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

[CloneCommando99]

The 2nd Andor set is a Buildable K2S0. (From LMF)

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

I wanted a Tie Avenger or Tie Reaper!!!

 

(still sounds like a good choice for a Buildable figure though)

Edited December 15, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[Yperio_Bricks]

A 1000$ death star? More buildable characters? I hope Lego goes bankrupt!

[ArrowBricks]

40 minutes ago, Brickwraith said:

Love that we’re getting another MTT. I was a big fan of the last one and am absolutely open to getting another. Definitely personally hope it’s still a brown one and not clone wars colors. Just not a fan of the blue and grey myself. I honestly don’t get why people hate the last one so much though it’s a great model.

Surely it’s CIS blue, especially seeing the small CIS builds in the battle pack last Jan. 

[SketchBrick]

What are we at now for buildable figures next year? 4? 5? Absolutely insane.

[Flawless Cowboy]

Four buildable figures. A thousand dollar Death Star. A Star Wars logo. Wow. Lego really said F them kids. 

[Jockos]

12 minutes ago, Flawless Cowboy said:

Four buildable figures. A thousand dollar Death Star. A Star Wars logo. Wow. Lego really said F them kids. 

Well, most of the time, adults buy toys for their kids, so... they're easier to milk.

[AD_Bricks]

They must be delusional

[Llewop]

Whoever is buying these buildable figures needs to stop lol. Where have all the SW sets that are a reasonable price for kids gone? 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Nothing too exciting for me yet… The second Andor set being a buildable K2 is quite disappointing and I doubt they‘ll do anything interesting with the MTT minifig-wise, unless they include Boss Nass  The $999 DS sounds insane! This has to be spectacular at that price!

Fingers crossed for something more interesting with the remaining sets! After all, we were promised some sought-after minifigs ^^

[Flawless Cowboy]

TandN confirmed his “redwood” leak was referring to the Death Star II, not Endor. That’s…a bit of a stretch, as far as hints go. So no MBS next year. 

Edited December 15, 2024 by Flawless Cowboy

[TheScaryDoor]

53 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The 2nd Andor set is a Buildable K2S0. (From LMF)

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

I wanted a Tie Avenger or Tie Reaper!!!

 

(still sounds like a good choice for a Buildable figure though)

I can live with K2S0 and I think it is a good set-choice for a show which targeting adults. However I also could have lived quite well with the two Ties.

[BrickBob Studpants]

The MTT might actually be more interesting than I initially gave it credit for! @Lego_Minecraft_Goat posted a picture of the polybag of the blue TCW version!

[Max_Lego]

2 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The MTT might actually be more interesting than I initially gave it credit for! @Lego_Minecraft_Goat posted a picture of the polybag of the blue TCW version!

The new trend of TLG is to produce TCW-based sets, so I'm not surprised 

[Yperio_Bricks]

29 minutes ago, Llewop said:

Whoever is buying these buildable figures needs to stop lol.

These people ruin Lego Star Wars as we know it

[Flawless Cowboy]

3 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The MTT might actually be more interesting than I initially gave it credit for! @Lego_Minecraft_Goat posted a picture of the polybag of the blue TCW version!

It’ll be the 2014 model, but blue. Yay. 

[Brickwraith]

3 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The MTT might actually be more interesting than I initially gave it credit for! @Lego_Minecraft_Goat posted a picture of the polybag of the blue TCW version!

hopefully they’ll include a clone wars separatist general then. Wat tambor was commanding them in the one episode they were a focus in (ryloth). It’s absolutely a stretch but it would be awesome

[Rwbricks]

This Death Star is wild… I’m kind-of excited to see what it is and what it comes with. It’s twice the price of the last Death Star (not adjusted for inflation). That’s crazy. Half off is still $500. Double Insider points gets you $100. I feel like the new one will have to have an interior, to justify the price and the (hopefully somewhat reasonable) piece count. If there is no interior, it will have to be significantly bigger than the previous ones, but how big is too big? The proportions will have to be about equal in terms of height, width, and depth (minus a potential stand), and finding space for a giant ball would be tricky to say the least. 
 

In terms of minifigures, will it come with a lot, like the last two? Or will it just come with a few? Whoever it comes with, they better be fully decked out for $1,000. Not including C-3PO with the dual-molded leg would be a mistake, but finally getting Han with dual-molded boots but having him locked behind a $1,000 paywall or whatever absurd Bricklink prices would also be not ideal. Best case scenario, we get a microfighter in January. 

[Llewop]

12 minutes ago, Rwbricks said:

This Death Star is wild… I’m kind-of excited to see what it is and what it comes with. It’s twice the price of the last Death Star (not adjusted for inflation). That’s crazy. Half off is still $500. Double Insider points gets you $100. I feel like the new one will have to have an interior, to justify the price and the (hopefully somewhat reasonable) piece count. If there is no interior, it will have to be significantly bigger than the previous ones, but how big is too big? The proportions will have to be about equal in terms of height, width, and depth (minus a potential stand), and finding space for a giant ball would be tricky to say the least. 
 

In terms of minifigures, will it come with a lot, like the last two? Or will it just come with a few? Whoever it comes with, they better be fully decked out for $1,000. Not including C-3PO with the dual-molded leg would be a mistake, but finally getting Han with dual-molded boots but having him locked behind a $1,000 paywall or whatever absurd Bricklink prices would also be not ideal. Best case scenario, we get a microfighter in January. 

I think it’s based on Death Star II so I’m doubting that it’s going to have an interior at all tbh.

the guy who hinted at it was referring to Ep 6 we all thought was Endor rather than a Death Star. If it was going to be a remake of the Death Star with minfigures I think the hints would have been more Death Star focused rather than Endor focused. 

got like 10 months until we find out so time will tell 

 

19 minutes ago, Brickwraith said:

hopefully they’ll include a clone wars separatist general then. Wat tambor was commanding them in the one episode they were a focus in (ryloth). It’s absolutely a stretch but it would be awesome

If it is a separatist one I do hope for some droids that aren’t just B1s be great to have a tactical droid or droideka. Chances are there will be a clone and a Jedi for it to go up against (as these sets 90% time have someone from another faction to go up against) we can start betting on who that would be because I don’t have a scooby who they’d choose

[mirkwoodspiders]

10143 DS II was 3,449 pieces and retailed for $270. Adjusting for inflation, that price would be $436.17 today. This is going to be massive.

Are we assuming its another DSII? I know that's what the leak pictures all have but none of them actually say this will be the unfinished version. Regardless, it'll have to blow people away to get any takers and I'm having trouble envisioning what that would even involve. Excited to see it at least!

[Llewop]

23 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

These people ruin Lego Star Wars as we know it

Just excessive, Grogu and pram, chopper, Ewok, K2S0 in one year as well as R2, Chewbacca and C3P0 on the shelves still from previous years I know they might have retired from Lego but most other retailers will still have them in stock for ages they are always on sale. I’d be curious to see the numbers on sales of these sets. Somehow the buildable figures must be outselling smaller sets and making them more profit I can’t see how else they keep making them 

[hikouki]

For the price of that Deathstar, is it going to be able to travel across the galaxy and shoot its signature Laser beam to destroy a rebel planet?

[Flawless Cowboy]

I don’t see how a $1000 DSII would be more desirable than a $500 DSII if the only thing offered is the structure, no interior. LSW is more than capable in 2025 to take the 2005 version’s scale and make it beautiful. There must be more to this than just a giant, incomplete grey sphere. 

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Slightly less than over 50%

Exactly half?

2 hours ago, wicket said:

$150 MTT coming next summer.. the 2014 version cost $90—equivalent to around $120 today after accounting for inflation

So that’s a $30 increase... Considering the ongoing trend of downsizing sets and crazy pricing we've seen recently (e.g. Ahsoka's Jedi Interceptor, ARC-170, Acclamator etc.), I guess it’ll be a similar size to the 2014 set. It’s hard to imagine it being any smaller... but everything is possible nowadays so we shouldn't keep our hopes up 

Yeah- lego's had some tough trends recently but just on pure inflation+lego price inceases/downsizing, this should end up at the very least the same size as the 2014 one, if not larger.

2 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

What is an appropriate amount of minifigures for a $1000 Death Star?  40?  We may be getting that conference room after all.

The Avengers Tower has 28 minifigures and a Hulk, so I'd say a $1000 death star should have ~60 minifigures. 9 of them should be stormtroopers lol.

1 hour ago, Jockos said:

Well, most of the time, adults buy toys for their kids, so... they're easier to milk.

Sure, but it's not like most parents are looking through the lens of what they would currently want when buying for their kids- I doubt most of them are sitting there going "well, this is siginificantly more expensive than most of the playsets, but it's got no play features and has no minifigures, so I bet my 7 year old's gonna love it!"

The market for all these are the adults who AREN'T buying for their kids, but for themselves. And people who aren't typically lego fans, either. The goal for a lot of these is to be sort of transitional sets that get adults who wouldn't otherwise buy lego sets to buy them, but there's so many now that there's not much room for the actual standard sets.

34 minutes ago, Flawless Cowboy said:

TandN confirmed his “redwood” leak was referring to the Death Star II, not Endor. That’s…a bit of a stretch, as far as hints go. So no MBS next year. 

Yeah.... he's usually got good stuff but that one doesn't check out to me.

[CloneCommando99]

8 minutes ago, Llewop said:

Just excessive, Grogu and pram, chopper, Ewok, K2S0 in one year as well as R2, Chewbacca and C3P0 on the shelves still from previous years I know they might have retired from Lego but most other retailers will still have them in stock for ages they are always on sale. I’d be curious to see the numbers on sales of these sets. Somehow the buildable figures must be outselling smaller sets and making them more profit I can’t see how else they keep making them 

It might be due to less licensing costs. Buildable characters might only require the licensing cost for one character/ actor.

Whilst a playset with multiple figures would require the licensing costs for the vehicle/ location, multiple characters and actors.

Therefore Buildable characters might be cheaper to make. That may be why Lego is making more of them. (We know they cut costs where they can)

 

 

U-Wing is easily my most hyped set for next year. I guess Buildable K2S0 also confirms that K2 will be in the U-Wing so that’s a silver lining.

[Mandalorianknight]

Honestly if they can make it a true line flagship, I'm not opposed to the idea. It's one set. When I was a kid, I never expected I'd own the $500 death star, but it was a cool thing to know existed. That doesn't bother me all that much. The buildables are a much larger issue because they aren't taking the slot of a single UCS/MBS set most kids wouldn't be able to get anyway. They're taking slots we used to get normal sets for.