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

[Flawless Cowboy]

4 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

It’s a double-edged sword IMO. Stormtrooper helmets are so goofy looking, whilst the scout trooper ones are perfection. Feels like there’s always a 50/50 chance with dual-moulded helmets either looking great or awful, so I’ll always be trepidatious when it comes to them.

Down to personal opinion, I love the stormtrooper helmets and I think they’re stylized well, it’s a Lego toy after all. The extra details compensate for the proportions for me. Either way, I see this happening as Lego would have an excuse to re-release clones yet again in the near future. After this mega battle pack, the only legions they can reasonably do are Wolf Pack and maybe 327th. When they do the 41st I hope they use the superb scout helmet as a base. 

Edited November 3, 2023 by Flawless Cowboy

[Alex_South]

YES! Rex in a Y-wing micro-fighter is better than I could have hoped, also vindication after being told on reddit and youtube that I was insane for saying LEGO wouldn't paywall the arm printing. Yularen is the more fair figure to remain exclusive.

I'm also in the minority of folks not thrilled on the idea of a full Y-wing set, I don't like CW era Y-wings, but this microfighter will go perfect with a 501st specialist BP.

Now to see what other CW era sets drop next summer. I am holding out hope for an eta class Jedi Shuttle with CW era Anakin/Obi/Ahsoka.

[Hhalcyon]

Oh fellers, fellerettes and fellems can you smell that in the air? Take a big whiff of that. It's the smell of Lego Star Wars investors and FOMO impulse buyers who paid $50 just for Rex... and it smells like pure, weapons grade copium. Oh it's a good day. The subreddits are filled with so much cope and seething.

"nononononon it won't have arm printing *breathes heavily into paper bag* it-it'll be missing something surely" ooooooooooooooooh the denial gives me life.

Aside from the rex though i am excited to get some more easily accessible 501st blue bricks without having to bricklink or pick-a-brick that's always nice.

[SketchBrick]

New set reveals dropping left and right on IG! Mando battle pack and Moff Gideon bunker from S3, plus Pilot Luke mech...

[Classic_Spaceman]

75386 Mando Bunker - $39.99 / 289 Pieces / Minifigs are Moff, Paz, and two Praetorians. 
 

[Brickwraith]

So excited to see mando season 3 Stuff! I love the praetorian guards and i'm so glad we are getting yet another lego variant of them.

[Flawless Cowboy]

19 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

75386 Mando Bunker - $39.99 / 289 Pieces / Minifigs are Moff, Paz, and two Praetorians. 
 

Yuck that’s a lousy fig selection, Paz was already in a cheap set, and people want Beskar clones much more than TLJ Praetorian knockoffs

[Classic_Spaceman]

2 minutes ago, Flawless Cowboy said:

Yuck that’s a lousy fig selection, Paz was already in a cheap set, and people want Beskar clones much more than TLJ Praetorian knockoffs

Beskar Super Commandos are in the battle pack! 

2x Beskar Stormtrooper, 1x Fleet Commander reuse, 1x Koska Reeves. 
 

[Flawless Cowboy]

1 minute ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Beskar Super Commandos are in the battle pack! 

2x Beskar Stormtrooper, 1x Fleet Commander reuse, 1x Koska Reeves. 
 

Oh man I didn’t see that, that’s actually amazing I take it all back

[Big_Daddy]

All of the three sets announced today sound like I'd be interested (not counting the mech). I love the fact that they're all below the 50 euros price range. Even though I'm able to buy bigger sets as an adult there's still an irresistable charm to small lego sets IMO.

[Hhalcyon]

2 hours ago, Hhalcyon said:

Oh fellers, fellerettes and fellems can you smell that in the air? Take a big whiff of that. It's the smell of Lego Star Wars investors and FOMO impulse buyers who paid $50 just for Rex... and it smells like pure, weapons grade copium. Oh it's a good day. The subreddits are filled with so much cope and seething.

"nononononon it won't have arm printing *breathes heavily into paper bag* it-it'll be missing something surely" ooooooooooooooooh the denial gives me life.

Aside from the rex though i am excited to get some more easily accessible 501st blue bricks without having to bricklink or pick-a-brick that's always nice.

OH I HAVE PAID FOR MY ARROGANCE I JUST PAID LIKE $50 FOR A BUNCH OF GREY JETPACKS ONLY FOR THEM TO LEAK A BLOODY BATTLEPACK WITH 4 MANDALORIANS IN IT OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD WHY ME

Ngl though the battlepack does sound great. 2024 Is gonna be a banner year for army builders. You've got a set that lets you build armies of shock troopers, plain phase 2 clones, battle droids, super battle droids. A set that lets you army build mandalorian imperial super commandos and generic blue mandalorians. A set that lets you army build rebel fleet troopers and storm troopers (although you'll want to wait for a discount on that set for sure) On top of that you'll still have the 501st battlepack, the 332nd Battlepack and the AT-TE (for half the year, and only at discounted prices obviously) and whatever troopers (if any) end up in the Grogus Escape set. That's a lot of ways to fill up some baseplates lmao.

That pilot luke mech is gonna need to have dual molded legs or that is gonna be one of the worst selling sets out there. It has to be the most easily accessible figures since the B1 battle droid surely? There is what? 4 sets with (the pilot version of) him in it right now?

Edited November 3, 2023 by Hhalcyon

[Llewop]

So are these the sets that we just knew the set numbers of or are these new sets and we still have some sets still to leak for the first half of the year? 
 

(imo it was a lot easier when we had a January wave and a June wave back in the day) 

[ToaDraco]

Wow, these sets sound fantastic! I can't believe the Venator Rex will be in a $13 microfighter of all things. I expected a full-sized Clone Wars Y-Wing. Personally I would have preferred that since I missed out on the original Clone Wars Y-Wing but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth!

The Mando bp sounds good, I still haven't gotten the TIE Interceptor vs Mandalorian Starfighter set so I don't mind the reuse here. Finally getting Koska Reeves is great but I would have rather had her and the fleet commander come in a different set so that the bp could have just army builder characters. I wish it had one more beskar stormtrooper and a Praetorian guard instead but still sounds like a great set regardless.

The Mando bunker is an interesting set. I wouldn't have expected them to basically make a set of Paz's death scene but hey, here we are. I have the Mando forge so I'm indifferent to the Paz reuse. The real stars of the set are beskar Gideon and the Praetorian guards. Hopefully the build of the bunker makes for a nice display like the Luke and Dark Trooper set from season 2.

Edited November 3, 2023 by ToaDraco

[Llewop]

On 11/1/2023 at 8:27 AM, ArrowBricks said:

Someone do correct me if I am wrong. 

Originally there were 5 sets slated for January.

This included an unknown set 75373 (so could well still exist we have just heard nothing about it), and 75374 the Skeleton Crew ship which has now been delayed.

There is also 30680 (rumoured to be an AAT Polybag). Not sure anyone is excited to see this so I didn’t even include it but in theory it makes the grand total of January sets to 3. 

There are also other set numbers that were originally unknown: 75377, 75388, 75389. We now know the first which is The Invisible Hand mid-scale. At the time, these three numbers were revealed at the same time and were hinted to be mid-scale ships, buildable droids, diorama’s. 75377 is slated for March which makes sense as the other mid-scale ships for this year are too. If we assume the others are buildable droids/diorama’s, it makes sense to assume they release in May along with the others. 

So we now also know one is the Mandolorian battle pack, but used to be January but info suggests June? 
 

so am I right in that we don’t know what 75388 and 75389 are

[JohnTPT17]

I'm surprised Lego didn't opt for a Rex mech to get a few more dollars out of us AFOLs - it's not like many of us would buy either one for the parts. Either way, I'm super excited that it's coming, even seemingly following in the first Rex's footsteps by being in a sub-$20 set. Yippie!

[ToaDraco]

6 minutes ago, JohnTPT17 said:

I'm surprised Lego didn't opt for a Rex mech to get a few more dollars out of us AFOLs - it's not like many of us would buy either one for the parts. Either way, I'm super excited that it's coming, even seemingly following in the first Rex's footsteps by being in a sub-$20 set. Yippie!

The first phase 2 Rex came in a $25 set but that's still quite cheap.

[JohnTPT17]

2 minutes ago, ToaDraco said:

The first phase 2 Rex came in a $25 set but that's still quite cheap.

I stand corrected - good catch!

[ToaDraco]

45 minutes ago, Hhalcyon said:

That pilot luke mech is gonna need to have dual molded legs or that is gonna be one of the worst selling sets out there. It has to be the most easily accessible figures since the B1 battle droid surely? There is what? 4 sets with (the pilot version of) him in it right now?

Yeah it's going to have to come with the UCS X-Wing pilot Luke to be worth it imo. I assume it will have the same lightsaber piece the Vader mech has but in blue which would be nice to get admittedly.

[SketchBrick]

24 minutes ago, Llewop said:

so am I right in that we don’t know what 75388 and 75389 are

According to the newest post on r/legoleaks, both of these sets are unknown but priced at $40 and $170 respectively, and releasing in August. This is from brickclicker and retailer listings, so hopefully accurate.

[ArrowBricks]

To clarify, from Reddit: 

75388 (August) - $39.99

75389 (August) - $169.99

75394 (August) - $79.99

75395 (Advent C, September) - $44.99

75396 (August) - $79.99

75398 (August) - $149.99

75373, 75386, 75390, 75391 were all revealed today in name (Mando BP, Mando Bunker, Luke Pilot Mech, Rex Y-Wing Microfighter). ALL ARE SCHEDULED FOR JUNE. 

75374 - Skeleton Crew Ship is now scheduled for a June release. 

Edited November 3, 2023 by ArrowBricks

[betaplayer]

41 minutes ago, SketchBrick said:

According to the newest post on r/legoleaks, both of these sets are unknown but priced at $40 and $170 respectively, and releasing in August. This is from brickclicker and retailer listings, so hopefully accurate.

They speak of two large sets, 150 and 170.. sounds like the right price for a haulcraft and/or star destroyer.

If they're doing S3 Mando stuff in june, additional Andor stuff shouldn't be too far behind it in terms of planning? Andor is rumoured to be released in August also.

 

[Flawless Cowboy]

47 minutes ago, betaplayer said:

They speak of two large sets, 150 and 170.. sounds like the right price for a haulcraft and/or star destroyer.

If they're doing S3 Mando stuff in june, additional Andor stuff shouldn't be too far behind it in terms of planning? Andor is rumoured to be released in August also.

 

I’d imagine the residual Ahsoka sets featuring thrawn, ezra, enoch, and night troopers would take priority over Andor. I don’t see too much room considering we also need room for “25th anniversary” sets likely from the first six films

[ArrowBricks]

2 minutes ago, Flawless Cowboy said:

I don’t see too much room considering we also need room for “25th anniversary” sets likely from the first six films

I don’t think we are getting anniversary sets we do not know about. 

I strongly assume the other anniversary sets are those releasing in May, and will have the exclusive figure as well. 

Given the rumoured Mid-scale ships didn’t have any suggestion of a figure, I don’t think the Invisible Hand mid-scale will either. 

Hence, I think there is scope for exclusive 25th anniversary minifigures for Grogu’s Escape, Boonta Eve Diorama, and the Droideka. 5 in total sounds right; maybe we’d get a Polybag with the 6th as a May 4th OR less likely the Tie Interceptor will have one. 

 

[Flawless Cowboy]

19 minutes ago, ArrowBricks said:

I don’t think we are getting anniversary sets we do not know about. 

I strongly assume the other anniversary sets are those releasing in May, and will have the exclusive figure as well. 

Given the rumoured Mid-scale ships didn’t have any suggestion of a figure, I don’t think the Invisible Hand mid-scale will either. 

Hence, I think there is scope for exclusive 25th anniversary minifigures for Grogu’s Escape, Boonta Eve Diorama, and the Droideka. 5 in total sounds right; maybe we’d get a Polybag with the 6th as a May 4th OR less likely the Tie Interceptor will have one. 

 

By anniversary sets I mean sets that are par-for-the-course remakes. An MTT, an ARC-170, a Snowspeeder, a Y-wing etc I could all see happening. We never get years without OT/PT sets and considering it is an anniversary year I’d expect a few especially from TPM, namely the MTT which would pair well with the droid/clone superpack

[ArrowBricks]

5 minutes ago, Flawless Cowboy said:

By anniversary sets I mean sets that are par-for-the-course remakes. An MTT, an ARC-170, a Snowspeeder, a Y-wing etc I could all see happening. We never get years without OT/PT sets and considering it is an anniversary year I’d expect a few especially from TPM, namely the MTT which would pair well with the droid/clone superpack

Got it. 

 

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but 75378 is called BARC Speeder Escape and includes 2 Shock Troopers! 

Shock Troopers everywhere! They are really trying to sell the Gunship…

Edited November 3, 2023 by ArrowBricks