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It can fit a speederbike inside of it, whether it's full-sized or not I wouldn't expect it to be a faithful T-47 so much as a vaguely T-47 shaped ship. It is interesting that this is now the second time in the past decade lego has given the T-47 a non-canon color scheme. The only other time I can think of them doing this at all (besides the early days where they used more colorful bricks but intended them to represent the onscreen vehicles) is the "Jek-14's starfighter is basically an E-wing" thing. The AT-ST could be pretty solid, though I do find it funny that even when they give an AT-ST two seats it still only gets one driver. I'm sure the V-19 will be a fine model, this is just such a clone-heavy year that it doesn't do anything for me.

Same here- cool figure, but I'll wait until the set gets to $10. There was an (lego) idea(s) You jest but you know something like this is coming. Clone Battle Packs are like an itch. Lego cannot help but scratch it. The epaulets were a bit thinner than the jackets, and the backpacks coming up behind the "neck" combined with the hats helped to hide it. Trust me. Go put two neck brackets on a clone trooper. They look absurd. Same here. I really, really hope they course correct next year. If the buildable were OT or ST or Mando or SOMETHING, all the clone stuff wouldn't bother me, but it's essentially your only option for the wave. Not much info in that big post of details. The two big things appear to be: Turbo tank's number of figures isn't as bad as it could have been. 5 figures + 3 droids is the same as the 2022 AT-TE, so while still not good, it's not the 4 minifigs and no droids that was rumored. The snowspeeder actually sounds kind of cool? How?!? I don't know if the duros is a deep pull from legends but her lightwhip/chain lightsaber seems good. As for the vehicle itself, it sounds like a fun toy. I don't think I'll buy it, but it actually sounds like a fun toy for kids, unlike most of this wave, which is just absurdly priced clone collectibles aimed at guys in their 20s. I'm in my 20s, I like clones, I don't need them to be the entire kriffing wave.

A joke in 2025, a stipulation of purchase by 2029.

Unfortunate but true. The people don't recognize the Thunderbolts as the peak cinema that they are.

Cal Kestis is a crazy person to single out for "dealing with murder". Lego has made literally hundreds of figures of characters who kill people, including ones in a much less sci-fi fashion- it's not the same thing as a bar. At the end of the day lego's rules on violence have always been much less strict than those on alcohol, langauge, sexual innuendo, etc. I'm sure if the theme continues they'll find a way to get Moe into a set, but we aren't going to see a product labeled "Moe's Bar", nor do I think it's likely we'll see a depiction of a bar.

I don't think this bodes well, it implies there's not much to talk about. Either it has a seriously lackluster minifigure selection, or (I know this sounds drastic but at this point I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility) it got canceled. Denial is the first step on the path to acceptance.

The current ones could be done better, but the nice thing about cloth is the tooling to just... make a smaller one with a different shape isn't all that expensive. As for Fives's, the plastic pauldron doesn't seem to go down around the arms any more than fives's cloth one, and another new mold will be required for the plastic ARC pauldron. Not to mention you can't put this pauldron alongside a jetpack for rex, or a backpack for fives. For me the upsides don't seem all that significant, and certainly don't outweigh the downsides. Exactly. They have the ability to improve the current cloth pauldrons, if that was the issue.

Regardless of whether or not I pick up anyone else, I'm getting Miguel. Sun-Spider is boring though I'll be happy to pick those crutches up on BL- perfect Truncheons- but Kilometers Immorales is CLEARLY the odd one out here being he's not even a spider-man. Why is this not the Uncle Aaron Prowler? To be fair, they could have chosen side characters with no plot relevance but more relevance elsewhere- as I've said, Unlimited and Future Foundation style suits would both be fan favorites for this series if they'd been made, instead of characters like sun-spider or werewolf or cyborg spider-woman that most people are considering the weaker parts of the series. The new Rivals update makes me glad I picked up the new iron man mech- Ultron is awesome in that game. And once more another update, another convoy payload that'd be a perfect set build, another batch of skins and characters that would make s-tier minifigures.

I can no longer condone your crusade. I could support the avenger releasing alongside an advanced/reaper/defender, but not in place of. Ironically I think we're largely safe from that particular hellscape. Lego seems to think that in general the fandom is split into middle aged adult-but-not-afols who want ship and character models instead of traditional system sets, and gen Z and millenials who want traditional sets, but only for clones. We've largely avoided mixing the two- the majority of 18+ buildable tend to be OT. Do you have some information we don't, or is it a hunch? I could see you being right either way- the AAT has shown up roughly every 5-6 years and as such is due a remake, for example. I just don't know. The only thing I can think of is that some designer thinks these look better and has managed to convince the team through force of will. It's gonna cost lego more money, so it's not a cost-saving measure, as you say, and there's no way for them to tie it up as some sort of environmental thing. I think you're right that they're testing the waters here, but they've been doing these tests for a long time in other themes- I don't think negative response to the pauldrons will be enough to stop the deathmarch against cloth elements. The thing is they've been testing the waters for years now, and it keeps getting wider and wider in scope. This is the first time it's really come to star wars (unless we're counting the printed kamas and boba's missing cape as part of the phasing out, which I would), but in general it's been happening for years in other themes. Maybe if we're vocal enough we could keep it out of this theme, but in general I think they've set too much in motion, created too many new molds to just stop now. I mean look I'm glad to have an ally in the Cloth Defense Force fight, but I can understand the idea that there are some benefits to the other pieces that cloth doesn't have. I think cloth is for sure better than rubber or plastic for stuff like pauldrons and kamas, but at the same time I wouldn't say it's concerning for anyone to think the other way.

Literally half this lineup should be replaced with other characters IMO. Kilometers Immorales isn't even a spider-man and I don't get why he's here over any of the cut supporting cast. The VR lady just isn't interesting to me. As for the others, evil moon knight, good boy, Uncle Ben's Ghost Rider, and red hulk are all basically cameos who's inclusion over Peni, Noir, Ben, or Jessica is crazy. And even then, if we're doing cameos, why not ones like Unlimited or Future Foundation who have more appeal than their two seconds in the movie? Two of the ones they chose aren't even accurately represented at this scale- cyborg spider woman is (was? I don't remember her in the movie at all, just the merch) supposed to be like hulk sized- and web-slinger can't ride his own horse. That said, everyone looks incredible. I'm glad they gave Miles the shock variant, I think that's cool and a good choice. They put a ton of effort into this, I just don't think they chose the right characters. Yeah, it doesn't capture him well, and the horse he can't ride is also a strange choice- obviously they couldn't fit a full horse in here, but it begs the question of why he's here at all over someone like Scarlet Spider.

That's a fair point, but it's important to note that A: Boba's cape has disappeared- now whether it's because they're phasing out cloth, they're too lazy to add it, or both, it is gone and B: These moves are almost unilaterally in the direction of removing cloth. The only time I can remember cloth coming back and replacing formerly plastic parts was when they phased out the TCW pauldron and kama pieces. (The pauldrons weren't bad, but those Kamas were ATROCIOUS). Lego might still put a cloth waistcape on the girl from Dreamzz or cloth wings on the Destiny's bounty (That's a guess on my part), but while some characters keep cloth, the Balrog gets vinyl wings, or Thor and loki and batman get rubber capes, or the 327th get plastic pauldrons. The march is unilaterally in one direction. Oh yeah don't get me wrong, my earliest memories of watching star wars are from when I was four, I want to say for most of my childhood the original six films played almost constantly on the tv over the weekends, but that scene in TFA is what took me from star wars being one of those things I liked to star wars being THE franchise for me. To be fair, they aren't clone troopers, which means we weren't going to see them in system sets anymore anyway. I'm sure we'll get a sandtrooper helmet (stormtrooper helmet with a ton of tan stickers) and an 18+ buildable sandtrooper on dewback at some point. I think this (I removed a couple, but in general) is pretty much the list of lego's evergreen vehicles that they wanted some version of on shelves more or less constantly, but at this point I think a lot of those OT vehicles have been chopped off in favor of more clones. Combined with increasing prices meaning that Luke's Landspeeder is no longer the "cheap way to get luke+droids+ben" it used to be, I'd hazard a guess it looks more like this now. AT ST (last released in 2022) Emperor’s Throne Room (last released in 2023) X-Wing ETA Jedi Interceptor Delta 7 Jedi Starfighter Tie Fighter Millennium Falcon Important to note, I didn't add any clone vehicles, and I removed the two separatist vehicles. The republic has a much larger and more varied selection of vehicles due to the order 66 montage and TCW show being so integral to the era- the prequels don't have any single vehicles on the level of X-wing/TIE fighter/Falcon (again aside from the jedi starfighters), they have a much larger number of individually less iconic vehicles. (And the separatist just don't get many sets in general.)

Somehow even this feels overly optimistic, we barely got soup on shelves, we're not getting Guy Gardener, as much as he'd say he's as famous as man and soup. When the bat symbol (with no figures but a microscale "easter egg" of a bat piece inside the logo) is our only 2026 DC set beyond a january wave consisting of a 4+ batboat and a batmobile with only batman, I'm blaming you for putting the idea in lego's heads. Mine are pretty close, but I'd make a few minor changes. 4+ batboat with harley quinn, I think the boat's been the longest without one since we had a batwing in the cave last year. the burtonmobile will come with jonkler instead of penguin. Or literally just batman and no one else. Either it's both of them for $120 or just batman and a smaller batmobile for $80 UCS BtASmobile is pretty likely, and I agree it could easily just not have any minifigures at all. Redhead Jason is pretty cool, I'll consider this payback for Matt Murdock, Carnage, and all the others, even if his haircut is stupid. I was distracted by the hair color. Upon further inspection this design is awful. Overly punk hair, slingshot(?!?), and what the hell even are those boots. At least Dick looks solid, though as you say he's also in the wrong suit- but to give the designers some credit, at least looking at this picture I can tell it's Dick wearing Tim's suit and not Tim. But yeah no I don't think this movie does well at all, it sounds weirdly experimental and as slizer says stop motion movies don't do well. Yeah nothing about this movie has made sense to me. It's a weird choice. Oh, and right- If soup does well, we don't get any sets. If soup fails, it'll turn out lego was rushing to produce sets for it and we'll end up with the only 2026 DC sets being soup movie ones, including soup (re-use from mech) lex (re-used parts), and that's it.

That's how lazy they were with these figures. Forget giving Ben and Sue alternate torso prints, they couldn't be bothered to run a different color of torsos under the machine printing the Reed ones. I'd prefer the former but if we ever get it I'm sure it'll be the 2015 era hawkeye hair in red since that already exists. Yup. This isn't flame-on Johnny, this is 2005 chris evens making popcorn with his hands johnny. Yeah I think the ghost rider head is the best choice, but like you say, anything would be better than what we got. It almost doesn't look lego to me, they did a good job capturing how he looks different then the environments we see him in. I'm not even a big Hobie fan and looking at the fig I feel like I can see his suit changing colors and glitching in and out. I've been pretty critical of the figure selection, but even if only around half the characters are ones I think deserved slots, they'll all look excellent.

That causes other issues though- namely, now it doesn't work as well for anyone who has a kama but no backpack, and goes from "stupidly long neck" to being entirely unable to fit on any character who has a pauldron and jetpack (unless we want the jetpack printed on a 1x1 tile), with the additional issue of requiring another mold for any character who wears their pauldron the other direction. And regardless of whether or not there's a stud on the back, ARC trooper style pauldrons would require another new mold. One of the benefits of the cloth pieces was that the tooling costs were significantly lower for things like this- it's a lot cheaper to make a cutting pattern and dye than to manufacture a set of molds this precise. With them being actual molded parts, all the variants mean we need a fair chunk of new molds. Huh, I had no idea that neck bracket change was in 2018, I could've sworn it was much earlier, but you're right. I'd always assumed it was just to shave a bit more off costs and they didn't want to admit it, hence the "sitting down" thing. (Though lego might've said that about why they were missing Kamas?) The two wide transparent bracket is really annoying. It first came out in the superhero sets and I feel like the idea behind it being transparent is to seem unobtrusive, but as you say it's also wide (and a full plate thick rather than the 1-wide brackets) so most of the time if you're using it for a physical backpack and not energy effects, it either looks like the backpack is floating behind them or they just have a giant transparent apparatus connecting the backpack. I think a black or grey color would have worked much better, but then again I also think it would have been better at one stud wide and thinner, in which case we're back to the other neck bracket. Yeah, so still no way of knowing. I would say they'll cheapen out and omit them entirely, but then again we've already got at least 4 new clone trooper molds this wave alone (even if I maintain half of them were unnecessary) so who knows, maybe we are starting to see some more effort put into the figures. That's true, but we unfortunately already have a number of rubber capes, so we know the loss of cloth isn't limited to pauldrons. The only way I could see it working for lego without cloth is if they created a new specialized half-plastic, half-rubber mold for boba's jetpack and shoulder cape, but even in that scenario it feels more likely that they just keep conveniently forgetting the cape entirely. Oh, man. At the rate they're leaking, if the fig count is real, they could release a picture every day right up until release and still keep most of the build a secret. That's definitely one I'll be looking out for. I'm not especially attached to plo myself, I think he's cool but he's not one of my favorites so I'm ok waiting for it to hit ~$10 before picking it up, but I get why people are buying it day one. To be honest I forgot the june wave was tomorrow. This'll be the first time since I was a child I didn't buy any 1HY sets around release (I'll probably pick up the plo fighter and some night trooper packs when they hit discount, but not for their current prices, and so probably not anytime soon). Looking back on brickset I think it's my first time in a decade, since before Poe shooting down all the Ties over Takodana and the Black One T-70 X-wing starfighter set turned kid me into a star wars diehard.

I'd be fine without the pauldrons as they're pretty small and don't stick off the body much, but the backpacks are important. Really? I swear I have stormtroopers with the printed helmet mold that also officially came with backpacks, and IIRC the reason given when they phased them out was something like "They have to sit down". Did lego just not notice until a few years into the new helmet mold? I think we've seen the middle ground with boba- just omitting the cloth element entirely Ooh, right. Kamas are definitely the most important of the three. Though given how cheap backpacks are- it's just a neck bracket and a printed 1x1 tile- I'd be pretty annoyed if they skipped out on them again, even though I'm sure they will. A look at the back of the galactic marine torso would let us know whether or not we were getting physical backpacks, but the leakers seem to be in some sort of competition as to who can leak the smallest possible portion of a set, so I'm sure it'll be awhile before we see anything concrete on that front.

There will be no announcement. The low set number and coverage already renders the theme near-catatonic. Soon our single mini wave will disappear, and it'll just be D2C batmobile and a 4+ every year or so. Then every 18 months. Then eventually the UCS Pattmobile shows up in the icons line instead of under the DC theme in 2028.

It's inarguable that they're doing their best to phase them out. It started with only a few figures who had specialty cape shapes (strange's cape that's known for retaining it's shape when not attached to a person, Keaton Batman's cowl/cape), but now there's a cowlless batman cape, a generic superhero cape, and the pauldrons are plastic. Not to mention kamas barely ever appear anymore. I agree that it's a stupid decision. The rubber capes lack the poseability and, you know, cape-ness the cloth ones had. They can't trail up behind a minifigure anymore, or wrap around their side. The pauldrons could have benefitted more from being a more rigid material but now have the side effect not being able to stack with backpacks or jetpacks anymore. This is another issue with removing cloth- those specialized molds are going to stack up FAST. People are already complaining about the galactic marines.

I can assure you, multiple plastic accessories around one neck looks bad. Try it with one of your figures. They get kaminoan level necks. The starchy cloth isn't the same because it's thinner and compresses easier than the plastic. The spongey stuff might be worse because of the thickness, but they've never made pauldrons out of it AFAIK. Yeah exactly- it's even worse here because not only should the MTT be able to fit more than 6, but B1s are so cheap that you should be able to fit them all in. (That said, the overall number of figures+droids isn't an issue to me, it's sizable enough.) Hasn't he done enough for us?

I guess, but I can't think of any in this theme, maybe barring the B1 carrier. (And even then, if it was a real set, we would have had SO MANY complaints about how there weren't any real minifigures). The Enforcer/unarmored clones battle pack would have been a total shelfwarmer, and the rest of the ones we've gotten haven't really fit the system set format. Given lego has been phasing out cloth pieces, I don't think we see them again- a return to those weird TCW box kamas is more likely. Nobody's talking about this, but it's a big issue- you can't stack the kamas with backpacks or jetpacks anymore without the figure looking ridiculous. Now granted, we know plenty of people just seem to want tiny Hot Toys figures and could care less how usable the part is outside the circumstance it was created for, but even with canon onscreen characters we've seen plenty who have pauldrons and backpacks (Sandtroopers, all ARC troopers) or pauldrons and Jetpacks (Captain Rex comes to mind.) The Fives pauldron was pretty much perfect. @Brickadeer's suggestion is really the only way I could see a plastic one working- otherwise we enter the era of sandtroopers having printed backpacks. It's not the figure people want, it's the holding capacity. I wouldn't want a TIE reaper to include 10 stormtroopers but if it could only hold 4 figures I'd be pretty annoyed.

To be fair, they're not going to do a massive set redesign over backlash to a leak a few months out. That's logistically impossible.

He's the Rumble to Laserbeak's Frenzy.

Yeah I mean it's a dark color on white even modern lego is capable of printing that without too many issues.

Stark Industries sticker in the cockpit. Bodhi's still taking the plans to Jedha. It might be a month or two before the Profundity gets them off Scarif. That's what I said- even if it's outside the strictly OT content like a Defender or Reaper, I just want more imperial representation. I'd love an Endor D2C, but given they space out the MBS sets and- as of now- stuff like the death star is still taking up UCS slots, I think it'll be long enough that it wouldn't be bad to get some system ones next year. The clone pilot helmet is so good I'm pretending it's fake so as not to get my hopes up. That's some seriously quality craftsmenship. I'm not buying the torrent and this'll definitely run $20-30 on BL after it comes out, but hopefully they can put it in a microfighter or something so I can grab a pair for my modded gunship. The Galactic Marine helmet, on the other hand... I can see the concept, but I don't think this needed a new mold. This could have been spent elsewhere.

Have you used Eviscerate, Lacerate, Defenestrate, or "Run over with a tank" yet? I'm so used to seeing @CloneCommando99 quoting andor that I thought you were trying to spoof Luthen here with his "These days will end" speech. Same. I've had issues with set choices, design decisions, etc in the past but this is the first year where I've been concerned for the direction of the theme. It's splitting into two categories- "18+ buildable" and "clone set", and that leaves a LOT of people out in the cold. 2026 could end up balancing the ledger and being a big chunk of OT playsets with some Mando movie and maybe even ST or Gaming stuff, but they could also double down and we get a clone wars logo, mando logo, some clone helmets, and 84 501st battle packs. I want to agree, but the monkey's paw is going to curl and make literally every single 2026 set- star wars or not- a clone trooper battle pack if I do so. (But yes, no, 100%. It's the biggest issue with the theme at the moment.) That's a good point- they did a fair bit for Ahsoka S1 and it's gotten more post-show support than the rest of the disney+ shows (besides Mando), so season 2 should also get some solid coverage. Not too sure if they'll give shadow lord anything right off the bat though. Not two full years without it! We don't necessarily have to do ANH sets- there's been a serious lack of Endor coverage in recent years- aside from the diorama I don't know how long it's been since the last endor set- and a new playscale Cloud City would be a lot of fun. Even just imperial era stuff like a TIE Defender or Reaper (or, yes, Avenger.)

I think that works pretty well.