BrickPrick

One step at a time. It's not been long ago Lego even made UCS prequel sets again. While there was Obi-Wan's Delta-7 Starfighter in 2010, they only really got started in 2021 with the UCS Gunship. Since then, you got another PT set every two years. So i think it just needs more time. Yes... period. I don't know if this is more sad or funny... just that it's true. This so much. You even got two possible options with Yoda and Yaddle to bring back Dooku at last. Of course, the ship already sailed on the latter. So it's down to one option. Actually, make it two again with a duel set between Anakin Vs. Count based on Episode III. Or even three possible sets because this could easily be part of the Diorama Collection as well. If only there was a fitting anniversary to commemorate all this right about now. And what do we get now in this price range? Looking at this year, another so-called "4+" set, an overpriced Jedi Starfighter and Super Battle Pack. It is. Even though it probably wouldn't be the exact price point anymore, the format needs to return. But why would they care to do some actual smaller sets, if they could just sell you even more clones in a bigger Battle Pack, which probably makes them much more money with less effort put into it?

I always wondered how close the collaboration between Lego and Travellers Tales was when making all these Lego installments. I mean, all those never been made minifigures that are playable in the Skywalker Saga look so damn good... when they eventually do release, i would want to look just like that. And if they actually used to do do real figures for prototyping, it's even more of a shame we only got Blue Milk Farmboy Luke for the Polybag.

I don't know about this. While this would actually add up quite well with the development cycle of the game, the official description is referring to an "unreleased Zam Wesell minifigure". This sound more like the physical product to me. One thing does not have to rule out the other. Lego knows the market, yes. They obviously know a Clone Turbo Tank will be a popular choice for people out there. But how would an even higher price point affect those sales? Can they get away with it just fine? They won't know unless they try! That's where the test ballon comes into play. Like they also knew after nearly two decades the X-Wing is one of their evergreen sets that is always supposed to sit on shelves. Yet that didn't stop them to suddenly crank up the price by 20 Euros... Bada bing, bada boom, test ballon. Well yeah, just jumping from one extreme (clone craziness) to another (OT overload) would obviously not help matters much in the grand scheme of things. To give some context, my original comment was in response to folks who wished upon more OT sets. I was basically saying if Lego keeps the current pace in which they release TCW sets, the OT resurgence has to happen sooner or later. But i didn't take into account the possible scenario of releasing much more Separatist sets. I'd love some more PT sets as well. It has to be a possibility to release some outside of anniversaries (where you still get fairly few) every now and then. Like i said earlier, not everything around the PT has to based on Clones. How many people, who think this year to be the worst in Lego Star Wars history (although that was before the big leaks) would be more satisfied with that, i don't know.

To be clear, do not mistake my attempt to even remotely explain this price point for any justification whatsoever. There is just no justification for this. It's one of those test balloons for the fanboys. How far are they willing to go in order to get what they want? In this case, i want what they want... but not at any cost. On another note, i took the Clone Extravaganza for this year as a possible sign for things to stop rather soon and getting more balance again... Well, i gotta add, that's if Lego doesn't do many PT based or TCW Separatist sets.

It's kinda telling for Lego that you have to hope a print is just hidden due to a possible light reflection or because of low resolution image quality. The preliminary image showed nothing in this regard and i wouldn't bet any penny on some slugs being included at all.

It shows that Lego is willing to do some Episode II sets outside of anniversaries again... or at all. So chances are at least not as low as they used to be. Plus they actually cancelled a Zam Wesell minifigure in 2020. I could get a good custom Zam minifigure in a few weeks for a somewhat reasonable price, but i'm holding out hope Lego will release the long overdue Bounty Hunter Pursuit remake in the coming years.

Ha, no worries, from my point of view, you didn't. And even if you did, i can be quite headstrong and stubborn in conversations as well, so i can take it. All's well that ends well, i say. Regarding Lego's direction of downscaling, i still don't mind it for the most part. If it does add up to me, i actually prefer many shrunken down models in terms of their overall scale, while i think past ships iterations just got way too big. However, in Slave 1's scenario, it doesn't add up to me. Maybe if i got the 2021 model instead of the superior 20th anniversary version i would be alright about it. But pairing it with the latter, won't be a match made in heaven for display. Will be much better suited to combine it with Obi-Wans Delta-7, so that's what i'm gonna do.

I think that's exactly what they are and have been to Lego the last five years... glorified clone color palette swaps. So i don't get why they suddenly change up their established formula. I looked up some reference material before making my "bizarre criticism" and what can i say... The difference seems not that great? Personally, not enough to do the colour swap. Let's actually try a bit more bizarre. Are the Phase 1 and Phase 2 armor designs supposed to look identical going from the source material? I'm going out on a limb here and say... no, they are not meant to look exactly the same. Did Lego care and made them different from each other? No, they did not. They opted for a unified design. This is consistency to me. So now deciding to do something different again, just because it might be more accurate to the on-screen appearance, doesn't make any sense to me. Just go through with it until you redesign clones again in 2034 or something. Oh. I get it now. There has been a misunderstanding on my end. You see, i really thought there was this conscious choice from Lego to differentiate regular troops from specialized ones. For example, the 212th Clone Trooper from 2014 got orange arms, while for the 2022 one Lego changed it up to white. I thought this was a clear move to distinguish him from Cody. But in reality it got nothing to do with that, it's actually a situative thing. Well, you can learn something new every day. Thanks for clearing that up. Now i know how you must have felt when reading my name wrong all this time. Haha, but i think i have found a neat bit of irony in there. You guys are saying the 327th Troopers having yellow arms is justified and in line with Lego's previous design decisions. Because of a thick yellow stripe on their arms. My question: isn't Bly supposed to have a thick stripe on his torso as well? If so, where is it? I see a yellow belt but no stripe. This is what contributed to my confusion in this scenario. They both look too similar! Not Captain Vaughn "special helmet" similar, but close. Discuss.

Yeah, his video reminded me of that. Otherwise i'm not sure i get your posting right. The way i understand it, you make it sound like i disagree with you, but i'm not? Like you are saying it's not inconsistent design on Lego's part. Well, i did speak about ruining or damaging the consistency they established in this decade. Since 2020, like you mentioned, standard troops got white arms and named characters or special units got coloured arms. Going by that logic, the 327th Trooper would have needed the former instead of the latter. This inconsistency bothers me a bit. Or are you saying the 327th Trooper getting yellow arms is not an inconsistency due to slightly different design? Well, if one stripe is enough to fully colour the arm, instead of differentiating it more to the named Commander, so be it. I just prefer and got used to the the separation between the two. In other words: what is the "it's not inconsistent design" part you are referring to? Lego doing clone redesigns since 2020? Or the 327th Trooper getting yellow arms now? I first thought the former, but now think it's the latter. There are far too many buildable characters releasing at a steady pace for them to perform that poorly. I would imagine droids and cute characters sell rather well, while uncanny monstrosities like Chewie are just shelf warmers. The moment 75372 got fully leaked, i knew it would sell like hot cakes and Lego would heavily capitalize on this the next chance they get. And lo and behold... you pay much more and get a little less the following year. Couldn't have people getting two Battle Packs for the old price point (2x15) any longer. You get two of those expensive new helmet moulds. The tradeoff is the scale of the set itself. Nobody can tell me if this set included regular, slightly redesigned Kashyyyk Troopers with no new moulds, this Turbo Tank wouldn't have been substantially bigger. It absolutely would have been than what we've got. And that's despite Lego's love with downscaling stuff. Still wondering when will be my first time with missing pieces in a Lego set. No matter how often i thought this was the case, every single time it showed up somewhere. Either i confused two similar looking pieces, it was still in one of the bags, or hidden under other pieces... got trolled by family members etc.

Thank you. Hey, if you don't mind me asking, do you actually have a Colemon Trebor minifigure in your collection? That's true. As much as anyone can criticize Lego's design decisions, they definitely have their clever ways. They obviously know putting this exklusive minifig in there will boost the set sales tremendously. Because i don't think many kids will care about a strange looking character named Lama Su... if they even recognize it. They care about Jango Fett who looks like another Mando and the action the Slave 1 can provide. It's obviously going to be a MBS Attack on Kamio set based on TCW season 3.

That's neat. And since those kinda accessories usually get spares, i'd say the likelihood for this one is also quite high. What i noticed as well is the 327th Troopers having yellow arms, instead of just Bly, ruins or damages any consistency they established in this decade of bringing back clones in a unified armor design. Standard Troopers got white arms, the specialized unit or leader got colored arms. Obviously not terribly accurate (neither is giving them colored arms to be fair) to the source material, but that's what they rolled with. So just why change it now, Lego?

That's the thing about your last part though: Was it "instead" of trading off they chose the worst outcome for every category... or "because" of the tradeoffs that have been made? I'd wager the latter. Today's tradeoff is there are just too many tradeoffs! Which leads to the worst outcome in every other regard, as you said. I think it depends on the quality bar we are using. Judging by Lego Star Wars standards, i'd say the TCW Obi-Wan is an exceptional minifigure. While many others are good, above average minifigs. If we are going beyond that, like what would be possible with limitless budget or what some customs can bring to the table, then yeah... i agree. Nothing there i would describe as exceptionally well executed. But going from that standard begs the question: How many exceptionally executed minifigure were there ever by Lego? While i don't care for the buildable characters at all, i have to agree on this one. The face, especially the eyes, actually seems decently build this time. How this is supposed to be worse than Psycho Chewie or Gremlin Yoda is beyond me. Yeah, just as expected another one of these egregiously overpriced sets. But one that can be considered good for what it is on it's own. That's why i will get it later on. Got no worries at all it will reach an appropriate price point. Like it took them two decades to even do a Kaminoan minifigure in the first place. So doing a repeat of the very first figure just three years after would have been a diabolical disaster.

This miserable meme machine monster concludes my daily silly game of asking Lego not to _____ the upcoming Turbo Tank. Will still want to get a better look at this set, but yeah... gonna be a deep, deep discount as expected. The downscaling is just too much for this one. Especially at this premium price. You make it 100 bucks and it suddenly looks like a solid offering. Or even 120 bucks because it's Lego Star Wars. But 160 bucks is as greedy as this thing is tiny. Yep, considering the both much lower piece count and price point compared to the 20th anniversary model, how anyone could have thought otherwise is beyond me. That's kinda admirable. It certainly won't be an easy pass for me. It more than ever seems like minifigures got a much bigger budget than the sets themselves. Which makes sense in the way that Lego wants to protect their precious minifigs at all costs. It's what it most differentiates from other market competitors, who catched up to (if not exeeded Lego) in terms of quality standards for building bricks. Yeah, the lack of variety across sub-themes is of course a problem in the long run. However, seeing so many new legions and clones released all at once and not an awful amount of them left at this point, it makes me confident that Lego is gonna change ship sooner rather than later. Like i would be shocked if they were to rinse and repeat this year for 2026. And yep... i count seven new head/helmet molds alone. In hindsight, really funny how for the longest time it was believed there would be next to no new pieces manufactured for this year. The thing is... Let's assume Lego didn't plan to release any more Andor sets for another follow-up wave like they didn't do for the first season. But now they changed their mind due to the critical acclaim and popularity of the second season. Considering sets often take multiple years from concept to creation, wouldn't it be too late for a hypothetical TIE Avenger in 2026? And if so, would they take the risk of releasing it 2027 anyways? Or does this not matter at all, since we know for a fact there have been exceptions of sets with rather short development cycles like the Mando Starfighter? I would like to hear your thoughts on this scenario. @Meaf Yes, save to say, this is a good time for any Lego Star Wars fan of the prequel era. I definitely agree about the remake relevancy for so many vehicles. And yeah, they went all-in on the minifigures this time around, so some sets suffered scale-wise because of that. Flagship sets are just not what they used to be anymore. But i still gotta appreciate the strides made forwards as far as minifigure qualities are concerned.

I know this has been the topic of an ongoing controversial debate on this forum. And i know this probably isn't gonna help your case either. But despite all that Clone Extravaganza, you at least gotta admit the upcoming summer wave features a lot of long overdue remakes. The last iterations of the MTT, Clone Turbo Tank, especially V-19 Torrent and Jango's Slave 1 all happened ages ago. You are free to disagree, dislike and disregard these sets due to PT/TCW fatigue, let alone buy anything at all, but you can still also acknowledge that aspect of it.

Dellow felegates. What? How can you do this? This is outrageous, it's unfair. How can you be a driving factor of your multi-billion economic environment and not be treated like a master costumer? That's... why i'm here. As you and the consumer share a symbiont circle, what happens to one of you, affects the other, you must understand this. Though you were right about one thing, beloved Billund billionaire bubble, the negotiations were short. Not just for the men. But the woman and children, too! They are like cash cows to you... and you exploited them like cash cows! Because these adult collector federation types are cowards and Republic credits are no good out here. You were the chosen company! It was said that you would destroy bad business design decisions, not join them. You were to bring balance to big flagship sets, not leave them in plastic pieces. You were my brother from another mother, Lego. I loved you. But i don't know you anymore! You are breaking my heart. You are going down a path i can't follow. Because of what you've done. What you plan to do. Sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me. Well, if it works... I knew this had to happen, so i came prepared, but by the love of the maker... The new Clone Turbo Tank looks totally TINY.

Now would you look at that... It's working! It's working! I was hoping TCW Obi-Wan gets the full printing treatment (akin to Mace) and he looks splendid. Really liking this trend of Lego finally giving some main characters their much deserved arm printing. Ventress looks cool as well, though i would still have preferred a skirt piece instead of using regular legs. The clone pilot helmet is just plastic perfection. Glad to have the final confirmation for Lama Su. Good to see they didn't cheap out on the new moulded head piece. The tiny bit you see of Jango implies no arm printing as reported, but it could be due to the lighting , so who knows. The new pauldron looks to be a rather great fit for Bly. Aayla looks pretty similar to the 2017 figure, but do they use a lighter shade of blue for her skin tone? Can't wait to get a better look of the Commando Droids. 327th Troopers are looking alright. Yep... already a good leak week indeed. Woah woah woah there, spoke too soon... The Galactic Marines and Bacara helmets look rad as hell. Master Enormous Forehead (like Aayla) is too blurry to properly compare it to the last figure. All it took to pull out all the stops was one catalogue leak. =)

I am looking forward to how everything 2026 pans out now. Ideally, you are right about the good system scale sets and wrong about some of the 18+ and other formats stuff. Here are some of my prequel CMF ideas. Since there are still so many missing minifigures, i was opting for the larger and no longer released format of 16 figures. The Phantom Menace Ben Quadinaros Boss Nass Depa Billaba Fode and Beed Gasgano Lott Dod Oppo Rancisis Padmè Amidala (Theed) Palpatine (Senate) Ric Olié Rune Haako Shmi Skywalker Sio Bible Tey How Yaddle Yarael Poof Could always exchange some Neimoidians in favor of more Mos Espa Podrace participants. I tried to strike a good balance across Coruscant, Naboo, Tatooine, and the Trade Federation. Attack of the Clones Battle Droid (C-3PO Head) C-3PO (B1 Head) Captain Typho Cliegg Lars Dexter Jettster Elan Sleazebaggano Jamillia Jango Fett (Casual) Jar Jar Binks (Senate) Jocasta Nu Lama Su Pablo-Jill Padmé Amidala (Pilot) San Hill Shu Mai Wat Tambor Lama Su is confirmed to be coming now. So a replacement would be in order. I wanted to post my Revenge of the Sith CMF ideas as well, but i just can't find enough fitting figures. I've got like three minifigs at the moment.

Imagine already having or buying the still available 75333 Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter to compliment the upcoming Jango Fett Slave 1, only to end up with a pair of Taun We's. It would just be ridiculous and something even Lego can't screw up, can they? Confident the leaker got it right and there are 200.000 Lama Su units ready, with a million more well on the way. Personally, it was always obvious this new Slave 1 model would be more comparable size-wise to the 2021 Midi-scale Boba Fett model than anything else. Now with a confirmed side build for the stand being included, it might just as well be an even more detailed color swapped ship. It certainly won't look good next to my much bigger 20th anniversary Slave 1, but oh well... Can't pass up the opportunity of finally getting a Jango Fett minifigure.

Like ~20% off is gonna do the trick for me. I don't wanna wait that long. And i for once believe the awesome new head mould is worth the extra fee. Still strange to see the little price gap (15/20) between this and the new Battle Pack at my location. Last year the gap was almost double (13/22) that. Yeah, the asking price of 35 bucks for both sets remained the same, it's just weird to look at. Because i don't think a Microfighter should be that closely priced as a Battle Pack is. Even though this has been the case for a long time (10/15) before all the price increases. I dunno... this is a odd one to me. I'm here. I'm right here. And i'm ready to drink a coffee... in order to fight! Someday your TIE Avenger quest is gonna end... because Lego released the set. Day #29 of asking Lego not to doom the upcoming Clone Turbo Tank.

Oh yeah, time to spill the beans. As domed as that set might be, glad the CTT comes with a third Galactic Marine (plus a trio of B1s). Now the minifigure selection is at least on par with the AT-TE. Since it's not Jedi Cad Bane, i won't even have the temptation to buy the Snowspeeder primarily for that... very good. It's disappointing the MTT won't have any B1 Commander included, but on the flip side it's certainly nice to see the return of Commando Droids. No Seperatist leader is unfortunate as well, but that was just a fever dream at this point anyways. Don't have any interest in it. Though to see yet another UCS set is kinda interesting. Will the Death Star actually be branded as a Master Builder set? That's a nice surprise. How about a much needed skirt piece as well? From my point of view, Lego doesn't have any excuse to not bring back Dooku alongside his curved lightsaber hilt. Yes! I was hoping for Lama Su to be the included Kaminoan. Would have lost all hope if it was yet another Taun We. But now it's one less prequel character to wishlist. Yep, this is already the good leaks week i was requesting not even 24 hours ago. You have no idea where i am!

@ArrowBricks Your downscaled ships lists are great, so is your PT based wallet-buster wave. While your 2026 predictions are realistically depressing enough, i wouldn't be surprised if they end up being true.

For a set of this price tag, it should definitely include more than four true minifigures, but who else could it possibly be except more Galactic Marines? Yeah, it will probably just be a couple of B1s and that's that. Maybe not as worse as the odds were in the scene your GIF is based on. These specific odds are reserved for an official Mara Jade Skywalker minifigure.

Okay, exsqueeze me, i'm gonna settle that it was clearly intended to reflect on the Lego logo and named after it, but looks more like the fast food killer clown. Culminating in the McDonald Lego Astromech Droid. All of it. Just hang on to your tiny terrific plastic pieces, Plo. Just. A. Few. Bucks. Off. As in my creature feature habit of mind, Microfighters are still ten bucks.

Somehow... mind tricks returned. Haha, well, sometimes your brain just doesn't properly process the spelled out info right away. Because in this instance, you've probably heard about "pick a brick" more than "BrickPrick". So you would obviously think about the former, without giving it a second thought and thus not reading it through. The same way you wouldn't perceive some typos as such, as if you got the meaning of the message, it doesn't matter... you already know what you needed to know. So your mind basically doesn't bother, too. Hope i made some sense out of it. This actually reminds me.. everybody and their mother is calling the Astromech Droid from set 75393 the McDonald's one due to the color scheme. Despite it's name literally being a wordplay for Lego and the design actually reflect their yellow and red branding.

I agree. However, if we don't get anything at all, i won't take that as a sign of Lego abondoning Andor because of that single scene. As the chances of getting more sets of this sub-theme are already relatively slim to begin with. Speaking of slim... Day #28 of asking Lego not to belittle the upcoming Clone Turbo Tank. For the love of the maker, please let this be a good leak week. Lest my dreams will only be filled with pauldrons, kamas and capes in all their ways, shapes and forms.