Flawless Cowboy

Cantina retires in 2024, they’ll have to replace it. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Ewok Village 2.0

At least we’re getting the sail barge next year. And yes, TPM is home to some of my favorite SW vehicles (MTT, Gungan Sub, Lucrehulk, Naboo starfighter, Sith Infiltrator, Royal Ship), some of which haven’t gotten a set in over a decade, or at all.

I cannot believe we didn’t get a single set with a classic Ewok for the 40th anniversary of ROTJ

Veers is in the cheaper playset AT-AT

Tie interceptor looks immaculate, although it’s bigger than I suspected. It’ll look great on its own, not so great next to the smaller tie bomber

The funny thing is, the Mando included in the fighter set ISN’T generic, he’s clearly representing the guy standing to the right of Woves. He probably isn’t named for the same reason Woves isn’t included: Lego didn’t know. It has nothing to do with throwing a bone to army builders lol.

1. Because reselling is a lucrative market 2. The most recent x wing doesn’t even come with an interchangeable piece for Luke’s five stripes. So in this case it’s even less desirable to buy multiples since they don’t give you a chance to accurately make another red squadron fighter 99% of people don’t buy multiples and Lego certainly didn’t omit a named character from the fang fighter set because of army builders. They don’t care. It was almost definitely because of a lack of access of information, same reason the spider tank is missing its droid

I have no doubt they’ll remake the BB shuttle at some point, assuming the show continues for a few more seasons. The Mando fighter sucks but the fang fighter this year is a slight consolation

Just taking a slight survey here revealed they were less likely to get multiples. You can go on Reddit and see similar reactions. Which makes sense, because a red gunship belonging to one legion is far less massable than a generic one, and most people don’t buy multiples of sets, nor does Lego center their marketing strategy around people buying multiples of sets besides battle packs

I think the easier explanation is: don’t give everyone everything they want in one set, because they’ll have less reasons to buy the others. As to the Gunship, only the most hardcore fans would even recall the single episode and the single scene you see the Coruscant gunship. Lego probably focus tested and found a red gunship was considered really neat, more so than a white gunship, and ran with it. Another point against mass ability of the gunship is the fact that it comes with three name characters and only two generic shock clones. No one is buying an extra $140 gunship for two clones, they’re hitting bricklink.

Don’t think Lego cares about making anything but battlepacks massable. Most consumers buy one set. For reference, the tie bomber is a generic, common imperial ship and yet it comes with 2 unique, named minifigures and only one generic. Hell, the gunship this year being Coruscant themed as opposed to plain is all the evidence you’d need.

Oh the drama. Lego has never hit on that mark, a single sticker, a blue technic pin visible when it shouldn’t be, the myriad of minifigure inaccuracies, inconsistent brick colors, should be enough to spoil this illusion of “perfectionism”, so I’m not sure why you’d be surprised by the fact that Lego’s D2C sets aren’t crafted to the standards of the highest ambitions. Because they never have been, because it’s ultimately a toy company, and if you’re looking for perfection, Lego, which is an abstraction of reality in the form of children’s plastic colored bricks, is not for people seeking it.

Think you’re overblowing it, most people are fine with the design and the average consumer who isn’t a Lego fanatic will be even more fine. As to the MOCs, most don’t even come close to the stability of Lego UCS sets and don’t try to.

As an owner of that model, I disagree

It’s Lego. It’ll never be an exact 1:1, welcome to the medium

This tbh. It obliterates all previous versions for me, even if it’s not perfect

Where?

Lego needs to remake Mando’s N1 and make it not suck. Children’s mocs outdo Lego’s effort on that one, and I have a feeling it’ll be as iconic as the razor crest so it feels extra bad

Oh yeah that looks nice. Lego, fire the people in charge of your box art.

A proper UCS sandcrawler is the next $850 beast

It’s not labeled yet, I’d imagine it would considered an MBS, or at least a set that accomplishes the same thing an MBS accomplishes because it has a high minifig count and it depicts a number of scenes with minifig-scale accuracy. The sail barge is a “ship” in the same way that the play set Death Star from 2016 is a “ship”. As long as they throw in a sarlaac pit and skiff I’ll be happy. Also, the Cantina retires next year, so it would make sense to replace that set.

We’re getting an MBS sail barge next year

Not sure how more grey in the SW universe could possibly be more interesting Anyways, I do think LBG is too dark, which is also why Lego has never done a grey x wing after their first attempt in 99

It’s a weathered off-white that would look far worse (and boring in a universe where grey dominates) if done in blueish-grey brick, which has the opposite issue of being TOO dark in this scenario.

The white nose is absolutely more accurate than a grey nose. Look at the films. Hell, look at any non-lego prop. here’s a good reference: https://nerdist.com/article/star-wars-a-new-hope-original-x-wing-prop-sells-for-2-3-million/?amp