CallumPears

Hey now, Luuke was fine. He's commonly used as a scapegoat by Legends haters, along with Skippy the Jedi Droid and such, but made sense in the story he was in (the original Thrawn trilogy). And Chewie died 20 years after RotJ

Yeah I love the new Clone heads and legs but the helmets and torsos are just awful. I'm really annoyed that they're making all the cool legions now because of the new style. If the 2014 design held on for just a few more years we could've got the 501st, shock troopers, etc. in that near-perfect design. Instead we get them in the awful hybrid style. I don't have much interest in collecting figures that I think look bad so to me that means these Clones might as well not exist, but it's worse than that since if they do (fingers crossed) switch to a new style in the next few years which is more movie-accurate then they probably won't make these guys in whatever style that ends up being since they'd still be pretty recent. Same as how we won't be getting good figures of Fox, Vaughn, Fives, etc. since they've made them now, even though they are pretty bad (not just because of the TCW stylisation in those cases). But yeah even for people who don't mind the new style it's still just so many Clones in a short span of time, especially in an era where system sets are becoming unfortunately scarce.

I'm with you on this. Already got the 2010 ARC-170 so from the new set I only really want the new pilot minifigures. The V-19 was made at the time when stickers were terrible and cracked so there's basically zero chance of finding one in good condition now. It definitely deserves a remake, and Ventress and Obi-Wan will be good figures if they do them right (I just REALLY hope they don't do anything stupid with Ventress's eyes. It's fine if they make them white like in the 2015 Anakin's Custom Starfighter set, but I'm worried they'd make them the terrible glowy blue type that they just love ruining figures with these days). Also a P1 pilot. I don't like the new Clone design, so wouldn't care about the torso/legs, but at least with the new P1s their helmets are close enough to the 2013 design (not perfect though; they still managed to make some parts worse) that if the pilot gets a new helmet without the fin (no guarantee but hopefully) I could replace the helmets of my 2013-style pilots. But even if the figures do end up not being great I'd still get the set in some way, maybe just get the build itself cheap on eBay. They got drip

Tbh I'd rather they stick to how they are in the movie. I want the regular troopers rather than stuff like the Battlefront classes as they did with the 501st or other obscure variants. At least Rex and Fives had theirs so there's some precedent now. Probably no kamas though

Minor annoyance with today's advent calendar build (22nd)

Only all of the ones on screen? What about the 456th battalion's elite gunship referenced in a single sentence in The Essential Guide to Warfare? No official visual depictions exist, but that's no excuse for them to ignore what the fans want. It's irrelevant anyway since half of all sets for the foreseeable future will be 18+ buildable Clone Shoulder Armour™️, all the same build but with a few different tiles to make them a completely new character.

The LEGO designers were reading the last couple of pages. Unfortunately, they only speak Danish so when they recognised the word "clone" they immediately started work on 27 new clone sets to take up every system-scale set slot for the next decade. Ugh yeah I hate rubber parts. Fabric capes can fray, sure, but rubber can straight up disintegrate sometimes.

That was my first thought: a midi-scale turbo tank. Kinda weird choice, but it could work. Wonder when the AT-ST will release since we already have the May 4th UCS slot as Jango's Slave 1 and presumably the Death Star in the October slot. (Assuming the brick tap stuff is real)

They maybe could've used the First Order Snowtrooper helmet for him if this was a few years ago, though that mould is probably gone by now anyway so might as well make a new one. And yeah as much as I want cloth parts the backpacks are way more important to me. I know the new bracket part doesn't fit with the Snowtrooper helmets, but the Imperial ones we've been getting look terrible without them. Seen on Reddit that it's going to have 813 pieces for $150 (ouch). Source is lego_minecraft_goat; do we trust them? Edit: Ok looks like we do trust them... I'll say again, ouch.

Having thought about it I'm kinda the opposite. Since I'm not a fan of modern Clone figures (hate that they use aspects from the TCW animated style) and already have 2 of the 2018 Ki-Adi, I probably wouldn't have much interest in the minifigures in a Mygeeto-based UT-AT (unless they do a really good job with the Marines) but the vehicle itself is one I've actively wanted for a decade, and I actually have the start of a MOC of one in progress (gonna hold off on that for now since if the set's good it'd be more worth it to buy that than to do a bunch of Bricklink orders for MOC parts). So yeah I was originally hyped for the figures but thinking about it the vehicle is the real main draw for me.

Assuming the UT-AT is real and it does come with Bacara/Marines: I agree with all of these points (sidenote: to this day I don't understand why they made the absolutely terrible 2020 armour style for the Clones. I was a certified "clonebro" back in 2019 when everyone was asking for the 501st pack but the new armour style killed any interest I had in that set, both because it's simply inaccurate and because it's not consistent with the realistic Clones I have. I saw someone mention they wouldn't change the style now for the sake of consistency, but that didn't stop them in 2020 and it didn't stop them from changing the Stormtrooper design multiple times over the last few years either). An important thing I'd also add is that they really ought to have the proper accessories, meaning cloth parts and at the very least backpacks for the marines. Unfortunately knowing LEGO they won't Based on Fives, we should get the shoulder cloth parts but not kamas and Snowtroopers haven't had backpacks since 2017 (I think?). I'd be a lot more excited for this set if we were in 2015 right now. One silver lining at least is that the Marines don't wear standard Clone armour so the 2020 design shouldn't affect them much aside from the torso's belt and back printing (though ideally the latter would be covered by a backpack anyway). Bacara would be affected, but a really good custom of him is super easy to make using a 2014 plain white Clone body with a CAC cloth part and helmet. Again, this is all assuming that the set is even real lol

Not to wishlist but... UT-AT... Galactic Marines and Bacara coming?

Yeah I know it can be a contentious topic but I hate when characters are locked behind super expensive sets. Having an exclusive version is one thing but having a character's only appearance be in a set unobtainable for most people sucks (e.g. Kuiil and Mythrol in the Razor Crest).

If we go by retirement dates, the Ewok Village was only 1 year before Hoth. (Still agree that a new Village is definitely way more important, if nothing else due to the brittle brown issues)

Yeah Hoth especially is one I actually want them to remake and also let's not forget that the previous Assault on Hoth retired only 1 year after the Ewok Village (end of 2017 vs end of 2016). That set was just so badly done and was a blatant ripoff of the 1980 Kenner playset, shown by the same incorrect details such as only having 3 disks on the power generator and having a Yavin-style turret (fun fact the designers claimed in the promo video that that was their idea, which seems unlikely to me since it was from that old Kenner toy and there are other similarities to that toy in the set). For me it was those inaccuracies combined with a not-great minifigure selection and a bunch of other issues like how much exposed technic there was which made 75098 a bad set, not the fact that it had a "UCS" label on it. (Also I need a Wes Janson figure that doesn't require me selling a kidney.)

They spoiled us back in 2015 with part 3626cpb1225 and I was hoping we'd get the same here in the new skin tone.

I don't want a face without the visor; I want a different expression. When their faces are visible (as these pilots' will always be since the helmets are open), it's nice to have a couple of expressions so they don't all look completely identical. This is exactly what they did with the ARC-170 pilot in 2015, which is the head I have given to all of my other ARC-170 pilots (got about 10 from various sets) and trust me they look way better together with the varied expressions, and we don't say it about Rebel pilots... because they HAVE multiple faces, as do almost all modern figures. Just feels really weird that they're skimping on it in this case.

The clone pilot heads only have one face Not a huge deal, but it was double-sided in the 2015 microfighter and this is one of the rare times when a clone face will always be visible, and can easily have the alternate face covered up by the helmet. And I know they're clones but it would still be nice to have some variety.

In other news: grass is green and the sky is blue

I'd like a new mould for the "torso" with a single stud on top in the centre rather than the 2x2 arrangement so that the head can spin. Also make back print the standard. And yeah there's really no difference between an astromech and a couple of regular printed bricks. Same goes for battle droids, and those aren't even printed. Also if they can afford to put dual-moulded legs on PaB for like 40p and in BaM towers for £2 per figure then they can afford to put them on the pilots in such an expensive set as the ARC-170.

Had a quick look at the 360 spins now that the sets are all up on the LEGO site... not a single one of the 3 new astromechs has a back print It really ought to be a basic standard by now.

Yeah even if they have to downsize them (sure, inflation is a thing but LEGO is overcharging at a much faster rate) they could still keep the details right. The fighter tank is actually larger than the previous version from 2017 but the details and proportions are so much worse. The Coruscant Gunship could've also still been good even at the smaller size (of course, a larger one would have been better and more within "minifigure scale") but they messed up details like the bay doors not opening properly.

Oddball's copilot in Revenge of the Sith has the same helmet as Jag so it's correct. It does mean it was a weird choice to make the box art Cato Neimoidia instead of Coruscant, not that it really matters though.

Yeah that was a weird one. The edges of the pieces didn't quite line up right in some spots which is what made people reckon it was AI, but it also had stuff like the S-foils all being identical builds which you'd think AI would mess up. There were definitely a bunch of impossible connections though so I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least some AI involved.

Those pilots are nearly perfect (dual-moulded legs would be the final touch but this is fine, though tbh I might've preferred plain grey legs so they don't have the white boots all the way up on the sides and back. This is kinda like if they gave AT-ST drivers black legs with a grey print on the front). Very happy that they're using the same helmet mould as before- it means I'll be able to Bricklink (or fingers crossed for PaB) a bunch of the new heads with the visor print to replace my old ones. Hopefully they have 2 facial expressions (in the images we have so far they all have the same one). Build looks great as well. Definitely smaller but I'm fine with that. It should mean the wings don't sag so much. Also curious how the S-foils work as I don't see any rubber bands so might be similar to the 2021 X-wing.