builds make a battle pack great not good.

Here’s my guess for the Clones Vs Droids Battle Pack. Clone Walker CIS STAP Crab Droid

It really felt like the designers completely and utterly cared and respected how their figures were going to be represented. It felt like I was buying a premium product.

Haha, such a good comment. Now I’ve been nice, give us the deet’s! Please…

Never thought I’d see the day where a Gunship does not make me excited. No idea why they made this smaller, personally. Plus, it’s a Gunship!! It’s meant to be in battles and that’s where most of the fun will come from. With this set, however, all someone is going to do is transport some senators and that’s it. I think it’s completely missed the mark.

I’ll reiterate - I actually quite like this first half of the year. Love the variation and I think there’s a real classic feel about it… In terms of specifics I’m all over that Super Battle Pack, Grogu’s Escape, the Droideka, and even the R2-D2 providing they’re all done right. Looking at the set numbers, are we confident there are more sets coming or have these been skipped? One thing I think this wave is missing is a couple of £20-£30 sets for January. Hence, I really do hope January had a few more sets!

2024 sounds quite interesting, fingers crossed the Clone legion is exciting! Get a feeling we might be getting shiny Phase II Clones somewhere…surely? That Droideka sounds super interesting, too! No helmets is a shame! Genuinely surprised at the lack of Mando S3/Ahsoka sets.

Sadly, I think we all know it isn’t laziness. Thank you for this though. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I see cases like this, and it’s happening more and more. Makes you wonder who’s making these decisions.

Rumour is it’s a regular set.

Lol, love it. Separately, really loving the UK prices on these sets! £64.99 and £94.99 respectfully is more than fair relative to previous experience, including what is on the shelves currently.

Two things. 1. Really disappointing to see the Shuttle can only accommodate one minfigure! 2. The lack of orange lightsabers is a bad move. Seems they haven’t learnt from the darksaber criticism. Plenty of positives, but certainly some subjective issues.

Yes my thoughts exactly for all three points here. Make January waves good again, they’re honestly an amazing start to the year if the sets are good. I think we all would be all over an E-Wing. I think it will be Shin’s Starfighter as this set is rumoured to be a dual pack alike the Tie and Fang Fighter earlier this year. Either way, the rumoured minifigure selection is amazing and certainly would make the other 2 sets even more exciting when put together.

I’m very excited for the Ahsoka sets! Here’s hoping they live up to the quality of the Ghost/Phantom. I am intrigued to see official pictures of the Gunship too…let’s see if it’s all an overreaction. Ahsoka show trailer gets me hyped, I reckon we will see more sets in 2024, atleast I hope.

Republic Gunship - I need to see a lot more before passing judgment and purchasing. But, currently I am not a huge fan…which is such a shame. The Ghost/Phantom - Absolutely fantastic, I love it! I am so excited to see the rest of the Ahsoka wave now, especially the T6 Shuttle because Ahsoka looks great (box art of Ghost).

I strongly believe Lego need to release more sets to account for the ever-increasing new media churned out by Disney each year. Part of this shift would be a return to more expansive January waves. Some of my best memories come from these waves: I think the fact New Year is memorable helps. Armed with Christmas cash (and in my case birthday too) and affordable sets, winter waves were a perfect way to start the year. Whilst I think the current structure of Winter waves are affordable, I do not like that this is because so few sets are released. Hence, here are my predictions for January 2024, infused with my wishlisting due to the amount of sets I predict. Essentially, it’s a hybrid list. The Phantom Microfighter £12.99: Hera Syndulla Clone Trooper Artillery Cannon £13.99 (Minifigure Pack, small artillery cannon based off ROTS Venator scenes): Phase II Shiny Clone Trooper (x2), Republic Officer Imperial Beskar Commando Troopers £13.99 (Minifigure Pack, brick-built minifigure launcher - think Corporate Alliance 2009 - and Imperial Turret): Imperial Beskar Commando Captain, Imperial Beskar Commando (x2) Rebel Fleet Troopers Battle Pack £19.99 (Small Rebel Hovertank - Battlefront 2005 - with flick-fire muzzles between the engines): Rebel Fleet Trooper (x3), Rebel Commando (Urban Rebel Soldier Battlefront 2005) Imperial V-Wing £24.99: (Bad Batch S2): TK StormTrooper, Imperial Commando, Omega The Mandalorians’ Nevarro Cabin £24.99: The Mandalorian, Grogu, Greef Karga Grogu’s Jedi Temple Escape £29.99 (Republic Barc Speeder W/sidecar that can be equipped with Grogu’s pram): Kelleren Beq, Grogu, Clone Shock Trooper (x2) Bo Katan’s Mandalorian Fighter £74.99 (Larger and more white, landing gear, and no gaps in cockpit compared to 2020 version): Bo Katan, Axe Woves, Moff Gideon Overall, 8 sets in total. Many link with pre-existing sets (Clone Minifig pack with UCS Venator; HoverTank with Yavin Base; Shock Trooper army for Gunship), or with others sets in the wave (Beskar Minifigure Pack, Cabin, Bo’s MandoFighter).

I mean that they can’t add anything to the design to make it more appealing; the Vaughn case is Lego have simply omitted details for the design hence why we critique it.

Aslong as it’s accurate, I’m happy. Lego can only design based off of the material. From what I see, it’s accurate.

I have seen recently on certain social media channels complaints about the lack of Anakin Skywalker figures on shelves comparative to Luke Skywalker. Irrespective of my thoughts, here are my favourite sets that could release in the next few years with Anakin. TPM: Naboo Starfighter Vs Vulture Droid Skywalker Homestead AOTC: Coruscant Airspeeder Chase Petranaki Arena (Yavin 2023 style) ROTS: Anakin’s Green Jedi Interceptor Duel on Mustafar Diorama Palpatine’s Arrest Diorama TCW: Anakin’s Yellow Jedi Starfighter Seperatist Tri-Droid (S7)

I am surprised more have not suggested Bad Batch Season 2 sets. TK Stormtroopers, Imperial Commando’s, and TK Shock Troopers would all be amazing additions. Considering the timeframe of the show, it would appeal to both Prequel and OT fans. A small army of these figures are particularly appealing to me. The sets would also accompany nicely existing Imperial collections. Lego have focused on the wrong things for this show overall thus far and I really think they’ve missed a trick.

Completely agree, I reckon there are going to be some stunners!

Yes, my thoughts exactly! I’d recently thought of these exact sets. Mech’s have nice potential. I could add more: Royal Guard, Senate Comando, Jango Fett, Sabine Wren etc. I will stop the wishlisting, now. Admittedly, “human” heroes are far harder to do in theory, but I am sure they’ll find a way.