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@Mandalorianknight, I'd choose the extra-light gray for accurate X-wings, Snowspeeders, and Imperial shuttles.

So far, Grogu is nowhere near as dynamic and complex of a character as ... Dobby the house-elf. No socks for baby Yoda. Just frogs, Frog eggs, and newly hatched spider monsters.

! !! !!! Edit to keep this from being an unreasonably low effort post: Of course, I should have already realized that. 813p for $160 vs 962p for $160, some of which are the bestest electronic light and sound and charging gizmos ever made in the history of the world. When you put it that way, the Smart Play Throne Room is an absolute bargain! Happy face. /s ...... Speaking of getting sets half price without minifigs secondhand, I really hope some reseller offers just the A-wing for a decent price. Apart from its lack of a fairing behind the cockpit, which should be easy to add, it's easily the best-looking A-wing ever and a cracking good prototype for the next standalone minifig scale A-wing. Too bad the X-wing and TIE Advanced regress instead of progress in their looks.

And the monkey's paw curls again. The RC is now said to be the $150, 930p set. The original set 75292 was $130, 1023p in September 2020, which is about $160 today, so judged against inflation the new price and parts count isn't too bad. But the original was already overpriced at $130, so now the PPP of the new version is almost as bad as the PPP of last year's CTT. As usual, I hope I can get it half price secondhand without minifigs.

It'll be buildable Grogu in Mandalorian armor with a rocket backpack that really shoots. I jest, of course.

Yeah, that's one thing that really irks me about this modular: the classic minifig chair in the trash. It's such a small detail with no impact on the build, and of course it takes no imagination at all to simply leave out that part of the "storytelling", but even as a throwaway (har har) joke it's so disrespectful. People who own the set can put whatever parts they want in the dumpster at the back, but it's rude for a relatively new set designer to make an easteregg about throwing away 40 years of company history.

I get the reasoning, but it would be a crying shame for any kid or adult who missed the original RC if Din Djarin's starship were to get the Slave 1 treatment and the only "large" playscale version ever made was the first one.

Somehow, there doesn't seem to be room for another Razor Crest in the latest round of rumors, does there? Some product manager at Lego is out of their gourd for not fast-tracking a new Razor Crest to shelves in time for the new movie.

I just watched the demo videos from Beyond the Brick and Mini Super Heroes Today. At least in the Beyond the Brick demos, the sound quality is so bad. It's too quiet to hear over the parts clacking, and the sound isn't even authentic. Generic sounds like that should have been put in an in house theme instead. Use Star Wars sounds for Star Wars sets! Also, it's such a monkey's paw moment to finally get an astromech body that allows the head to rotate, only for the body to be flat instead of round at the back. However, the new A-wing looks amazing. Granted, it doesn't have the fairing behind the windscreen, but that should be easy to add and otherwise the shaping and scaling of the ship is incredibly good thanks to straight slopes and wedge curve slopes that debuted in the past few years. I sure hope resellers will be selling that separately from the rest of the throne room duel set.

If there's a new Bounty Hunter Pursuit after 24 years all is forgiven. Unless it's as overpriced as the Cobb Vanth Speeder. Then it's forgiven once it hits half off.

Hmm. I went to make a new account but it said my email address already has an account. So I put in my email address to get a recovery password, but no recovery password email ever came.

@danth, my point is that it's not always a trivial thing to just sub in the unprinted version of a part. It's not a made up, contrived, completely avoidable problem. When I was a kid with a small collection, I didn't like slopes with extraneous McDonald's and Rock Raiders prints because I had no use for them and I didn't have the unprinted version of the part in the same color. When you make quick comments that vastly overgeneralize in the direction of your lived experience and hastily dismiss the lived experiences of others, don't be surprised when others make quick comments that vastly overgeneralize in the directions of their lived experiences and hastily dismiss your lived experiences. There are pros and cons to stickers and there are pros and cons to prints and neither set of pros nor cons has a slam dunk disproof, ok? I hope we can agree on that broad statement.

Wow, way to dismiss lived experiences and practical difficulties based on pure ideology. But I wouldn't expect anything different from the self appointed president of the sticker haters club.

Not really, only if you already have the unprinted part in the same color to swap in, which often isn't the case. Besides, stickers let me vary the level of decoration on a set. In my opinion, reducing the level of decoration often makes a set look much better.

An M&G monster arena set would be a nice trial run or prototype to test the market for a Petranaki arena in a year or two

Technically, Town started in 1978 and was relaunched as City in 2005.

Actually, I guess the canon length of the starship Hail Mary is only 33 m or 47 m, depending on the source. That's plenty small enough to make a decent playscale version, probably using a lot of City airplane parts. We probably won't get a playscale Hail Mary in a $90 Icons set, but it's doable.

Cool. Hope this somehow opens up licensing paths to get sets for The Martian or Interstellar. Edit - I guess this takes up the ~$100 Icons spaceship slot, so we probably won't get another throwback Space set. I think I'm ok with that. It's a brand-new license from a brand-new story, it's got two cool minifigs, so it's fun and fresh and new. However, if it ends up being a diorama or a midiscale ship, I'll still want another throwback Space set. The Hail Mary is a pretty big NASA-styled ship, so it's hard to imagine off the top of my head how they could make a good minifig playset from it.

Since the midi scale AT-AT is still labeled as part of the Starship Collection, we may rest assured John Lego isn't a stickler for precise labels.

@huguberhart Thanks for doing that, but could you please put this up on Rebrickable? Having already been scammed once with this ship, I'd feel safer getting this from a Rebrickable page than from a link in a forum post. Please forgive me for being a little skittish.

Maybe instead of a new UCS Falcon at full minifig scale in 2027 they could do a super detailed, super accurate minifig model at a size just larger than the usual playscale. Essentially a retail set version of the way builders have been modding the playscale sets as long as the theme has existed. That could be at the $250-$300 price range to distinguish itself from the $100 Smart Play Falcon without being as distant as the $800 UCS, especially since a UCS Falcon v3 in 2027 would certainly be over $1000. It would be extremely expensive for a glorified playset, but not as bad as the Black Pearl or as expensive as Betrayal at Cloud City or the Mos Eisley Cantina. Considering the prices of the big display Benatar and Milano, they might even be able to bring in a set like that at a lower price point than $250. How's that for a 2027 anniversary set idea? Of course, that idea is just wish listing, so maybe it's not appropriate for this thread.

You mean a revival of Aquazone?

It's just a fun visual pun, it's not that deep.

How about Force Ghost minifigs? Personally, I think golden minifigs are a waste of a minifig slot. They have little or no relevance to play scenarios and they look tacky. But Force Ghost minifigs would have play and story relevance, they would look cool on display, and they would sort of echo the collectible Patronus animals for the Harry Potter 25th anniversary. It's about time for Lego to solve whatever material and design problems prevent them from making full minifigs out of transparent MABS. Force Ghost Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin are long overdue. Edit - from new media, you could add Force Ghost Luke and Force Ghost Qui-Gon. That would make five Force Ghost minifigs, which is plenty for a collectible anniversary line.

Speaking as a Bonkle fan who had fun having Pohatu face off against Darth Vader way back in 2001, I'd be overjoyed to have a whole lineup of GWP-style buildable figs based on the 2001-2003 Bionicle sets, but I've never really wanted Bionicle minifigs and I thought the Bionicle minifigs and minifig playsets in 2005-2007 were awful! I mostly lost interest in Bionicle from 2005 onwards, so I can't really speak for the superfans who are really deep into the later lore and sets.