Renny The Spaceman

Weren't there some test ran Smart Brick sets for City based around exploration? I imagine if that subtheme is coming it'll be close to those

Surely it would, it's been the main obsession for kids globally for years. Even as someone who'd give that whole series a miss I doubt it'd do poorly

Thank you for telling me what my original point was, unfortunately you got it wrong. My original point was I was confused why people here keep saying the speeder build was notably good, I get why people don't care, battlepacks are just about the figures. I know people would rather they be cheaper all together but they won't be, they sell at 23 so they'll stay there until they can be bumped up again. BUT what I'm saying here is when they do upscaled battlepacks (which now are often closer in price to current normal battlepacks than pre-501st ones) the builds generally meet what'd be expected from that price point if they didn't have a bunch of figures. I'm not arguing people should want bigger battlepacks with better builds but I'm saying it's not discussed that they're selling what would be builds in 10 dollar sets for double that without having changed anything. People go "battlepack builds are filler" and don't think about it but most battlepacks throughout their history have had sets that'd feasibly have the same price if it was like the same build with just one or two named characters. It's an interesting element of modern LEGO poor pricing not discussed because these sets are designed for people who just want the figs.

I think you misunderstood, I'm not blaming the designer, I rarely do as these issues are from higher up. This is an issue with the money people raising Battlepacks price, like everything else but unlike everything else they don't even bother to try make it look like it could be worth the money it goes for, it's an issue above the pay grade of the designer, but it's still an issue. Like I don't really see how someone can value Battlepacks for the over 20 quid they go for now when they just don't justify being more expensive than any past ones at all. When sets get downsized normally they have more details now, Jedi Starfighters add a third figure, there's some arithmetic you can do to justify it. Battlepacks and Microfighters just constantly climb in price and change nothing about how they're made. LEGO could afford to at least make the builds something not immediately thrown away and never thought about again (which really shouldn't be the mindset for a LEGO set) but they don't because they don't need too.

That's great 👍, what changes in the theme do you look forward to most?

I know everyone would rather have battlepacks be cheaper and keep the crap builds but the price is locked by the higher-ups before the builds, they can't change the price and they won't add more minifigures so the builds should at least be baseline competent for their price tag. I don't buy them so maybe I'm the wrong person to ask but if you look at the builds of say the 501st pack that had builds that felt like a over 20 quid value even if they're lame. The way Battlepacks used to be they gave a build that could be sold with one figure for it's price point and make sense. The big issue with the modern "cheap" ones is they still have builds for 10 quid sets. The price won't come down but literally nothing is added relative to Battlepacks of the past, that's why the build is worth critiquing it's one of the most blatant price gouging examples with this theme. As for the specific speeder, like I'm sure it could be a fine build with more parts in a 20 quid set but like a lot of people here are saying that the speeder build to begin with is good and it's a big whiplash with the shitty fence when both feel like they're pretty embarrassing builds.

I think it was just the fear that this was the one original series of the year, given how it's so tied to one, very well trodden, niche I could see why it's nice to know that they'll be a normal one after instead of the other 2 being like another Marvel one and a Minions buildable character series or whatever

I really don't get what you all see in that speeder, it's dinky and boxy and I doubt the extra ~ten pieces from that embarrassing barricade build would change it. Like that speeder would be fine for a 10 quid set but despite the price hike with Battlepacks the builds haven't jumped at all and there's the same amount of figures. Like when other sets downsize but the price goes up the thought process is they have so many more little details that bulks up the piece count. Nothing's changed here, Battlepacks are exactly the same but now are 23 quid.

Battlepack builds have never been like complex but when they were ~10 quid it made sense they were like one step removed from microfighters. Now they're double the price and for whatever reason they not have builds that are dinkier than the Battlepacks from like 2009 or any microfighter.

Not iron clad but how long a set remains in production can help paint a broad picture. Most sets are kept in production for like a year or two, if it stays notably longer it's probably doing well or being kept on shelves because it ties into something.

I think it's just the only plausible set from Andor left. The ship itself is just an afterthought

Yes, sorry. I can remember 212th, 501st and 41st then I tap out. The numbers for the others blend into mush

Probably a part of the reason why they do so many 327th sets actually as that's like the only time Clones and Mandos have interacted, John Lego can't resist

No-one said wagon with a bunch of figures, no-one said figures being a focus at all. I mean what people want would be like a 40ish small themed building that could rebuilt all the same. Also a catapult or wagon or whatever could be rebuilt just as easily as like the creator defense drone and such. They have moved away from that this year and that's kinda an issue with LEGO making their whole range too expensive recently, something they're beginning to correct by 2026 rumours.

1. Nowhere rn 2. I don't know but usually these books are in the ~13-22 range 3. There's this, the character encyclopedia with an exclusive Superman and a Visual Dictionary with Electric Batman. I think those are the only ones with exclusive figures

Makes sense, the line had sets for every movie but Attack of the Clones while there were two for Empire Strikes Back. Given Leia was supposed to be in the Dooku set I wonder if the Boba Fett's starship () was a regular set in development that they subbed into the anniversary line in place of that AotC set. Maybe they swapped out the set for another 20-30 range set in the second 2019 wave the 20th stuff was a part of

Yeah, it's a shame, low-key would rather they were all silver if it was one or the other It does, yeah, are we only getting one other anniversary set this wave or am I mistaken?

I think the idea is for Creator to do like a smaller castle set in 10-40 range instead to supplement the big castles

Limited data of couse and LEGO makes dumb decisions but I think we do need to understand that this clone shit isn't like because annoying youtubers tell them too, they likely do sell really well with kids and probably more than most other factions, by most metrics of basic toy design they're intericately designed to encourage Pokemon style collecting (to be clear, not talking about army building, just buying one of the different sets). I think it'll take some big franchise rebrand like in the late 2010s with the sequels to push them out again

I wish they'd at least do a creator set that's price was closer to ten quid than a hundred

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Sir, yes sir

Haha, true, glad someone finished it. My theory is that Turt-El was perfectly sane and just committed enough to the bit to never let up hoping we'd just snap

I think that makes sense, Unikitty got additional budget as a show they wanted to push and Mario was a big licence they wanted to justify massive R&D costs for given all the tech. F1 is just another licence no different from D&D or Looney Tunes or any other one off in terms of LEGO's investment in it

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