TheMainBricker

Seems good that Lego aren't releasing any worthwhile sets next year. Aside from the UCS there won't be anything worth getting. Have X-Wings and the like gotten more detailed or has Lego just decided to almost double the price in about 8 years? Every time they released a new X-Wing, another 10 had been added to the price. I would imagine that Disney probably have tight rules around their era of films, essentially they're disposable merchandising wise and once the film has come and gone they don't tend to go back and revisit unlike PT or OT. Whilst the PT is dreadful, the worst films going (except TROS) the production values are top-notch and lots of original vehicles. I would love to see a UCS Royal Starship, Lego haven't even done a Padme Theed Battle figure throughout their 21 year history! The ST just consists of OT vehicles in different colours.

I can't believe anyone starts with watching TPM first. From a film-making POV it makes no sense, because concepts such as the force, Jedi etc aren't explained in TPM, but they are in ANH. TPM exists on the understanding that everyone has watched the OT first. I can this set selling better than stuff like (the disappointing) Cloud City etc. People who started watching SW with TPM generally aren't the AFOLs buying SW Lego.

Really like the look of it, and not disappointing like how Cloud City was. Probably best that Lego haven't copied the old Kenner playsets for this model, unlike what they did for the Death Star, Ewok Village and Cloud City. Never going to please everyone with certain cantina characters missing, but with so many different characters that would be impossible, I think they've got the standout characters (possibly missing Bo Shek). One thing I am tired of though is this plain black packaging, the sands of Tatooine would've made the packaging like much better.

Here's a controversial opinion: I would prefer it if they used grey bricks for the vehicles (such as X-Wing, Snowspeeder and Imperial Shuttle) instead of white. The original sets were in grey and have changed since.

I hate it that Ewan McGregor is constantly referred to as ginger in both Hasbro (usually Clone Wars) and Lego toys. The dark tan colour is a much more suitable colour. In Lego terms he has the same hair colour as Ron Weasley and Black Widow.

Quite disappointing really. The box art looks odd, no different to the MOCs, it just seems to float in the air when there are no external features to the set (would've been better against a backdrop of an interior). The set is just too cramp, in some quadrants they are cramming in four rooms. And then one quadrant is just a landing pad (this could've sat outside of the circle). The Death Star had one room per quadrant (but obviously multiple levels). If they had an under level they could've filled it with the more industrial rooms of Cloud City (like the scrap area), had the living space on the top level and could've allowed the carbon freezing chamber to have double height. I think a lot of people thought this would be half of a Death Star (which would've encompassed two levels). The Death Star could be rotated to see each room, but here you can't do that are the rooms are all behind each other. Playing through Battlefront you get a sense of Cloud City and all of the rooms, it's a shame they couldn't have done more here. I much prefer the Ugnaught included in the Carbon Freezing chamber set a few years ago, don't know why Lego went to the hassle of making a new mould that looks worse. Apart from the UCS Falcon, I have to question the designers they have working on the SW theme. The modulars and the Ninjago Movie sets have been incredibly detailed, but the SW sets have been lacking lately. I feels like a disappointment and similar to the 1960's Batcave, really looking forward to it, bought it, but still disappointed.

It may be a bit chunky, but it's better than all of the custom sets I've seen (and that is what I would expect from Lego). The DB5 has got to be one of the worst cars to turn into Lego, it's too slick and curvy for Lego bricks. All the custom jobs have failed too. Only at the scale of Technic like the Bugatti or Porsche could you get those curves.

As I and many others have said James Bond is more age appropriate than some of the models Lego have done. Plus you're going to have to describe how this is any less age appropriate than Indiana Jones.

If you can have Lego Indiana Jones then you can have Lego James Bond. After all George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Roger Moore have all said that Indiana Jones is historical James Bond. One the set itself, I expect it to be an Aston Martin DB5 that will be the same scale as the Ferrari, Mini etc, but have specific James Bond features like ejector seat and machine guns under the headlamps.