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Something Lego seems determined not to give us any sets for, a video game focused wave: Inquisitorious Duel ($9.99): Interrogation room with the holocron and turntables to place figures on, as well as some parts to represent some of Second Sister's attacks. Comes with Cal Kestis (default, no poncho) and Second Sister (no helmet) - Jedi Fallen Order AT-RT microfighter ($12.99): Just a slightly more accurately sized AT-RT (Dark orange highlights) with a 212th ARF trooper. - Battlefront ll Inferno Squad Mech ($14.99): Black imperial mech with red highlights and aspects such as a bandolier on the cockpit, shock droid on the back, and multiple blasters. Comes with Iden Versio. - Battlefront ll Republic Reinforcements ($19.99): Jet Trooper (red markings), Clone Commando (default skin), ARC Trooper (default), ARC Trooper (Lambent Seeker). Build is an E-web and defensive wall in the style you can find littering the capital ships in the Supremacy gamemode of battlefront ll. -Battlefront ll Sky Fortress Showdown ($29.99): The room the final duel against Dagen Gera takes place in with turntables and some collapse/explode play features. Comes with Cal Kestis (Survivor, default outfit), Bode Akuna, BD-1, and Dagen Gera (Transparent purple arm). -Jedi Survivor Turbolaser Assault ($54.99): Imperial turbolaser turret and a platform in front with crates and explode features. There is a large play feature to blow up the head of the turret. Comes with 2x Rebel Trooper (Sullest defaults, Jump Packs), 2x Imperial Magmatrooper, and Nien Numb. -Battlefront 2015 Zero Company ($89.99): Zero Company's lander with Hawks (default appearance), Trick, Tel-Rea, Cly, Luco, and the Zero Company Astromech, alongside 2x B2 battle droids. -Zero Company Supremacy: Kashyyyk: ($129.99): Three terrain builds for command posts (Wookiee hut, separatist supply drop, and a midi-scale downed gunship) with an AAT, TX-130, AT-RT (accurate scale), STAP, and 2 droidikas. Comes with Anakin Skywalker (Clone Wars armor), Count Dooku (Pajamas), 2x Wookiee Enforcer, 2x 181st trooper, 1x 181st officer, 1x 181st sniper, 1x 181st heavy, 2x b1 battle droid, 1x b1 battle droid (with backpack and sniper rifle), 1x b1 commander, 2x b2 battle droid, and 2x commando droid. -Battlefront ll Stinger Mantis ($169.99): Stinger Mantis with interior containing a 3-seater cockpit, couch and holotable, small kitchen, and workbench. Comes with (All Fallen Order) Cal Kestis (Poncho), Greez Ditrius, Cere Junda, Nightsister Merrin, BD-1, Second Sister (helmet), and 2x Purge Trooper. -Jedi Fallen Order UCS/MBS: Assault on Rebel Transport ($349.99): The primary build, which can be displayed on a small black stand, is a GR-75 rebel transport. However, the primary stand is a large chunk of Tatooine terrain with a variety of large crates, nets, and haphazard command centers/redoubts/etc. Comes with (All in their battlefront 1 defaults) Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Emperor Palpatine, Han Solo, Boba Fett, 3x Rebel Trooper (Tatooine defaults), 3x Imperial Sandtrooper, 1x Ishi Tib rebel, 1x Quarren Rebel, and 2x Shock Trooper. -Battlefront 2015 Helmet: ($69.99): Darth Revan (The hood is part of the build) - KOTOR Diorama: Star Forge Showdown ($89.99): Star Forge interior with Darth Revan, Darth Malak, and Jedi Knight Revan (with a compartment to swap between the revans based on which story you want to display). Quote is "Savior. Conqueror. Hero. Villain. You are all things, Revan... and so you are nothing. In the end, you belong to neither the light nor the darkness. You will always stand alone." -KOTOR

Yeah, that's the issue with the andor sets is that while the show is excellent it's not the type of media that has kids lining up to buy merch. It can be a good show and simultaneously not make much sense for lego to make too many sets for it. Always weird to me that we never got a reaper, being a tie fighter that could deploy troopers.

Depending on what kind of tech they're trying to fit into that torso, there's a nonzero chance one the palpatines has a lore-accurate explosion if it gets left too close to the radiator or something. I dunno, I generally think if you have to put the set on a bigger sale it means it probably wasn't selling well. If they were selling well at $70 assumably they wouldn't feel the need to slap a sale on there. It's possible- I think one of the four price point ships certainly will- but I think there's definitely some Andor Copium going on. I would say most kids are more likely to know "clone pilot" than any of the Andor characters in the U-wing, for instance, not to mention Obi-Wan. My guess is the torrent. It's not as well known of a vehicle, but I'd say the U-wing isn't the most iconic either, and they both fit into their respective faction's design schemes just fine. More importantly, the set comes with Obi-Wan, Ventress, and a helmeted clone trooper. You get a clone trooper, which kids seem to like, alongside a jedi and a sith-adjacent lightsaber user. It's got the best battle-in-a-box element, and even the lowest initial price. And that's why they're still one of my favorite options as an adult, it gives you something to pose the figures on/around rather than just having them sit on a grey baseplate. Terrain builds really are excellent. I also like that lego seems to be able to limit the stud shooter integration into those tiny mortars, because it frees up the rest of the set to either be terrain or just otherwise not have to fit stud shooters in. I didn't even notice the typo.

Honestly I think at this point given how it's not very prominent in media and how it's had two consecutive scaled-down ones, there's probably a solid segment of the fanbase that just thinks they're actually that small. I know I used to be that way about the clone command center. Interesting. I'm actually the opposite way- I assume kids would rather have a vehicle or something more interesting, but terrain builds are probably the ones I keep around most since they give you something to pose the figures on rather than a grey baseplate. Whereas I generally scrap all the non-canon builds and a chunk of the downsized ones- especially if I'm getting more than two copies.

Another excellent one. I do find the /s funny, I like the idea that you've got Fedaykin fighters and you have to put the /s otherwise they're gonna storm the imperium for the TIE Avenger. Yup, and it's an andor set that would have wide appeal outside the show, being a battle pack with stormtroopers and another generic-ish imperial trooper. The base imperial grunt in a lot of legends and a trooper type that's appeared in everything from Solo to, well, Andor. It's an interesting shift, especially because Action Figures have been hit pretty hard by the digitization of kids and now are mainly targeted towards adults. I would say lego's probably become the premiere form of star wars mech, followed by Hasbro and Funko. (Hasbro split into some kid-oriented figures and the collector-focused stuff like Black Series/Vintage Collection) And the rumor is Funko won't be around much longer. (Which, I know a lot of people are cheering on that, but while I only have a couple, I did appreciate that there was always a funko for a character even if they didn't have a lego figure.) Thank you, I appreciate it. No idea- I don't doubt you, it's just not something I'd heard before. I haven't noticed it myself, but I know people say the CMF figs are made of a different plastic and I can't tell that either. Only ones I can tell apart are the plants-from-plants plastic and the soft plastic they used for stuff like the kamas and pauldrons. (And I mean, obviously stuff like cloth or vinyl or rubber) That's possible. I know a lot of people are also saying the polybags are paper now and that the bags inside the sets are as well, and I haven't seen that yet. (Though I can't speak as much to the sets inside the bags as I've bought one new set this year and it wasn't even star wars.) My Walmart's got the pre-christmas-season sales up right now, and it is a little disheartening to see what they think they need to get rid of. Some stuff I could've told you would be on deep discount this early, like the logo or 327th pack, but all three of this year's $60-70 ships, what most people have considered the best of the year, are on significant discount as well. And yet the turbo tank hasn't hit discount yet. (Though for that one I think they may just let the larger sets sit longer before trying to discount them- we've had a full set of Dark Falcons sitting here since release and they've just now started to drop the price.) That's fair, I prefer the latter to the former but I get where you're coming from. And I share the ideal. Where do things like terrain or emplacements factor in for you? I personally consider stuff like that more-or-less canon, as even though that specific configuration of rocks may not have shown up onscreen, it's not like an explicitly made-up vehicle. (Which does, unfortunately, place the barricade at a high tier for me, though I maintain regardless of that it looks like absolute garbage.)

Best you've ever done. 10/10. Absolutely zero notes. Perfect.

I guess I can see where you're coming from with some bits of it, and obviously I've not got the same experience here, but most of the women I know personally really loved Sue's arc and thought she was the best female MCU story. (Which I don't personally agree with, but part of that's that I didn't like how morose this sue and... pretty much all the F4 were in the movie. MAYBE Reed could be this downtrodden, but the other three? No.) The set is awful, though- or at least the figures. As I've talked about before here, I get a lot of stuff in from ebay bulk lots for my bricklink store and sometimes skim off characters I want, and in this case, not only was beast delivered into the fold, but by complete chance I got my hands on spider-man 2099 in the same lot. Beast is pretty solid, I still think he needs to be a bigfig but this figure will definitely work for now. The dual-molded hair is well done. 2099 is amazing. Just perfect detailing. I'm leaving the cape on for now, though I'll likely remove it at some point for a more classic 2099, but it is an excellent cape and the vinyl really works.

Inspiring. When the march wave gets revealed, if it really is all compromised smart slop, you should use "if we can't protect the theme you can be damn well sure we'll tie avenge it" I would have agreed as recently as a month ago, but unfortunately, from the march wave figures we know it's mostly OT sets, and stuff that would have been perfect for 2027 definitive editions (TIE Advanced and X-wing reliably leaked, Greedo heavily implying a cantina, and I'd be confident of a Snowspeeder and Millenium Falcon as the other two sets as well). Now they could celebrate the saga as a whole rather than the movie that started it all (which personally I don't think would be all that interesting- "sets based on every era" is generally how the theme goes, or at least is supposed to, and unlike the theme anniversaries film anniversaries tend to be more about what sets get released than exclusive celebration figures.), but as-is the most I'm willing to hope for right now is a new UCS Tantive IV. Yup. The $10 sets are great in concept but this one's a nothingburger. The package design really does feel like the highlight. That's a good point. Assumably it's in part due to the movie tie-in, but is this the first time they've gone back and done sets for a disney+ show that weren't immediately developed after the series aired? I think with all the other ones we only got sets before/around the time of release, or 1-1.5 years later where they assumably put it into development right after the show came out. I think this is the first time they've reached back this far for something from disney+, which is good news. I don't know that that's necessarily true. It depends on where your cutoff is for "old" vs "new" battle packs, but there's plenty of completely non-canon BPs from that era (from their introduction to 2012, we have the clone two-seat walker, assassin droid speeder, the original clone and droid battle pack builds, even the now-iconic-to-LSW rebel scout speeder and imperial dropship, as well as the canon-but-microfighterized AV-7). If you prefer non-canon builds to downsized canon ones, then if we're only looking at the $10-23 BP price point the old ones are probably better in that case. But if we're looking at canon, the new battle packs have done a much better job at at least trying to represent stuff we actually see on screen. Depending on whether or not you want to count stuff like barricades and generic terrain as non-canon, we haven't seen a non-canon build in a battle pack since... 2019, maybe, with the inferno squad speeder? 2020 for what I assume was a non-canon colo scheme of the FO snowspeeder?

That's also a good point. I feel like this is moving away from your original question, which was that you didn't get why people weren't more upset about the speeder. The answer to that is that the price of the set and why people are upset really has nothing to do with the speeder, or battle pack builds in general. Battle packs get more expensive. Microfighters get more expensive. The Mechs got more expensive in the short time they've been around. System sets are harder to draw as direct of comparisons to (Like for example, Obi-Wan's starfighter in 2022 had 3 figs for $30, but Yoda's had two for $35, so the "jedi starfighters add a third figure" thing is kind of hurt by that- and even then with the two recent ones with 3 figs, the 2025 starfighter was more expensive than the 2024 one with fewer pieces. The issue for most people isn't that Ahsoka's starfighter needed to be larger, it's that $45 is just too high a price point for a jedi starfighter.) because they're rarely meant to be the exact same thing and it's hard to directly say what's meant to be at the same exact price point like it is for the gimmick sublines, but even then we have plenty of cases where something is a higher price for a similar build and number of figures. If you don't get why people aren't upset that the speeder isn't... I dunno, larger than other standard battle pack builds? (It's pretty consistent build quality/size with the last few $20/23 battle packs), I'm telling you it's the same reason people aren't upset that the Plo microfighter isn't larger, or that the Maul Mech isn't bigger, or whatever. It's just a battle pack build, and it's not anything egregiously out-of-place like the barricade. People would rather have the set be cheaper than have it be larger, because it's a battle pack. You could make a $50 battle pack where the speeder is 600 pieces and good value for lego, but I think most people would prefer just a $20 or $15 battle pack with fewe/smaller builds because battle packs are about the minifigures. Just like microfighters are supposed to be small (and a cheap way to get a desirable minifigure). Is this true? I hadn't noticed if so.

They were, but my guess would be they were discontinued both to retain that lego aesthetic across the 3 main SW blasters and because they thought it looked too similar to modern firearms. (I don't agree, but I don't see any other reasons for them to discontinue it and then give the replacement a gargantuan scope) It's officially been over a year since the last lego star wars set I bought*, with the last being the rebel speeder vs imperial dropship remake. With the speeder having a generic mando rather than the UCS one and being a disappointing build, as well as the march wave- including what would be my first TIE advanced- being hit in the knees with a lead pipe by smart bricks, it doesn't seem likely to change anytime soon. *Not counting the two heavily clearanced skeleton crew ships that I bought, sold the figs, and just had the ~2600 parts for essentially net profit. That is true, and hopefully those will be the bright spot for 1HY. Yup. There's nothing larger than $35 besides the 18+ gimmicks, and even that $35 set is a good $10-15 overpriced. It's only the lower half of a wave, and not particularly strong contenders either. This is true to some extent, and with the "smart" march wave we do end up getting more sets this 1HY than in the past, but... they're "smart" sets. It might be a win on paper, but it won't be in practice. But even in that scenario, when lego ups the price they aren't simultaneously upping what the designers have to work with. That would be more comparable to the 501st pack, or the coruscant pack, which were at higher price points than even contemporary battle packs, much less the ones releasing at that time. (The 501st pack was double the cost of a normal one at release, the coruscant pack 50% more, the 327th pack almost double the current "normal" BP cost) The battle packs themselves have remained consistent just with the price going higher- lego's designers aren't being given more to work with, lego's just increasing the price to account for inflation or because they think people will pay more. Microfighters have gone up in cost 50% since launch but they're the same size. You can't really blame the designer for Plo Koon's starfighter not being 50% larger than boba's slave one microfighter, because even though it's more expensive, it's still the "microfighter price point" so to speak, lego's just increasing the price to reflect what they think they can sell a build of that type for. Don't get me wrong, there are certainly sets the designers mess up on. But complaining that the speeder isn't an improvement from previous battle packs when it's highly unlikely the designers are being given more value to work with than in previous battle packs just isn't fair IMO, it's not something within their control.

Yeah, he's definitely got arm detaining in some form, whether the color is molded or printed. I like that prophet of positivity title, especially since I feel like I don't often get to be positive about the direction of the theme. Thanks for that. With that I meant less about the part count of the speeder and more the mass of those parts- there's a big plate and grille in there. Yeah, obviously it's gonna be boxy and dinky, but I think another 10-20 parts could make it look just fine for a battle pack build. I've done the cost analysis before and while battle packs' cost have risen above inflation- especially with this last move from $20-23- how much they've risen really depends on where specifically you draw the line from when they actually had value. Nobody's defending the cost of this set- $23 is egregious- but this speeder isn't anything worse than battle pack builds tend to be. It's just a matter of blaming the pricetag rather than the speeder, because generally people would rather have cheaper battle packs with whatever builds than more expensive ones with more solid builds, because battle packs are about the figures. The speeder looks alright to me, and it's at least trying to represent a canon vehicle which puts it above ~75% of battle packs for me. I don't want the speeder to be bigger, I want the battle pack to be cheaper. And for it to be 4 mandos instead of those jackolantern wearing 501st. Always good to see you pop up on the forum, wish it was under better circumstances. I agree. And it's only going to get worse with the smart wave in march, which may be the least popular wave in recent history since there won't even be any marketable clones or mandalorians for people to complain about and them army build anyway. But it's not like OT fans are going to want minifigures and sets with electronics stuffed inside them, so nobody'll be happy.

They never do. They've been playing up the "she's back, for real this time" angle, but they do that every time, same with how anytime a superhero dies they do the "he's really gone forever and never coming back" and then they return within like 3-5 years. She's also a Gwenpool- though it's Gwen Stacy, not Gwen Poole, which annoys me because all the multiverse Gwens have already warped people's perception of the character and now even 616 Gwen is some sort of costumed mercenary? That's true, but then if it's visually represented in that fashion, wouldn't you want to correlating figures to include that oversaturation so it's accurate to the animation or comics? And at what point does the character have hair in a certain color, if it's their canonical in-universe description, or the color the hair's drawn to be? In either case, I guess how I should have made my original point was that wherever you want to draw the line on what constitutes red hair, Norman's hair in the insomniac games isn't any more reddish than various other versions of the character, so I don't think the figure in the Oscorp set is based specifically on that version.

Good review- I hadn't realized how similar elements of this were to the 2016 version (the cockpit function, the way the spring shooters are integrated, the ball-and-socket wind configuration.) Unfortunately, I think it's a straight downgrade in almost every other respect. For the MOD, which uses no extra pieces, does it feel unstable? If not, I wonder how lego didn't come up with a solution like that in the first place. I feel like recent builds by lego are increasingly getting shown up- @Ransom Fern's Hulkbuster is objectively superior to the official one despite using all the same parts and still fitting the buildable iron man inside (His black panther is also a straight upgrade IMO, but given he changes the scale and how much of the body is represented I won't count it here.) This U-wing mod just seems to make the set better with no actual downsides- unless Lego really thought being able to have K2 lie down in the cockpit was worth all those tradeoffs.

I'm impressed you can keep track of them after so many days. Good quote. Too close to call. You're right that it looks different, but looking at Cad's- which I'm pretty confident is the normal pistol- in the minifigure box render, I could also see it just being at a weird angle in the Mando picture. Could go either way., though I'd be surprised if they made a longer one with no scope, as it'd be a lot closer to a real firearm. I always assumed lego swapped the old pistol mold out for the 2011 one both for design language consistency with the medium and long blasters, but also to make it as cartoonishly sci-fi as possible. It's also possible it's the hose end piece, I think they've used that for Mando before once or twice, and it is indeed longer than the 2011 pistol with no scope. If they'd used the mass from the barricade to bulk up the speeder, they could have had one OK build, but as is they have a subpar speeder and a barricade that looks like it's from 2003. The more I look at it the more confident I am that he's either got arm printing or dual-molding. Even on the minifigure selection, there seems to be black (or almost like a navy color) extending past his hand, and on the actual boxart there's definitely something there. I know how excited you are for Cad so I admire your restraint, but I do think he seems to have something more than plain arms here.

Brickpick's just handed your next meme to you on a silver plater, @CloneCommando99. He 100% either has printing or dual-molding on that arm. Whatever else the set is, the Cad Bane figure is looking good. My thoughts, now that we've seen cleaner images: Din Djarren's 2002 toyota corolla: Love the price point, love the concept, set itself looks like bantha dung. They did it better for about the same number of pieces five years ago. I won't pick it up, especially since it has the stock mando instead of the prelim UCS one, but I will be supporting that $10 price point by getting the very similar Ghost Rider bike set. UnJustified: Two very excellent figures with a rough but acceptable build for $20. Now mark it up 75%, for a disgusting $35. This really is the return of General Grievous's combat speeder. The Eldritch One, consumer of live eggs, paintballer of children, bane of frogs: I still think even at 4+ we could have had a better face. Something very simple and brick-built. But it's not a huge deal, I'm sure 4-6 year olds will like it, so I don't give it as much flack as the ones that are meant for mainline market demos. Somehow the best set of the wave: Mech that's just fine. If this is a gimmick line we have to get, it's a good entry, it looks cool, fine. Whatever. Somehow the best set here. The Lego Star Wars Set of All Time: Focus on Clones and Mandalorians. Underwhelming builds. A gross price. This truly is lego star wars in the modern era. One last thing- I LOVE the mando box art. The metallic blue looks excellent. It doesn't really matter, but it's a win for lego and I'll give it to them.

Never understood why they're pushing so hard with Waller, Flag, Gunn's wife, and the rest of those characters. Focus on the superheroes. It seems like such an obvious way to have your projects do better. We won't know yet, and because it's a D2C even anecdotal evidence will be harder to get. We can estimate a bit based on sales or if it's retirement date gets pushed back, but at the end of the day we won't know exactly how well. 2027 would also be the earliest we could see another DC modular, and only if Arkham does very well. Even if they're starting to get promising sales data for Arkham, the 2026 modular has probably already been planned and partially designed (and I'd guess it's oscorp). You have to remember that Lego doesn't know whether or not a movie is going to do better than another movie when they decide to make a set, that they've been skimping or outright skipping some MCU movies, and that the MCU's always gotten more set coverage than new-release DC movies. The timeline doesn't quite match up though. The last batman cartoon (it depends on where you want to draw the line- do we want to count the 2018 Youtube Justice League shorts? You draw it at Beware the Batman, which I'd be amenable to, but it's important to throw on the asterisk that the second half of that season released on Adult Swim. Would TBATB be the last true batman cartoon for kids?) was, by your estimate, a good six years before we stopped getting slogs of comic batman sets for kids, and while you could say that the 2019 or 2020 sets may have had poor sales, I don't think we can say they were riding that high of BTB all the way to 2018/19, or that they spent the better part of a decade making comic sets that didn't sell well. The other thing is that being "not as popular as batman but having content aimed at younger audiences" falls apart as a rationale for lego to make more sets when you consider Teen Titans. Aimed at kids significantly more than most recent superman outings (which, as a side note, I really don't think Superman 2025 was aimed at kids any more than your average MCU movie or about half the DCEU movies, and if I remember right MAWS is another Adult Swim cartoon), assumably pretty popular given it's the longest-running animated series in DC history, and yet it's only gotten a couple dimensions tie-ins. I believe there was also a batmobile preschool cartoon recently that didn't receive any set coverage. Batman's movies have been about the same level of kid-unfriendliness since 2005, but we were always much more likely to get tie-ins to whatever the new batman movie was than the cartoon out at the time, because unless it's rated R there's still going to be a billion kids going to see those movies. You look at TTG, or Shazam, or even Superman 2025, and batman always gets more set coverage, because at the end of the day Batman and Spider-Man are the two most popular superheroes. Superman's lagged behind them for a long time, and at this point, even with the new movie, I don't even think you can say he's the default #3 anymore. As nice as it would be to get something other than batmobiles, there's just really no position for it.

Thanks Yeah. It's "best bet" of, say, 12%, compared to it showing up in 1HY 2025, which was like a 0.2% chance. It's fairly unlikely either way.

What? No? The wolfpack troopers would be the best part of a TIE Avenger! Yeah, that's about it, unless you missed the picture of the two mauldalorians. August 2026 is probably the best bet for a TIE Avenger, being the wave closest to about a year and a half from release date. That or January 2026.

I think this is a bit of a certified Aslume take. We can argue the specifics of however much superman actually made (At the end of the day, even with generous estimates on profit-sharing with theatres, it wasn't a smash-hit success. And last I heard it was having a rough time on streaming), or whether or not a Jimmy Olsen TV show is a good idea that will get the kids hyped, but as it relates to lego I'm not sure how much either of those actually matter. Lego's continually moving to more and more of an adult market not just in DC, but across the board. Even the marvel line now features cheap(ish), system, minifigure sets that are clearly aimed at adults. Lego's also, whether it's in DC, Marvel, or Star Wars, increasingly been moving away from big waves for the new content to focusing on older hits. That's again not just for Batman. Superman becoming more popular than Batman at all seems unlikely to me, especially considering regardless of which is kid-friendlier, there are two batman movies and a robin(s) movie(?) in development so I'd expect Lego would rather go with their favored character who they see as more of a proven success.

Ah. Yeah, those are strange, although the 327th tends to get hit with weird colors across the board. I remember the same happened in battlefront 2. For day 201, I have designed a stand: I know the ship doesn't use one in-universe, but I call BS on that. Absolutely zero chance this thing touches down at four points. Sinear's full of bantha poodoo.

Thank you for the feature, @MKJoshA! Thank you! The weaponry, as the main thing about this ship that jumps out to me, is something I really wanted to get right, so I'm glad to hear you like it. The cockpit/middle section definitely took the longest, it was tough to get the greebles represented by those flower pieces in there accurately. Thank you- this only got made because of your campaigning. Obviously still a far cry from an official set, but if you ever want instructions, just let me know. Thank you! Yeah, as much as I prefer to keep my TIES visually cohesive with the 2018 official one, the "sharp" edges are much more accurate to the in-universe ship. I think it's because the Avenger is explicitly made to be the "cool" tie, almost like the TIE someone like James Bond would fly. Hidden weapons- weapons everywhere, really, as a matter of fact-, a hyperdrive, being able to fit other people and yet still retaining a very sleek and swooshable look- it's one of the objective best TIEs (and a little bit of a plot hole why they never continued the project- I like to think that the Avenger, as a counterbalance to all it's offensive capability and hyperdrive, was basically a power-actuator-burning glass cannon in addition to it's prohibitive cost, and after the prototype was stolen they just decided it wasn't worth the extra funds to continue to try solving the durability and longevity issues.) EDIT: UPDATE: I designed a stand to go along with it, as I'm hoping to add this one to rebrickable soon and I would not trust it to sit down on just four points.

And the ARF contingent all forgot their AT-RTs at home. Really a poor showing for the republic. The waistcapes aren't an inaccuracy, they're lego cheaping out. They do the same thing with snowtroopers and pretty much anyone else who's supposed to have a waistcape. Mario seems to have worked, which unfortunately probably gave whatever research or execs they have pushing this stuff too much credibility. I maintain mario only works because it's mario- if they produced normal lego mario sets I think they'd sell even better- I know I'd have bought one or two small ones to get the principle cast and a mario kart. But since there's nothing to gauge it against and the sets do well, they think they finally succeeded with a tech line and are now trying to integrate it into everything else. :/

I assume it's generic youtube clickbait, right? Or does he actually say in the video he thinks New Goblin is a legitimate candidate? No hate to ashnflash- it's how the youtube game is played and from what videos of his I have seen he's generally pretty solid. I would fly to Denmark on the spot and fistfight John L. Ego myself. (Wearing the John Walker suit, of course, just so he knows what an unvenomized one looks like) And now Gwen's back, if I heard right (not Spider-Gwen, actual 616 Gwen Stacy), so maybe we'll see Stan get his wish. I mean it all depends on exactly where you want to draw the line between brown and red hair, but I'd definitely say Norman's been a redhead at points, just the more natural muted red color rather than MJ's fire truck red hair. At a certain point, if you're portraying the brown hair as reddish in a show, when does it just mean the character has red hair? Regardless, my point was moreso that I don't think the red hair is a flag that it's insomniac Norman as insomniac Norman's hair isn't different from it's normal color, and you seem to agree, even if we draw the line of what constitutes a redhead at different points. Lego did give Rogue red hair, so they clearly skew closer to that in general.

I wouldn't be opposed to it but I'd want to see an increase in the number of $20 battle packs if that was the case. Especially since 70% of them are mandalorians or clones anyway- I wouldn't want the dregs that were left occupied by characters you can't really army-build That 14+ label is interesting, what with the last one I can remember being BD-1 and the odd release date, I don't think the Zero Company ship is impossible. Still unlikely, but not impossible. How dare you not remember the purple 187th legion that only exists in merchandise and no story material? I forgot about that. It was nice to see the Bomb Squad in open combat, though sad that the death watch essentially wiped em out- the BARCS were no match for those turret emplacements. Fair. I personally don't really care about getting much Andor coverage specifically, but the avenger is just a cool TIE variant. Though honestly if we could get anything I'd want the ferrix partrol speeder with 2 stormtroopers and 2 army troopers.

Happy day 200, @CloneCommando99: Not to my knowledge. We know other legions interacted with the mandos- the Death Watch were active on a number of planets, including the one Din Djaren's parents were killed by battle droids on. We also know Fenn Rau served the republic during the war, and that his fang fighters saved Kanan (and assumably his master's clone troopers) at some point. But I don't think we've ever visually seen clones and mandos fighting together (or against eachother) in canon besides the action on mandalore itself and possibly a panel of two of the Kanan comic? We will, however, see that in Zero Company. C'mon, lego, it's got a clone AND a mandalorian, you can't resist...