Tommy

I regularly check the frontpage of toysnbricks.com. They're really good about posting deals and the relevant info about them.

I agree. I think Santaduckz ran into a poorly printed Juno. The minifigure I have of her looks much less cross-eyed and spooky than that pic and more like this one: In any case, my vote for best goes to Luke Skywalker from 2011's Millenium Falcon (7965). I think they finally made a good mold for Luke's long hair and it's nice to get a scowl from him since we're mostly used to a smiley Luke. As for worst, I would say Ahsoka Tano. I think she came out kinda blocky looking and the overall look does not embody the character in my mind.

So on the first page of this thread, it states that most of these sets are coming out in winter 2013. I thought they'd be released much earlier than that. Is that date pretty much set?

Here you go:

Sometime in July-early August. This question was answered several times in this thread...

Even though he has nothing to do with the OT, I love the Garen Malek figure with his bandaged torso (especially after this video ). I also love the Luke Skywalker fig that came with the 2011 Millenium Falcon--great face and hair piece.

Sorry, I meant to ask: How do you know TRU will get them in July and not June? I was really hoping to get these soon...

Is there a source or is this speculation?

I feel like a Rancor Pit built like that would make the Palace quite unstable.

To those in countries with the summer wave out, I have a few questions. Did Palpatine's Arrest come out at the same time or after the rest of the summer wave? If after, how much later? Did Pre Vizsla's Mandalorian Fighter also come out with the summer wave? I haven't seen any reviews or personal pictures of it and Brickipedia still doesn't have a brick count on the set. Also, to those in the US, do the sets usually come out at several release dates or can we expect the entire summer wave to be released on one date? Thanks in advance!

Is this true or just your speculation? Not to call you a liar, but I'd like to see a source.

Cool cool cool. Does the head come off easily? It may be neat to make it replaceable with a clone trooper head. Just a thought but great job.

You should check out the first page of this thread I really don't get Lego sometimes. Lex and Loki, two major villains of the Superhero line, get this now generic face whereas background characters like Two-Face's henchmen get new prints. (Personally I think this head still works on Lex but it was kinda lazy to use for Loki...) As for Palpatine's Arrest, I think the weakest point is the landing pad and ship. I think Lego could've swapped those out and made a wall to connect the doorway to the glass. Still going to get it anyway. Can't wait for the summer wave to get to America.

So excited about this wave. I only wish that they didn't reuse Wonder Woman's head for Satele Shan. I especially wish they had given her silver lips like the space girl from the Minifigures series (series 6). In fact, SW (human) girls don't get much love--Leia is Princess Tamina, Padme is Hermione and now Satele is WW. It's kinda strange when compared to PotC, who last year had four female heads that were exclusive to the theme (one being Kiera Knightly, who even played Padme). Edit: Oops. Brain fart but you get the message of my rant.

I use the rope piece to hang lifeboats off the side of my larger ships to serve as lifeboats, boats for getting to shore, etc.

I just left my Great Dark Age last year so I'm just curious: is it usual for a wave to hit stores in Australia, Germany and Austria weeks before they get to the US? Thanks in advance!

Just visited my TRU aaaaand nothing new

I called TRU again today to see if the delivery had gotten there early. However, I talked to someone who seemed a little less knowledgeable about the status of new sets--couldn't really confirm anything. She did say, though, that they are expecting a huge shipment of SW and LOTR sets tomorrow. So now I'm really crossing my fingers that the new sets do come in. This makes me a little less confident but you do say that there was only one LOTR set. My TRU is ordering more LOTR and they got all the LOTR (except the Target-exclusive Orc Forge) and Monster Fighter sets a bit early. Unfortunately for me, I didn't care about those; I just want the SW sets early.

Second what everyone else has said. I mean to get the new Luke minifig, you have to get either the Millenium Falcon or Hoth Echo Base. Neither set is cheap and last I checked, Luke was the main character of the OT.

I called my TRU last week and they said they're expecting the new SW sets this Friday (not sure how reliable their info is though. Also my TRU got all the LOTR sets about half a week before I saw anyone get one here so they may be an outlier). I'd say the markup at TRU will be in the range of $10-20 with $20+ on the bigger sets like Jabba's Palace.

I rarely post but I have to say, you've got to add this to Cuusoo.

Aaaaand Kingdoms has been removed from the Lego website.