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It'll probably just be used as some greeble on a set

Don't say that, you're asking for another Rex freakout. It could always be another look for the character, hell he's worn generic phase 1 and 2 armour before so the head could be a bonus on a generic clone mech

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I wouldn't scoff at it, you are right, it's not a very toyetic show really what we have is all that'd feel right besides the TIE Avenger (and a buildable B2, I guess) it's a shame it couldn't include like Kleya or Lonni, there's no real set that could include them or most of the characters. I think it'd also make sense if they were gonna do an imperial vehicle from Andor it'd be the one no Imperial ever got to use. LEGO's whole war rules don't apply obviously as it's Star Wars but it's weirder in a way the designers probably register to make imperial sets for Andor where they're a very real depiction of Fascism compared to when they're a very comical, fantasy-y, cartoonish evil in pretty much everything they're in. I feel like they're not gonna do like a work camp playset, or the very WW2 looking transport. The TIE Avenger is probably the best shout

I suppose it could it could have be that if they had the prototype they might work to see if they can make it work, or even if it was too expensive to produce normally could have been given the one they had to Vader or some other great pilot as a squad leader. Granted, they're all smart brick ones for 700 quid each

I mean is it? The Andor part of the first Arc feels very much like the B or C plot between the wedding and Cass's friends needing to avoid having their visas checked and most of the TIE plot is actually focused on the rebel infighting. More an inciting incident than a focal point to me. IDK if it's just me but most of the specialised TIE models are very samey, Like the interceptor, Avenger, Defender all make the wings triangular, adds more of them and keeps them at an angle, I feel they kinda all eat into each other a bit in a way something like the Bomber doesn't. Doesn't really matter for this one because it's a prototype you can imagine evolves into the others but I struggle to care about them individually None of this means it's less likely to get a set though as way more minor or same-y designs have before

As someone who saw the campaign for that Tie Fighter from CloneCommando before having seen Andor I really expected it to be more prominent.

When they swapped to the AI voice and face in the Boba Fett show it was just as distracting, as was AI Bilbo in the recent Alien film. You need an actual human to, they've got much more experience with human emotions, I'm lead to believe than, computers :P Not to mention how much it's bring down the ridiculous budgets franchise stuff eats up now if they stopped trying to do all the filmmaking and performances in post

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I think that still harms the season, especially as knowing Filoni who has trouble letting go at the best of times I can't even confidently say it was purely executive. Yeah, on paper all these characters could be fine, I don't have an issue with like Luke being there in concept I just think the execution feels way more fanwanky than genuinely driven by story and Luke is the worst case because he's literally a digital recreation of the face you saw when you were six, his performance is sacrificed just so he can look exactly like he does on the lunch boxes (with the big kicker being he doesn't even) and his voice in the BoBF is really stilted and tinny in a similar way. These digital recreations are the final form of meaningless fanwank because it's sacrificing an actual performance just so it looks like the past. And it's in the season about letting go so I can't separate that as a later season ruining it that's in this season. Bo Katana gets a pass I guess because the idea of "Man born into a cult meets the woman who is the entire reason his cult exists" on paper is a natural step up. Everything wrong with Mandalore was facilitated by her too, she brought worked with death watch, worked with Maul only turning on him because of xenophobia then brought the soon to be Empire, then after triumphantly returning to lead it years later only to have it be subjected even harder this time. Her being there makes sense as she's the root of all the issues with the Mandolorians, granted the show does jackshit with this but she plays well to the base premise of "Mandolorian bounty hunter learns to love a surrogate son and in the process re-evaluates his emotionally repressing belief system" the entire "I need to get baby Yoda to a jedi to raise him" thing is something entirely devised to drive in season 2 and dropped before season 3. It could be a good angle but them not committing kills the season based around it almost as much as deepfake Luke. But this seems to mainly be a perspective thing, in terms of how much late stuff affects our respective views on current stuff. The fact that Mando, Boba and Ahsoka all have by and large the same creative team makes them feel more like a unit and thus for me harder to separate. If it works for you in a vacuum more power to you. Though should clarify the reason we're even talking about this is the idea of if something is fan service, fan service can be good or justified and I still don't see how any of these appearances aren't that. Obviously you are right here about Andor, that's doing these things better. Not everything has to be as political or mature on that level, they c I think Andor benefits by having a writer who wanted to say something first and a firm end in mind to begin with, the Mandolorian clearly was and is intended to be an ongoing brand (though probably will fizzle out of the movie doesn't do well) so you can't have those painful decisions stick

I think I see the disconnect here. You're looking at this through a Watsonian perspective perspective. Like all the stuff with Boba Fett's armour is only there to set up Boba Fett, the show has that as an end goal and he has very little to say about being a mandolorian other than like quips, the Mandolorian doesn't need a guy to pilot him around, that's not necessary for the story, that's an obstacle created to justify another character. Ahsoka is pointless because you don't need any jedi character to show up and warn about attachments, like these things can be conveyed without someone turning to camera and saying it. And once again her and Luke are especially bad as the themes you say don't mean anything because the show immediately contradicts it the next time they appear and in the same megablocking scene as they're unable to let go of anything here. it's a franchise that can't let go, they're speaking in contradiction to what they're doing. And chiefly AI reconstructed actors are the definition of fan service because if the character was here for what they add to the story they'd be played by something that can actually emote. Luke being a freaky CG creature is done because the character looking exactly like they did when you were six is more important than them being able to convey emotions, Luke handicaps the shows ending because, if you're charitable, the attention is taken away from the moment to an effects shot, even if you think it looks good you know it's fake and the spectacle of that is the focus, and the performance suffers because Luke comes off like an unfeeling robot, he delivers a couple clunky lines standing perfectly still and shows like no empathy. Also it could just be Ashoka taking him if they were unwilling to get a human to do the job, I know she "has seen what attachment does" or whatever but once again, Watsonian, that line is there because they want an episode with her to set up her show but don't want her to solve the plot immediately. She has a Padawan who has big attachment issues and when she like gives the location of Thrawn away because of that attachment she doesn't care at all and stands by Sabine. And once again none of these beats need to happen because the next time these characters appear, Baby Yoda gets to have all the attachments they want, Mandolorian doesn't need to readjust his views of the cult he was raised in as they're super fine, Luke doesn't train anyone, Ahsoka is fine with a Padawan with attachments and so on. You can't have a show about letting go if you can't let go of anything. Like if this was all happening in like Rebels season 7 who cares if they bring everything back, it doesn't matter but your argument is the show is fine to endlessly bring things back because it's a show about letting go. But all of this is talking around the point, yes it's fan service, it's all fan servic,e having Luke recreate the ending to Rogue One is to make fans cheer. If you like that, fine, if you think it's super thematically pertinent and deep, fine you can think what you want but it's still fan service.

You can like or think it's justified all you want but objectively it is fan service having a hideous deepfake Luke show up slowly reveal his hood and give the audience an applause break. Boba Fett and Ahsoka are irrelevant to the story, they have nothing to do with the characters or main conflict with the empire wanting the marketable plush toy but are there to offer some very redundant "help" that wouldn't change at all if given to any other character. They're there to make fans point at the screen and recognise them, you can say it's done well but it is fan service, that's not a question. Especially when to take it in context, Boba and Ahsoka are here to pitch their shows and everything Luuke is just immediately made irrelevant, very clearly they didn't want to split up the show's main duo, he's there to have an excuse for Luke to have a hallway scene. Any argument you could make about Boba or Ahsoka challenging certain characters is irrelevant because the cult Mando started in is good and no-one needs to let go of anything. Like this discussion started with people talking about the frustrating impermanence of things in this show, so really any arc about letting go means nothing, that's fundamentally in conflict with the text of the show. I'd argue it's at conflict with the franchise as a whole as it's what popularised the resurrection of dead actors in franchise slop like the Flash and such. Fundamentally Star Wars is the most anti-letting go franchise possible because even death isn't enough to stop them digging up a character for nostalgia

I'd argue his appearance was the main issue with him, generally I think it could be done better if he had a face instead of like 4 he shifted between

Anyways back to Star Wars LEGO, when are they doing a UCS Clone Trooper, just an 800 quid build of a large Clone Trooper (7 people will die in the riots when it doesn't include Commander Gul P'shitto) Wait, do they still just have the 4 figures still or do they throw in like a droid or two like the 20 quid 501st one did

Makes sense, the BVS figures are still affordable to any fan who'd want them while Harley is piss off expensive

Convenient in the exact same way you conveniently forgot that Tom Kenny sung a song about the benefits of slavery in a crappy Christmas movie, which is to say I don't know what those are . I just know the most recent one is 40 quid, it's nice that there are still apparently ones in the sub 20 range though

Aren't Battlepacks like 40 quid now? Are they even worth it anymore as they aren't a cheap army builder? I feel like with the smart brick/minifig thing I'd hope any sets with them next year are the least desirable stuff possible. Like they should do a children who clean the stables in episode 8 pack or something. Realistically they'll be a group of clones with 12 seconds of screentime and will still fly off the shelves leading to Smart Brick sets forever

I can kinda see that, it leans a little too far away from the minimalist nature of 70s-80s Space that Blacktron thrived in. I think splitting the three parts amongst regular Blacktron figures like suggested around the forum works better I wonder if they saw the lackluster sales of the renegade and decided maybe to push it back?

Didn't he? I swear he had the Dr Inferno hair? He seemed to lose some hair actually that piece is bigger

Cool, it's based off this https://youtu.be/RqkkpZyeKxU?si=sn2__nzU7DyafcC_

It's in the eyebrows, and the body hair, they remind the bald of what they lost, those without don't have the same constant reminder of what they're without so can be good. Also I don't know how much it counts a bald when you're plastic, famously we know LEGO Lex is a nice man being bullied by Superman in his mech, it could be the trend doesn't hold with the less fleshy but we'd need to conduct further studies to determine if it's an exact inverse

More interesting build tbf, I could see designers really wanting to get this one working.

Checkmate liberal

LEGO that one short film they aired with the puppets made out of animal skeletons

I believe he was trying to baby trap him TBF. To be fair Superman did make him bald, what choice did he have, the bald are innately evil