Magmafrost

Interesting that the new helmet mould in the U-wing microfighter appeared in the film for all of about 1 second, maybe less. Perhaps it'll show up elsewhere... I also didn't see the helmet design on Lego's U-wing/Y-wing pilot anywhere in the film. And most importantly, at no point in the film were a TIE Striker's wings angled upwards, which is great, because that looks awful on the Lego model, they look much better down. There seems to be lots of love for the cargo shuttle design, too, which is... look, I dont agree with you. Its awful. If it gets a set, I'm happy for you, but personally I'd rather such a substantial slot be filled with literally anything else from the film. Preferably a hammerhead. Are... are his eyes GREEN in that poster!? What!? WHY!? Is Pablo just rubbing it in at this point?

It goes without saying that you could just import them from amazon, or ebay, or bricklink. Just keep in mind that you'll pay way more than US MSRP, and then another 100% or so for shipping.

I wonder... I know Amazon cant ship Lego from the US to Australia, and many people have said that Lego themselves impose that restriction (albeit without any evidence), which is... well, scummy as megabluck (like, maybe address the reason why we'd want to do that?).

More likely the store is actively holding back the new stock until the end of the sale. Hell the sale might be specifically to reduce the stock they have on older sets

There are reports on reddit of the y-wing, battle packs, and I believe Scarrif, showing up in Australian TRUs and Big Ws, if anyone's interested. Nice to get the sets on time for once

Realistically this thread is the discussion thread now. I think it makes more sense to make a new thread just for new info, rather than make a new discussion thread. However I still think the better option is to just maintain the first post more actively. Remove irrelevant things like Yoda's Hut, and be quicker to update it when new information surfaces. I just think that's a cleaner way to set things up, but if that's not something that's practical, then a new thread for information is the way to go, I think.

first post.

This next wave looks a lot better. Except the freemaker stuff (unless it ends up looking good, but what are the chances of that?), everything looks pretty exciting. Only two remakes, and of things we havent seen in a long time. The Delta-7 with hyperdrive booster ring that we've needed for so long, so excited for that. Not to mention the hope it gives for a new Jango's Slave 1. My only concern, and this applies to the quadjumper too, is the possibility that lego might not have given them enough pieces to do them justice, but considering this should be a wave of fairly large sets, it should be fine. Honestly I cant see the Rathtar set being all that great, but if it comes with a rathtar, well, lets be honest, that's what we're buying it for. Who cares about the rest.

I think there's certainly an argument to be made for the idea that opinions and discussion are cluttering up this thread and making it hard for people to find actual information (although, not the argument the mods are making...). Personally I think the issue is more that we dont have anywhere else to put that discussion, and while having two separate threads for the same thing would be a bit messy, it would still be less messy than what we have here. Actually updating the first post to reflect current information would be an even better alternative, but clearly that's not going to happen

Typically we dont know who designed what sets, unless the designer makes that information public. A few designers have bricklists of sets they've designed on brickset, but often the answers to these sorts of questions simply aren't publicly available.

It makes me angry how stupid this is. You dont want us giving opinions, fine, but this is a megablocking dumb reason for it. We really do need a separate opinions and discussion thread (several people are insisting that there is one, although I cant find any evidence that that's true), instead of only banning negative opinions on this one, because at this point it just looks like you're actively trying to create a circlejerk.

Looks like the pages have now been taken down entirely. If they were up by mistake, I wonder why they were changed several times, and up for a few days before being taken down... I suppose we'll never know.

Based on the Australian price, I'd go with $35, but then lower priced sets are usually less predictable

Dec 16 for Australia too, so maybe they'll turn up in stores late Jan/mid Feb instead of the usual late Feb.

The really weird thing about expecting Thrawn to pull that much weight, is that Lego's core target audience couldn't care less about Thrawn. They also apparently expect a tusken raider to pull even more weight looking at the landspeeder price (yes its less expensive but its also way less pieces).

Well, the y-wing wasn't up yesterday, so the battle packs not being up today quite possibly doesn't mean anything.

Just change the region and see the UK price that way, its up for every country except US and CA. Its £65 int he UK

Here's the AU page https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Y-Wing-Starfighter-75172

The y-wing's page is now up on S@H. At $110 in Australia for 700ish pieces, its by far the most reasonably priced set in the entire wave, being one of only two sets in the wave that isn't one of the most expensive system sets per piece that we've seen in years. Interestingly, it says " Not available in your country ". Says that on the GB page too. First time I've seen that, not sure if its actually new or not, but the other sets say "Coming Soon on 1 Jan 2017". Very strange that they're different.

It isn't, its just a weird angle. See the angled plate below them? Notice how they both end one stud before the end of the shooter

Wow, the A-Wing is $80 in Australia. $80. Yeah, nobody's going to buy that... Although based on what happened with last year's A-wing, Lego will probably preempt that by just not making it available for us to buy anyway. Dont think I've ever said this before, but megabluck (huh, that's interesting. I guess no censorship on a lego site would be a bit weird, but come on, there's an 18+ limit on using the site anyway) TLG. This has gone too far. This is inexcusable. it doesn't even matter how good the set is in its own right, it doesn't matter how good the minifigs are, the set is unpurchasable at that price point, and we dont exactly get the greatest discounts around here... EDIT oh good, the rest of the wave is that bad too, except for Yoda's starfighter. $60 for the Phantom for no reason other than the minifigs. $70 for the Skiff for no obvious reason, except maybe to beat the lack of sales record of the spider droid. $50 for the landspeeder is the worst price per piece for a set since the Lonely mountain, except this time we dont get a giant dragon. The Y-Wing's page isn't up yet, but at this point I'm expecting $150. This is disgusting. This is video games industry level of disgusting. I'm straight up not touching this wave, or if I do I'm importing the sets from the US. That should never be the cheaper option. Those prices are insane enough to make you wonder whether Lego's trying to reduce sales in Australia enough that they can stop considering us as a market at all and stop wasting their time selling Lego here. And when that happens, no doubt they still wont let Amazon ship Lego here.

What exactly is the source for that, anyway?

Ok, there's a difference between what the Lego community calls LBG, and what Lego calls LBG. I was referring to the latter, the colour a lot of parts in the mindstorm sets are

The thing about the x-wings anyway, is that while they are grey, they're also a lighter grey than the death star, and I think we can all agree the death star is medium bluish grey. Light bluish grey would be the perfect colour (well, maybe its a bit too blue), but clearly Lego really doesn't like using it, presumably with good reason that we'll never know because TLG never tells anyone anything. The issue of Kylo Ren's shuttle is quite a simple one: presumably the design of the ship in the movie hadn't been finalised while the set was being developed. It takes a year minimum for most sets to go from the start of the design phase to being on shelves, and the first wave of TFA sets were released 2 months before the movie, production would've started substantially earlier. So yeah, believe it or not lego can't make a super accurate model of a ship before that ship's design is finalised, and it just so happened that Kylo's shuttle changed more than the other ships lego did

Actually, weren't there pictures of a-wings from the set of episode 8? That's going to be... hmm... we might be looking at 3 a-wings in three years.