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

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, CallumPears said:

I'm hoping they keep it reasonably realistic; same as how they did the handprints for the Uruk-Hai and Mandalorian Supercommandos. 

Fair point. Noses, ears, and fingers do exist in the LEGO universe, but how they‘re handled varies quite a bit  Elves have ears, Pinocchio and Voldemort (ironically) have noses, and a lot of SW alien minifigs feature both. 

Personally, I wouldn’t mind if they kept Enoch’s nose, but I also wouldn’t miss it if they decided against having it. Enoch is likely a human (or at least near-human), so removing it from his helmet would be consistent with most human minifigs, but then again, it’s only the helmet, which we have no other examples of  They don’t usually modify helmets much…

[Tariq j]

Thrawn and Ezra both look really good. I think Ezra’s eyes will take a bit of getting used to though. 

[THELEGOBATMAN]

The minifigures look great.

I still hate Filoni and his weird obsession with colouring eyes in live-action.

[Agent Kallus]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

The minifigures look great.

I still hate Filoni and his weird obsession with colouring eyes in live-action.

Is a joke about how certain SW fans blame everything on Filoni or is it somehow saying that Lego's recent choices that eyes minifig eyes shouldn't look consistent is his fault?

[SnoopBobbyBob]

I feel like the missing code cilinders is quite a big mistake. The front of the torso is quite similar to the Rebels version, except we have a correct rank plaque not but not the right amount of cilinders, meaning that in the two versions of the grand admiral non of them are screen accurate. I do like the back of the torso though, but during display you mostly won't see that. 

[CallumPears]

18 minutes ago, SnoopBobbyBob said:

I feel like the missing code cilinders is quite a big mistake. The front of the torso is quite similar to the Rebels version, except we have a correct rank plaque not but not the right amount of cilinders, meaning that in the two versions of the grand admiral non of them are screen accurate. I do like the back of the torso though, but during display you mostly won't see that. 

Same. I see a lot of people on Reddit and so on mocking others for raising this as an issue but code cylinders are part of the Imperial rank system and should be represented properly. 

They managed it with the previous Thrawn and the 2016 Tarkin. 

[Flieger]

1 hour ago, CallumPears said:

Same. I see a lot of people on Reddit and so on mocking others for raising this as an issue but code cylinders are part of the Imperial rank system and should be represented properly.

No disagreement here. Lego is a super-premium product (and priced accordingly), getting prints right should be expected when they have correct source material available to them. A wrong print costs them as much as an accurate print, anyway, so there is that...

However, I do have to disagree slightly on another point: screen accuracy. We do not get a screen accurate Peridea-Thrawn... in a Peridea-set. While I do understand the wish for a pristine Grand Admiral's uniform, I would have preferred the screen accurate look. And that means big belly and worn fabric.

[Flawless Cowboy]

37 minutes ago, Flieger said:

While I do understand the wish for a pristine Grand Admiral's uniform, I would have preferred the screen accurate look. And that means big belly and worn fabric.

Having a pristine uniform allows people to reuse the uniform for other custom minifigs. Also, live action thrawn should never have appeared as anything other than fit. 

[Flieger]

I said that yesterday.

Edited May 22, 2024 by Flieger

[THELEGOBATMAN]

7 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Is a joke about how certain SW fans blame everything on Filoni or is it somehow saying that Lego's recent choices that eyes minifig eyes shouldn't look consistent is his fault?

Both, none.

I'm serious about the eye thing and Filoni — he started with animated project which allow more stylistic choices (such as more prominent eye colours), but for some reason he started adapting them too literally into live-action.

It's a really weird choice that I hate, because not only does it look utterly ridiculous, but it has to be extremely uncomfortable for all the actors involved.

As for LEGO, while they could make normal eyes for those characters, it's hard to blame them since the eyes of live-action Filoni characters like Ezra or Ahsoka are so prominent.

[Yperio_Bricks]

But there's still a big difference between Ezra's blue eyes in the Ahsoka show and the blue eyes of the leaked Lego minifig. The minfig looks like he stared into the sun for much too long.

[JohnTPT17]

Frankly, I don't like the colored eyes on most minifigures, even if they are an alien. The only exception to this for me is if they're white, showing they're blind, or if they're some other color to show they're possessed/doing something magical (like Frodo or Merry Rumwell from the D&D set). And, if you are going to have colored eyes, be sure they have some kind of black pupil, unless, again, you're going for some kind of blind or magic effect. I think the plain black and white eyes feel much more "classic Lego" to me, and look better in the vast majority of cases.

I mean, just look at the difference between the 2016 Emperor and the 2023 Emperor. You can't tell me that the face is an upgrade. Just adding in a pupil does a LOT for the eyes, and Lego really needs to add them back in.

[Agent Kallus]

32 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Both, none.

I'm serious about the eye thing and Filoni — he started with animated project which allow more stylistic choices (such as more prominent eye colours), but for some reason he started adapting them too literally into live-action.

It's a really weird choice that I hate, because not only does it look utterly ridiculous, but it has to be extremely uncomfortable for all the actors involved.

As for LEGO, while they could make normal eyes for those characters, it's hard to blame them since the eyes of live-action Filoni characters like Ezra or Ahsoka are so prominent.

Okay, I can sort of get that. Ezra's live action eyes were too intense but I found it easily forgivable, but there have been a lot of weird animation to live action adaptations for aliens in star wars recently. And please no-one make that stupid argument about the caricaturised  characters in TCW excusing the total change of the established looks of alien characters and species. The Pykes went from bugs to fish.

At the end of the day it's not a deal breaker for me but it is still somewhere they could do better. Though they don't always get it wrong, one of the Accolyte trailer has a great looking live action Karkodon ( Riff Tamson's species)

@JohnTPT17 Amazing, everything you just said was right.

Edited May 22, 2024 by Agent Kallus

[Kaijumeister]

The more I’m seeing of the Acolyte trailers and TV spots, the more I hope some surprise sets are planned for August / September. I’m usually weary of merchandise pushes for content we know little of / characters we aren’t yet invested in, but the characters just look so damn good.

On a random note, has anyone with the 2024 Sith Infiltrator added a hood and cape to Darth Maul? If so, can he fit in the ship with them on? I’m assuming the reason they weren’t included is because the interior is a pretty tight fit.

[BrickBob Studpants]

18 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

The more I’m seeing of the Acolyte trailers and TV spots, the more I hope some surprise sets are planned for August / September.

Has that ever happened though? Sure, we had false rumours before (like the Tower of Fate that turned out to be Thor's hammer instead), but we've known all the set numbers this year for quite some time, including retail exclusives, GWP sets, and D2C ones. I wouldn't get my hopes up

[CallumPears]

2 hours ago, JohnTPT17 said:

Frankly, I don't like the colored eyes on most minifigures, even if they are an alien. The only exception to this for me is if they're white, showing they're blind, or if they're some other color to show they're possessed/doing something magical (like Frodo or Merry Rumwell from the D&D set). And, if you are going to have colored eyes, be sure they have some kind of black pupil, unless, again, you're going for some kind of blind or magic effect. I think the plain black and white eyes feel much more "classic Lego" to me, and look better in the vast majority of cases.

I mean, just look at the difference between the 2016 Emperor and the 2023 Emperor. You can't tell me that the face is an upgrade. Just adding in a pupil does a LOT for the eyes, and Lego really needs to add them back in.

100% agree with all of this. The coloured eyes were a mistake when they first started doing them back in 2013 and I wish they realised and stopped back then.

The only characters who should have anything other than the plain black eyes with a white dot are Sith (who should have yellow with black pupils) or special cases like Chirrut to show that he is blind.

The only other one I'm ok with is Thrawn since his red eyes are a prominent part of his design. 

Edited May 22, 2024 by CallumPears

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

but it has to be extremely uncomfortable for all the actors involved

Maybe uncomfortable the first time if they aren't used to wearing contacts, but millions upon millions of people wear contacts every day. You don't really notice them once you put them in, and colored ones rarely affect your vision at all- most frequently if your pupil dilates while you're wearing a cheaper/less made-to-fit set, which I have to assume they aren't doing for Hera and Ezra's actors.

The eye color thing doesn't bother me much, if I had to choose a filoni gripe (in terms of more substantial stuff it's probably the need for the characters he created or gave personality to to be in everything. Let Tales focus on characters people like who don't have their own show already, man!), it'd be the fact that everyone has to have a blue lightsaber now. Ahsoka in the siege of mandalore. Peridea Ezra. Depa Biliba. Why? 

3 hours ago, JohnTPT17 said:

Frankly, I don't like the colored eyes on most minifigures, even if they are an alien. The only exception to this for me is if they're white, showing they're blind, or if they're some other color to show they're possessed/doing something magical

See this is where I'm fine with Peridea Ezra having them, but that's mainly because of whatever vague comments they made about the force being strong there and the Mortis connections. I'm just headcanoning that Peridea enhances an individual's connection to the force, hence why jedi-trained but not force-sensitive sabine was able to use it in a time of need, and why Ezra, who lived there for like a decade, has such distinctive eyes- he is glowing with magical power- force powers.

But like I said, that's pretty much just my interpretation/headcanon. Until it becomes canon, I can understand the eye gripe to an extent. 

3 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

The Pykes went from bugs to fish.

This (and 90% of the rest of the boba fett show, because a boba fett show COULD have been so good) is my main gripe with the mandoverse's lore so far. What's going on? Why are they fish? You can't make that up to interpretation! 

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

(like the Tower of Fate that turned out to be Thor's hammer instead)

The true start of the descent of the DC thread.

[ARC2149Nova]

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

(like the Tower of Fate that turned out to be Thor's hammer instead)

Don't remind me... 

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

See this is where I'm fine with Peridea Ezra having them, but that's mainly because of whatever vague comments they made about the force being strong there and the Mortis connections. I'm just headcanoning that Peridea enhances an individual's connection to the force, hence why jedi-trained but not force-sensitive sabine was able to use it in a time of need, and why Ezra, who lived there for like a decade, has such distinctive eyes- he is glowing with magical power- force powers.

So, literally the Spice from Dune...

[The_Chosen_1]

Silly question, but is anyone else finding it much more difficult to find photos in the “usual place”? An app update several weeks ago removed the ability to sort tags by “Recent” for me. 

[ginja]

1 hour ago, The_Chosen_1 said:

Silly question, but is anyone else finding it much more difficult to find photos in the “usual place”? An app update several weeks ago removed the ability to sort tags by “Recent” for me. 

Same. I Don't even bother anymore. It also made it impossible to find any tattoo artists doing may the 4th as all the top posts were from years ago.

[QuiggoldsPegLeg]

3 hours ago, The_Chosen_1 said:

Silly question, but is anyone else finding it much more difficult to find photos in the “usual place”? An app update several weeks ago removed the ability to sort tags by “Recent” for me. 

Absolutely. They’re somehow easier to find just showing up on my recommended on their own than actually searching for them. 

[CF Mitch]

7 hours ago, The_Chosen_1 said:

Silly question, but is anyone else finding it much more difficult to find photos in the “usual place”? An app update several weeks ago removed the ability to sort tags by “Recent” for me. 

Yep 

4 hours ago, QuiggoldsPegLeg said:

Absolutely. They’re somehow easier to find just showing up on my recommended on their own than actually searching for them. 

Yeah, the same for me.
Or just wait for people I follow to post them, but that sometimes takes a while  

Regards,
Mitch

[CloneCommando99]

The R2 KT set. Are we even sure the fig list is even correct at this point. Because when you think about it 3x stormtroopers and 3x rebel troopers is an unprecedented combo of minifigures. Could it perhaps be an imperial stormtrooper, clone trooper and FO stormtrooper to represent the different eras of Star Wars. And then the rebels are opposing factions to the white armour throughout the eras.

I’m just saying that I’m a bit sceptical of that fig list after the whole ISD debacle.

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, The_Chosen_1 said:

Silly question, but is anyone else finding it much more difficult to find photos in the “usual place”? An app update several weeks ago removed the ability to sort tags by “Recent” for me. 

Instagram gets weird with restrictions sometimes. I use the browser and it sometimes makes it so you can only see nine posts, or, right now, just a handful more than that, most of them fairly old. I believe this stems from an attempt to "combat misinformation" or whatever, I remember it being especially hard to find recent posts around US elections, so expect it to get worse as we get closer to November. Because clearly Russia, China, etc are gonna target the lego leak hastags.

43 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The R2 KT set. Are we even sure the fig list is even correct at this point. Because when you think about it 3x stormtroopers and 3x rebel troopers is an unprecedented combo of minifigures. Could it perhaps be an imperial stormtrooper, clone trooper and FO stormtrooper to represent the different eras of Star Wars. And then the rebels are opposing factions to the white armour throughout the eras.

I’m just saying that I’m a bit sceptical of that fig list after the whole ISD debacle.

I'm not confident in anything about that set beyond R2-KT being included. 

[Kaijumeister]

On 5/22/2024 at 10:44 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Has that ever happened though? Sure, we had false rumours before (like the Tower of Fate that turned out to be Thor's hammer instead), but we've known all the set numbers this year for quite some time, including retail exclusives, GWP sets, and D2C ones. I wouldn't get my hopes up

Completely agree, just spitballing more than anything.

Promobricks have the June - December 2024 catalogue in their hands, hopefully new set pictures will follow suit tomorrow.