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

[MKJoshA]

I'd say we're getting off topic. But deep down all I want to say is "no, no... I want to see where's he's going with this."

[AD_Bricks]

5 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

does Rey just leave them sitting there?

Pretty sure they get crushed by debris near the end or something

5 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

is without a shadow of a doubty

This is without a shadow of a doubty new favourite typo. I will be taking ownership of it now for future use. Please and thank you.

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, Hhalcyon said:

To add something somewhat meaningful to the conversation other than my trolling, does anyone know if the upcoming Yoda Starfighter includes THE EXACT same yoda we already have? If so that's a very strange choice. Why would they make it if they have legitimately nothing new to offer except a slightly larger cockpit?

I believe so. I think their assumption is kids will buy it as a cheap way to get yoda, and parents will recognize him and R2 and buy it for their kids, but I don't think it's gonna work. There are 3 other, cheaper sets this summer alone that seem to rely on kids buying it for the figures (vader and boba mechs, as well as the 332nd pack, though as a battle pack that one's at least SUPPOSED to be for the figures.). Plus, Obi-wan's starfighter is still on shelves, which comes with an extra, desirable figure, is more recognizable, and $5 cheaper. 

13 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

TroS is without a shadow of a doubty least favourite star wars movie, and the whole 'conclusion of the Skywalker Saga' thing is nonsense as no-one even called it the Skywalker saga before TroS, however I do still think an Exegol set could be interesting but I can't see one bigger than like 50-60 quid because what more could you reasonably expect than the throne, the GLaDOS looking thing, a couple smoke jars and some rocks, the statues are too far from the main action and too big unless scaled down, the stands do nothing ( all those supposed sith cultists just watch Palpatine die again and then what do they do? The camera doesn't even zoom in on them, does Rey just leave them sitting there?) Maybe a moving platform and some painfully underwhelming knights of Ren? ( I really though that they were gonna be Ben's fellow defectors from Luke's academy but nope just some random guy's posse that Kylo sorta takes over but in the film they aren't anything special).

I don't want to keep straying off topic, so the one thing I'll say is that most of your criticisms of it's set potential come back around to disliking the movie/plot. I put an example of how I think one could work at a higher price point in the star wars set wishlist thread.

13 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

Yes I let my hate flow through me.

To be clear I don't think an Exogol isn't viable at all. It'd be better than Obi-Wan ve Vader on a flat grey base. But, as an adult fan and purchaser of LEGO Star Wars since 1999, I'd just really like to finally see more visually interesting locations from Episode I especially, like Theed and Otto Gunga, and get characters that we still haven't gotten after 24 years.

Granted there isn't much obvious playability in Otto Gunga, but Theed could work at a variety of price points with a variety of potential characters. I love that LEGO is confident enough to go fairly large with Yavin (despite it probably being better even larger), and certainly want to see that carried on.

I do think Theed could work well, especially if the interior is split between the duel of the fates and the hanger/hallways. Be a nice way to get battle dress padme whilst still having a fairly desirable set (Though I think our next duel of the fates set will be a diorama)

[ginja]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I do think Theed could work well, especially if the interior is split between the duel of the fates and the hanger/hallways. Be a nice way to get battle dress padme whilst still having a fairly desirable set (Though I think our next duel of the fates set will be a diorama)

I'd want the quote to just be "John Williams' battle of the fates'" its the most iconic thing from that scene - there's no real dialogue.

 

All jokes aside theed is such a beautiful location and we need more padme/amidala.

[Agent Kallus]

10 hours ago, ginja said:

I'd want the quote to just be "John Williams' battle of the fates'" its the most iconic thing from that scene - there's no real dialogue.

 

All jokes aside theed is such a beautiful location and we need more padme/amidala.

Needs a big tile to say ' Kor-ah, Mah-tah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah

Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Yood-hah, Kor-ah. 

Kor-ah, Syahd-ho. Rah-tah-mah, Daan-yah. 

Kor-ah, Kee-lah, Daan-yah. 

Nyo-hah, Kee-lah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. 

Syahd-ho, Kee-la, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. 

Kor-ah, Daa-nyah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. 

Kor-ah, Daa-nyah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. 

Nyo-hah, Kee-lah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. 

Syahd-ho, Kee-la, Daan-yah, Rhythmic. Kor-ah!'

13 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I don't want to keep straying off topic, so the one thing I'll say is that most of your criticisms of it's set potential come back around to disliking the movie/plot. I put an example of how I think one could work at a higher price point in the star wars set wishlist thread.

But you can't go off topic without me responding off topically 

Its not really that, it's more that I just don't think it'd need to be £100. I mean yes I dislike the film but I still might consider buying an Exegol set if one existed depending on how it came out, I mean I like the characters and the looks of the scene just not the actual scene or the film it's from.

I mean even if we include 2 statues and the moving platform. Let's looks at the Indiana Jones lost tomb as a starting point, that's a £35($40) set but it wouldn't be if it was a star wars set let's be honest so we'll add a £10 star wars tax, swap the Anubis statues for sith statues, swap the arch over the arc for a sith throne, swap the mummy jumping out feature for a moving platform feature, take out some of the wall parts and the snake function to replace them with the harness, add a £10 set's worth of smoke jar lab and big lighting so Sheev can do his super smash attack on the spaceships. Boom £55-£60 set with 6 figures (4 from the lost tomb, 2 from the £10 snoke lab) which would be Sheev (corpse),Sheev (less corpsey), Rey Skywalker, Ben solo, 2 snokes for the jar. Or if you really wanted we could include a couple more minifigs and bump up the price to £60-£65 ( 2 guards for Palpy)

Yes you could just make that all but bigger but I don't see the point, it's not like there's much more to the scene expect really massive things like the star destroyer's ice field or the cultist's seating arrangements. 

22 hours ago, AD_Bricks said:

Pretty sure they get crushed by debris near the end or something

This is without a shadow of a doubty new favourite typo. I will be taking ownership of it now for future use. Please and thank you.

Ah okay, hard life for a sith cultist I guess.

Yeah, it was meant to be 'without shadow of a doubt my' but I can't go back and change it now ( I mean I could but I won't).

14 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I believe so. I think their assumption is kids will buy it as a cheap way to get yoda, and parents will recognize him and R2 and buy it for their kids, but I don't think it's gonna work. There are 3 other, cheaper sets this summer alone that seem to rely on kids buying it for the figures (vader and boba mechs, as well as the 332nd pack, though as a battle pack that one's at least SUPPOSED to be for the figures.). Plus, Obi-wan's starfighter is still on shelves, which comes with an extra, desirable figure, is more recognizable, and $5 cheaper. 

I mean I really don't understand the Yoda Starfighter thing. It's was a confusing enough choice  the first time around. Even if they wanted a cheaper Yoda set on shelves he could be the 3rd fig for any jedi Starfighter set. And it's not a proper delta but the actual ship isn't at all prominent and on features in one clone wars arc, so it just looks like they did the delta poorly. And why is it so big? The one in the clone wars was smaller not bigger than a standard delta. They could've done Ahsoka's delta with her R7 and Yoda or mace Windu's purple 2D clone wars one with him, Yoda and his droid but no, they did this.

[Hhalcyon]

16 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I believe so. I think their assumption is kids will buy it as a cheap way to get yoda, and parents will recognize him and R2 and buy it for their kids, but I don't think it's gonna work. There are 3 other, cheaper sets this summer alone that seem to rely on kids buying it for the figures (vader and boba mechs, as well as the 332nd pack, though as a battle pack that one's at least SUPPOSED to be for the figures.). Plus, Obi-wan's starfighter is still on shelves, which comes with an extra, desirable figure, is more recognizable, and $5 cheaper.

That is a sucky way to do a cheap yoda tbh. Would it have killed them to do like a Snail Tank with a few battledroids, chewbacca and Yoda if they were absolutley dead set on putting him in a $30-35 set? It's not like a starfighter from 3 episodes of the clone wars is any more iconic than any other clone wars era vehicle and this would give us that much needed CIS set. (Pls lego, give us anything. I have just over 100 clone troopers, 2x AT-TEs, a bunch of jedi vs Greivous, 20 battledroids and a couple AATs. My shelves look very silly.)

[Pedilego]

If the point was a “cheap” Yoda—a version of him is about to be in the Tenoo Temple set for $5 more.

Edited May 24, 2023 by Pedilego

[Agent Kallus]

1 hour ago, Pedilego said:

If the point was a “cheap” Yoda—a version of him is about to be in the Tenoo Temple set for $5 more.

And that is a much more interesting and unique Yoda though I could've done with the high republic robes in a less cartoony style.

Edited May 24, 2023 by Agent Kallus

[omegabadbatch]

gunship could be revealed in 1 month like swamp speeder yoda starfighter yavin? I think gunship is not in catalog beacuse gunship could be exclusive to lego shop like republic tank. There is no republic tank in catalog too

Edited May 24, 2023 by omegabadbatch

[Agent Kallus]

2 minutes ago, omegabadbatch said:

gunship could be revealed in 1 month like swamp speeder yoda starfighter yavin? I think gunship is not in catalog beacuse gunship is exclusive to lego shop like republic tank. There is no republic tank in catalog too

Gunship is September and the ones we saw in the catalogue were August.

 

[omegabadbatch]

1 minute ago, Agent Kallus said:

Gunship is September and the ones we saw in the catalogue were August.

 

I know but its only 1 month later. There are no spoilers in gunship. In catalog there is no advent calendar too. Advent calendar was always in catalog.

so lego will show gunship in mid july?

[McMurder_them_softly]

28 minutes ago, omegabadbatch said:

I know but its only 1 month later. There are no spoilers in gunship. In catalog there is no advent calendar too. Advent calendar was always in catalog.

so lego will show gunship in mid july?

Probably in August based on what we have gotten in the past. It could leak earlier but no way to know at this point with the given information we have. 

[omegabadbatch]

Ok.

Lego was always showing advent calendar in mid june yes? in this year they could show advent calendar in mid june too?

Edited May 24, 2023 by omegabadbatch

[Fulcrumfan91]

Sadly, I don't think we'll see much of the September sets until at least August if even that. It's really annoying, but it is what it is. Out of our control.

[Hhalcyon]

3 hours ago, Pedilego said:

If the point was a “cheap” Yoda—a version of him is about to be in the Tenoo Temple set for $5 more.

yah but Lego knows that even kids don't like the kids sets eheheh

 

2 hours ago, omegabadbatch said:

gunship could be revealed in 1 month like swamp speeder yoda starfighter yavin? I think gunship is not in catalog beacuse gunship could be exclusive to lego shop like republic tank. There is no republic tank in catalog too

Lego would have to be smoking a PROFOUND amount of psycho-active drugs to make the Republic Gunship a Lego exclusive. The Republic Fighter Tank isn't Lego Exclusive though. It's available at Tesco in the UK or Walmart in the US. Not sure about everywhere else.
Maybe an Amazon exclusive but the rumor mill is leaning towards the Ghost being the amazon exclusive.

[Mandalorianknight]

8 hours ago, Hhalcyon said:

That is a sucky way to do a cheap yoda tbh. Would it have killed them to do like a Snail Tank with a few battledroids, chewbacca and Yoda if they were absolutley dead set on putting him in a $30-35 set? It's not like a starfighter from 3 episodes of the clone wars is any more iconic than any other clone wars era vehicle and this would give us that much needed CIS set. (Pls lego, give us anything. I have just over 100 clone troopers, 2x AT-TEs, a bunch of jedi vs Greivous, 20 battledroids and a couple AATs. My shelves look very silly.)

I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm just saying it's probably their rationale. Why design a new vehicle with more figures when they can throw out an incredibly minor update to an existing set with like, one new print and 2 re-used figures and be reasonably sure it'll sell well?

[AD_Bricks]

2 hours ago, Hhalcyon said:

The Republic Fighter Tank isn't Lego Exclusive though. It's available at Tesco in the UK or Walmart in the US. Not sure about everywhere else.

In Australia we don't have retail-exclusives at all. Like, we'll hear "oh, x new set is an Amazon exclusive" and that literally means nothing for us. It goes everywhere anyway. The only exclusives are LEGO exclusives like the minifig packs as well as UCS sets briefly. However, in regards to the specific example of the Republic Fighter Tank, I've seen it out in the wild maybe once or twice ever.

[Duke27]

2 hours ago, Hhalcyon said:

The Republic Fighter Tank isn't Lego Exclusive though. It's available at Tesco in the UK or Walmart in the US

is not Republic fighter tank Target exclusive? 

[Fulcrumfan91]

Just came to me, how cool would it be if Ahsoka's T-6 the figure (Ahsoka) came with a hood mold special to her? I think that'd be so cool

[Kaijumeister]

18 minutes ago, Fulcrumfan91 said:

Just came to me, how cool would it be if Ahsoka's T-6 the figure (Ahsoka) came with a hood mold special to her? I think that'd be so cool

This would be so awesome! Especially if you could alternate Ahsoka’s look with the cloak + hood combo. 

Still a little bummed out we aren’t getting a new mould for her, that oversized Shaak-Ti headpiece just doesn’t work IMO, and far more minor characters (Vane, Young Jedi Adventures cast etc.) have gotten new moulds this year. Heck, even YJA Yoda got another new mould for crying out loud.

Edited May 24, 2023 by Kaijumeister

[Fulcrumfan91]

1 hour ago, Kaijumeister said:

Still a little bummed out we aren’t getting a new mould for her, that oversized Shaak-Ti headpiece

Fair enough, totally your preference, I'll still be happy with it! But yeah would *love" one of the new hoods for her as an alternate head accessory along with a poncho a la Obi-Wan in the Inquisitor Transport, gonna keep expectations low tho

[Darth Shadowthrone]

Do we know for sure that Ahsoka’s not getting a new mold? That would be a real shame as in my experience the rubber head tail prints scratch very easily 

[omegabadbatch]

there was fake rumor that minifigures in swamp speeder are luminara 2x442nd clones 2 b2 droids. I was excited and I would prefer that instead of 332nd.

Edited May 25, 2023 by omegabadbatch

[Duke27]

6 minutes ago, omegabadbatch said:

there was fake rumor that minifigures in swamp speeder are luminara 2x442nd clones 2 b2 droids. I was excited and I would prefer that instead of 332nd.

There were more fake rumors about Swamp speeder, such as Rex p2

[BrickBob Studpants]

That‘s why all rumours should be taken with a grain of salt, especially from unverified sources

While I also would‘ve preferred a different clone unit, it‘s still a decent set.