Review: 75431 327th Star Corps Clone Troopers Battle Pack

I don't care for factions that much (at all actuallly) and treat battle packs as impulse buys for something new. However... I doubt this will be discounted enough to serve that purpose.

And I don't like the cama's (?) or almost anything that needs to go between the head and the torso. It just looks akward.

Great review and great battle pack. I’ve wanted 327th clones for a long time, and Lego certainly delivered (minus the printed kama). The price is horrible and looks even worse when you realize that two of this battle pack would cost $90!

@Rimefang said:
" @legoavenger14 said:
"Take a tenner off this & we'll talk it's abit overpriced "

Even worse for the US, where our bigley tariffs ruin pricing. "

Not sure the tariffs apply to Canada as we are only paying 49.99 CAD which equates to $37 US. If you take the US price of $45 that equates to $62 CAD. Regardless of which price you use the set is still overpriced.

@Ephseb said:
"nobody would complain if this were just 29,99 like 75372. then you could get it for 20 easily - again, like 75372 - and everyone is happy.

besides that, I genuinely want to know why Lego managed to use the correct color for 327th troopers all the way back in 2005-2007 but wasn't able to replicate that feat in 2025"

Everybody except the one who determines the price ; )

This set is so cool, I don't even care about the price.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @Brickalili said:
"I’m going to have to ask people to take a break from discussing the price gouging and tell me what that “Retail Droid” CapnRex mentions is. I’d assume a droid for shopping but I’m not sure why that would get lumped in with warbots like the Spider and Crab droids"

They could probably perform shopping roles if necessary, but retail droids appear at the beginning of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie, on Christophsis. They look like a drinks can on legs and are called retail droids because they were supplied to the Separatists by the Retail Caucus: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/LR-57_combat/retail_droid

Realistically, they are not a priority for LEGO Star Wars, but I would be happy to see one after we eventually get a crab droid!"

Oh wow, those really do look like someone gave a coke can legs and gun arms. I could see good use being made out of those air pumps Life on Mars/Mars Mission used to form that body

That price is stupid

@Maxbricks14 said:
"This set is so cool, I don't even care about the price."
I don't care about the price either - but only because I'm not interested in the set anyway.
If I were I would be quite annoyed.

Yeah.... I'll grab one of the clones from Bricklink to properly have the squad from 7655 but that's it.

If this clone ends up as a magazine gift, it will probably be the best-selling issue since the 501 clone.

I like the walker, pauldrons, and range finder. The spider is a nice build, but we've had SO many including in the latest AT-TE where it should've been a crab droid. Thus, a crab droid would be more interesting.

Need more value here. The price is insane.

The fifty shades of yellow Clones is advancing.

https://brickset.com/minifigs/sw0522/clone-trooper-212th-attack-battalion-(phase-2)-orange-arms-dirt-stains-scowl

https://brickset.com/minifigs/sw0453/clone-trooper-212th-attack-battalion-(phase-2)-bright-light-orange-arms-large-eyes

Four minifigs, three droids, and two decent little builds. If this was $25 or $30, it would fly off the shelf. At $45... lol nope.

Or split it. Sell the droids (supers and spider) as a $15 pack and the troopers with the AT-RT as a $20 pack, if they must. Either way, $45 for what is here is obscene.

I’ve compared it to set 75280 several times, but with inflation, they are very comparable. The Spider droid is the best TLG has ever done! I don’t like the AT-RT, but I’ll mod it just like with the AT-RT from set 75280. The minor details missing or wrong are unfortunate, but it doesn’t bother me that much; however, it is still quite puzzling.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"This set is so cool, I don't even care about the price."
Exactly, I don’t care I’m buying it anyway.

Lego needs to take a serious look at their pricing because this is quite frankly outrageous.

Some stud shooter are merely eyesores; others ruin vehicles beyond redemption. This AT-RT certainly falls into the latter category: any good design work is entirely undone for me by the comedy gun on the front. As for the price: I’ll echo what has been said a million times over at this point; it’s far too far too high. TLG must have been under the influence of some illicit substances indeed when they decided on this one, it’s absolutely mad. Beyond greed, I just don’t get it at all. If the Americans among us think $45 is bad, £35 in the UK is over $47, and without the excuse of tariffs… The suggestion would be that either TLG is distributing the cost of tariffs across the entire consumer base, or alternatively they’re nothing more than a scapegoat for these price hikes. Neither frankly is acceptable to me. Were this £20, as it should be, I’d buy 10 even with the clone figure issues, which there are many (helmet holes, missing camas, helmet stripe prints, Lieutenant Galle, wrong number of ammo pouches). Even £25 would be too much, as the clones vs droids battle pack offers significantly better value with the battle droids and similar quality builds - although including droids that are as cheap for TLG to produce as anything is a meagre excuse for a price increase. As far as their production is concerned, this has 4 minifigs, and should be priced in line with traditional battle packs. That we’ve all accepted that a few droids should allow them to double the price is the greatest scam of it all. Frankly I’ve been a LSW fan all my life, but this is pushing me to my limit.

If only anyone knew how the new super battle droids compared to the old ones with regards to fragility….

:o)

@yellowcastle said:
"If only anyone knew how the new super battle droids compared to the old ones with regards to fragility….

:o)"

The new ones are less likely to have broken already.

@PurpleDave said:
" @yellowcastle said:
"If only anyone knew how the new super battle droids compared to the old ones with regards to fragility….

:o)"

The new ones are less likely to have broken already."

That's funny.

@yellowcastle said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @yellowcastle said:
"If only anyone knew how the new super battle droids compared to the old ones with regards to fragility….

:o)"

The new ones are less likely to have broken already."

That's funny."

So, the unfunny truth is I don’t know if we even know why they used to break so frequently. I know other toy lines *coughTRANSFORMERScough* have had issues with gold plastic being brittle, but I’ve never heard of that being a major problem with LEGO parts. Certainly not like reddish-brown, dark-brown, or dark-red, at least. And these are pearl colors that don’t even include gold, so if the toy industry has specifically had problems with _gold_, it shouldn’t affect SBDs.

But there is an issue with the way they’re molded. Usually, bar connections work best if the mold cavity is bored through a solid piece of metal, instead of being cut like matching troughs. In the latter case, if the mold sections aren’t perfectly aligned, you’re going to end up with a cross-section that’s wider than a bar should be across the seam. That can stress any clip that’s attached. And if the two troughs are cut a little too deep, then it’s going to have too thick a cross section perpendicular to the split, which again stresses any clip that’s attached. If both cases happen together, that’s just going to cause tons of problems.

Then there’s the issue of the specific base plastic they use. I remember being all excited when the new C-clip became standardized across just about every clip element except minifig hands, and was impatiently waiting for certain clip plates to be released in specific colors, so I could sub them in on some of my MOCs where I was finding the older U-clips didn’t have a strong enough grip. Within a year, those new clip plates started breaking, and I wasn’t even doing anything with them. They held side-view mirrors on some box trucks and my Routemaster. They weren’t being actuated like hinges. They weren’t being repeatedly assembled and disassembled. They just had stuff clipped into them on a permanent basis. Or rather they used to. I had to do another round of purchases, because it turns out they figured out they needed to use a different type of plastic for certain high-stress connections (and people gripe about Mixel joint color restrictions). I can only hope that whatever lessons they’ve learned since the last round of SBDs have been judiciously applied to the production run of the new ones. I am not aware of any that I own having broken, but I also haven’t gone looking. I also also never built most of the original LotR run, or the Ewok Village, and now I don’t think I want to risk doing so.

@PurpleDave said:
" @yellowcastle said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @yellowcastle said:
"If only anyone knew how the new super battle droids compared to the old ones with regards to fragility….

:o)"

The new ones are less likely to have broken already."

That's funny."

So, the unfunny truth is I don’t know if we even know why they used to break so frequently. I know other toy lines *coughTRANSFORMERScough* have had issues with gold plastic being brittle, but I’ve never heard of that being a major problem with LEGO parts. Certainly not like reddish-brown, dark-brown, or dark-red, at least. And these are pearl colors that don’t even include gold, so if the toy industry has specifically had problems with _gold_, it shouldn’t affect SBDs.

But there is an issue with the way they’re molded. Usually, bar connections work best if the mold cavity is bored through a solid piece of metal, instead of being cut like matching troughs. In the latter case, if the mold sections aren’t perfectly aligned, you’re going to end up with a cross-section that’s wider than a bar should be across the seam. That can stress any clip that’s attached. And if the two troughs are cut a little too deep, then it’s going to have too thick a cross section perpendicular to the split, which again stresses any clip that’s attached. If both cases happen together, that’s just going to cause tons of problems.

Then there’s the issue of the specific base plastic they use. I remember being all excited when the new C-clip became standardized across just about every clip element except minifig hands, and was impatiently waiting for certain clip plates to be released in specific colors, so I could sub them in on some of my MOCs where I was finding the older U-clips didn’t have a strong enough grip. Within a year, those new clip plates started breaking, and I wasn’t even doing anything with them. They held side-view mirrors on some box trucks and my Routemaster. They weren’t being actuated like hinges. They weren’t being repeatedly assembled and disassembled. They just had stuff clipped into them on a permanent basis. Or rather they used to. I had to do another round of purchases, because it turns out they figured out they needed to use a different type of plastic for certain high-stress connections (and people gripe about Mixel joint color restrictions). I can only hope that whatever lessons they’ve learned since the last round of SBDs have been judiciously applied to the production run of the new ones. I am not aware of any that I own having broken, but I also haven’t gone looking. I also also never built most of the original LotR run, or the Ewok Village, and now I don’t think I want to risk doing so."

Most of my LotR are still in box as well. :o(

@yellowcastle said:
"If only anyone knew how the new super battle droids compared to the old ones with regards to fragility….

:o)"

https://brickset.com/article/105500 Obviously @CapnRex101 wasn't going to stress-test figures to destruction just for the sake of an article, but the article does say "Thankfully, small changes have actually been made to the arms and I know the designers were aware of the prior problems when updating this figure, so I am sure the new joints are stronger. "

@TheOtherMike said:
" @yellowcastle said:
"If only anyone knew how the new super battle droids compared to the old ones with regards to fragility….

:o)"

https://brickset.com/article/105500 Obviously @CapnRex101 wasn't going to stress-test figures to destruction just for the sake of an article, but the article does say "Thankfully, small changes have actually been made to the arms and I know the designers were aware of the prior problems when updating this figure, so I am sure the new joints are stronger. ""

Legs are more of a concern though, aren’t they? The arm joint is formed with a stub of bar that can be molded sleeve-style. The bar in the hip connection has to be molded like two troughs because there’s an end plate at both ends. All three clips (shoulder, hand, hips) can be molded cleanly with a bar-shaped insert so they don’t also have issues with misaligned mold cavities causing the dimensions to creep upwards, but you’re always going to have the risk that rotating the hip joint will forcibly expand that clip and overstress it to the point of breaking.

Looks like a $30 set -- the AT-RT is definitely too detailed for a $10 price point, so let's say $15-20, and the Dwarf Spider Droid would probably be a $10-15 set, so that's a $25-30 value, which makes sense. That's the 'base value' of the set and I think it would be fair.

Then factor in that LEGO (the business) is trying to get ahead of both potential, uncertain tariffs and the inevitable 20% discounts at multiple retailers (which would knock off $9) and both of those add around $15 to the price total. Their profit margins aren't affected if the MSRP is marked 20% higher than the actual value ahead of any sale. The tariffs are the real boondongle. I think this'd have been a few bucks less last year, although $40 would still be too high. Pretty much every lower set is $10-15 overpriced now, it gets a bit more confusing with larger sets (I think 20% 'higher' is still the point) and I think this is pretty much why; it sucks but it explains why it's so consistent.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @yellowcastle said:
"If only anyone knew how the new super battle droids compared to the old ones with regards to fragility….

:o)"

https://brickset.com/article/105500 Obviously @CapnRex101 wasn't going to stress-test figures to destruction just for the sake of an article, but the article does say "Thankfully, small changes have actually been made to the arms and I know the designers were aware of the prior problems when updating this figure, so I am sure the new joints are stronger. ""

Legs are more of a concern though, aren’t they? The arm joint is formed with a stub of bar that can be molded sleeve-style. The bar in the hip connection has to be molded like two troughs because there’s an end plate at both ends. All three clips (shoulder, hand, hips) can be molded cleanly with a bar-shaped insert so they don’t also have issues with misaligned mold cavities causing the dimensions to creep upwards, but you’re always going to have the risk that rotating the hip joint will forcibly expand that clip and overstress it to the point of breaking."

Theoretically, yes, the legs would be more likely to break, but in all my experiences, it’s the arms that break first. It feels like the legs are a bit stronger, but maybe that’s just because the arms were so weak. I’ve ever only had one pair of legs snap, but I don’t own that many of them. I was going to dissemble the Ewok Village and rebuild it soon, but do you think it’s best to wait, or do it as soon as I can? (Note that it was built this decade, not 2013.)

@JVM:
Discounts come off the retailer’s end, not TLG’s. But where it gets messy is, at my last job, it was the catalog companies that told us what they wanted us to put for MSRP in our price lists, not us. We sold at the price we wanted, but they needed to have an artificially high list price that they could then, legally, mark discounts off of so they could dupe customers into thinking they sold our product for less than they could pay if they bought it directly from us (they didn’t, as our “MSRP” was twice what we charged, and they didn’t mark it back down 50%). In TLG’s case, they’re likely forced to sell at MSRP, so asking for a padded number that can be quickly discounted gives their retail partners an edge over direct sales.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs:
Arms might break first because they’re more frequently rotated than legs on a droid that never has a reason to sit. And I can’t even guess for the Ewok Village. You won’t know if it’s safe or not until parts start splintering, or maybe if you build it 20 years after production and nothing happens. I think the observation was that ten years in is when any problem parts are going to start revealing themselves.

@PurpleDave Ok thank you. I built it a couple years ago, so about ten years after it first released, and I had no problems with it. I’ll just try it and see.

The prices on the August Star Wars sets are insane, especially here in the US with the annoying tariffs. Only sets I'm interested in are the UCS ATST and Jango Fetts Slave 1, thankfully. Have spent my money on other themes and Bricklink designer sets this year. If this trend continues with Lego Star Wars, will continue to do the same in the future.