Mandalorianknight

The year is 2030. Fans eagerly await the newest batman set, the only one of the year- a 5-in-1 between the batmobile, batcycle, batwing, batman brickheadz, and batman buildible figure. There are no figures included. Edit: I'm just joking of course- the theme won't exist in 2030.

Regardless of appearances in '97, if professor X wasn't in the X-mansion, I think we'd reach the tipping point and the lego headquarters would be sacked.

See, I want the officers in the $200 set precisely because I'd rather we get more stormtroopers/death star troopers in a battle pack to fill it up. Eh, it's $55, and 3 of the 7 figures are unique. It's $11.25 per massable fig, which is a pretty tough ratio. I think lego's reasoning here is pretty clear for all but young leia. Cal, Fives, and Malak are all major fan favorite characters. White/infinities vader might not be as fan-requested as the others, but he's still a very interesting design- the average person didn't read the infinities comic, but the concept of white armored jedi vader is 100% something I think most people would be more interested by than old leia or boss nass. Another thing (and again, we aren't talking about young leia- no clue why they chose here) as that these are all action oriented/bad*ss characters. An elite clone ARC trooper, a sith lord from the old republic, one of the only purge survivors, and light-side vader. An older woman who's only real "action" scene is inexplicably flying through space and a slobbery gungan don't really track with those.

Sort of. I'd say the normal falcon on shelves right now is the TROS falcon, at the system scale and $170 price point. The UCS Falcon is $850 now, far out of reach of children- $170 is already a pretty hefty stretch, but $850 is impossible for any child but Elon Musk's kids. I also wouldn't count the upcoming midi falcon as a replacement- it's not meant for kids, not system scale, and there's no figures or way for figures to interact with it. The "Evil" falcon is the replacement for the TROS falcon in terms of being the next system-scaled millenium falcon. I'm inclined to agree at least in terms of what would make me more likely to buy it. I'm not 100% sure it would sell as well without "hero" figs, but younger kids would probably be fine having a jedi to take on the empire. And for people like us, I think new officers/more officers are preferable to another set of stormtrooper luke/han. The best case scenario would be stormtrooper luke and han being the only heroes and coming with helmets AND hair, which I do think we also have a shot at. In terms of new officers, I'm lucky to have a Tarkin, but a character as important to ANH as him should be much easier to get than he is, so I hope he shows up here. Motti or Tagge would be nice as well.

What's more, if they cancelled or delayed the indy 5 sets, and then watched the film bomb at the box office, I can't see them going "we've made a terrible mistake- put these in production immediately!"

There's no way they could do a full sphere for $200 and have it look remotely good. The last sphere was $500 in 2016, which would be almost $650 today (side note- holy bricks is inflation bad here in the US). And that's not counting any of lego's own potential price increases. A new sphere would be less than a third the size of the last death star (and ironically is rumored to have roughly a third the figure count, which is kinda cool)- there's no way lego could pull that off and have it look remotely good/fit really any scenes. You'd either end up with a smushed sphere to have some room for figs to walk around in the middle, or a more sphere-like shape with a much smaller amount of space for figs, which I just can't see lego doing. Same- I still need to figure out a way to buy (and make space for) rivendell. A $200 kenner death star, no matter how good it looks, just won't happen. Sorry, Cal, but you're gonna have to wait until your price reduces on BL. I think that's what he was implying with "obscure version of slave one" - he was referencing that since Boba's is significantly more well-known, it's what we tend to get in lego form, but since the falcon was getting a recolor, maybe we could see slave one doing the same thing. I'm almost certain this weird wave is just for the anniversary.

@BrickBob Studpants, sweating yet? I'm off my hook since Malak leaked, but you may still have to consume your deadpool. I'll add to it that this is the only marvel set I've seen on clearance at the local walmart aside from the Wakanda forever sets. My guess is the majority of adults-that-aren't-AFOLs would have rather had a diorama of the big three facing Thanos, and even for diehards, when you come down to it, it's not exactly representing a scene from the film. Aside from the oddly vertical rubble not really being a thing, the "she's got help" scene didn't have Thanos fighting all the female heroes- they just lined up for the hero shot and then attacked the army, with Captain Marvel and Scarlet Witch being the only ones to actually face Thanos personally in that battle IIRC. It's just not really representing anything beyond "the endgame battle" generally, and if that's all it's doing, I think a lot of people would want the snap, or the 3v1, or the portals scene more generally. That's all to say I think future black-base sets either need a build that is ideally interesting but at the very least was actually a thing, as well as being based on a specific scene from their film- ideally a very well-loved one. There aren't a ton of sets that fit that bill (especially when you consider the fact that the No Way Home one of these, while not a shelfwarmer, wasn't the resounding bestseller we all expected a set with the three spideys to be), and realistically the only ones I can think of are the Titan battle and endgame 3v1, which again just hit back to being rubble. (The upsides being that the 3v1 could realistically be done for $40-50, making it cheap enough to do well IMO, and the titan battle at least has some visually unique rubble/architecture, as well as a reason for some really vertical rubble (thanos's moon throw)

It's 100% the $200ish superhero D2C that leaked. My guess is it's a brickheadz that can be any of 8 batman variants. Maybe a set of batman and joker with 4 variants each (60s, Burton, TDK, BTAS) Having fulfilled their mission of eliminating all other forms of DC from the lego batman theme, the lego group moves into the only remaining way of increasing batman concentration in their sets- increasing the batmans-per-capita of the set.

I did a 2x of every build in that set, and I can say if you only use speeder parts for one alt and barricade parts for the other, there's not much you can do. I made essentially just a larger speeder and barricade. I would be surprised if anything canon can realistically be made out of it- any BARC would be missing that central fin element since there are almost no 1-wide pieces (I think none besides studs, clip/bar plates, and rounded 1x2s) in the clone builds, and with the only joints being bar/clip, you aren't getting a stable walker of any kind. I think some sort of comm tower/armory base would be fairly easy to do, though.

The one concrete thing about this set seems to be young leia as the anniversary figure, and that it's some sort of buildable creature, so I don't think it'll have other figs, as much as we'd need that for the geonosis beasts. If it really is young leia and three beasts (or any of them, for that matter), it feels almost cruel. Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby, essentially. I mean, it's a pretty small sample size, and if the Dark Side falcon has an anniversary fig (Dark Rey or infinities vader both seem like good candidates for it, seeing as they can't both be there timeline wise, and Dark Rey is the only canon figure), it kinda throws a wrench into that concept. I don't think you can really attribute that. Actually, a good number of skywalker saga sets coming don't have anniversary figs (TPM sets, the skiff, C-3PO, etc), so I really don't think there's any sort of correlation. IIRC the non skywalker saga sets are just the captain rex microfighter (of course they won't put an anniversary fig in a microfighter), and the mando S3 sets, where I'm sure it was due to the sets being developed immediately in response to recent material. Actually, none of this matters- Jedi bob's starfighter isn't a skywalker saga set since jedi bob isn't canon.

Whoah, so death star isn't gonna be $80. I'm fully on the midi scale TIE train, as well as the kenner playset style train. I think the figure list might be different than what we're hearing, too, if it's that large/expensive. I think the arena creatures is certainly a viable guess here, especially if that multiple eyes hint is true.

These are some good price points! Here's my hope, assuming the buildible figure type set is still one as rumored: $14.99: Batcycle: Catwoman chase: Batman and Catwoman $39.99: 4+ Batwing vs mr. freeze's snowmobile: Batman and Mr. Freeze. $59.99: Buildible Batman on Bat-cycle: no figures $69.99: The Batcave: Batman, Alfred, Joker, Phantasm, and Robin.

Hulk Hands. It was bad enough getting pummeled by some of those things as a kid, can you imagine getting pummeled by fists made of legos?

I'm a little optimistic here- this doesn't seem to be like the giant sets we've been getting with few/no figs. It's not exactly compelling evidence, especially considering foggy believes it might just have the two, but it's SOMETHING to fuel the copium. I just still can't believe lego legitimately believes they'd make money on a UCS Sail barge with just two non-jabba figs. This sounds fun. I hope we get either gold figs or main characters in some sort of anniversary celebration suit. Really impossible to tell what the build could be- the star wars logo could be cool, but that's 100% just a guess.

I'd be a little annoyed TBH, since that one's pretty easy to MOC. Actually, for that matter (in spoiler for space): Any sort of optimus variant would be easy to do. I want Megs, Bee, Soundwave, Starscream, etc. TandNbricks didn't hint at any sort of date besides just general 2024, so sometime this year. Same here- if they're scaled with optimus, anything more than Ravage or Laserbeaks's gonna hit our wallets hard and fast.

The new game looks AWESOME. It almost certainly won't lead to new sets, but it's nice to know indy lives, even if not in plastic form. (Plus @legoturtle has a lot of enthusiasm for the franchise and I thought I'd post so he could share his excitement about the game in a post)

I don't think we ever got image leaks, and if it really was exactly the same, I'd say that's proof whatever you saw was fake- they'd 100% have changed the printing at least. Also, if it got to that point in production, I am 100% confident Jabba would/will be in the barge. New molds are expensive, it'd be nuts for them to make one (again- the physical mold is the main part of the cost. Reviving a mold that was physically destroyed is about as much money as creating a wholly new one) and then just never using it for a character as famous as Jabba. It's possible it'll be able to connect to itself, but going from that to "home one briefing room and bridge next year" is a wild leap. They aren't even the same ship! The death star being modular is a much more plausible idea, though I assume any potential future sets would be more areas of the death star specifically. Cell block, trash compactor, etc. Unfortunately, unless the barge really does have like 2 figs, they won't do the palace anytime soon after. Too much overlap.

I think it's very likely that if we do get a jabba, it'll be a new mold. My guess would be a molded "top half", and potentially a brick-built lower half. We have a lot more curved lego elements than we did even back in 2012/2013, and people like brick sheepa have made some very nice brick-built hutts at about the same size as the molded one. The detailing on the top half is obviously lower, since you can't get the level of detail a specialized mold like that has, but the bottom half has if anything MORE detail, and lego has generally been moving to increase the compatibility of molded creatures/figures with standard parts. It's really to early to tell. I think the only concrete info we have is the fig selection and that it's the death star. That said, I think you have a chance- others have mentioned the midi-scale TIE advanced, which would be a great way to add playability. Why? They've done it before, 2 or three times. And it's an easy way to add playability to a playset, especially one that's gonna amount to gray rooms with figs only from one faction. All that's true- I'm just going off what Foggy said.

Around how much per trooper? Given that there's one in the BP now, I'd guess what, $6-7 per, which isn't bad at all. I never really got the issue, besides that it was different. I much prefer this to having animated and movie clones simultaneously being released. (And it's not like there were any physical clones during the prequels, so technically, they're ALL animated clones)

It is sort of irrelevant to the barge, in the end. Whether or not disney would let lego make huttslayer/slave leia, or if lego themselves would, etc, isn't really the point of contention when foggy suggested JABBA HIMSELF is not in the barge. That's the much bigger issue with the set IMO- 90% of star wars fans know the khetanna as "Jabba's sail barge"- it's 100% what lego will call it, and yet, the Jabba of Jabba's sail barge isn't present? It doesn't make any sense. I'm still chalking it up to an early prelim or something- foggy intoned that may have been the case, and a jabba's sail barge with only two figs- neither of them jabba- is to harebrained even for the same lego group that brought us the elongated hulkbuster and the slow death of the batman theme.

I have a slight bit of hope lego won't just do that, if for no other reason that having two copies of very similar looking batmobiles and batwings on shelves at the same time is such an astoundingly bad move, even for DC. You're cannibalizing probably a good 50-75% of your own sales. No kid is gonna buy a batwing, then a nearly identical batwing, even if the villain is BTAS jonkler instead of Burton Jonkler. The batmobile might do slightly better, especially if it's back at a normal price point, in which case you're still gonna decimate any future sales of the $50 batmobile, but at least it's had a year on shelves already. Just so long as we get a UCS aslume before it ends. (With justice league figures) (Batman called them after all the "is he stupid" memes.)

Not explicitly, but in TBOBF boba explicitly refers to it as a firespray craft. Technically speaking this doesn't de-canonize the name, but there was an interview with Temura Morrison where he talks about it and it's pretty clear they were explicitly told not to call it Slave One. As for the latter part... the ship is named the slave one- at least in legends- not because Jango was going "haha I endorse the action of slavery and this ship will be a reference to this fact" but because Jango Fett was a slave who defeated his oppressors. It's a pretty damn heroic name in that light and if they were worried about the general optics, just have Boba explain the backstory of it to Fennec on-screen. It's not like they were afraid of flashbacks in that show. I'm not saying every piece of merch has to have the name plastered all over it- I wouldn't even be annoyed about the set missing it if not for the fact they regularly do similarly obscure names- but it's absurd for them to dance around saying the name in the show. Totally agree We've had this discussion back when the change was first made so I'm gonna try not to keep making posts about it, but that was pretty clearly disney's reason for dropping the name, which means I can't wait for the new 25th anniversary cut of TPM where Anakin and Shmi are paid employees of Watto. But to get more back to the central point of the topic- whatever disney's inane decisions about "controversial" names and characters in star wars are, I highly doubt it would stop the barge from having a larger figure selection. It CERTAINLY wouldn't prevent them from putting Jabba himself in the barge, and I still can't believe it won't have him in it. I can't think of a single UCS set that's come with minifigures, but not the pilot of the craft. Maybe Obi-Wan's starfighter from 2010, if that came with his astromech as a minifigure. And even then, Obi-wan wouldn't have fit in the seat, and it's a ship people want for the ship, not the scene. I mantain that a sail barge without Jabba and a number of figs would sell extremely poorly because there is a very small number of people interested in the barge just as a vehicle design, and not to display the scenes taking place on/around it.

I don't know if I'm phrasing it weirdly or something, but I agree, I'm just saying Disney might not view it the same way as we do. I'm not saying their view is logical or correct, just that it exists. (and again, that it's likely less just that the costume is revealing and more the implication behind jabba forcing her to wear it) Don't even bring this up. Out of all the things TBOBF did wrong, I legitimately count removing Slave One's name high on that list. Such a dumb choice by lucasfilm. Does the skeleton crew kid have two or four? I also prefer the two-limbed look for those guys, but I feel like it'd be hard to make one of the main four kids have only two limbs

Yeah I totally agree- but for some reason it seems Lego may not see it the same way. (It's also probably not that it's what she wore itself as much as that jabba made her wear it while enslaved, which is a little dark in it's implication, but again- this is the scene where leia kills an intergalactic crime lord slug. It should be fine, especially for a CMF set)

I don't think we'll even get a blaster if it's Fallen Order Cal, since he didn't have one in that game. Most Barge rumors are from foggy here- click his user profile and it'll be his more recent posts. It'd be even worse than that sandcrawler hypothetical- It'd be like if the Sandcrawler came with 2 droids, but no jawa, since Foggy implied there was no jabba the hutt in the set. Exactly. This set, of all sets, should have her. (Personally I think it's fine for her to be in the palace too, or a system barge, but this is the scene where she got the huttslayer name in-universe. She should be here- and it's not even like the violence would prohibit this. As Dave Filoni famously said, "he's a slug"- not a human, and lego star wars has gone more graphic scenes and deaths before.