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

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

I feel like the problem with the Stormtrooper helmet is that the mouth is too high. I might get it and try to lower it to make it look better

That might be it. Send images if you do!

1 hour ago, Guyon2002 said:

Looking at other companies I think it's more likely Disney just pulled the plug out of everything Ep9 related because so many people hate the sequels

It's really not as many as the internet would lead you to believe, certainly not enough for lego to stop a product releasing, especially since i'll go out on a limb and say most of the people who hate the sequels aren't lego's target consumer base of children.

[BigGuy4U]

Just now, Mandalorianknight said:

That might be it. Send images if you do!

It's really not as many as the internet would lead you to believe, certainly not enough for lego to stop a product releasing, especially since i'll go out on a limb and say most of the people who hate the sequels aren't lego's target consumer base of children.

Not to mention there was never anything suggesting we were going to get Exegol at all.

[legolandia]

5 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

Um, what?  An A-Wing would make the most sense, finally completing the Alphabet Squadron (A-.B-,X-, and Y-Wing), and the core Rebel fighters. Can't see what better ships there would be, other than prequel vehicles.

Since when has logic had anything to do with what Lego decides on Star Wars themed sets? There are plenty of prequel vehicles that could have been releassed (or re-releassed).

[Mandalorianknight]

Just now, BigGuy4U said:

Not to mention there was never anything suggesting we were going to get Exegol at all.

Another good point. not getting exogol doesn't translate instantly into "exegol was cancelled"

And I feel this again bears mentioning because people forget it all the time, we are not the target consumer base of lego sets. As such, the fact that there's a fair amount of adults who dislike the sequels for a variety of reasons (personally I think the only bad one was TLJ, the others were at the very least miles better than the prequel films) really doesn't mean anything to lego.

[Sneakguest]

30 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Another good point. not getting exogol doesn't translate instantly into "exegol was cancelled"

And I feel this again bears mentioning because people forget it all the time, we are not the target consumer base of lego sets. As such, the fact that there's a fair amount of adults who dislike the sequels for a variety of reasons (personally I think the only bad one was TLJ, the others were at the very least miles better than the prequel films) really doesn't mean anything to lego.

No, for me it's not like it had to be exogol, just wanted a location set an it was likely that at least one location set would be released if we look historically on the new wave of SW movies. 

Still don't get why lego has really made a drop in producing location sets for SW, compare to super heroes for example. Still majority of screen time is not in or on a vehicle, nor is majority of the action. 

[m4st3rt3ch]

Yes, the TIE Pilot is the best. And it has some interesting parts. The dishes look fab!

[wesker]

2 hours ago, Sneakguest said:

Still suprised there were no Exegol, it looks like lego has really reduced the amount of location sets for their SW line =(

Lucasfilm was already holding back reference material for Palpatine's appearance from Hasbro to avoid spoilers. The same would have applied to Lego as well. I thought it seemed a bit unrealistic that we would get an Exegol set this early into the year.

[ARC2149Nova]

2 hours ago, legolandia said:

Since when has logic had anything to do with what Lego decides on Star Wars themed sets? There are plenty of prequel vehicles that could have been releassed (or re-releassed).

Fair point, but I like the A-Wing, it's one of my favorite starfighters (other two are Y-Wing and ARC-170), so I'd love to see it get the UCS treatment. Prequel UCS sets probably won't happen until after the Gunship hits the shelf.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Sneakguest said:

No, for me it's not like it had to be exogol, just wanted a location set an it was likely that at least one location set would be released if we look historically on the new wave of SW movies. 

I was just meaning the people who had been saying it meant exogol was cancelled, I'm 100% with you here on wanting more locations.
That said, this year we've had:

ben's hut

Mustafar duel

The rock in the mandalorian battle pack 

But reastically, two small sets, both can be argued as minifigure-focused. I'm sure that LEGO has figured out vehicles sell better than locations, most kids want their a,b,u,x, and y-wings more than "random takadona wall" for example (though I personally was a big fan of that set, but then again I'm not in that 6-12 range)

57 minutes ago, ARC2149Nova said:

Fair point, but I like the A-Wing, it's one of my favorite starfighters (other two are Y-Wing and ARC-170), so I'd love to see it get the UCS treatment. Prequel UCS sets probably won't happen until after the Gunship hits the shelf.

And even then, only if it does well.

And nice choices, but c'mon, no x-wing? 

[ARC2149Nova]

16 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

And nice choices, but c'mon, no x-wing? 

X-Wing is overrated. 

[Sneakguest]

43 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The rock in the mandalorian battle pack 

lol, in that case also the small sand dune hinding place, whatever you should call it in the land speeder. 

But seriously, even I have kind of forgot about Mustafar but still, none of the two pure location sets  still none of them are episode 9. And still to small. We have to go back over one year to Darth Vaders Castle, to see the last time we had a descent location set for SW.

TFA was generous with both Takodana, Jakku and the Rahthar set, but then what happened

But it probably is as u said unfortunately, but since I assume we cannot find any numbers and sales on individual set, in the end, we'll just end up guessing 

Edited March 18, 2020 by Sneakguest

[Brikkyy13]

$90 AUD for the helmets is certainly better than I was expecting. Do I spy stickers used to do the mouth detailing on the two trooper helmets? 

[storskogen]

52 minutes ago, Brikkyy13 said:

$90 AUD for the helmets is certainly better than I was expecting. Do I spy stickers used to do the mouth detailing on the two trooper helmets? 

Yes, they are definitely stickers, and a main reason why the Stormtrooper ‘s mouth doesn’t look so good, I think the look can be improved by placing the two small side stickers on the inner edge of the tile rather than in the center of the tile. This will create a continutity of the black shape, thus avoiding the awkward white border.

 

[Mandalorianknight]

13 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

X-Wing is overrated. 

 I bet you think that about The Empire Strikes Back, too!

I will admit we get too many x-wings compared to the other fighters, but that's mainly because of the sequel films directly introducing at least 3 new x-wing models/colourations. T-65b is still the best ship design in star wars.

13 hours ago, Sneakguest said:

lol, in that case also the small sand dune hinding place, whatever you should call it in the land speeder. 

But seriously, even I have kind of forgot about Mustafar but still, none of the two pure location sets  still none of them are episode 9. And still to small. We have to go back over one year to Darth Vaders Castle, to see the last time we had a descent location set for SW.

TFA was generous with both Takodana, Jakku and the Rahthar set, but then what happened

But it probably is as u said unfortunately, but since I assume we cannot find any numbers and sales on individual set, in the end, we'll just end up guessing 

The thing is, there aren't too many iconic star wars locations that aren't just terrain that we haven't gotten already.

We've had a bajillion echo bases, and in the past 6 years we got vader's castle, Takodana, Chalmun's cantina, the death star, palpatine's office, niima outpost, mustafar duel (although not nearly big enough), etc. Most of the remaining locations just aren't financially good decisions for lego due to sheer obscurity.

I think we could see another Endor bunker, but aside from that there's really not much.

Edited March 18, 2020 by Mandalorianknight

[lego_guyon02]

10 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The thing is, there aren't too many iconic star wars locations that aren't just terrain that we haven't gotten already.

We've had a bajillion echo bases, and in the past 6 years we got vader's castle, Takodana, Chalmun's cantina, the death star, palpatine's office, niima outpost, mustafar duel (although not nearly big enough), etc. Most of the remaining locations just aren't financially good decisions for lego due to sheer obscurity.

I think we could see another Endor bunker, but aside from that there's really not much.

Rebel base on Yavin IV: am I a joke to you?

[Mandalorianknight]

Just now, Guyon2002 said:

Rebel base on Yavin IV: am I a joke to you?

I knew I forgot something! I've even wishlisted a MBS of it in the "future star wars sets" thread too!

Didn't they make a prototype at some point and decide not to make it a real set?

I could see it as a UCS/MBS, but I don't think It'd work as a normal set.

Edited March 18, 2020 by Mandalorianknight

[Brickwraith]

39 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 I bet you think that about The Empire Strikes Back, too!

I will admit we get too many x-wings compared to the other fighters, but that's mainly because of the sequel films directly introducing at least 3 new x-wing models/colourations. T-65b is still the best ship design in star wars.

The thing is, there aren't too many iconic star wars locations that aren't just terrain that we haven't gotten already.

We've had a bajillion echo bases, and in the past 6 years we got vader's castle, Takodana, Chalmun's cantina, the death star, palpatine's office, niima outpost, mustafar duel (although not nearly big enough), etc. Most of the remaining locations just aren't financially good decisions for lego due to sheer obscurity.

I think we could see another Endor bunker, but aside from that there's really not much.

How about the execution arena? That would be amazing, but as lego seems to hate attack of the clones I doubt we'll ever get that

[mon-o-mat]

14 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

X-Wing is overrated. 

With you

[UberCorp]

14 minutes ago, Brickwraith said:

How about the execution arena? That would be amazing,

I've been waiting on a Petranaki Arena set for years. Plus the Ackley/Reek/Nexu would make it more interesting for younger audiences since it wouldn't be just an architectural set.

[Sneakguest]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 I bet you think that about The Empire Strikes Back, too!

I will admit we get too many x-wings compared to the other fighters, but that's mainly because of the sequel films directly introducing at least 3 new x-wing models/colourations. T-65b is still the best ship design in star wars.

The thing is, there aren't too many iconic star wars locations that aren't just terrain that we haven't gotten already.

We've had a bajillion echo bases, and in the past 6 years we got vader's castle, Takodana, Chalmun's cantina, the death star, palpatine's office, niima outpost, mustafar duel (although not nearly big enough), etc. Most of the remaining locations just aren't financially good decisions for lego due to sheer obscurity.

I think we could see another Endor bunker, but aside from that there's really not much.

 

Well, concerning the OT, I agree, not much left to do there than just improvements.

I also agree that some of the locations basically need to be a MBS / UCS to make, especially PT:ones; Naboo Palace, Gungan City, Kashwyyk Wookiee village (and as mentioned above Genosis arena + Yavin base), Kamino, Jedi Temple and Coruscant Senate (very few of those will likely ever be made though =( )

Others like Dexters Cantina, club at Coruscant, Coruscant opera would be a bit too obscure for the mainstream lego consumers I agree. 

But I think medium sized Canto Bight set and the market from Pasaana could have worked fine. Rogue one could have offered a set from jedha. Concerning Solo, where there were basically no vehicle action at all through the whole movie (except the trainheist), it's really suprising that they had no location set from either Corellia, Mimban, Kessel, Savareen or First Light .

 

 

[lego_guyon02]

Just now, Sneakguest said:

But I think medium sized Canto Bight set and the market from Pasaana could have worked fine. Rogue one could have offered a set from jedha. Concerning Solo, where there were basically no vehicle action at all through the whole movie (except the trainheist), it's really suprising that they had no location set from either Corellia, Mimban, Kessel, Savareen or First Light .

As much as I disliked the Canto Bight scenes in TLJ I'd definetely like to see a set with those Fathier molds from that ''The Last Jedi in LEGO'' animation they released. 

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Brickwraith said:

How about the execution arena? That would be amazing, but as lego seems to hate attack of the clones I doubt we'll ever get that

Forgot about that one, that could also make a good set. And again, they made prototypes of at least the reek and ackley, so like with yavin it got close.

55 minutes ago, Sneakguest said:

But I think medium sized Canto Bight set and the market from Pasaana could have worked fine. Rogue one could have offered a set from jedha. Concerning Solo, where there were basically no vehicle action at all through the whole movie (except the trainheist), it's really suprising that they had no location set from either Corellia, Mimban, Kessel, Savareen or First Light .

Someone on eurobricks wanting a sequel set? Impossible!  I intensely hate canto bight and might be biased, but I think it would only work as a police speeder with fathiers, not the casino. We did get a bit of pasaana market, but the set would literally just be that x100, there's no actual buildings. With solo, The only interesting stuff on corellia was the vehicle action, and we've already had all 3 speeders in that scene. Kessel doesn't really work as a playset, no play feautres, same with savareen. First light IS a vehicle, so the only one that would really work is mimban, and then again it would just be a trench, probably with an AT-DT. There's a reason we don't get too many location sets. Also: Corsucant opera? As a lego set? Really?

[KotZ]

1 hour ago, Sneakguest said:

I also agree that some of the locations basically need to be a MBS / UCS to make, especially PT:ones; Naboo Palace, Gungan City, Kashwyyk Wookiee village (and as mentioned above Genosis arena + Yavin base), Kamino, Jedi Temple and Coruscant Senate (very few of those will likely ever be made though =(

I feel like Kamino would be easy if you do it right for sets that are similar to those Hoth ones that came out. Call it a Kamino training center with two or three clones, a Kaminoan, and targets and some actiony elements. A Slave I like the one from Cloud City, and landing pad and "inside" behind doors could be an $80-90 set.

[2lazeetomakeaname]

Better pictures of the Razor Crest on lego.com

[lego_guyon02]

20 minutes ago, 2lazeetomakeaname said:

Better pictures of the Razor Crest on lego.com

So we finally get to see the escape pod and other details up close. I'm honestly wondering why they added these pictures now and not when they actually revealed the set, really strange decision