10 minutes ago, Max_Lego said:

Remember leakers promising an Enoch minifigure? Turned out to be a silly Nighttrooper. And now we get QT-KT instead of the beloved R2-KT. Reddit users speculated that this is due to R2-KT being a charity character (which, I presume, didn't stop other manufacturers from producing merch with R2).

IMAO QT's minifigure is bad. Not only it lacks much of the white markings (which is justified, since TLG isn't currently capable of decorating those areas with printing), but the colour looks considerably darker and more 'toxic' than the original 

I'd be fine with the Enoch-to-night trooper pipeline if lego ended up deciding they couldn't do him well enough without a new mold and didn't want to use that much of the set/wave's budget on one. This is different to me because R2-KT would be no more difficult than QT-KT. And we know they weren't just worried about how it would look putting a charity-created character in a marketable product, because they're literally doing so this coming wave of sets.

I also agree on that- she's too dark of a pink.

3 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

every OC post Jek is just... some human civilian looking person

Personally I'd be fine with them just being civillians- need more of those for Mos Eisley and so on. My issue is when they did some of the Freemakers they made some nice looking outfits... then slapped a big ugly hand logo on them (particularly the tan jacket Rowan figure). Same as how in some castle sets they make nice looking medieval armour designs then slap a cartoony logo on them, really limits the reusability. I'm not so bothered about it in the castle sets (ok maybe a little bothered since I like repurposing castle stuff for LotR) but in the SW ones it can be pretty annoying. 

8 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

This can't be the case as they put her in the droid builder set that comes out next month

The one in the droid builder was also QT, not R2-KT. 

QT-KT looks fine (though a bit too vibrant a shade of pink, as others have pointed out), but unlike R2-KT, she is not a must-have figure for me. Now that Minifigs from her set are starting to leak, I wonder when we will find out what it actually is! 
 

2 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Personally I'd be fine with them just being civillians- need more of those for Mos Eisley and so on. My issue is when they did some of the Freemakers they made some nice looking outfits... then slapped a big ugly hand logo on them (particularly the tan jacket Rowan figure). Same as how in some castle sets they make nice looking medieval armour designs then slap a cartoony logo on them, really limits the reusability. I'm not so bothered about it in the castle sets (ok maybe a little bothered since I like repurposing castle stuff for LotR) but in the SW ones it can be pretty annoying. 

The one in the droid builder was also QT, not R2-KT. 

Figure re-usage wise it's fine, but they aren't going to become the next Jedi Bob or Rebel friend.

And so it is, albeit one who's coloring is actually white and pink like R2-KT instead of the QT-Kirby minifigure.

2 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

QT-KT looks fine (though a bit too vibrant a shade of pink, as others have pointed out), but unlike R2-KT, she is not a must-have figure for me. Now that Minifigs from her set are starting to leak, I wonder when we will find out what it actually is! 
 

Same, we've heard so many random details about this set, and none of them feel concrete to me- especially considering the one constant we had is gone.

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I'm actually pretty annoyed. I overlooked the whole "final anniversary fig is an astromech" thing due to R2-KT's special place in the fandom, but this is just... some random astromech. It's not even the SECOND most iconic D-squad droid.

I think it goes M5-BZ and then my man WAC-47 .

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

While I agree with the general sentiment, I do think the actual fully OC characters in this are pretty lame. The ones like white vader or darth jar jar, where they represent things beyond just lego, are cool, but every OC post Jek is just... some human civilian looking person. Darth Dev looks intimidating but also just like a generic inquisitor. I think a lot of the lego OCs work because they either aren't intended to be big OC things and star wars fans latch onto them in the classic star wars spirit of wanting to know more about that slightly different guy in the background (Rebel friend, moustache trooper, jedi bob), or they just do something totally crazy (Jek being a force sensative clone trooper with an arm, like, made of the force or something)

This. I should clarify that I don't mean the meme characters (Beach Trooper, Rebel Friend, Mustachio), I specifically mean the Dev/Sev/Whoevers that these sets feature. The Ackbar Trooper is just lazy, too.

Jek-14 was the man, and definitely should have been the template for future characters in that vein. I found the Freemakers useful (I bought three Kordi's for the parts alone), and White Vader and Darth Binks (which aren't Lego's OCs) are fun to have, but all in all, with much better (aka canon) alternatives for sets, I'd rather not have these sets. Give me a classic OT Falcon, anything PT or even ST related over this.

17 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I‘ll take a Falcon with a crazy colour scheme and bonkers minifigs over the same old boring OT Falcon with the same uninteresting minifigs any day  Now that we finally have Nien Nunb, there‘s pretty much nothing an OT Falcon could offer in terms of new minifigs.

Some of us don't have an OT Falcon. Besides, there's always potential for Battlefront II inspirations, Lando's ROTJ Crew, End of Empire, Mos Eisley Hangar, I could go on.

17 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

They‘ve been way too infrequent to have already outstayed their welcome  Maybe if OC sets were a yearly thing!

We had two YC sets (one in 2013, the other in 2014), two FM sets in 2016, three in 2017, and now three RTG sets in 2024. That‘s fewer sets in 12 years than individual movies have received within a year after their debut  

Also, kids won‘t mind since a lot of them weren‘t around or too young for LEGO when the FM sets dropped. I wager most collectors won‘t mind either with all the cool exclusive minifigs, even though they‘re not canon.

I think the key difference is the amount of forgotten/ignored canon material that Lego refuses to make sets for, when they decide to use their budget for this stuff. You can't argue that Bad Batch, Andor, any of the Sequels (even the Acolyte... ) couldn't have taken at least one of those slots. YC had two sets over two years, which were not only down years for Star Wars content, the content that was relevant was thoroughly and actively being covered.

Same with the Freemakers. Not to mention the 2017 Battle Pack which was basically a glorified ESB set. There's too much content for Lego to take inspiration from to waste RnD on these.

Also, I'm pretty sure @MaximillianRebo was referring to the adult/collector reception, not kids. Kids will love almost anything. Adult collectors will vary in opinion, but the fact is that more people complained about the FM and RTG sets than Yoda Chronicles.

All of these have their merits, to be sure. But the average collector would rather not get LEGO's Star Wars. They just want LEGO Star Wars.

Edited July 13, 2024Jul 13 by ARC2149Nova

2 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

QT-KT looks fine (though a bit too vibrant a shade of pink, as others have pointed out), but unlike R2-KT, she is not a must-have figure for me. Now that Minifigs from her set are starting to leak, I wonder when we will find out what it actually is! 
 

The Figure Leaked WAYYYYY Too Early and has gotten some people fired, Usually pics release a month or so before they release/get revealed so i'd suspect this set to be revealed Late August to Early September 

21 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

Jek's original outing was fairly well-received, it was seen as a one-off, the ship was from the EU (the superior E-Wing ), and the figs were pretty cool. Then when we next saw him, again it was one set, and we got an Ithorian (years before we'd get ol' Hammerhead from the Cantina).

Freemakers was when things started to get testy. We at least got new ESB Bounty Hunters out of it, Rebels fans got Quarrie, and there were some decent figures otherwise, sets like the Non-TIE-Phantom were also nice. But people weren't happy overall when the Freemakers debuted.

And now, LEGO's Star Wars OCs have worn out their welcome, I think.

Getting minifigures from the canon movies/TV shows was always the best part about those sets. Back then it felt like a lifetime that we were waiting for an official 4-LOM minifigure to be released. As much as I hated the Freemakers I'm glad we at least got that out of it. The Ithorian and RA-7 Droid were also great additions to go alongside the Cantina and Sandcrawler sets that came out that year. Yeah the Ithorian wasn't officially Momaw Nadon but it was a close enough stand in until the real one came along.

Its too bad the Halloween Special got skipped over and we never got a Mother Talzin figure out of it.
 

36 minutes ago, ARC2149Nova said:

I think the key difference is the amount of forgotten/ignored canon material that Lego refuses to make sets for, when they decide to use their budget for this stuff. You can't argue that Bad Batch, Andor, any of the Sequels (even the Acolyte... ) couldn't have taken at least one of those slots. YC had two sets over two years, which were not only down years for Star Wars content, the content that was relevant was thoroughly and actively being covered.

The Phantom Menace not getting one of those slots is the most frustrating one to me. They definitely could've done more for the anniversary. No Queen Amidala, Boss Nass or Shmi Skywalker. No MTT or Naboo Fighter remakes. No Royal Starship. Not even a Duel of the Fates diorama. I would have gladly taken any of them over this Build the Galaxy special.

On 6/18/2024 at 9:27 PM, HatBricks said:

The thing that stands out to me is the pink droid in the set is QT-KT not R2-KT like it was rumored (QT-KT appeared in one arc of the clone wars where the astromech squad had to infiltrate a separatist base with Major Gascon).

The two have similar names, and apparently the reason for that was that QT-KT was created as a standing for R2-KT so there wouldn't be two characters in the cast called R2 at the same time. Which I think kinda of raises the question, is the final anniversary figure R2-KT or is there a chance we're getting QT-KT? Since Lego's website hint "Oh so cute" makes more sense for QT.

Seems that I was correct about the identity of the final anniversary figure. I don't mind getting QT since she has a pretty unique pattern and color. The choice of pink torso and legs looks a littles strange since they are multicolored in the show, but since lego doesn't print on astromech legs anyway I don't mind they gave us some in a new color as opposed to white ones we've had many times. It's a shame there no R2-KT though, especially avoiding a potential charity connection with the set which would have been cool.

2 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

The Ackbar Trooper is just lazy, too.

The Ackbar Trooper pisses me off - LEGO could at least have given us unique torso and leg printing (the BF2 212th Specialist comes to mind, since we already have the helmet and macrobinoculars for him)! Another, better, take on the not-Clone trooper would have been a Jedi Bob Trooper, as it would both allow the figure to have a helmet (enabling a complete Clone Trooper to be made, such as a P1 officer), and reference the "You Clones make terrible Jedi" deleted RotS scene. 
 

2 hours ago, wesker said:

The Phantom Menace not getting one of those slots is the most frustrating one to me. They definitely could've done more for the anniversary. No Queen Amidala, Boss Nass or Shmi Skywalker. No MTT or Naboo Fighter remakes. No Royal Starship. Not even a Duel of the Fates diorama. I would have gladly taken any of them over this Build the Galaxy special.

I'm not saying this was your point, but I've seen a general sentiment that TPM was somehow skipped over this year, and I feel that's really not the case. It got just as much as the other anniversaries have in their years. (Also, I'm getting tired of these anniversaries. Two in 2023, two in 2024. Next year is 20 for ROTS, 10 for TFA, 45 for ESB, etc. It makes the sets feel less special.)

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I'm not saying this was your point, but I've seen a general sentiment that TPM was somehow skipped over this year, and I feel that's really not the case. It got just as much as the other anniversaries have in their years. (Also, I'm getting tired of these anniversaries. Two in 2023, two in 2024. Next year is 20 for ROTS, 10 for TFA, 45 for ESB, etc. It makes the sets feel less special.)

I think this sentiment arises because of how many TPM sets were 18+/gimmicks this year. The only main playset for the movie was the 75383 Infiltrator, and with some other movies getting a $140 flagship set for an anniversary, such as the AT-AT or AT-TE (which, if Promobricks' rumor is to be believed, was originally for E2?), or getting a small wave of sets, like the Clone Wars anniversary, people wanted more main playset offerings. That being said, you aren't wrong - TPM received a solid offering of sets in various categories, similar to the 40th anniversary of ROTJ last year (with some sets for that just being generic OT sets with a ROTJ anniversary logo slapped onto them like Chewbacca). 

I'm honestly not expecting much outside of the ARC-170, probably a Brickheadz pack, a polybag, and maybe a diorama and maybe one more set for ROTS next year. LEGO just doesn't do full waves for movie anniversaries or even for single movies anymore (like they did in 2013/2014 timeframe). This is probably because of the number of anniversaries, frankly.

Edited July 13, 2024Jul 13 by NoOneOfImportance

At least with QT-KT she does actually follow the line of "anniversary figures are ones that are unlikely to ever be released in regular sets" (paraphrasing). Although I guess there could be a D-Squad set one day  Is there any concrete information about what set the droid comes in?

QT-KT is still technically R2 KT. As she was given a different name and paint job for the D-Squad Arc as Lucasfilm did not want to confuse kids with 2 different R2’s.

9 minutes ago, MaximillianRebo said:

 Is there any concrete information about what set the droid comes in?

All we know is that the set supposedly also comes with 3 Rebel Troopers and 3 Stormtroopers. But I’m not sure what to believe anymore after R2-KT was technically incorrect.

 

Is Lego trying to Amanda Waller the leakers? As in they’re creating false information to make us distrust leakers eventually causing us to not listen to their leaks. Like Waller’s doing to superheroes in Absolute Power.

I don't want to say this since I absolutely LOVE Andor and love seeing the opinions about the show, but the discussion about it should go in the Media topic. Not here.

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Is Lego trying to Amanda Waller the leakers? As in they’re creating false information to make us distrust leakers eventually causing us to not listen to their leaks.

No. If that was the goal, they’d give out completely false information, not slightly inaccurate intel  If you stop trusting leakers that have been around for multiple years because of some relatively minor mishaps, that’s a you-problem

5 hours ago, NoOneOfImportance said:

I think this sentiment arises because of how many TPM sets were 18+/gimmicks this year.

This reminds me of the ‘well yes, but actually no’ meme, and I completely agree. Lego did way more to cover TPM than they did TESB in terms of number of sets, it’s just that only one turned out to actually be system-scaled with the rest being dioramas and buildables. 

That said, and even though I myself find this increased volume of buildable non-system sets to be extremely frustrating, I can’t imagine they take the place of more system-scaled sets (at least I hope not). I can’t imagine anyone on the LSW design team thinking ‘Yeah a Duel of the Fates set would be great, but let’s just do a podrace diorama and buildable Droideka instead’.

Buildable logos sound boring, but more experimentation is to be expected at this point even though it seems like throwing things at a wall and seeing what sticks. I think we’ve all become accustomed to expecting the really good stuff from 2HY onwards anyway, and with the lull in content next year, hopefully it’ll be a good time for Lego to produce some in-demand sets from overlooked content.

As much as my opinions on the RTG sets are mixed, I can’t wait for the show itself. Hopefully we’ll get another trailer fairly soon.

Edited July 13, 2024Jul 13 by Kaijumeister

So so far we have the following rumors for 2025. I had to write it down, because, i mean, look at this

• Buildable Bo Katan Helmet
• Buildable Star Wars Logo
• Buildable Grogu & Pram
• Midiscale Acclamator
• Midiscale Home One
• Ashoka's Jedi Interceptor
• ARC-170 Starfighter
• 4+ N1 Starfighter

At this rate there won't be any playsets and minifigures at all in 2 or 3 years. Of course i am exaggerating but as someone pointed out earlier we already experience a sharp decline in the number of minifigs we get each year and the future is not looking bright when there will be so many 18+ sets. Who is buying these sets? I am shocked.

8 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

So so far we have the following rumors for 2025. I had to write it down, because, i mean, look at this

• Buildable Bo Katan Helmet
• Buildable Star Wars Logo
• Buildable Grogu & Pram
• Midiscale Acclamator
• Midiscale Home One
• Ashoka's Jedi Interceptor
• ARC-170 Starfighter
• 4+ N1 Starfighter

At this rate there won't be any playsets and minifigures at all in 2 or 3 years. Of course i am exaggerating but as someone pointed out earlier we already experience a sharp decline in the number of minifigs we get each year and the future is not looking bright when there will be so many 18+ sets. Who is buying these sets? I am shocked.

I'm just happy to get an ARC-170 before that happens

But seriously, I've been a LSW fan from the start and I've only ever been interested in playsets. I mean for me, Lego nostalgia revolves around playsets and it's this combo of Lego and SW in playset form that keeps me from losing interest.

10 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

QT-KT is still technically R2 KT. As she was given a different name and paint job for the D-Squad Arc as Lucasfilm did not want to confuse kids with 2 different R2’s.

Is Lego trying to Amanda Waller the leakers? As in they’re creating false information to make us distrust leakers eventually causing us to not listen to their leaks. Like Waller’s doing to superheroes in Absolute Power.

I mean, it's an astromech. If it looks different and has a different name it's really not the same character.

I dunno that it's to that extent, but I certainly wouldn't put it past them to spread slightly different info to different sources to try and sniff out leakers.

8 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

No. If that was the goal, they’d give out completely false information, not slightly inaccurate intel  If you stop trusting leakers that have been around for multiple years because of some relatively minor mishaps, that’s a you-problem

I wouldn't say it's to the extent he's suggesting, but I think the general idea is possible, especially if you consider leakers may communicate with eachother to back stuff up. If one guy's source says the UCS is a sail barge, and the other says it's an MBS Endor, it's pretty easy to tell Lego's trying something. But it's a lot easier to give out slightly different info on a set that actually is in active development, and use those minor differences to sniff out leakers. I'm not saying that's what's going on- R2-KT to QT-KT could easily have been from a leaker not super familair with star wars seeing the fig and just googling "pink R2-D2", and I personally think it's likely Enoch WAS considered for the Peridea set at some point- but I think it's possible, and makes logical sense for a company that literally has anti-leak personnel to do.

12 minutes ago, Big_Daddy said:

 I've only ever been interested in playsets.

Me too! System playsets and minifigures! That's why it is so sad to see more and more sets that are not playsets.

16 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

So so far we have the following rumors for 2025. I had to write it down, because, i mean, look at this

• Buildable Bo Katan Helmet
• Buildable Star Wars Logo
• Buildable Grogu & Pram
• Midiscale Acclamator
• Midiscale Home One
• Ashoka's Jedi Interceptor
• ARC-170 Starfighter
• 4+ N1 Starfighter

At this rate there won't be any playsets and minifigures at all in 2 or 3 years. Of course i am exaggerating but as someone pointed out earlier we already experience a sharp decline in the number of minifigs we get each year and the future is not looking bright when there will be so many 18+ sets. Who is buying these sets? I am shocked.

It feels like lego's splitting the line into sets meant for adults who aren't necessarily Afols in the traditional sense and (given the prices, wealthy) younger children, with TFOLs and AFOLs being lost in the shuffle. 

What's especially concerning to me is that this is looking more and more like a full 1HY 2025 lineup as opposed to just a january wave. We didn't have many standard sets in january 2024 either, but they trickled out over the half-year. This is TWO standard system sets. Two. And the cheapest is $45.

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I dunno that it's to that extent, but I certainly wouldn't put it past them to spread slightly different info to different sources to try and sniff out leakers.

Of course I can't prove they'd never do such a thing, but I still think it's highly implausible. Wouldn't they have to get approval from Disney as well to do some Tyrion shenanigans like that with their license?  

2 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Who is buying these sets? I am shocked.

Enough people, otherwise they wouldn't be made  There clearly is a market for 18+ products. And it's not that bad yet.

4 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Me too! System playsets and minifigures! That's why it is so sad to see more and more sets that are not playsets.

Yeah, as @Mandalorianknight said it looks as though they’re really trying to appeal to people outside the usual AFOL demographic and it’s disappointing it’s come at the cost of less playsets. 

11 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Me too! System playsets and minifigures! That's why it is so sad to see more and more sets that are not playsets.

Yes please! Recently we've only been getting 15 or so playsets per year. Even 5-10 more on top of that would go a long way to adding variety in terms of minifigs and system sets. That could mean the difference between, for example, 3 total ROTS playsets next year vs 6-8. It widens the possibilities by so much compared to yet another buildable droid or whatever.

Exabricks posted a GIF of Jango Fett  No idea what this implies. BrickHeadz maybe? I doubt they’d release two Mandalorian helmets at once

Edit: I was wrong, now he implies it’s a helmet after all!

Edited July 14, 2024Jul 14 by BrickBob Studpants