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Celebration runs from the 26th to the 29th. The Lego panel where the sets are supposed to be revealed is from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm PST on the 27th.

I work for Walmart in Canada, and here the new sets generally won’t be put on the shelves until the list of what’s on each shelf is updated. That could happen the day the set releases, or it could be weeks or even a month or two later. (Even if the sets are sitting in the back room, which they usually are after arriving on or shortly after release day.) You could ask an employee to check the back room for them, but it would be very difficult for someone who isn’t a Lego fan to find them, since for the first month or so the names of the sets in Walmart’s system (and I assume same for the other stores) is just listed by number after the letters LSW to prevent leaking the names of sets ahead of time.

There’s a bunch of reviews of the set out there as well.

Lego is seriously selling a picture of the UCS Landspeeder for $35 worth of VIP points, because it’s “limited edtition”.

God dammit. This group of whiners have ruined it for the rest of us. Guess that means we won’t see the dual-moulded Threepio in another set anytime soon.

Even if you wanted to make Todo as big as a short minifigure (which is still oversized) I don’t know if you could build one that small out of bricks, unless they created a bunch of new moulds for his body parts. His legs and arms are just too small to be represented well with any existing bricks IMO.

If we’re getting all 3, that would be the logical split. It’d be weird to have everyone but Taun We with the Justifier when she’s the only one that was near it, and Nala Se obviously won’t be in an Episode II set.

I’ll guarantee that Lego won’t ever make any more Force Unleashed sets. If they ever made any Legends sets in the future it’ll be from KOTOR (because of the remake) or maybe another one-off from the Tartakovsky Clone Wars (although that’s still extremely unlikely).

I was planning on getting Yoda’s Hut and Bib Fortuna’s Throne room on May 4th. I’ll probably still do that, since the extra promos are worth the $12 I lose out on for not getting double VIP points. If anyone was planning on buying the AT-AT or Millennium Falcon however, it would make more sense to wait for double VIP points down the line in order to save $40 or $45.

I didn’t forget, I just didn’t know Lego was going to change up how they’ve done May 4th for years in order to screw people over.

Luke’s Landspeeder looks great. If I were interested in the oversized UCS Vehicle sets, this would be the one I’d want the most.

It’s usually just Star Wars sets.

Probably Moff Jerjerrod, Admiral Ozzel, or Nien Nunb.

It’s amazing. I hope we get this in the future for more locations that don’t make much sense as a regularly released set because of a lack of interest or play features. I would say Shmi with her and Anakin’s house, but I think that would probably work well as a regular set. The Gungan Council is also one that comes to mind as not working as a normal set, but there’s no way Lego makes a new mould for a GWP.

Are you serious? This is probably the best value promo we’ve gotten in a while. It has more pieces (including an extra minifigure) than the GWP for the $950 AT-AT and the $450 Mos Eisley Cantina. I’m going to put this in terms of Canadian dollars, since that’s what I’m familiar with, but it’s not that much different from USD or Euros. You need to spend $200 to get the promo. If you do, you get Blue Milk Luke (~$5 value if you use normal poly bag price), the AT-ST polybag ($5 value), and the the Homestead Kitchen ($20 value). Not only that, but you get double VIP points, which is an extra $20 back. So you’re getting $50 worth of extra stuff on a $200 purchase.

No one in this thread has argued that Cody isn’t in demand. That clearly isn’t the case. What people are saying is that he shouldn’t be locked behind a $480 UCS set that makes no sense with the character. IMO a desirable minifigure should not be exclusive to a non-minifig compatible set. (So Mace Windu with sand marks is good IMO, since that’s not a desirable minifig)

Having Cody in the UCS Gunship would’ve made no sense, and been a slap in the face of Lego Star Wars fans. If they didn’t do a “Jedi Bob” which at least makes a little bit of sense and doesn’t require a new mould, there’s no way they would’ve put Cody in there even if they did have the necessary planning time.

The general public isn’t spending $530 on a Lego set. For UCS sets Original Trilogy is a safer bet, since on average older people have more disposable income, and people who didn’t grow up with Lego Star Wars on average don’t care about minifigure compatibility as much. The Mandalorian had a tonne of people watch it, but a lot of those people had never seen Star Wars before or were casual Star Wars fans before, so not even close to the UCS market. For UCS/MBS sets, the Sequel Trilogy isn’t much of an option, since nothing other than Maz’s Castle lends itself to being a MBS set, and nearly all of the ships are evolutions of OT vehicles. For the Prequels, the Jedi Temple is as big of a slam dunk as a non-OT MBS Set can get. Geonosis also works, but I think it would probably end up looking like Assault on Hoth with a bunch of smaller sections. There’s a bunch of prequel ships that are unique and prominent enough to warrant UCS Sets, but I guess it remains to be seen whether the Gunship’s sales have shown if UCS Sets are something that the market of people born after the 70s support.

I really hope it’s a MBS or a minifig-scale UCS set with a bunch of minifigures (cough*Jabba’s Sail Barge*cough). I think I’d probably buy any MBS set other than if it were Hoth.

Exactly. $530 sounds absolutely insane for a Razor Crest UCS. I mean the Republic Gunship is 4 meters longer in universe, and it was absolutely massive at $350. The Hasbro Razor Crest, which had to be crowdfunded (and was funded at the height of its popularity, before the ship was destroyed on the Mandalorian) only sold for $350.

According to whom? That sounds like an absolute nightmare.

Sure, but if it’s from the Bad Batch that means it’s likely an Imperial AT-TE, and even Lego wouldn’t have a Separatist droid in an Empire based set.

They did say the AT-TE will come with a dwarf spider droid, so it’s almost certainly not from the Bad Batch.

It might be backordered on May the 4th, but if it is it will still qualify for the double VIP points and contribute towards the May 4th promotion. It just means you won’t get it right away.

His clone commander? It’s an airborne clone trooper that didn’t even exist from Hasbro that Lego made up and just assigned the “commander” title to. I might have gotten this set if it had come with Mace’s Burgundy troops from Season 7 or Ponds and 2 91st Reconnaissance Troops. Although even then, I’m holding off on buying any sets with clones in it right now because I think the current designs look so bad compared to the ones from a decade ago that I’m waiting until a few years down the line when they don’t look so terrible. (with the inaccurate clone commander colour, weird cartoon stylized chest curves, lack of silver on the P1 visors, the weird grey cheeks on the P2s)* *Benefits of the new clones include leg printing and accurate faces, but I still think they could be so much better by even doing things they did 10 years ago. And in the future maybe we’ll get arm printing for the coloured shoulders of clones from the Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith. It is weird that they never do hip printing for Clones or Stormtroopers (except that one time in 2005) despite the fact that every First Order Stormtrooper has hip printing, and Han Solo has had hip printing since the start of the theme in 1999.