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A Yavin-style ARC-170 would be a bizarre choice especially since the seperatists are practically crying out for a vehicle or large droid to challenge the clone vehicles that are currently/imminently available. I would've thought a slightly downscaled Corporate Alliance Droid or Homing Spider Droid might work better, or a Vulture Droid. Or even a couple of Crab Droids or Octuptarra Tri-Droids.

Looking at the latest Rex pictures, to nitpick his arm printing perplexes me a bit - it has a weathering effect with missing bits of blue paint on the shoulders in the blue stripes, yet the rest of the figure has no weathering like this at all (though in the skywalker saga dlc there was actually similar paint weathering on the helmet). And then the blue striping does not follow the minifig arm's bend at the elbow, instead the stripe changes angle too early then goes straight across the elbow, matching neither the bicep nor the forearm. It makes those parts of the print look rather weird to me, as the striping should be in line with each armour piece on the arm. Design confusion aside though it is impressive how well the print seems to have been applied, with the blue going right to the top of the arm. I do also find it a little strange how Rex doesn't have a black brow line printed on his helmet whereas every other 2020 style clone so far using the standard P2 helmet mould has it (besides Hunter and Echo but their helmets are so different I wouldn't compare them). He would fit in better with the rest of the clones with it and there appears to be room for it, though perhaps the visor print might have had to be shortened slightly for tolerance purposes. I'd guess it was either due to that or due to the designer sticking more closely to the Clone Wars animation for their reference, where he doesn't have it. Ultimately though I think it's a good figure and I'm very glad they're making it - it's not perfect in my eyes with the brow line, helmet holes (a futile complaint, the mould's almost certainly here to stay for every clone now), kama, oversized pauldron and arm oddness all being areas for improvement in my opinion, but nonetheless it will fit in well enough with the rest of the current 2020-style clones, especially compared to the 2014 Rex who really doesn't. I'd like to get the Venator at some point if I can (assuming the builld is good) but hopefully Rex will be in a standard early 2024 set (either the super battle pack or one of the unnamed set numbers) so I can pick up a few and customise one to use with the rest of my 501st - I'd like to swap the arms for standard blue ones, give him a cloth kama, and drill a hole in the helmet in the proper place for the rangefinder, but there's no way I'm doing the arm swap and helmet hole mod to a UCS-Venator exclusive figure Speaking of the 2024 sets, the super battle pack has me very interested (hopefully the clones are good and I expect the SBDs will be updated so I hope they aren't open at the back of the torso this time, and that the rocket launcher arm from some of the old SBDs can be used on the new ones without looking odd), and the Grogu temple escape has a good chance of having at least a coruscant guard and/or plain P2 in it so that's got me interested as well as I'd like to get at least a squad of each (and don't currently plan on getting the new gunship for any coruscant guard as my 2013 gunships seem superior). Though I wouldn't mind a standard 501st, and I would not be at all surprised if one turns up in one of these sets given that a complete standard 501st figure is not currently available in a set currently on shelves, but all the parts to do so are spread across 2 current sets in production. I think it's good to have them be widely available anyway since the 501st are arguably the most important legion and not everyone will have managed to amass an army from the 2020 501st set, and not everyone will be willing to kitbash them from the 2 current clone battlepacks if they're just starting out. Just so long as they don't turn out to be the only trooper type in the super battle pack or something, that would be a let down.

Have Promobricks (or anyone else) confirmed that the other 3 figs in the swamp speeder are indeed all standard 332nd, or is it still their earlier guess based on them knowing Vaughn will be in it? Could be potential for a plain P2 in there if it's not yet fully confirmed, they did appear in the Mandalore arc, though I wouldn't count on it. Really impressive lineup of CW sets to fit in their 'anniversary' theme, the Venator is a fitting tribute, might have to get that if it can fit in my cabinet. If the gunship build looks good I'll probably get a couple to replace my 2013 ones, I would actually like it if they're a little smaller in exchange for more detail & better shaping, that way they'll fit better with the 2022 AT-TEs. Will certainly pick up at least 1 swamp speeder for Vaughn, probably more unless I bricklink extra figures from it instead

I hope the atrocious swamp speeder PPP is due to having more figures than we're used to, but perhaps part of the atrocious PPP is down to a bunch of printed cloth pauldrons (if it is Felucia based then the 327th and Bly would want them), and/or new or returning moulds for some included droids (SBDs would be nice, not had them in ages and it was never a great mould). Maybe there's even some new arm printing (TSS Rex did have it uniquely), though I'd be surprised if so.

Well if the swamp speeder is based on a particular scene then if based on its brief Coruscant appearance in Ep3 then it could mean getting 41st Clones in their light grey markings - they don't have any extra markings on their helmets (just the arms torso and legs) so the helmets would be plain and could easily be used to make plain P2s together with the recent P1 bodies we got. Those grey 41st have had a fair few Hasbro action figures in the past too, so considering how Lego has seemingly liked to used Hasbro figures as inspiration in the past for obscure clones (Kashyyyk camo clones in standard P2 armour and the purple 187th) then there is a chance we'll get them... but I do think we could get almost any clone type (501st based with that Rex anyone? ). If we do get something based on a particular scene I'd bet on the 327th from Felucia as others have - helmet mould currently in production unlike Kashyyyk scouts, the 327th are less obscure than the grey 41st, & we have the macros needed for Bly brand new & in production too. I'd just hope we get Bly and at least one standard 327th rather than say just Bly and Aayla or something. I'd definitely want to try and build up at least a squad of standard 327th, they were always one of my favourite clone designs

A V-Wing remake certainly could fit those descriptions, and could sensibly come with a plain Phase 2 clone too. Not expecting it, but it would be brilliant for me, I've not had a V-wing since the 2006 one and I could really do with a plain Phase 2 helmet and would prefer not to butcher a 212th helmet to get one

Nice to get a better look at the 501st - I was surprised to see they've (correctly) coloured the detail box on the Officer's back in blue but left it plain on the other troopers. I'd presume that's because his blue belt meant they'd already have to use blue printing on both sides of the torso to make it look right, so they went ahead and filled in the box too since they were already using blue there. Personally I'm actually glad the heavy still just has the plain back box instead, as that way it'll match the upcoming Hot Toys figure of him! The heavy's backpack piece print is also really rather nice, liking that. Macrobinoculars whilst not perfect look fine, including when flipped up by the looks of things which is the main thing for me, as long as they're not moved all the way back. Some embossed writing (probably the Lego copyright & the part number) looks a bit thick on the underside but that could the angle & lighting from the video making it look worse than it is. Still looking forward to it, and great to get a spare, look's like I'll be giving them to my 2022 212th squad after all

The quality of that mini AV-7 cannon build in the 501st set is a really nice surprise, I'm not going to use it for anything due to the small size but nonetheless I think it's a nice really nice representation of it. Looking forward to building it several times! Good to see the heavy troopers with their visors, shame about the inaccurate legs on them (and the specialist) but that was expected from the original rumours, it makes them look a little bit too plain IMO. I'll probably swap the arms for blue ones to try and 'fix' that, whilst the actual EA BF2 / Hot Toys 501st Heavy Trooper's arms are still mostly white they do have a bit more blue than the standard 501st there (extra blue on the elbow strap and on the hands, in addition to the standard blue shoulder and wrist band) so I think I can justify the arm swap to myself on that basis. Kind of strange weapon choice with that double barreled blaster they've got though, I'd guess it's meant to be a generic heavier weapon or the assault class's shotgun. I was expecting either long blasters or perhaps something like what Paz Vizsla got in the Mandalorian Forge set to represent the rotary blaster. But I'm not bothered anyway as I'll just replace them, and those pistols and black binoculars pieces will come in handy for other plans Excited for the specialist's macrobinoculars & to see how they look flipped up, they'll be great for equipping an Umbara squad of 212th as well as the 501st, especially if we get a spare in the set. Would have been nice if they were printed or dual moulded so that they could have had the black viewport, but for a small visor part like that it would have been difficult and in a battlepack like this that would have probably been too expensive, so I'm just happy we're getting it at all. Hopefully there's a small recess there so that the shadows can fill it in instead, can't really tell from the photos we have so far Not a massive fan of the officer especially with the rangefinder in the 'high' position on the real figure, but that was expected - it's a strange mistake they've made in the box art render, where they accidentally put it where it should be to be accurate where it looks a lot better, I mean there isn't a hole there so when putting together the assets for the render you'd think it would be obvious where it actually fits. It'd be funny if against all odds it turned out the specialist & the officer actually do have different helmet moulds and the real officer fig we've got a photo of was put together with the wrong helmet, but whilst it'd be great I don't think that's the case, it'd be too much cost & I doubt Lego would want two near identical helmet moulds with identical prints in production, let alone in the same set. Looks like the chap who's got the 501st set is planning on doing a review of it on his YouTube so that should give us a better look at everything anyway TIE bomber looks great, though I don't think I'll pick it up as I don't really have a space for it in my army & I'm still using the old 2012 TIEs anyway

Taking that latest 501st helmet & blue sunvisor leak to be real (if it's not it's certainly a high quality fake, assuming the photos haven't been touched up I can't spot any clues that it's been decalled and the colours and print look like Lego's work to me), I'm glad the visor is normal blue to match the helmet markings, and it looks like Lego have been able to print closer to the sides of the fin again after having left larger gaps between it and any other printing on the clones from the AT-TE with the new helmet mould compared to what they did on the old mould before. So that's good, it'll match the 2020 501st quite well by the look of things. I hope it's just the officer and specialist that use that helmet print though - the heavy should have a slightly different helmet print really, as he should have extra padding printed on the upper part of the helmet like Cody does but coloured blue instead of dark tan (he could potentially also have Cody's extra black 'arrow' design beneath the mouth area if based on the prototype Hot Toys figure rather than the BF2 game, but I highly doubt it). I could certainly believe they've simplified things and just used the same helmet print for all of them though, especially if the original rumour that the heavies also incorrectly reuse the standard 501st leg print is true as well. I hope we get the full leaks / reveals of these 501st soon, I'm not too bothered about the officer but I really want to see the full heavy trooper figure and the specialist's binoculars -EDIT- Looks like there's been confirmation of this being fake, nevermind! Guessing the photos were touched up after all. Wonder what the real deal looks like then

Ha no worries, that game has had loads of mods made for it over the years

The only phase II clone trooper types we've had at all in Lego form from Battlefront II 2005 are the basic 501st trooper and the ARC-170 pilot, are you thinking of a mod for that game instead? The rest of the phase II troopers from that game would be less obscure choices than the purple 187th clones from the recent fighter tank given how popular that game was, whereas the 187th were originally created by hasbro as 3.75" action figures and never appeared in any media with that design at all, though they did appear as merchandise a couple more times. I reckon Lego chose them for the Fighter Tank because they already wanted Mace Windu in the set (presumably as an alternative to his UCS gunship appearance, though of course the figures are slightly different) and then tried to find unique clones that would fit with him (and then picked the old purple hasbro design instead of his clones from CW S7 on Anaxes) A set with the real original Battlefront II 2005 phase II clones would have been neat, and in a way perhaps better if the upcoming battlepack was based on them instead of the BF2 2017 501st, as then we could have potentially gotten some still missing Ep3 designs (Galactic Marine and an almost-Bacara) and some neat designs that were based on unused Ep3 concept art as well (Blue Airborne, the Jet Trooper who was an Appo/Gree concept, and the Engineer who was based on the concept for Commander Faie and his troops). But that would never happen - they were a strange collection of designs back then and they'd still be strange now (Galactic Marines acting as Clone Commanders fighting as part of the 501st was always a bit weird. The devs were mainly working off concept art during development to be fair though, and the concept of clone legions at all was still new). The troopers in the upcoming EA Battlefront II 2017 based 501st battlepack work a lot better as a group, even if the exact designs of the troopers is still pretty obscure given they're from class skins that were only released in-game well after the game launched.

Some of the info on the 501st figures seems strange, namely that apparently the heavy troopers use a dark blue visor (The visor should be the same colour as the blue paint on the armour which has always been the basic Lego blue) and that the heavy and specialist just have standard 501st legs (I can see it happening but it would be disappointing to have happen yet again after they did the same thing for the 2020 jet trooper - they should have unique legs, the heavy in particular has a lot more blue on him which I was rather looking forward to). Hopefully it's just a mistake / misinterpretation from low-res pre-production pictures or translation or something. I'll still get the set mind you as they'll still be 'good enough' by the sounds of things, but I'm a little less enthusiastic and might not get as many. I also hope they don't just print backpacks onto the heavies, if there indeed aren't brick built backpacks then personally I'd rather they just left them off, gives us more options

Exactly what I was thinking - wonder if he might sneak into the upcoming Rex helmet set? That in-game figure sure looks like a real figure Lego would put out next year, otherwise why would they bother modelling the new helmet mould & using a printed kama instead of just using the custom p2 helmet with rangefinder & cloth kama that they already had on the 501st and shock trooper officers seen in gameplay? If we do get a Rex figure soon I reckon he'll be exactly as shown in game - shame about the printed kama but it does seem to be the trend

That 501st battlepack sounds great to me as an army builder - I reckon the heavy will most likely be the EA BF2 heavy trooper design as already speculated, since Hot Toys recently announced a figure of him as well and as we know Lego do like to use figures as references for their clone designs (2014 Kashyyyk standard Phase 2s, 187th). I do really like that design so I'll probably be picking up at least 4 or 5 of this set to complement my 2020 501st army. Though I'll be interested to see if he matches the Hot Toys offering with its Cody-style arrows beneath the mouth area on the helmet, or if it will follow the EA BF2 design and just have a standard 501st stripe there instead. The other 2 clones, the sniper and the commander, will be interesting - the BF2 specialist and officer designs are probably most likely but since they haven't been named as such in the leak maybe there's a chance they'll be different, after all the specialist would need a new mould for the macrobinoculars which probably wouldn't see much further use unless they did Bly (though I would really like such a part). Perhaps the sniper could be a 2005 BF2 style Airborne, Lego have gotten a surprisingly good amount of use out of that helmet recently. For me the ideal commander would be better as a legends style Commander Vill design with cloth kama and pauldron, though I expect this commander whichever design he uses will probably have a printed kama sadly. One interesting thing is the heavy should, in theory, have a different leg print with more blue on it - this could be good for replacing the legs on the 2020 Jet Troopers, since they incorrectly used standard 501st legs. The heavy's legs would be closer to what they should look like (though still not perfect). If we get the EA BF2 specialist his legs are a good match for Captain Rex as well. Really looking forward to seeing pictures of these figs. Also that Captain Rex helmet might be the first helmet set I'd buy if it looks good

I think it's the the box art / official images' visors that are wrong in a way, because they're using renders again. If you look at the box art and equivalent images for the recent Republic Fighter Tank, which used renders for this 2020 style of phase 2 clone in such images for the first time, the 187th visors (and also cheek printing) are the same as we see the 212th renders, with the visor & frown area looking more horizontally stretched out with the edges of the frown getting closer to the cheeks, and the cheek printing looking more rounded than what we got on the real thing. In comparison the actual production 187th matched the production 501st prints as you would expect, and similarly so do the 212th helmets we've seen from the sets given to reviewers. In fact looking back at the instruction booklet for the 501st set the helmet prints looked to match these 212th / 187th renders there as well (though the renders are to a much lower standard of course). So I think it's just Lego's 3D models not 100% matching what they'll make.

I like the body on that new 212th but I'm not a fan of those new holes in the helmet, they make it look like the helmet has 2 sets of earpieces & because their edges have to protrude slightly they then disrupt the upper helmet's round profile (doesn't show up too bad on some of the leak photos due to the white background, but on others it's more noticeable, in particular the new one comparing to a 501st trooper from the front. I'd like to be wrong but I imagine it'll be more noticeable in hand against a normal background). Doesn't look good with a rangefinder either, looks like they basically need the sun visor. A shame, as I do like that they've made the brow line stick out which is more accurate. Personally I would have said the better solution would have been to put the holes in the existing ear pieces like most custom P2 helmets and then make a new sun visor piece with the pegs vertically offset to match instead, but that would have meant absolutely needing 2 new moulds instead of 1 so I can see why they did it their way. Though if it's true there's a new sun visor mould too then that rather negates that

The angles on the front of that Inquisitor ship are delicious, really good looking build. I hope the AT-TE has the same sort of build quality

I did say hope - if the price is too high I simply won't bother trying to get them in numbers, assuming I even want to once we've seen pictures. But as for comparisons with the current gunner, whilst he originally came in a cheaper set said set is also long out of production which has increased his price above inflation, he's become harder to buy as a result. I was able to get plenty of him at the time for actually a little cheaper than the plain phase 2 originally was if I remember correctly, but if I was starting out collecting him now I wouldn't even try, I only go for new condition figs and there's too few out there and those that are are above £20. Yeah that's more or less exactly what I meant on parting out - if I was in the business of looking for good new sets to make a profit on by buying & then selling all the parts and figures, I'd prioritise popular ones with desirable figures and parts - but the more people that do that the more competition there is, which should then drive the prices down. The AT-TE would be a perfect candidate for this I reckon whereas say Cad Bane's ship won't be, as the AT-TE has (to my eye at least) a more desirable figure selection some of which are army-buildable, and probably has a good parts selection as well. Though this wouldn't work if demand is so high that the set and/or figures are constantly selling out, which will almost certainly happen to start with but should get better midway through the set's production run.

Oh for sure it won't be outright cheap like say the current 501st are, I just hope he'll be closer to £10 than £20 due to hopefully the set being common & parted out a lot due to popularity - I never picked up a 2020 212th Airborne because he always stayed around £20 minimum and there were never more than a handful for sale on Bricklink here in the UK whenever I looked, which I figured was because the set was so unpopular from being overpriced no one was buying & parting it out. Admittedly I wasn't religously checking on it or anything. He's not going to get any cheaper now, might have to pick one up if I want one to go with these new standard 212th. That 2014 standard phase 2 has appreciated a lot but he has been out of production for most of a decade now so that's not a surprise - I army built that figure back when he was new & continued to pick them up for a few years afterwards and did ok price-wise, he was somewhat hard to come by back then too but at least he was in cheap sets & the only unique part was the helmet which helped. I wouldn't army build them again I think, unless they completely revamped the style again.

Well this AT-TE's got me the most interested in a Lego set since the 501st set - I must admit I am surprised that apparently all the clones use a new Phase 2 helmet mould, considering Lego just released a set with brand new 187th figures using the current mould. Whilst points for attaching helmet accessories should have been part of the current mould back when it first came out in 2013, I am nonetheless a big fan of it and when the Cody rumours started I kind of hoped it would just be Cody who'd have a new helmet for consistency's sake, so that the accompanying 212th would match the current 501st troopers. Since supposedly all the troopers use this mould, I imagine this will be used for all Phase 2s in future sets. I suppose ideally it'd be the exact same mould with the same base printing, just with new attachment points - the current mould is pretty much spot-on in my eyes, the rear is ever so slightly inaccurate to the movies but the difference actually makes it look slightly better in my opinion. Hopefully since they've gone through the trouble of changing the mould we'll get plenty more sets with phase 2 troopers - Personally I'd suggest another 501st set so that they can be updated to match The gunner is interesting as well, for a trooper who you can't even see in the film (but art and action figures did exist) for him to get a second figure is pretty surprising. If he looks the part I hope he isn't too expensive on Bricklink as I could see myself needing a lot of him. It'd be perfect if he had a standard plain helmet with an accessory piece fitting on the new attachment points to bulk up his helmet, like the 2005 action figure of him, that way we could make standard phase 2s using his base helmet & the plain phase 1s from the minifig pack, assuming the base body printing style stays the same As for the build I'm very interested to find out more but for the price I'm surprised it's supposedly very similar to the last one besides the legs - I hope it's not too similar as I never picked up the 2013 one due to considering it too small, I still use a couple of modified 2008 AT-TEs instead so when I saw the price & piece count of the new one I was hopeful of being able to replace them with something in-between size-wise. Though if it's suitably more accurate design-wise I may disregard my size concerns, and I imagine whatever it's like I may pick up at least one anyway simply for the sentimental value of having the set that came with P2 Cody

Have there been any additional rumours on the Clone figure in the UCS gunship besides that it's supposedly the Ep2 Captain? It'll be interesting to see how it turns out, e.g. if it'll be the first official Clone figure with arm printing, and whether they stick with the recent hybrid style printing or if they do a new movie-based print as they might consider that more fitting for a UCS. If it is the recent hybrid style I wonder if they'll reuse the last clone captain helmet print from 75021, a bit like how they reused the airborne helmet print in 75286, or if they'll redo it completely like the Phase IIs - I thought the last one was great, and should still work with the newer body printing style well enough, but then again I thought the Phase II movie helmet prints were great too and those got changed. Looking forward to seeing the set itself of course, if they do the look well I'll probably try and get it at some point for sentimental reasons That makes me wish we'd gotten the completed hut like that in the real set instead of the ballista, much better, it actually makes it displayable! Can't say I'd pick up another one of the current set to do the same setup though given I only bought it for Mando/Grogu and their bike, and will probably shove the half-hut and ballista into storage somewhere soon

Not a bad looking set but I'm not sure I can justify purchasing it as the only parts I'd be interested in are the figs and maybe the swoop, the ballista and camp seem like a waste of parts to me personally - don't see much reason to have a ballista without a krayt dragon to shoot at, though a lego version of that would have to be huge. I hope beskar Mando won't be as expensive on Bricklink as the 332nd Trooper still is, given both are highly demanded figures in similarly priced sets

Hopefully clearer photos turn up soon but that Mos Eisley really does look rather good, a younger me would have definitely wanted this as a playset to have big battles around/in, though the price would have probably prevented me from getting it. Tbh I kind of want it for that now in a way, to use it as a 2005 Battlefront II display and fill it with Clone Wars era figs to match, and put a little command post in there. Must resist... I'm a little surprised the sandtroopers still have black hips and what appears to be the same or very similar printing as before, I kind of expected white hips with printing & a matching new leg print given the recent clone change.

I like to organise my troopers into squads of 8 which was why I went for 3, for me it's just the right number to look impressive together whilst not being too difficult to amass. Often I like to give the squad leaders one of the cloth kamas from either the 2012 ARC Trooper or the 2014 Airborne, but I've run out (even had to steal Rex's!) and they're particularly hard to come by now - I'm hoping the new dark grey one from the new Airborne Trooper makes its way to Bricklink in good amounts, I might give that to the 501st squad leader if I can get my hands on some. 'Course there's always aftermark cloth accessories I suppose but I've always remained purist when it comes to the cloth parts Yeah, in my opinion ideally I think they'd have used the 2014 helmet and torso design as a base with no changes at all, and then just given them some new legs. These new Troopers do look very different and their helmet prints are so stylised, they do look nice on their own or amongst themselves but mixing them with other types does not go very well. I wanted a squad of 501st regardless due to the special significance of that legion, and I never did it with the 2013 ones, but I'll definitely be keeping them separate from my other troopers. At least we had a good run with that previous movie style. I think that can vary depending on what you consider a style change (e.g. do the Shock Troopers in the 2008 AT-AP with their white hips count as a style change? No change in printing), I would say based on print style we've now had 5 distinct main styles with a couple of subvariants: The 2010 Phase II Clone (2nd from Left) is probably the ugliest of the bunch in my opinion, the dark printing on the upper chest and that old helmet mould with the slightly altered print didn't work well. Weird mould variations too, some don't have the round bump on the back of the helmet for some reason. 2013/14 movie-style is still my favourite I think, for now at least, but the new 2020 style comes in second for me. Not sure which I think of the original 2002/05 movie style or 2008/11/13 Clone Wars would come third, the originals have a certain simplistic charm to them, plus a sense of nostalgia for me for sure as they're what got me into Lego in the first place.

Picked up 3 501st sets and 1 AAT in Smyths stores in the UK yesterday, I ended up initially only getting one of each as I got the very last 501st set they had, and this was at about 12:30 so they sold out rather fast - the store manager seemed quite surprised to find out they'd already sold out when I aksed whether they had any more. I wonder if any set has sold out like this before, and whether it's mostly down to stores simply underestimating demand and not ordering enough to get in stock. To be fair the only time I've ever been in a physical store to pick up Lego on the first day of release before was the midnight madness event for the Clone Wars film toys at Toys"R"Us back in 2008 and they had plenty of stock then iirc, though of course things were quite different back then. Some thoughts (and some images which I hope are useful) - the new Troopers do look less plain in person than Lego's press images suggested I think, probably due to the lighting & white background they'd used making the troopers almost merge into it. They look pretty good as a group with their own kind, so will be good for new army builders, but the 2014-style trooper's helmet rather outshines them when put together in my opinion: The 501st helmet ends up looking quite odd next to it, especially around the mouth/frown area, but the 332nd helmet doesn't as much due to the difference in cheek printing - for some reason the cheek printing is inconsistent, the 332nd trooper's cheek printing is noticeably wider than that on the standard 501st and the 501st Jet Trooper, which makes it more accurate as it means the edges of the mouth are much closer to the bottom of the cheeks - 2014 got this spot on by having the cheek edge highlight print connect to the corners of the mouth. I do think it's an improvement on the 2013 Clone Wars 501st, though there is a noticeable style clash when next to the 2013 Rex, hopefully they'll redo him soon to match among others. ^ You can see the difference in the width of the cheek print pretty clearly here - I had noticed it in photos prior to release but wasn't sure of the extent of it, but now I have them in hand every standard 501st and 501st Jet Trooper I have has a noticeably less wide cheek print than the 332nd one. One actually has a pretty bad misprint too, I hope this isn't a common issue: As for the builds themselves, though most will be buying these sets for the figures I do find it quite funny how we got an undersized AAT at the same time as an oversized BARC speeder and AT-RT - the BARC speeder is as long as the AAT including its massive barrel, and the AT-RT towers over the AAT which looks quite pathetic really. The BARC and AT-RT do look like nice models though, they just look too oversized next to anything else. For what it's worth, I think Ahsoka is improved by swapping out one of the 4L lightsaber blades for a 3L one (though it is a bit rare, I Bricklinked mine ahead of time). I haven't tried swapping out hip pieces on the clones, but I have swapped out the arms on one and I'm fairly neutral on it in general - I do think it makes a nice squad leader though