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He comes in the Cantina to represent him closing it down in the holiday special (he was just off camera giving Bea Arthur dirty looks) You get Bea Arthur The Nutshack torture room but with a hundred Greedos on a grey baseplate They could be, don't seem to have depth in the photo but might just be the image. Usually these things are just printed on though (OFC different though on an area that will have friction repeatedly applied guaranteeing wear)

I don't either, the simplicity is the appeal with LEGO to me, the stylised look is what makes the depictions charming and timeless BUT if they were gonna happen it had to be like this because now, even though LEGO will only do it for like a year out of legal obligation until these sets crash and burn, no matter what the sorta people who go insane over not having minor details are gonna complain that X or Y figure don't have side torso printing from now until the end of time. I know,, but people complaining will not take that into account. This will be a talking point forever now Haha, fair enough, fair enough.

No, they do, I just haven't slept, shows me for thinking I knew better than Johnny Riddle Maybe Paul Giamatti is what you get when you drain Temuera Morrison's New Zealand-ness with a big syringe. Wonder who'd you get if you tried the same with Peter Jackson

The Smart-figs have side torso printing, amazing, I love this, the usual suspects will be so annoying about that going forward, funniest thing LEGO could do, hope they never bring it to regular figs

Well if you buy the logo give it a try, how'd you display multiple shadowboxes, have you modified one?

How dare you, White Yoda (pictured below) made the Angry Clones and they served for decades, even despite the fact they lacked all the melanin of the man they were cloned from, even donning the dorky snowtrooper armour the same year that the real clones were finally introduced. Hmmm, come to think of it maybe they're better gone I don't see anything wrong with the other heads though, they're all fine for generic characters, characters given it never would have been given a unique one in the modern day At least make them rhyme man

Just realised, when the Daily Bugle goes this year that means Angry Clone will finally be retired forever, this means we can never have a LEGO Superman ever again

We'll have to see, I don't know if anyone here owns the Shadow Box but if so they should try it and send pics our way come 2026

Mmmm, they'd never do a LEGO set depicting the death of innocents, you're right No, he's right, there are tie in sets but no more based on the game than the summer 2020 Star wars ones were for the skywalker saga. I don't think we'd call the 501st pack or the Knights of Ren ship Skywalker saga sets eve though the box displayed the logo and codes and they were released to tie in No, that was the Jonkler, he was in the film briefly twice as a cameo and the lead

Would you be impersonating him though, open for debate. It's a shame the most powerful member of the UN gets their ideas or what crimes against humanity to do from marvel movies, they might give Jared leto work next

Where do they live then? You want Boss Nass but refuse to create a good environment for him to grow up in, maybe they're not gonna make him until you become a better carer. So you want Boss Nass only as long as he can't speak back? I'm thinking you've got a lot to learn before you're ready for one mister He tells the story back to back in reality which is why the last two feel so rushed, he essentially repeats what's happened in 7 for 8's crawl and is running out of breath by 9 which is why he rushes through important details in the crawl. I swear you did this one before

No, I speak for you now. Your favourite movie is Doogal, you were born in New Jersey, you spent you life trying to be the first American pope and since your dreams were shattered you make up for it by denying the truth of LEGO Batman sets Yes they have, it's an interesting story actually, both were acquired by Amazon after they bought every company Warner Bros had been bought out by before and now the AmazonAppleDiscoveryAT&TWarnerLEGO corporation has been granted UN membership and decided the only way to fix overpopulation was to kill off random kids. I feel like that's kinda a gray area. We wouldn't call like the 2020 Star Wars wave sets based off the Skywalker saga though they were made to tie in and came with codes. Is this any different? Depends, the game isn't out, I hear it's fulfilling Frank Miller's dream by adapting Holy Terror as a Batman story, depending on how many pigs they throw into the cut scenes they might be able to sneak in a set or two

I did the same as a kid, they had the second hero battlepack ever, I don't think that one's odd tbh Connecting with something as a a character isn't limited to development or deep character work (The Bad Batch have neither) it also can just come from just the humanity of something being reinforced. That's never gonna happen with Stormtroopers as that goes against the point of them but the general humanity of the clones as a whole is something repeatedly reinforced in most Star Wars animated shows but also just in the design, the fact they have very vibrant and loud colours not assigned from higher ups to depict rank but chosen by the Clones to represent the people they serve with inherently makes them read as a more human and relatable but also gets the imagination going. The three orange lines on Cody's chest, for example, evokes a sunburst. There's no big dialogue or character development about that but you see that pattern and your brain automatically starts filling in the blanks "he lived on a storm planet, whenever he saw a sunrise for the first time that was probably life changing so he chose to immortalise that moment on his armour" because every clone legion's armour is randomly painted in ways irrelevant to rank or anything formal when you see anyone there's a subconscious idea running that they chose to look this way, there's gotta be reasons even if as small as "they like yellow" and that inherently creates more of a connection than: the Shock Trooper's wear red, the Mortar ones wear yellow and so on. Then you add on the fact that any generic clone can have a backpack or antenna or visor or those cool binoculars (and if a set comes with one it always has a spare) it once again humanises them because the toys are designed to ask kids to turn these generic troops into fully fleshed out characters so it doesn't matter if the glup shitto legion has a personality in story because the story says every clone has personality then they toy gives kids additional elements to emphasise that and that engenders a connection in a way that even if you did a seven season show about a group of specific Stormtroopers having personality and developing as characters you couldn't replicate.

Yeah, a parent can more easily recognise it's a different set by ninja turtling it and colour coding each new one. Generally I think clones may be among the most toyetic characters in the series,

Because we didn't appreciate the Bionicle Green Lantern You're arrogance is only matched by your ignorance, you think he'll come with a head? The figure will be the generic torso and legs with the instructions advertising you can get the hat from the Juniors Arkham and the head from the Harry Potter set with nonce-y rat guy from like 2004 to make the full figure. the set will have an innovative app integration where scanning the set will overheat a child's I-pad blowing it up to replicate the pipe bomb the Joker has put in the courtroom (£800)

Tragic, Boss Nass nation has yet to be built yeah, the few sets I want I'm very content to be patient and snag when a good deal forms. Can't imagine being a day one buyer, let alone a day one army builder. Better yet, Smart Boss Nass figure who says "WAAAAR!" at random intervals at a very loud volume (you cannot turn him off) My favourite thing about this dumb theory from like 2004 is it's technically not that far off, the movie does open with a loud proclamation of "War!" I remember there was a fan reading for ages the title crawls were R2 telling the story of the Star Wars, maybe they were just a little off, maybe Boss Nass is the secret narrator of the whole saga

Mad, insane how it's just normal to you guys. I could not be a consistent fan of this theme, genuinely commendable (or maybe just worrying) how you all stick with it through the 90 quid Grievous Star Fighters and the Smart bricks and such. Entirely anecdotally this was my experience as a kid too. I didn't mind the Naboo characters, I quite liked my classic Naboo Pilot and Trooper figures but they always served as support characters to build out whatever narrative I was playing with the Rebels or Clones being the main focus. I think this is a big part of why Clones seem to be the best selling faction for playsets too is they're an infinitely massable army, who can serve easily as good guys or bad guys who gets to both have all the iconography of Stormtroopers while also being way more customisable making it easy for kids to distinguish and make characters from them. Yeah, I don't think it's never gonna happen as he's quite a prominent figure in a movie they used to do quite a lot of sets for, and he can easily be thrown in to any Naboo set like the Kamino people but he requires new parts so a book is unlikely. He's probably in a similar boat Cody was for ages where you could easily throw him into a lot of sets based on the movie but you need to find away to justify a mold for this character that while notable is believed to not be able to sell a set on their own. Cody ofc proved he could sell a set and that leads us to where we are today with Clonemania so who knows, maybe Boss Nass fever is imminent and just needs to wait it's turn Yeah, they gotta include them in a set, I think they should have their own aesthetic away from the Empire, it'd make them stand out as the most elite. They could have some sorta land vehicle to help them excavate some sorta power source from whatever world they're stationed on. They'd need to have some rebels to fight so maybe some type of rock creatures, they could have some specialized parts so you could make them eat the Miner's heads. And to get the price down LEGO could just remove the Star Wars branding from the box and sell it as it's own theme. That'd be great. Gonna risk being drowned in tea and baked beans for this but have you had conversation with a Monty Python fan? Hilarious series, hilarious movies but ngl endless, tangentially related (at best) to the conversation repetition is kinda their bread and butter, probably is a direct link in how meme culture formulated and their role as defining absurdist comedy that could be packaged into endlessly repeatable quotes. I wanna see one of those extended RotS edits splice that in. Use a picture of him then do the clutch cargo thing and superimpose someone's real mouth onto him to make him say it. Then the ending credits has a Brian Blessed cover of the Edwin Starr song

TRUE. We need to bring back the real classics, Mr Freeze goon, Penguin Goon and Riddler Goon. You mock but this will get us our first Mad Hatter (same exact figure as Firefly with a black top hat to complete him in the GWP) and Clayface (currently shapeshifted into Batman)

Oh great, we just got a Lex this year, we don't need another, Bruce Wayne however is far more interesting

He's kinda hard to justify I guess, big character but there's no action set pieces with him, they could throw him in a battle of Naboo set or a Gungan sub but he's not intuitive and requires a new part or two no matter what they can't reuse. Does anyone remember the rumour that Revenge of the Sith would open with Boss Nass yelling "WAR!" to parallel TPM's ending? Very funny to imagine it as like a random cutaway

I was shocked when I found out the other day that set is apparently in the ~70 range. I got it for 30 quid, every store I've gone to since it was released it's in the 40-45 range, I assumed it was just in the 45-50 range. I know it's a very dead horse I'm beating here but as a very passive buyer of it Star Wars pricing really is something else, that Advanced being a steal is tragic

Very funny, we've all seen the image

Yeah, I hope it's that too but you're right, only LEGO knows we can only speculate

True, though to play devil's advocate the Hobbit films (why am I mentioning these movies so much today) all made a billion and they ain't touching those. We don't have any metric to judge it's general merch sales as that's what really matters and LEGO has no past experience with this one so nothing directly transferable

Sure, why not