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I wouldn't put much stock on those bricks shown in the photo being the actual bricks you get to work with. It's obviously Photoshopped and probably just a stock image of some bricks they use for promo shots like this. It could be almost anything even with the CC image in the background. It does give a 'Cloud Car' kind of silhouette but I won't start guessing what it is based on that.

Exactly. Now get me some updated torsos!

I wouldn't get too excited about a Tantive IV set. Apparently the Rebel Fleet Trooper is from one of the 4+ sets. Probably the TIE.

Keep that part of it exclusive to that set. They did it with Saruman in the Orthanc set when they included him and Gandalf in the Wizard Battle set. Orthanc had printed skirt piece and WB had plain white legs.

They haven't. Mimban Stormtrooper had an additional shield part above the brow. That was also a single moulded piece. This new Stormtrooper helmet is dual moulded.

I think there's some lens distortion on that image as well as the angle of the lens in relation to the helmet. The brow line is arched so it's obviously looking upwards. This seems to lower the back part of the cheek tubes and makes the dome smaller. In the other shot of the four figures the proportion seems much better. It's actually more accurate to the actual film stunt helmets although the old one feels more familiar and obviously has excellent print on it now. It's also 'compressed' in the same kind of proportion that the rest of the figure is. Lego figures are far more squat than humans so the existing helmet seems to fit that better proportionally, whereas the new one is more accurate so seems off in comparison. Some BrickLink sellers are now seeing their stock of existing SW585s fly out of their stores. :)

The one with the four figures. It looks much better on that.

Just seen a different image of the new Stormy and the helmet looks much better in this pic. I think there may be some lens distortion on the first photo which is making it look very off. I'm softening my stance a little on it. The set with Leia, Luke and the Stormy?

We'll find out soon enough just how common it will be. Same as any new Pilots and whether they use the dual moulded helmet

New Stormtrooper helmet has leaked. I have to say I think it looks terrible. Looks like they've dual moulded the black into it rather than printed it. Because of that the shape looks off to me. Much prefer the current one.

I think $4 price points are for polybags. At least that’s what I assume them to be. No figures, just a small build in a bag.

From Solo. He's in the Imperial AT-Hauler set.

LOTR and Hobbit was a short run theme (or two separate themes) rather than something that's been going for 20 years. Large creatures were more prominent in LOTR than they are in SW where they're more like side characters. I don't think Gollum can be included in that as it's just a small character mould, we can include things like Max Rebo, Salacious Crumb or other head moulds such as Ithorian, Bith or Trandoshan if we're going with that. I can think of several other large creatures that didn't get made from LOTR that really should have. Most of the main characters in SW are regular minifigs. With those we have ships and locations. Lots of them. There were no 'ships' in LOTR except for the one actual ship set that nobody wanted. We have different kinds of sets for SW. Besides the Bantha I can't think of anything OT that needs to be made with regards to a large moulded creature that hasn't already been done. This is all from someone thinking we should have a moulded Dewback in a micro fighters set. I just don't think it's doing to happen. In fact I'm pretty sure it isn't going to happen. I don't think Lego will have 'failed' or 'missed a trick' by it being brick built.

Dewback, Wampa, Tauntaun, Jabba, Rancor... SW has had a few.

I'm not convinced by the Dewback being the regular moulded one. I'd say it's some kind of brick based thing rather than moulded.

Unfortunately once something is posted like this then people are going to spread it. Especially as it's not image based but down to description. So much of what's being 'leaked' seems to point towards new figures and some classic yellow figures being included in those sets. I'll be interested to see if the print details is simplified at all on the 4+ sets. Normally the Juniors sets have had normal print detailing but it'll be interested to see if that DS Escape Leia is the same as the Death Star version. Same with the helmet moulding for any pilots. Whether they go with the new dual moulded piece or stick to the classic shape.

Because they seem to have decided that one large playlet and one large display set is their preferred route at the moment. One is a large scale single build and the other is more of a location based set with lots of figures. How do you not know about the Cloud City set?

Besides Sneakguest being right anyway and Balrog also clarifying things I'll add one thing: Anything released by Lucasfilm after 2014 is canon. Book, Comic, Film, TV series... anything. It's all canon. They've done a lot of reorganising things from that point in clarifying what is canon and what is legends. What is now legends could still become canon if it's included in any media released from this point, although that doesn't mean that the whole background of a particular character or story would become canon... just that particular part of it's existence. That figure in the stormtrooper uniform and the tank pilot helmet with the blue flashes? He's canon. In just the same way Dr Aphra and Loth-cats are canon.

As Brobert has said, they may have a list of things that are available to help promote across various media, whether that be comics, games, movies, TV shows etc. There may have been a discussion that a set like this would help to promote the game as well as having ties with Rogue One and it's appearance in comics.

I'm with Lego on this one. Dropship scams and fraud in general can have a hugely damaging effect on a companies bottom line. If the best thing to do to combat this is put in place a rule that may inconvenience some but will protect others then I'm sure that's the best policy for them. I'd say getting 200 VIP points simply because you were inconvenienced by other people committing fraud and your University postal delivery service being sketchy isn't a bad result. Customer service also aren't going to discuss policy decisions such as this as the person making the complaint could get the hump because they feel like they're being accused of fraud themselves.

I thought I remembered a civil war style torso from Citizen Brick but it has yellow instead of green. Otherwise it would have been a pretty good option. Thinking about it. Do you want me to set you up a decal of this torso?

I don't think they're dual moulded. The black looks printed onto the legs along with the light grey under neath it. There's a sliver of colour on the side of the originally leaked photo that shows the colour of the leg at the outer side of the top part of the leg. If they were black dual moulded with the pearl dark grey / flat silver bottom it wouldn't have this.

The TIE Advanced that was on the shelves last year with the A-Wing is a perfectly good one.

Apparently the castle is in support of a VR game that features these characters. We'll find out for certain when the times comes I suppose.

The only problem with them is that they have boot and Lando just wore shoes with regular long pants. He didn't graduate to the boots gang until he became a fully-fledged rebel.