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We did! To keep as in-step with the original as I remember, maybe adjusting for inflation: Resistance Lifeboat ($54.99): Comes with General Leia, Nien Numb, Lieutenant Connix, and Kylo Ren (Unmasked) That's a cool exercise in seeing how the same basic concept can be very different depending on price, details, and figure setup. Generic rebel and imperial battle packs would be so nice. Especially an Imperial Army one- it works not only for canon stuff like Andor and Solo, but the throughline in older Legends of stormtroopers being the elite shock troops and the standard imperials being those army troopers. Tying off that spinoff movie trilogy with a Siege of Mandalore wave: Yerbana attack ($9.99): 1x Dwarf spider droid and a bit of bridge terrain with a 212th trooper and 501st jet trooper. Gauntlet Starfighter Microfighter ($12.99): Bo-Katan Kryze Mandalorian Mech ($14.99): Gar Saxon Mandalorian Forces Battle Pack ($19.99): 1x Mandalorian Loyalist (male), 1x Nite Owl (female), 1x Mauldalorian (Male), 1x Mauldalorian (female). Build is some of the sewer tunneling with a function to blow out a wall, as well as a small mortar. Catwalk Duel ($24.99): Build of the catwalk on the dome's ceiling with functions to sever beams. Comes with Darth Maul and Ahsoka Tano. Hallway Rampage ($54.99): Venator hallway with sliding door and reactor room facade. Comes with Darth Maul, 2x 501st trooper, 2x 332nd trooper, and an unmarked clone trooper. Maul's Gauntlet Fighter ($89.99): Maul's gauntlet ship with Rook Kast, Gar Saxon, Darth Maul, Bo-Katan, a Nite Owl, and Prime Minister Almec (armored) Battle of Yerbana ($109.99): Droid command station, Snail Tank, Tri-Fighter, Headhunter, and a build of some cover rubble. Comes with Anakin Skywalker, a Clone Pilot, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Commander Cody, Captain Rex (Jetpack), 1x Clone Jet Trooper, Tactical Droid, b1 droid commander, 2x b2 battle droid, and 1x buzz droid. Republic LAAT Gunship ($139.99): Comes with 2x clone pilot, 2x 332nd trooper, Captain Rex (Jetpack), Ahsoka Tano, and 2x Mauldalorian. UCS: UCS Captain Rex's Y-wing Starfighter ($239.99): Comes with Captain Rex and Ahsoka Tano

I dunno. Again, $70 for 478 pieces is fairly normal for LSW in 2025. The X-wing was what, $100 for 384? I wouldn't be surprised if the X-wing was the "lego mario" of the wave, with everything else just having some stickers to interact with it. Again that's not to say the builds of the non X-wing march sets won't be significantly compromised and/or have "smart" minifigures, still making them bad sets, but unless the X-wing set has like 7 smart bricks or something it seems like it's a big enough price increase that it's only in that set.

This would be the point for me where I'd start to get annoyed with lego. The midi-legs and long legs are both fine for what they represent, but introducing slight height variations on the normal legs would really annoy me customization wise. At that point, just stick two black 1x1s on the bottom of your Vader fig, right? It may be copium, but I'm hoping the X1 doesn't have a brick included. 478 pieces for $70 isn't anything special, but for LSW 2025 prices it's fairly reasonable, assuming they use large plates for the wings, and even in the worst case not as bad as the X-wing's smart brick price increase is. I don't think there's one in the set. The train isn't comparable. It's a single piece, it really means very little to the set- if you don't like it, just don't display it with the rest of the set. I'm not sure how to feel about the introduction of 3-D printed parts in general, but let's not act like it's anywhere close to the impact these Smart Bricks are going to have on the build and prices of these sets. These are the X-wing and TIE ($100 and $70) we'd been discussing. I think it may not be as bad as we assume. If we believe most of them are simply meant to integrate with the smart brick system and don't actually include them, all we may have to do is remove a few stickered tiles to obtain a normal set. It could be as bad as the sets coming with those stupid electronic minifigures, though, or the builds being that weird lego mario style.

The super jumper was arguably the best of the gimmicks as it solely consisted of adding a piece to a normal set. If you didn't want the gimmick you could simply discard the jumper and you were left with a totally normal set with no value difference. It almost feels unfair to count it- it's more of a power burst/power blast type thing. Mechs are the best that comprise a major feature of a set or take up set slots. They're really pushing it, so I wouldn't be surprised if it held on until the end of 2027, but it's gonna be a rough few years for lego sales wise if they're going (batman) all-in like this. The good news is we'll probably be able to get these sets for the prices they'd be if they didn't include a smart brick due to the absurd sales they'll be on. I thought summer 2025 sets were gonna be on sale by christmas and that would be the worst in recent LSW history- I wouldn't be surprised if some retailers had the March sets on significant sales by star wars day.

And unfortunately, just because his design changes between them doesn't mean they'll re-use it anyway, as they have before. I'm sure he'll wear the white cloak at some point in Secret Wars, but I mean, even in Endgame Thanos wore his infinity war and GOTG/IW opening costumes. I wouldn't be surprised if Doom's suit carries over for at least some of Secret Wars. And even if it's a small update to the costume I wouldn't put it beyond lego to re-use the old doom.

Disappointed that we didn't get our daily song/quote/snappy remark, I'll fill in, and since I finished my yearly Thrawn Trilogy reread I'll use that: "The whole thing's ridiculous. You know it, and I know it" "@CloneCommando99 doesn't think so." "@CloneCommando99's even a worse idealist than you are sometimes. In the first place, he's never going to be able to hold this fan coalition of his together" "Maybe not. But think of the possibilities if he can. There are a lot of leakers and information sources out there in the fringe that the Eurobricks Forum doesn't have any access to at all." Even without stud.io- just adding plates to his legs looks weird. Vader's tall, but he's not lanky. At a certain point it just becomes one of those lego proportion things that most adults in lego are more or less the same height. It's the same thing with Yoda being almost as tall as a normal person, or astromechs. Minifigures aren't Black Series, they aren't trying to accurately 1-1 portray characters. I used the wrong Thrawn Trilogy quote, I should've dug one up from Dark Force Rising when they think they're all doomed. Because, as C-3PO likes to say, we are, in fact, doomed.

I agree with all these, as they're primarily updating mold accuracy or adding functionality. On the others, though, I really hope they don't go that route. Vader isn't superhumanly tall, and I think introducing a "slightly taller" leg piece would be a mistake anyway. Stormtroopers certainly aren't bulky enough to warrant molded shoulder plates. And the current Kaminoans work fine for lego minifigures in my view, I wouldn't want them to introduce a whole new body type for the theme- the Kaminoans would look like they didn't belong in lego star wars. The rest don't bother me as much- I could go either way on the geonosian legs, the stormie belts and scout backpacks feel unnecessary due to how little they stick out from the costumes in-universe but so long as they're printed underneath it wouldn't matter, and a brick-built jabba with added functionality is sorely needed. Red eyed vader, updated astromechs, and skirts for characters who wear them are probably my top three wanted minifigure upgrades.

I was trying to use the web browser version- after I downloaded the app, it worked just fine on the cyborg-spider-woman box I had. Nice. In the end I think the boxes turned out to be a benefit, now that we can scan the codes- feeling the bags was useful but not an exact science, whereas now we can tell for sure who's who. I would hope so. Given they'll assumably be able to re-use this design extremely frequently, as he's essentially the main character of the next two avengers movies, it would seem smart to make this one one of their better figures.

I would say with the exception of the removal of pupils on characters with colored eyes, and some QC issues, the current style of minifigure design is the best. Obviously the classic yellows have their own charm, but I don't think anybody's going to be advocating for the cursed TCW faces of the sets released during that show's run, or saying the 2006-2008 pupiless designs are better than what we have now. The modern designs are the best mix of detail (in general, the most detailed minifigures we've ever had) and keeping that sort of lego stylization. They've experimented with hyperdetailed designs before- most notably their 2014 design scheme, which worked fine for armored or alien characters but was awful on characters with human faces like Luke and Han- and it just ends up feeling like someone's custom more than a minifigure in the lego style.

I haven't heard of the guy but he seems to just be one of the clone army builders in the vein of MandR. I think it's a pretty big leap to think he's a leaker just because he has a lot of the Kamino GWP- he's army building $70 and $150 sets, I don't think it's all that difficult to believe he either bought a ton of sets back in May or has been buying a ton of copies off bricklink/ebay/etc.

Those definitely-not reskinned WW2 german troop transports they used on Ghorman? Yeah. Not something I'd ever get, even if I had the money and space, but it'll be cool to check out at a lego store.

They're expanding- SW didn't used to have retail Christmas sets aside from the calendar. The 2023 set was a lego tv special tie-in based on the in-universe "life day" holiday. The AT-AT this year is our first publicly availible, explicitly Christmas/Earth Holiday based non-calendar set (I'm excluding them because plenty of themes get them). More importantly, there's a Christmas Hulkbuster from Marvel this year if I'm remembering correctly. Now all that said, I agree with you that it would make more sense for Harry Potter just to have normal sets with the students celebrating those holidays, since they really exist in Harry Potter. A big Harry Potter Christmas Tree with Weasleys in sweaters would be just a normal canon set.

Right. I was hesitant to count all the little serfdoms popping out of the "Snyder plan isn't working, scrap it and MCUify" approach, but the Rock Cinematic Universe was definitely notable enough. So if Paramount wants to clean the slate again, that'll be 6. And if they do the same "we're counting select parts of the last universe" thing, it'll be the fifth consecutive universe to fail to make a clean break. (The 10 year plan seemed like it would have been, but didn't get any scripts made as far as we know, much less any projects released)

Not much directly, all depends on what media they produce. Doesn't Paramount have star trek? Or do they just have the rights to show it on streaming? I mean- obviously, this means Lego Indiana Jones (but only the distribution rights so the sets are, like, mosaics of the dvd covers) and Lego Mission Impossible return, and that we're finally getting the Bay Harbor Brick Separator. Watch the plan reset for like the 5th time in a decade. Is that right? Snyder plan, hastily re-done sanitized MCUDCEU, Hamada's "10 year plan based on batman, superman, and wonder woman" (why couldn't we get this), Gunnverse. Am I missing one? I think I'm missing one.

Thanks- I'm heading to the store in a bit and I'll look for 2099 there, I'll update this post when I do. EDIT: I couldn't get the scanner to work, and decided "Spend $4.79 to get a random one and use the box to figure out the scanner" was better than "Social situation of being a grown man standing alone in the lego aisle looking aggravated at his phone for an unknown length of time with a cart full of perishable groceries." Got Cyborg-Spider Woman, which is fine. It's not the 2099 I wanted, or somebody I would have kept built like Electric Miles, but it's parts that are clearly spider-man (unlike Spyder-bite, Sun Spider, or most of Web-Swinger) that I'll be happy to use on purist customs. The torso especially seems like it could be used for a chained up Raimi-style spider-man. While I disagree with some of the figure choices, no one can deny the detailing is immaculate. Yeah, it's a surprisingly good Doom design, not a grey iron man with a green cloak as I feared. If nothing else, the figure that comes out of this will work just fine as comic Doom. As for recolors, though, I'm not all that sure that it matters. The design work behind a print isn't the expensive part, swapping the colors is still a "new print". Unless you mean people personally recoloring the figure, in which case I agree it'd be easier to color some gold in silver areas than paint or print a new design.

You got it! @Lordhelmet, have some figures and descriptions Same. A Reaper would be the most likely, I think, but I wouldn't mind a new tank or any of the scarif battle sets. Solo's going to be tricky, but I'll give it a try. Very solid calendars and battle packs- I like the addition of pajama dooku. Solo wave: Imperial Patrol Speeder ($9.99): Patrol Trooper, Imperial Emigration Officer. Kessel Millenium Falcon Microfighter ($12.99): Han Solo. A detachable segment for the escape pod is included. Lando Mech ($14.99): Yellow shirt Lando. The mech is built to look like L3-37. Galactic Thugs Battle Pack ($19.99): two speeder bikes and two crates- one with credit tiles and one with blasters and vribroblades with 1x Kessel Guard, 1x Pyke Enforcer, 1x Dryden Bodyguard, and 1x White Worm. Dryden Vos Battle ($29.99): Museum and desk builds (the desk has a maul hologram stored in a drawer, and one of the museum builds includes a Mandalorian chestplate and helmet) to topple some of the displays. Comes with Dryden Vos (double-sided face), Han Solo, and Qi'ra. AT-DT Attack ($44.99): AT-DT with 2x Imperial Army Trooper, 1x Mimban Stormtrooper, and 1x Mudtrooper. TIE Brute ($79.99): TIE Pilot, 1x Stormtrooper (Kessel Dust markings), L3-37, Lando, and Qi'ra. AT-Hauler ($109.99): Can hold an AT-DT or Conveyex car. Comes with Han Solo (army trooper), Beckett (Imperial disguise), Val (Imperial disguise), Rio (mudtrooper disguise), and Chewbacca (Muddy) Conveyex Heist ($159.99): Conveyex train with 5 cars- front and back engines, a passenger car, gunnery car, and coaxium car. Uses a rollercoaster track as train tracks, and includes the probe droid next Val destroys. Includes Han Solo, Chewbacca, Val, Beckett, Rio, 2x Imperial Gunner, 3x Range Trooper, and 1x Imperial Officer. UCS: UCS Millenium Falcon ($899.99- not entirely based on Solo, because I don't believe anything from the movie is much of a UCS candidate): Comes with a full interior and the following minifigures: Chewbacca, Han Solo (Young), Young Lando (space-hawiian shirt), Han Solo (ANH), Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker (Farmboy), C-3PO, R2-D2, Han Solo (Old), Rey, Finn, BB-8.

To connect with other anniversary sets it'll be a logo with a 2006 batman, Golden Batman, and the Juniors batman most recently in the arkham set.

Agreed- for all their attempts to splinter into gimmicks, the best thing the theme could do is just refocus on playscale. Adding figures to these would be a nice distraction, I'll take you up on it and add some price points and details.

A comic-based hall of armor is genius, and with the other set it would be nice to get the missing ISTV characters. Just realized I haven't added Rivals sets for the third season: Blade and Pheonix vs the Queen in Black ($14.99): Buildable phoenix egg with some small blast builds in trans-orange for Phoenix and black/trans-red for Hela. Comes with Blade (default), Phoenix (default), and Hela (Queen in Black). Sym-Milano ($69.99): Klyntar-repaired Milano with symbiotic, dragon-wing, and karmic staff elements built into it. Comes with a buildable groot (symbiote flora), as well as Rocket Raccoon (Symbiote Raccoon), Captain America (Captain Klyntar), Black Widow (Phoenix Widow), Winter Soldier (Polarity Soldier), and Moon Knight (Phoenix Knight). Knull Rising ($99.99): Some buildable Symbiote creatures and a huge All-Black the Necrosword build, as well as a throne for Knull. Comes with Knull, Phoenix (Phoenix Chaos), Scarlet Witch (Phoenix Chaos), Blade (Polarity Blade), Spider-Man (Black Suit), Iron Man (Extrembiote Armor), Emma Frost (Phoenix Diamond), Magik (Phoenix Demon), Venom (Abyssal Flame), and a Jeff figure (Devouring Duo).

You underestimate my... amount of projects to draw from. I'm only around halfway done, I plan on a list for three movies (RO, Solo, Clone Wars- The Siege of Mandalore, not the 2007 movie), three for animated series (The Clone Wars, Rebels, and a catch-all for CW2003/Tales/Visions/Resistance), three for live-action series (Mandalorian, Ahsoka, than a catch-all for Andor/Kenobi/TBOBF), and potentially even an Heir to the Empire wave. So here's the Rogue One wave: INTRA-WAVE GIMMICK: Sets Rebel Ambush, Scarif Defenders Battle Pack, Master Switch Assault, and Citadel Ambush can be combined to make a larger Scarif battlefield. Semicircular and quarter-circle elements form small islets or just notable features on the beach, with the rail depot segment being able to be placed between the bunker entrance and citadel. Rebel Ambush ($9.99): A half-circle segment consisting of a Palm tree and ferns with a feature for a rebel trooper to pop out at the imperial. Comes with 1x Rebel Trooper (Melshi) and 1x Stormtrooper. Assault Tank Microfighter ($12.99): TX-225 with a Tank Trooper Cassian Andor's K-2SO Mech ($14.99): The mech is built to resemble K-2SO, piloted by Cassian (Blue jacket) Scarif Defenders Battle Pack ($19.99): E-web and a rectangular chunk of landing platform. One of two quarter-circle segments with a bit of foilage can be attacked to each side. Comes with 2x Shore Trooper, 1x Death Trooper, and 1x Stormtrooper. Master Switch Assault ($37.99): Imperial bunker entrance with some supports behind it and a bit of sandy terrain in front of it, as well as a small Master Switch build on a semicircular bit of terrain. Comes with Chirrut Imwe, Colonel Tonc, a Shoretrooper Squad Leader, and 1x Stormtrooper Hovertank Ambush ($37.99): TX-225 Occupier tank with three small crates, alongside a small Jedha facade . Comes with 1x Tank Commander, 1x Tank Trooper, 1x Stormtrooper (Crystal holder backpack), Jyn Erso, and Edrio Two-Tubes. Death Star Plans Heist ($79.99): Citadel tower with interior vaultroom entrance, data vault tower, and satellite catwalk up top. Comes with Cassian Andor (tan shirt), Jyn Erso (Ground Crew outfit), K-2SO, an Imperial Officer, Stormtrooper, and Director Krennic. TIE Reaper ($99.99): TIE Reaper that can hold up to two pilots and 10 troopers. Comes with 1x TIE pilot, 2x Death Trooper Specialist, 2x Death Trooper, and Baze Malbus. AT-ACT Depot Attack ($179.99): Somewhat smaller than an AT-AT, with a removable center cargo container. Also included is a depot side build with a set of rails, ground vehicle, and a crane that can attach to the side of the cargo container and move it from the AT-ACT to the rails. Comes with 2x AT-ACT pilot, 1x shoretrooper squad leader, 2x imperial ground crew, Pao, Bodhi Rook, Bistan, and 1x Rebel Trooper (Private Bastaren). UCS: UCS U-wing ($319.99): Full-minifig scaled U-wing with 2-seater cockpit (new cockpit mold), interior space, pintle-mounted guns, etc. Comes with Cassian Andor (brown jacket), K-2SO, Jyn Erso (Tan vest), Baze Malbus, Chirrut Imwe, and Bodhi Rook.

I assume they're based on some background models/costumes, but as far as I know neither of them have canonical names.

And yet the $1000 version couldn't figure this out.... Really nice, a very cute build where all the rooms are easily identifiable. I really like that the Imperial Advisor still gets to be part of this set, even in 1x1 form.

At least his response is more of a "huh, I forgot about that guy" and not being actively disliked by a lot of fans and often canonically the bat-family alike. I still don't understand why they did Batwoman when Spoiler wouldn't even have required a new mold. (Or again, why we got Batwing instead of the more visually distinct Signal... or why we didn't get Nightwing and Red Hood.) Interesting. So we'll likely get SOMETHING out of this march wave besides batmen and jonklers. Hard disagree on multiple levels. Unless you have such an absurd amount of disposable income that $300ish is nothing to you (in which case, please send it to me, my uncle is totally the CEO of lego and I'll 100% pass on the bribe so we get more DC sets), don't spend hundreds of dollars on something you don't want to buy just because it could maybe produce something you DO want to buy down the line. But even then, modulars and mechs don't have the same target audience. Even if lego thought that the 18+ crowd buying the modular would translate to the mechs primarily bought by children (Which they likely won't, and rightly so- they are different demos), the best it would be is a mix of Marvel and DC mechs. It's not like a modular selling is going to mean mechs go away.

I'm pretty sure you're referencing Conquest here, but I also got "world of cardboard" vibes from that one Superman monologue. For the first point, I just don't agree. If somebody's given something for free, and is still telling me not to buy it, I would definitely put some weight to that. For the second, I see your point a lot more here, but I'm still not convinced fully. I think there's just as many clicks to be made going against the grain, especially from engagement baiting. ("You're WRONG about the Lego Death Star" or "The Lego Death Star is ACTUALLY GOOD?" would definitely get a lot of angry comments driving up engagement.) At the end of the day, if the people being supplied with the free product to promote it are warning you off, I'd say there's a good chance there are at least SOME flaws in the set. As much as I want one, the bionicle community's been at this for forever to little avail. Aside from G2 (which by all accounts was preplanned for as soon as the preceding constraction theme's sales flagged and didn't actually have anything to do with fan support), the best we've gotten for the theme is 1/20th of a classic set and a GWP. The only truly successful fan campaign I can think of is the 501st battle pack, which... does not bode well for how we'd have to act to get one. Still, it could always show up in TMAG or the HTTE movie, which would drastically increase it's chances. Thrawn's always been a fan of powerful starfighters...

Thank you! The silencer's a beautiful ship, probably the best of the OT-vehicle-parallels. I think the altered, sleeker cockpit rather than the standard TIE pod really helps the design. These are all excellent and I'm guessing an AT-TE is coming fall 2026, now that the UCS AT-AT's been retired for a bit and they've had time to gauge the success of the Venator. TROS wave. Like TLJ, strongly dislike much of the movie, but it had some killer designs: First Order Treadspeeder ($9.99): Treadspeeder with play feature to launch a jet trooper. Comes with a Treadspeeder Driver and Jet Trooper Night Buzzard Microfighter ($12.99): Comes with Cardo. (This is partially a way to manually decrease the excessive price of the helmet- clearly castle fans will want to army-build this microfighter.) Sith Trooper Mech ($14.99): Sith Trooper Sith Eternal Battle Pack ($19.99): 2x Sith Trooper, 1x Sith Jet Trooper, 1x First Order Stormtrooper. Battle on exogol ($29.99): Sith Throne build with play features to knock a figure off the throne or off two spots in front of it. Comes with Rey, Ben Solo, and Palpatine (Eternal) UA-TT ($59.99): Claw can hold a minifigure. Comes with Poe Dameron (Nathan Drake cosplay), Finn, General Pryde, 1x UA-TT pilot, and 1x caped First Order Snowtrooper. TIE Whisper ($69.99): TIE Whisper with a molded Wayfinder, as well as an Ommin Harness build. Comes with Kylo Ren, Palpatine (Ommin Harness), a Sith Cultist, and Sith Eternal Officer. Poe Dameron's X-wing vs TIE Dagger ($109.99): More in-line with the 2021- ship scale. Comes with Poe Dameron (Pilot), BB-8, a Final Order Pilot, General Lando, Aftab Ackbar, and a First Order Stormtrooper. Xyston-Class Star Destroyer ($179.99): Has a technic cannon mounted in the superlaser. Comes with General Pryde, 2x Final Order Officer, Ap'lek, Vicrul, Cardo, Kuruk, Ushar, and Trudgen. UCS: Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle ($239.99): Kylo Ren (dual-molded helmet with transparent red kintsugi cracks), Rey (arm printing)