LEGO Star Wars 2021 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[Prometheus87]

Other than the AT-AT, what's left for releases in 2021 and people's thoughts on what "Could" be coming in First Wave 2022? 

[Kit Figsto]

4 minutes ago, Prometheus87 said:

Other than the AT-AT, what's left for releases in 2021 and people's thoughts on what "Could" be coming in First Wave 2022? 

AFAIK there was one set number still unaccounted for, but at this point, if it's not a September retailer exclusive, that's probably cancelled.  Could've also been something where there was confusion between multiple sets and a set we actually got was mis-allocated to another number, therefore giving two numbers to the same set.

If the recent pattern holds, the 2022 Winter wave will probably be smaller, maybe 4-5 system sets, 2-3 Microfighters, a 4+ Juniors set, and maybe 1-2 Battle Packs, if they are indeed bringing them back.  I'd hazard a guess that it'll be a couple of remakes and then maybe some stuff from Book of Boba Fett or Bad Batch.

[Drpepper67]

1 hour ago, Prometheus87 said:

Other than the AT-AT, what's left for releases in 2021 and people's thoughts on what "Could" be coming in First Wave 2022? 

Well, there is the Mandalorian Forge and the Advent Calendar, but we already have images of those.

[McMurder_them_softly]

2 hours ago, Prometheus87 said:

Other than the AT-AT, what's left for releases in 2021 and people's thoughts on what "Could" be coming in First Wave 2022? 

I thought there might be a GWP with the AT-AT as well? Anything happening with that? 

[TeddytheSpoon]

There's been a persistent, if unconfirmed, rumour that the GWP with the AT-AT will be some sort of miniature Star Destroyer, but aside from that I don't think there's anything left for 2021.

[distantnemesis]

Anakins jedi interceptor has apparently just been retired

[Prometheus87]

26 minutes ago, distantnemesis said:

Anakins jedi interceptor has apparently just been retired

Still shows Temporarily Out of Stock in US lego.com. Is it sold out elsewhere? 

[lego_guyon02]

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has been delayed again, this time to spring 2022. Only good news is that there's a new trailer: 

 

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Bruh.

The trailer is amazing tho.

[BrickBob Studpants]

I'd rather they delay it than releasing an unfinished, barely functional game 

[samsz_3]

The Kylo Ren ep9 TIE interceptor model in this trailer is different to the one from the 20th December 2019 trailer. Could this mean its an upcoming set? I get designers of the game models don't have to follow official builds, but they already had a model and changed it makes me wonder...

Especially since the OT X wing/TIE fighter are still the 2018 models, not the 2021 downsized ones (also the Falcon is the 2015 TFA one, not the 2019 TROS or the UCS one? which makes no sense)

Edited August 25, 2021 by samsz_3

[THELEGOBATMAN]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I'd rather they delay it than releasing an unfinished, barely functional game 

Totally true.

It's just that first they announced "Holidays 2020", then "Spring 2021", then it was "delayed indefinitely", and now it's "Spring 2022".

Like bruh, how did it suddenly get pushed 1.5 years back.

[distantnemesis]

6 hours ago, Prometheus87 said:

Still shows Temporarily Out of Stock in US lego.com. Is it sold out elsewhere? 

https://brickset.com/sets/75281-1/Anakin-s-Jedi-Interceptor

On brickset it says it is no longer sold on LEGO.com, even though it just says out of stock. It isn’t being sold by Amazon anymore either, at least in Canada

[Prometheus87]

10 minutes ago, distantnemesis said:

https://brickset.com/sets/75281-1/Anakin-s-Jedi-Interceptor

On brickset it says it is no longer sold on LEGO.com, even though it just says out of stock. It isn’t being sold by Amazon anymore either, at least in Canada

Bricklink uses a bot to tell whether or not something is available on the various lego sites and the "sales timetable" doesn't differentiate between "temporarily out of stock" vs. "sold out". 

Although I do recall it being listed as soon retiring, so I can see some vendors starting to run out of stock soon as it's not available at Amazon.com

How much this could be because of the global shipping delays, I don't know but could be contributing if it's still in production. 

[PreVizsla]

3 hours ago, samsz_3 said:

The Kylo Ren ep9 TIE interceptor model in this trailer is different to the one from the 20th December 2019 trailer. Could this mean its an upcoming set?

No it doesn't, very slim chances that it does. If we look at older LEGO Star Wars games there are thousands of builds and characters we never got in LEGO form. 

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I'd rather they delay it than releasing an unfinished, barely functional game 

Yeah, but at this point something's gone horribly wrong. It's been delayed 1.5 years, which is akin to if a studio ceased all work when covid panic struck...and then proceeded to make zero progress until today. There's definately some serious problems going on behind the scenes...

5 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Bruh.

The trailer is amazing tho.

It really is, open world looks amazing.

42 minutes ago, PreVizsla said:

No it doesn't, very slim chances that it does. If we look at older LEGO Star Wars games there are thousands of builds and characters we never got in LEGO form. 

If it's a character, yeah. No chance. For builds, fully lego builds that look possible in real life are pretty rare in the LSW games as far as I remember. Like in the old ones padme's ship (which didn't have a lego model) wasn't lego-ized.

[Kdapt-Preacher]

40 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Like in the old ones padme's ship (which didn't have a lego model) wasn't lego-ized.

I'm not sure which games you're talking about, but in the Complete Saga it certainly is.

[PreVizsla]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

If it's a character, yeah. No chance. For builds, fully lego builds that look possible in real life are pretty rare in the LSW games as far as I remember. Like in the old ones padme's ship (which didn't have a lego model) wasn't lego-ized.

Just on top of my head Padme's ship, Defoliator AAT, Separatist Super Tank, Droid Landing Craft, Self-Propelled Heavy Artillery Turbolaser, Kit Fisto's Jedi Starfighter, clone wars version of Separatist Shuttle, improved and updated J-1 proton cannons, Trident-class Assault Ship, Geonosian cart or carriage thingy... They even had a perfectly scaled AT-RTs which they somehow can't even make nowadays. 

[Mandalorianknight]

23 minutes ago, PreVizsla said:

Just on top of my head Padme's ship, Defoliator AAT, Separatist Super Tank, Droid Landing Craft, Self-Propelled Heavy Artillery Turbolaser, Kit Fisto's Jedi Starfighter, clone wars version of Separatist Shuttle, improved and updated J-1 proton cannons, Trident-class Assault Ship, Geonosian cart or carriage thingy... They even had a perfectly scaled AT-RTs which they somehow can't even make nowadays. 

See below for padme's ship, but yeah, apparently there were a lot in the clone wars game. I only ever played the saga games and the free levels of force awakens, so I didn't realize they'd updated that.

2 hours ago, Kdapt-Preacher said:

I'm not sure which games you're talking about, but in the Complete Saga it certainly is.

Yeah, I was watching a no way home trailer breakdown while writing this and it really didn't turn out right. my point was more so that you can usually tell which lego models are realistic, and which are not things that would be released as sets. In this case, the color is off, and the ship is gargantuan.

[Meaf]

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yeah, but at this point something's gone horribly wrong. It's been delayed 1.5 years, which is akin to if a studio ceased all work when covid panic struck...and then proceeded to make zero progress until today. There's definately some serious problems going on behind the scenes.

This is my concern with the game as well. I'm all for delays if it means a better game but with so many it starts to seem like there is some kind of bigger issue with the game's development. The new trailer does look pretty good which may be a good sign, but obviously they could just be hiding issues. I think the best case scenario is that they either announced the game way too early and/or just ended up making a much bigger game than they originally had intended to, with COVID also playing at least a minor role in the delays. 

On an unrelated note, I picked up the Duel on Mandalore set the other day. As expected, the figs are the main draw, and I think both are great. The actual build is more substantial than I expected but still doesn't feel quite worth the money, though the little vault is oddly entertaining.

[wesker]

The trailer looks amazing! Hopefully the long delay will be worth the wait. Seeing Crait Luke and Battle Padme reminds me how badly those two need a proper minifigure release.
 

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

If it's a character, yeah. No chance.

Not always the case. While Lego games do mostly create their own designs for unreleased characters, there have been instances where upcoming minifigures due for release in the near future were first revealed in the video games. I remember it happening with the first Marvel Superheroes, LOTR and Hobbit games. Even this one has already given us our first look at arm printed Darth Vader before the Final Duel set was even unveiled.

[MaximillianRebo]

For any Aussies online, Big W has the Mando Forge up on their website.

[Brikkyy13]

46 minutes ago, MaximillianRebo said:

For any Aussies online, Big W has the Mando Forge up on their website.

Got one in store today. Paz looks much better in person IMO. Good little set, you can get a lot more mileage out of it by keeping the builds in bags 1, 2 and 3 separate instead of connecting them. Combined with the mando battle pack it’s a good cheap way to get lots of mandos and a cool location.

[MSY-MSP]

12 hours ago, Meadius said:

 

On an unrelated note, I picked up the Duel on Mandalore set the other day. As expected, the figs are the main draw, and I think both are great. The actual build is more substantial than I expected but still doesn't feel quite worth the money, though the little vault is oddly entertaining.

I just built this set yesterday, and I agree the figures are definitely well worth it.  I really like the vault as well and made sure that I had that sticker perfectly aligned so that you can see Maul's eyes clearly.  I may try to use this and create a MOC of the scene when they were handing Maul off to Asoka and the clones.

[Mandalorianknight]

22 hours ago, Meadius said:

This is my concern with the game as well. I'm all for delays if it means a better game but with so many it starts to seem like there is some kind of bigger issue with the game's development. The new trailer does look pretty good which may be a good sign, but obviously they could just be hiding issues. I think the best case scenario is that they either announced the game way too early and/or just ended up making a much bigger game than they originally had intended to, with COVID also playing at least a minor role in the delays. 

yeah hopefully it's just that it grew in scale, as I can't imagine they just ceased working for a year and a half, covid or not.