Glad they kept the Crimson Dawn head for Maul. The new printing for the costume looks great!

6 hours ago, Alex_South said:

I'm kinda worried Mando in the Armory set is gonna be a repeat of his S1 look.

Apparently its his full armoured appearance with a jetpack, can't remember if he has arm printing or not, but its still gonna be sweet.

2 minutes ago, TeeNuggetTa said:

Apparently its his full armoured appearance with a jetpack, can't remember if he has arm printing or not, but its still gonna be sweet.

If they go back to not putting arm printing on him imma be pissed. It’s a major part of his costume, and it would be extremely cheap to put it in one set only. 

6 minutes ago, TeeNuggetTa said:

Apparently its his full armoured appearance with a jetpack, can't remember if he has arm printing or not, but its still gonna be sweet.

I wonder if he has a new cape to go with the jetpack

 

4 minutes ago, hondohnaka said:

If they go back to not putting arm printing on him imma be pissed. It’s a major part of his costume, and it would be extremely cheap to put it in one set only. 

I'm terrified they will do this because of the recent vader minifig. I hope not though.

Just now, Alex_South said:

I wonder if he has a new cape to go with the jetpack

 

I'm terrified they will do this because of the recent vader minifig. I hope not though.

At least both sets are the same price so it shouldn't be too hard for them to give him arm printing

8 hours ago, 2lazeetomakeaname said:

So now the summer wave figures we've seen are 8/8 for being great in my book....theres gotta be a garbage figure somewhere in here

I reckon Ahsoka will be the same figure from the AAT. (IMO that's not a garbage figure per se, but it isn't the most accurate.)

Maul looks good though. Since I already have an Ahsoka I wasn't going to get this set, and the figure doesn't change my mind, but it does look good.

18 hours ago, ood0 said:

Echo and Crosshairs helmets are both terrible, so there's that

I wasn't aware we had seen any minifigures other than the mortar trooper, greef karga and darth maul and of course, the bad batch

Edited May 21, 20213 yr by Beskar Bricks

Extremely minor spoiler for the Bad Batch episode today: 

Well, we know where the green speeder comes in!  Seems like it's one of those where they just toss an extra "thing" into a set, be it a vehicle or figure, that wasn't totally related to the rest of the scene, but is still okay nonetheless.  Also, I did notice a couple of BARCs, but Crosshair wasn't in the episode.

1 hour ago, Kit Figsto said:

Extremely minor spoiler for the Bad Batch episode today: 

 

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Well, we know where the green speeder comes in!  Seems like it's one of those where they just toss an extra "thing" into a set, be it a vehicle or figure, that wasn't totally related to the rest of the scene, but is still okay nonetheless.  Also, I did notice a couple of BARCs, but Crosshair wasn't in the episode.

 

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I was thinking similar. While I get why they put the speeders in the shuttle, this episode is prime material for a Bounty Hunter Pursuit style set in a future wave.

 

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I was thinking similar. While I get why they put the speeders in the shuttle, this episode is prime material for a Bounty Hunter Pursuit style set in a future wave.

 

 

Fennec's ship thing with some cargo, Hunter's speeder, Fennec with the helmet (doubt she'll have it in the Cruiser), Civilian Hunter and Omega. Really nice 50 dollar price point holder.

Also, the thing I'm worried about with the arm printing thing is that from a sales standpoint it makes a lot of sense to make the arm printing exclusive to ToT knowing a lot of people would wait for the Cruiser and then end up having to buy ToT for the proper printing. People would still buy the Cruiser as well as ToT for the printing. Maybe I'm being conspiratorial but after the nonsense with the Shuttle Vader...I don't know, man. 

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28 minutes ago, hondohnaka said:

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Fennec's ship thing with some cargo, Hunter's speeder, Fennec with the helmet (doubt she'll have it in the Cruiser), Civilian Hunter and Omega. Really nice 50 dollar price point holder.

Also, the thing I'm worried about with the arm printing thing is that from a sales standpoint it makes a lot of sense to make the arm printing exclusive to ToT knowing a lot of people would wait for the Cruiser and then end up having to buy ToT for the proper printing. People would still buy the Cruiser as well as ToT for the printing. Maybe I'm being conspiratorial but after the nonsense with the Shuttle Vader...I don't know, man. 

I think all of the Beskar torsos will have arm printing. The designer of the Daily Bugle explained this in the Reddit AMA:

"The limiting factor, isn't pure finance, it's is the same one you have at home. Space. After a while you run out of places to put your LEGO. Think of each factory having a limited amount of space (I won't go into why it's limited, read 'Brick by Brick' by David C. Robertson if you want to know what happens when LEGO didn't have limits). Every brick made, in each colour has to go into it's own box. This box needs to be stored until it's ready to be packed into the bags in the retail boxes you buy. So there are thousands of boxes. Each year some bricks stop being made and this leaves empty boxes we can fill with new bricks (or new colours of bricks at least). So each team of Designers is given a number of boxes it has the chance to fill."

So, if they did one torso with arm printing and another without, it would take up more space in the factory.

Edited May 22, 20213 yr by avengers777

45 minutes ago, avengers777 said:

I think all of the Beskar torsos will have arm printing. The designer of the Daily Bugle explained this in the Reddit AMA:

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So, if they did one torso with arm printing and another without, it would take up more space in the factory.

I know it logically makes sense thus way. But by using only this logic - all of the Darth Vaders released should now have arm printing and we know that’s not the case. 

4 hours ago, Kit Figsto said:

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Well, we know where the green speeder comes in!  Seems like it's one of those where they just toss an extra "thing" into a set, be it a vehicle or figure, that wasn't totally related to the rest of the scene, but is still okay nonetheless.  Also, I did notice a couple of BARCs, but Crosshair wasn't in the episode.

 

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Ironically they looked like 501st barc speeders to me, at the very least they were blue. So even though the blue-accented barcs from the 501st legion set weren't in clone wars season 7, they're here!

 

1 hour ago, lomis said:

I know it logically makes sense thus way. But by using only this logic - all of the Darth Vaders released should now have arm printing and we know that’s not the case. 

The Death Star Final Duel is rumored to have a short production run and the Bespin Duel was a limited NA/Con exclusive set. Whereas the Mandalorian sets will probably stay on shelves for a longer amount of time, so having two different variants of the Beskar torso would create more logistics issues.

Edited May 22, 20213 yr by avengers777

I think releasing a Beskar Mando without arm printing would be one of the dumbest decision ever and I don't think we will get one in the summer wave. He just looks too plain without it, and to release a 150 euro set with a major downgrade of a character would look very cheap. Whereas Vader has worked perfectly fine without arm printing for 20+ years, Mando simply would not. I would only forgive them if they reallocated some of that budged so we could finally have a dark saber mold 

9 hours ago, Stefanisimo said:

I think releasing a Beskar Mando without arm printing would be one of the dumbest decision ever and I don't think we will get one in the summer wave. He just looks too plain without it, and to release a 150 euro set with a major downgrade of a character would look very cheap. Whereas Vader has worked perfectly fine without arm printing for 20+ years, Mando simply would not. I would only forgive them if they reallocated some of that budged so we could finally have a dark saber mold 

They've already made the piece so if they use that excuse for no molded Darksaber I'll be very annoyed. That being said I don't think, if they ever make it, that we'll see that piece in the Mandalore Duel set. They'll definitely want to keep that an exclusive piece. 

On that note, I feel like we're already getting a few new pieces this wave: Gar Saxon/Armorer, Tech's helmet, Wrecker's armor, probably a Dark Trooper head...the darksaber definitely feels like something they'll cheap out on at the end of it all. 

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10 hours ago, hondohnaka said:

They've already made the piece so if they use that excuse for no molded Darksaber I'll be very annoyed. That being said I don't think, if they ever make it, that we'll see that piece in the Mandalore Duel set. They'll definitely want to keep that an exclusive piece. 

On that note, I feel like we're already getting a few new pieces this wave: Gar Saxon/Armorer, Tech's helmet, Wrecker's armor, probably a Dark Trooper head...the darksaber definitely feels like something they'll cheap out on at the end of it all. 

We don't know both official and inofficial rules within Lego as well as how it works when they have to go through the owner of the licence (which designers have stated many times, they have to, for random things like changing colour from dark blue to light blue because they think it fits better).

the end product at least looks often weird. In this case I wouldnt be surprised if we just get again a black bar. But as the darksaber is much more significant now; I would certainly hope they take some effort, allthough SW was never too good with specialized pieces for weapons.

Worst case: you can just take a silver or black Katana from ninjago - paint hilt or blade and they look not too bad.


On another note: next months SW magazine comes with the rise of Skywalker Ray figure + BB8.

41 minutes ago, Kim-Kwang-Seok said:

In this case I wouldnt be surprised if we just get again a black bar. But as the darksaber is much more significant now; I would certainly hope they take some effort, allthough SW was never too good with specialized pieces for weapons.

My prediction is that the Darksaber will use this piece from the Ninjago weapons pack, with a PDG hilt. 
 

1 hour ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

My prediction is that the Darksaber will use this piece from the Ninjago weapons pack, with a PDG hilt. 
 

Ooh, that's a wonderful idea.

So, I know I'm late to the whole UCS Gunship figure selection discussion, but wanted to give my two pence:

When the vote was going on, I remember my choices being quite simple: Clone Pilot, Yoda, & Clone Trooper. Despite loving ROTS as a better film, the Gunship, for all intents and purposes, works better as an AOTC set, especially given its iconic entrance in that film. As such, I had no interest in seeing figures from any other media in the UCS set.

Now, I love Commander Cody (he's my favorite alongside Bly), but honestly, I'm okay with waiting for a more appropriate set for his inclusion (hopefully one with a Crab Droid as well )

If the rumors are true, and the figures are indeed Mace minifigin' Windu and a Clone Captain, I only have one minor complaint, and that is it should be a Commander (Ponds) instead of a Captain (or maybe it is, and the person just said Captain, who knows), as Mace and the Clone Commander (canonically Ponds) had more relation scene-wise. Otherwise, it seems like the proper garnish, if you will, to this display model.

I do think a Pilot needs to be included, but we may not have the full list of figures (it could be just 2, or it could be at least 3). My personal lineup would be: Pilot, Trooper, Commander, Jedi (in this case Mace Windu), maybe Jedi 2 (Yoda or Kit Fisto).

Also, Jedi Bob would be a cool nod, but perhaps Lego may think him a tad obscure (understatement of the century, I know )

7 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

My prediction is that the Darksaber will use this piece from the Ninjago weapons pack, with a PDG hilt. 
 

They’ll probably opt not to use that since it’s curved and just go with a black lightsaber like last time. I hope they give us a moulded darksaber but I’m not holding my breath. 

12 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

My prediction is that the Darksaber will use this piece from the Ninjago weapons pack, with a PDG hilt. 
 

Like the simple use of a Katana - this would make sense. But again; Lego has weird rules concerning these things. I like to remind people that many figures - among them Obi Wan; still use the oldest hairpiece instead of the 15 better alternatives (of which a few are already produced in the right colour).

5 hours ago, Kim-Kwang-Seok said:

Obi Wan; still use the oldest hairpiece

That’s probably because his hairpiece was created specifically for him and there’s no reason to change it

19 minutes ago, Brikkyy13 said:

That’s probably because his hairpiece was created specifically for him and there’s no reason to change it

I'm pretty sure he's talking about Old Ben, who uses the literal oldest male hair part there is, despite many better hair parts being availible.

Edited May 24, 20213 yr by Mandalorianknight

29 minutes ago, Brikkyy13 said:

That’s probably because his hairpiece was created specifically for him and there’s no reason to change it

I thought the only hairpiece created specifically for Obi-Wan was the one they used on his Clone Wars seasons 1 and 2 appearance (such as in the Clone Wars Republic Gunship). The one they used for that one later-seasons Obi-Wan and his Episode 3 appearance is one they created to use on any number of characters.

As cool as a specialised Darksaber piece would be, I honestly can’t see it happening, what with this theme’s aversion to custom weapon moulds outside of a few exceptions. Would love to be proven wrong though.

I do hope Fennec Shand gets a new mould though (and possibly a fabric skirt piece?), be it her standard hair or the helmet + ponytail combination, the latter would be excellent! 

Edited May 24, 20213 yr by T21Typhoon