LEGO Star Wars 2025 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[Kaijumeister]

45 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The only potentially interesting thing about the Slave I playset is gonna be the Kaminoan. If it‘s Lama Su, that is. Given their weird choices this year, I wouldn‘t be surprised to see Taun We again, meaning you end up with two Taun Wes if you wanna recreate the chase scene

I would’ve put Obi-Wan in the set just so Jango can fight him, but I suppose that would scupper sales of his Delta-7. It’s such an odd decision releasing a playscale and UCS version of a ship within literal months of each other.

A new hair / hat combo for Dedra would be awesome. Hell they made a specialised hair / hat mould for Rose’s First Order disguise that only ever appeared in one set! Nothing is impossible.

Given that the V-19 includes Obi-Wan in his Clone Wars armour, I hope we get Anakin in his armour too at some point, as weary as I am of clone sets. Personally I think the MTT should’ve included Season 1 Anakin along with Phase 1 Rex and some other clones.

 

[Samppu]

10 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

The 501st battle pack movement was awesome, the community came together and campaigned for a set they wanted. Lego benefitted greatly by making tons of money off the set by selling it at twice the amount of a normal battle pack. It was a win win situation, not sure why anyone would be upset about that. I participated as well, it was a fun moment for the community. Keep in mind at that time it had been years since the last real clone battle pack.

My thoughts exactly.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but personally I enjoy alien characters in battlepacks, even the infamous phase I clone & jedi combination.

Granted, it makes army building more difficult, but on the other hand, it makes amassing civilian citizens so much easier compared to the situation where those alien head pieces only came in expensive sets.

Do it either way, you can always find a reason to praise or complain, I guess.

So far at least I personally have found excellent uses for the Ki Adi Mundi and Barris Offee pieces, and in ways, which do not feel overusing the same pieces. Particularly Mundi's torso is very desirable.

[wesker]

1 hour ago, Kaijumeister said:

Given that the V-19 includes Obi-Wan in his Clone Wars armour, I hope we get Anakin in his armour too at some point, as weary as I am of clone sets. Personally I think the MTT should’ve included Season 1 Anakin along with Phase 1 Rex and some other clones.

Hopefully the next time we get Season 1 Anakin he has the correct colors for his costume.

It would also be nice to see the heroes paired with a villain more frequently like Obi-Wan and Ventress are about to in the V-19. Dooku and Grievous are both overdue for another appearance. Other recurring villains from the series like Season 1 Cad Bane, Aurra Sing, Pre Vizsla and Savage Opress could also use a much needed remake.

[Darth_Bane13]

46 minutes ago, Samppu said:

My thoughts exactly.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but personally I enjoy alien characters in battlepacks, even the infamous phase I clone & jedi combination.

Granted, it makes army building more difficult, but on the other hand, it makes amassing civilian citizens so much easier compared to the situation where those alien head pieces only came in expensive sets.

Do it either way, you can always find a reason to praise or complain, I guess.

So far at least I personally have found excellent uses for the Ki Adi Mundi and Barris Offee pieces, and in ways, which do not feel overusing the same pieces. Particularly Mundi's torso is very desirable.

I still think the bounty hunter battle pack is one of the best of all time, 4 desirable named characters for $15, which is unheard of today.

 

MTT is rumored to have 20 more pieces than the 2014 one so I guess it'll be around the same size.

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I hope not. Including two Stormies is the lamest thing they could do when the Death Trooper helmet piece is back!

I'll take it if it means the Death Trooper helmet in the night trooper set has damage to expose their jaws.

2 hours ago, JohnTPT17 said:

Hopefully those Stormtroopers were just blurry/in the background and we get something a little more unique. Otherwise, glad to see that K2S0 and Dedra seem to be in the pipeline. If it's death troopers/shore troopers/something besides basic Stormtroopers, I might look into the whole set - otherwise, just K2S0. Maybe Dedra - depends on what she looks like and how expensive she would go for on Bricklink. 

I think it'd be pretty difficult for someone to mistake death troopers for stormtroopers, the only ones it could turn out to be are range troopers. (Though I still do think it's stormtroopers.)

2 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Yeah I've somehow managed to end up with 4 Taun Wes after buying 2 of Obi-Wan's fighter and getting the other 2 in bulk auctions on eBay over the past couple of years so she wouldn't interest me. Lama Su, or anyone else, though? Yes please. 

I've got two here, one from the starfighter and one from the walmart parts pack, and yeah, not a ton of fun to have multiples, not much you can do with them.

14 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

MTT is rumored to have 20 more pieces than the 2014 one so I guess it'll be around the same size.

Interesting, especially since having 10 B1s implies it can hold at least a few more B1s than the 2014 version.

[CloneCommando99]

8 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Is Childish Landoino reliable?

He's posted a round up, little new information but it does list the U-Wing's Figs as Cassian, K2-SO, Dedra Meero ( @THELEGOBATMAN's Wife) and 2 Stormtroopers

 

He is reliable.

Honestly I’d have preferred both a Death Trooper and a Stormtrooper. But since this year is looking bleak for imperial military sets I’ll take some troopers wherever I can get.

 

 

Also Childish put a question mark in his list next to the Jango Fett Slave One play-set. Chat is there still hope? Or am I delusional.

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Chat is there still hope? Or am I delusional.

You‘re part of the aslume, so we all know the answer to that one  Even if Landino is unsure, the source of that rumour is Maxbautde, and he‘s never been wrong before, as far as I‘m aware, with one potential exception. If he was behind all of Promobricks‘ leaks, he certainly was wrong about Indy getting another wave 

[MaximillianRebo]

23 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Imma point out that the supposed 2015-19 ‘dark ages’ of clone sets are quite a myth. There was still a decent assortment of Clone Wars sets every year. Considering that Lego had to also juggle lineups for 3 trilogies, 2 other movies and rebels.

...

Granted, there was a lack in different units. But the reports of there being next to ‘nothing’ for Clone Wars fans during the 2015-19 era are greatly exaggerated. Especially when you consider the combined years. There was always something for Clone Wars fans. Just not the amount the films that we’re releasing at the time, ones that had stronger connections to the OT than the prequels, were getting.

I often see the years 2010-13 referred to as 'the golden age of Lego Star Wars' and I think a big contributing factor for many people was the large amount of Clone Wars sets being released during those years, primarily because that was the only new media at the time. In comparison the following years would look like a trickle to clone fans, even though there was still a steady stream of clone sets being produced, as you pointed out. Also with the sheer volume of sets produced during 2015-19 to tie in with a new movie every single year (almost double the total number of sets per year compared to what we have now) again the clone sets would appear greatly reduced when that wasn't the case. Percentage wise the amount of clone sets in the 'movie' years was a huge drop compared to the 'golden' years, but I think based purely on the number of clone sets released the difference was nowhere near as pronounced.

[Mandalorianknight]

Falcon polybag leaked, it's a falcon polybag. There's not much to say. It looks funny without a printed cockpit, but it's not like that's new for falcon polybags.

[CloneCommando99]

If there are indeed 2 stormtroopers in the U-Wing I might need to get another Dropship vs Speeder to even out my forces. (I currently have 9 modern style stormies)

 

In fact I might just use this year to build up my infantry corps. Seeing as nothing new interests me.

[CallumPears]

7 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Falcon polybag leaked, it's a falcon polybag. There's not much to say. It looks funny without a printed cockpit, but it's not like that's new for falcon polybags.

Shame about the cockpit; idk the policy on printed parts in polybags but they've included a print on that exact part in the Falcon microfighters in the past. Not a set I'm really bothered about anyway though.

Presumably it'll end up being part of the May 4th giveaway like the AAT and AT-ST did? (Speculation on my part there but seems reasonable)

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Shame about the cockpit; idk the policy on printed parts in polybags but they've included a print on that exact part in the Falcon microfighters in the past. Not a set I'm really bothered about anyway though.

Presumably it'll end up being part of the May 4th giveaway like the AAT and AT-ST did? (Speculation on my part there but seems reasonable)

Probably. I can't remember for sure if the X-wing was part of the 2023 GWPs (if it was, I somehow managed not to open it) but I know the AT-ST was and if the AAT was too that's pretty good odds. Hoping we stick with the "$35 threshold polybag, $75 threshold non-lego thing (hopefully still something cool like the DS2 coin/holo or the beskar ingot, and not the patches from the venator), $150ish threshold straight up set. Though that said, it's not like I'm gonna get them anyway. I get why they do it, but I wish they'd go back to having the GWPs alongside big release waves rather than the UCS and a few other, chiefly gimmick, sets.

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

If there are indeed 2 stormtroopers in the U-Wing I might need to get another Dropship vs Speeder to even out my forces. (I currently have 9 modern style stormies)

In fact I might just use this year to build up my infantry corps. Seeing as nothing new interests me.

Not a bad idea, if only that set was wide-release so it could go on sale at some point...

[CallumPears]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Not a bad idea, if only that set was wide-release so it could go on sale at some point...

Still possible that it does. I got the Clone and Hoth 3-figure packs at 30% off when they were retiring in January 2023, and same for the Falcon holiday diorama in 2024. 

Of course, it wasn't easy since they were constantly going in and out of stock on a daily basis so it's not a guarantee that everyone would be able to get the Dropship vs Speeder at that point.

[CloneCommando99]

I still find it hard to believe that ‘Redwood’ was a tease for the Death Star. Which is not even the 2nd Death Star by the looks of things.

Call me delusional but I think that there’s a reason the $200 18+ AT ST hasn’t been labelled as UCS.

What if it’s actually a battle of Endor book nook/ diorama? With a really detailed minifig scale AT ST included, some trees and an imperial bunker.

Source: it was revealed to me in a dream

(I am desperate) 

 

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Call me delusional but I think that there’s a reason the $200 18+ AT ST hasn’t been labelled as UCS.

Having an 18+ vehicle that‘s neither a D2C nor a UCS set is indeed rather strange  While I‘m still expecting it to be a remake of the 2006 model, I agree there‘s a slight possibility it could be a new type of set (like a large-scale diorama, as you suggest).

Edited January 31 by BrickBob Studpants

[Agent Kallus]

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I still find it hard to believe that ‘Redwood’ was a tease for the Death Star. Which is not even the 2nd Death Star by the looks of things.

Call me delusional but I think that there’s a reason the $200 18+ AT ST hasn’t been labelled as UCS.

What if it’s actually a battle of Endor book nook/ diorama? With a really detailed minifig scale AT ST included, some trees and an imperial bunker.

Source: it was revealed to me in a dream

(I am desperate) 

 

Ironic that a user with a clone user name and a clone profile picture is reduced to desperation by a clone based wave.

Redwood is a stupid hint for a death star, but then again strange hints and bizarre clues are nothing new.

Still I wouldn't despair till we see anything. I still remember last year's star destroyer debacle.

 

Edited January 31 by Agent Kallus

[Darth_Bane13]

10 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I still find it hard to believe that ‘Redwood’ was a tease for the Death Star. Which is not even the 2nd Death Star by the looks of things.

Call me delusional but I think that there’s a reason the $200 18+ AT ST hasn’t been labelled as UCS.

What if it’s actually a battle of Endor book nook/ diorama? With a really detailed minifig scale AT ST included, some trees and an imperial bunker.

Source: it was revealed to me in a dream

(I am desperate) 

 

I'd rather it just be UCS personally

[Llewop]

6 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Ironic that a user with a clone user name and a clone profile picture is reduced to desperation by a clone based wave.

Redwood is a stupid hint for a death star, but then again strange hints and bizarre clues are nothing new.

Still I wouldn't despair till we see anything. I still remember last year's star destroyer debacle.

 

I do half wonder if the person who said we were getting the Death Star playset last year had actually just saw prelims of the UCS one for this year? For a lot of leakers to have got it so wrong at the time was strange but now hearing the rumors of this years UCS can’t help thinking maybe they had a sneak peek ready for this year

[Mandalorianknight]

12 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I still find it hard to believe that ‘Redwood’ was a tease for the Death Star. Which is not even the 2nd Death Star by the looks of things.

Call me delusional but I think that there’s a reason the $200 18+ AT ST hasn’t been labelled as UCS.

What if it’s actually a battle of Endor book nook/ diorama? With a really detailed minifig scale AT ST included, some trees and an imperial bunker.

Source: it was revealed to me in a dream

(I am desperate) 

Book nook would disappoint me- I thought it was a lego term for bookends but upon seeing what they actually are, they don't interest me.

A larger diorama would be great both as confirmation that dioramas (in my opinion the least offensive 18+ subline- I don't hate the midi scale or helmets but the amount we're getting is too high. At least with dioramas you're still getting minifigs, and you're getting LOCATIONS, which are pretty rare in this theme at the moment) aren't dead, and just a great set in general. I still think it'll be a UCS AT-ST but I'd love to be proven wrong. It'd take the set from a "eh, probably, not much else I'm interested in this year" to day 1 buy.

2 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I'd rather it just be UCS personally

I wouldn't mind either way. UCS AT-ST is overdue for a remake, so even if it's not this (and I'm still 90% confident this is a UCS at-st anyway), I wouldn't be surprised seeing one in may 2026. 

[CloneCommando99]

19 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

A larger diorama would be great both as confirmation that dioramas (in my opinion the least offensive 18+ subline- I don't hate the midi scale or helmets but the amount we're getting is too high. At least with dioramas you're still getting minifigs, and you're getting LOCATIONS, which are pretty rare in this theme at the moment) aren't dead, and just a great set in general. I still think it'll be a UCS AT-ST but I'd love to be proven wrong. It'd take the set from a "eh, probably, not much else I'm interested in this year" to day 1 buy.

Yeah. Come to think of it. An 18+ Battle of Endor in the same style as Rivendell would actually probably work really well. Wouldn’t have to be a diorama. Bunker build at one end of the strip, a few trees (with bridge and huts) and some log traps at the other end. Include 10-15 figures and it’d be excellent.

Edit: obligatory: “get Martin Scorsese to direct and watch the box office explode”

2 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I'd rather it just be UCS personally

Fair enough. Each to their own.

10 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Having an 18+ vehicle that‘s neither a D2C nor a UCS set is indeed rather strange  While I‘m still expecting it to be a remake of the 2006 model, I agree there‘s a slight possibility it could be a new type of set (like a large-scale diorama, as you suggest).

I know. But a man inmate can dream.

8 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Ironic that a user with a clone user name and a clone profile picture is reduced to desperation by a clone based wave.

 

Still I wouldn't despair till we see anything. I still remember last year's star destroyer debacle.

 

I know. I’m honestly considering changing it to just Commando99. But the alliteration of my current username has a nice ring to it. (Also it makes more sense for my pfp’s custom GL pattern.)

 

Good point. But the leakers still knew the essential fig lists for all those sets.

Edited January 31 by CloneCommando99

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Llewop said:

I do half wonder if the person who said we were getting the Death Star playset last year had actually just saw prelims of the UCS one for this year?

No chance. Prelims don‘t leak that early (except for the survey leak, but I’m certain that won‘t happen again anytime soon), and nobody would confuse a $1000 Death Star with 40 minifigs for a $160 playset with 7 minifigs, preliminary as the design may be 

17 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I still think it'll be a UCS AT-ST but I'd love to be proven wrong.

 

Agreed, but if it truly is a regular UCS set, I wonder why it‘s not a D2C set while the Slave One and Death Star are (and we know it’s not due to the release date; a D2C set would be available to retailers at a later point). Maybe they’re launching a new subtheme of sorts with non-D2C UCS sets, but what would be the point? Just a deal with the retailers?  

[AD_Bricks]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

(Also it makes more sense for my pfp’s custom GL pattern.)

 I thought it was the joker because of the red around the mouth  ignore me, I hardly ever watch superhero movies

[Kaijumeister]

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Agreed, but if it truly is a regular UCS set, I wonder why it‘s not a D2C set while the Slave One and Death Star are (and we know it’s not due to the release date; a D2C set would be available to retailers at a later point). Maybe they’re launching a new subtheme of sorts with non-D2C UCS sets, but what would be the point? Just a deal with the retailers?  

This would be much, much better IMO than a boring oversized AT-ST. Love how a system-scale Endor set is seemingly out of the question but they’re super keen to go for a buildable Ewok and a UCS-level AT-ST.

@Mandalorianknight I think you may have touched on this before, but the increased emphasis on 18+ sets that almost aggressively go out of their way to be as non-minifigure compatible as possible strikes me as Lego wanting to attract customers who aren’t necessarily fans of Lego, and who want these collector pieces to be as discreet as possible. I feel like the LSW team are coming dangerously close to losing sight of how good location / ship builds with minifigures to interact with them are the heart and soul of this theme by choosing to go after this sort of audience at the expense of putting out less traditional sets.

It just sets a very weird precedent where even if the LSW team choose to cover a certain piece of media, it could very well be a helmet, statue, midi-scale ship, or Brickheadz (case in point, The Force Awakens sets this year). In essence, anything but an actual set with minifigures.

Edited February 1 by Kaijumeister

[Mandalorianknight]

5 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Yeah. Come to think of it. An 18+ Battle of Endor in the same style as Rivendell would actually probably work really well. Wouldn’t have to be a diorama. Bunker build at one end of the strip, a few trees (with bridge and huts) and some log traps at the other end. Include 10-15 figures and it’d be excellent.

Yeah, I would really enjoy that. I would like a UCS AT-ST too, but that diorama would be like a top 10 set.

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Agreed, but if it truly is a regular UCS set, I wonder why it‘s not a D2C set while the Slave One and Death Star are (and we know it’s not due to the release date; a D2C set would be available to retailers at a later point). Maybe they’re launching a new subtheme of sorts with non-D2C UCS sets, but what would be the point? Just a deal with the retailers?  

I don't really know how to word this in a way that makes sense, but a part of me is weirdly confident that lego would view the AT-ST, a bipedal vehicle, as a sort of buildable character, and therefore thinks it would do well at retailers.

2 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

 

@Mandalorianknight I think you may have touched on this before, but the increased emphasis on 18+ sets that almost aggressively go out of their way to be as non-minifigure compatible as possible strikes me as Lego wanting to attract customers who aren’t necessarily fans of Lego, and who want these collector pieces to be as discreet as possible. I feel like the LSW team are coming dangerously close to losing sight of how good location / ship builds with minifigures to interact with them are the heart and soul of this theme by choosing to go after this sort of audience at the expense of putting out less traditional sets.

It just sets a very weird precedent where even if the LSW team choose to cover a certain piece of media, it could very well be a helmet, statue, midi-scale ship, or Brickheadz (case in point, The Force Awakens sets this year). In essence, anything but an actual set with minifigures.

See, I think so too, and I think it implies lego has this weird view that adults are turned off by or view minifigures as childish, which I just don't think is the case. I think anyone who's buying legos wouldn't suddenly be against it if the sets have figures, and I KNOW plenty of people who don't currently buy these sets would if they did have figures.

[Kaijumeister]

14 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

See, I think so too, and I think it implies lego has this weird view that adults are turned off by or view minifigures as childish, which I just don't think is the case. I think anyone who's buying legos wouldn't suddenly be against it if the sets have figures, and I KNOW plenty of people who don't currently buy these sets would if they did have figures.

Exactly that. I hope one of the more observant LAN members deigns to ask the LEGO Star Wars team about this during the LEGO Fan Media Days at some point. Diversifying your product portfolio isn’t in itself a bad thing, but this really is excessive.

It’s odd, Marvel and Harry Potter also have their fair share of buildables, but Star Wars has taken the volume of these sets in an extreme direction this year. I hope it doesn’t set a precedent for what the future of this theme entails.

Edited February 1 by Kaijumeister