LEGO Star Wars 2023 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[BrickBob Studpants]

Huh. I didn’t realise until now that we’ve never had Red Leader as a minifig before  I have to admit, the Yavin set is a lot better than I initially gave it credit for. Still wish it was a RO/ANH hybrid set, but this works regardless. Apart from that stupid tree, that is

[Kaijumeister]

None of these are particularly mind-blowing, but we’ve known for a while that the true goodness of the summer wave will arrive in September anyway.

- The mechs are fine, cheap way to get some classic villain characters and the Boba / Stormtrooper ones actually have some personality to them, unlike Vader’s more generic mech. I am really not a fan of the <insert that tiresome argument> angled limb piece that was introduced in Ninjago, but understand how its robustness can aid play for younger demographics.

- Yoda’s Starfighter: No more desirable than the 2017 version, though I can appreciate this one looks a little more stubby than its predecessor as it should. However, it feels like a waste of a slot and as a Clone Wars tie-in, something with Anakin or Obi-Wan in their CW armour would’ve been much better (or better yet, just make it a small Jedi: Survivor set!). Part of me thinks Lego settled on this set due to having no budget left for more new minifigures. 

- 332nd Battle Pack: Unnecessary, but a nice way to accrue more of Ahsoka’s troopers. Vaughn seems like a very lazily done figure, but I didn’t expect much on that front anyway. Also love how the Swamp Speeder isn’t even in a swamp setting, at least the context is accurate!

- Yavin IV: Overall, I do like it. But my main gripes with this (and as of late, quite a few of the large summer sets for this theme) is the piece count. A couple hundred more pieces dedicated to the Massassi Temple itself would’ve worked wonders, as it looks quite undersized in its current iteration. A large, expensive summer set really shouldn’t have an issue like this, the set barely breaks the 1000 piece mark and a non-trivial number of those parts are diverted towards the Y-Wing, tree build, and ground speeder.

Lego, please don’t fumble the September sets. 

[PreVizsla]

332nd Battle Pack is amazing apart from Vaugn's helmet and visor, even if the print on the visor was hard to pull off, they could have at least give him the proper color for it. That aspect is kinda annoying.
Rest of the set is perfect, 3 figures of the same kind plus jetpacks on 2 of them, great for mixing and matching with the current and only 501st battle pack.

Yoda's starfighter is terrible, I did have too high of expectation thinking it will be the battlefront interceptor though. Not having a third figure is horrible as well.

Yavin figures look really good, but not into OT apart from Endor so pass.

Definitely getting Boba Fett's mech and maybe Vader's if it hit any kind of sale cause otherwise I can just get the Vader figure for under $10 on bricklink. Stormtrooper mech looks decent, but they still use that disgusting family guy helmet so pass.

[omegabadbatch]

Now im waiting for 2024 winter wave rumours

[CallumPears]

Is it just the lighting on the pictures or does the Rebel Ground Crew figure have a slightly darker skin tone? Don't think we've had a print with a chinstrap on a head in that colour before; will be useful for making some variety in Rebel Fleet Troopers and AT-ST drivers. 

[Darth Shadowthrone]

It’s quite promising that we’ve essentially been given two battle packs this year (albeit at crazy over-inflated prices)

Hopefully Lego sees how profitable the classic combination of four troops and a side build can be 

Hopefully next year there will be a blue Mandalorian battle pack which can work for either Bo Katan’s faction or the original Death Watch 

 

[ArrowBricks]

54 minutes ago, Darth Shadowthrone said:

Hopefully next year there will be a blue Mandalorian battle pack which can work for either Bo Katan’s faction or the original Death Watch 

 

Nice idea, I’d love to see your ideas in the Future Star Wars thread! 

Seeing the solitary Rebel Fleet Trooper in the Yavin Temple, I am almost certain we are getting a Rebel Fleet Trooper Battle Pack! 

[omegabadbatch]

332 clone leak? link (url removed by MOD)

Edited May 20, 2023 by MKJoshA
Don't link to possible leaks

[MKJoshA]

36 minutes ago, omegabadbatch said:

332 clone leak? link (url removed by MOD)

Please don't share links to possible leaks. That puts us in hot water with TLG. You can tell people where to look but can't share url links.

[Big_Daddy]

That reveal was pretty revealing. My two cents:

• Yavin IV temple: it already didn't sound like a set for me but now I'm convinced; I appreciate the effort but it doesn't quite capture the building, even considering the limitations. The Y-Wing is cute though.
• Yoda's starfighter: since I missed out on the 2017 one I'm glad to pick this one up, after a good discount of course. And is it just me or does the cockpit look less bulky?
• 332nd BP: it looks nice enough for a battle pack, good thing they lowered the price. 27 euros would have been beyond ridiculous, they should have lowered it to 20 euros, max. But yeah, I'll wait for a small discount.

[Whovastron]

22 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Speak for yourself. Him being the ESB version we've already had 3 times, rather than a RotJ version which we've never had with arm printing, is definitely a big thing that I'm annoyed about, though the missing cape and the insanely high price certainly don't help. 

I was speaking for myself…hence why I said ‘ I’ve seen’.

I never said you weren’t annoyed at that. I’m just saying that you’re wrong to say that no one’s moaning about the cape. There’s room for multiple things to complain about

Edited May 20, 2023 by Whovastron

[CallumPears]

41 minutes ago, Whovastron said:

I was speaking for myself…hence why I said ‘ I’ve seen’.

I never said you weren’t annoyed at that. I’m just saying that you’re wrong to say that no one’s moaning about the cape. There’s room for multiple things to complain about

Sorry, that does come across as a bit rude now I'm reading it back. Yeah the cape is definitely the biggest issue since it's an objective error in the set.

The RotJ vs ESB thing is more of a personal preference- guess I got my hopes up with the rumours prior to the reveal. 

[Shiva]

I don't know why, but instagram refuses to work here "this page is not available, broken link or removed page". Anyway, Watermelon Studies had a youtube video about the sets and credits the instagrammer mentioned on the previous page, or was it earlier?

Yoda's small spaceship interests me, I missed the previous, as some others have done too.

332 pack is interesting.

The big set? lots of minifigs. Those are the + for me, but I'll possibly skip it anyway.

I wonder what the Ahsoka sets bring.

[Llewop]

The mechs look good but maybe needed something different in the figure line up. I wonder what ones they will do in January. The sets aren’t bad but I’m kind of relieved in the fact I’ll probably be waiting for most to go on sale as the other sets sound more interesting.

out of curiosity are the clones any different to the one that came with the separatist tank a couple of years ago? (Apart from the holes in helmets that people get far too upset over)

[omegabadbatch]

I think lego will do rebels battlepack because theyve put only 1 rebel trooper in yavin set. There was only 1 dark trooper in light cruiser and in next year lego made set with 3 dark troopers. In at te there are 3 212 clones and that why lego didnt made 212 battlepack

[Sneakguest]

Finally a set I really want to purchase this year (well the Tie-bomber too but thats it). Yavin is really standing out in terms of minifigures, dont know if this is a possible change in terms of being stingy in amout of minifigures, or it might be a result of not needing to make any new molds, or just a one hit wonder. Although I wished they would have used the extra total unnecessary pieces of making a micro Y-wing to make the Yavin base slightly larger. In comparison with the Cloudcity car and the Mos Eisley vehicles, this Y-wing adds zero value to the set

[Mandalorianknight]

18 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Huh. I didn’t realise until now that we’ve never had Red Leader as a minifig before  I have to admit, the Yavin set is a lot better than I initially gave it credit for. Still wish it was a RO/ANH hybrid set, but this works regardless. Apart from that stupid tree, that is

I believe the tree lets the watchtower retract into it, though it doesn't excuse the stupidity of it.

5 hours ago, Sneakguest said:

Finally a set I really want to purchase this year (well the Tie-bomber too but thats it). Yavin is really standing out in terms of minifigures, dont know if this is a possible change in terms of being stingy in amout of minifigures, or it might be a result of not needing to make any new molds, or just a one hit wonder. Although I wished they would have used the extra total unnecessary pieces of making a micro Y-wing to make the Yavin base slightly larger. In comparison with the Cloudcity car and the Mos Eisley vehicles, this Y-wing adds zero value to the set

I like the Y-wing! And I think having a vehicle for the hanger definately adds some value to the set, both for play and display.

[Kit Figsto]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I like the Y-wing! And I think having a vehicle for the hanger definately adds some value to the set, both for play and display.

I agree, I've seen mixed opinions on the Y-Wing, but I disagree with the thought that a vehicle was unnecessary.  In a hangar-centric base like this one, I think it's really necessary to have a vehicle, especially one that actually fits (since a full size Y-Wing or X-Wing probably can't fit through the entrance door, or at least it would be a very tight squeeze).  It's the same way that the 2007 Echo Base set has a Snowspeeder.  Yeah, the base isn't as substantial, but it's largely depicting the main hangar, so it'd be odd to not have any sort of vehicle.

And as always, remember that the target audience of most system scale sets are kids, who definitely would want a vehicle to fly around with the base.  Especially in this case when there probably aren't a ton of play features (realistically I don't know what could really be incorporated on the inside.  I could see some sort of lever to change a display screen in the briefing/command rooms, but that's about it?), so it's sort of necessary to have a ship that can fly around.

[AD_Bricks]

On 5/20/2023 at 7:43 AM, Hhalcyon said:

To whomever was adament that the swamp speeder wasn't going to be blue:

AHAAAAAAA TOLD YOU

Lol, pretty sure that's me. I stand by my reasoning though; LEGO pulled this thing out of nowhere. Shame it ended up not being the actual colour of a swamp speeder, since it's not accurate to any scene with 332nd clones either way. If it was red, I would have just used the clones for Mandalore stuff and put the swamp speeder with my 41st/Kashyyyk stuff. Now there's gonna be a blue swamp speeder sitting on my shelf being rather useless.

As for the new sets:
Yoda's starfighter: Wasn't interested in the old one, not interested now. Would've considered it, had it had a cool 3rd fig. Good way for new collectors to get a Yoda, but I'm sure 90% of people would have rathered something else be given this set's slot. Should've made an AOTC duel set this year and done a new Yoda's starfighter when the 2017 one is more outdated. Hard pass.

332nd BP: Highly problematic, but I'm gonna buy it for the figs anyway. I'm one of those losers who loves the helmet holes, and I never bought extra 332nd clones, so it's good to get a few in the new style. My singular 2020 one looked very awkward all by his lonesome when I was setting up Siege of Mandalore stuff.

Yavin IV: Hell yes. Love it. 12 figures in a set that would normally have 5-6? Awesome. And I'm in love with location sets, particularly ones of factions' bases, which LEGO makes approximately never. The Y-Wing is excellent, adds heaps of play value and will look great sitting in the hangar at the bottom, plus I don't currently have a Y-Wing.

Edited May 21, 2023 by AD_Bricks

[ToaDraco]

Having seen a direct comparison between the old Yoda's starfighter and the new one, the new one is significantly better. Who am I kidding, I'm a sucker for Jedi Starfighters and Interceptors so I'm going to get it eventually, it's just not high on the list. Had they thrown in a 3rd figure to sweeten the deal, especially someone new like Sifo Dyas or Darth Bane or even a random jedi we haven't had before would have been great. Imagine they threw in Yadle or Yarrel Poof.

The least they could have done was give Yoda the dual-molded short legs that they gave the Lucasfilm fountain set and/or include R2 with the printing on the back(maybe it does and we just can't see it).

Edited May 21, 2023 by ToaDraco

[Hhalcyon]

39 minutes ago, ToaDraco said:

Having seen a direct comparison between the old Yoda's starfighter and the new one, the new one is significantly better. Who am I kidding, I'm a sucker for Jedi Starfighters and Interceptors so I'm going to get it eventually, it's just not high on the list. Had they thrown in a 3rd figure to sweeten the deal, especially someone new like Sifo Dyas or Darth Bane or even a random jedi we haven't had before would have been great. Imagine they threw in Yadle or Yarrel Poof.

The least they could have done was give Yoda the dual-molded short legs that they gave the Lucasfilm fountain set and/or include R2 with the printing on the back(maybe it does and we just can't see it).

why would you want the dobby legs? they're just wrong, that said if you do want that exact figure just buy a dobby for like $2 and rip its legs off and put it on a yoda.

[ToaDraco]

3 minutes ago, Hhalcyon said:

why would you want the dobby legs? they're just wrong, that said if you do want that exact figure just buy a dobby for like $2 and rip its legs off and put it on a yoda.

Because then it would at least not be the exact same Yoda we got in the last Yoda’s Starfighter. Ideally he should get tan and olive green dual molded short legs since it's not like he ever wore shoes.

Edited May 21, 2023 by ToaDraco

[Duke27]

According to some rumours, the Ghost is gonna be Amazon exclusive. 

[Sneakguest]

6 hours ago, Kit Figsto said:

I agree, I've seen mixed opinions on the Y-Wing, but I disagree with the thought that a vehicle was unnecessary.  In a hangar-centric base like this one, I think it's really necessary to have a vehicle, especially one that actually fits (since a full size Y-Wing or X-Wing probably can't fit through the entrance door, or at least it would be a very tight squeeze).  It's the same way that the 2007 Echo Base set has a Snowspeeder.  Yeah, the base isn't as substantial, but it's largely depicting the main hangar, so it'd be odd to not have any sort of vehicle.

And as always, remember that the target audience of most system scale sets are kids, who definitely would want a vehicle to fly around with the base.  Especially in this case when there probably aren't a ton of play features (realistically I don't know what could really be incorporated on the inside.  I could see some sort of lever to change a display screen in the briefing/command rooms, but that's about it?), so it's sort of necessary to have a ship that can fly around.

I tend to forget that those egocentric miniature bastards wants different things than us 😜

Well probably something would be needed un top of the structure, but then maybe some kind of ground machine would have been prefered.

[Flawless Cowboy]

Yoda’s starfighter should have a cockpit very similar to anakin’s Jedi interceptor, but Lego instead chose to use the tie cockpit and applied stickers on top to simulate the rest of the windows. Looks very wonky.