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This. Brick Reporter being involved is the important part - he is consistently an unreliable source of information. And yeah, the emojis are about as vague as possible for Marvel. If A-Tower hadn't been released, people could just as reasonably claim that the scientist was Stark and it must be that set too. I.E. the emojis literally mean nothing.

Just saying, but a new Landspeeder or Snowspeeder would be well overdue in system scale... I honestly wouldn't mind if that was what was released.

At least we're getting the midi and helmet, but no mainline system sets is awful.

Agreed on this. I'm intrigued to see how the Death Star turns out, but the MTT being blue killed my interest there, and the amount of clone related sets is of no interest to me. I just hope the last two sets are something either PT or OT based that aren't just clones (or ST based even)... @Renown please tell me there is at least something interesting left...

I would love to see more Raimi sets than just the train one.. Here's hoping

Wouldn't say this is necessarily true. The last Palpatine that they put in a Dark Side book ended up releasing almost exactly the same in later sets. However, it does put any future Exegol set in question for sure.

Tons of people in the LEGO community are fans of D&D, otherwise there wouldn't be the hype around the set and CMFs all over. They are selling like crazy because of people liking D&D and medieval, so that's wrong to say nobody is a fan. The thing is, LEGO sets are for kids, who are growing up and haven't been able to buy a Luke's landspeeder in 4 years - the kid who was 2 years old in 2020 is now 6, and may want one. Same with any other fighter. There's a reason why we get vehicles like those frequently - because they sell to the main target audience of retail LEGO Star Wars - kids. Someone like Ziro wouldn't be interesting/pertinent to kids (since he was last focused on in CW heavily about 14 years ago in a couple of 20 minute episodes). Kids want their recognizable vehicles, etc. There's a reason why the Coruscant gunship doesn't do well, as much as the Justifier, or the Bad Batch shuttle, or anything else like that - the price isn't viable (main problem with the Justifier), and the content isn't known enough by the main interested consumer. You can appeal to the diehard fans too, which is why they make weird things like the red gunship, but those things don't always do well, and Landspeeders and X-Wings sell better.

I'm going to say it, but none of those Hutts are appealing (much less known) except Jabba to the average consumer, especially to likely add a large amount of cost to the respective set. And I'm not sure what small animals you mean. They put Correlian hounds in multiple sets during Solo, etc., but Star Wars doesn't have consistent "small creatures" like friends cats and dogs. Generic nobodies only show up in sets like the Cantinas, etc. where they make sense, and even then, if they put "non-canon" aliens, etc. into sets, then people would complain excessively about how they were "paying more for non-canon stuff" and "why didn't they put this other clearly recognizable unknown character there instead." As stupid as it sounds, we all know the drill. Also, we know they can't do a CMF for whatever licensing reasons, and even if they did make one, it would NOT be one per year, since it would be competing with other unlicensed and licensed (and now themed - like space, F1, etc.) CMFs. At best, it would be 1 per 2-3 years, if they even could make them. As much as consumers may not "care how they get the molds," there does need to be some recognition that there isn't free reign from any designer for anything, like people also want to pretend. It doesn't inherently matter how much a theme sells, etc., it matters what budget the company sets for things, and other such constraints that supersede. Having a process cause less molds (not the same as "poor product quality" in the same sense), also likely means that budget is going into something else desired by a consumer (or known to be desirable to the consumer group overall), which would lead to other complaints if not addressed. It's a game of compromises based on ability and budget, not LEGO just being evil and greedy like people like to assume (yes, they are greedy, but there are lines that people ignore).

CMFs have a different budget entirely for their own stuff. Star Wars has a single overall theme budget generally (not a budget for UCS, other sets, etc. separate), so the moulds in this set depend on the number of new moulds they can make for the year (which is generally assigned). For all we know, they only had the number of moulds for Jabba, Wooof, Leia, Salacious, and Max, and so they compromised on Bib. The price of a set on release doesn't determine how many moulds it can have in a 1:1 relationship like a lot of people seem to think. To add to this, 2003 (and even 2012) were very different times. LEGO is now budgeting for FAR more themes than they had then when special fig moulds were just starting (and probably cost a lot, but they made less then). LEGO designers are given a limit within themes/sets for number of new parts, recolors, etc. they are allowed, and even then there are situations like the Jurassic gate where a designer wanted to add a goat mould, and LEGO didn't let them since there wasn't versatility outside of that set at the time (obviously they do make a lot of one-off moulds, but it's dependent on outside factors sometimes). I will also say, by the looks of it, this set has VERY few stickers, which is great. Max's instrument, and maybe a couple of panels.

At this stage, we already have the leaked figure list - Jabba, Rebo, Salacious, Leia, 3PO, R2, Gamorrean, Klaatu, Bib, and one other alien.

As happy as I am with the figs that are there, I think it suffers HEAVILY from release timeframe. Some of the figs included pair great with figs from the Disney 100 CMF, but yet there's no way to get that for the average consumer now.

Regarding the first point, we were discussing overall interest, so was mainly going off of that idea. Certainly price factors in, but that's why I also focused on $45 and $50 sets too (which are the "cheaper" sets more often than not anymore). And those sets were revealed because of Gamescom going on. I wouldn't bet on any other January 2025 pictures until closer to December timeframe, but certainly more descriptions could come.

A couple of extra notes to this: The Boba Palace set, which by all accounts should have sold well since it had a variety of aliens, a palace remake for the first time in years, and Boba Fett, failed miserably given that they were hard to sell even on clearance. The Kenobi duel, which by all accounts should have sold alright to kids who wanted Kenobi and Vader, plus a cool droid, etc. for a cheap(er) price, sat on shelves with no interest, and was only sold when it hit $25 or less on clearance for people who wanted to stock up to resell Ned-B. The Ghost only got pushed forward a year in retirement (to 2025) because LEGO discounted it and people bought it up to resell during the discount on May 4th (which LEGO interpreted as renewed interest I'm sure). The Ahsoka shuttle sold well when it hit Costco for $60 or less, but it just sits on shelves near me with little to no interest. I literally forgot that the E-WING set exists.. And so do a lot of people I think - it's sold well at $90ish, but I otherwise I haven't seen it do all that great, and a similar case with the Tie/Mando fighter... The Mando N-1 sits at $48 everywhere, and even then, it doesn't sell well due to lack of interest. The TCWS7 sets did well, yes, but part of the lack of availability was the release time during 2020 with the pandemic, so I don't think we can go off those numbers for interest (though I'm sure they would have done well anyway). All that to say (and this is certainly region-specific), I don't think the show sets as a whole have been good sellers - at bare minimum at MSRP... I don't really blame LEGO for stopping doing as many, and for using the few that do release (like Peredia, Onyx, etc.) to pack in all the important characters to make sure they sell.

The only post I've seen with this is from the Brick Reporter who is NOT AT ALL RELIABLE. His "full list of figs" is just speculation at this point outside of the viable rumor below from a reputable source (whom BR did not credit in his post). That being said, a reliable source on Instagram (HelloThereRex) did post that Anakin was coming in the set, and that there was a new cockpit design. Guessing that the new cockpit design is part of the cost.

It's not an expansion to the existing system... Supposed to be more similar to the Microscale Hogwarts $160 model.