BrickBob Studpants

I'm happy for the people who didn't have the chance yet to get them, but it's still a lot of wasted potential

Sounds pretty lame to be honest, those should've been regular battlepacks instead So much for exclusive prints then

I know, for you the stakes are much higher than for the rest of us As far as I'm concerned, I've made peace with it

Don’t get your hopes up, the way the designers were talking about DH doesn’t exactly sound promising I would suggest not expecting any in the forseeable future and being pleasantly surprised whenever some DH-adjacent sets do show up

Huh. While Nezha does have a double-bun style hairpiece, it’s NOT the one that recently leaked Is it a Friends piece after all?

Whoops, forgot about him. Not overly familiar with his scores outside of LOTR, The Hobbit, Hugo, and Ed Wood Definitely a noteworthy composer too I thought they were marketing JWD as the final entry in the series? Or are they pulling a Kingdom Hearts III here and it’s just the finale of the current arc?

Um, how are scalpers supposed to manipulate the worth of a set while it’s still in production? That sort of trickery is only possible once a set is phased out of production and can’t be easily bought at stores anymore, handing complete control over the supply over to the aftermarket. Unless a set is sold out for months of course, but this is a regular retail set, so that’s not particularly likely. And waiting for new stock shouldn’t be too hard either

So this basically confirms where that hairpiece is from

I think the chances are pretty high. We know that the Ghost is still around during the ST era and I’d expect multiple (former) crewmembers to show up in the Ahsoka show, which apparently serves as the long-planned Rebels sequel series Plus, Filoni is involved. He probably can’t resist the urge to translate as many of his (and his team’s) creations into live-action as possible With the shows that are currently scheduled, there should be a good selection of new and revisited vehicles from multiple eras. Let’s hope TLG actually take advantage of that, starting with at least a handful of sets for Obi-Wan and Andor next summer

Only if they release both versions. If we end up with only one minifig of his, I’d prefer the other costume, goofy as it still is

This year’s employee holiday gift set is based on Ninjago, called “Temple of Celebrations”. No idea if Santa Garmadon (Santadon?) is actually included as a minifig or just on a postcard

Right on the money, but luckily it turned out to be a Ninjago set rather than a HP one This could’ve been terrifying since new prints are not out of the question for these gift sets

I’d argue it gets pretty good once the Grand Inquisitor and Tarkin show up mid-way through S1 and the shows really kicks into high-gear in the finale of S2. So maybe a remake could do well if they include some desirable minifigs from S2 and beyond? You’re right though, a set like that could do well even if the kids aren’t too familiar with the source material. I mean, we got sets based on The Old Republic, the new Battlefront games, Galaxy’s Edge, and even completely made-up ones Fingers crossed the upcoming shows are able to renew interest in Rebels, be it by introducing live-action Inquisitors (Obi-Wan) or by directly featuring its characters (Ahsoka, maybe Andor as well)

Not sure if they’d be willing to give it another shot. Maybe the chances improve if the ship shows up in the Ahsoka series? Of course fans would buy a remake in a heartbeat (especially when looking at the mind-boggling prices on bricklink), but would the target audience too? Is Rebels still popular among kids?

I knew it, these price hikes are machinations of the Dark Side It’s always sad when a hobby gets invaded by people who don’t care about the hobby itself and are instead just in it to make a quick buck. Just ask the trading card community That’s why I don’t mind TLG rerealising new versions of rare minifigs. I don’t care if my copies lose value as I’m not intending to sell them anyway

That's how it usually goes, yes. But the way these prices have increased astronomically is pretty suspicious if you ask me. It just reeks of purposeful price gouging Old sets and minifigs have always increased in price after a while, that's noting new, especially when retired sets suddenly experience refreshed interest thanks to a new show or film coming out. These price hikes however are beyond anything I've seen in the last 15 years

It’s not handled the same way in every subforum. In the SW subforum, new threads are created once we have rumours, so those are threads about the sets released in that particular year. Contrast this with the licensed subforum, where threads are created on Jan 1st and are thus framed by the calendar year, rather than the sets released in that year Because it’d be thousands of pages long. Looking for older posts would be even more of a mess Edit: Gah, double-ninja’d by @lego_guyon02

Sure, but this hairpiece doesn’t look like it belongs to a bounty hunter, mercenary, goon, or crime lord Yeah, that pretty much seals the deal

…are you sh*tting me. I thought I massively overpaid when I got mine for $200 shortly after it surfaced, but this is just bonkers There must be something nefarious going on here

Really? Scalpers gonna scalp, but this is getting ridiculous. Are they trying to turn minifig-collecting into an NFT-inspired pyramide scheme or something? In that case, I want TLG to rerelease as many rare minifigs as possible just to ruin their „business“

Definitely looking forward to his scores! One of my favourite composers next to John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Ludwig Göransson, and Alexandre Desplat. He's lucky all of these movies have been moved, otherwise he would have had a VERY busy couple of months. Then again, he somehow managed to compose the score of Rogue One in a month or so and he had already composed the main theme for The Batman before they started shooting, if memory serves me well Hopefully this new video means the marketing campaign starts soon, I want to see the big three in their new costumes!

The accessory hole is indeed suspicious, but Friends hairpieces are usually a softer plastic, and this seems like a hard plastic type to me Star Wars can safely be ruled out. Not only doesn't anyone have a hairstyle like that, there also isn't any set on the horizon where a character like that would fit in

Do you think the new hairpiece that just leaked could belong to a Monkie Kid character? Ninjago would be another option, but we‘ve known about the upcoming minifig selection for a while now whereas the 1HY MK sets are still a mystery

Luke’s lightsaber includes a kyber crystal, represented by tr-light-blue 2x2 round bricks Nice attention to detail, now I wish Yoda’s counterpart included it as well

Fair enough. I know remakes are necessary and I’m usually fine with them, as long as they include something new, be it a side-build or new minifigs Recent remakes have started to fail a bit in that regard. The 2016 CTT was great despite being its third version because it included ROTS versions of Luminara and Quinlan, while the 2019 AT-AP was a disappointment to me for its failure to deliver anything even remotely new. I wish they still handled remakes like they did in 2014, where they sometimes threw in completely nonsensical characters just for heck of it (Palpatine in the Droid Tri-Fighter and the Neimoidian guard in the Vulture Droid set being the prime examples)