Mandalorianknight

(Raises pirate flag) "I will make it legal" That is a good point, making a ton of mando sets in november-january wouldn't bode well for sales in countries where the show is still 4-6 months away. (Especially when the target audience, children, don't know how to access the show though sites some would consider to be....unnatural) Oh, that makes sense too. I'm sure we'll get a set or two in january 2021, and then one or two sets per wave in the rest of the system waves for a while, at least while the show remains popular. (and since they've already confirmed season 3, it's not like there's much risk it'll stop airing anytime soon.)

Oh, they know. The designers said they won't make another one, and also to "buy everything day one". Oh no I definitely agree there, they're the "coolest" good guy faction primarily to lego's target audience, kids, probably because Lucasfilm wanted them to be popular merchandise. (I feel like that may have something to do with why they look like toys, too) Stormtroopers and mandos are always going to be better at the "imposing armored soldier" thing. Good to see a fellow fan of the fleet trooper! Unpopular opinion: the summer 2020 wave was the best wave in a while and as a whole was better than most, if not all, of the 08-13 clone wars waves.

They don't even need an excuse for those figures not showing up yet, since season 2 is in october. Lego's next wave isn't until january 2021, and they could easily have a mando set or two in there.

Agreed. I grew up on TCW, and my parents showed me the original 6 films when I was too young to really understand what was going on in them. The OT has been my favorite trilogy since I was old enough to understand the plot. You do bring up an interesting point about the "coolness" of the good guys, I'd think lego would want clones on shelves at all times, since they're commonly agreed upon as the coolest looking faction, but they don't, really. Also agreed about the prequels conducting themselves better to playsets (or at least most playsets, I think Hoth and the Final Duel will always make great location sets), stuff like pentaki really needs to be released as a set. Speaking of the clones being the "coolest good guys" and this being the unpopular opinion thread: I like the rebel fleet trooper design more than I like the clones'.

I'm almost certain we'll be getting more mando sets, they initially didn't do much due to poor sales for the animated shows, but after seeing the success of the series I guarantee they're working on more sets. It appears to be more gunmetal in many of the promo shots due to the lighting, but you're right it's too dark for the actual color. The eventual full beskar version would ideally be silver.

1. I sort of agree, sometimes it's nice to have a ranking trooper but other times the officer's inclusion makes no sense. 2. This isn't an opinion, it's just a falsehood. A massive company such as lego would never do something like this, where they don't gain anything but lose profit. 10. The original trilogy is the most famous, most well-recieved, and IMO the best trilogy. Almost all children that have seen star wars have seen the original trilogy, and so it makes perfect sense that juniors OT exists. Kids that young rarely pick out their own toys, anyway. 17. Agreed, Mandrproductions is fine and all but some people treat the guy like a god. This isn't something specific to lego either, in general the younger generation cares more about what some famous person tells them to do than what logic tells them to do. I completely agree. The $25-30 playsets are ok, but there need to be more big playsets.

Agreed. I love TCW, but some people have the idea that we need every set to be clone wars, or that we need a battlepack for every legion.

Out as in released, not out of stock, sorry.

Can confirm the backorder for the 501st set. Going to backorder within a few hours of going live (did it go live at midnight CT, or was it more like 3am?) is still pretty impressive though, especially considering it's been out at targets for a few weeks so most people who really wanted to get theirs ASAP could get them there.

Just picked up 3 copies of the 501st set, finally, even if they're on backorder and won't ship until mid september. All the star wars sets except for the bespin duel are out in the US now on the lego shop.com

It does look like a B1 head without a neck, but Wookieepedia lists it's sensor color as red, leading me to believethat red dot is in fact it's eye. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/B2-series_super_battle_droid It would be nice to see red eye print on the B2 in the future, however we have no evidence B2s are going to be in any sets in the january wave.

Some new book has leaked where yoda has a new torso print. The torso would work well for a rebel soldier if it wasn't for the olive skin tone at the top.

This was apparently done because someone claimed the razor crest name already? I don't know what that person's plan is besides getting into a court battle with lucasfilm... Besides your suggestion of separate moving legs, there isn't anything I can think of. For the separate moving legs, it could be done pretty easily with only changing the torso mold slightly. Lego could make the bottom of the torso mold more like the skeleton mold, and then just have separated legs like grievous or skeletons.

Thank you! I'm a big fan of the rebel battle pack as well, I may have mentioned this before in the thread but I've bought wayyyy more than I should have off of ebay. UPDATE: TIE/sa Bomber Imperial TIE/sa Bomber ($129.99), 1195 pieces "Eradicate the rebellion with the imperial TIE bomber! Load the bombs and spring shooters, place the pilot in the opening cockpit, and launch into attack! This Star Wars set includes the TIE/SA bomber as seen in The Empire Strikes Back. The set's features include an opening cockpit, storage area, and bomb bay, as well as firing spring shooters and bomb drop function. Included in the set are two Stormtroopers, two TIE pilots, an imperial officer, hoth rebel soldier, Han Solo, and rebel officer leia organa!" (in the zoomed-in images, the parts to press down on or turn to activate functions are shown in RED to make the functions more clear. In the rest of the images, they're shown in the colors they would be were this an actual set.) The idea of this project started a month ago when, as the third in a series of interviews in which the designers gave some confusing and irritating answers, Lego stated that they had no plans to make a lego TIE bomber due to the size and how "niche" it was. I then set out to make the bomber at as low a price as possible in the style lego does. At 1195 pieces, or $130 with how lego prices things, I didn't entirely succeed, but hey, you can't tell me the bomber is less iconic than kylo's shuttle or the gozanti. I'm pretty happy with how the design itself turned out, however, especially at making it in a way that it fits with the most recent TIE fighter and Striker models. There's a fair amount of functions, with bombing and storage in addition to the basic cockpit opening and spring shooter launching functions. The storage area was made just because of how much extra space there was in that cockpit module, so I wanted to use it for something. The bomb drop function was a headache to design, but can successfully hold and drop two bombs. The "wings" are supported by plates to stay in the position they're shown in. Let me know any suggestions or comments on the model, and especially any suggestions for what I should do next!

Looks great! I love the sleekness of the design, I'm impressed you could get that amount of accuracy and detail at that scale. Now all we need is a durge minifigure.

This is why I think there might be merit to a blue MTT actually showing up. That bad batch helmet leak was pearl dark grey, wasn't it? That color doesn't yet exist for that part, and Sargent Hunter is the only figure where a pearl dark gray p2 clone helmet makes sense. So if that image is real, it's very likely at least some bad batch members will show up. The blue MTT is one of only a few options that make sense. Although the MTT evidence is all circumstantial, so to speak. Without any actual leaks or evidence that would point directly to the MTT itself, we'll have to wait and see. I agree, I like this wave's sets and the mix between prequel/original/sequel/television sets. The only major problem I see if the price .

Old ben's hair! Aside from a few other hairpieces, I don't think any other 2005 molds are the same, besides the Rodian, Male Twi'leck, and rebel pilot helmet @LurkingEhlek mentioned.

It seems it's just a target exclusive in the US, meaning it's not that it's exclusive to the US but exclusive to Target for the sets in the US.

Yeah, I think we had the same point and were just misunderstanding each other's posts. It's interesting that LEGO refuses their suggestions sometimes...a cargo shuttle would have been a great set, but I guess it'd be hard to get at the same price is krennic's shuttle. They are somewhat unlikely, but the bad batch don't have many options for sets. There's those vehicles and the shuttle, of course, and you could throw one or two of them into a LAAT or AT-TE but then you run into the pricing problem you mentioned. I feel bad for you guys, that set is IMO one of the best in the past few years. Blue MTT was from a fake list from this guy who made multiple alt accounts to defend himself, from what I remember. Fun fact related to the second bit I quoted: BB-8 has a girlfriend in the Poe Dameron comics.

I like the engine update, the size is better and the detail still seems great!

This would suggest a CW S7 set in january if true. I'd guess the shuttle or a separatist vehicle like the octuptarra droid or @Snazzy Bricks's suggestion of an MTT. First of all, I'm not saying at all that disney is exerting "dictatorial control" over the brand. Heck, I don't think disney high-ups concern themselves with the lego brand. I agree with most of the things you're saying, I think it's just terminology I'm using that's causing the misunderstanding. I'm not saying that disney is going around saying "NO LEGO, INSTEAD OF CLONE WARS YOU MUST MAKE TROS SETS" as some have implied they do, I'm saying Lucasfilm probably says things like "Hey lego, can you make a set for The Mandalorian" or "We'd like it if you made the ghost as it's the main ship in our new show".

I didn't mean it in the way I think it was taken here. I meant more so that lucasfilm has them do sets based on some vehicles, or provides concept art for said vehicles at certain times. I'm not saying that lucasfilm or disney is bullying lego around, but are you really saying that they don't have them make sets based off specific vehicles and just give them completely free rein over the license?

I remember the reports of rebels sets not selling well. Even there, I think that was more so that lego themselves messed up. I'm sure some of this was ordered by lucasfilm and out of their control, but they released the ghost and 1st phantom a fair amount of time before the show, meaning that no one knew what these ships were. (They do the movie waves a few months before the film releases too, of course, but those have much more marketing and usually have some recognizable vehicles and characters anyway.) By the time the show gathered it's adult audience, the set was already retired. The demand is there now, as illustrated by the bricklink and ebay prices of the ghost, but not until it was too late. They also made that January wave consisting mostly of super obscure vehicles from the season. (I can maybe get the over sized Ezra's speeder that was in a scene or two, but the wookie gunship had a single shot of screen time in the entire season, just of it docked next to the ghost.) Their season two sets were strange too, captain Rex's AT-TE did have a fair amount of screen time but was essentially just a worse version of a recognizable vehicle, and the other sets were once again obscure. The gozanti, which I think was a great set and still have my copy, was obscure enough not to hold a $130 price tag, and the Rebel Combat frigate that lasts a single episode seemed to only sell for ahsoka based on bricklink pricing. This meant that we got one season three set, (which I believe would have sold well enough based on demand for thrawn, a low price, and that the show had gotten a fair amount of people hooked by then, but that's just speculation.), and nothing for season four, when those two seasons had some of the most interesting vehicles and best figure designs. (I mean, c'mon, a defender, anything with the mandalorians, etc would have sold great.) Then with Resistance they made the supremely strange choice of releasing the villain ship at an exorbitant price even for lego, and instead of bringing the hero ship alongside it, made a background ship. So it makes sense they'd be cautious about their mandalorian and clone wars s7 sets, but personally I think they brought the poor sales upon themselves with strange set choice, timing, and pricing. Clearly they've figured out how much popularity the mandalorian has and are probably getting ready to pump out as many sets as possible, it'll be interesting to see if they do the same thing with the clone wars.

Yeah, another y-wing so soon is unlikely. No, I think they've only ever been for movie releases. (Solo, since it released in may instead of december, had a "wookie weekend" I think)

Good idea for a January wave list. The ones I kept in the quote are the ones I'm using some variant of. Microfighters: Razor Crest ($9.99): Mandalorian (not beskar) (literally the same as Kit Figsto's ) Gideon's TIE ($9.99): Moff Gideon (no cape, blaster) Grievous's wheel bike vs Boga ($19.99): Grievous (with magnaguard staff), Obi-wan (lightsaber, blaster) Reasoning: Mandalorian hype and merchandise should lead to a razor crest microfighter, as well as the trend of ships in late summer getting microfighters the next january. Gideon's TIE as an enemy ship. Wheel bike v boga fills the "obscure/unique vehicle versus brick-built animal" trope of the past few years, and reuses grievous figure. (Ideally they'd fix obi-wan's torso by january, though) No battle packs, supposedly :( Juniors: Speeder Chase ($29.99): 2 blockier speeder bikes, a tree with a catapult feature and leaf cover feature to hide an ewok. Comes with Wicket, Endor Luke, and a Scout Trooper. Reasoning: a speeder chase is long overdue, all the juniors sets have been OT, and a "race" type set would sell well with small children. Duel: Duel on mandalore ($19.99): Like Kit Figsto described, with the throne and exploding windows, but instead of a doorway it's the window Maul is pushed through. Figures are, of course, S7 Ahsoka and Maul. Reasoning: It's inevitable. Other sets: Rebel Command Center ($29.99): Comes with Mon Mothma, General Lando and Admiral Ackbar. Build of the Briefing room and the bridge separated by a sliding door and hinged. Reasoning: it's one of the OT location sets priced around $30 with minimal or no conflict lego is so fond of. Lando and Ackbar should draw enough sales as recognizable characters and the Afols get our first Mon Mothma since 2009. Separatist Forces ($29.99): Built as a Separatist equivalent to the 501st set, it comes with a Crab droid, dwarf spider droid, droidika, 3x b1s, b1 commander, 2 b2s, and 2 212th Clones. Reasoning: with no traditional battle packs, it's been speculated that the 501st set is the first of the "new" battle pack style for lego. This would be an opposing pack with mostly separatist forces. Imperial Trooper transport ($39.99): Sort of like the 501st set in terms of being similar to a large battle pack. The build would be similarly sized to that of the one in my MOC thread, and come with a speeder bike in the same style as the 2020 AT-AT, but in the Navarro color scheme. Comes with two stormtroopers, 2 death troopers, Cara Dune and IG-11 with this part attached to his "neck" holding baby yoda. Reasoning: This would work well as a smaller mandalorian set and in the newer style of battle pack, which allows it to have a large-ish number of troops. IG-11 and baby yoda aren't full minifigures, with along with being a battle pack allows for the 7 figures in a $40 set. Battle of Yerbana ($49.99): Corporate Alliance Tank droid, command center and 212th BARC. Comes with Anakin, a 501st jet trooper, 212th trooper, tactical droid and 2 b1s. Reasoning: this would capitalize on the clone wars hype, and provide vehicles for each side for a relatively small price. Exogol ($59.99): Large duel build like snoke's throne room. Comes with the sith throne, and offset on each side a small sciency area with the jar of snokes and palpatine's puppet arm thing, and on the other side a representation of where ben fights the knights. Comes with Rey, Ben, Palpatine (zombie), palpatine (reborn), and two KoR. Reasoning: Exogol is one of the most iconic TROS scenes, and a release a year after the film would allow for spoilers. Building it at a larger scale similar to Snoke's throne room allows for enough figures and the builds needed to complete the scene. Gideon's TIE fighter ($79.99): Gideon's Outland TIE, like a normal TIE but with folding wings. Has a small 100-ish piece side build of some of the cantina, as well as an E-Web. Comes with Moff Gideon (cape and darksaber), a stormtrooper, the mandalorian (beskar), and Greef Carga. Reasoning: Again comes out long enough after the final episode to allow for it to be spoilery, and would provide an enemy vehicle to the Razor Crest. Resistace B-wing ($89.99): Resistance B-wing build with stand and small representation of the command center. Comes with Aftab Ackbar, Poe Dameron (outfit from the y-wing set), General Leia, a resistance trooper, BB-8, and a Sith trooper. Reasoning: It's been a long time since the last B-wing and would complete the resistance's "-wings". We also need a new general leia figure.