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I didn't realise that one character was yellow. Very interesting. Those pics also confirm that the short woodland character's hood and antlers are all one piece. Overall, a really excellent series with tons of good printing all over. I honestly have no complaints They're not all my cup of tea, but they're all very well done.

Dang these look great! I have no connection to DnD whatsover but I do like mediaeval and fantasy LEGO, and there is so much great stuff here. I can see myself getting at least 7 or 8 of the 12.

There have been electric components in town/city sets since at least as far back as the 1980s. For example. And that's continued ever since in various iterations, with light and sound. This is just the latest, integrating new technology. You can still not like it of course, but it isn't new for LEGO to mix in electric stuff.

You can create (or dig up, if one exists) a topic in the section for discussion Eurobricks itself to talk about this if you want to: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/forum/6-forum-information-and-help/ Please don't derail this one (or ones in City) with discussions about overall forum structure.

No we don't, and why are you posting about those sets in this 2025 topic when they're supposed to be 2024 sets still...

It's not really that difficult to understand. This (the Action and Adventure Themes) section is for all of LEGO's original action themes (that aren't directly space or castle related). Right now that's just Monkie Kid and Ninjago. The LEGO Town section is where we put the main discussion topics for all of the City-branded sets, though that doesn't stop relevant ones being discussed elsewhere, like the Space line being discussed in the Sci-Fi section in addition to the Town section. Indiana Jones is in Licensed, because it's a Licensed them. (Yes there are a couple of exceptions to that rule, like PotC when it existed in the Pirates section and LotR in the History section). There's no need for a dedicated section for adventure type themes, and to be honest, the current City-branded jungle theme that includes Johnny Thunder is way less action-adventure-y than the 2017 one, and way more in line with LEGO's recent arctic or Africa themes, which nobody was arguing should be here in Action and Adventure Themes. Ultimately we try to have the structure to be as user friendly as it can, while also parcelling out the active themes to keep all of the different sections alive (where there's interest in them), but of course there is overlap here and there and we just have to make a call.

I can either agree or agree to disagree with a lot of your points besides this one. The way he ends up in jail is awesome. Wrong place at the wrong time thrown into the Empire's essentially slave labour machine for doing nothing. It really shows the Empire's complete disregard for life. Bob's Starfighter does look a lot better in person than in the first picture, but I don't personally have any nostalgia for Jedi Bob (I was into LEGO then, I just don't get the hype/longing), and the other characters add nothing, so it's not one I'm after. Onyx looks good for what it is / in general, but unfortunately the ship itself doesn't have a very appealing design for me. That's in contrast to the Scythe for instance, which looks awesome even with no attachment to the show it appeared in. Fondor please LEGO

I think add-ons, even if they're Minifigures, definitely add perceived value. If it's just a ship, even if it has a more refined build or more pieces than the previous version, ultimately two versions of a ship function about the same. If one is vastly more expensive, the comparison is worse. If one contains some cool side stuff though, it will feel much better. Also agreed the AAT was at least $5 too expensive at the time, but Ahsoka and the clone did make it feel exciting...

Not debating that the interceptor will be overpriced, but both the AAT and Republic Fighter Tank were under 290 pieces and USD $40 and didn't feel terrible due to what they included. Also, 9494 had 300 pieces and was $40 back in 2012, which again didn't feel too awful due to the extras included. $45 for 290 pieces in 2024 isn't completely beyond the pale, as long as there are good inclusions besides just the starfighter itself.

Indeed it is just decorated, not dual moulded. As an aside, without hard data, but I feel like I've noticed that elements with "complex printing" like the goat are some of the most expensive on PaB. For instance dual moulded legs even with print on the front have come down in price, but legs printed on the side are incredibly expensive comparatively. Or Mr Tang's hat from 80045, which is decorated and not dual moulded - far more expensive than most dual moulded hat-hair combos. If they'd gone and redesigned the goat to have a separate plastic injection for the horns (which would've made a lot of sense), I bet it would've been cheaper for us ultimately. The decorated horns require a specially set up machine to get that print applied, and is more time consuming and hence costly than dual moulding.

On the Minifigure discussion, it's crazy to me that after 25 years we've still never gotten Boss Nass, Shmi or pre-covering 3PO (who could've been the figure with the big 3PO really). Not to mention Naboo handmaidens or Padme in any outfit besides Tatooine and the one Queen one. Not saying any of those could've fit in the sets they decided to produce for this year, though the Infiltrator could've used another character or two from the actual movie. We all used to semi-bag LEGO for throwing "extraneous" characters into ship sets, but these days the ships are just as expensive without the extras, for the most part.

I've got to say the Hoopty and X-Jet are in the exact same basket, and the last Grevious Starfighter as well. They're all absolutely absurd "how can that be the actual RRP" sets. What's more, Yoda's starfighter is USD $5 more than Obi-Wan's for fewer pieces and fewer Minifigures (not to mention no new mould). That's not as bad as this new one being a full $10 more than Yoda's, but there's just no justifying a lot of these things.

Ah cool, an obscure variant from a single Clone Wars episode for the RotS anniversary year - right up the current Star Wars team's alley. A new version of Clone Wars Ahsoka will be great to get, though I wonder what they'll do for her montrals.

The Interceptor better include Grevious, Magnaguards, Palps, Dooku, Anakin and Obi-Wan and a moulded buzz droid to justify that kind of price.

I think what's going on is they have the dark brown cape's element and design ID linked to the multipack from Rivendell, and they have mistakenly added that to the PaB inventory for 10332, which does indeed include a dark brown cape, but doesn't actually include that multipack. So yeah, whether you pick it having found in in the 10332 inventory or elsewhere, you'll get the multipack, but it is technically a "mistake" to have it in the 10332 inventory.

No that's for sure the cape pack from Rivendell @BitByBrick. Four small capes in four colours, standard long cape in dark brown, single hole dark grey cape for Gandalf. Each cape is individually listed with its own element and design ID, but they all have the same name of the multipack. That's just the particular part element and design ID for the standard long cape in dark brown.

Have you actually ever seen this happen with a particular part? People said it would be the case with the sheep. It wasn't. People have said it would be the case with various of the new classic space helmets, but those two have had periods of time in stock, as far as I'm aware. Genuinely curious. Personally I really don't think resellers abusing PaB is as real a thing as people speculate it to be.

Interestingly both of the green turtles have come down in price since I purchased them. When I bought them in late 2023, they were both $4.02 USD. Now they're $3.44 for the large one and $3.01 for the small one. Maybe it's because they're bestseller now and weren't when I ordered them. In any case, both of those prices are lower than the goat.

Yeah capes have already been a bit ludicrous for a while, but they're just not as desirable an object as new animals so there's not as much attention on it.

Absolutely absurd prices. That's around the same as the last lions, which felt like a lot for those, but at least those were fairly big with multiple parts to allow pose-ability. I'd have accepted around $3 USD. Not more.

Red, white and dark grey with a little light grey and black is just very unattractive to me...

Wow my first impression was that it was super ugly! The colour scheme as presented in that photo is not working for me at all, and while the centre section shaping is better than 75333, it seems incredibly wide. Again, could just be that photo though. I wasn't going to buy this anyway, but I'm surprised at the positive reactions. Glad people like it though, as I prefer positively generally over too much negativity! (It's also not really like the Azure Angel, which has the flared out front sections over the big air intake thingies)

The OP does seem like a bot, but the discussion is legit. Carry on.

I think they've taken the goat down entirely at the moment. I can't find it on the two regions I make orders from. Will probably be back with a more expected price.

Build able creature being the Droid fun set. Though I recall the Luke report being that he has his Final Duel diorama hair, not another new hairpiece, so that wasn't wrong.