Clone OPatra

I agree that there's something that just feels wrong with these new two downsized Slave I sets, and it puts me off them. It's odd though because plenty of other ships are massively downsized too and don't make me feel the same way, like Ahsoka's T6 or the Bad Batch shuttle. Those aren't spectacular sets by any means, but they just don't feel quite as wrong as the Slave I. Maybe it's that you can see the entire Minifigure sitting there in the cockpit, and that looks goofy, or it's that we got proper larger versions before and so these seem quite poor by comparison.

This is an absolutely awesome wave for prequel era fans. People have waiting a looong time to get the likes of Bly and Bacara, and stuff like a CIS MTT, a new V19, Lama Su, Jango again (in a smaller set), an early season CW Obi-Wan (who looks amazing), a proper Clone pilot. But then the compromises that have been made on the larger sets especially, compared to their prices, really take the wind out of the sails.

Yeah, perhaps LAN is testing out some different strategies. For run of the mill sets, and especially now that LAN is most focused on kids/the rampant and perhaps casual social media crowd, it doesn't make much sense to have the reviews posted when the sets aren't even available yet. Surely it would be better to be able to watch someone's Insta reel and then be able to immediately order the set. There is also just SO much coming out at once that perhaps they're really triaging these days. It's all becoming very controlled.

This conversation has been had before in other chase figure contexts (Comic Con exclusives for instance), but fans' behaviour and willingness to collect these doesn't excuse crappy and consumer unfriendly tactics on the part of a big profitable company. I'm not asking that LEGO hands out every new colour as a $5 CMF by any means. I have no problem at all with them coming in an expensive set like the prize machine, knowing that they will make their way to PaB too (which is also not cheap by any means, especially with high fee-free thresholds and $15 shipping here in Australia). I don't think I'd even totally mind the torso with correct arms and hands coming in one set, and the helmet and tanks coming in another later, or vice versa. But to put a variant in a $30+ book (orange, intially), and even worse to drip feed them into the much less accessible BAM without even the right colour hands, strikes me as a dog move.

What about black? I hear that. I do like my five green ones and it felt great to complete them with the helmets after so long. I'm this far in and have them all so far (besides the light gray / light bluish gray which I personally don't count), but the more LEGO does annoying releases for them, the more likely I am to stop. Having so many blue variants also doesn't actually interest me. I'd like something whacky like a flesh tone.

I'm getting a bit weary of these chase classic space figures, to be honest, and how much of a deluge we're now getting. These dark and light blue ones only available through BAM, again to cobble together with different hands and helmets and airtanks coming later in sets (and much later than that on PaB) - plus two more variants releasing at the same time in the prize machine.... it's tiring at this point. I'm personally lucky I was in the US at the right time to get a couple of the dark blue ones, and there were torsos available with dark blue hands at the same time. The $20 AUD price here in Australia is not good value at all, and yet I should still feel lucky we even have Certified Stores with BAM at all! I feel like the desirable exclusive part recolours they were doing for BAM have also dried up to a large extent, with them instead just focusing on things like prints or costume figure recolours. I suppose those are very popular, but not to me - recoloured hairpieces and animals are far more interesting for my collection. So it's really going to feel like spending $20 to get a few torsos, and a bunch of other stuff I could take or leave.

Sets like Malfoy Manor and the current big Hogwarts sections are absolutely playsets. They are designed to be played with. Designing products as playsets doesn't mean that the designers focus solely on the play factors and forget all other aspects. Especially with this line, they know that older teens and adults are interested, so they design well-rounded sets that can be played with and look good. Looking good and being able to be displayed doesn't make the sets not playsets though.

The 7190 Falcon is still the only one I own, but yeah, it really lived up to the quote "what a piece of junk!" That thing did NOT play well at all and would essentially break when touched. This on the other hand, looks fabulous. I love the concept of only using parts available from the era, and goes to show it was partially more about the design conventions of the time and how they have progressed rather than simply the parts available.

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Let's stick with product lines that are either released or fully revealed. There are plenty to choose from!

Yes DnD counts!

Yeah sorry I should've specified, I meant here in Australia where four of the five major retailers run 20% off sales on a regular basis, and the fifth sells things below full RRP from the start. Those patient in Australia can always do better than 20% off too, for non-LEGO exclusives.

You should include at least two Licensed IPs meeting, but beyond that you can use non-licensed figures too.

We are lucky with the discounts we have here in Aus. I haven't been following the prices of these because I'm personally not interested, but for anything I do want, I always wait for good sales. And yeah, the pricetag says D2C, but on the other hand the plus of them not being D2C is that they're available at all stores and thus will be on good sale.

Frankly I find the prices of the latest system rather incredible. I get that LEGO is committed to rebooting Hogwarts and had to do something different, but this time around it's Hogwarts for the wealthy and just wearing that openly. I know there's a lot of wealth in the world and LEGO has "always been an expensive luxury", but I feel for the average families with a kid who is into Harry Potter and LEGO because I'd imagine that this version of Hogwarts would be well out of reach. It's only the second year and the system is already over $600 USD all up, or nearly $500 for just the two big buildings (in the US with tax anyway).

The first Petunia face was pretty good for Petunia, but not Maarva.

Privet Drive is objectively better than the last one (besides Petunia's face), and I liked the last one. But if it's really $90 USD RRP? Woof. Yes it's a very commonly reused head.

Wow I love the Wario. Might just have to get that one for my little LEGO Mario collection, and since I don't already have any Boo, it's a win win.

Face looks like the young Han Solo face (which they used for Cedric way back in the Clocktower set) and the hair is just Clone Wars Anakin hair. Nothing new st all, and baffling they'd revert to those bad options when they've used much better ones since.

Wow I love the Spider-Man 2 set and am so glad they're revisiting stuff like this. Never mind that half the figures don't "belong in the scene" because it's a great little homage to the film, and they (astonishingly) did it all right! Shame if it will really be $50 USD RRP (making that $70 or $80 AUD??) but patience is a virtue.

Yes they're a new single-piece mould. The Dreamlings piece is a small body on which to attach Minifigure (or bigfig) heads.

The backlash to Last Jedi was absolutely immense. So immense that Disney quickly changed course on their series. But it's different. People were clamoring for and wondering about new Star Wars for 15 years when Phantom Menace released, and it was the Star Wars creator himself delivering odd and clunky ideas with slow pacing where zippy inventive fun and relatable characters had once reigned. People were very excited for the sequels, but still approaching it with some trepidation now that it was Big Corporate running the show. I remember the rumours of Force Awakens starting with Luke's hand floating through space and thinking, ok, we'll wait and see. "Half the excitement, .5 the letdown" - Count Dooku.

Personally I think there's more to it than that, which partially comes down to whether or not Disney keeps the characters and general timeline of the sequels alive or not. Apart from some pivots surrounding the backlash to Jar Jar, George always stood by his choices/films and, like I said, kept the Prequel timeline alive with new material like the Clone Wars show. Disney set out to do all they could to distance themselves from the prequels, yet had obviously lost faith in their own new trilogy by the end of it, and now have done all they can to focus on anything but the sequels. People having seen and liked the films as kids isn't enough alone. Some (good) Rey movies to keep it going would help.

People keep saying this, but I really don't see it, to the same extent. The prequels are clunky films with some relatively interesting ideas, plus a lot of new memorable iconography (ships, droids, characters, etc). The sequels are slick films with relatively uninteresting ideas that devolve as they go along, and besides a few trooper designs and Kylo Ren, a minor amount of memorable iconography that isn't just something slightly modified from the OT. George also kept building on the Prequels with Clone Wars debuting only a few years after RotS, feeding into a generation of fondness for the era, whereas here we are six years after Rise of Skywalker and Disney is yet to set anything during the actual sequel timeline or with sequel characters (partially because the sequel timeline is so condensed). So no, I don't think there's going to be a rush of admiration for the sequels unless they can get a Rey movie/trilogy off the ground that actually builds on the sequels and helps anyone like them retrospectively. As for LEGO, the company should really prioritise filling the remaining prequel gaps before they do more sequel material, IMO. Insane we still haven't gotten Shmi and Boss Nass after all these years.

Those Friends baby heads are insanity! $9.83 in Australia! And once again I don't understand why they have been withholding so many Ninjago Minifigure prints from the service. The unique helmets and those little dragons and stuff are there, but not some heads, torsos and legs.