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

[Lego Nostalgia]

21 minutes ago, Shiva said:

Andor Season 2 wonders: Do I mean nothing to you?

Yes, the show doesn't feel like star wars

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Yes, the show doesn't feel like star wars

I feel like it's the closest to the OT feel star wars has gotten since the OT set design wise.

23 hours ago, Rwbricks said:

I like it! It fits really well. If there’s not a giant transforming Mandalorian knight mech in The Mandalorian & Grogu, we riot. Just image the set!

 

 There’s supposedly a microscale build of Gasgano’s Podracer with purchases of $65+ on LEGO Star Wars products at Walmart. I’m not sure when the promo starts, but that’s neat. 
 

Also, my friend found a LEGO Star Wars book at Costco (in the US) for $17.99 that comes with the AAT polybag, U-3PO, and the 25th Anniversary Darth Maul. 

Thank you! I am trying not to start attempting to design this as a set since the figure for me to reference doesn't even release until February, but it would be pretty cool...

22 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I like it. Wait is SWxTransformers still an ongoing thing?!!

They stopped it forever ago (Don't know exactly, I was a kid and wasn't into transformers at the time), like well over a decade. This upcoming figure is part of their "Transformers X (Brand)" series, which has recently had stuff like Naruto, Ninja Turtles, Knight Rider, Top Gun, etc) - Ok, I'll get back on topic now

15 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

You have become the very thing you swore to destroy, (Mechs)

It's not a mech, it's a cybertronian! No one's piloting him!

(But honestly, I don't mind the new X-wing mech, and if future star wars mechs act as more actual mechs based on the ships rather than "Larger version of character", I wouldn't be as annoyed by them.)

5 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

all the lore breaking and pushing rubbish in

this isn't something new to disney's ownership of the franchise.

[CloneCommando99]

7 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Would have been lovely if they didn't buy it, the Fandom wouldn't be in such a mess that it is now and all the lore breaking and pushing rubbish in, also the franchise is dead now, it can not be fixed sadly, Mandalorian might be the only thing left that MIGHT do ok, it's sad but what can you do

Mando Movie, Avengers Doomsday, Supergirl. They will all be crushed under the box office might of Shrek 5.

3 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Yes, the show doesn't feel like star wars

Why, because it’s well written?

[TotoMagnus]

Finished the Barge build last night and I‘m really surprised of how much I like (dare I say love?) the result!

Granted, to get the full picture you have to invest a lot (Desert Skiff, couple of extra figs, extra bricks and pieces), but damn! it hits me right in the feels, being born in 83 and therefore having some kind of relationship to ROTJ. 
To me, LSW 24 ends on a high note. 
Best UCS experience since the AT-AT. 

[Agent Kallus]

8 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Would have been lovely if they didn't buy it, the Fandom wouldn't be in such a mess that it is now and all the lore breaking and pushing rubbish in, also the franchise is dead now, it can not be fixed sadly

God no. The Disney buyout brought as much good as I'll. I mean if there was no Disney star wars there'd be no Rebels and thusly no Agent Kallus and then I'd loose my entire Eurobricks identity, my account would probably be called Pennyworth or something!? 

But legends and canon both pushed out some crap, and yet I still love both.

Without legends we'd have not Starcave of the Thonbonka and No Vuffi Raa!!!! Without canon we'd never hear of Ransolm Casterfo!!! 

I'm not biggest sequel fan but I still think we've have more good than bad, I've liked all the Disney+ shows, I'm not the biggest multiplayer shooter fan but videogames wise I love the Jedi series and Outlaws. Cartoons wise resistance was nothing to write home about but not terrible either, and CW S7, Rebels, Bad Batch were all top tier. Publishing wise it's been great too, the canon Thrawn books, the high republic books, bloodline all great.

Imagine if WB had gotten SW instead of Disney, what if they'd put Synder in charge ( before abruptly changing tact for episode 9). They'd all have grey lightsabers on grey planets with minimal lighting and 80% of the runtime would be slo-mo and the plot itself would be such a mess it'd make tRoS look reasonable.

[ARC2149Nova]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Why, because it’s well written?

Get out. 

 

4 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

They stopped it forever ago (Don't know exactly, I was a kid and wasn't into transformers at the time), like well over a decade. This upcoming figure is part of their "Transformers X (Brand)" series, which has recently had stuff like Naruto, Ninja Turtles, Knight Rider, Top Gun, etc) - Ok, I'll get back on topic now

I still have the blue Obi-Wan/Eta-2 and Anakin/Vader to ISD/Venator. It was a pretty cool line. Anyway, nice pfp, though I feel like the suit, well, suits you.

1 hour ago, TotoMagnus said:

Finished the Barge build last night and I‘m really surprised of how much I like (dare I say love?) the result!

Granted, to get the full picture you have to invest a lot (Desert Skiff, couple of extra figs, extra bricks and pieces), but damn! it hits me right in the feels, being born in 83 and therefore having some kind of relationship to ROTJ. 
To me, LSW 24 ends on a high note. 
Best UCS experience since the AT-AT. 

It is a really nice model, even if it's a tad overpriced.

[TotoMagnus]

16 minutes ago, ARC2149Nova said:

 

It is a really nice model, even if it's a tad overpriced.

Yeah, by a teenie-weenie 100 bucks, I would say (or the inclusion of the Desert Skiff set) 🤪

[ToaDraco]

14 hours ago, R0Sch said:

Here's my reverse engineered Gasgano's Podracer, for anyone who wants to rebrick it (cost of parts is around ~27€): Gasganos_Podracer.io

That's probably pretty close, although the Ord Pedrovia shouldn't have 2 sets of binders. Gasgano is my favorite podracer so I'm really tempted to take advantage of the Wal-Mart deal. Apparently they only produced 20,000 of the promo sets so I wonder how fast they're going to run out before the promo ends on November 12th.

[R0Sch]

34 minutes ago, ToaDraco said:

That's probably pretty close, although the Ord Pedrovia shouldn't have 2 sets of binders.

I know, but without the second support the engine wouldn't float in the air... unless the leg is really included. Can't see that from the one image.

[BrickBob Studpants]

7 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Yes, the show doesn't feel like star wars

Exactly. It’s a good show, but it lacks the humour and sense of adventure and fun all the other shows and movies have. The only really funny bit is Luthen poking fun at Saw‘s paranoia, that had me in stitches! I feel S2 will automatically feel more Star-Wars-y thanks to K2.

Yeah, the show‘s about the horrors of fascism, but TBB has similar themes yet still manages to be more fun

[Darth_Bane13]

I don't understand how people dislike Andor, it is leagues above anything else Disney has done

[Lego Nostalgia]

5 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

God no. The Disney buyout brought as much good as I'll. I mean if there was no Disney star wars there'd be no Rebels and thusly no Agent Kallus and then I'd loose my entire Eurobricks identity, my account would probably be called Pennyworth or something!? 

But legends and canon both pushed out some crap, and yet I still love both.

Without legends we'd have not Starcave of the Thonbonka and No Vuffi Raa!!!! Without canon we'd never hear of Ransolm Casterfo!!! 

I'm not biggest sequel fan but I still think we've have more good than bad, I've liked all the Disney+ shows, I'm not the biggest multiplayer shooter fan but videogames wise I love the Jedi series and Outlaws. Cartoons wise resistance was nothing to write home about but not terrible either, and CW S7, Rebels, Bad Batch were all top tier. Publishing wise it's been great too, the canon Thrawn books, the high republic books, bloodline all great.

Imagine if WB had gotten SW instead of Disney, what if they'd put Synder in charge ( before abruptly changing tact for episode 9). They'd all have grey lightsabers on grey planets with minimal lighting and 80% of the runtime would be slo-mo and the plot itself would be such a mess it'd make tRoS look reasonable.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I feel like Disney is somewhat more competent than WB, Disney messes up a lot but at least they're able to establish a connected universe lol

[PreVizsla]

2 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I don't understand how people dislike Andor, it is leagues above anything else Disney has done

That's your opinion. Some will agree with it and some will not, it's all down to people's personal taste. People that do like it are way too defensive about it though and take it as a personal attack if you don't like it. This month I have seen at least 20 people being kicked and banned from communities and blamed for ragebaiting because they don't like it which is absurd.

[Alexandrina]

18 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I've always wondered what sets we could've gotten if Disney didn't buy Star Wars

I'm 100% certain we have an official Mara Jade, Jaina Solo or Thrawn (actual Thrawn, not Filoni's version) by 2016. Lego had been branching out into more and more Legends sets around the acquisition, and other companies had actually released products based on these characters. Beyond that, it depends whether George ever makes more films - certainly we don't get the TV series, for better or worse.

I can't help but think that the real what if is what if George had made the sequel trilogy first. If he'd done some films taking a few cues from the Zahn trilogy (*ahem* Mara *ahem*) in the mid-90s, the original cast would all still have been young enough to do all the action required of them, and we could have had the next generation set up then - say, with films in 1995, 1998, 2001. George could then do his prequels a little while later, maybe in 2007, 2010, 2013, and then around about now would be an ideal time to be in the middle of a follow-up sequel-sequel trilogy, as the characters introduced in the 1995-01 trilogy would be about twenty years older. Imagine how much more harmonious Star Wars fans would be if there were no sequels, no TV shows, no dodgy cartoons and no divisive prequels to debate about! (And double-plus - we might have got Lego Star Wars sets earlier, possibly even poking into the tail end of the Golden Era. Sets with the charm of the early minifigures, combined with the design ethos of the early-mid 90s, would have been a wonder to behold)

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Why, because it’s well written?

Ladies and Gentlemen, we got 'em.

8 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

God no. The Disney buyout brought as much good as I'll. I mean if there was no Disney star wars there'd be no Rebels and thusly no Agent Kallus and then I'd loose my entire Eurobricks identity, my account would probably be called Pennyworth or something!? 

But legends and canon both pushed out some crap, and yet I still love both.

Without legends we'd have not Starcave of the Thonbonka and No Vuffi Raa!!!! Without canon we'd never hear of Ransolm Casterfo!!! 

I'm not biggest sequel fan but I still think we've have more good than bad, I've liked all the Disney+ shows, I'm not the biggest multiplayer shooter fan but videogames wise I love the Jedi series and Outlaws. Cartoons wise resistance was nothing to write home about but not terrible either, and CW S7, Rebels, Bad Batch were all top tier. Publishing wise it's been great too, the canon Thrawn books, the high republic books, bloodline all great.

Imagine if WB had gotten SW instead of Disney, what if they'd put Synder in charge ( before abruptly changing tact for episode 9). They'd all have grey lightsabers on grey planets with minimal lighting and 80% of the runtime would be slo-mo and the plot itself would be such a mess it'd make tRoS look reasonable.

We've found Absolute Kallus

Was Casterfo the senator Leia is friends with in the book where the senate finds out she's Vader's daughter?

Yeah, honestly it's been about the same distribution of good/bad, it's just all more prevalent so the bad stuff is a lot more noticeable.

I'd say I'd rank it more or less like this, excluding the books because there are just too many:

Incredible: Andor, Rogue One, the Jedi games, S2E7 of Mando.

Great Star Wars: Mando S1/S2, Ahsoka, Solo, TCWS7, late-game Rebels.

Good: TBB, early Rebels, TFA.

THE CONTENT MUST FLOW: TROS, Obi-Wan, TBOBF, Outlaws (special shoutout to if you get your hutt rep high enough Jabba is like "nooo Kay you're too cool I'm gonna come save you"), Mando S3.

Acolyte: Acolyte

Not meant for me and therefore unranked: YJA, Resistance. TLJ gets shouted out here because while overall it would probably go in "the content must flow", they were grasping at a kind of cool and deep concept with Luke and just dropped the ball on the execution to "The guy who throws his lightsaber aside because he won't kill his genocidal dad tries to kill his nephew because he MIGHT become evil"

7 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

I still have the blue Obi-Wan/Eta-2 and Anakin/Vader to ISD/Venator. It was a pretty cool line. Anyway, nice pfp, though I feel like the suit, well, suits you.

Thanks! It is, after all, a Mandalorian Knight.

15 minutes ago, Alexandrina said:

I'm 100% certain we (would) have an official Mara Jade

I can't help but think that the real what if is what if George had made the sequel trilogy first. I

I need a time machine.

He's spoken about what his trilogy would be, and while he's changed his mind from "they go ant-man to fight the midichlorians" to "slightly more coherent but George demolishes continuity so he can cast a particular twi'lek ", I think the one constant is it probably would have been worse than the sequels we got. 

 

I realize now none of this is very on-topic so I'll end by saying I think with the leak of stuff like the U-wing and Plo's fighter, 2024's 1HY is looking a lot better than previous years. I mantain lego should move to the following release system:

Jan 1: 8-10 system sets

May 4: all the 18+: a few each of dioramas, helmets, statues, and the may UCS.

Aug 1: 8-10 system sets

Oct 1: Fall UCS/MBS and 1-2 sets varying between a holiday set, "special" set like the anniversary one this year, and/or an expansion/fig filler for the UCS.

[CloneCommando99]

40 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Incredible: Andor, Rogue One, the Jedi games, S2E7 of Mando.

Great Star Wars: Mando S1/S2, Ahsoka, Solo, TCWS7, late-game Rebels.

Good: TBB, early Rebels, TFA.

THE CONTENT MUST FLOW: TROS, Obi-Wan, TBOBF, Outlaws (special shoutout to if you get your hutt rep high enough Jabba is like "nooo Kay you're too cool I'm gonna come save you"), Mando S3.

Acolyte: Acolyte

This we can definitely agree on. Though I’d put the TBBS2 Crosshair episodes in either great incredible. (Episodes with Cody and Mayday)

42 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I realize now none of this is very on-topic so I'll end by saying I think with the leak of stuff like the U-wing and Plo's fighter, 2024's 1HY is looking a lot better than previous years. I mantain lego should move to the following release system:

Jan 1: 8-10 system sets

May 4: all the 18+: a few each of dioramas, helmets, statues, and the may UCS.

Aug 1: 8-10 system sets

Oct 1: Fall UCS/MBS and 1-2 sets varying between a holiday set, "special" set like the anniversary one this year, and/or an expansion/fig filler for the UCS.

I can get behind this method as well. Also an increase to 3 BPs per year wouldn’t hurt.

[PreVizsla]

11 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Why, because it’s well written?

There is no good writing in Star Wars. Writers only rotate few core ideas. Most common one is about characters going undercover/undetected somewhere and that leads to a disaster. Example:  Andor and his crew in imperial uniforms go undercover to the imperial base, same scenario happens in Kenobi when they try to rescue Young Leia, in the Mandalorian where Mando and Mayfeld get into an imperial base to steal info. In solo Beckett and his crew in imperial uniforms steal the ship and then go undercover the second time to steal nonsensium. Leia does it in OT while trying to save Han, Finn and Rose in TLJ in FO uniforms trying to enter Snoke's ship. Second idea is someone getting captured/imprisoned and then escaping/being saved which is a big part of Andor. Let's also not forget a comedy relief droid that we haven't seen before. The only difference is that Andor doesn't have to cater to younger audience which allows for different types of dialogue and better storytelling as you don't have to simplify everything.

[Rwbricks]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

he won't kill his genocidal dad

Last Jedi Justification following:

Luke wasn’t trying to kill Ben. From his monologue/explanation, he had sensed the darkness in Ben and went to look inside. He saw visions of destruction and death (likely Han and Leia’s, and maybe his students’), and he momentarily reacted how all Skywalkers do to these foreboding visions: poorly. He said he reacted with instinct and “thought he could stop it,” not him, but it, and then that passed as quickly as it came, but Ben was awake. Also, Ben had turned to the dark by this point; he went out and slaughtered the rest of the students directly after, not to mention all of the bad stuff he did with the First Order.

Also, there’s a gif I love showing Luke’s realization after hacking away at Vader and Luke looking down on Ben, and Hamill managed to convey the exact same look. Something something poetry. 

Sorry, Last Jedi defender here. If you don’t like it, that’s totally fair. There are a few things I’m still iffy about with Luke, but above reasoning is not one of them. The fact that those circumstances happened, maybe, but the reasoning behind this reaction, no. Once again, if you don’t like it, that is completely fair. 

Also, I agree with your assessment of Lucas’s sequels. The many plans that we’ve heard of are… not it. 

Also, apologies that it kind-of feels like I’m following you. Yoosa must’ve saved meesa. 
 

Back on LEGO talk, though, I am also in agreement with the desire for more system sets. Hopefully we’ll get a good amount next year, especially since the new movie in 2026 will likely account for a wave. 

[Renny The Spaceman]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

This we can definitely agree on. Though I’d put the TBBS2 Crosshair episodes in either great incredible. (Episodes with Cody and Mayday)

Those episodes are such a step up from the usual Bad Batch episodes. The show works so much better when the writers gets to have characters with unique perspectives and more depth than a ninja turtle bounce off each other. It had such an interesting concept, showing the republic's slow turn to fascism from the perspective of the slave army who were never given any option but to serve it. Instead they did another stock found family smuggler mission of the week show (with occasional fighting the empire) which is just every Star Wars show ever. A real waste of a premise that'll probably never get used again

Also, given it's a LEGO forum, the two sets they did for that show were ridiculously overpriced no idea why they thought they could get way with that.

[Darth_Bane13]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

He's spoken about what his trilogy would be, and while he's changed his mind from "they go ant-man to fight the midichlorians" to "slightly more coherent but George demolishes continuity so he can cast a particular twi'lek ", I think the one constant is it probably would have been worse than the sequels we got. 

I disagree because even George's worst Star Wars films (AOTC, TPM) are far better than the sequels, 

-TFA is literally just a lazy remake of a new hope but much much worse

-TLJ ruined Luke Skywalker

-TROS is just an absolute incoherent film riddled with plot holes.

Even if George's sequels were bad they would at least be made with care and passion since he's the creator and cares deeply about Star Wars (unlike JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson)

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

This we can definitely agree on. Though I’d put the TBBS2 Crosshair episodes in either great incredible. (Episodes with Cody and Mayday)

I can get behind this method as well. Also an increase to 3 BPs per year wouldn’t hurt.

Yeah, those are excellent- I really wasn't going episode-by-episode, I just put MandoS2E7 where I did because I think Bill Burr somehow delivered the single most well-acted scene in the star wars universe in that episode.

1 hour ago, Rwbricks said:

Last Jedi Justification following:

Luke wasn’t trying to kill Ben. From his monologue/explanation, he had sensed the darkness in Ben and went to look inside. He saw visions of destruction and death (likely Han and Leia’s, and maybe his students’), and he momentarily reacted how all Skywalkers do to these foreboding visions: poorly. He said he reacted with instinct and “thought he could stop it,” not him, but it, and then that passed as quickly as it came, but Ben was awake. Also, Ben had turned to the dark by this point; he went out and slaughtered the rest of the students directly after, not to mention all of the bad stuff he did with the First Order.

Also, there’s a gif I love showing Luke’s realization after hacking away at Vader and Luke looking down on Ben, and Hamill managed to convey the exact same look. Something something poetry. 

Sorry, Last Jedi defender here. If you don’t like it, that’s totally fair. There are a few things I’m still iffy about with Luke, but above reasoning is not one of them. The fact that those circumstances happened, maybe, but the reasoning behind this reaction, no. Once again, if you don’t like it, that is completely fair. 

Also, I agree with your assessment of Lucas’s sequels. The many plans that we’ve heard of are… not it. 

Also, apologies that it kind-of feels like I’m following you. Yoosa must’ve saved meesa. 
 

Back on LEGO talk, though, I am also in agreement with the desire for more system sets. Hopefully we’ll get a good amount next year, especially since the new movie in 2026 will likely account for a wave. 

That's actually my issue- the throne room scene is so good because it's Luke coming to that realization- it's the moment where he truly becomes a jedi. I don't like that having some split-second visions decades down the line would cause him to turn on his unconscious nephew to the extent he activated his lightsaber and had it ready to kill him. If you're gonna bring Luke back down that path, I think it needs to be more than "he had a vision". I think it should take much more than that to get Luke to even momentarily regress to that point. I think the Thawn trilogy did an excellent job with post-ROTJ Luke- he doesn't have a no-kill rule, like he kills plenty of enemy soldiers, but he's very focused on helping people. He helps Mara at pretty much every turn even though she's a force-sensitive agent who repeatedly tells him from the moment they meet that loyalty to her boss is the only thing preventing her from snapping his neck then and there. That's a much better post-ROTJ Luke to me than "tries to kill his nephew after having a bad vision", especially when Luke learns his lesson about instinctively acting on bad visions in the original trilogy.

I don't judge people for liking TLJ though- unlike some of the other more recent projects, I do think there was heart and a legitimate attempt behind a lot of TLJ, even if I'm still not happy with Rian over the stated "subverting expectations" thing. (This comment makes it come off like I do judge people for liking the "Content must flow" stuff, which... not really, but also I don't think I've met anyone who legitimately thinks Mando S3 was a great place to take the story)

I hadn't even THOUGHT about the fact that TMAG will probably get it's own wave, but that's very exciting, thank you for bringing that up.

1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Even if George's sequels were bad they would at least be made with care and passion since he's the creator and cares deeply about Star Wars (unlike JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson)

George wanted to pull Talon out of her place in the timeline because he has a barely disguised... "interest" in twi'leks. Passion? Sure. Is it good for the story or franchise? no. Same with the ant-man stuff. I don't care if he's passionate about that, his sequel ideas are just as bad as the worst disney's done, if not worse.

Edited October 19, 2024 by Mandalorianknight

[Darth_Bane13]

3 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

George wanted to pull Talon out of her place in the timeline because he has a barely disguised... "interest" in twi'leks. Passion? Sure. Is it good for the story or franchise? no. Same with the ant-man stuff. I don't care if he's passionate about that, his sequel ideas are just as bad as the worst disney's done, if not worse.

well we never even got a finished script or anything so to dismiss his hypothetical sequel trilogy as worse than the Disney trilogy is odd because most people would agree that the 6 films Lucas made were better than the sequels. And I agree his ideas sound odd and retconning the legacy comics would suck but it's far from the amount of damage Disney has done, in my opinion of course.

[Rwbricks]

52 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That's actually my issue- the throne room scene is so good because it's Luke coming to that realization- it's the moment where he truly becomes a jedi. I don't like that having some split-second visions decades down the line would cause him to turn on his unconscious nephew to the extent he activated his lightsaber and had it ready to kill him. If you're gonna bring Luke back down that path, I think it needs to be more than "he had a vision". I think it should take much more than that to get Luke to even momentarily regress to that point. I think the Thawn trilogy did an excellent job with post-ROTJ Luke- he doesn't have a no-kill rule, like he kills plenty of enemy soldiers, but he's very focused on helping people. He helps Mara at pretty much every turn even though she's a force-sensitive agent who repeatedly tells him from the moment they meet that loyalty to her boss is the only thing preventing her from snapping his neck then and there. That's a much better post-ROTJ Luke to me than "tries to kill his nephew after having a bad vision", especially when Luke learns his lesson about instinctively acting on bad visions in the original trilogy.

I don't judge people for liking TLJ though- unlike some of the other more recent projects, I do think there was heart and a legitimate attempt behind a lot of TLJ, even if I'm still not happy with Rian over the stated "subverting expectations" thing. (This comment makes it come off like I do judge people for liking the "Content must flow" stuff, which... not really, but also I don't think I've met anyone who legitimately thinks Mando S3 was a great place to take the story)

I hadn't even THOUGHT about the fact that TMAG will probably get it's own wave, but that's very exciting, thank you for bringing that up.

George wanted to pull Talon out of her place in the timeline because he has a barely disguised... "interest" in twi'leks. Passion? Sure. Is it good for the story or franchise? no. Same with the ant-man stuff. I don't care if he's passionate about that, his sequel ideas are just as bad as the worst disney's done, if not worse.

That’s fair. I agree about the Throne Room scene, it’s probably Luke’s best moment (and the best moment for any Jedi, in my opinion). Additionally, Luke’s attitude in the Thrawn trilogy was fantastic, also one of my favorite parts about that. Helpful, kind, noble-but-still-learning Luke is great. If we were to get Luke content set directly after RotJ, I’d want him like that. 

The potential movie wave honestly has me extremely excited, too. It almost takes me back. I know that we can predict two of the sets from the leaked trailer,

Spoiler

a new Razorcrest and an AT-AT,

   but still, the thought of getting one whole wave of (hopefully) new things dedicated to just one feature is nice. 

[Samppu]

2 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I disagree because even George's worst Star Wars films (AOTC, TPM) are far better than the sequels, 

-TFA is literally just a lazy remake of a new hope but much much worse

-TLJ ruined Luke Skywalker

-TROS is just an absolute incoherent film riddled with plot holes.

Even if George's sequels were bad they would at least be made with care and passion since he's the creator and cares deeply about Star Wars (unlike JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson)

Totally agree on this.

Like ignoring any personal preferences for individual characters, or more so any discussion about female or black leads etc., the problem of the sequel trilogy is primarily the fact that they were mostly lazy copies of the originals with no coherent vision.

Additionally and even more unfortunately, this incoherence does not concern only the plot but also the lore and the world building. The Last Jedi introduces ballistic turbolaser guns for no particular reason. Solo depicts Corellia as a dirty and depressing planet, even if every other piece of the lore depicts it as a jewel among the Core Worlds. Jedi video game series introduces stim healing sticks, even if the lore and other video games before it have used bacta canisters (the game is otherwise excellent, though). Such carelessness gives me the feeling that either the creators do not really understand Star Wars or they don't care, because these kinds of changes to the lore have no particular functional relevance. You could have a healing bacta canister and call it bacta instead of stim, and it would work the same, but would better fit the lore.

Also, there is the disneytizing effect.
Every main character has to be an orphan. Check.
No violence, particularly not to any character with a human face. Check.
No questionable morals, not even in the criminal underworld. Check.
No personal incentive, that is, the main characters tend to be anti-heroes instead of heroes, which means that they are pulled into an adventure by an external force and they do their deeds rather as a result of an accident or a must, not as an act of their own choice with consequences. Check that too. 

[JohnTPT17]

25 minutes ago, Samppu said:

Every main character has to be an orphan. Check.

So's Anakin. And Leia and Luke lost their adopted families in their first movie.

Anywho, going back to bricks (as much as I do like these discussions, especially since they're staying civil) - I find it interesting that the Tanitive IV set has been on a pretty consistent sale at most places I've seen this holiday season - usually 20 percent off, but sometimes 30. I wonder if that set's actually underperforming what was expected, or maybe it's acting as a bit of a "loss leader" for Legos this holiday season? Or maybe it's just that a lot of sets seem to be on sale now? I dunno - I thought it was interesting, especially with as popular as it was when it first came out.