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Sooga! The Sandcrawler is just amazing. Revisiting an early Mando episode with a well designed smartless playset is the second highlight of this year for me. The AT-AT scenes were my least favorite so the set doesn't really appeal to me, bar the INT-4 and the remnant snowtrooper. I'll probably bricklink both. Looking at the sales on Amazon the SB sets are failing hard. Perfect tieming to release a fan favorite set that avenges this disaster.

Finally, 2027 will be the last year of Lego Smart Bricks! And it's not due to the lukewarm sales. Apparently the chips contain materials banned by the new European RoHS guidelines, such as dumbium and unnecessaryum. Also they don't contain enough kalkite. Bye.

Can't wait for the game! The hero ship looks like a fat Razor Crest, it even has similar yellow accents. Could be a fun MOC project to modify the M&G set. Meanwhile Lego will probably do a Jabba bust instead.

I think the eyes were done better on the helmet but that's just me. My concern is that they redo all helmets into busts with figs, which is boring and is going to take away slots for other potential sets like a certain imperial vehicle with a name I can't quite remember...

When the highlight of the year so far is a polybag, you know it's a weird year for Lego SW. Glad to get Cobb Vanth and Bane in a single set cause that might be my only purchase. Then I see sets like Tintin's Rocket and you know they can still design well, but they choose not to? Big Bird Razor Crest is ok but I would just get it for the figs, we already had a reasonably priced amazing UCS set. And molded creatures need to come back. I love the challenge of brick building them but these are unique, I think kids really cherish them because they are different. As a kid in the 80s I didn't grow up with Lego SW, I picked it up after my dark ages, so I don't have the same bond some here have. But I played with plastic dinosaurs vs my Galaxy Explorer crew and they remind me of that.

Recruiting Anthony Daniels and using his divine influence to promote BS just isn't proper.

I wonder how smart the smart brick can be. For example, is the communication protocol good enough to customize the behavior and sound, like a downscaled Mindstorm. At least it would be more creative.

Maybe the smartbrick didn't do too well during cold and snowy weather testing, there's no Hoth sets!

I agree that SP will eventually go down the same way Vidiyo did...quietly. I expect probably a dozen SW sets that I will gladly skip unless they make a new vehicle or location. I gotta say the throne room play function is a nice throw back to the 2005 ULD set, and with the return of the Bounty Hunter Pursuit, nostalgia is setting in. Imagine if Count Dooku makes an appearance... Shuttle might be tempting if bigger than the last, but seems unlikely. Budget for Jango's UCS is therefore secured. Strickly business.

At first I thought the ships chasing the RCV2 could be TIE Avengers! But he lasers are the wrong color and the wings seem thinner. Still, I'm telling me there's still a chance.

"I have built into it a flaw so small and so powerful they won't notice it until it's too late." That sums up my feelings about this set and where the theme is heading. Or maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy. I'd rather get 3 Jack Sparrow's floatable devices for the same price. Can we get a TIE Avenger yet, because THAT would be awesome.

Absolutely relieved this Death Slice MBS design leaves me unimpressed. Unfortunately that means waiting and hoping Galen can make himself indispensable again one day. Also very surprised they didnt try to include some sort of trompe-l'oeil circular cover to hang over over the whole thing, to increase the display value and keep away space dust.

Not before we get L3-37 please!

At last, the UCS Wicket reveal! Pretty sure he was chubbier in the movies. Can't wait for Giant Wicket vs UCS AT-ST funny dioramas. Well, there's always K2 coming out in August, just gotta fix the eyes.

CTT having the last set of wheels sticking out is very disappointing. Shame because I like the compact build, just not the price. Too bad, I really like those marines. MTT is better executed imo, and I prefer the unique CW colors. Worth getting since I don't think they'll ever make another one. UCS AT-ST suffers from the same limb thickness syndrome as the buildable B1. No amount of details can fix this for me. All in all a good year for my wallet it seems.

Great, it will fit perfectly with the UCS Gunship then!

Sigh, can't wait to see how small they make it. Lego: challenge accepted.

Design for CTT and MTT is great, they both look like midi scale sets with interior and playable functions. 8/10 V19 will go well alongside the ARC-170 but the fuselage accuracy was probably sacrificed for sturdiness. Slave 1 seems to be a recolor of Boba's, maybe both will good together? 7/10 Spicy speeder colors burn my retinas, although the T47 shaping is slowly improving. 6/10 until we get Hoth colors without the A-Wing fins. Will get hate for this but the buildable ewok is cute.

No solid leaks for the Death Star so far, looks like the LSB is doing a great job. Until we steal the plans, I was thinking they could make a half sphere exterior structure that would revolve around the interior, that way you could easily slide it around to view all the rooms and slide it back for display. The whole interior could also spin around the base. Let's send a U-Wing to Billund.

This deal is getting worse all the time, and it changes every 90 days. So Lego prices conservatively because they have no say in the negociations. Tariffs are working as intended, and Lego will soon provide manufacturing jobs to US workers to produce sets with no cost markups specific to North America. No blame, just the wheels set in motion by the new administration.

I'm halfway through the last block of episodes and I also feel confident we will get more Andor sets. It's just too good for Lego to ignore this show like they did during season 1. They will either smell the money or want to be associated with the hype. Maybe not full playset waves like the movies but I am counting on something more. Come on Lego, move.

I'm a huge Andor fan since S1 and with more sets supposedly marketed for adults now, why not give us more locations, vehicules and characters from the show. They have already committed to the U-Wing and K-2. I still have hope.

Not impressed with the buildable B1. STAP is solid but the droid proportions are off and the head is just wrong. Too many studs showing when compared to Droideka, K-2 or Chopper. Hard to believe its the best they could do. Sorry Lego, easy pass unless its on a steep discount.

While far from perfect, I'm glad they chose the coat outfit because otherwise we wouldn't have the great hair/cap piece and overall it wouldn't be as interesting for this minifig. Black over white could have been a better choice. Mmm, decisions.

No offense taken but your standards must be quite high if printing robes on minifigure legs is considered mediocre. Sometimes perfect is the enemy of good.