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

[Mandalorianknight]

2 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Three Shinies and one Shock; no gunner. 
 

Even better. Though I suppose the gunners could have been nice to slot into the cannons from the specialist pack.

[Classic_Spaceman]

1 minute ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Even better. Though I suppose the gunners could have been nice to slot into the cannons from the specialist pack.

Gunners would be nice in a future pack, but I am glad that all Minifigs included in the Clones vs. Droids pack are generic (since we are all going to buy mass quantities of the set!). 
 

[Yperio_Bricks]

The tension is rising! The anticipation is rising! Can't wait to see the winter and spring sets and hold them in my hands! Of the sets we know for next year, which are the most anticipated for you guys? For me it's the battlepack and the Tantive IV boarding set.

[Minishark2000]

For me it's the battlepack 1st and foremost (as probably everyone else's), and then the Invisible Hand. It'll go really nicely on display beside the Malevolence!

[Chazinski]

Yeah same here. The BP, Tantive IV, and the Rex Microfighter (which I believe is still happening in the summer). With the BP, I believe we get 3 shinies, a shock, 2 B1s, 3 B2s, and an Octuptarra. The clones get a speeder from what I heard. Tantive IV sounds like a neat set, and I gotta have Rex bc it's Rex. The CW was such a huge chunk of my childhood that I can't NOT get him 

[NoOneOfImportance]

See I'm in the camp where I am excited for the midis and the diorama, but that's about it. I'm not as big of a Clone Wars fan (nothing against it), so I'm just sitting around waiting for a good way to amass Imperials again (and every year seeing more Clones instead...)

[Mandalorianknight]

17 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Gunners would be nice in a future pack, but I am glad that all Minifigs included in the Clones vs. Droids pack are generic (since we are all going to buy mass quantities of the set!). 

I'm shooting myself in the foot here because I really want to get some imperial/rebel/first/order/anything else battle packs again, but it would be cool to see some sort of small "support crew" pack. Something like a P2 pilot, P2 gunner, unarmored officer, and astromech droid and some sort of bridge console or crew cart/loading bay for $15.

2 minutes ago, NoOneOfImportance said:

See I'm in the camp where I am excited for the midis and the diorama, but that's about it. I'm not as big of a Clone Wars fan (nothing against it), so I'm just sitting around waiting for a good way to amass Imperials again (and every year seeing more Clones instead...)

What's funny is the midis aren't for me (Cool and all, but I'd only really want OT capital ships. Mid-sized OT ships and capital PT ships are cool, just not my cup of tea here. The executor is great, but may sit alone on my shelf), and neither is the podracer diorama. I even feel the same about the clone wars stuff, generally speaking (Though I've wanted shinies and shocks for forever, so I'll get two of that pack, and of course $13 rex is $13 rex, so I'm falling right into their hands). 

I do totally agree that the battle packs need to become more varied again. Can we at least do something like 3BPs a year, and only one of them being clones? Right now I think we're at a greater than 50% rate of clone centric to non clone army building sets over the past few years.

17 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

The tension is rising! The anticipation is rising! Can't wait to see the winter and spring sets and hold them in my hands! Of the sets we know for next year, which are the most anticipated for you guys? For me it's the battlepack and the Tantive IV boarding set.

Same here. I've wanted the ability to get a number of P2 Shinies since 2012 or whenever the transition to P2 was made in TCW, and the Tantive IV hallway may be one of the best new ideas for a set based off the OT lego's done in a decade or more. 

It's one of the most iconic opening scenes in film history, how has it not gotten a designated set yet? (Especially the part where ARC Trooper fives shows up out of nowhere, goes "it's fivin time" and fives all over the empire, helping Leia get away with the plans)

[ArrowBricks]

Buzzing for the super battle pack. It’s the sort of set to spark something, and I’m sure it will for many people. 

So many Clones for army building, for brickfilms, and it really could be the start of more CIS stuff we need. 

Praying it doesn’t disappoint.

[BrickBob Studpants]

17 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Of the sets we know for next year, which are the most anticipated for you guys?

So far, the three Mando sets, the Skeleton Crew ship, the Y-Wing microfighter, and the anniversary figs. The Crimson Firehawk surely has cool minifigs, but I don’t expect much from the build  The rest sound too mundane for my liking 

[NoOneOfImportance]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I'm shooting myself in the foot here because I really want to get some imperial/rebel/first/order/anything else battle packs again, but it would be cool to see some sort of small "support crew" pack. Something like a P2 pilot, P2 gunner, unarmored officer, and astromech droid and some sort of bridge console or crew cart/loading bay for $15.

What's funny is the midis aren't for me (Cool and all, but I'd only really want OT capital ships. Mid-sized OT ships and capital PT ships are cool, just not my cup of tea here. The executor is great, but may sit alone on my shelf), and neither is the podracer diorama. I even feel the same about the clone wars stuff, generally speaking (Though I've wanted shinies and shocks for forever, so I'll get two of that pack, and of course $13 rex is $13 rex, so I'm falling right into their hands). 

I do totally agree that the battle packs need to become more varied again. Can we at least do something like 3BPs a year, and only one of them being clones? Right now I think we're at a greater than 50% rate of clone centric to non clone army building sets over the past few years.

And with the Snowie pack now gone, we are left with nothing but extraordinary amounts of clones... 

[Hhalcyon]

7 minutes ago, NoOneOfImportance said:

And with the Snowie pack now gone, we are left with nothing but extraordinary amounts of clones... 

Jokes on you, all my Snow Troopers are canonically clone wars veterans too.

[Clone OPatra]

I'm looking forward to the mega battle pack and to seeing the Grogu Escape set personally, though my interest might come down to what clones are included. Still sounds like a decent low-ish price set.

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, Hhalcyon said:

Jokes on you, all my Snow Troopers are canonically clone wars veterans too.

I know Judicials were a thing in legends and canon has some non-jango republic soldiers (Bravo most prominently), but ironically the demise of Angry Clone means the faceprints now don't really work for most CW vets. You've got a white dude, a white woman, a black woman, and I suppose you could say the scout's an aged-up omega, but she technically never served in the clone war 

2 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

Buzzing for the super battle pack. It’s the sort of set to spark something, and I’m sure it will for many people. 

My biggest remaining question is what the B2 droids will look like. We know what the clones will look like, the builds are fine but (to my knowledge) as far as we know not canon at their sizes so'll end up as a parts pack. The droids are a big unknown. Is it just a fix of the older mode that won't be so brittle? Will we get more accurate arms? Will the rocket arm piece return? Could we see individual legs? Will we be watching out for those wrist rockets?

[Hhalcyon]

26 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I know Judicials were a thing in legends and canon has some non-jango republic soldiers (Bravo most prominently), but ironically the demise of Angry Clone means the faceprints now don't really work for most CW vets. You've got a white dude, a white woman, a black woman, and I suppose you could say the scout's an aged-up omega, but she technically never served in the clone war 

OR...OR... I just never take their helmets off and pretend.

[Classic_Spaceman]

4 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

it would be cool to see some sort of small "support crew" pack. Something like a P2 pilot, P2 gunner, unarmored officer, and astromech droid and some sort of bridge console or crew cart/loading bay for $15. 

Clone ground crew instead of an Astromech; also, it would be $20, not $15 (those days have long passed!).

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

but ironically the demise of Angry Clone means the faceprints now don't really work for most CW vets. You've got a white dude, a white woman, a black woman,

Their age is the bigger problem when considering them to be Clone Wars veterans; they look far too young to have been fighting 20+ years ago! As for gender/race, that is actually quite accurate - Look at the demographic breakdown of the Elite Squad troopers, for instance. 

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Could we see individual legs? 

I would guess no, since I am not sure how it could be done without becoming either too bulky or too flimsy/breakable. I am expecting something similar to the B1 legs. 
 

Edited December 1, 2023 by Classic_Spaceman

[Mandalorianknight]

49 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Clone ground crew instead of an Astromech; also, it would be $20, not $15 (those days have long passed!).

I was thinking one of those more limited-release packs, hence why it's only 3 actual figures and $15

51 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Their age is the bigger problem when considering them to be Clone Wars veterans; they look far too young to have been fighting 20+ years ago! As for gender/race, that is actually quite accurate - Look at the demographic breakdown of the Elite Squad troopers, for instance. 

The Elite Squad didn't fight in the clone wars either. The whole move to non-clone troops occurs after the empire is formed.

1 hour ago, Hhalcyon said:

OR...OR... I just never take their helmets off and pretend.

Imagination? With a children's toy brand? NOOOO!

[Classic_Spaceman]

7 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The Elite Squad didn't fight in the clone wars either. The whole move to non-clone troops occurs after the empire is formed.

I know. I thought that you were saying that the Empire did not recruit anyone outside of white males (hence why the old Angry Clone head was more accurate). 

7 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I was thinking one of those more limited-release packs, hence why it's only 3 actual figures and $15

Ah. 👍
 

Edited December 1, 2023 by Classic_Spaceman

[Mandalorianknight]

2 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

I know. I thought that you were saying that the Empire did not recruit anyone outside of white males (hence why the old Angry Clone head was more accurate). 

No, hence why I specified the white guy as also being inaccurate, I was saying they ironically can't generally be clone wars veterans unlike when every helmeted character used the angry clone head

Edited December 1, 2023 by Mandalorianknight

[Classic_Spaceman]

Just now, Mandalorianknight said:

No, hence why I specified the white guy as also being inaccurate, I was saying they ironically can't generally be clone wars veterans unlike when every helmeted character used the angry clone head

Ah, OK; that makes sense now. 
 

[Minishark2000]

We just got a ton of leaks of 2024 sets from 1414falconfan, hopefully Star Wars is just around that online posting corner...

 

Edit: idk how true this is, but this guy in the comments on the insta post for the hogwarts boathouse is saying Jan sets are getting revealed tomorrow?

Edited December 1, 2023 by Minishark2000

[Classic_Spaceman]

2 minutes ago, Minishark2000 said:

Edit: idk how true this is, but this guy in the comments on the insta post for the hogwarts boathouse is saying Jan sets are getting revealed tomorrow?

We should see official pics of the January sets Dec. 1/Dec. 2. 
 

[Minishark2000]

Just now, Classic_Spaceman said:

We should see official pics of the January sets Dec. 1/Dec. 2. 
 

Shoot! I forgot tomorrow was Dec 1, how time flies 

[Lego Nostalgia]

There was this podcast on Youtube with LifeBricks and he had Falconfan1414 on and gave us a hint to a 25th Anniversary figure, Hint: Not main character, colour white in outfit, controversial in SW community, Human, and has the letter O in their name either first or last, Live action and not a Clone, wonder who it could be ?

Edited December 1, 2023 by Lego Nostalgia

[CF Mitch]

34 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

There was this podcast on Youtube with LifeBricks and he had Falconfan1414 on and gave us a hint to a 25th Anniversary figure, Hint: Not main character, colour white in outfit, controversial in SW community, Human, and has the letter O in their name either first or last, Live action and not a Clone, wonder who it could be ?

Orson Krennic?  

[NoOneOfImportance]

15 minutes ago, CF Mitch said:

Orson Krennic?  

Dedra Meero?