General Magma

I'm looking for multiples of the Rebel Pilot from 2014's 75032 Microfighter X-wing. With or without helmet, no blaster needed either, but everything else (head, torso and legs) is needed. I would prefer to trade things but if you've got some for sale for a reasonable price, I'd be open to proposals as for that as well. As for trading, I've got various older Star Wars figures, as well as Castle, some LOTR,The Hobbit as well as some space minifigs, and several figures from various different Collectible Minifigures series.

I just don't understand why they couldn't just treat people with some nice arm printing and extra leg printing, maybe some dual molded legs. Even if just on the arms of the Imperial Gunners so they'd have similar arms to the pilot from the UCS TIE Fighter. It would just make the figures that much better plus it would make those arm pieces a little more available. I can only hope they're going to start doing more arm printing in 2017.

Light grey? No way, his white is just as white as stormtrooper white.

I really hope they're finally going to add dual molding to some of the Star Wars minifigures. The Jedi should have boots, and Yoda should have olive green feet with toe patterns. It would be very disappointing if LEGO's most popular theme didn't get to have such detailed minifigures in a year of multiple hyper-detailed figures in even small to medium sized sets. (The LEGO Batman Movie, other superheroes sets...)

I've got to say, even the printing on the minifigures is mediocre compared to modern standards. Ben Kenobi's still got his crappy "robes" that only cover the front of his legs. Silly curtains. No hip printing on the stormtroopers. No leg printing on Leia whatsoever. It's just disappointing all around, really. Superhero sets get all the dual molded arms, legs, printed arms, printed legs, even side print on legs, but Star Wars figures are getting the short end of the stick, left to run behind today's standards. They're just gonna keep updating figures every few years like this, continuously disturbing collectors.

Is that image of the Death Star's box art with the Millennium Falcon silhouette real? Oh come on... by now you should know about the incredible shapes that can be accomplished with LEGO pieces. I haven't used the famous 2x4 brick in any MOCs these past years at all! The least they could've done was add some good slopes to give the thing a better look.

Yes, instead people have to pay $100 extra (as far as the info from sources goes but I trust them on that) for a few hundred little random pieces tossed around the set.

I agree, the set is absolutely not up to today's standards. They put zero effort into even slightly updating the model. The rough, blocky edges alone are off-putting enough to make me say 'no'. Also, I'm almost willing to bet Leia is going to have plain white legs again. And Ben Kenobi will have those robes again that only cover the front of his legs. LEGO, can you please just start adding more arm printing, side leg printing and some dual molded stuff to Star Wars figures like the Superhero figures are getting, and put more thought into finding the best solution for pulling off certain looks? Kenobi's legs should be dual molded (dark brown & tan). I had to paint the sides and back sides of the legs on my own Kenobi figure myself because it looked so bad. And where's the hip printing on the stormtroopers? Are we going to be getting Imperial troopers with hip printing in the Rogue One sets, but not here, and then get stormtroopers with hip printing in next year's battlepacks? So much to complain about but it's only justified when they went lazy-mode on a set that is going to cost half a grand.

Similar? This is not what I expected when every source said "similar" - this thing is exactly the same as 10188, only with updated figures and most definitely lots of unnecessary little random parts stuffed around it to make it 100 dollars more expensive. I rarely complain about sets (I didn't even complain about the much hated Assault on Hoth, which I agree was disappointing but at least had a novelty-factor) and I know what to expect of most sets, but this is just utterly lazy. Most disappointing year for Star Wars UCS sets yet. They didn't even attempt to update anything except for the minifigures. They could've just kept 10188 on the market and swapped all the minifigures (like they've done in the past with certain minifig parts that went out of production due to updated versions) instead of dropping this absolute cash grab on top of us. This is not to say I ever hated 10188, and I did want it when I was many years younger, but the new version doesn't even have some kind of novelty-factor to convince me. The only things I'm interested in from this set are the minifigures, which I will undoubtedly collect (unless I already have them) for my OT minifig collection, but the rest of my money goes to saving up for a potential new Millennium Falcon. Also, why did they think the Mini TIE would be a good idea to do again? They could've at least done something different from 10188 and made a mini Star Destroyer to scale with the Death Star, but even that was too much...

They're not working...

I hope they'll at least add a couple of stormtrooper helmets if they end up having figures of Luke and Han in disguise in the set.

I hope we're going to see some of Jabba's other thugs in the Desert Skiff set. In the previous one, we got Kithaba, the Klatooinian. Now we'll hopefully get the Nikto, Vizam (he'd be the first non-Clone Wars LEGO figure of a Nikto alien species), or maybe the other Weequay character (so not Pagetti Rook, which we already got in the most recent Sail Barge set), or perhaps the human with some kind of headwrap hat. Those were all present on the skiff Luke was on.

These sets look pretty great, but the figures even moreso. I look forward to adding all of those to my collection of OT(/GCW) era figures, if anything! There's something about the U-wing that caught my eye. I'm currently in the process of making my own version of an X-wing, and I noticed a piece I'd never seen before on the U-wing, attached to the exact same round piece I'm using for my X-wing. Has anybody been able to identify this piece, and if so, can anybody tell me which piece it is? Otherwise, I'm going to assume this is an entirely new piece made for the set. It's the thin, light grey piece.

Because it's a general discussion thread now. There will probably be many custom items in the future, as well as discussions about existing sets, or new (or older) LEGO pieces that could be used for LOTR minifigures, etc.

Your best bet would be to wait until the first pictures of the sets start showing up. He's in the trailer for The LEGO Batman Movie, so there's a good chance that he will show up in a set as well, though.

I'm really hoping they'll use the 20 slots on unique and special looking figures. The only thing that would make the beach Batman even slightly special (to me, at least) would be the level of availability of the torso rising up again, but I'm sure there are a lot more interesting things that they could do with this. They are charging us about $4 per figure, after all, so the least they can do is make it full of cool, special looking figures.

Comes from the red pauldron on one of his arms. Take a close look at the picture you posted of the real costume from SWCE. The figure looks fantastic, surely, but it's simply disappointing how they can't be bothered to do any dual mold printing on any of the Star Wars figures so far.

That looks nothing like Han Solo's hair. Too short, if anything. The new Han hairpiece is superb.

New hairpiece for Han looks phenomenally better than the old one. I bet they'll be dropping one into the Desert Skiff as well, so they won't be too hard to come by. "That one's culturally insensitive."

Has anybody seen this yet? I hope we'll see the other three members of the A-Team, as pictured here, in minifig form as well.

The silver protocol droid is E-3PO. His photoreceptors ("eyes") are white, like E-3PO's. U-3PO's photoreceptors have more of a yellowish tint, and the droid is simply far too clean looking to be C-3PO from AOTC. So that's my conclusion here: it's E-3PO.

The current design, other than the hips, truly is perfect as it is now. New hips would be the icing on the cake, and they'd be in a cheap set too, which means that any hips on the 2014 versions could be swapped quite easily. Bricklink's your friend, there. I personally am counting on seeing new hips.

It sounds like we're getting two stormtroopers and two death troopers in the battlepack. I'd much rather have three stormtroopers and one death trooper, wouldn't make much sense to me to have stormtrooper and death trooper forces be equal in size... But, glad to be getting an OT stormtrooper battlepack in the first place, and looking at the troopers from the Rogue One sets, I think we can expect updated hip printing there.

Good to see another OT stormtrooper in there, as well. That should help bump down the BL prices a little, and the new battlepacks in 2017 even more so. I'm just wondering if the stormtrooper included in the advent calendar is meant to weed out the remaining ones with black hips, though. This year's Rogue One sets have troopers with hip printing, which means that we might see that on stormies as well in 2017.

Sounds like a good wave! I hope they'll finally chuck a Bantha somewhere in there as well, but a Tusken in another set alone is great to have. It will drag down the BL prices, if anything. But one of the best, to me, has to be the Galactic Empire battlepack with OT stormtroopers in it. That one's long overdue! Looking forward to the rest, too.