Hello everybody,
actually this is my first post on Eurobricks - happy to join!
So yesterday I attended the Toy Fair in Nürnberg (Nuremberg) and would like to share my impressions.
Altogether you could see 7 new sets but none of the Han Solo film.
First the advent calendar showed one Guavian Soldier and one blue rebel pilot, quite nice. There was also Rose and Rowan, a snowman with a rebelpilot helm and some printing.
Next was Yoda's hut (nice build) with Luke, Yoda (similar to sw707) and R2-D2. The droid is very nice with dirt pattern on the body.
The guy at the table told me that you cannot wash it off because the dirt pattern is printed...okay, I agreed
Anakins starfighter was similar to 7669.
The X-wing was similar to 9493, also with two pilots and two droids - especially there was one fully in flat silver or dark bluish grey which reminded me of the price of the Lego website
Snoke's throne room had a nice emperor's seat, some wall elements and 5 figures. Snoke himself, Rey, Kylo and two identical guards but with different weapons. The guards in red had a pretty nice helmet, new molded arms and finally not minifigure legs and also not the usual slope but a new slope with rounded back side so it resembled more a falling cape. Slope and body were also printed. They were really close to the original design. On first sight they looked quite strange - the reason I could see on the turntable with the figures which showed that the slope was mounted wrong way at the displayed set...and of course the figs are glued so no possibility to correct it.
Next was the sandcrawler which was a neatly shrinked copy of the last UCS sandcrawler. It has some nice play features, steering and a nice cockpit. Two Jawas, Luke, and three other droids were completing the set. One was a white astromech with yellow head, the other two were if I remember correct color modified RA-7 and a 2-1B, all of them pretty nice.
Last one was Darth Maul as a Buildable Figure but since I am not into them I didn't looked closer but but the figure made a good impression.
So in the end I missed some kind of flagship and I would give 4 stars of five for the whole bunch.