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  1. TeddytheSpoon
    Yeah, I can imagine something like the dewback mold to be crazy expensive. It's the tolerances that drive the prices up so much - one of the reasons I don't like some knockoff brands is that their tolerances are clearly not tight enough, and it shows in the variation in part clutch. The fact that LEGO bricks from today are still compatible with bricks from the 50s is down to those tolerances. That might have got a bit off-topic but the engineering behind LEGO bricks is genuinely fascinating to me.
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    You'd be surprised. The molds are made from ridiculously hard and heavy materials, machined to hundredths if not thousandths of a millimetre, and have to churn out parts every few seconds on a near-constant basis over their lifetime, sometimes ten to fifteen years. Aside from the machining there's also the cost associated with designing the things (which, as a design engineer, I can tell you is not especially cheap!). For sure not every mold will have six figures attached to it - for single-molded minifigure parts like helmets I would expect somewhere around 70k - but some molds costing 100-200k is not outside the realms of possibility.
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    +1! The original Testarossa is one of my favourite cars of that era. It is from the same era as the 917K (in fact I think they may have made their competitive debuts in the same year), but in LEGO terms I imagine there'll be quite a few differences. Quite apart from the move to 8-wide, the 917K was in SC's first or second year, and IMO hasn't aged as well as some of the other 6-wide sets, so between that and the design subtleties between the two I think there'll be plenty to differentiate them.
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    I'm not sure how relevant aftermarket prices are for gauging demand. Apart from the fact there isn't necessarily crossover with the average LEGO target market, the existence of scalpers and 'investors' looking to make a quick buck on their second-hand figs (I believe Childish Landino shared something on these to-the-moon types a while back) would distort the picture quite a bit, I imagine.
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    That depends which 512M it is, as I've just discovered they had a Le Mans car of the same name as the 90s supercar that succeeded the Testarossa I assume it would be the 90s one anyway, but if it's the Le Mans car, I will be a very happy bunny.
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    Or perhaps it'll be the AT-AT?
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    Unless it's Merc's F1 car, I sort of hope not. We have plenty of run-of-the-mill supercars in this wave. That said, The F1 car alongside the AMG One would go quite nicely with the Aston set.
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    You might have seen this elsewhere but Promobricks have since said that this is the Trench Run (same set number, piece count and price) and not the garbage compactor.
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    New rumours list looks excellent. Only a matter of time before we got an Aston Martin set, and the Countach could look really good in 8-wide (there's some great MOCs out there using the F8 windscreen already). Only disappointment is there's nothing a bit different... I know we have the Evija as an electric supercar, but in years past we've had rally cars, dragsters, F1 cars, at least one slightly out there model. Here's hoping the last unknown model is along those lines - still holding out for an Indycar set.
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    So the 60EUR set is not in fact the trash compactor (although we might still get that), but is in fact... A microscale trench run. I like microscale as much as the next guy, but is this really necessary as a 60EUR set? It sounds like something that should have been a GWP. And it's another set that won't do anything to placate the minifigure fans, since it comes with precisely zero.
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    The Snowtrooper one I can kind of swallow, but I'm still sceptical that the dark trooper one is actually a battle pack - that has to be a mistake on the set name. 166 pieces for 30EUR is a pitiful PPP ratio, and while I know this isn't the be-all and end-all metric, for four figures it's taking the megabloks a bit.
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    True, I guess if they are going to do it, at least they're keeping the system sets at the lower end of the price scale. Maybe it's better to say I'm apprehensive, and part of it will come as treating this as one wave when it's more like three (I presume it'll be system sets in January, helmets and UCS in May, and I saw someone [I think Falconfan?] suggest the BoBF set wouldn't be until June). I'll probably change my mind when the set pictures show up - the Dagobah set does sound interesting, for sure.
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    As much as we have to remind ourselves that 'LEGO is a toy' on here, I can't help but feel disappointed that half of the wave now seems to be targeted at 'adults'... Two 18+ sets on black bases, two helmets and a UCS set, with 5 system sets, one of which is a microfighter and another that is a battle pack (I'm not having it that a 30EUR set can be called a battle pack, especially with only 166pcs). That feels a bit money-grabby to me. I understand that LEGO is here to make money, but shouldn't they be selling primarily toys, not collector kits?
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    I think there's some sort of Disney+ day in mid-November (I have the 19th in my head), so I'd expect to see a trailer then.
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    To be honest, if they were birthday presents-in-waiting there's a good chance they were for me anyway! My folks will occasionally pick up LEGO sets when they're on sale and save them for such an occasion, but more often than not they get forgotten about... I found them while helping with some housekeeping, so I consider it a just reward!
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    I think the thing with Marvel is that while it's been around in comic form longer than Star Wars has, the OT had far more impact than they did. It's only with the advent of the MCU in the last 15 years that the Marvel universe has not only become a cultural phenomenon, the characters within have become much more widely known as a result. The upshot is that the OT had 20 - 40 years to cement itself within people's psyche as Star Wars without anything else, whereas Marvel in its current form (and what LEGO seems to use as reference the most) hasn't been around as long. The blue milk Luke was less to tie in with the game and more to tie in with the LSW Holiday Special, the game delays scuppered those plans somewhat. I wonder what the production for those figures is like given the game is so far behind schedule - does the figure production get pushed back as well, or have they all been made already and are just sitting in a warehouse?
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    Almost every other set (including this wave's microfighter) has included the Mandalorian though, it's not like he's in short supply. Given that I'm grateful he's not in the set - Beskar Mando is already well on his way to becoming the next Farmboy Luke meme. I'm glad the dark troopers are getting a set, but their appearance has been so limited (notwithstanding Legends where I know they were a bit more prevalent) that personally I'm not really interested in getting any. That said I did skip the Final Duel set and don't have an updated RotJ Luke yet... I feel like he usually appears in expensive sets, is that wrong? The last cheap (ish) one I can think of is Jabba's skiff, but I'm not even sure he was in that. This is likely to be Mando's helmet by all accounts. I also thought Yoda's training was $80 but could be wrong, the rest seems correct based on what we know so far!
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    I thought it was one 30EUR and one 60EUR set we were missing, but I could be (and would love to be) wrong. At this stage any sub-40EUR set with massable troops seems to get described as a battle pack. 501st wasn't a BP, this one likely won't be either. The darktroopers aren't as widespread as clones or stormtroopers anyway, so amassing the amount seen in the show would probably only take four or five of these sets.
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    Aha, I thought it was 20EUR (or USD, same difference) - I must've been thinking of the UK price. That would make it more expensive than even the first one though, I wouldn't be so interested in that. I see Luke is to be included in the dark trooper set as well... Never mind my Tython theory then
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    Dark troopers in a 30EUR set... I wonder if it'll be based on Tython seeing as we've already had the cruiser. Equally, I guess this puts paid to the Republic tank rumour, as this takes up the price point I assume it would've had. Oh well.
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    +1! The thing that strikes me as odd about the tank is that it's so out of place for a single set in a run. If we were to get one TCW-era set in a wave, why pick a vehicle that is on the fringes of canon at best? It doesn't really tie in with the Gunship since they're from different points in the timeline (and it would be weird to have Mace in both sets), and the last relevant media was Battlefront II, which came out four years ago. Equally, unless the AAT has an usually long shelf life there won't be any separatist forces to oppose it, unless they throw some droids in as they did with the last one. I guess it fits the price point (assuming it's the 30EUR set) well for a GAR vehicle that isn't an AT-RT, and in that sense I could see it being the successor to the 501st pack. It does feel very wishlisty, but those normally get found out pretty quickly, and it seems quite persistent.
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    The same reaction as many - hopeful scepticism. The tank with Aayla in it is one of my favourite LSW sets ever so I hope it could live up to that. It is an odd choice with the current wealth of more canon vehicles out there though. Since it's supposedly the 'Jabba's palace' leaker, and that set ended up being Boba's palace, it's conceivable that the 187th is there either as a mistake or as a red herring. Did Mace even have a clone legion in TCW (or other canon material)?
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    Not so much a purchase as an acquisition - I discovered unopened copies of Battle on Scarif and the Quadjumper at my parents' house, and snaffled the former to bring me one step closer to owning all the Rogue One sets. I'm a fan of the Quadjumper as well so have got my eye on that one.
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    I love seeing lesser designs get the LEGO treatment, and from one of my favourite films no less! It looks great - some tricky curves in this one but it looks the part.
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    I would probably explode if that first one were correct, but I feel they are both too good to be true unfortunately. Oh yeah, how could we forget the third Death Star, Starkiller Base... Colour me intrigued. The only other place a battle happened around the Death Star (if not on it) was Rogue One, right? Unless it's Rey vs Kylo in TRoS... Fulcrum has also replied to a few disappointed comments on Insta that the Yoda's training set may not be all we think it is, and not such a disappointment after all. Hmmmm.
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