Mandalorianknight

I'll take back everything I said about the UT-AT if it includes P1 clone pilots. That would quite possibly be the funniest move lego could make with a clone set. I think there's a couple points here: 1. Yeah, of course. Noboby's saying lego will be like this until the end of time. It doesn't mean it's a concerning trend that is getting more and more prominent over the past 5 years. 2. You're missing a central part of the 2013 and 2014 waves- they were back when lego did lines based on specific battles/movies. 2013 was a battle of geonosis wave. 2014 had the Outer Rim Sieges. (And to take 2014 as an example, it also had a focus on the Battle of Hoth and we still got other major sets like Mos Eisley and a Star Destroyer.) The past 5 years have really just been "clones". With all the buildable and lowered number of January sets, we really only have the August wave for big system sets, and to see so many of them relegated to essentially metaphorical vehicles for more clones is unfortunate. 3. 2020-2024 have been fairly clone heavy. I doubt 2026 suddenly reverses the trend, especially when the only system January sets are clone wars/clone based and the majority of the leaked system 2025 sets are as well. (Is... is it all the system sets not based on new content? The only system non-clone/clone wars set I can think of that's leaked is the Andor one) Honestly 2025 feels almost like a parody of my concerns over the past few years- increasing 18+ sets has now led to what, more 18+ gimmick sets than system sets? With a record number of buildable characters? and the concern over the clones starting to snap up more set slots leading to the point where almost every system set rumored is clone/clone wars based. I also think it's important to note that I don't dislike clones or the clone wars. I have a TON of clone trooper figures, I have a modded 2013 gunship, I have both the 2022 AT-TE and a MOC AT-TE, and plenty of smaller clone vehicles, both MOCs and official sets. I just don't like that they're becoming so overwhelming in terms of set slot share at the expense of everything else. (Actually, I also have nothing against most of the 18+ gimmicks, at least in concept- I own BD-1, I was close to buying the executor, and I'll probably get Home One once it goes on sale.) I agree. What I would WANT is something larger than the 2016 version, where the front half is plated off and the back half is an interior of every major scene, coming with like 50 figues. (1 per $20, that seems fair). Given the DS2 rumors, I think it'll either just have two figs- Palpatine and Vader or something- and no interior with it's gimmick being "the biggest one", or a small interior for the throne room accessed by removing a panel, with the figure count being Vader, Palps, Luke, and then like 2 royal guards and an advisor/officer or two.

Why would you expect them to suddenly revert back to the stylings they used a decade ago? We're getting two likely $120+ clone wars sets in 2025. The ONLY system sets in january 2025 are clone/clone wars based. Yup. Don't get me wrong- it'll be nice to see Galactic Marines, and cool to see an obscure vehicle show up. But when we get so few normal sets a year, it removes the excitement for me, because "big GAR vehicle with a CC and two of his legionnaires" is becoming pretty formulaic.

DC put out a press release including lego in a list of superman tie-ins. This referred to the mech, assumably with whatever suit made the list simply not paying attention to the specific detail present on superman's outfit.

It's the only logical conclusion from it. This choice cements the dim future of LSW for me. Buildibles and vehicles (in both the figurative and literal sense) for clone troopers, and not much else.

Follow up hail-mary- would this count as one set?

When I started this contest, I though the sub-$30 catagory would be easy- I used to do this all the time- but there are so few sub $30 star wars sets that aren't microfighters or battle packs. The one I chose was 75310 Duel on Mandalore, with a nice $20 price point, from summer 2021. It turned out to be pretty tricky- most of the parts are basic 1x1/1x2/1x2x5 bricks- but I think at the very least I created something different from the official set. The story idea is that rather than Mandalore, this follows Ahsoka in hiding between The Siege of Mandalore and the events of Star Wars Rebels. A bounty hunter has tracked her down in some bombed-out ruins on a planet devastated by the war, and is attacking her in an armored skimmer. This is a 47-E LightSkimmer. Characterized by it's armored cockpit and distinctive light trail emanating from the thrusters, lightskimmers were created as racing airspeeders, but this bounty hunter has integrated blasters into the tips and stripped much of the safety plating off for parts. Given the miniscule part count, there isn't much of an interior- just a seat and a bit of storage for a blaster. With the remaining parts- mostly basic bricks- I made some ruins Ahsoka was hiding in, with a small tree growing out of the smoldering rubble. It has an "explode feature" in that you can flick the 1x2x5 brick off, but that's not so much a designed play feature as a consequence of the small amount of parts remaining reducing stability. I also swapped up the figures a bit, with Ahsoka now wearing black robes in an effort to hide. The Dathomirian is no longer Maul but the bounty hunter Ves Lejjik, a speed-demon and adrenaline junkie hoping to add some Jedi Lightsabers to her trophy collection.

I was counting her as a member of the Bat-Family. No problem Not legally, but if you use a 1x1 cylinder instead of a head, you can get it in there.

I've been vocal about how much I dislike pretty much every move Gunn's made for this "new" universe, but if he somehow managed to fund a drone movement as a marketing stunt while keeping it secret from THE FBI, I'd have to be a little impressed. Cool photo, I like your purist custom clone. If you wanted a more distinctive one, you could use this piece in white and put a 1x1 with the GL symbol on the front. You had three cool agents (Kallus, Yularen, Dayja). One died on the death star and one defected to the rebellion. Dayja's sick but he's not gonna be able to clear the aslume.

You leave me no choice, brother. Your location and crimes have been provided to Mara Jade, several Blacktron agents, and the Bat himself. May God have mercy upon your soul. Yeah, but it has a whole extra minifigure! And a tiny little bat signal!

I think AoU sets are likely, but do we know for sure that the neck piece was destroyed? It was in a Star Wars set in late 2019- I know the standard we usually hear is that they're destroyed after five years, so I think it probably scraped through. Even if they count from set release rather than end of set production, I have to assume the mech with Ultron entered development before, like, October of this year.

It's sad that we're at the point where someone says "Guys what if we got three DC mechs in 2026" and my first thought is "wow I envy your optimism" But that aside, the superman set would not only have to do crazy bonkers well for lego to fast-track production of those sets (and potentially cancel the marvel ones, as you say), but A: Lego would have to assume that success lay more with the DCU film than the fact that we haven't had a superman in forever and he's one of the three most popular DC characters and B: Lego decides the logical follow-up is more DCU mechs, rather than other mechs for major leaguers like WW/Flash/etc. I also think a supergirl mech is pretty unlikely regardless as it'd be the same colors and general idea. Even Iron Man and spider-man don't get a mech set EVERY year, and they're much more popular at the moment than any kryptonian. Sorry to sort of stomp all over your dream here, but I don't want people getting false hopes up. I'd consider a GL mech a present surprise at this point. Hell, I'd be ecstatic if Barry or Diana MINIFIGS showed up in a set somewhere.

Yes, but in, like, 2018. That'd be $63 today even without lego's own price increases. I wouldn't rule out a torrent, but I doubt it's THAT torrent- even removing most of the figs from that set's somewhat generous fig count, I can't see a set worth $50 in 2018 being worth the same in lego 2025.

Can't believe Soup is blatantly stealing from Invincible with that tagline, we really live in a society. You just know Lois Griffin is going to be romantically involved with superman "because she looks up" when most people don't, I bet Lana Lang will be a redhead with reality-bending powers and a pinkish suit too. I can't believe they're spoiling the Jor-El twist this early.

I do think it'll either be just, laughably overpriced, or fall into the Haslab Unicron issue of being such an unbelievably massive sphere that people just don't have room for it in their houses. The Millenium Falcon can be wall-mounted or sit on/under a coffee table. The AT-AT actually fits fairly well onto shelves, because while tall and long, it's not all that wide, so you can just have it facing sideways on a shelf. Looking around, none of my rooms really have space for even the $500 death star unless I bought a corner table from IKEA and just sacrificed a significant corner of my living room. Now inflation brings that $500 up to $657 in 8 years (let me go vomit real quick), with lego's own price increases $700 isn't out of the question, but that's still a $300 increase that'd likely go towards some pretty significant size increases. As this is the DS2, which would have large portions unable to have an interior implemented into, the 2005 model may be more accurate. It was $270 in 2005, or about $440 today. Let's say lego puts that at $500. We're at HALF THE COST of the new one. The 2005 model was about 19 inches wide at the equator. Spheres are tricky, but even at the most conservative estimate, where we treat this more like a solid sphere than a hollow one (the new model probably has figures and some level of interior, but I gurantee it won't be anything close to a solid sphere, so this is still a pretty conservative estimate), doubling the volume brings us two 2 feet or 61 centimeters, as a MINIMUM. Now there's a billion places that math could be wrong, but I really do thing this thing will end up being a two foot diameter sphere at the minimum. I don't know how many people are eager to have one of those sitting in their home, even as massive SW fans.

Sure, of course there will be more playsets in the full list, but this trend can no longer be denied. It's clear that all the buildables are taking space previously used for system sets, and by all indication it's only going to get worse.

Honestly if they can make it a true line flagship, I'm not opposed to the idea. It's one set. When I was a kid, I never expected I'd own the $500 death star, but it was a cool thing to know existed. That doesn't bother me all that much. The buildables are a much larger issue because they aren't taking the slot of a single UCS/MBS set most kids wouldn't be able to get anyway. They're taking slots we used to get normal sets for.

Exactly half? Yeah- lego's had some tough trends recently but just on pure inflation+lego price inceases/downsizing, this should end up at the very least the same size as the 2014 one, if not larger. The Avengers Tower has 28 minifigures and a Hulk, so I'd say a $1000 death star should have ~60 minifigures. 9 of them should be stormtroopers lol. Sure, but it's not like most parents are looking through the lens of what they would currently want when buying for their kids- I doubt most of them are sitting there going "well, this is siginificantly more expensive than most of the playsets, but it's got no play features and has no minifigures, so I bet my 7 year old's gonna love it!" The market for all these are the adults who AREN'T buying for their kids, but for themselves. And people who aren't typically lego fans, either. The goal for a lot of these is to be sort of transitional sets that get adults who wouldn't otherwise buy lego sets to buy them, but there's so many now that there's not much room for the actual standard sets. Yeah.... he's usually got good stuff but that one doesn't check out to me.

This is also true in canon, though. His issues with the empire are more apparent in the first thrawn book, and by the time of rebels and Ahsoka he is much more resigned that the empire is the superior option to aid the Chiss against extragalactic threats. Wait- Ewok, Grogu, and who else?

They do arguably too much for star wars anniversaries, and I was just having a bit of fun with America's big anniversary coming up as an attachment to my more real point about next year being an anniversary for two cap films.

Very nice! I agree with @Clone OPatra - even before I saw the comments, it really reminded me of Chima- I think it's the Ice Vulture set I'm thinking of. The canon is very cool too, it gives off alien sci-fi vibes. Did the bird hang ghost rider up as like a snack?

So yeah, you're not saying that it sucked BECAUSE it featured popular characters- as evidenced by two films you mentioned making quite a lot of money and just being poorly received. You're saying they did poorly because they assumed having popular characters was an effective substitute for quality. If Batman V superman had had the same issues but starred two lesser known heroes, it wouldn't be any better, it'd just also have had no one see it. Not the armored pauldrons.... though I'll be honest, seeing this made me look up the designs again and Superman's suit itself feels like what a late MCU superman would look like, not a huge fan of it either.

If retailers are giving a set a 56% discount two months into it's release (and again before december even hits), they are not going to be likely to buy many copies of subsequent versions of that set in the future. That is definitely a problem for lego and probably why we aren't getting as many calendars next year. Oh, woe is me, my country isn't thousands of years old, whatever will I do?

This part's just my interpretation, but I always assumed he was fine with either Ezra or Sabine getting on board and escaping to let the galaxy know he's back, having employed the tactic previously in the legends books. Love the idea of PG deadpool's catchphrase just being "let's go", though I think he needs a pause so it's "Let's go" As someone who loves the original Thrawn trilogy and considers it some of the best star wars content of all time, he's not exactly grappling with morality there, nor is he in rebels. The canon books introduce that aspect to his character, and what little we see of him in Ahsoka doesn't outright contradict it or anything. ??? I mean like there's some sketchy accents in the prequels but it's not exactly song of the south. He's certainly authoritarian- in just about every interpretation he spells out that he believes an authoritarian government is the only way to keep the populace (and/or the chiss) safe from threats. But I don't think the Ahsoka show ever implies he's doing it for personal power or being evil. I think they even make a point of him not being cartoonishly evil in the script- Morgan explicitly states that all the troopers set to receive the nightsister resurrection volunteered to stay behind/become nighttroopers. She also says something about the imperials sacrificing themselves for him, to which Thrawn clearly takes issue and states they're doing so for the Empire. He's of course wrong to, you know, fight for the empire, but there's nothing in Ahsoka that implies he doesn't think he's in the right. Yeah, glad they never got canonized. Though IIRC it was just a one off sort of spoofing X-files- a scout ship would appear on the edge of the galaxy. The concept of an extragalactic threat is cool to me but the Vong specifically were something I really disliked. Though to be fair given the X-files vibes of the clone wars episode concept, I'd assume most who encountered the scout ship would be killed, and nobody would believe the survivors.

If they want to do a big push for Cap, it should be 2026. 15th anniversary of Cap 1, 10th of Civil War, and 250th of the America he is Captain of. If people buy them, that is. They always hit big sales on any stock that didn't sell before December, but this year I've seen (though unfortunately been unable to purchase) things like the Star Wars calendar as low as $20 from major retailers BEFORE DECEMBER, which does not imply they are succeeding financially.

I assume you aren't trying to say that it's WHY it sucked, but the idea of "The DCEU failed because it focused on the big three heroes" is really really funny to me.