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No, but the relentless, money-sucking market is super up to date on what kids think, and it clearly shows that they don’t care about the sequels. The Rey movie is set well in advance of the ST, devoid of the other ST characters who are either dead or refuse to reprise their roles, in what is essentially a fresh-start Galaxy. It may as well be an episode 7 reboot. The first order is gone, kylo is gone, and Boyega won’t fall for the same trick twice, Rey is the only connection here.

No it wasn’t. You said it yourself, kids loved it, and the toys and media, whether it be games or the 2008 TCW series proved it. Nine years after TPM and prequel content and kid’s goodies was plentiful. It’s been nine years since TFA, we know the roadmap of Star Wars content, and there’s no equivalent to supplant the sequels, whether in media or in toy lines. Yes, Lego bases most things off of what fans are likely to buy. No, what eurobricks or Reddit wants from Lego isn’t a reflection of what the general Lego-buying population wants from Lego. These are echo chambers and people think certain voices are much louder than they are in reality. Money talks, and no one is selling sequels.

Spoken like a real Jedi

That’s a stretch, by the same token any on-screen appearance of an x-wing, y-wing, a-wing, tie fighter, AT-AT, AT-ST, Star Destroyer, and others I’m sure I’ve missed could easily inspire Lego to release the corresponding versions from the sequel trilogy, but they haven’t. Instead, we’ve gotten fringe OT versions like the Hoth AT-ST. Also by the same token, the reason supplementary media for the sequel trilogy is minuscule compared to supplementary media for the clone wars era is the same reason there are no sequel toys: there’s no interest to touch this phase of Star Wars. It’s also why the next Rey movie is set far in advance of the ST. It’s very telling that prequels, clone wars, and even the mandalorian have wormed their way into the display lines typically reserved for the OT, but obvious sequel candidates like Kylo’s helmet haven’t been made. We got a dark trooper helmet before a sequel helmet. Lego is comfortable making a gunship based on a variant that is on-screen for thirty seconds in an episode that first aired over fifteen years ago before they touch anything tangential to the sequels, and as I said, there are countless tie-in opportunities because the visual language of the ST is near identical to the OT

I meant prequel sets unrelated to TCW, not just clone sets. It’s been three years and Lego has released one gimmick set from the ST. The prequels never had a dry spell. Hell, the Mandalorian, which came out after the ST, has received a UCS set and a few exhibition models like the helmets before the sequels got a single one.

People aren’t “warming up” to the sequel trilogy, I keep hearing this myth and yet there is no generation of kids chomping at the bit to get sequel toys like they were craving clone and droid toys during the prequel era, sequel toys aren’t lining toy aisles because no one wants them. The fact that most sequel ships are hardly distinguishable from their more iconic OT analogues doesn’t help. Believe me, I’d LOVE a Kylo shuttle, but the fact that the only sequel set Lego has put out since the TRoS wave is last year’s holiday diorama doesn’t bode well. Prequel sets never stopped coming out after the movies were over and lambasted by critics.

Aside from the razor crest, which capitalized on a well-known ship from a beloved property (at the time), the only non-Lucas era UCS set I see being made is Mando’s N1, and the movie would be an ideal time to release it.

This. And it would’ve been on-brand with the 25th anniversary of TPM. They’re not even new figures, new prints, or new holes, Lego is just reusing its current supply of 332nd bodies and 501st specialist helmets. You can literally make two regular 501st clones by combining the two current battlepacks.

Palpatine has more screen time in TPM than Maul and Gunray combined. He’s the main villain lol.

You joke, but Palpatine IS the main villain. He is the “phantom menace”

Next to Anakin v Obi Wan on Mustafar, this is THE prequel diorama that has to happen

Amazing. They had time to plan, they had foresight, and chose a bland figure from the most unliked property since Rise of Skywalker. They could’ve gone with Vader with the damaged mask, if anything.

Crutches that homogenize sets and remove the need for Lego to build usable play functions with bricks and technic. The 2002 gunship’s nose opening into a command station (not to mention being a 3-in-1 set!) was the damn coolest thing ever to me, I don’t think there was a single Star Wars playset in the past three years that even tried to be that fun and creative.

A UCS MTT capable of deploying a hundred battle droids on the rack is my dream set. I know Lego will never make it, but that’s the only true way to do the MTT justice.

This is the reason why I mainly get 18+ sets or build Mocs nowadays. It baffles me how much less “fun” kids’ sets are nowadays, the Coruscant Guard Gunship should be an ace in the hole, and it has less interactivity than every past gunship, hell it has less interactivity than the “adult” Galaxy Explorer set. It’s like they want this awkward middle ground where the sets are less playable than ten years ago but look more appealing on display because of the downscale and higher piece count. What we’re left with is sets that aren’t as fun, and don’t look remotely as good as models designed mainly for display.

Unfortunately I think the big ticket sets have already been reserved for the UCS Tie Interceptor and UCS Sail Barge. Has Lego ever released three UCS/MBS sets in a single year?

I really hope the anniversary logo of maul and obi wan dueling becomes realized in a diorama! This bodes well for TPM sets. Last year celebrated two anniversaries, and each anniversary received no less than five sets.

Upon close inspection, the supers are significantly sharper than their older counterparts, and also have the chest dimple. I’d say the upgrade is well worth it if indeed they crack less. As for the builds, really? These are imo the best looking side builds we’ve ever seen in a battlepack. The octa droid is well detailed and scaled correctly to the smaller in-universe variant, and the STAP is the best we’ve ever gotten as well. The clone side builds are very poor, but I can’t remember the last time we got two high-quality side builds that weren’t destined for the parts bin

Can we move on from talking about a singular damn minifigure, as if the whole Lego brand hinges on it? How boring a topic this is

Ha! Thanks for the experiment and photographs, it was worth a shot

I wonder if the speeder bike from the bp could fit in the coruscant guard gunship. It looks thin and dinky enough to be able to slide down the middle aisle towards the rear. And the fortification from the bp could definitely fit in the front compartment.

This is a lego battlepack, since when are we concerned with accuracy? Hello, 501st swamp speeder? When did we see 332nd troopers outside of Vaughn with helmet attachments? If helmet accessories go inside the helmet hole, why not give the consumer more bang for their buck?

>we drilled holes in all clone helmets to allow for accessories >release a bp with four clones and zero accessories for their helmets bravo, Lego

What is the background of the clones v droids battle pack? Is it supposed to be depicting the battle of coruscant?

They’ve never done a crab droid before. They’ve done AT-TEs with red markings from the animated show before. This was a clear and deliberate design choice, with figures and box art background to back it up as a set directly from Episode III’s battle of Utapau. The rest you can toss up to designer negligence, akin to calling a clone commander a pilot. Additionally, the marketing material outright calls it a ROTS set, putting this argument to bed.