LEGO Star Wars 2010 Pictures and Rumors

[CloneCommanderDelta7]

Who made the movie? Lego may have authorized it but in the end the screen artists who made the movie would be the ones who decided the final result of the character visual detailings. And Jaingo's Slave 1 would be the prime pick as Jaingo himself would sell like wildfire. And there may have been many details which may not be in the sets at all. Just talking as the head of the opposition, somebody has to do it.

[Legoman]

Who made the movie? Lego may have authorized it but in the end the screen artists who made the movie would be the ones who decided the final result of the character visual detailings. And Jaingo's Slave 1 would be the prime pick as Jaingo himself would sell like wildfire. And there may have been many details which may not be in the sets at all. Just talking as the head of the opposition, somebody has to do it.

I agree. some of you guys are taking this movie way to seriously.

Lego makes this kinda stuff all the time. Just because something is in a movie by lego, doesn't give any reason to think it'll be a set. The only thing i thing may have some truth to it is that new grevious fig, but other than that, "Tell 'em they're dreaming"

[ADHO15]

The second one appears to be a white-head and in front of the middle cockpit. You know, the one between the first and the last? If we do get a green astro droid though, it will be different from the one from the Radiant VII. It seems this droid has an all green head, which works well because all of the new astro droids have one color heads, R2, for example.

You mean where they put the bomb chute in the last one? I doubt the ship'd need two astromech droids. That wouldn't be canon. We might see a similar sort of play function in this newer version.

The new astromech is bound to have a similar design to the new R2, anyway. The one with an all grey head, only this may be all green.

I agree. some of you guys are taking this movie way to seriously.

Lego makes this kinda stuff all the time. Just because something is in a movie by lego, doesn't give any reason to think it'll be a set.

But when we've already heard of these sets as rumours, and then we see they have new designs in the video, why shouldn't they be new sets?

[Penitent Tangent]

I agree. some of you guys are taking this movie way to seriously.

Lego makes this kinda stuff all the time. Just because something is in a movie by lego, doesn't give any reason to think it'll be a set. The only thing i thing may have some truth to it is that new grevious fig, but other than that, "Tell 'em they're dreaming"

I disagree. There's a whole topic about it, so I don't see why we're back to discussing it here, but the whole thing was basically a massive toy ad, it was there to promote the new sets. When they already have things like a Grievous minifig, an ARC fighter and a Han in carbonite, why would they go to the trouble of designing new ones, when they could simply use the old ones? Look at the Lego videogames, and all the previous comics, etc that have used the Lego.. They always go with actual minifigs/sets, except when they don't exist.

I do agree that the Han is a bit of a stretch, but considering we know there's a Slave 1 coming next year.. It kind of fits doesn't it? And what about the Malevolence towards the end, that was a blatent hint towards a new set, not just something they threw in randomly.

Obviously they were mostly trying to promote the current sets, but I do think they were throwing us little hints.

And yes, I study marketing.

Edited August 31, 2009 by Penitent Tangent

[Darth Legolas]

How long ago was the last Boba's Slave I? They can't be remaking it this soon. Jango, on the other hand, hasn't had a set since 2002.

I like how we already confirmed it was Boba Slave I anyway.... No point in arguing now.

I agree. some of you guys are taking this movie way to seriously.

Lego makes this kinda stuff all the time. Just because something is in a movie by lego, doesn't give any reason to think it'll be a set. The only thing i thing may have some truth to it is that new grevious fig, but other than that, "Tell 'em they're dreaming"

Explain the new ARC-170 then! Tell it to my face!

You mean where they put the bomb chute in the last one? I doubt the ship'd need two astromech droids. That wouldn't be canon. We might see a similar sort of play function in this newer version.

The new astromech is bound to have a similar design to the new R2, anyway. The one with an all grey head, only this may be all green.

I sorta just said that, but okay! I completely forgot there was a bomb chute in the old one, it's been broken so long... So I guess a new play function is in order. I have no idea what that white head is. I know for sure it's not another astro droid because that wouldn't exactly make sense... Maybe it's just an illusion, again it could simply be the angle.

The one thing we have to remember is that this whole movie is more than an ad, it's also a jokey ad, made simply and obviously to confuse millions of AFOLs. Notice that the pillar holding up the cielingin the pic of the ARC-170 is actually a Sith Lightsaber hilt and bar?

Now, to wrap up this gigantic post, here is a quote from yours truly:

Where're my $%&*$@ing pictures? But really, can I bring up the discussion that I've studied these pictures every year for 3 years in a row, and this is the only year they haven't come on the Thursday or Wednesday of last week?

Edited August 31, 2009 by Darth Legolas

[ADHO15]

I disagree. There's a whole topic about it, so I don't see why we're back to discussing it here, but the whole thing was basically a massive toy ad, it was there to promote the new sets.

We're not back to discussing it here, we never stopped.

We're discussing it here because this is the 2010 Picture and Rumour thread. We have pictures and rumours so I don't see what's wrong with discussing it here. Here we're talking about new sets that could come from or could have been seen in this video. In the 'Quest for R2' thread, there's a discussion about it, what people thought of it, what jokes you could see, etc.

As long as we keep those separate, we're doing exactly what we're supposed to do here. If you want the thread to be dead until we have solid facts, then don't read all this. Simple as.

I sorta just said that, but okay! I completely forgot there was a bomb chute in the old one, it's been broken so long... So I guess a new play function is in order.

I can agree, can't I?

I didn't think there was anything wrong with the bomb function. It's not a ship that could fit much else in, so they may not design a new one. I would have thought they'd try to make it a bit more different than the last one.

[-JD-]

You mean where they put the bomb chute in the last one? I doubt the ship'd need two astromech droids. That wouldn't be canon. We might see a similar sort of play function in this newer version.

The new astromech is bound to have a similar design to the new R2, anyway. The one with an all grey head, only this may be all green.

Hmm. I remebered the bomb shute, but are all the events in the CW cannon? Maybe they redesign it before the BOC. We need a comparison picture...

Perhaps instead it is LEGO's way of joining the two cockpits?

[ADHO15]

Hmm. I remebered the bomb shute, but are all the events in the CW cannon? Maybe they redesign it before the BOC.

Perhaps instead it is LEGO's way of joining the two cockpits?

Not all, but the movies are taken as canon, along with all the designs and models created for the movies. In these final designs, there's only one astromech droid, so a second would be very unlikely and pretty useless for the ship.

There's no mention of any redesigns like that.

Even the bomb chute isn't canon, but it adds to playability. A second astromech wouldn't really do that.

How do you mean?

[trooper 278]

Well about the functions of ARC 170 I have found pictures with something like green missiles ( sorry I can´t get better pic ) or what do you think it is??

[ADHO15]

Well about the functions of ARC 170 I have found pictures with something like green missiles ( sorry I can´t get better pic ) or what do you think it is??

Well, it's not unlike TLG to load it up with flick-fire missiles and bombs. They might be bombs to drop out of the bottom, but I bet we'll see some flickies on it somewhere. Maybe the wing guns will be flick-fire like on the NR-N99 or AAT.

Good spot.

[-JD-]

How do you mean?

Well, in the picture I provided there is a much steeper slope up to the second cockpit, unlike the LEGO 2005 vesion.

[ADHO15]

Well, in the picture I provided there is a much steeper slope up to the second cockpit, unlike the LEGO 2005 vesion.

Well, it doesn't look like that's how it'll be on this one either. It looks like there's a whole for bombs again and/or to allow the cockpit to tilt upwards.

We'll have to wait and see about that.

[Klaus-Dieter]

Thank you very much for this news, Penitent Tangent, NavyTrooperFenson and rockinkurt13!

Only one week away on holiday and there is so much news here!

An additional comment to the Landspeeder:

I really hope that the information that it will include Luke, Ben, C-3PO, R2-D2 and a Sandtrooper is wrong!

This minifigure combination would imo be really bad since:

1. R2-D2 and C-3PO are not absolutely necessary in this set - they only increase the set price

2. only one Sandtrooper does make absolutely no sense - for the control scene there at least have to be two - and then this could even be enlarged to get the whole Mos Eisley Cantina scenery with Greedo and Han (like in 2004)

3. this minifigure list would mean that we won't get Tusken Raiders and a Bantha - which would fit much better and are much more necessary.

Klaus-Dieter

[Commander Assassin]

An additional comment to the Landspeeder:

I really hope that the information that it will include Luke, Ben, C-3PO, R2-D2 and a Sandtrooper is wrong!

This minifigure combination would imo be really bad since:

1. R2-D2 and C-3PO are not absolutely necessary in this set - they only increase the set price

2. only one Sandtrooper does make absolutely no sense - for the control scene there at least have to be two - and then this could even be enlarged to get the whole Mos Eisley Cantina scenery with Greedo and Han (like in 2004)

3. this minifigure list would mean that we won't get Tusken Raiders and a Bantha - which would fit much better and are much more necessary.

Klaus-Dieter

I like the minifig list. We will finally get the new R2 in a cheap set! Also, since the set will most likely include a sandtrooper, it is possible we will get a dewback!

Also, TLG might be nice and add a rebreather to the back of the sandtrooper.

[Klaus-Dieter]

To the second wave of sets:

The Promo Speeder sounds like a regular Speeder Bike with Scout Trooper. This would be a very neat set and a great possibility to get some cheap additional speeder bikes for the Battle of Endor diorama.

It's great to read that we'll get a Wampa Attack - after a very long time of waiting this means surely a Wampa and a Hoth Luke minifigure! The cave of the Wampa and some skeletton pieces surely will be included, too. But I don't think that there'll be another Tauntaun included since I think that it will be around 27 Euros (like this year's Echo Base).

A new Slave 1 is really welcome since I sold the oldest version (didn't like it any more since it got too small and simple in comparison to all the other new sets of the last years) and regrettably - or now supposably luckily - did miss the version from 2006.

I'm a bit sceptical about the minifigure constellation: Some months ago someone mentioned that it might well be that we'll be getting a Cloud City as the exclusive OT set next year (which I could well imagine, too). But then this minifigure constellation would make no sense since - apart from Chewy and Bossk - all the minifigs have to be included in the Cloud City set anyway and I can't imagine that TLG will release exactly four similar minifigs in two sets. Plus - if the Slave 1 was 70 Euors (like the last version) - six minifigures are too much for a set of this price. On the other hand it could even be 100 Euros and then TLG has to justify this price not only with a more realistic looking and bigger version of the Slave 1 but even with more minifigs and with at least one new minifig.

Btw: It's really a shame that TLG did release Palpatine's Shuttle and not the Imperial Shuttle of the OT. Perhaps in 2011 - but I highly doubt that.

Klaus-Dieter

[Darth Legolas]

Well, it's not unlike TLG to load it up with flick-fire missiles and bombs. They might be bombs to drop out of the bottom, but I bet we'll see some flickies on it somewhere. Maybe the wing guns will be flick-fire like on the NR-N99 or AAT.

Good spot.

Oh definitely. There are two guns on on the wings, no doubt one of them will be fixed and the other flick-fire as always. It's a good way to collect flick-fire backs, because who in the world would launch there gun at someone? I just mod them and take em' off.

I like the minifig list. We will finally get the new R2 in a cheap set! Also, since the set will most likely include a sandtrooper, it is possible we will get a dewback!

Also, TLG might be nice and add a rebreather to the back of the sandtrooper.

You hope waaay to much. I think the re-breather is simply a given, because if it's something so easy to build, why not put one in. A Dewback...well, we'll see.

[ILikePi]

The Promo Speeder sounds like a regular Speeder Bike with Scout Trooper. This would be a very neat set and a great possibility to get some cheap additional speeder bikes for the Battle of Endor diorama.

Actually, Navy Trooper Fenson posted that it might look like this:

Here a picture of how it is supposed to look like. It´s not an offical photograph from LEGO, just build around his memories.

[Klaus-Dieter]

You might be right, ILikePi. But:

1. I don't want to make someone implausible and surely even not angry - but ow sure can you be that his friend has such a good memory and is familiar with SW so he knows the vehicles?

2. I haven't heard, read and seen yet anything similar to the speeder bike but which looks nevertheless different. Have you? I can't remember TLG has been releasing any SW vehicle - even not as promo - which doesn't exist in the movies.

Apart from that you can't know whether this info is right or wrong anyway. It sounds a bit unrealistic to me that you get a small promo set - even with a minifig included - already when you buy something for "only" 20 Euros.

Klaus-Dieter

[ADHO15]

2. only one Sandtrooper does make absolutely no sense - for the control scene there at least have to be two - and then this could even be enlarged to get the whole Mos Eisley Cantina scenery with Greedo and Han (like in 2004)

3. this minifigure list would mean that we won't get Tusken Raiders and a Bantha - which would fit much better and are much more necessary.

I like the minifig list. We will finally get the new R2 in a cheap set! Also, since the set will most likely include a sandtrooper, it is possible we will get a dewback!

Also, TLG might be nice and add a rebreather to the back of the sandtrooper.

Adding things like a dewback and cantina would make it just a re-release of the Mos Eisley Cantina set, which would be useless to many fans like me. Like Klaus-Dieter, I think a bantha and some Tuskens would be a much better idea. It might keep those rather loud Tusken-lovers happy too.

It's great to read that we'll get a Wampa Attack - after a very long time of waiting this means surely a Wampa and a Hoth Luke minifigure! The cave of the Wampa and some skeletton pieces surely will be included, too. But I don't think that there'll be another Tauntaun included since I think that it will be around 27 Euros (like this year's Echo Base).

It's called 'Wampa Attack', so it might be based on the Wampa's attack, ie. Luke on his tauntaun and the Wampa. Who knows?

Oh definitely. There are two guns on on the wings, no doubt one of them will be fixed and the other flick-fire as always. It's a good way to collect flick-fire backs, because who in the world would launch there gun at someone? I just mod them and take em' off.

You hope waaay to much. I think the re-breather is simply a given, because if it's something so easy to build, why not put one in. A Dewback...well, we'll see.

I don't bother modding them. Just because they're flickies, doesn't mean you have to flick them. They look good enough as guns.

It might be an attempt to do what people do when they run out of ammo: throw your gun at them and run.

I agree that the sandtrooper will have a backpack, as that and the pauldron are the only ways most people can tell them apart.

[Commander Assassin]

You hope waaay to much.

I do?

I think the re-breather is simply a given, because if it's something so easy to build, why not put one in. A Dewback...well, we'll see.

I think it's a given we will get the new R2 (the one with the grey dome). I do know I can only hope for a dewback.

Edited August 31, 2009 by Clone Commander Assassin

[skelltor]

what is that green set that kit is looking at around 4:49 of the quest for r2d2

[Commander Assassin]

It looks to be the Sepratist Shuttle.

[Darth Legolas]

Adding things like a dewback and cantina would make it just a re-release of the Mos Eisley Cantina set, which would be useless to many fans like me. Like Klaus-Dieter, I think a bantha and some Tuskens would be a much better idea. It might keep those rather loud Tusken-lovers happy too.

It's called 'Wampa Attack', so it might be based on the Wampa's attack, ie. Luke on his tauntaun and the Wampa. Who knows?

I don't bother modding them. Just because they're flickies, doesn't mean you have to flick them. They look good enough as guns.

It might be an attempt to do what people do when they run out of ammo: throw your gun at them and run.

I agree that the sandtrooper will have a backpack, as that and the pauldron are the only ways most people can tell them apart.

Undoubtedly R2 will be new, and the backpack too. We better have a Pauldron, but I don't know. Also, it's very true that Wampa attack could be the Wampa attacking, and not Luke fleeing from the Wampa cave.

what is that green set that kit is looking at around 4:49 of the quest for r2d2

That's just a Separatist Shuttle.

[ADHO15]

Also, it's very true that Wampa attack could be the Wampa attacking, and not Luke fleeing from the Wampa cave.

It would be a lot less money and effort on LEGO's part to just release that and not have to design a cave. A set with a Hoth Luke, a wampa and a tauntaun; it'll easily anyway, cave or not.

[KonguChan]

Malevolence is f***ing good