Kdapt-Preacher

Nope, sithewok is right and I'm wrong. Those clones are much clearer on the Blu-Ray version of RotS, and they're dressed (as far as I can tell) identically to Bacara. I learn something new every day. That said, I still don't think they're the ones in the battle pack.

Hmm. I've never noticed that, but I can see who you're talking about. This is the highest resolution shot I can find. They're definitely not wearing Galactic Marine armor, but I don't think it's quite the same as Bacara's, either--it might be the same helmet, but as best as I can tell they don't have the kama and pauldron. I don't know who these guys are; I've never seen any mention of Galactic Marines or anybody else wearing that kit. Even the 501st Legion doesn't have a reference. :P Definitely a good spot, but I still think the clone gunners are more likely, especially since we've seen the Phase 1 version of them in a battle pack before.

The clone in your picture is Commander Bacara. It would make sense to put him in a set with Ki-Adi-Mundi, but there wouldn't be two clones wearing that armor. I believe those are Phase 2 tank gunners, as pictured here. This design has been around forever, although I don't think it made it into Revenge of the Sith.

They didn't have as many big outside shots in good lighting as in ANH, but they spent a lot more time inside and flying around the hull. I don't expect a UCS Finalizer soon, just because those huge sets always lag a few years behind the system-scale ones, but I'd be surprised if it didn't happen eventually. Of course, I'm still surprised we haven't gotten any Prequels vehicles at all (except for the Delta 7) in that scale, so who knows.

It was in Star Wars Battlefront.

Because the previous books were before the new unified canon. Under Disney's system, all canon, regardless of media—film, print, games, anything—is equal. There were tiers of canon before, with the movies occupying the highest level, Lucasfilm's TV shows below that, books below those, and games last, but now the Story Group oversees all continuity evenly. We got a LEGO set out of the big The Force Unleashed multimedia thing they did a few years ago, where they were pushing the game, and the books, and all the other things at once; all of Star Wars is like that now. Producing physical products of things from books is more difficult, of course, simply because there are no visual references, but those issues aside all Star Wars canon, regardless of form, is now eligible for production.

Remember that there are CTTs on Coruscant in RotS, too, albeit briefly. It could come with any combination of Yoda, Windu, Kenobi, and grey-armored 41st Elite troopers if they took that scene as inspiration.

Remember that LEGO released TC-4 as a polybag last year. I agree with you that they probably shouldn't make characters that obscure, but that doesn't mean they won't.

This is just the Japanese variant of the third trailer. There's some new footage, but the gist of it is the same--like how those Korean ads had wider pictures of the FO base than the US initially got.

It's a matter of opinion, I guess. The Rebels minifigure faces look more like OT faces because, in the show itself, they are; you can see from this comparison of Ahsoka that her eyes have shrunk to more normal proportions and she's generally gotten less angular and stylized. LEGO is trying to make minifigures that represent their source material as accurately as possible. For TCW, that meant giving them visibly cartoonish faces, while for Rebels it just means simplifying the printing a bit, because there aren't such obvious ways to otherwise distinguish them that come through given LEGO's constraints. Rebels stormtroopers are visibly cartoonish, though, so LEGO's trying to make them reflect that. They probably should have gotten a modified helmet mold for the frown, but it is what it is.

The helmets are very different. Sure, you can replace your Rebels helmets with OT ones, but then you have to go on Bricklink to buy new OT helmets. That's the same thing as saying the tiny, crappy MTT in 75058 is OK because you can replace it with the one from 7662--you're correct that that's an option, but it doesn't change the fact that 75058 was a crappy model. I think the Rebels helmets are great, because they're an accurate reflection of the helmets in the show, and it would be wrong to include OT-style TKs in Rebels sets, but the vast majority of people aren't interested in accumulating large numbers of Rebels troopers, and therefore think (correctly) that OT ones should be at least as easily available.

Well, they did put Nute Gunray in Anakin's Jedi Interceptor, and we all know what happened to him in that scene. He was unarmed and begging for his life; most of the Tuskens at least pulled gaderffiis and tried to fight back. Palpatine's Arrest, likewise, is pretty grim; I'd argue that most children would probably be more disturbed seeing a good guy, Mace Windu, going through the whole edge-of-the-Dark-Side "he's too dangerous to be kept alive" bit, and all the Force Lighting there, and the point at which Anakin really, irrevocably falls. Even if you don't think that's quite as grim as the Tusken camp, it's certainly not very far off. That said, I don't think we're getting it as a set. And, for the record, I would love an 'Assault on the Jedi Temple' set. I always thought it was really, really weird that we got Coruscant Guard troopers, Star Corps troopers, and 442nd Siege Bat troopers, who are in RotS for about a second, about a second, and not at all, respectively, in the first wave of RotS sets, and then a couple times after that too (AT-AP and first Clones BP), but never saw 501st or 212th troopers--by far the most important ones in the movie--until 2013, and then only for TCW sets. We have still, today, never had a movie-style 501st clone trooper minifigure, despite all the screen time they've had. I can't believe it'd be anything other than Rebels. Obviously the TFA stuff completely dwarfs Rebels for marketing stuff, but I can't see Disney ever ignoring currently-running content so completely as to give us only one system-scale set, and with the A-wings being featured so strongly in Rebels over the last couple episodes they're the obvious choice for a medium-small vehicle. LEGO goes for weird remakes sometimes, but we just had an OT A-wing in 2013, and it's such a minor vehicle in the OT compared to Rebels (where it's the only Alliance starfighter shown so far, although IIRC there were B-wing prototypes in one of the Season 2 trailers) that it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for them to do that again.

'Shocktrooper' in the context of the Coruscant Guard has nothing to do with electric shocks, but is rather a real-life term for elite infantry. I'm not aware of any Galactic Republic forces that use electrostaves. The Imperial shocktroopers in Battlefront use the armor markings of the Coruscant Guard and are unrelated to the Imperial riot troopers, who do carry staves but appear only in the Star Wars: Galactic Defense mobile game.

They fold in the movie, but are locked upright in the LEGO set. LEGO's version of the ship can't fly. Which sucks.

I didn't say it would make any sense for it to be a TK helmet, just that that's what it looks like.

Minifigure necks are the same size as a stud, so anything that fits on a stud (including fitting onto a minifig hand) will fit on a neck, and vice versa.

It kinda looks like one of the Rebels in the BF battlepack is wearing the bottom half of a wrecked stormtrooper helmet.

I wouldn't worry. There have been a bunch of reports of issues, but I don't think I've seen a single one that LEGO didn't resolve immediately. Given the number of TFA sets that have been sold, your odds are very low, and even if there's something wrong it'll be fixed.

It's been a long time, but yes, I've had that happen as well. My Twilight came without a bag containing much of the wing, back whenever the Twilight set came out--2009, maybe. I got it from a brick-and-mortar store, so I just returned it and they gave me a new one without any problems. These issues are very rare, but they've been happening forever and will continue to happen forever. No matter how good their QC is, out of all the millions of sets they sell some fraction are always going to be screwed up.

It's not impossible that the design of the ship changed dramatically between LEGO's design and the actual movie, but that would be a screw-up well beyond the level of anything we've seen before, with Star Wars or LEGO or Disney. Sure, stuff like the colors of Kallus's uniform changing slightly from the concept artwork makes sense. That's perfectly reasonable. But this kind of fundamental design change, that really impacts playability? The set's not a lot of good if kids can't make it fly. I just can't see that happening. There are way too many competent people working on this, especially given that this would heavily impact sales/marketing of this set and any other toys based on the shuttle--which there will likely be plenty of. Neither Disney nor Lego nor Hasbro nor any of the other companies that Disney works with are known for releasing crappy products, and if that kind of error had been made we would definitely be looking at a crappy product. I think it more likely that there are several similar ships--see all the TIE variants, or the LAAT variants, or the Lambda/Theta/Sentinel shuttles, or X-wings/Z-95s. Someone who hadn't seen the movie (as we haven't) could easily look at the LEGO Z-95 and think "WTF? The wings don't split! This is a garbage X-wing!", and they'd be one hundred percent correct in that assessment, but not for the reason they thought.

OT stormtroopers shouldn't have white hands, and TFA ones should. Both of them have white armor plates on the backs of their hands, but TFA troopers have white palms as well, so their gloves are just a strip of black sandwiched between white pieces, while the OT troopers' are mostly black with just a bit of white. Comparing this OT trooper to this TFA one makes it more obvious.

It looks a bit odd next to clones and OT stormies, but they're not wrong--the TFA stormtrooper gloves have white palms, and the backs of the hands still have the white armor plate that the OT stormies do. There's a bit of black on the gloves, but they're definitely mostly white now, as you can see in this picture.

Darth Vader is not a rare figure--in fact, with 19 appearances, he's one of the most common in the series, and when he was in the previous Final Duel set he cost $7. Likewise, Luke's first appearance in the Jedi outfit cost $3.49, and as recently as 2012 he was in the Desert Skiff set in the Jedi suit for $25. I find it hard to believe that anyone would skip Final Duel in favor of those solely on the basis of those figures, and it certainly wouldn't apply to "most people". General Grievous was in his Wheel Bike for $25 and Jango Fett was in the Corporate Alliance Tank Droid for $20, and as P2 Cody has never appeared in a set, none of those characters--Not a single one!--are unique to expenisve sets. So give me my @#$%$ Cody minifigure!

Everybody wants that. We would have gotten a Phase II Commander Cody figure, only ten years late...