Star Wars 2016

[Lordoflego]

Rogue one minifigs

http://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-star-wars-rogue-one-official-minifigures-revealed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegoEverlasting-LegoReviewsNews+%28The+Brick+Fan+-+LEGO+Reviews+%26+News%29

Edited April 14, 2016 by Lordoflego

[zskid00]

They look terribly bland for the Star Wars universe, but I guess that's accurate to the source material.

[thoroakenfelder]

I was thinking today of the absolute certainty that has gripped many people that LEGO would never put out 3 X-Wings at the same time. It suddenly made me wonder where this certainty came from. Just because they haven't doesn't mean they won't.

Look at Super Heroes, in Marvel, there's 2 fairly similar Quinjets and an Avenjet. In DC there's 3 sets with a batmobile in it. That's 6 current sets with 2 vehicles in different versions. Sure, there's not a ton of different things that they are willing to do for super heroes, but if that doesn't prove that they'd be more than willing to triple dip on a licensed theme, I don't know what might persuade you.

 

[fossilrock]

I'm actually pretty hyped for Rogue One, especially after seeing the trailer.  I'm positive after seeing the Force Awakens on opening day, and from what i'm seeing for Rogue One and for Ep 8, that we are back in a golden age reminiscent of that time when I was a kid during the late 70's - early 80's.  Sure the movies have some flaws, but they are fun again, and it's hard to whip rotten tomatoes at these, because Disney seems to be doing the series a little justice now, and I don't think i'd have ever felt that would happen when they bought out Lucas. I find myself devouring star wars information as it comes out.  

Those minifigs look great by the way.  To me the revealing of those 5 sets is all I care about from Lego at this point.  I'll probably buy every one.   

[Alpinemaps]

1 hour ago, fossilrock said:

Those minifigs look great by the way.  To me the revealing of those 5 sets is all I care about from Lego at this point.  I'll probably buy every one.   

Be careful....I said that about the TFA sets, and to this day, I only own 3 of them.  Although I will pick up the 2nd X-Wing.

[fossilrock]

10 hours ago, Alpinemaps said:

Be careful....I said that about the TFA sets, and to this day, I only own 3 of them.  Although I will pick up the 2nd X-Wing.

I ended up getting the entire first wave by christmas, although, still haven't opened or built the Snowspeeder, or Poe's X-wing, and i'm not sure we will.  There were just too many deals.  With this upcoming wave, im sure i'll buy up a few on opening day, at least the more interesting ones.

I just have a feeling this wave is going to be the highlight of the year, in terms of lego sets.  I also suspect many of the sets will have a newness to them, unlike the majority of the Force Awakens sets.  I'm sure all the mini's shown here will be scattered across those 5 sets. 

It's just right now, i'm in a lull with lego purchases.  I have no more interest in stocking up on anymore jurassic world, scooby doo, or architecture.  While, i'd like a few more creator sets, they can wait until later in the year.  And I have little interest in many of the new lines.  That leaves Rogue One sets.  But there is still 5 more months before they come out, so it will be a bit.

[Val-E]

On 12/4/2016 at 6:39 PM, inversion said:

There have been stinkers since the inception of LEGO SW. We just don't remember them, but if you look back, there are quite a few to be honest. That's why they are not remembered.

Usually the item title contains the words JABBA, EWOK, DROID, BATTLE, ATTACK, TROOP or  " < X" WING.

Edited April 15, 2016 by Val-E

[exciter1]

Force Friday (9/30/16) news is starting to hit.  Here is the rumored 6" Black Series assortment.  "Rogue One" will be prominent in this promotion, so I expect to hear some LEGO news soon.

The figures will be (via Jedi News),

• Rey / BB-8 (Re-Pack) 
• Kylo Ren (new mould)
• Rogue One: Jyn Erso
• Rogue One: Stormtrooper
• Medical Droid (could be the Alan Tudyk motion cap character)
• Rogue One: "Seal Team Male" - Forest Whitaker's character. 

[zskid00]

50 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

• Rogue One: Stormtrooper

If it's the standard issue Stormtrooper I'm glad I've been selling all of mine that were $10 from the late 2014 Hasbro Toy Shop clearance.  I've been able to double my money selling them on Amazon FBM.  Not nearly as good as Boba Fett but it seems like the Chinese bootlegs are keeping prices down.

[exciter1]

3 minutes ago, zskid00 said:

If it's the standard issue Stormtrooper I'm glad I've been selling all of mine that were $10 from the late 2014 Hasbro Toy Shop clearance.  I've been able to double my money selling them on Amazon FBM.  Not nearly as good as Boba Fett but it seems like the Chinese bootlegs are keeping prices down.

Those bootlegs are really irritating the market right now.

[zskid00]

Just now, exciter1 said:

Those bootlegs are really irritating the market right now.

No doubt!  I sold all of my Boba Fett's last year along with the select few wave 1 figures I had.  I sold my Bespin Luke FBM a couple weeks ago for a nice price.  The Han/Greedo 2-pack is doing alright along with the Han/Tauntaun if you picked them up on clearance.  I have a Jedi Luke, Yoda, and a couple OT Hans that I'm thinking of selling soon with all the bootlegs hitting the market.

[exciter1]

14 minutes ago, zskid00 said:

No doubt!  I sold all of my Boba Fett's last year along with the select few wave 1 figures I had.  I sold my Bespin Luke FBM a couple weeks ago for a nice price.  The Han/Greedo 2-pack is doing alright along with the Han/Tauntaun if you picked them up on clearance.  I have a Jedi Luke, Yoda, and a couple OT Hans that I'm thinking of selling soon with all the bootlegs hitting the market.

I found some more Boba Fett's buried in my collection I must have picked up in the wild.  Luckily, I sold my large stash from the blowout during the holidays. Not sure what I'm going to do with those yet.  I still have my concept Boba Fett's stashed away, so it might be time to offload them.  I did pick-up several Han & Tauntaun from Gamestop when they were clearancing those.

[fossilrock]

On April 16, 2016 at 11:18 AM, zskid00 said:

If it's the standard issue Stormtrooper I'm glad I've been selling all of mine that were $10 from the late 2014 Hasbro Toy Shop clearance.  I've been able to double my money selling them on Amazon FBM.  Not nearly as good as Boba Fett but it seems like the Chinese bootlegs are keeping prices down.

I think the "stormtrooper" is actually the Deathtrooper, which is Vaders special forces group of Stormtroopers.  That figure will be given out at the SDCC in July, as well.   

I saw another list a month ago on jeditemplearchive that said there will be two waves released during the Force Friday.  8 Rogue One figures were in these waves, and the one's mentioned here were part of that (Jyn Erso, and Forest Whittakers character), along with the Deathtrooper, and a Proxy Droid.  The list went on to also state the Grand Admiral (he was also seen at the toyfair in nuremberg to certain people), the a Rebels Medic Droid, Weng Jen's character who is a weapons specialist, and a Scarabtrooper would round out the first two cases that will be before the film is released, then more lines will be revealed.  They didn't mention the Kylo or Rey figure, but I wouldn't doubt that.   I'm sure they'll mix prequel, OT, and Force Awakens figures in these waves, like shown here..  There's also a New Hope Princess Leia, ESB At-At Driver, ESB Snowtrooper, Rebels Sabine, Force Awakens C3PO (with Red Arm) and a EU Darth Raven coming out sometime soon.  I think those are the last of the Red box series of black figures, and we should see those in summer to early fall.

Edited April 17, 2016 by fossilrock

[Battrax]

I'm a bit surprised we haven't heard a peep about a new Star Destroyer (the double decker First Order one). I still have a few 75055 whose fate is still in the balance...

[inversion]

18 hours ago, Battrax said:

I'm a bit surprised we haven't heard a peep about a new Star Destroyer (the double decker First Order one). I still have a few 75055 whose fate is still in the balance...

They need vehicles for EPVIII too. I guess it will be the flagship in 2017.

[Cheese]

Brickset details for 75144 the rumoured UCS Snowspeeder have been updated. No longer says UCS and 'Set type' now reads Normal. Maybe reaction following backlash from Assault on Hoth.

[Fenix_2k1]

24 minutes ago, LahH001 said:

Brickset details for 75144 the rumoured UCS Snowspeeder have been updated. No longer says UCS and 'Set type' now reads Normal. Maybe reaction following backlash from Assault on Hoth.

Maybe they're holding back the snowspeeder re-releasing 75054 under this number so they stand a better chance of actually selling AoH lol

[Deanfjr]

Where is our AT-ST

[Fenix_2k1]

According to most rumours there'll be an At-St in the Force Friday Sets. But might be based on rogue one and use different colours/design to original.

[exciter1]

3 minutes ago, Fenix_2k1 said:

According to most rumours there'll be an At-St in the Force Friday Sets. But might be based on rogue one and use different colours/design to original.

It will probably be in the Friends color scheme and Olivia will drive it.

[Fenix_2k1]

1 minute ago, exciter1 said:

It will probably be in the Friends color scheme and Olivia will drive it.

A Pink At-St? Oh how SUPER!!!!!!!!!

[exciter1]

1 minute ago, Fenix_2k1 said:

A Pink At-St? Oh how SUPER!!!!!!!!!

No AT-ST, but I did find this:

[gbg108]

5 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

It will probably be in the Friends color scheme and Olivia will drive it.

Lol, don't give TLG any ideas. Next we'll see UCS Assault on Heartlake

[exciter1]

2 minutes ago, gbg108 said:

Lol, don't give TLG any ideas. Next we'll see UCS Assault on Heartlake

Already working on it.

[fossilrock]

Maybe they finally decided to drop the UCS label for good and simply label everything under the Star Wars label to ease the pain and suffering of AFOOL's* from around the world.

^{*AFOOL's (Adult Fans Obsessively Ostracizing Lego)}