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Got the Imperial Landing Craft (75221) to complete my Tatooine setup and the Star Wars Advent Calendar (75213), both with a 25% off with Black Friday's offer at TRU. This year the Advent Calendar isn't that good neither, but it's always a great distraction for my children during December.

Thanks for all! Viel Glück!

Yes, the Death Star Escape has good details of a small moc with enough play features with that retractable bridge. This one is going to be one of the better sets of the wave with the Praetorian Guards BP. The Droid Escape micro fighters seems meh with that brick built Dewback. The A-Wing feels really small. But there is also a set that seems to be a Sith Infiltrator micro fighter. Am I looking too much into that small set? Only half of it can be seen in the photo. But it would make sense to fit with the Naboo Starfighter microfighter

Sorry for coming back to this topic again, but does it mean that it's more likely that 75236 is going to be a Rey vs. Kylo set? On the rebel/stormtrooper helmets, I still see the new rebel helmet too big. The new stormtrooper helmet at least has better proportions even if that close-to-90 degree angle is a quite strange.

Well, it gives also an extra detail level with the printed parts . @YodaSkate Nice small model!

Those are good news! It's always welcomed to see sets at 29,99 price point with good value. I hope the small Slave I will be another of them. I think we still don't know about its figures, but I would like to stand corrected.

Nice variation. Definitely to be considered as the upgrade for the upcoming Praetorian Guards battle pack.

Great! Thanks for the effort to make it. This one should be a separate set IMO, leaving more pieces for the Cloud City itself, but... it is what it is.

Does it means that the Slave I Junior/4+ set won't be released? Or will it be a regular set?

That's right. I forgot the UCS one. I have just checked and it's still on sale at Lego.com. That's correct as well, although in the Y-Wing case, the sets are way different in size hence serving completely different markets: micro, system and UCS. Based on the blurry leaked image of the X-Wing Junior set, I would say that the size of the Slave I Junior set would be bigger than a microfighter, if it's going to be made after all. I don't know if it would have the same size as the UCS one, which is mid-scale, but I doubt it given the suggested price point. So in that case we could end up with three sets with sizes from bigger than a micro fighter scale to mid-scale and to system scale. That's weird. And then we still have the UCS one, of course.

Three Slave I at the same time with different sizes: junior, mid-scale and system scale? That's a bit weird I would say. Just curious about the large Hoth playset. I would like it to be another expansion to help fixing the UCS? Assault on Hoth, although another Snowspeeder is more likely.

I have to see the new mold in person, but the comparison is less good as expected, sigh!

That's great. I'm looking forward to see the final set, the direction is the right one. New characters at a good price point are always vey welcome

I really like that Inferno Squad figure. But I think there should be female figures as well.

Got Moloch's Landspeeder for €30. Moloch is a great figure and the Corellian hounds are always useful. The set build is quite interesting. A bit big, but overall a quite good set at this price point.

With the quite expensive and somewhat meh Throne Room set Lego wasted the opportunity of having a great set like the Final Duel. But fixing errors afterwards is a welcomed option always, like the Hoth Chamber set, as an afterthought addition to the Assault on Hoth set. This time it's a battle pack, and having an inexpensive way to get all the Praetorian Guards types in it is a sound way to fix the overall scene recreation. Spare parts will do the rest. These are user-modifiable Lego sets, after all . I miss a purple servant instead of a new Stormtrooper to render the set perfect, but maybe that's just me. The Stormtrooper has objectively more usage for a battle and I'm fine to keep throwing them in battlepacks to increase their number in any collection, big or small.

Great news to have the three helmets in the Praetorian Guards battlepack . This time they have thrown the rest. Looking at the fighting scene, for playing it's better to have legs for them. Although when standing the slope version is visually better. I guess it's a tradeoff. The new Rebel Trooper looks fine. It's good to have new versions to add some variations to the figures. Where is it supposed to come with?

I have the same feeling. I don't have a Mimbam Stromtrooper, but I think it's one mold. But the Patrol Trooper, which is dual molded, is excellent and the depth of the eyes cannot be replicated with one mold. Seeing the second picture, I guess they are using the same proportions of the Stormtrooper helmet with dual molded eyes. In addition the black line on top of the eyes appears to be dual molded as well as in the Patrol Trooper. This is more accurate than the current version and less prone to printing errors. The black areas below the helmet seem to be part of the dual mold as well.

Yes, the second photo is much better, it seems like the current one with dual molded eyes. That could be a good improvement, as I've found sometimes the printing on the eyes very off and that's a very bad discovery when opening a set.

Great MOC! As a display set is awesome given the variations on the color scheme. The proportions of the Star Destroyer are very good for that size and a very interesting build.

For those that couldn't get the 2014 cantina, this one is a good starting point at a more affordable price, given also that location-based sets in Star Wars theme are still somewhat rare. Unfortunately the new brick-built Dewback won't be the best addition to the set , although at least it will have a Sandtrooper at an affordable price, which is always welcomed.

It seems that this time is going to be brick built... Let's see how ugly it will be. It's a missed opportunity . Jurasic Park Junior sets have very good dinosaur figures.

New helmets Oh! Then I wonder how many of them we'll get. AFAIK there are 4 helmet types. I doubt we'll get the other three in the battle pack.

Given the pieces count and price, they seem to be mid-scale at most.

If the excuse to get the Castle is to promote that VR thing, that's fine with me . There are too many ships in Star Wars sets, so location based ones are very welcome. This one has very good playability. With the micro fighter scale ship, many other ones may be used naturally with this set, even Krennic's shuttle micro fighter. I would have preferred the inclusion of Vader's attendant as well. The small side builds make very good usage of that space and they have some interesting pieces. Having Krennic in the same set would render it almost perfect. Adding the Krennic's aspirations scene in theTie hangar location is a good MOC option for this set.