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To be honest, my only real problem with Fives in particular is that his legs should have been light bluish grey or dark bluish grey. Normally I’d suggest that dual moulding would have been better than a printed kama, and so Fives would have had grey on the top half and white on the bottom half, with white printed in the middle of the top where the kama is open. However, in reference material, the armour on the bottom half of his legs is grey like his kama, and so LEGO could just have given him grey legs with white printing on the knees and feet (and it really is just the front of his feet that are white, look it up) and solved both problems with one solution that doesn’t even cost them extra for dual moulding or fabric, but instead he just has the weird looking kama that’s only on the front and white legs missing his grey lower-leg and foot armour with only a small grey stripe before they can’t print any lower. That tiny change would have made the figure utterly perfect in my eyes.

I don’t even know what to say; this is completely nuts

Gosh, that’s tough. I went to a LEGO store near me on the 28th of December in the late evening and there were at least 150 of the Battle Pack lining the shelves, it was insane. Oddly though, not a single copy of the 4+ set.

On this topic; In Australia, prior to 2022, BPs were $25, and in places like BigW and Target would be sold for around $17-20. Now, LEGO has the Snowtrooper and 501st BPs listed for $32.99 and the 332nd one listed for $34.99, and although in stores the Snowtrooper and 501st sets are sold for around $29, the 332nd one usually stays up at $35. It feels very weird seeing these identically-sized boxes (clearly labelled as part of one line of sets) sitting next to each other on shelves with one being notably more expensive for no apparent reason. And on top of that, the reduction to the RRP we see on these sets at the aforementioned retailers seems to be growing progressively lesser.

That's a good point! The sets certainly do seem like they'd go very well together, even if the Clone speeder and turret don't fit inside. I hope they do.

So what I'm getting in reference to the accessories in the battle pack: They didn't really need to be there, and it has nothing to do with accuracy, but it would have made it a marginally better toy for kids if there had been an accessory pack, and collectors would have liked access to a "new" recolour (i.e. red or black), right? To be honest, I personally would have been willing to pay that potential extra $5 to have them in black.

Eurobricks should add emoji reactions. This post needs a little "" reaction, but I had to make a whole post just to express this.

I haven't seen the image, is it similar to how it's done for the 187th troopers and others with shoulder straps?

Do I spy Mortis in the background (top right)? Funny to see LEGO acknowledge it.

I did mention those. But as I said, it's still arguably a CW set, just based on an iconic battle from a movie rather than an obscure one from the series. Could go either way. Precisely.

I mean, the only thing definitively RotS about the AT-TE was the background of the box art, and other than that, in terms of the physical set, I guess there was the fact that it was missing a couple of red markings, but even the omission of the crab droid from RotS in favour of the DSD-1s that appear lots in TCW make the set seem overall more CW-y. Everything else was more of a subjective design choice, like how LEGO usually only puts damage scuffs on clone armour from live-action media. What I'm trying to say is that, arguably, the way I see it is that the AT-TE was a part of the Clone Wars line, as it is functionally a CW set, however the designers chose to base it specifically on a scene with the 212th that happened to be from a movie rather than a more obscure and less interesting battle from a CW episode. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Personally not a fan of the bible, but good on you for not taking any of that stuff to heart. We love you, mate. Your hints are much appreciated.

Then again, I'm fairly certain I heard somewhere that the N-1's development was very rushed. People were churning out MOCs of that thing within hours of its first appearance, and everyone I talked to was dying for a set of it. Furthermore, the end product did seem like it was probably designed very quickly, and things like the darksaber remaining not-updated was probably also because of that.

No wait, you're right, that does make more sense in context. This was hardly supposed to be a leak/hint, I took it more as just a comment on how exciting one of the upcoming figure selections is going to be, but one that they can't share details of at this point.

Don't blue curtains usually mean that there definitely is a deeper meaning of sorts?

I bought one for myself and one for my dad, and though I've been waiting 'til this weekend to build mine (all of my assessments for school will be over by that point in the term) I'm quite excited and they look like they'll be pretty epic Christmas decorations. Also definitely worth it for the price, seeing as sets that size are normally AU$50, but this one is $45, which is what all sets in that price range were before the price increases.

Not surprising. Everyone knows about the iconic scene from Rebels where Maul utters the well-known quote "KENOBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA".

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Wait, FIVES??? No way, surely not, I won't believe it. Too vague to draw conclusions. Must not get my hopes up. But like... I reaaaally want Fives. Please?

I had the same thought! I could totally see the designers reacting to the Skeleton Crew delay by pushing back the set based on the ship from that show, promptly whipping out their sneaky little Fondor prototype a couple of them had been tinkering with since Andor came out, and fixing it up ready to release in that slot.

This exact idea occurred to me too; that hairpiece is literally spot on compared to pictures of Cassian in the show. Why did they not use it?? They already produce it in dark brown! Additionally, I don't have it in dark brown, so I'm sad.

Honestly, with that one, I just feel bad for LEGO. All that effort to create a new colour, all for Disney to alter the source material in the last minute. At least the lightsabers looked cool, though. With Rey's this time, they don't really have an excuse for not reproducing the old yellow blade piece other than that it would exceed the set's assigned budget.

Can't decide whether regular capes or the thinner Mandalorian capes (from the battle pack) look better on Shin and Baylan. The normal ones are definitely more cloak-y, but what's always bothered me is that they arguably shouldn't really stick out super far on either side like they do, so I was thinking maybe the thinner ones would look better for posing them dueling or whatever, but now I'm not sure. Thoughts? Which do we think LEGO would have given them had they had capes in the set?

Hey, shush! That's a little spoilery... haven't found the time to watch the episode yet.

Edited to include overall amounts from later waves, plus Bad Batch (please correct me if I've made any errors) (this is excluding buildable characters, helmets, foil packs, and the like). Ahsoka remains the outstanding winner for initial waves.