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I'll be even more vague since we're not meant to discuss the events of the scene, but yes, there will be no more Andor sets, absolutely. I think if lego knew, the U-wing would have been adjusted to a Rogue One set. Honestly I think I would have preferred that Exactly. Stellar minifigs are great but they have to at least make a little sense for the inclusion- I wouldn't even mind a generic imperial vehicle much but the death star is a specific two vehicles that we never saw either of them near. This reminds me of one of the best sithposts I've ever seen in my life- it was a "leak" (Obviously fake as you'll see, don't worry) for the end of Andor S2 around the time that went something like this.... *The death star laser hits the ocean, Cassian embracing Jyn as their deaths approach. In the instant before he's incinerated, we see robed arms grab him by the back and throwing him through a portal. Andor opens his eyes, looking around at... stars? He looks down at the ground only to see a transparent blue bridge with nothing but more stars below it. Bewildered, he stands and turns around, only to see Ahsoka Tano.* Ahsoka: "You think you're the only rebel in the galaxy? I've seen your story. I've seen Andor. And I'm here to talk to you about the mandalorian initiative." Obviously fake, but it's just such a perfect joke about the feared Marvelization of star wars. I think ironically Andor's actually going to the other extreme, the "we're now just entirely gunning for emmy-bait prestige". What? Of course not? Darth Vader KILLED Anakin, Obi-Wan tells us that in A New Hope! Smart. I may end up doing that with the ghost and a microfighter or something.

I don't like this to be honest. Krennic is fine- Galen is at least understandable considering while we never saw him ON the death star, he was pretty heavily connected to it and the death star's architect makes sense as a death star exclusive fig. But Mas and Sly are just tangentially connected by being part of the same faction, but they aren't even military roles- it feels like they're throwing in exclusives for the purpose of including exclusives, whether they make sense or not. All this to say I'll be perfectly fine with it so long as next year we get a Mas Amedda vs Sly Moore senate pod microfighter two pack. Yup. There are much better places to put them- I won't even say "it's better than not getting them" because at $1000 very, very few people are going to get them. I could easily see Mas reaching pre-microfighter Rex prices online. Of course! Are we blind? Deploy the 41st garrison! Yeah, I know- I'm sure they'll unfortunately take up another big set slot before this era's done. I think we'll see wolfpack too, though that doesn't bother me as they've been a pretty hard legion to get ahold of and are fairly prominent in TCW. Yes, exactly. Many things aren't black and white- as you say, including what's intended to be white prints on black parts! I think Dedra's a solid 8/10 fig at the end of the day. I don't really care much about her (No offense intended, @THELEGOBATMAN) but it's a good representation. One of the most impressive things lego's done is manage to turn a number of big clone fans against the clone sets. You, me, the guy who's literally got clone commando in his name...

Everything I see about Thunderbolts makes me want sets more. I might end up eating my words on this- after the first scene of Daredevil *not really* born again, I thought we were getting something on the level of the netflix show, but then it turned out it was an unrelated soft reboot only held together to the netflix show with duct tape and Jon Bernthal- but from everything I've seen and everything I've heard this might actually be marvel's first successful post- endgame movie that is developing new/unused characters rather than relying on infinity saga or pre-mcu greats. I hope at the very least we get a set with the full team in doomsday- I don't want to spend $300 to obtain these guys.

Yup- it's better than getting the 41st again. I always thought the idea of it only being Ki-Adi, Bacara, and 2 GMs was strange. I assume there'll be at least one more GM, maybe a "driver" too, and some droids of some kind are almost a given. Like I said I don't think blind praise is good either, but complaining about Dedra Meero's legs of all things this year feels like looking at a flaming haystack and complaining that the needle inside it has a manufacturing defect. Especially when the U-wing seems to be comparatively good value. And then lego learns the wrong lesson from it, as always. "People don't like these sets? It must be because the clones aren't 501st. More blue clone battle packs!" Interesting. They were never on the DS that I know of, but I guess it adds exclusivity to the set...

Looks very nice! Immediately fits right in to the GAR design scheme. Welcome to eurobricks!

The opacity problem isn't quite as bad here, at least in the image you showed, and I don't think it's all that bad that a relatively minor character in the grand scheme of things "only" has a new mold and not side leg printing or dual molding. As-is, the U-wing is one of the only sets we've gotten this year with a good price, I don't think it's any more constructive to get so annoyed over a minor flaw than it is to blindly praise it. Yup. Lego isn't your friend, per se, but they're usually not actively against you either. It's a business relationship, but I think a lot of people nowadays see things as more personal than they are. Yes, exactly- so long as the individual set 100% commits to either of those archtypes, I don't mind which archtype it chooses. I think @Agent Kallus made a moc-up years ago. It would have been a nice set to come out alongside the MBS cantina back in 2021, but unfortunately I don't think we'll have any sort of chance until the next cantina releases, and even then only a small chance. Side leg printing is a lot rarer, so I'm not sure. I think in this particular instance, since dual-molding already shows up in the needed color, it would probably have been cheaper than adding a new print zone to each leg (and remove the opacity issue) I'm not gonna lie- while I like Andor (though I haven't seen the new season yet- too busy this week to sit down for three hours to watch it), my hope is 2026 brings us an Outlander. The new star wars era has a bad habit of creating and then forgetting about new TIEs and imperials, and I'd love to see the outlander get more use in TMAG. 2027 will almost certainly bring up 50th anniversary X-wing and TIE fighters- we've been operating 1 every three years since 2018. Instructions unclear, imperial V-wing scheduled for january 2026- let's make both groups unhappy.

Oh I absolutely agree. The idea people had that lego was doing some sort of misleading marketing was completely out of bounds. (Not that they don't do that, but in this instance lego isn't obligated to spell out "by exclusive we mean timed exclusive." If someone spent $625 on a lego set for a single minifigure of a popular character thinking it would never be made again, after lego already said they would try not to keep desirable figures locked behind UCS sets, that's their problem, not lego's.) Yeah. I don't necessarily mind the ones with four named characters so long as they're desirable ones (say, a pack of Kit Fisto, Plo, Agen, and Mace) or could be mixed up to create generic civilians (say, a pack of cantina aliens), but I will say I'm not a fan of the ones that have 2 named characters and two generics. I prefer them to pick one lane or the other for the set- either it's a character pack or a battle pack. Fair- whatever gets Dooku released. Yeah, seeing as they use the normal ones for Ahsoka, who's been in three sets that could have used those hilts I suppose it's wishful thinking to imagine they'd do it for ventress, who will assumably only be in the one set. The thing is, while they haven't killed a main character in the OT, the stormies not only stun leia early on but land another hit on her in the battle of endor. Basically every scene they're in they either mop the floor with their opponents- even scoring hits on main characters if present- or we're explicitly told they're under orders that vader "wants them alive". As far as generic mooks go their track record feels better than average, but the joke got burned into people's brains so much it ended up becoming canon. That's unfortunate, I regularly see all of those at my local walmart for double that discount (except for the Crest, but I've seen that one online for almost 60% off before.)

Not officially, but as I think @brickbride's said, that giant shelfwarming Black Panther bust seems like it may have been motivated by the actor's death. Of course, this set wasn't designed for Kilmer's death, and I doubt they'd put it into the instructions or something.

If you can find them. Around me last year they inexplicably went on sale everywhere in NOVEMBER, and all got snapped up before I reached the store. I heard Costco had them for as low as $7, but not my Costco. This is a tangent but it's funny that "tagging a named character" is trooper of the year in the shows, when the whole "stormtroopers can't aim" thing wasn't present in the OT. They do well on the tantive, and miss on the death star because we're explicitly told the empire let the heroes get away. They do pretty well on Hoth. They tag Leia on Endor. Ben Kenobi has a line in ANH about their precision. Some of the subsequent canon material like the Thrawn trilogy reinforces the idea that stormtroopers are the shock troops of the empire and don't mess around. I'd prefer Thrawn to Maul just because we've got the Maulmech coming, but I do think there's a good shot at at least one of the Peridea exclusives. Thrawn would be best as it'd make that Grand Admiral torso more accessible and allow for more Chiss, but I'd be happy to have a new Ezra or Ahsoka the White too. Yup. That was a genius move from lego- profiting off the people who just couldn't wait for a Rex, then letting everyone buy the figure. Though interestingly enough I've seen some significant sales online at this point- I wonder if Microfighters just don't sell as well anymore, since that was the best-case scenario figure wise and it's still ending up at almost half price in a lot of places. This is a very good point and as you say a good microcasm for how they view the franchise right now. Lego sees it as OT/Mando/ST/Clones, not necessarily prequels. (Or more accurately, 18+buildable/Clones.) Now, I think they're correct that the majority of prequel sets that would sell particularly well involve the clones in some capacity, but as you say, there's plenty of duels that'd do well. I'm still surprised we haven't had a Duel of the Fates larger than $25. That probably is at least part of the reason why- they assumably wouldn't chrome it anymore, and I wonder if that changes something. That said, we should count our blessings- if he does return I have a sneaking suspicion he'd use the normal hilt. Speaking of hilts, do we think Ventress will get curved ones again? Her old mold is gone, and Ahsoka's curved-ish sabers went from using that mold in 2016 to the normal mold for the Ahsoka sets in 2023/24.

Yup. If we're doing anniversaries in 5 year increments, the following years are covered: 2026: RO 10 years 2027: TLJ 10 years, AOTC 25 years, ANH 50 YEARS! 2028: ROTJ 45 years, Solo 10 years, TCW 20 years, "The Clone Wars era" 25 years 2029: TROS 10 years, TPM 30 years, LSW 30 years, Mando 10 years 2030: ROTS 25 YEARS, TFA 15 years, ESB 50 YEARS! And then it repeats again, and again, and again. There is no future there. With new anniversaries in the 6/1 years for TMAG, 7/2 years for Starfighter, etc. Point being, literally every year now has at least one movie's _5th or _0th anniversary. And some years are getting pretty crowded. I think lego's figured out that anniversaries are a neat marketing gimmick, but when every year is someo movie's anniversary, it's not as special. With how many projects there are at this point, I think we're gonna reach the point where most projects only get sets during their anniversary years.

PLEASE. Would be an incredible set. But since this is an awesome game ship with a great cast of characters, we know it won't happen. Still waiting on my Stinger Mantis. Son of Dathomir will probably be very loosely adapted into this (since Filoni's fatal flaw is overwriting book/comic canon) so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of stuff from that ended up being in the show. Maul's gauntlet fighter is probable for the show (and possible for a set), but he builds a whole army with plenty of vehicles in that comic.

Oh yeah. "Release desirable fig that you have to spend a fair chunk of change to get, then put them in an AC a few months later" is a lego classic. Unfortunately the AC's cost just keeps rising to the point it's no longer quite what it once was, but dropping a GWP exclusive into it would definitely add some value. Agreed- on the topic of the AOTC anniversary, I still think that the AT-TE was planned as an AOTC anniversary set and changed to give the overexcited fans Phase 2 cody. The duels were definitely an untapped goldmine. There were so many good choices they never ended up doing. I know they had some, but I maintain that three in 20 years isn't much of a thing as opposed to now, where there's been an anniversary almost every year since 2019.

That would be one of the funniest possible moves by lego. Yup. There's been a consensus that lego forgets or ignores anniversaries (which, anniversaries really weren't much of a thing for the brand until 2019 anyway), but it's not so much that they ignore them, it's that anniversary products for movies are more aimed at the adults who are nostalgic for the anniversary and less at kids, and lego makes so many 18+ sets anyway, that most of the sets end up being 18+ gimmicks. ROTS is the first year where the anniversary movie is actually getting a fair number of system sets that at least mostly tie in (plo fighter, ARC, 327th pack, possibly the Galactic Marines set who knows at this point) That would also be nice for the army builders.

This is diabolical, and since it criticizes a set from almost a decade ago and Big Chewie is showing up, I honestly think it could happen. I'm not expecting lego to make any jokes about how everything is 18+ now or all the clones, but I think they're able to poke fun at themselves when it comes to stuff like Jyn literally still being on shelves in malls across the country. I've seen them myself as recently as last year, and not at secondhand/thrift stores either, a row of her MISB alongside 2023/24 sets. Right, there's three of us. That is officially enough to start a cult. Yeah. It's a blow for color variety, but you gotta keep your boss's style intact. No that's accurate Ninth Jedi is peak fiction I swore they were both on screen at the same time but now that I rewatched the trailer it may just be weird lighting and/or an alternate customization for Tricks. I forgot that they locked Omeeega behind a $170 set for a bit. Crazy choice to put the kid appeal character out of reach of most kids, but at least she showed up in the calendar. Yup. Every once in awhile you get a Sandspeeder or a Malak or an Evil Millennium Falcon out of nowhere.

Wow, 30% off is really nice for newer sets. It'd definitely make it a lot easier to stomach some of the star wars set prices these past few years. Of course- it's a neat ship but it is not nearly well known enough to be a flagship for an august wave. Either lego was given outdated information about the Justifier's role in TBB, or some executive was really banking on Cad Bane being the single most desirable figure of all time. Yup. We just got Malak last year. However the odds may be, there's always hope. Fell to my knees reading this. Greatest announcement since they announced that Fallen Order would be a trilogy. I doubt it'll get sets, but I don't care, I'll purist MOC everyone on screen if I have to, that was the best thing to come out of animated star wars since the Siege of Mandalore, it's an excellent place to take the franchise. I think it can't be canon given the setting and circumstances unless it's in another galaxy and/or radically removed timeline wise. I assume it means this is our first non-anthology Legends TV show produced since the creation of the current canon. Ah. So the timelines might not quite work out, but either way, close enough that there might be enough wiggle room for a small role. As much as I like the deltas, yup, these guys have more of a rogue aura and work better for this type of game- I would not be able to play X-com with everyone wearing the same suit of armor with just different colored stripes to distinguish them. Every single one of these guys is bursting with unique character- even the two clones gave off different vibes in just the two minute trailer we had. And everyone looks SICK. The design they went with for the jedi gives him a rogue and menacing feel you couldn't accomplish with a more humanoid face- we know the jedi in general are moral paragons, so giving it a more alien feel helps to add some ambiguity and fear to it's vibe. Also really like the human- from the poster I was getting Cassian vibes, and while that would have been pretty cool, I'm loving this sort of grizzled cowboy accent and speech pattern he's got going on. Sort of reminds me of the cowboy from the SWTOR trailer back in the day. It's crazy that for how many characters it has, your list could be effectively completed in just four sets (larger canon imperial set, smaller HTTE set, Delta Squad set, JFO set)

No problem! That's fair- never a bad idea to wait and see. Unjustifiable Justifier is a pretty good label for it. Very strange set idea. Oh yeah. Me and @CloneCommando99 are both pretty big Mara fans. There are a few figs out there I'd like a good deal but don't own due to the price (Cal's a favorite of mine, and Zeb would be nice to complete the rebels crew), but Mara's the main one that has never been officially made. I'd also like a mandalorian in bright red- the only red mandalorians we've had so far are the black and dark red evil Mauldalorians, and I'd like a normal/good mando in normal lego red. It's not really a specific character, but I love the mandalorian culture/archtype and I like the color red, so I wish they had a red one that wasn't a Maul guy. I've been vocal about considering OCs the worst possible SW minifigs, but this would be a good way to "fix them"- including parts or prints that have some extra value in the SW community. Maybe we put Dev in a Jedi Survivor cosmetic or something. I've gotta go find all this concept art this all sounds excellent. Noooo! I don't think it's impossible- I know there were rumors they wanted to finish Jedi 3 before bringing him into the "new beyond" era/universe, but Jedi 3 has been in development for quite awhile now- IIRC we know they've been recording voicelines for literal years- and Ahsoka's just starting to film S2 now. I wouldn't be surprised if the Jedi 3 story had been written before Ahsoka S2's writing was done, and similarly that a Jedi 3 game could be out before Ahsoka S2. If we've got Jaxxon I imagine we see a number of the sillier ones- Mount Sorrow, Skippy the Jedi Droid, that sort of thing. Zero company trailer looks excellent. I want every single one of that squad as well as their ship. Very cool idea to have these guys be some sort of shadow ops/morally grey group, explaining why they aren't just made of clones and jedi and allowing for some interesting designs.

Don't tempt them. They got me on Jeff. Anything Rivals and I'm in.

Why would we include the actual star wars characters in these sets when we could include two OCs and what at best is a light side cad bane? That said if Sig gives us the orange lightsaber blade again all is forgiven for his figure, it could literally be a yellow smiley in the red shirt and blue pants and I wouldn't care. The Maul show set will be a $170 version Ventress's ship (A new one from her TBB one). Joking, of course. Maul's very popular, I think there's a good chance lego actually makes a number of sets for his show. It's Commander Bacara's Stinger Mantis from Fallen Order and I will not hear otherwise! You might just be right about that 2010 one, at least in terms of detail/size ratio. I think a neat way to solve this would just be making a $400 UCS Turbo Tank. Biggest and most detailed. That said, we probably have a ways to go for that, I'd assume the AT-TE would come first. Thrawn She calls to us. Across time, and space. Nothing can prevent our Journey.

That would confirm his real name is Thunder, or at least it's his legal name as of the time he has kids- I think it is fun for the most out-there name to be the real one. As said above, I like the idea that Johnny Thunder, the fantastical name, is his real one, and he comes up with spectacularly bland aliases.

I can't believe they're finally making Commander Bacara's Stinger Mantis. I just wish they'd included a Greez figure to represent the scene where he sells it to Greez after order 66. But yes, as you say, all we seem to know are the figures and piece count. I wonder if this is coming from lego giving different sources different lists, and if so, if we're about to lose some leakers. Certainly whoever leaked the Falchion one is being hunted down by lego's anti-leak guy as we speak, there's no pleading coincidence on that one.

Thank you! Glad to have you here, always good to see some new faces discussing said plastic. I assume from the profile picture you're excited to see the rumored new Cad in the hot rod snowspeeder? I can understand wanting that, but the design language would be so massively devolved from everything else on shelves that it'd require essentially reverting lego's detail level two decades across most themes to work. (Plus I mean at that point, just bricklink the parts for the 2005 version. I'm not generally a proponent of that, but this is a case where it makes sense to get the parts for the older set- wanting the older design style.) I know we'll get to $200 eventually, but personally I'd prefer Oh cool, this is me, right?* I think I'm the only one who's pushed back on the stuff being said here. Glad I got to see this one before it got taken down. *Given the level of discussion online, I feel like it's important to clarify that no, obviously I'm not a fascist- and given that that label is usually applied to people as further implication that they're the 1930s german windmill ones, I'll also note that in my real life I publicly spoke out against antisemitism at an institution I was in during a speech (This sounds a lot cooler than it was but I'm being intentionally vague given as people are getting increasingly ugly here, I'd like to ensure my real identity is not found), but it is fun to see the old "___ is fascism" on something like... economic tariffs. We've already been told to stop discussing this, but so long as we're doing it anyway and seeing as I just got my shiny new Badge of Being Called A Fascist For Disagreeing On An Unrelated Geopolitical Issue, I feel like it's important to point out that something "subtle and misleading" would be pretending Tariffs AREN'T a thing very many countries have had on eachother very consistently over centuries. Canada had ones on the US before this year. Many of the countries the US is tariffing are ones that had tariffs on the US. As someone else here pointed out, China and Australia are currently in a tariff-laden trade war. We've actively been told to shift the discussion off tariffs to all the celebration news, but I'm not gonna sit here and be the only one actually listening while other people pretend tariffs are some sort of new abnormal concept and not something countries have been doing to eachother for literal centuries and many civilized nations weren't actively doing to eachother even before this year. It was a Turbo Tank and now there's rumors it's a Falchion tank. As others have said, I think the best option is just waiting for lego to reveal it, given at this point it could just be a giant Freeco Speeder or something.

I mean you can boil any character down to "did some stuff and died", so even in your version of events he's more interesting than the standard SW character given he dies multiple times. And I'd hardly call Ahsoka a standard teenager, nor would I say Maul was singularly focused on stopping her given he was ranting about Palpatine's plan and overall kind of scattered by that point in the fight. This is very interesting to me. Not only is it a first there, and unlike Ventress/Boba I doubt they'll try and make Maul a good guy, it feels like it'll be more mature than the animation typically is for SW. Obviously TCW and even rebels/bad batch had their darker moments (ironically many of those in the first two coming directly from maul), but a maul show feels like it'll have that as a baseline, not as just a few moments. Not to mention it's just as if not more obscure than the UT-AT, so at that point why isn't it the UT-AT, AND IIRC it's supposed to be a good deal smaller than an 830 piece, $150-160 set should be. I hope it's the CTT, just because anything else makes that PPP X-jet levels, just without the "X-men returning" "justification" (from lego's end, not an actual value end). The 2005 five tank, if the exact same thing was released today, would be that $150 price the 2025 one was, at 29 fewer pieces. We may trade some larger piece sizes for detail but they overall seem pretty consistent, and would you really want a 2025 set to have the detail of that 2005 one? The 2010 one is more detailed but would be $180 today off inflation alone. If we wanted to get it up to the 2025 standard for detail we'd be looking at a $200 set. Welcome! Yup, so long as you aren't sharing any leaked images or links to them, you're perfectly fine to discuss them in as much detail as you want.

Light the turtle beacon, Gotham calls for aid.

I didn't even know she was going to be in the game- Lucas really wanted her into the main saga's timeframe, huh? But yes, it'll probably just be Talon. I still haven't seen it on sale anywhere either. It's not even that they believe it will still sell, it appears to indeed still be selling. As War Games almost said, the only way to win is not to buy. Whatever the reason, if you think the price is too high, don't spend the money.

By "interacting in some way", could it be a literal mashup of two franchises (like using your ninja turtles/daredevil photo, could it be the ninja turtles as marvel characters rather than meeting them), or is it specifically characters from different universes interacting with eachother?