Calanon

It's a lot easier to build something better than it is to give Thrawn the correct rank insignia. Plus, I'm pretty okay with most of the sets themselves.

It is, but we're gonna buy it regardless for Thrawn and they know that. But the fact that his rank insignia is wrong makes it a lot less tempting for me.

How did they get Thrawn's rank insignia wrong.

Not always, no. Although the mods haven't requested any take down of the other images that we have. Can still be better to make sure though first.

Angry Thrawn, you say? Highly, highly disappointing that he does not have red eyes though. Custom decal it is.

To be fair, most of the world is getting Rogue One on the 15th or 16th. But thank you for clarifying.

Two weeks from when exactly? The 14th?

I am very much looking forward to getting this. It's a very nice y-wing. And of course, as La Chupacabra said, more sw585!

To be honest, when they started adding the stud blasters I was quite surprised they didn't have the old blasters as well. It would definitely have alleviated many people's issues and best of both worlds. I did end up going to Brickarms in the end so I could properly distinguish units, but it would be nice if in battlepacks they had both options.

It's pretty nice that they're all new. Is there a link to the cleaner pictures or is that the one from a few days ago? I was hoping for an Endor-style helmet, but alas. I can't seem them changing the over-sized goggles to be honest. Smaller, more accurate ones would be lovely but they'd also be thinner and a lot more prone to breaking. If only Arealight could make some reasonably-sized ones for us AFOLs...

What the hell, no tow cable? 0/10, this build sucks!! This is absolutely gorgeous, the first version was so too but this is even better. I definitely prefer the rear of this one too, the lack of the underneath of tiles is very nice. I am looking forward to using your guide to build one of my own (but with a tow cable ).

The thing with the x-wings is that they're a dirty white/very light grey. There is a light stone grey which might be suitable, but that's only used for technic pieces really. Medium stone grey, aka light bley, is a bit too dark for x-wings. There will always be slight colour inaccuracies when it's something like that as it's more of an inbetween. In the case of Kylo's shuttle, however... that's a bit more obvious. Nothing really springs to mind other than that, perhaps some older sets. The imperial officers having tan uniform in Rebels sets is annoying and canonically wrong, but there are many cases where it does look somewhat tan.

These are really good! The cockpit interiors especially are great.

Is that absolute, or possibly angle or something? Slightly annoying and strange if so. At least it isn't suddenly a case of white hips with printing (actually I'd like that).

What's the difference? I feel blind.

Ah okay I misread your post then. The only real difference is no ammo pouch printed and no pauldron though, which is accurate for at least three so I'm definitely not bothered by that. I'm hoping in the film it's two with pauldron, four without because then it'll be perfect. If Thrawn's eyes aren't actually red then I'll probably (when I actually learn >.>) make a custom decal with red eyes. I would be highly surprised if they got such a key detail wrong though.

The issue with the 2016 battlepack was that the two stormtroopers had battle damage which is hard to army build with. I don't think anyone had an issue with the jetpacks. Where were people complaining about the plain stormies though? I haven't seen any... (I haven't been reading every post though).

These look really great, and aside from Duel on Naboo (and even then it's a maybe, I would like Qui-Gonn) I want them all. Definitely going to buy two imperial battle packs as soon as they're out.

Dammit, I'm going to have to miss this event then as the 23rd is my final day off of uni.

Even if Revan is US/Can only, it should bring prices down for the rest of us. However... I seriously, seriously hope it's not US/Can only. It'll be a great excuse for me to buy a set again this year.

The minifigs certainly look fantastic - the new officer does seem to be Moradmin Bast, but for some reason with a black cap rather than a grey one and a light-grey tunic for some reason. There's definitely also a lot of subtle improvements in the design of the Death Star Now, if only I was wealthier...

Because they are confident in their victory. I am quite confused who the new officer minifigure is meant to be. I'll wait until I can clearly see the rank insignia, although it feels like a random officer that, for some reason, has light grey.

What's wrong with the new cape fabric? And Vader came with the new cape in the TIE Advanced set also.

Red, red, red, I think also more red. Of course, that doesn't stop them from potentially doing something different as they did with the Mon Cal Cruiser set, but my bet it will be red.

This is seriously blowing the original away in terms of design! By the way, are the new centre cannons more stable in this version? Because on mine with your first design they always fall off.