LEGO Star Wars 2024 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, AD_Bricks said:

They're advertising the six from the mainline playsets that are all accessible around the world, and both R2-KT and "Legacy" Maul, being outliers and being included in products that won't have the same availability as other sets, are extras that are still labelled as anniversary figs on packaging because not doing so would be frankly a bit weird.

I generally agree, though I'm unsure about R2-KT. The celebration set might be a lego.shop exclusive, but I don't think we've seen an indication that it'll be any harder to get than that- I doubt it's a convention exclusive, for instance.

I think the most likely scenario is that there's an anniversary figure in the skiff as is now being reported, and the "creature" set is LOLA with young leia just as a normal figure, and whoever saw it was confused by her being on a plaque.

[CloneCommando99]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I generally agree, though I'm unsure about R2-KT. The celebration set might be a lego.shop exclusive, but I don't think we've seen an indication that it'll be any harder to get than that- I doubt it's a convention exclusive, for instance.

I think the most likely scenario is that there's an anniversary figure in the skiff as is now being reported, and the "creature" set is LOLA with young leia just as a normal figure, and whoever saw it was confused by her being on a plaque.

That’s a good point about R2 KT. Much like how Golden Wu was an anniversary figure for Lego shop exclusive Ninjago City Gardens but not one of the main six golden ninja figures.

And then if Young Leia is in a Lola set, which if she is I hope that include the Jedi Robe variant of Obi-Wan from the second part of the series as well, and if R2 KT isn’t a main-line anniversary figure. That leaves two slots open. I doubt Nien Nunb will be one as he fits in too well with the X-Wing vs Tie. I feel like that the remaining anniversary figures will be of a female and/or dark side variety. Seeing the lack of both as anniversary figures. Mara Jade may still be an option.

 

[MaximillianRebo]

2 hours ago, ginja said:

In the discussion of anniversary minifigs, don't forget that lego often include barely related characters in sets. Lando in am a-wing set a few years back for instance. So its possible that nein numb, for instance is just a tangentially related normal minifig in a set.

That was General Lando though, in an ROTJ A-Wing. Short of releasing an ROTJ Falcon (which would definitely include Nien Nunb), an A-wing is a good choice for such a fig - the other option being a Home One set.

I still maintain that if Nien Nunb is an anniversary fig - and there are various contradictory rumours floating around over the exact composition of the anniversary line-up, so who knows the real picture - he most likely won't be in an OT set going on what we've seen so far. On the other hand, this is Lego, and they've never been very good about following their own patterns and trends...

[MKJoshA]

Or is it possible the leakers got it wrong and R2 KT is the fig instead of Young Leia?

[starlego98]

Sith Infiltrator will be only available at LEGO?

[PreVizsla]

9 minutes ago, starlego98 said:

Sith Infiltrator will be only available at LEGO?

No, it's not an exclusive.

[Agent Kallus]

On 4/19/2024 at 8:27 AM, PreVizsla said:

This set sounds really nice and I am excited to see actual pictures of it.  While I am happy for the 2 officers I wonder if they are just regular officers and we can also get Moff Tarkin or another named officer among the 4 unkown figures or if a named officer character is only possible among those 2 officers. 

I don't know how others feel about this, but I would really enjoy if the minifigure selection in the Death Star playset was all Empire-based, just like how it was all Rebel-based in the Yavin 4 set. I really don't want another farmboy Luke or Leia inside. I guess stormtrooper Han and Luke would work as you can just get a helmet and make it a regular stormtrooper, but I would really like if it was all Empire.

Storm trooper disguise Han & Luke would be the best option if the set does need heroes, but they'd probably include helmets anyway like they did in both versions of the huge death star set.

On 4/19/2024 at 7:31 AM, CloneCommando99 said:

If Young Leia does come in the Sarlaac pit, that probably will mean her original set number is an Acolyte set.

Yes please, I know its the anniversy but TLG have been seriously neglecting new content (that isn't The Mandalarion or Ahsoka): Bad batch s1- 2 sets, Bad batch s2 - No sets, Bad Batch s3 - No sets, Andor S1 -1 set,Tales of the Jedi - No sets, Tales of the empire - No sets, Jedi fallen order - 1 set (plus 1 bonus figure), Jedi survior - No sets... Visions also got none but I think that's fair.

But unfortunately must shows and such only get sets when they're new so I don't want them to miss the opportunity!

(Plus if they made a minifig of the bald Vernestra I could use the head to make Phase 1 Vern)

23 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Romodi

I doubt that it will be Nien, since none of the other anniversary Minifigs correspond to the instalment depicted by the main set (Saw in TPM, Fives in ANH, Malak in Artoo). 

Romodi would be good choice as he has never been made and has starting showing up in more places, (bad batch, Rogue 1).

And I wouldn't want Nien to be an anniversy fig as he could fit so easily in a rebellion Skywalker saga set.

16 hours ago, Big_Daddy said:

It seems worth noting that if this Death Star playset is the counterpart of the Yavin IV base, that this upcoming set has a considerably higher piece count. Yavin had under 1100 pieces and the DS apparently over 1500 pieces, at a similar price point.

I'm very interested but I'll have to postpone purchasing it for a bit, since I'm still finalizing my move back to my homeland.

Maybe it'll have alot of small trans-green parts for the super laser itself, after all that is something that would make the set more obviously the death star, rather than any old imperial base.

14 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I don’t think there’s anything that suggests the X-Wing vs Tie fighter will have an anniversary figure. However we thought that about the Sarlaac pit so who knows. 

I hope not (though on the other hand it would be cool if every set had one but it's too late for that now, given the destroyer droid) because its the least interesting set by far.

14 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

I'm confused. The text on the LEGO homepage says:

But the latest leaks say that there are 7?

Ninjago had the same thing where the six Nina had one I regulat sets and there was an extra one (Sensei Wu) in an exclusive set (The Ninjago city gardens D2C), harry potter also had more anniversy figures than intailly suggested and they were also in a more limited set.

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Or is it possible the leakers got it wrong and R2 KT is the fig instead of Young Leia?

How would anyone confuse those two though?

My money is still on R2-KT being falsely identified as an anniversary figure. TLG have been more cautious lately with what they do and don‘t call „minifigures“, and astromech droids are referred to as „droid figures“ in the set descriptions. The anniversary minifigs are specifically called „minifigures“ on the website, so by that logic, R2-KT shouldn‘t be considered as one

[mirkwoodspiders]

This thread will be fun to go back and read once this is all sorted out lol.

I'm still stuck on the Zam fig from the new book:

1) Why oh why did they cancel?!

2) Why mention the cancellation in the book? Torture?!

3) This re-affirms my unquenchable desire for AOTC sets, which LEGO seems content to ignore for the most part. 

That is all.

[QuiggoldsPegLeg]

With the current rumours of 75392, I can’t imagine it’s Lola. It would be the same price and 124 more pieces than the BD-1 set. And BD-1 is quite a bit bigger than Lola in universe, and I don’t see the point of them making an oversized model of her. 
 

It could be that Lego decided to move Leia out of 75392 for some reason and she’s in the Sarlacc Pit set now for whatever reason, and 75392 is its own thing. Although I think it’s much more likely that Leia is still the anniversary figure in that set, someone (maybe Nien Nunb, probably not) is the anniversary figure in the Sarlacc set, and R2-KT doesn’t count as an anniversary figure.

1 minute ago, mirkwoodspiders said:

This thread will be fun to go back and read once this is all sorted out lol.

I'm still stuck on the Zam fig from the new book:

1) Why oh why did they cancel?!

2) Why mention the cancellation in the book? Torture?!

3) This re-affirms my unquenchable desire for AOTC sets, which LEGO seems content to ignore for the most part. 

That is all.

For real. It was cool when Lego showed the Yavin 4 model back in the day, because it’s a relatively simple build with no interesting minifigures, but teasing us with a figure we haven’t had since the year before I was born is really painful. Why could you not release a Zam Wesell in any of the years since then?

[Yperio_Bricks]

In any case, i will be happy if there will be an anniversary minifigure in the Sarlacc set, since that set is on my list anyway. And extra minifig will be a nice bonus

[Kit Figsto]

8 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

And then if Young Leia is in a Lola set, which if she is I hope that include the Jedi Robe variant of Obi-Wan from the second part of the series as well, and if R2 KT isn’t a main-line anniversary figure. That leaves two slots open. I doubt Nien Nunb will be one as he fits in too well with the X-Wing vs Tie. I feel like that the remaining anniversary figures will be of a female and/or dark side variety. Seeing the lack of both as anniversary figures. Mara Jade may still be an option.

 

I feel like we should temper expectations a bit.  A L0-LA set isn't confirmed (or even rumored, to my knowledge), and we don't know for sure if the R2-KT fig is going to count as an anniversary figure or not.  It could just be that someone screwed up and Young Leia is the anniversary figure with the Sarlacc Pit set, and the six that we're aware of are the six that we're getting.  Either way, I don't see there being two additional anniversary figures that we don't know about.

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Mara Jade may still be an option.

Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

8 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Or is it possible the leakers got it wrong and R2 KT is the fig instead of Young Leia?

I suppose this is possible- the whole circumstances regarding Young Leia leaking were pretty suspicious in general.

1 hour ago, Kit Figsto said:

I feel like we should temper expectations a bit.  A L0-LA set isn't confirmed (or even rumored, to my knowledge), and we don't know for sure if the R2-KT fig is going to count as an anniversary figure or not.  It could just be that someone screwed up and Young Leia is the anniversary figure with the Sarlacc Pit set, and the six that we're aware of are the six that we're getting.  Either way, I don't see there being two additional anniversary figures that we don't know about.

I suppose it would certainly fit with a creature build.

 My logic for the LOLA set being possible, as bad a financial move by lego as it would be, is that if young leia isn't an anniversary figure, it's pretty much the only thing that makes sense for a set only including her. It's totally possible she got moved to the sarlacc pit and is an anniversary figure, or the set comes with other figures as well and is something else, but it's a possibility.

10 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

That leaves two slots open. I doubt Nien Nunb will be one as he fits in too well with the X-Wing vs Tie.

See this is what's confusing me. No way Nien Nunb is the sarlacc anniversary fig- he's from the same film, and that completely breaks the pattern that's been established so far. So is the 6th figure young leia, and it was just moved to the sarlacc? Was the "creature" set cancelled and they wanted to make sure they still got six figures out? Was the young leia rumor false, and there's a yet-unknown anniversary fig coming in the sarlacc? (Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade - though sadly she'd actually fit the scene, if not in her standard outfit, and as such I'm not sure they'd put her there)

[CloneCommando99]

27 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

Rebellions are built on hope.

 

5 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

In any case, i will be happy if there will be an anniversary minifigure in the Sarlacc set, since that set is on my list anyway. And extra minifig will be a nice bonus

Agreed.

36 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 

See this is what's confusing me. No way Nien Nunb is the sarlacc anniversary fig- he's from the same film, and that completely breaks the pattern that's been established so far. 

I will firmly believe that Nien Nunb is in the X-Wing vs Tie set as a normal figure until it’s confirmed otherwise. Same goes with the designers (or whoever it was) being drunk when they chose Young Leia.
 

 

47 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 

Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade - though sadly she'd actually fit the scene, if not in her standard outfit, and as such I'm not sure they'd put her there.

May I also suggest Mara Jade, Mara Jade and even Mara Jade as additional possibilities.

Bold of you to assume that Lego would care about important to her character details like that.

[Lego Nostalgia]

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

I suppose this is possible- the whole circumstances regarding Young Leia leaking were pretty suspicious in general.

I suppose it would certainly fit with a creature build.

 My logic for the LOLA set being possible, as bad a financial move by lego as it would be, is that if young leia isn't an anniversary figure, it's pretty much the only thing that makes sense for a set only including her. It's totally possible she got moved to the sarlacc pit and is an anniversary figure, or the set comes with other figures as well and is something else, but it's a possibility.

See this is what's confusing me. No way Nien Nunb is the sarlacc anniversary fig- he's from the same film, and that completely breaks the pattern that's been established so far. So is the 6th figure young leia, and it was just moved to the sarlacc? Was the "creature" set cancelled and they wanted to make sure they still got six figures out? Was the young leia rumor false, and there's a yet-unknown anniversary fig coming in the sarlacc? (Mara Jade Mara Jade Mara Jade - though sadly she'd actually fit the scene, if not in her standard outfit, and as such I'm not sure they'd put her there)

Who knows, I think Nien Numb could be in the Dark Falcon set but I still have my doubts about that since we've heard so little about the set since then, maybe it could be a normal ROTJ Falcon instead and the rumors were false or wrong to find a leaker idk.

We're near May now, it's annoying how we don't know every detail about the August Wave, I miss when leaks were coming out a lot before Lego put a stop to them or try to.

Edited April 20, 2024 by Lego Nostalgia

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I will firmly believe that Nien Nunb is in the X-Wing vs Tie set as a normal figure until it’s confirmed otherwise. Same goes with the designers (or whoever it was) being drunk when they chose Young Leia.

It's fairly likely. The set he makes the most sense in anyway. At first I wasn't sure, as I assumed the set would be ANH based, but since the wings are supposed to swap around, I assume that they're comfortable taking a couple liberties with what it's based on.

2 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Who knows, I think Nien Numb could be in the Dark Falcon set but I still have my doubts about that since we've heard so little about the set since then, maybe it could be a normal ROTJ Falcon instead and the rumors were false or wrong to find a leaker idk.

We're near May now, it's annoying how we don't know every detail about the August Wave, I miss when leaks were coming out a lot before Lego put a stop to them or try to.

That's also possible. The information on that set's figure lineup is pretty sketchy.

That said, there's no way it's a normal ROTJ falcon. Not recognizing the figures is one thing, but I can't imagine that someone would look at an ROTJ falcon and be like, "yup, that looks like evil to me"

[BrickBob Studpants]

11 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That said, there's no way it's a normal ROTJ falcon. Not recognizing the figures is one thing, but I can't imagine that someone would look at an ROTJ falcon and be like, "yup, that looks like evil to me"

Not sure how reliable stu._d on IG is, but he recently said in his story that the Falcon ist mostly black with DBG accents and has a trans-red windshield. Yeah, sounds pretty evil to me

[Rwbricks]

10 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

We're near May now, it's annoying how we don't know every detail about the August Wave, I miss when leaks were coming out a lot before Lego put a stop to them or try to.

Memories of sets getting revealed at the New York Toy Fair have been unlocked. Those were different days. Before the dark times…

In all reality, though, it just could be that I don’t remember that much about leaks back then, but it feels like we are getting basic leaks (general set names/contents and prices) a lot earlier than we used to. This, of course, means that the wait in between knowing what’s in the sets and seeing them/getting them is longer. 

[Arjo]

Random question: I have a handful of chewbacca minifigures… and no other wookie. Has anyone ever attempted to paint them to grow the tribe? How hard is it to paint over a minifig? Thks

[Yperio_Bricks]

2 hours ago, Arjo said:

Random question: I have a handful of chewbacca minifigures… and no other wookie. Has anyone ever attempted to paint them to grow the tribe? How hard is it to paint over a minifig? Thks

That's one of the reasons i skipped the LSW magazine with the Chewbacca minifigure. An army of Wookiees Chewies looks

[Shiva]

Well, wasn't there a lot of Harry Potters, in a movie? Why not a lot og Chewies? ;)

[commdr_neyo]

10 hours ago, Rwbricks said:

Memories of sets getting revealed at the New York Toy Fair have been unlocked. Those were different days. Before the dark times…

In all reality, though, it just could be that I don’t remember that much about leaks back then, but it feels like we are getting basic leaks (general set names/contents and prices) a lot earlier than we used to. This, of course, means that the wait in between knowing what’s in the sets and seeing them/getting them is longer. 

I think we do indeed get rumors earlier than we used to. However we don't get images from Toy Fairs anymore, nor do we get preliminary images from retailer catalogues (which is a shame, I enjoyed seeing prototype sets). Does anyone know why?

[BrickBob Studpants]

14 minutes ago, commdr_neyo said:

I think we do indeed get rumors earlier than we used to. However we don't get images from Toy Fairs anymore, nor do we get preliminary images from retailer catalogues (which is a shame, I enjoyed seeing prototype sets). Does anyone know why?

They stopped publicly showing sets at toy fairs to avoid bootleggers stealing the designs. They’ve become so fast, they may release their copies before the real thing does!

As for catalogues, same reason, and we don’t see leaks anymore because they cracked down on the offenders. Retail catalogues now have huge personalised watermarks across every page, so if a picture leaked, it’s obvious which shop did it and they’d be punished.

Personally, I’m fine with this, as long as we still get set names and descriptions. If they target those too, all the fun would be sucked out of our discussions

[CloneCommando99]

3 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

 

Personally, I’m fine with this, as long as we still get set names and descriptions. If they target those too, all the fun would be sucked out of our discussions

If that happens we will follow the example of the DC forum to keep this one alive. (Until sets are actually revealed)

Me when that day inevitably comes: “Henceforth the Star Wars set discussion forum shall be reorganised into the first Galactic Aslume.” *Imperial march in Jonkler laughs proceeds to play.*

 

[commdr_neyo]

21 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

They stopped publicly showing sets at toy fairs to avoid bootleggers stealing the designs. They’ve become so fast, they may release their copies before the real thing does!

As for catalogues, same reason, and we don’t see leaks anymore because they cracked down on the offenders. Retail catalogues now have huge personalised watermarks across every page, so if a picture leaked, it’s obvious which shop did it and they’d be punished.

These are understandable reasons. It would be fun to see some preliminary images shared even after the sets release, but I'm guessing the retailers still aren't allowed to do so. 

Are the rumors we're getting from people seeing retailer catalogues?