Big_Daddy

When I saw the thread title I was hoping for an Aquazone crossover. And I wasn't disappointed

I'm not in the least interested in the new cinematic Indiana Jones deconstruction project but it's kinda sad that there won't be any sets. Just like KotCS it could have gotten us some nice vehicles at least.

Just a thought considering the ladies who have disguised themselves as men througout the ages to be able to fight in the army: it seems to be well-established that these ladies needed to 'look the part' so shouldn't that translate into masculine-looking Lego figures? I'm still on the fence about this set, I really like it but I kind of miss the old baseplate. Not only that, but now it's been replaced for an excuse to pump up the piece number and therefore the price. With several other bigger sets on the horizon that interest me (Star Wars Ghost, maybe the Republic Gunship), this one might take a backseat. But circling back to the whole minifig situation, I'd love to replace those heads with the classic smiley heads. That would really add to the nostalgia factor for me.

I'm all for a more extensive treatment of the non-clone part of the PT, but there are still some things that I'm missing from the OT I'm pretty sure I once saw the Outrider fly away from Mos Eisley...

Impressive job! The form is mostly accurate, the 'wing' and motor design works good and it's at a perfect scale. Lego should take note that this vehicle can be done justice as a set while also not being oversized.

A friend of mine secured a 75288 AT-AT for me for a reasonable price

Great job! It also looks considerably more elegant than the latest version. Which was released nine years ago, oh my...

My mission to collect every battle pack except the sequel trilogy ones is complete. The final four additions were: 8014 phase 1 TCW clones 9488 elite clone troopers and commando droids 75000 phase 1 clones and droidekas 75078 Rebels stormtroopers I also added the 40654 X-wing polybag to my collection because why not. As for the ST battle packs, I'm open to picking them up especially since they aren't exactly expensive, but I won't go out of my way.

Very clever diorama! Man it would really be something it Lego would release a set with Tom Bombadil

Now there's a scene worthy of an official diorama

Impressive, especially how you managed to recreate that spherical cockpit!

I always prefer cloth pieces but I'm just too old-fashioned to care about a high amount of accuracy, or arm print or all that. If stormtroopers would still look like the 2008 version I wouldn't complain at all.

My favourite figure so far is the heavy clone trooper from the battle pack. I've been playing BF2 for the first time this year and I did lots of coop missions with a friend of mine as a heavy.

This one looks great! How's the structural integrity, is it swooshable?

The Advent calendar looks quite good actually. I could've done without Omega and since I also have several 212th clones I don't 'need' any more of those, but all in all it's a fun and pretty balanced selection. Also funny to see Palps in Christmas attire The side builds look good too. And I hope that the inclusion of several separatist vehicles and Turbo Tank are good omens of what to expect from the 2024 sets.

No way. It's overpriced, especially since it does not have any redeeming factors, including the minifigs. The characters seem like typical annoying, loud, conceited brats that are so prevalent in modern kids' media. I got better plans for my wallet (and my kids).

Two weird battle packs, namely 75198 Tatooine and 75206 Jedi and clone troopers. Also the 9497 republic striker-class starfighter, since got into (KO)TOR again. Pity that I'll probably never get the fury class interceptor, Darth Malgus has simply become too expensive.

I keep going back to this topic somehow. This ship is giving me an amount of Star Wars vibes that I haven't felt since...

Nice one, better than that pirate snubfighter thing

That reveal was pretty revealing. My two cents: Yavin IV temple: it already didn't sound like a set for me but now I'm convinced; I appreciate the effort but it doesn't quite capture the building, even considering the limitations. The Y-Wing is cute though. Yoda's starfighter: since I missed out on the 2017 one I'm glad to pick this one up, after a good discount of course. And is it just me or does the cockpit look less bulky? 332nd BP: it looks nice enough for a battle pack, good thing they lowered the price. 27 euros would have been beyond ridiculous, they should have lowered it to 20 euros, max. But yeah, I'll wait for a small discount.

The sets being aimed primarily at kids between the ages of 6 and 12 years old isn't as strong an argument as you'd think. There's so much you can do within that price and age range that actually makes sense within the 'universe' of playscale Lego Star Wars. There's @Mandalorianknight's suggestions (which I wholeheartedly agree with), but also small vehicles like speeders, speeder bikes and such. Think of the small sets in the early years of LSW, like the 7110 Landspeeder. There's a ton of such stuff that I could submit in the wishlist thread, and I'm not even that creative. True, but the army builders who are fixated on stormtroopers will simply ignore the mechs in favour of a hypothetical stormie battle pack, thus eating into the sales of the former. As for speculation of what the next mechs would be (I don't expect TLG to give up on the concept so easily), Mando seems like a shoe-in like @Kit Figsto said. Also, it would be really easy for TLG to justify the Mech line by including a shiny phase 2 clone. Like it or not, that would sell like hotcakes.

My guess is that TLG won't release a stormtrooper battle pack anytime soon because it might eat into the sales of this mech. But then again, they also released another small Boba set this very year, even if it's a different version. I'm inclined to agree with you on this. As you said, they made a clever choice with Vader, Boba and a stormtrooper. I'm just curious how long they could maintain such a product line. This could end in a win-win situation you know. Either they will be more or less forced to release more interesting figures (I mean, how many full helmet minifigures that aren't that interesting can you think of?) or they won't, and people won't buy them anymore, thus leading to the end of the product line. But I don't dare to be too optimistic, we might as well brace ourselves for a C-3PO mech in January 2024 the way things are going now. As for the set slots, the last few years saw a decline of battle packs and microfighters already, even though there weren't any mechs released. I'd just like more smaller set slots in general, so that we'd at least have some decent battle packs again.

Heh, those mechs look goofy enough. When it comes to Vader I think I agree with the majority that it is the least interesting one, the Boba mech looks alright (within those parameters of course) but I've never been the biggest Boba Fett fan. Now the stormtrooper is something else; it looks like one of those edits where a stormie is depicted in Warhammer 40k aesthetic, which is pretty fun. But it's quite telling that the stormie is the only one where the helmet doesn't look disproportionally small; that helmet's still too big. And the price doesn't exactly help either. My guess is that this concept is more suitable for characters with full face helmets. But we'll see, actually it could be hilarious to see a mech with a normal Lego head.

I'd say most of the system scaled sets (or playscale sets) are roughly the same scale. Especially the starfighters. And welcome to the forum

I really don't care about that. As long as he's recognizable as R2 it's fine by me.