Governor Tarkin

There's always Bricklink. I mean if you could wait a month or two after the U.S. release date, you could easily find sealed sets that are $10-$20 below the retail U.S. price. I am not sure, but shipping should be around the same $10-$20, (depends on your country). Which means that with some patience, you could get a set for U.S. retail price as oppose to overpaying for that very set in your local store.

Also true. Though something as simple as this would have been great. https://mobile.twitter.com/legomichiiiiii/status/733104441088303104/photo/1

Alas, it is very unlikely. What we have here are not pictures of the sets on a display, but pictures of the set's boxes in a catalog. The boxes and placement of the builds in the said boxes are rather final, so whatever was pictured on preliminary box, though not final, is most likely going to be present in the set. Hence there are little to no chances for the molded Rathar. :(

Thank you! Still hope that one day we'll get those shields. :) Also, I couldn't but ask. Are you sure that the build represent interior of the MF and not "Eravana", Han's freighter in which he and Chewie captured the MF in the FO?

Thank you so much! At long last we have a final word on the Bounty Hunter battle pack. My dreams about it came true. Did FO Stories with shields looked anything like that? If so, did shields get new molds?

Yeah, I get it, some of the more recognizable vehicles/characters must always be on the shelves, hence out of the march wave, only 6/10 brick built sets peak my interest. To clarify, I don't mind re-releases, as long as there's also some original content, or at least re-releases that are long overdue. I humbly believe that a lot more people would have been happy if last year Lego re-released a Cloud City city of Bespin instead of the Death Star, and that no one would complain if the new A-wing would have been replaced with Yoda's Hut.

The main with the re-releasing sets is the fact that there are so much potential that is being thrown away. The are so many options for the new and original UCS sets, but instead we are getting non-UCS sets at all (hoth), or complete re-hashes of the previous sets (X-wing, Sandcrawler, Death Star, now Falcon, and presumably Snowspeeder). I'd love for Lego to release a UCS Venator, or Acclamator, or perhaps any CIS Cruiser, but we'll just get a Vader TIE fighter or yet another Y-wing instead.

This set is good, but it's clearly out of proportions. Just like Kanan's Speeder Bike, and AT-RTs, it's way to big for the minifigure scale. So far, the best AT-ST that would has correct proportions with minifigs was included in 8038 - The Battle of Endor. http://brickset.com/sets/8038-1/the-battle-of-endor

I believe until 2009, but I am not entirely sure. Might as well be 2010.

You know they won't. It's going to be an exact rehash with some alterations, plus a bigger price tag (probably). You know, just like the Death Star last year. :(