Darth_Bane13

You could probably part out the 2016 Vader's Tie Advanced for a reasonable price, and it still holds up.

I don't see the appeal of a midi scale AT-AT. Capital ships I can kind of understand, but an AT-AT is just unnecessary. There are so many cool playsets they could make in that price range instead.

Ok so I just rewatched the scene and it's 1 assassin droid with around 5 b1s that fight the clones, although it is Padme who kills the assassin droid.

Yeah the scene with Fox is what I was thinking of, it's been a while since I've seen the CW movie though.

Well yeah in that case I'd rather them be separate. I never hated the assassin droid battle pack though, I always thought they were cool as a kid and the speeder was nice. If I remember correctly assassin droids fought clones in the Clone Wars movie.

I disagree, I think it would be cool. We haven't had a proper plain p1 army builder since 09, the 2022 minifigure pack wasn't good for army building considering it had a clone commander and it was a Lego store exclusive. Also P1 >>> P2; P1 clones translate better into Lego.

That's a nice build although I prefer the all gray look from AOTC and the EU.

Imagine a play scale Acclamator with Delta squad and trandoshans.

Just give me a Kyle Katarn figure.

I'd add 2013 too The diorama's were for the most part, overpriced OT slop imo.

9k sold this past month in the US... by far the best selling summer set. I guess we know why Lego keeps making clone sets.

Wow people are really just accepting $45 battle packs...

Big ships were cool if they had a nice interior though, like the play scale falcons. If I was a kid I'd definitely take the Torrent, a Jedi and a Sith are a lot more fun than some Andor characters they've probably never even heard of. Their character designs aren't very toyish either if that makes sense. Disclaimer: I like the Andor show, but I doubt lots of kids do. I think I prefer ships as an adult, specifically highly detailed, non downsized, play sets. Terrain builds often feel incomplete looking to me; Even with the diorama's they made, I'd rather display a ship.

As a kid I liked terrain builds because you could recreate a scene or something, and lots of places for figures to stand.

I will say as an exception I do like the 2014 swamp speeder which was scaled down. I think terrain is fun for kids but it's just spare parts for me. I think the battle Saleucami had some nice foliage which was fun to play with as a kid (although perhaps not technically a BP?).

I would actually prefer non canon builds to downsized canon ones. The ideal for me is minifig scale canon builds though.

Yeah most of the old battlepack builds were legitimately good, often canon builds, 2010 hoth BPs, 2011 Barc speeder, 2012 Endor speeder. You could throw these on your shelf and they'd just look like nice small sets. Modern BP builds end up looking like micro fighters which are ugly and useless.

It's also worth noting the old DC-17's were made from the same type of of plastic as the kama's and pauldrons and they would come in a pack together. In 2012 they switched to cloth pauldrons and kama's (ARC trooper) so they would've had to make a new mold for it, since we got the scope blaster in 2011 they probably figured that was good enough. Interestingly 2011 sets still used the old DC-17 for Rex and Cody, probably because it came in the pack anyway.

The old pistols were perfect for DC-17's. It's actually crazy how far LSW has fallen, I was looking back at some old winter waves and literally every single set was good. Now I skip entire waves completely.

MAKE LEGO STAR WARS GREAT AGAIN

Yeah it was a bit unfair with the Death Watch having jetpacks too.

We did see Death Watch fight Bomb squad, Horn company and ARF troopers back in 2011.

I haven't kept up with all the Disney stuff so I was curious if they did actually interact.

when did the 327th and Mandos interact?

Yeah besides the color change the build was quite similar to the 1999 Tie advanced. Sets with one figure were pretty common back in the 2000s, I think Lego just had a different philosophy when it came to minifigure distribution. The battle of Endor set also from 2009 came with a bunch of figures because it needs them for the scene, whereas the Tie Advanced really only needs Vader. Lego really progressed a lot from 2009 to 2016 with the Tie advanced; and now almost 10 years old the 2016 Tie Advanced doesn't look dated in the slightest.