@crankybricks said:
"“(sold separately)” of course…" holy crap crankybricks? Hi!! Hope you’re doing well!

Honestly, I would be interested in trying the smart play, buying one set. But Belgium isn't included in the limited release...

AT-ST is the only solid set here for me. It should be 40 RRP then I wouldn't compain, despite the glaring hole in the back, which seems to be necessary for the smart brick to function (massive design flaw if you ask me). 40 would mean you would be able to get it for like 20-25 on Amazon. A good deal for 347 pieces and two useful non-smart figures.

The others are not-good sets with worse prices. For the size of the models, for what you end up with in your hands, all of them are about €20 too expensive. I'll wait and see how far the prices drop. If the Cantina drops to 40 or below, it becomes interesting to me because of the Bith, more classic aliens are always needed.

If I do end up buying some of these from the clearance bin, I hope I can find someone who will take the smart figs off me.

dirty artoo!

Great to see playable Star Wars sets for kids. Seems expensive with no brick, assume will be sold individually, but my kids would soon get bored of moving a brick from one set to the next.
Beginning to wonder if you really need the brick and someone could write some code in an app to do the same functionality using your mobiles bluetooth with the brick enabled mini-figs? May even be able to enable all the mini-figs and special tiles at the same time saving a fortune in SMART bricks. Guess Lego Vidiyo doesn't seem such a bad idea now.

I'm so happy we're getting a new Luke's landspeeder. At this price it's the same as an older one from Bricklink. So I'll be buying that, and rebuild to work without any smart bricks.

The other sets look a lot better than the original few presented. Don't understand if they're going to release on the same day why they bothered with two separate reveals. Surely the Falcon should be an all inclusive set to pull crowds in?

AT-ST also looks like something I might pick-up on a double points/discount.

@CapnRex101 Do we know for how long the "sold only in country x" will last? Need to know whether I need to plan a mandatory stop at the LEGO store once in France or just not.

I guess they are trying to replicate Super Mario's success? Don't know if it'll work and I'm honestly pretty skeptical.

Thought, focusing on sets for kids is always good I think.

These actually look great
So much better than the first Smart Play sets IMO

The Cantina looks like a good set and a good value, the rest, not so much. I do think it is good they immediately come with sets that don't have the smart bricks.

Luke Landspeeder looks great as does the Millennium Falcon.

But where's Luke in the Cantina? He wants to join the band!

Essentially the sets are just remakes of previous sets but with Smart brick functionality. 75052 and 75208

These sets look a lot better then the original 3. why wouldn't they have lead with these ones as they look more finished and integrated? I also wonder if these will be a world release or only to the 6 countries?

NGL, I kind of like the Chibi-esque Millennium Falcon 75426. Bit of discount, bit of remodeling and it'll be a nice set for mucking around with. Kid me would have loved it, but still hated that abomination of an X-Wing 75423

I completely understand that Lego needs play sets for kids, and not just collectible sets for adults. But these are not great looking.

I mean - there is a cool Gonk droid, and I like the SandTrooper. But looks like I can save some money this year.

@jkb said:"If any of these, it's propaby the cantina that has the best value. You know, as a modell, when the smartbrick eventually breaks..."

Well, of course! It has the "glass of blue milk" piece! But the landspeeder has those nice printed boat studs on the engines, so maybe not...

@Heriol said:
" @sipuss said:
" @Graupensuppe said:
"Why does Yoda have longer legs? He's almost as tall as Luke now."
Presumably his smart insides won't fit in the short ones."

I think you're almost right - I think the actual reason is that they made a new moulds for the torso and hips, and so because the normal connection between hips and torso no longer works, it would have required another new mould for the short legs to work on a smart figure - using the mid legs mean they can still use the new standard hips, so it doesn't require another new mould. "

I was wondering why they'd done that, but your idea makes a lot of sense!

I don't have any problem with the Smart Brick system. I just don't like that the windscreen on Luke's landspeeder is too tall

With Discounts these sets are definitely worth their price if not more. The Cantina set is a very likely get for me.

(80-30%)-5-5-3-4-3,5=35,5
35,5/666=0,053

I put the discount here as 30% but that it will reach at least 35% is also very likely unless these are suddenly exclusive to LEGO Stores only. The values of 3,5 to 5 are what I would pay for the figures separately if I were to get them from Bricklink or elsewhere. 35,50 would be the cost of all the bricks in that case, which comes out to little over 5 cent per piece. All of the pieces seem useful, definitely very little useless filler or useless colors, pretty good inventory to put towards MOCs.
Putting the minifigures at slightly lower values and, or putting the Discount at 35% changes the value of the regular parts to slightly below 5 cent per piece.

I think I like the Millennium Falcon. When accounting for the SW premium, it's an okay price. It's got enough detail and space inside to make it work at minifig scale without being a UCS the size of the coffee table.

I wonder whether the bricks can only play preprogrammed sounds from the factory, or if there will be a way to import custom sounds over Bluetooth, or get them to do anything besides a sound and light show. Integrating with some other controller so that a smart brick in a dive-bombing fighter makes a vehicle drive away from it could be cool. Alternatively, have the incoming fighter trigger a servo to hit a break-apart lever to signify a hit. Or even one vehicle flees and another explodes. So really, I'm asking if there's a way to get the smart brick to drive motors too.

@WolfpackBricks63 said:
"The AT-ST actually looks pretty cool

...at least that's what I thought until I saw the back"

... that is completely open. If humans are born with an open back*, it's considered a serious condition. I'd say we can apply that to Lego vehicles, too.

*translation, once again: spina bifida is apparently called an open spine in English rather than an open back in German. Well, the joke is lost, but you still get the point, right?

@enamic5 said:
"I completely understand that Lego needs play sets for kids, and not just collectible sets for adults. But these are not great looking.

I mean - there is a cool Gonk droid, and I like the SandTrooper. But looks like I can save some money this year."

I think they are good looking and pretty much fully brick built. Much like SW sets of 20 years ago.

The AT-ST is not…unsalvageable. The cantina makes me glad I grabbed the big one as my only foray into that setting.

@Alemas said:
"They really do want you spend at least 70€ (Darth Vader's TIE Fighter) in order to acquire a SMART Brick.
So in order to complete any of these sets and play with them as intended, you have to add 70€ to the price.
Instead of, you know, selling the SMART Brick on its own, separately, for something like 20€.
Absolutely ridiculous and unbelievably greedy."

Or you’re going to start finding boxes with holes punched in them or ends ripped open. It was a persistent plague for the Marvel CMFs that launched the new boxes, and I don’t see any reason to expect otherwise for these.

@sipuss:
The chip should fit entirely within the torso, since that’s the part they’re slapping a Mario-style sticker on. There may be some merit to the theory that the hips are fused to the torso, though.

@tne328 said:
"I think I like the Millennium Falcon. When accounting for the SW premium, it's an okay price. It's got enough detail and space inside to make it work at minifig scale without being a UCS the size of the coffee table.

I wonder whether the bricks can only play preprogrammed sounds from the factory, or if there will be a way to import custom sounds over Bluetooth, or get them to do anything besides a sound and light show. Integrating with some other controller so that a smart brick in a dive-bombing fighter makes a vehicle drive away from it could be cool. Alternatively, have the incoming fighter trigger a servo to hit a break-apart lever to signify a hit. Or even one vehicle flees and another explodes. So really, I'm asking if there's a way to get the smart brick to drive motors too. "

It might be possible for simple sounds, as it looks like it sends information on frequency and duration. We'll find out once they get hacked! But no chance of driving motors, the battery will be way underpowered for that. And no connections either.

The AT-ST looks a lot better than I thought. The millennium falcon was one of the last vehicles Lego had yet to downsize. It has now succumbed to shrinkflation

@kyrodes said:
" @jkb said:
"If any of these, it's propaby the cantina that has the best value. You know, as a modell, when the smartbrick eventually breaks..."

It doesn't come with the smartbrick."

You still need one to play "as intended".

Im not to happy about this announcement. I like the idea of the Smart Bricks but I already have most of those sets. To get sets with the Smart Tech ID I need to buy them all again.

To be honest Im getting frustrated with Lego re-making the same sets over and over and just changing or adding a little something to make it different.

I believe by remaking the same sets the market is getting extremely flooded and driving down the value of our very expensive sets.

That being said...I will buy some sets with Smart Tech because of the cool figs & bricks.

Im a Lego die hard and I am looking forward to this exciting new experience. I just wish the Smart Tech was available as sets rather than remade sets. What can I say...I Luv my bricks!

@CCC said:
" @ImaMom said:
"Im not to happy about this announcement. I like the idea of the Smart Bricks but I already have most of those sets. To get sets with the Smart Tech ID I need to buy them all again.

To be honest Im getting frustrated with Lego re-making the same sets over and over and just changing or adding a little something to make it different.

I believe by remaking the same sets the market is getting extremely flooded and driving down the value of our very expensive sets.

That being said...I will buy some sets with Smart Tech because of the cool figs & bricks.

Im a Lego die hard and I am looking forward to this exciting new experience. I just wish the Smart Tech was available as sets rather than remade sets. What can I say...I Luv my bricks!"

You don't own these sets as they haven't been released. You might own sets that are the same ships/vehicles/locations. They re-release sets as people new to the hobby want to buy them. Would you have been happy to hear that LEGO were not going to make an X-wing ever again because they made one 25 years before? Don't buy LEGO because you think it has future value as LEGOwill always remake popular scenes. And if you do, don't open it or play with it."

Yes. This is why I always make sure to buy every Hulkspeeder and Batstar and X-Mobile and Death-Wing, sliced, diced, cubed and spheroid. Even if those sets come out 4-5 times per year, including garish "What If...?" or bland shadowbox-editions. IF I DON'T BUY IT NOW, IT MIGHT NOT COME BACK FOR ANOTHER 25 YEARS.

I had fun once, and it was awful.

I don’t know… I mean that kid looks like he’s having a pretty good time so they must be really good…

No SMART Bricks included. Yoda and Wicket have midlegs.

*facepalm emoji*

Since these sets don't come with the brick (sold separately of course) then couldn't they at least look like they came from 2026 not 1999?

All of this really is just a changup on how the super Mario sets were done. And though it’s kind of neat messing around with those sets, I never once stopped wishing Lego had done standard brick built-no electronic super Mario sets with actual figures and good looking builds. We did get a few nice builds out of the dozens and dozens of releases, but almost every single one was compromised in some way to make use of the technology.

I wish they haven't used Star Wars for this range. Why would modern day kids be interested in movies that are almost 50 years old? This choise of IP is just baffling to me.
Lego Star Wars is an AFOL's theme.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"People are here complaining, mean while I'm happy because it means I can be putting my money elsewhere."

But they are wasted oportunities to make great designed playscale ships or dioramas, hence my complaint.

As an avid minifigure collector I'm at least glad the ones included in those sets are pretty common. I'd be more annoyed if the only available minifig of a particular character had one of those chips in it.
As it this those sets are even easier to ignore completely.

@Bagelwolf said:
"I'm glad TLG decided to refocus on Star Wars playsets instead of catering increasingly to AFOLs, but this is a niche product line and not an acceptable replacement for standard playscale sets with traditional play patterns. Sadly it seems like there's no room in the lineup for sets like that anymore bc of all the slots taken up by Smart Bricks, Starship Collection, UCS, and statues. This theme has now split away from its core in both directions: younger and older."

Yet LEGO are still making standard play sets for Star Wars.

Gonna save me some money this year on Star Wars. No new figures or ships and don’t care about the smart brick at all. Sets are definitely for kids and not for display. At least I have Minas Tirith to enjoy this year.

@monkyby87 said:
" @corelbbk said:
"I wish they haven't used Star Wars for this range. Why would modern day kids be interested in movies that are almost 50 years old? This choise of IP is just baffling to me.
Lego Star Wars is an AFOL's theme."

One of the most out of touch responses ever. "

I can't speak for everyone, but do you have kids? I tried showing my kid Star Wars a couple times at different ages, he couldn't care less.

1 - Why Lego insists on solid black bricks as "invisible" is beyond me.

2 - I don't see any of this being successful. Instead, selling Smart Bricks, tiles and figures in an "action pack" for pre-existing sets, or next to current sets makes much more sense to me. Consumer options.

A few takeaways.
1: I need that Gonk droid! That looks really great, especially with the printed tile.
2: Yoda’s hut looks like the best set. I might even consider it an upgrade (build-wise) from 2018. (Price-wise not so much…)
3: Yoda’s and Wicket look terrible with medium legs…
4: LSW… you did it again. Why isn’t Artoo fixed? You gave the trash one a rotating head, and the normal one doesn’t get that?! C’mon.
5: The blue milk glass looks great, but the part count? Really LEGO?
6: Worst Falcon ever. EVER.

Wake up babe, new blue milk piece just dropped.

The AT-ST and interior of the Falcon don’t look half bad, and these prices aren’t as egregious. Stunning decision to not reveal the better half of the wave alongside the flagship sets by TLG, I wonder what they were thinking.

The biggest appeal for me in the sets that were first announced was their ability to feature cross-play between sets. The X-wing, A-wing, Tie Fighter, and turbolaser have general combat play patterns that are extensible. Other than the Millennium Falcon, these other sets seem to have limited utility that way, though I wonder if the tags for the Landspeeder and the cantina have any interaction capabilities.

My main complaint about all the complaints is that most people are still criticizing these sets for what they're not trying to do, instead of wondering if they'll work for what they are trying to do. But AFOLs will AFOL.

Can you program a smart brick to make custom noises?

@ACubeInABox said:
"Wake up babe, new blue milk piece just dropped.

The AT-ST and interior of the Falcon don’t look half bad, and these prices aren’t as egregious. Stunning decision to not reveal the better half of the wave alongside the flagship sets by TLG, I wonder what they were thinking."

Um, 75437 would like to argue with that statement. Unless, of course, you meant the glass.

Can I buy SMART system sets in other countries, than those 7? AND what about the App?

Great way to introduce a new generation of kids to Star Wars LEGO. Makes sense that the Smart Brick is not included and makes these prices more ideal (Cantina's 666 piece count notwithstanding LOL).

Was looking to see how they shrink-flated the Millenium Falcon as the general design hasn't changed for 20years and this Chibi look looks ideal and more swoosh-able for a child.

While I understand why they use LEGO Star Wars to kick off Smart Play would've preferred if it stuck to more homegrown City or even the upcoming Pokemon playsets. Embed the RFD in the character or a 2x2 jumper (and attach figure) and put the Smart Brick(s) into an arena set or play rig.

@CCC said:
" @ImaMom said:
"Im not to happy about this announcement. I like the idea of the Smart Bricks but I already have most of those sets. To get sets with the Smart Tech ID I need to buy them all again.

To be honest Im getting frustrated with Lego re-making the same sets over and over and just changing or adding a little something to make it different.

I believe by remaking the same sets the market is getting extremely flooded and driving down the value of our very expensive sets.

That being said...I will buy some sets with Smart Tech because of the cool figs & bricks.

Im a Lego die hard and I am looking forward to this exciting new experience. I just wish the Smart Tech was available as sets rather than remade sets. What can I say...I Luv my bricks!"

You don't own these sets as they haven't been released. You might own sets that are the same ships/vehicles/locations. They re-release sets as people new to the hobby want to buy them. Would you have been happy to hear that LEGO were not going to make an X-wing ever again because they made one 25 years before? Don't buy LEGO because you think it has future value as LEGOwill always remake popular scenes. And if you do, don't open it or play with it."

I dont think you read my statement as it was written or intended.

I never said " I buy because it has future value. "Please dial it down a notch everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Kindness goes a long way....

I have nothing else to say other than I highly suspect this entire system will flop and never be seen again. I really wish TLG would stop attempting to integrate apps and smart tech into sets; it just doesn't work.

These all look like lots of fun to me and I really don't mind the awkward gaps and such because they're justified by the functionality. I usually don't care about Star Wars sets because they're primarily about looks and figures and that ends up being extremely repetitive, but these Smart sets have me excited again because they bring play back to the forefront.

I do wish LEGO would systematically include videos of the sets in action on the product pages. Interactivity is a bit better illustrated that way. While we've already seen some of the tags here in action, others are new.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"No SMART Bricks included. Yoda and Wicket have midlegs.

*facepalm emoji*"

As for the legs, @Heriol has a theory on that that seems to hold water: the hips and torso are molded together to allow for space the chip."

That theory definitely makes sense, but it still doesn't make the figures look good / accurate.

I have zero interest in the SMART play bricks, though I am sure I'm not the intended audience. I would be interested in several of these sets otherwise and may pick them up if I ever see them on deep discount anywhere.

Other than the pricing on that Land Speeder, these look pretty good. I think a lot of us are spoiled by the heights of design Lego SW hit in the late 2010's and these look like a regression to almost the first generation of SW designs. But now that it's confirmed they're going with the Mario model of a few starter sets and we're not paying for a smart brick in every one of them, I'm more comfortable with these. They're naturally not for me, but they really shouldn't be. They look like they'll be a lot of fun for kids.

By the Force, those things are ugly.

@HuskyDynamics said:
"How are the designs of these sets so badly hampered by the need to fit a single 2x4 brick in it?"

Imagine how much better City vehicles could look if they only had to fit a minifig inside somewhere, not position them in a specific driver's seat where they can be easily placed and removed without major disassembly.

That piece count for the Mos Eisley signifies that LEGO, in fact, has made a deal with the devil :p

@Robo_Nui said:
"Originally Han shot first.
Then Greedo shot first.
Now Han even wasn’t there."

Well of course! You need to buy Han solo after all... it's in his name! ;-P

@TheOtherMike said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"No SMART Bricks included. Yoda and Wicket have midlegs.

*facepalm emoji*"

As for the legs, @Heriol has a theory on that that seems to hold water: the hips and torso are molded together to allow for space the chip."
That may well be right. Or it could be that the torso is glued to the hips as, I believe, some keychain minifigures are. If that’s right, it would be to make the smart chip inaccessible, not to make extra room for the chip. That’s important because a single mould torso-and-hips piece would be a development - and not a good one.

@ezzzzz53 said:
"Can you program a smart brick to make custom noises? "
No. At least, not without hacking it which, no doubt, someone will figure out how to do. When the Mindstorm system was devised, the code was supposed to be unalterable. But FOLs soon broke the code and eventually LEGO ran with the idea that coding was part of the play/learning experience and made it a play feature/selling point. So the same could happen with Smart Bricks.

For what it's worth, the Falcon and AT-ST don't look completely repulsive.

I was going to buy the Luke's Landspeeder. But now knowing that it won’t include the Smart Brick, I’ll just save my money.

I was going to say these are a decent value, until I realized they don’t come with smart bricks!

For $40 the Landspeeder set could have been a great intro into the tech for kids, regardless of my personal opinion on it. But alas.

Disinterest in all these sets aside, I have no idea why they keep making such unappealing Landspeeders. Feels like it should be an easy hole in one, but the last several models have just been really rough, this included.

Not much to say about the rest. Expensive, but not designed for me and not an interest regardless. Still sad that the first TIE Advance we got in nearly a decade was a Smart Brick one. Alas, I can design my own at that point.

@Bagelwolf said:
"Bad, bad move. They should at least sell the Smart Brick on its own instead of forcing people to buy entire sets to get them."
But if they did that, who would buy any of them at all?

@SinKiller_Nick said:
"Yeah, how can a $99 Millenium Falcon set NOT come with a Smart Brick?"
Because then it would have been a $140 Millennium Falcon.

"Defining feature sold separately."

Beyond pathetic. It's like releasing a CON+TROLL set and not including the smart hub.

they could sell these without the smart brick if kids could play with all the features regardless if they have it or no. but that's not the case, all these are meant to be used with the damn brick. so lego is basically paywalling features and forcing parents to buy at least two (very expensive) sets if the kids want to use all the things it has to offer.

Brickset: “Darn LEGO, making us buy some useless electronic gizmo in every set!”

Also Brickset: “Darn LEGO, not including the fancy electronic gizmo in every set!”

@PurpleDave said:
" Brickset: “Darn LEGO, making us buy some useless electronic gizmo in every set!”

Also Brickset: “Darn LEGO, not including the fancy electronic gizmo in every set!”"

Imagine if Lego Mario only had a few sets that included the electronic Mario/Luigi/Peach, and the rest were just bricks! The theme certainly would have died immediately.

This is very nitpicky, but I'm rather disappointed with the new sandtrooper. I like the new torso & leg design for stormtroopers but it is a shame they've switched to the plastic pauldron and not included a survival backpack and it is also a shame (and this is the nitpicky part) they haven't included the different knee plate and different abdomen. Both of these are things they've historically done on stormtrooper minifigs.

@NHBrickworks said:
"I can't wait to boycott all of these sets. I feel like the smart bricks take away the real play value of these sets by not letting kids use their imagination on how to play with them and make sounds. I also hate the idea of having to charge your lego set so that you can keep playing with it because that just sounds ridiculous. I would accept an occasional set with smart brick features but I do not like that all of the sets will have them now."

They are still releasing SW sets without smart brick features.

@ImaMom said:
" @CCC said:
" @ImaMom said:
"Im not to happy about this announcement. I like the idea of the Smart Bricks but I already have most of those sets. To get sets with the Smart Tech ID I need to buy them all again.

To be honest Im getting frustrated with Lego re-making the same sets over and over and just changing or adding a little something to make it different.

I believe by remaking the same sets the market is getting extremely flooded and driving down the value of our very expensive sets.

That being said...I will buy some sets with Smart Tech because of the cool figs & bricks.

Im a Lego die hard and I am looking forward to this exciting new experience. I just wish the Smart Tech was available as sets rather than remade sets. What can I say...I Luv my bricks!"

You don't own these sets as they haven't been released. You might own sets that are the same ships/vehicles/locations. They re-release sets as people new to the hobby want to buy them. Would you have been happy to hear that LEGO were not going to make an X-wing ever again because they made one 25 years before? Don't buy LEGO because you think it has future value as LEGOwill always remake popular scenes. And if you do, don't open it or play with it."

I dont think you read my statement as it was written or intended.

I never said " I buy because it has future value. "Please dial it down a notch everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Kindness goes a long way....

"

So how exactly is the value of your expensive set driven down if they release new sets? You had it before they release a new set, and you have it after. There is no difference to you. Unless you want to sell it.

This is more like it!! The first 3 revealed did basically nothing but if there's a full wave of these, we might see some potential. Great that there's finally a new Falcon playset for $100 in these trying times, if nothing else, and it doesn't look atrocious like the X-wing! Happy for the kids.

Although, making another AT-ST and Luke's Landspeeder was certainly... a choice. Maybe for the second wave they can do a Snowspeeder and another Luke's Landspeeder!

The Millennium Falcon from 2000 is light years better than this hunk of junk, and that set was downright awful! Ditto for the Landspeeder from '99 vs the new one.

@ImaMom said:
" @CCC said:
" @ImaMom said:
"Im not to happy about this announcement. I like the idea of the Smart Bricks but I already have most of those sets. To get sets with the Smart Tech ID I need to buy them all again.

To be honest Im getting frustrated with Lego re-making the same sets over and over and just changing or adding a little something to make it different.

I believe by remaking the same sets the market is getting extremely flooded and driving down the value of our very expensive sets.

That being said...I will buy some sets with Smart Tech because of the cool figs & bricks.

Im a Lego die hard and I am looking forward to this exciting new experience. I just wish the Smart Tech was available as sets rather than remade sets. What can I say...I Luv my bricks!"

You don't own these sets as they haven't been released. You might own sets that are the same ships/vehicles/locations. They re-release sets as people new to the hobby want to buy them. Would you have been happy to hear that LEGO were not going to make an X-wing ever again because they made one 25 years before? Don't buy LEGO because you think it has future value as LEGOwill always remake popular scenes. And if you do, don't open it or play with it."

I dont think you read my statement as it was written or intended.

I never said " I buy because it has future value. "Please dial it down a notch everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Kindness goes a long way....

"

With all due respect, what are you trying to say then? Because how you wrote it is literally you saying that the value of your sets goes down because Lego makes newer versions. If you aren’t talking about financial value, then what value are you saying?

Wicket and Yoda have mid size legs! Jawa not. OK, I'm lost.

75430 from last year had a Wicket with short legs. So, is the switch to mid size connected to the Smart Brick set? Or a 2026 thing? Why not the Jawa, if he is in a Smart Brick set? Will the Ewoks from the rumored Ewok village have mid size legs?

Will I be able to sleep tonight? : )

I wonder how many parents are going to get in touch with LEGO support to complain their set seems to be missing the so-called smart brick that was advertised on the box? And then I wonder how those calls are going to go?

It feels slightly disingenuous to say that the smart brick is sold separately when it’s only available packaged in another building set. But then, this is likely the least of their worries.

Little Jimmy shouldn't be able to get a Lego toy of a Star Wars landspeeder on supermarket shelves because Big Bad Collector wants to be able to hoard scarce copies of twenty year old Lego toys of Star Wars landspeeders and slowly sell them at extortionate prices to every Little Jimmy who just wants a Star Wars toy.

Get a grip, touch grass. Remakes are good for new kids and new customers who join the hobby, and they really don't impact the prices of older sets on the secondary market that much. Older sets still retain their unique aspects relative to newer sets, which means that collectors still want them and pay collector prices for them.

That said, these sets are surprisingly decent. Not great, but decent. Badly priced, but mostly decent builds and minifig selections, except for the lack of Han Solo in the Cantina. The Millennium Falcon in particular looks like a decent build and a decent set for the price even without all the Smart paraphernalia.

@iwybs said:
"Little Jimmy shouldn't be able to get a Lego toy of a Star Wars landspeeder on supermarket shelves because Big Bad Collector wants to be able to hoard scarce copies of twenty year old Lego toys of Star Wars landspeeders and slowly sell them at extortionate prices to every Little Jimmy who just wants a Star Wars toy.

Get a grip, touch grass. Remakes are good for new kids and new customers who join the hobby, and they really don't impact the prices of older sets on the secondary market that much. Older sets still retain their unique aspects relative to newer sets, which means that collectors still want them and pay collector prices for them.

That said, these sets are surprisingly decent. Not great, but decent. Badly priced, but mostly decent builds and minifig selections, except for the lack of Han Solo in the Cantina. The Millennium Falcon in particular looks like a decent build and a decent set for the price even without all the Smart paraphernalia."

I’m not sure who this comment is directed at, because I think overwhelmingly people are not upset about more x-wings or falcons, but rather, contrary to what you think, are frustrated with how poor these builds seem to be. And they are built that way to incorporate the thus far underwhelming smart brick, which isn’t even included in the sets.

@Andrusi said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" Brickset: “Darn LEGO, making us buy some useless electronic gizmo in every set!”

Also Brickset: “Darn LEGO, not including the fancy electronic gizmo in every set!”"

Imagine if Lego Mario only had a few sets that included the electronic Mario/Luigi/Peach, and the rest were just bricks! The theme certainly would have died immediately."

I lost all interest in the Mario blind packs when they stopped including an electronic gizmo in each packet.

@monkyby87 said:
" @iwybs said:
"Stuff."

I’m not sure who this comment is directed at."

It was aimed at @ImaMom.

@iwybs said:
" @monkyby87 said:
" @iwybs said:
"Stuff."

I’m not sure who this comment is directed at."

It was aimed at @ImaMom."

Ah, ok. Yes, I responded to them as well, not sure why they were upset about newer versions of sets.

I'm gonna go against the grain here and say I absolutely love these sets.

Complaints about price and figures aside, these feel like the first true Star Wars PLAYsets that LEGO has made in a long time. I really enjoy the classic style of the builds, like modernized versions of early-2000 sets. And the play features seem really fun. These seem like playing with them will feel sorta like playing the old LEGO Star Wars games in a lot of ways. Yoda's Hut in particular, the floating crates and stew-making features are really fun and feel VERY LEGO Star Wars: The Original Trilogy.

Though I'm one of the few who hasn't been a fan of the "scale model" style of playsets that LEGO has been doing lately, where accuracy is one of the main goals. These are children's toys, us adults have the 18+ line and MOCs if we want scale models.

I think some AFOLs, especially when it comes to Star Wars, have a very inflated sense of how much their purchase means to LEGO. We are not the target audience here, I gauruntee that LEGO doesn't care if any of us like these sets. They're for kids. I think it's time for some to grow up and let kids have their fun lol. Demanding the LEGO Star Wars playsets adhere to our adult tastes feels very much like trying to pull the ladder up on the kids following us. They deserve the same fun we had growing up, let them have it.

downsizing, smart bricks, stud shooters, these sets are gonna make MandR explode

@yamaki said:
"Wicket and Yoda have mid size legs! Jawa not. OK, I'm lost.

75430 from last year had a Wicket with short legs. So, is the switch to mid size connected to the Smart Brick set? Or a 2026 thing? Why not the Jawa, if he is in a Smart Brick set? Will the Ewoks from the rumored Ewok village have mid size legs?

Will I be able to sleep tonight? : )

"
Wicket and Yoda are smart figs, with the tag/chip/whatever inside which doesn't allow disconnecting torso and hips. Short legs are presumably not used because of the space needed for the chip and/or to limit the number of leg molds for smart figs.
Jawa is a regular fig that happens to be in a smart set. The boxes show which figs in the set are smart on the right, with regular figs in the corner.

I actually really like the scale of the millennium falcon, it actually looks good

That being said, they’re all outrageously overpriced, and the rest also look bad

I feel sorry for those who haven’t left the fandom…

@ky_ebricks said:
"I'm gonna go against the grain here and say I absolutely love these sets.

Complaints about price and figures aside, these feel like the first true Star Wars PLAYsets that LEGO has made in a long time. I really enjoy the classic style of the builds, like modernized versions of early-2000 sets. And the play features seem really fun. These seem like playing with them will feel sorta like playing the old LEGO Star Wars games in a lot of ways. Yoda's Hut in particular, the floating crates and stew-making features are really fun and feel VERY LEGO Star Wars: The Original Trilogy."

The dewback in the Cantina is also nice to see. I know there was the microfighter version, but it is good to see a brick-built one instead of another big moulded lump. And being brick-built, it is easy to vary the size, shape and colour a bit.