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So is the bat cave coming with both a batwing and batmobile, or just stands for them? Seems strange to be releasing two vehicles in the set while also releasing two minifig scale play sets on the side. But brick clicker stated they’re included in the cave so I’m confused

You’re right, I suppose a more correct way of putting it would be, Lego cares about anniversaries if they go out of their way to generate branding for it, which traditionally was reserved only for ESB and for the 20th anniversary of Lego Star Wars, but I think this year indicates a greater willingness to acknowledge other anniversaries. Hopefully this trend continues for other movies and shows.

One quirk I’ve noticed with the tie interceptor is that it seem to be based off Gideon’s remnant version, which has a dark horizontal stripe running across the front and back of the cockpit, and it also doesn’t feature an imperial insignia on the side of the wings. Another thing I noticed is that the Lego tie bomber’s transport cart and yellow bombs also seem to be based on concept art seen at the end of last week’s episode. Neat.

Of course they do. Perhaps not as much as you’d like, but there’s a disproportionate amount of ROTJ and Clone Wars sets this year for what is…the anniversary of ROTJ and Clone Wars

2 of the 3 Ashoka sets (and the ones people are most looking forward to) are remakes of sets that have been done before. Hard to place Lego at fault sometimes when they’re designing a set for the first time with extremely limited information and concept art.

I only mean thematically, it’s the only set where the ship and the figs make sense, and the set isn’t “missing” anything obvious. The spider tank is missing the droid and the FF v T isn’t based on a scene that actually happened. The Interceptor is by far the best ship though, I’m not complaining.

Funny how the snubfighter ended up being the most cohesive, complete set of the Mando wave. Still a $25 set at most, though

It’s kinda sad that the best ship to come out of this wave of Mandalorian sets is a tie interceptor… They really need to remake the Gauntlet starfighter in a much bigger and more detailed version. And Mando’s N1 needs a redo as well, wish the current version retired this year so we’d be one step closer to another version.

Mostly minor gripes I suppose, but still worth noting. The Kenobi duel set is accurate (except for the part where the lava mechanism sprays Vader), but if the designers had full access to the source material, would it even be a set? I’d wager if anything they would have modeled it after the final duel. The scythe was very well done, but the detailing on top of the ship and the stickering on the back are wrong and just plain cheap, the designers likely were working off of limited concept art there. And I completely agree with you about S3 Mando sets being very loose in terms of accuracy.

It seems like every set released in the past three years based on upcoming Mando/Kenobi/Andor material (basically everything except for the UCS Razor Crest) has some flaw or compromise based on the fact that the designers were given less than the ideal amount of information. And most of these aren’t going to be remade again. It’s a shame.

Honestly, I’m impressed and can’t say you’re wrong even though I like the model as a whole. At first I thought this was ridiculous but then I remembered I avoided the inquisitor scythe simply because in my eyes Lego ruined the back of the ship by using cheap stickers for what clearly should have been physical, radiator grille pieces. So fair game.

Fair enough lol

Thanks for seeing some validity in my vain hopes for another prequel set. And I was more-so addressing the individual’s passive aggressive “boring and pointless arguments” comment which I don’t consider civil or constructive.

A pattern doesn’t mean it has to follow an unbroken chain, it only has to recur enough to be noticeable. The point is, expensive play sets that sell very well like the razor crest and AT-AT can then receive the UCS treatment, covering both markets. I’m not saying it’s going to happen, just that it makes sense to happen, especially considering we just had an AT-TE release and Lego can gauge popularity of the vehicle to a certain extent. And I’ll return the same civility I’m given. If someone says something stupid, it’ll be highlighted, no whataboutisms.

What a stupid, useless comment

lol what? Almost no one was or is complaining about the design of the actual set, if anything the only issue people had was that they wished they got a minifig-scaled version but that’s far too small to receive a UCS treatment

I mean this in terms of Lego not caring about minifigs in a UCS set as a response to people saying Lego won’t make a UCS set because there’s no good figures to pair up with the set. As if Lego didn’t make UCS sets without any figures for most of its history. But as an aside, the outrage over the gunship fig selections were twofold: first, they held a poll for which figures the fans wanted and ignored the most popular choices, and secondly, Hans stated the clone commander “doubles” as a pilot (it does not) and far more annoyingly claimed that people only remember a “yellow clone” from that scene, hence why he was chosen as a figure.

I think the AT-TE is right behind the gunship in terms of popular prequel vehicles, and last year’s playset constantly selling out for the first few weeks is testament to this. They appear all throughout the prequels and the clone wars, and Lego could just easily include an exclusive Cody with arm printing for a figure. As an aside, minifigs don’t decide UCS sets, they’re simply a bonus. Lego‘s UCS gunship fiasco is proof enough.

Minifig scale is a range, not a concrete number, and judging from the less-than-canon number of seats in the brickvault version, I’d say it’s much smaller than what an official Lego model would look like

I can, actually. Big ticket UCS sets take well over a year or two to conceptualize, design, and distribute.

Precisely why I think it’s likely. Anything clone related is on the table

I mean in the sense that the AT-TE is a likely UCS set to begin with, and releasing a playset version first right before the UCS version makes sense Looking at the in-universe scaling of the AT-AT vs AT-TE, I can’t imagine Lego stretching the price beyond $400. It’s really not that big.

I’m convinced that we’re following the same playset first/UCS later pattern with the razor crest and AT-AT and we’re getting a UCS AT-TE within the next two years. The play set version is cool, but it just makes me want a proper minifig scale version.

Yes, the one leaked by FluffySky6 on Reddit. Supposedly it’s going to be a GWP but it’s going to include 3 minifigs and BB-8, so I’m assuming it’s more than just a tiny May 4th-style promo.

I wonder if the holiday special diorama is hinting at future sequel sets, even UCS sets. With current Star Wars media now trying to explain some of the phenomena in the sequels (namely cloning of you know who), and the upcoming Ridley movie, it’ll be more relevant than it has been since TROS.