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

[BrickBob Studpants]

9 minutes ago, Meaf said:

And in fairness, I guess Star Wars as a theme has been somewhat stingy with the minifigures for a while now (or maybe they always were and I just didn't notice as a kid).

Compared to other themes, I think SW has always been rather stingy with the number of minifigs, BPs notwithstanding

[CallumPears]

6 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Compared to other themes, I think SW has always been rather stingy with the number of minifigs, BPs notwithstanding

Yeah it always has been a bit (it used to be the norm that a starfighter included just the pilot, except Jedi ones which also had the astromech and a few Rebel ones which had the astromech plus a little ground crew build if you're lucky) but the lack of battle packs and other small sets nowadays is making it a lot more poignant. And we now have other licensed themes like Harry Potter to compare to. 

I'm also still not over Jabba's Sail Barge having half as many figures as we got in the Cantina, and the Cantina itself would probably have more figures if it was, say, a Marvel set.

[Darth_Bane13]

1 hour ago, CallumPears said:

I'm also still not over Jabba's Sail Barge having half as many figures as we got in the Cantina, and the Cantina itself would probably have more figures if it was, say, a Marvel set.

I think the cantina had a good amount of figures but some of the figures could've used dual molding and arm printing like the cloud city figures.

[Llewop]

Unrelated I know, does anyone know when Lego announce what Black Friday sales they are doing? 

[Lego Nostalgia]

55 minutes ago, Llewop said:

Unrelated I know, does anyone know when Lego announce what Black Friday sales they are doing? 

just go on reddit, there's a list of what's happening, some promos and x2 points

On 11/14/2024 at 5:21 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Compared to other themes, I think SW has always been rather stingy with the number of minifigs, BPs notwithstanding

I think it's more of a recent thing they started being stingy, maybe from 2019 we keep getting less and less, older sets had more figures, 4 clones in a big set, now all we get is 2

[JohnTPT17]

13 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

just go on reddit, there's a list of what's happening, some promos and x2 points

There are some promos listed, but they haven't leaked/announced which sets will be going on sale yet.

Last year, the list leaked on Tuesday the 21st - three days before Black Friday. If this year is like that, then we may not know which specific sets are on sale until the 26th (Thanksgiving/Black Friday are late this year). 

[CallumPears]

18 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I think the cantina had a good amount of figures but some of the figures could've used dual molding and arm printing like the cloud city figures.

Yeah but still twice as many as the Barge, which also doesn't have any arm prints, has many figures without leg prints, and the only one with dual-moulding made it kind of a downgrade in some aspects.

Edited November 15, 2024 by CallumPears

[Alexandrina]

42 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I think it's more of a recent thing they started being stingy, maybe from 2019 we keep getting less and less, older sets had more figures, 4 clones in a big set, now all we get is 2

I don't know if they got more generous in the mid-2010s, but they were very stingy with most sets in the mid-late 2000s (battlepacks and expensive sets aside). A lot of the sets on the shelves when I was getting into Star Wars Lego were £40 or £50 for either one minifigure or if you were lucky two copies of a generic minifigure

[R0Sch]

They really made the whole thing supported on one single off-center Technic pin. Pretty sure this is "stressing the elements".

P.S. I updated my Studio model: Gasganos_podracer.io
Partlist available on rebrickable here, total cost on PaB 21€

Edited November 15, 2024 by R0Sch
added links

[ToaDraco]

22 hours ago, R0Sch said:

They really made the whole thing supported on one single off-center Technic pin. Pretty sure this is "stressing the elements".

P.S. I updated my Studio model: Gasganos_podracer.io
Partlist available on rebrickable here, total cost on PaB 21€

Excellent, thank you! Gasgano's Podracer was always my favorite but I wasn't able to get the promo while it was available. 

Edited November 16, 2024 by ToaDraco

[CloneCommando99]

Do we reckon that the U-Wing will have a single pilot’s seat or double?

 

January leaks should be any day now. The amount of leaks other themes are receiving is getting rather agitating.

Edited November 17, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[BrickBob Studpants]

13 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

January leaks should be any day now. The amount of leaks other themes are receiving is getting rather agitating.

Poor Jurassic World doesn‘t even have set names yet, so it could be worse

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Do we reckon that the U-Wing will have a single pilot’s seat or double?

 

January leaks should be any day now. The amount of leaks other themes are receiving is getting rather agitating.

Single, for sure. The 2016 one had a single seater and this one's cheaper even before inflation, isn't it?

 

I feel like we usually get the star wars leaks around Thanksgiving/end of november, so we might have another few weeks to wait.

58 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Poor Jurassic World doesn‘t even have set names yet, so it could be worse

That's crazy-  I can't think of any other times a full theme didn't even have set NAMES this close to release.

[Lego Nostalgia]

22 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Poor Jurassic World doesn‘t even have set names yet, so it could be worse

Sometimes I forget that theme still exists 

23 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Do we reckon that the U-Wing will have a single pilot’s seat or double?

 

January leaks should be any day now. The amount of leaks other themes are receiving is getting rather agitating.

Most likely single, ships nowadays are downsized but prices go up and up

[CloneCommando99]

If we do get Dedra Meero in the U-Wing. Would you prefer the overcoat or just normal officer uniform?

[SnoopBobbyBob]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

If we do get Dedra Meero in the U-Wing. Would you prefer the overcoat or just normal officer uniform?

Normal officer uniform for sure, would love to have a Dedra minifigure next to Yularen, Krennic and Thrawn. Also feel like the regular uniform makes more sense but guess it depends on what she's wearing in season 2 during the scene the U-Wing is from. 

[Mandalorianknight]

47 minutes ago, SnoopBobbyBob said:

Normal officer uniform for sure, would love to have a Dedra minifigure next to Yularen, Krennic and Thrawn. Also feel like the regular uniform makes more sense but guess it depends on what she's wearing in season 2 during the scene the U-Wing is from. 

Remember that we don't know if Dedra's in the set or not, so it's entirely possible that she is but never interacts with the U-wing in the show (Or just isn't in the set)

[ToaDraco]

On 11/17/2024 at 12:46 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Poor Jurassic World doesn‘t even have set names yet, so it could be worse

I'm pretty sure the new JW sets are supposed to be based on the new movie so it makes sense that we wouldn't have any set names. 

The RotS sets are the ones I'm looking forward to most, especially the ARC-170. I hope this new one feels more solid and doesn't have an issue with the wings bowing like the previous ones. One plate of thickness simply doesn't withold the length and weight of the wings. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

12 minutes ago, ToaDraco said:

I'm pretty sure the new JW sets are supposed to be based on the new movie so it makes sense that we wouldn't have any set names. 

I‘m talking about the two sets scheduled for January, not the movie tie-in wave which will likely launch around May

13 minutes ago, ToaDraco said:

I hope this new one feels more solid and doesn't have an issue with the wings bowing like the previous ones. One plate of thickness simply doesn't withold the length and weight of the wings. 

Exactly! Both versions had the exact same issue. Since the new one will be quite a bit smaller presumably, this should no longer be a concern!

[CallumPears]

19 hours ago, SnoopBobbyBob said:

Normal officer uniform for sure, would love to have a Dedra minifigure next to Yularen, Krennic and Thrawn. Also feel like the regular uniform makes more sense but guess it depends on what she's wearing in season 2 during the scene the U-Wing is from. 

I want the normal officer uniform too, and I also really hope they don't go overboard with putting feminine features on as that'd make it less reusable. 

[Swordy]

Not to be the little dark rain cloud, but is anyone else feeling apathetic about the news so far? Most of the sets are overpriced or just don’t excite me. ARC-170 comes closest, and it’s only three clone pilots being included, nobody like Kit Fisto. U-Wing seems undersized, and not much is known about the figures. Plo Koon’s starfighter seems promising.

At least last year we had news of the Captain Rex microfighter, Moff Gideon V. Paz Vizsla, Tantive IV hallway, plus the 25th Anniversary figures. Even now, I’m more pumped about LEGO Marvel’s 1HY than LSW’s first waves of 2025.

[Kaijumeister]

1 hour ago, Swordy said:

Not to be the little dark rain cloud, but is anyone else feeling apathetic about the news so far? Most of the sets are overpriced or just don’t excite me. ARC-170 comes closest, and it’s only three clone pilots being included, nobody like Kit Fisto. U-Wing seems undersized, and not much is known about the figures. Plo Koon’s starfighter seems promising.

At least last year we had news of the Captain Rex microfighter, Moff Gideon V. Paz Vizsla, Tantive IV hallway, plus the 25th Anniversary figures. Even now, I’m more pumped about LEGO Marvel’s 1HY than LSW’s first waves of 2025.

Yeah I definitely feel the same way, but bear in mind the timing of the 2024 summer set list was definitely an aberration - we don’t usually receive news on those so early. For 2021/2/3 I remember we only got details of the summer wave after January / February.

I suspect the dominance of buildables will be lessened somewhat after June, and that’s when we’ll start to see more sets that are actually interesting. As things stand, the fact that we only know of Ahsoka’s Eta-2, ARC-170, Plo’s Delta-7, and U-Wing (and I suppose the Night Trooper BP?) so far isn’t really enough to generate that much excitement anyway - but it’s a decent start. Funny to think that before 2021, those 5 sets would have made for a January wave in themselves. 

 

Edited November 19, 2024 by Kaijumeister

[THELEGOBATMAN]

On 11/18/2024 at 8:24 PM, CloneCommando99 said:

If we do get Dedra Meero in the U-Wing. Would you prefer the overcoat or just normal officer uniform?

My wife is beautiful in everything, so whatever she's comfortable with. 

(Unless the overcoat includes the hat, because that way it'll be just another awkward bald minifigure with a hat. LEGO really needs to start making more hat-hair combo moulds.)

[CloneCommando99]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

(Unless the overcoat includes the hat, because that way it'll be just another awkward bald minifigure with a hat. LEGO really needs to start making more hat-hair combo moulds.)

Agreed. I hope they introduce that soon. Sloane should have gotten it. Or at least used her Grand Admiral outfit.

 

What three themes are you guys looking for most in SW sets next year? (Things you’d prioritise buying)

For me it’s: Empire, Andor and Clone Wars.

And that’s factoring in the no possibility of a Legends set.

Edited November 19, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[Alexandrina]

21 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

What three themes are you guys looking for most in SW sets next year? (Things you’d prioritise buying)

For me it’s: Empire, Andor and Clone Wars.

And that’s factoring in the no possibility of a Legends set.

Based purely on wants not what's rumoured: Andor, Sequel Trilogy, OT. I don't really have any interest in Clone Wars sets or anything from animated properties, and probably wouldn't buy them.

Unless it's got Kit Fisto in it. Then I'd be buying day one.