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Official Press Release: https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/f0c33605-faf8-4628-9d1a-643b90064bfc Pics:

Spotted this on TRU.com... https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=111912996

Minifigure wall continues to blossom, hung today - Star Wars: Good Vs Evil.

Dang.. I personally think this is the most interesting set of the Summer waves and once the BOGO40% off comes into play, i'll probably buy a few, because these sets always do well in the aftermarket.. I always tend to dig the TRU summer exclusive sets that tend to have a prequel bias, and I think this one follows the mold fairly well. If you follow the history of those sets (Palpatines Arrest, MTT, Battle Droid Carrier, Sith Infiltrator, Homing Spider Droid, and now this) they always tend to provide an interesting set that isn't perhaps mass marketable, but is usually the best version of that vehicle (ok, MTT is debatable). This set contains a decent rendition of the vehicle, and a good selection of minifigures (following the mold of previous TRU exclusives ). Overall, I like it. I'm waiting until the 40% BOGO to buy it, but i'll definitely buy this one. This set is more interesting to my boy and I than the Rathtar Escape, Quadjumper, and most of the other summer wave sets. It looks like the best technical build of the bunch, as well.

All the encouragement I needed.

I'm actually pleasantly surprised by the price.

A "Handy Instant Win" is a DB right now!!! Codes: bouqu3ts and HANDY123

Not directly about LEGO, but it was something that could have had implications down the road. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/business/supreme-court-patent-rights-lexmark.html WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday placed sharp limits on how much control patent holders have over how their products are used after they are sold. The case concerned Lexmark International, which makes toner cartridges for use in its printers. The court ruled that the company could not use patent law to stop companies from refilling and selling the cartridges. Mark Lemley, director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, said that anyone who refurbished, repaired or resold used products would now be protected from patent infringement claims. The ruling will also prevent manufacturers from forcing consumers to buy supplies only from the original source. “It’s good for consumers,” Mr. Lemley said. “It’s going to reduce consumer prices.” Lexmark sold the cartridges on the condition that they not be reused after the ink ran out. Impression Products, a small company in Charleston, W.Va., nonetheless bought Lexmark cartridges in the United States and abroad, refurbished and refilled them, and sold them more cheaply than Lexmark does. Lexmark sued for patent infringement, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a specialized court in Washington, accepted both of its main arguments, concerning domestic and international sales. The appeals court acknowledged that the general rule was that buyers of patented products could do with them what they wished. But it said the conditions Lexmark placed on the sale of its cartridges could be enforced as a matter of patent law for sales in the United States. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for a unanimous Supreme Court on this point, disagreed. He said Lexmark could not use the patent laws to enforce the contractual conditions it placed on the sale of its cartridges. Under the doctrine of “patent exhaustion,” he wrote, once a patent holder sells an item, it can no longer control the item through the patent laws. “The purchaser and all subsequent owners are free to use or resell the product just like any other item of personal property, without fear of an infringement lawsuit,” the chief justice wrote. He used an illustration to make the point. “Take a shop that restores and sells used cars,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “The business works because the shop can rest assured that, so long as those bringing in the cars own them, the shop is free to repair and resell those vehicles. That smooth flow of commerce would sputter if companies that make the thousands of parts that go into a vehicle could keep their patent rights after the first sale.” Printer makers like Lexmark and HP have long battled independent companies that refill ink and toner cartridges and sell them more cheaply than the manufacturers do. Inkjet printer ink is one of the world’s most expensive liquids, with Consumer Reports magazine estimating in 2013 that it cost $13 to $75 an ounce — more than top-class Champagne and many perfumes. A new Lexmark toner cartridge, with a suggested price of almost $200, sells for $138 at a major retailer. But a refurbisher currently sells a replacement for $72. While Lexmark turned to the courts to stop the refill companies, HP resorted to technology, such as changing the internal software in the printers to recognize and block the use of unauthorized cartridges. But the court’s decision will have ramifications far beyond ink, particularly for the import and resale of products like smartphones and name-brand drugs. The justices essentially ruled that once products are sold, buyers can do what they want with them unless other laws intervene. In theory, the decision will allow a retailer like Costco Wholesale, which filed a brief for the defendant in the case, to buy high-tech goods at the cheapest price it can find worldwide, bring them to the United States and resell them to customers. In a brief supporting Impression Products, Intel and other technology companies told the court that patent law should not be used to undermine an interconnected global economy. “A product may be designed in the United States; assembled in Singapore from parts made in Costa Rica, Israel and China; and then shipped to the United States for sale,” the brief said. “Intel’s multitier supply chain, for example, comprises more than 16,000 suppliers in over 100 countries. Likewise, more than 750 companies supply components from over 30 countries that are incorporated in iPhones and iPads.” The appeals court had also ruled in favor of Lexmark on foreign sales, saying that patent holders could control what was done with their products after they were sold abroad and re-imported by buyers. Chief Justice Roberts again disagreed, writing for the majority that the same basic principles applied. “An authorized sale outside the United States, just as one within the United States, exhausts all rights under the Patent Act,” he wrote. In a 2013 Supreme Court copyright decision, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, the Supreme Court ruled that it was lawful to import and resell textbooks that were first sold abroad. Chief Justice Roberts wrote that making distinctions between patent and copyright protections “would make little theoretical or practical sense.” The ruling on international sales is significant, legal experts said, because companies often sell their products abroad at lower prices on the condition that they will not be imported into the United States. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented from that part of the decision. “Patent law is territorial,” she wrote. “A foreign sale, I would hold, does not exhaust a U.S. inventor’s U.S. patent rights.” Justice Neil M. Gorsuch did not participate in the case, Impression Products v. Lexmark International, No. 15-1189.

It's an Ideas set. I'll bet they're all printed.

Ok, im going full on Star Wars nerd here, but actually, it's not a remake. This set hasn't been done like this. They made a UCS version of the Delta 7 Aethersprite class light interceptor without the hyperdrive ring, but they never made that starfighter with the hyperdrive ring. The only other version with a hyperdrive ring was this set below, which isn't from the Episode 2 Attack of the Clones sequence where Obi had to dodge Jango Fett's Slave 1 in a meteor field. In fact, it's using a different ship, the Eta-2 Actis class light interceptor and I don't remember a hyperdrive ring appearing in the Battle of Coruscant sequence in Revenge of the Sith, so the set below has no real merit in it's authenticity as a "Movie based lego set" :

Hope u or who ever owns the sets got them on a discount or free to get so many too early in the game. And please dont stack them like that for long periods of time.

2HY 2017 catalogues are starting to surface.EU one should be up soon.

You went Star Wars nerd,but you didn't go full Star Wars Nerd or you would know that this version of the Eta Interceptor wasn't from the battle of Coruscant. <Pushes pretend glasses up nose and sniffs.> Obi-Wan uses this Jedi Interceptor to go to Utapau and clearly docks with the hyperdrive ring at about 52:07 and then is seen coming out of hyperdrive at about 53:48. the scale is off for those 2 ships. plus, why not have another ship to buy that has more scene accurate colors. (or colours if you will.) This set is totally covfefe

This set needs Scully, Yorku, Scully's catch of the day, and the Barnacle from Summer Rental.

Really impressed, the ideas sets continue to set the bar! Last two have been home runs in my opinion, with a doubt my favourite theme within the lego line up.

I needed some shipping boxes and didn't have any Staples coupons, so I just discovered Jet.com is now selling corrugated boxes in all sizes. I'll let you know how the quality is. They appear to be different brands, depending on what you're looking for.

Thanks. In for 8... Hope they don't get cancelled

Product Weight:3.1 pounds Product Dimensions (in inches):14.7 x 13.8 x 3.6 Looks to be same size and weight

Had to grin about his comment (near the end of the video) about the PRICE of this set. He's slamming LEGO for pricing this set so high! $100 in the US... But it's even worse here, at €120 in The Netherlands! No F'ing way!

New Death Star says hello!!!

From the LEGO Batman 3 game:

Holy moley...I never thought I'd live to see the day that TLG would wake up and memorialize the brilliance of Sherrif Lobo in plastic bricks. Oh wait...you meant a different Lobo?

LOBO! Fraggin' awesome.

5th bag done for the Silent Mary. Pulled the sharks and minifigures before the build for the kids.

Finished the AT AT today

Done, what a beast!

Those planks are existing printed pieces (see@ClintonJoseph's profile pic for example). Given that this is Ideas, I doubt ANY of the prints are stickers.

BN is out of stock at the DC, they only had 650 to start with, which is less than 2 per store. I realize a lot of people are concerned about hype, but to me its one of the coolest sets I have seen in a really long time.

Star Wars pinball by Stern announced today. Artwork is pretty bland. Layout could be good, looks like a fast player.

Same here. Can't wait until it goes on-sale.

No signs up in my Kmart but all of those sets scanned with the discount so it must be chain wide. Only % off coupons stuck, none of my plethora of $ off purchase coupons worked automatically, and my cashier made it abundantly clear that she was not interested in pursuing it any further. Nevertheless, by using points and two 5% off coupons I still paid about $58 for $160 worth of sets with $25 and change back in points. Big thanks to @exciter1 for the original post. I don't always get excited about Friends and Elves sets, but with that kind of savings its hard to pass up.

I know, I know, I shouldn't complain. Such a brilliant looking set. It's just the fact that its more than the modulars and with a lower piece count. Tbh I'm pretty much always disappointed with prices lately, since Brexit and the related price increase in the UK, Its taking time for me to adjust.

Somebody has to pay for that 1% royalty and it ain't gonna be LEGO

Came here hoping you were posting about a Staples sale. But this is interesting. Looking forward to your report

My knock on it is the inclusion of the figures. Just weird that Jango and Boba have no vehicle or anything. Are they just floating through space while Obi-Wan tools around in his ship?

This is the set my son was the most excited about when we received the new catalog yesterday, although he wants one for Anakin.

Two Tie Strikers at $58au each.

Built DC Super Heroes set Gorilla Grodd Goes Bananas for my son and DC Super Hero Girls Batgirl Batjet Chase for my daughter. Both are fans of the Superhero themes and Batman in general.

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

I've started using this site. It isn't 100% but you can narrow things down fairly quickly by going back and forth. Takes some getting used to but once you figure it out, it's awesome. http://goatleg.com/ Some tips that I use.. I start with the torso's and then match heads/pants with them if I can. I find this the easiest option to narrow down and you also have a simple default of going color of torso and color of arms (assuming arms are correct) and if that doesn't work, then going to color of torso.

30€ is pretty darn low. I wouldn't bet on this set for such a short term, but in the long term you will certainly get at least MSRP for it. Unlikely to be remade and very likely they are clearing them out to make room for Kylo Ren's new TIE Advanced.

I thought it was about time to finally create two more editions to my minifigure wall from my favourite Films! These have been a few months in the making and a lot of thought and deliberation has gone into which figures to include and from which sets. I've tried to go 'rare' where financially possible and wanted 21 figures for each frame. The only one I would look to change at present is to remove Ugnaught and replace with Admiral Piett from the UCS SSD but I just couldn't warrant the price tag this figure holds. I'd love to hear from you guys regards what you would have done differently. I went for the following, enjoy the pics: Empire: Vader - UCS Death Star Boba Fett - UCS Slave 1 Emperor - UCS Death Star Stormtrooper - UCS Death Star Imperial Guard - UCS Death Star Tarkin - UCS Death Star Jawa - UCS Sandcrawler Scout Trooper - Ewok Village Snow Trooper - 2016 Advent Calendar Gamorrean Guard - Jabbas Palace Bib Fortuna - Jabbas Palace Tie Fighter Pilot - UCS Tie Fighter Greedo - Mos Eisley Tuskan Raider - Luke Speeder Bossk - UCS SSD Dengar - UCS SSD Imperial Officer - UCS Death Star General Veers - motorised AT AT Imperial Gunner - UCS Death Star Death Star Gunner - UCS Death Star Ugnaught - Freeze Chamber Jedi Han Solo - UCS Death Star Luke Skywalker - UCS Sandcrawler Princess Leia - UCS Death Star Chewie - UCS Death Star Lando - A Wing R2 - UCS Death Star C3PO - UCS Death Star Obi Wan - UCS Death Star Yoda - Yoda Fighter Wicket - Ewok Village Scout Trooper - Tantive IV Dak Ralter - Snowspeeder Admiral Ackbar - A Wing Mon Mothma - Calamari Cruiser Wedge Antillies - UCS Attack on Hoth Wes Janson - UCS Attack on Hoth Rebel Commando - Ewok Village Hoth Rebel - UCS Attack on Hoth Uncle Owen - UCS Sandcrawler Ten Numb - B Wing R3 A2 - UCS Attack on Hoth

OMG. At least one physicist somewhere just had a heart attack...

Longer than expected, but finally done!

Built old Bessie. Only the Ewok village and New Death Star left in my backlog of UCS inventory. Need to get my hands on a Death Star 2!

It's showtime.