LEGO Star Wars 2020 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[PreVizsla]

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It's even better price-wise if you pre-order two and plan to sell one of the ahsokas...

Spoiler

I suggest waiting for Ahsoka to debut in Mandalorian tv show season 2. That will raise her price even more. And even more if she gets her own show.

(for people that will get multiple AAT)

On 8/16/2020 at 11:44 AM, Graupensuppe said:

It did include a pilot droid.

Yeah it comes with blue pilot droid but in 2 movies,1 clone wars movie and 30+ episodes of clone wars involving AAT we never saw blue pilot droid anywhere near it as far as my memory serves me. Only place that mentions it is 1999 cross section book which isnt canon and half the things are made up (not even mechanically possible and some cards from that same year,we even saw a regular battle droid in the hatch,but as far as i remember we never saw blue pilot droid near AAT. 

13 hours ago, Redroe said:

Jang speaks highly of the AAT and after watching his review and seeing a few different angles, I agree. Definitely overpriced, but not by a stupid margin.

AAT is amazing imo,all recent sets are inaccurate from darth vader in anakins jedi interceptor,night buzzard being a tank to at-rt 4 times the height its supposed to be. I dont know why people are so worked up about this 1 set and measure it for scaling and do all this crazy things while ignoring other sets,90% of people online just parrot what youtuber reviewer said and wouldnt notice anything on their own. I agree LEGO prices went insane in last 2 years and mos eisley 40$ set from 2018 is next level compared to this,but that price is basically tax on people that get sets in first month,most stores will have it for 32$ after a month or two.

[2maxwell]

The AAT has such bizarre that it will be a huge challenge to ever create an accurate depiction that can stay up on its own. I'm going to mod the thing heavily, but this is definitely one of those Star Wars vehicles where bickering over dimensions seems silly. For me, this is the correct scale for play, and that's what matters.

[Graupensuppe]

5 hours ago, 2maxwell said:

The AAT has such bizarre that it will be a huge challenge to ever create an accurate depiction that can stay up on its own.

As the 2009 model shows, that issue can easily be solved with some sloped bricks that support the weight. It might look even better if they were trans-clear.

[JintaiZ]

501st battle packs are out in target!

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, JintaiZ said:

501st battle packs are out in target!

Yes, they've been out for a few days officially, but a few weeks if your store ignored street dates. 

[STARHAWK]

After the lego holiday special, i understand the figure selection in the Advent calendar and it will be a +1 reason NOT to buy it. The cant let the ST go ...

Hope the sales will be low so that they will let the ST finally go away.

At the moment, im happy wit not so good SW sets (im lucky i dont need 501 so much and i have all previous Ahsokas, so i can wait with the tank). Transformers from Hasbro are perfect at this moment so my money can go there.

Waiting on the Cantina (impatiently refreshing instagram) and now on Ninjago City addition - whether they will attack my valet or not :)

[TeeNuggetTa]

42 minutes ago, STARHAWK said:

After the lego holiday special, i understand the figure selection in the Advent calendar and it will be a +1 reason NOT to buy it. The cant let the ST go ...

Hope the sales will be low so that they will let the ST finally go away.

We're always going to have sequel trilogy sets with each wave, maybe not as prevalent as they were but its an entire third of the skywalker saga. 

[ARC2149Nova]

21 minutes ago, TeeNuggetTa said:

its an entire third of the skywalker saga. 

Does it bother anyone else that Disney marketed TROS like it was Star Wars: Endgame? When Disney had no stake or claim to any of the six prior films? They act like this was 40 years in the making, when in reality it was only like 5 (if that).

Question: Did any of you who've already received your 501st set get any misprints? I follow a lego misprint instagram, and apparently the 501st are rife with askew printing. Could just be a minor issue, but it does seem more common than others of its kind.

[autolycus]

19 minutes ago, ARC2149Nova said:

Does it bother anyone else that Disney marketed TROS like it was Star Wars: Endgame? When Disney had no stake or claim to any of the six prior films? They act like this was 40 years in the making, when in reality it was only like 5 (if that).

You do know that Lucasfilm produced the ST, right? The studio that’s run by George Lucas’ handpicked successor, Kathleen Kennedy? Lucasfilm and Disney have every right and justification for acting like TROS was something 40 years in the making because it WAS. 

[ARC2149Nova]

36 minutes ago, autolycus said:

You do know that Lucasfilm produced the ST, right? The studio that’s run by George Lucas’ handpicked successor, Kathleen Kennedy? Lucasfilm and Disney have every right and justification for acting like TROS was something 40 years in the making because it WAS. 

No. George Lucas made the story that the sequels attempted to follow up. In comparison, Marvel Studios produced Iron Man to Avengers: Endgame + whatever comes next, but Kevin Feige was primarily at the helm of all it's major story decisions. The MCU was a planned event, TROS was not envisioned back in 1977, hell, the prequels weren't what they are now back then either. My only point is that the sequels are recently conceived additions to the franchise, and were not part of George's initial vision, nor did he have any hand in crafting them.

It bothers me, because unlike Endgame, there was no forethought. They didn't even use George's original ST plans (for understandable reasons, to be sure), so to say it ends his Star Wars is just wrong. George Lucas' Star Wars was movies 1-6, anything beyond that are simply additions. Nothing wrong with adding to the story, but ROTJ was (for all intent and purposes) the "End" of the Skywalker Saga.

This isn't a slight against the sequel trilogy, but rather an irritation at the specific marketing for TROS.

EDIT to clarify: I'm not in anyway saying Star Wars should end with Episode VI, I'm just saying that the major story arc of the films (pre-TFA) was Anakin Skywalker's story, which ended at ROTJ. Claiming Episodes VII-IX finish that arc would be disingenuous, as they are their own movies, with an arc that's separated from the original six films (that arc being Rey's/Ben's).

But all of that is meaningless. I would like to know about the misprint thing, though.

Edited August 19, 2020 by ARC2149Nova

[Brikkyy13]

5 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

Does it bother anyone else that Disney marketed TROS like it was Star Wars: Endgame?

It bothers me greatly. Maybe I like Star Wars too much, but some nights I’m kept awake by the thoughts of what could’ve been. The people in charge screwed up the moment they threw away George’s story treatments. They approached the film as if it was Space Avengers. It was already obvious when they said they were going to tie together the stories of all 9 films, despite the first 2 trilogies being their own things and not having much of an overall story. The entire third act was just a marvel movie, not even a final lightsaber duel. The nail in the coffin was when Palpatine said “I am inevitable” and Rey replied with “I am Iron Man”.

Edited August 19, 2020 by Brikkyy13

[ARC2149Nova]

38 minutes ago, Brikkyy13 said:

The nail in the coffin was when Palpatine said “I am inevitable” and Rey replied with “I am Iron Man”.

 Honestly, that's something I always felt about TLJ. It was more of a Marvel movie (tone-wise) than a Star Wars film.

[Kdapt-Preacher]

44 minutes ago, Brikkyy13 said:

It bothers me greatly. Maybe I like Star Wars too much, but some nights I’m kept awake by the thoughts of what could’ve been. The people in charge screwed up the moment they threw away George’s story treatments. They approached the film as if it was Space Avengers. It was already obvious when they said they were going to tie together the stories of all 9 films, despite the first 2 trilogies being their own things and not having much of an overall story. The entire third act was just a marvel movie, not even a final lightsaber duel. The nail in the coffin was when Palpatine said “I am inevitable” and Rey replied with “I am Iron Man”.

To be clear, George Lucas wanted the Sequel Trilogy to go into a 'microbiotic world' to cover the cellular-level details of how the Force works in excruciating detail. His plan was for Episode IX to be set inside a midichlorian. Disney handled the whole thing extraordinarily badly (in my opinion, which I have been saying since way back in 2014 or whenever it was first announced, everybody involved in the decisionmaking process should have been fired immediately as soon as they announced that they had decided to wing it movie by movie instead of having a plan for the trilogy--who could possibly have predicted that that would lead to the movies being disjointed and lacking any kind of overall arc or consistent plot threads???), but listening to Lucas was emphatically not the solution, LMAO. The Marvel movies that we have are bad, but at least watchable; everything Lucas has said about his plans for the trilogy make it sound like it would've been a nine-hour surrealist nightmare.

Completely unrelated to that, there are pictures out of the Sword of Gryffindor, which I suppose is going to be in one of the upcoming Harry Potter sets (I don't follow that line closely enough to know which one). It's a new piece with some relatively complicated-looking dual molding for the three rubies in the hilt. That's a bit of a new direction for LEGO, isn't it? They don't usually like to emphasize the weapons and tend not to put much detail in them. The dagger from the old Prince of Persia sets was similar, but this is the first dual-molded weapon in at least a decade, as far as I know. It gives me hope that Star Wars might see the same treatment at some point, especially for some of the First Order blasters and whatnot that should be roughly 50/50 white and black and would really benefit from being molded in two colors rather than the old black blasters they've been using since 2007.

[Sneakguest]

When is force friday this year? If it has already been discussed lately then my memory is not top notch.

[TeddytheSpoon]

2 hours ago, Kdapt-Preacher said:

Completely unrelated to that, there are pictures out of the Sword of Gryffindor, which I suppose is going to be in one of the upcoming Harry Potter sets (I don't follow that line closely enough to know which one). It's a new piece with some relatively complicated-looking dual molding for the three rubies in the hilt. That's a bit of a new direction for LEGO, isn't it? They don't usually like to emphasize the weapons and tend not to put much detail in them. The dagger from the old Prince of Persia sets was similar, but this is the first dual-molded weapon in at least a decade, as far as I know. It gives me hope that Star Wars might see the same treatment at some point, especially for some of the First Order blasters and whatnot that should be roughly 50/50 white and black and would really benefit from being molded in two colors rather than the old black blasters they've been using since 2007.

What other weapons have been dual-molded, out of curiosity? I can't really think of any that would need it apart from blasters - Han's DL-44 could look pretty sweet if it was made as a specially made part in brown and black.

[BrickBob Studpants]

7 minutes ago, Sneakguest said:

When is force friday this year? If it has already been discussed lately then my memory is not top notch.

I don‘t think there‘s a Force Friday this year because the only new major content coming out is S2 of the Mandalorian. There sure will be merch for it, but probably not a big marketing event surrounding it 

Edited August 19, 2020 by Lego-Freak

[Redroe]

We are all getting in a big flap about the possibility of losing battle packs, but have there been any microfighters rumoured for next wave? 

They've gone a bit off the beaten track with MF's of recent waves (dewback, bantha) but I'd be gutted to see them go. I want a Razor Crest please Lego.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

3 hours ago, Redroe said:

We are all getting in a big flap about the possibility of losing battle packs, but have there been any microfighters rumoured for next wave? 

There are no rumours for the next wave. Not a single set is rumoured. 

[Redroe]

6 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

There are no rumours for the next wave. Not a single set is rumoured. 

Understood, just curious. Makes all the fracas about "no $15 battle packs" seem a bit excessive. No sets are rumoured meaning no rumours of new battle packs, so rumour is there are no new battle packs. Maybe there won't be a winter 2021 wave! 

[Renown]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

There are no rumours for the next wave. Not a single set is rumoured. 

To your knowledge.

[Redroe]

3 minutes ago, Renown said:

To your knowledge.

Please share the knowledge, providing it's fairly reliable?

[JintaiZ]

I'll be picking up a copy of the 75294 for sure!

[THELEGOBATMAN]

53 minutes ago, Renown said:

To your knowledge.

I obviously meant that. You don't have to look far to find people that know what we'll be getting - for example designers if those sets.

[jdubbs]

1 hour ago, Redroe said:

Please share the knowledge, providing it's fairly reliable?

Aside from the battle packs, the makeup of the January/April waves should feel very familiar... though a little smaller overall.

[BrickBob Studpants]

18 minutes ago, jdubbs said:

Aside from the battle packs, the makeup of the January/April waves should feel very familiar... though a little smaller overall.

‚Smaller‘ as in ‚less sets‘, ‚smaller sets‘, or both?  Interesting to hear that they keep the three-wave schedule. I guess more helmets in April then?