Three cool sets. But I don;t think my wallet will be happy if I buy any...

Also, it's funny that MandR has put out a review of the set before the set was officially revealed!

Droideka is probably the best of the three. I'm not a fan of Brickheadz and the midi-scale dioramas always seem slightly off to me...

I'm just waiting to see how overpriced they are with the Disney tax.

Wow! Anyone have a guess on the price for the droideka?

Is Droideka scaled with ccbs figures?

LOL XD, MandRProductions literally just reviewed the first two of these this morning

The Droideka is really the only one that looks the slightest but intriguing to me. For the minifigure-scale destroyer droid... they certainly tried. I think the shell is the best we've seen yet, but the rest of the figure isn't great. You get an E for effort, LEGO.

Also... no Palpatine hologram piece with Cody >:-(
Having the official part in the Brickheadz might've been the one reason for me to get that (I certainly ain't shelling out $3 for one on Bricklink), but TLG cheaped out and gave us a stud instead.

I'll pass on these three.
So good for my wallet.

@Fatsochillyfries said:
"Wow! Anyone have a guess on the price for the droideka?"

60 - 65 dollar / euro is the rumour.

none of the three have minifigures!!!
annoying

Droideka and Cody are day-one buys, but I’ll wait for a sale on the Podrace. MandR showed that Sebulba’s Pod can’t fit through the arch it supposedly just came through, which is bugging me much more than it should.

@MZ_1 said:
"Is Droideka scaled with ccbs figures?"

According to the description it is 21 cm tall. The CCBS Clone Commander Cody was 23 cm tall. In canon Droidekas and Clone Troopers are both 1.83 m tall, so the set is slightly undersized in comparison to the CCBS figures but very close in scale.

@Fatsochillyfries said:
"Wow! Anyone have a guess on the price for the droideka?"

With 583 pieces at 10¢ per piece, it should come out to be 90 dollars

Wish we got a trans-blue microfig for the Palpatine hologram.

@lupia13 said:
"Wish we got a trans-blue microfig for the Palpatine hologram."

You mean like part 16478 but not in trans-light blue?

Not sure whats more laughable, no figures, or the prices for these sets..
In any case LEGO is saving me money... Guessing that is not their intention.

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick:
I was thinking the Emperor's hologram would count, but it's only been in three sets. One was OT, one was Disney Wars, and the third was from 75251, arguably taking place _after_ the execution of Order 66.

@illennium said:
" @fakespacesquid said:
" @ao_ka said:
"Peak modern Lego Star Wars: not a single playset, only display pieces (certainly overpriced) for fans who are willing to pay the full prices on the "day one" and the "investors" who profit from said fans too."

What would a "playset" entail? How can you play with other sets, and not with these? Can you not move the pod racers? Can you not move/pose/swoosh the droideka? How can you play with a minifig but not with a Brickhead?

We should really move past this vague, fictional "play" that some sets have and some sets don't. You can play with *****anything*****. I have not seen anyone ever articulate what would make these less conducive to play than any other set."

Not to mention, while it's been a long time since I was a kid, I distinctly remember my "play" with Lego sets consisting mostly of building and rebuilding sets, modifying, tinkering, imagining new additions I could make if I ever got new pieces, etc. That was always the joy of Lego to me as a kid. For action figure style play I had, you know, action figures. It blew my mind a few years ago to learn that some kids play with Lego as if it was action figures. Now I'm not going to say that there's any invalid way to play with toys, but I do think it's a little crazy that the Lego community (including prominent YouTubers) tends to talk about playing with Lego as a completely separate experience from building Lego. At the very least, building and rebuilding is a part of Lego play and needs to be considered when talking about "playability.""

Indeed. While sets like 10306, 21345, and 71374 do have neat features, seeing how the designers got the shapes is a good part of the fun of the build!

I like the Mos Espa Podracs, except… argh, stickers.

My wallet finally gets a reprieve from Star Wars LEGO.

Droideka! I haven’t watched many Star Wars movies besides rebels, the mandalorian, and bad batch. But I really want that Droideka!

Love the big Droideka. Really spooky how the minifigure-scale ones are always far worse than the fan-designed ones.

Droideka is a pre-order/day one purchase for me, not into the other themes. Eagerly waiting for the May 4th UCS reveal...

The destroyer droid is AWESOME. Absolutely I will get that and display it!

I happen to think the minifig destroyer is one of the most concise attempts yet, and the legs are the mostly shapely we've had. I'll be happy to use it in a diorama.

No interest in any of these sets. Is the podrace diorama set really $80 USD? That is insane.

While most Star Wars sets are coma inducingly boring to me, I do rather like all the diorama sets. Will definitely get this one once it's had the customary 25% price cut.

What are the orange gears used for the podrace diorama set?

The Droideka will definitely come and join last month's R2-D2 on display!

Oh goody, more straw ars sets.......

@TheMikeStrikesBack said:
"Droideka and Cody are day-one buys, but I’ll wait for a sale on the Podrace. MandR showed that Sebulba’s Pod can’t fit through the arch it supposedly just came through, which is bugging me much more than it should. "

I think it's meant to give some kind of forced perspective? Arch is smaller to show it's further away

@VaultDweller_197 said:
" @TheMikeStrikesBack said:
"Droideka and Cody are day-one buys, but I’ll wait for a sale on the Podrace. MandR showed that Sebulba’s Pod can’t fit through the arch it supposedly just came through, which is bugging me much more than it should. "

I think it's meant to give some kind of forced perspective? Arch is smaller to show it's further away"

Yes, plus it keeps the cost down while keeping the detail high. They could either reduce the scale of the pod racer, reducing detail, or increase the width of the arch and widen the whole build increasing the cost.

The droideka is nice. They still haven't nailed the minifig scale version yet though.

I should be a mark for a Cody Brickhead, but there's just too much going on.

Will be buying the podrace diorama, but it's probably my least favourite of the diorama series so far.

@xoddam said:
" @fakespacesquid said:
" @ao_ka said:
"Peak modern Lego Star Wars: not a single playset, only display pieces (certainly overpriced) for fans who are willing to pay the full prices on the "day one" and the "investors" who profit from said fans too."

What would a "playset" entail? How can you play with other sets, and not with these? Can you not move the pod racers? Can you not move/pose/swoosh the droideka? How can you play with a minifig but not with a Brickhead?

We should really move past this vague, fictional "play" that some sets have and some sets don't. You can play with *****anything*****. I have not seen anyone ever articulate what would make these less conducive to play than any other set."

The diorama is too small to play with and the podracers don't have any play features. The droideka is too big, out of scale and probably fragile to play with. Cody doesn't have any moving parts, unlike a minifigure which can be moved and posed for play. You *can* play with these sets, but other sets are far better for play."

When was the last time you played with a set?

All these amazing, imaginative Podracer designs, and we only ever get the same two ones repeated ad nauseam. Anakin's is literally one of the least interesting ones at that.

@merman said:
"What are the orange gears used for the podrace diorama set?"

https://brickset.com/parts/design-69762

I’m thinking this, maybe? Looks like a pair of thick 16-tooth bevel gears placed back to back, and this is the only thing I can find that looks close.

I am continually amazed that Brickheadz is still a thing. I feel like general AFOL excitement for them faded out after a couple of years, and that was a LONG time ago now. But I guess someone's still buyin' 'em, or maybe I'm just completely wrong.

UCS Droideka.. Who asked for this? I know there's now a generation of young adults who saw the prequel trilogy as kids and have a nostalgic soft spot for these pretty bad films because childhood nostalgia is a powerful, potent thing.. But still, a droideka? There hasn't been a Gungan Sub set in 12 years, why not something like that instead?

@Brick_t_ said:
"The Droideka will definitely come and join last month's R2-D2 on display! "

That'd be a one-sided battle... or *would* it?

@Golem25 said:"All these amazing, imaginative Podracer designs, and we only ever get the same two ones repeated ad nauseam. Anakin's is literally one of the least interesting ones at that."

While I would love to see some of the others be made as sets, the original did give us this part: https://brickset.com/parts/design-30407

@TheMikeStrikesBack said:
"Droideka and Cody are day-one buys, but I’ll wait for a sale on the Podrace. MandR showed that Sebulba’s Pod can’t fit through the arch it supposedly just came through, which is bugging me much more than it should. "

Yes however I am 99% sure that Sebulba has to turn his podracer vertically to fit through one of the archways in the film and this is how you can fit his podracer through so actually it is quite accurate in fact.

" @fakespacesquid said:
" @xoddam said:
The diorama is too small to play with and the podracers don't have any play features. The droideka is too big, out of scale and probably fragile to play with. Cody doesn't have any moving parts, unlike a minifigure which can be moved and posed for play. You *can* play with these sets, but other sets are far better for play."

When was the last time you played with a set?"

He has just explained with logic and in detail why they are worse for play than even the average toy within its same product category, what does your retort even mean?

Probably the best droideka minifig since 2002, though still none of them can roll up like that one did.

The pod race is cool but not worth the price imo. Cody looks really good for a brickheadz and *ahem* will make a nice addition to my collection. I think the droideka is the best set and it seems decently priced. I will definitely pick up Cody but we'll see on the droideka. Saving for Barud Dur is really eating into my budget for other sets.

@ShilohCyan said:
" @xoddam said:
" @fakespacesquid said:
" @ao_ka said:
"Peak modern Lego Star Wars: not a single playset, only display pieces (certainly overpriced) for fans who are willing to pay the full prices on the "day one" and the "investors" who profit from said fans too."

What would a "playset" entail? How can you play with other sets, and not with these? Can you not move the pod racers? Can you not move/pose/swoosh the droideka? How can you play with a minifig but not with a Brickhead?

We should really move past this vague, fictional "play" that some sets have and some sets don't. You can play with *****anything*****. I have not seen anyone ever articulate what would make these less conducive to play than any other set."

The diorama is too small to play with and the podracers don't have any play features. The droideka is too big, out of scale and probably fragile to play with. Cody doesn't have any moving parts, unlike a minifigure which can be moved and posed for play. You *can* play with these sets, but other sets are far better for play."

I grew up playing with 4488 side by side with minifigures, with an Exo-Force robot for 3PO, Hagrid as Chewie, and Luke cobbled together from other figures.

100 years ago, a duck with wheels was a viable toy. 200 years ago, dried up folded corn skins counted as dolls. so how the heck are microscale podracers not playable, and how is a minifigure with a REMOVABLE, REPLACEABLE stud shooter and without printed arms considered not displayable as a collectible?

some sets are meant for older collectors, sure. But building it IS playing with it, and kids CAN play with whatever they want. You think no kids are going to imagine a world where a giant droideka exists? (also, that's why there's a minifig too!) and do you think no kids whose parents can't afford the AT-TE and don't know about bricklink are gonna play with Brickhead Cody instead alongside their minifigs? Kids imagine cardboard boxes into castles, but size variations are where you draw the line?"

Problem here is, Lego is selling these as display pieces for adults first, and toys for kids second. It's been the issue plaguing the brand for the past decade now.

@Onatu said:
" @ShilohCyan said:
" @xoddam said:
" @fakespacesquid said:
" @ao_ka said:
"Peak modern Lego Star Wars: not a single playset, only display pieces (certainly overpriced) for fans who are willing to pay the full prices on the "day one" and the "investors" who profit from said fans too."

What would a "playset" entail? How can you play with other sets, and not with these? Can you not move the pod racers? Can you not move/pose/swoosh the droideka? How can you play with a minifig but not with a Brickhead?

We should really move past this vague, fictional "play" that some sets have and some sets don't. You can play with *****anything*****. I have not seen anyone ever articulate what would make these less conducive to play than any other set."

The diorama is too small to play with and the podracers don't have any play features. The droideka is too big, out of scale and probably fragile to play with. Cody doesn't have any moving parts, unlike a minifigure which can be moved and posed for play. You *can* play with these sets, but other sets are far better for play."

I grew up playing with 4488 side by side with minifigures, with an Exo-Force robot for 3PO, Hagrid as Chewie, and Luke cobbled together from other figures.

100 years ago, a duck with wheels was a viable toy. 200 years ago, dried up folded corn skins counted as dolls. so how the heck are microscale podracers not playable, and how is a minifigure with a REMOVABLE, REPLACEABLE stud shooter and without printed arms considered not displayable as a collectible?

some sets are meant for older collectors, sure. But building it IS playing with it, and kids CAN play with whatever they want. You think no kids are going to imagine a world where a giant droideka exists? (also, that's why there's a minifig too!) and do you think no kids whose parents can't afford the AT-TE and don't know about bricklink are gonna play with Brickhead Cody instead alongside their minifigs? Kids imagine cardboard boxes into castles, but size variations are where you draw the line?"

Problem here is, Lego is selling these as display pieces for adults first, and toys for kids second. It's been the issue plaguing the brand for the past decade now."

That would be a good point, if we hadn't spent several comments thoroughly explaining that play vs display sets is bogus. Anything can be displayed. Anything can be played with.

The only thing that makes some of these lean more towards display is the price. But that still doesn't mean that these aren't sets that can be played with. What we think TLG is "selling them as," just doesn't really factor in.

And again as I've mentioned (maybe in another article), this wouldn't be an "issue plaguing the brand" if customers weren't gobbling it up. Big, detailed, expensive sets sell, so TLG will continue to make them. If buyers weren't into it, we wouldn't get them over and over.

The only thing that makes these display pieces and "not playsets" is some woefully underused imaginations. "This is a display set, I can't play with it cuz it's out of scale" C'mon friend. We can do better.

@ShilohCyan:
Now I kinda want to plonk Big Momma on one of our layouts, surrounded by her flock of droidekalings…

Every set is a play set... It's a new toy every day!

https://brickset.com/article/58636/[april-fool-s]-introducing-18-duplo-design

So would you guys characterize this more as a playset, or a display piece?

@fakespacesquid said:
" @Anonym said:
" " @fakespacesquid said:
" @xoddam said:
The diorama is too small to play with and the podracers don't have any play features. The droideka is too big, out of scale and probably fragile to play with. Cody doesn't have any moving parts, unlike a minifigure which can be moved and posed for play. You *can* play with these sets, but other sets are far better for play."

When was the last time you played with a set?"

He has just explained with logic and in detail why they are worse for play than even the average toy within its same product category, what does your retort even mean?"

He listed some differences, yes. But kids playing with these couldn't care less about something being "out of scale" and often don't care about poseability. "Too small to play with?" That doesn't exist. So if kids would have no issue playing with these, the differences would only matter if adult play would be affected.

So the next logical question is how often do you play? If you're criticizing the playability, when was the last time you used it? If someone was criticizing instructions, but never built anything by the instructions, it'd be a pretty silly complaint. If someone bought sets and never built them, I couldn't take their opinion on set design very seriously.

So if you aren't playing with sets, don't talk about playability. Easy peasy. I can guarantee, people who *do* play with their Lego don't complain about something having or not having it. It's folks who build it once and display it on a shelf forever that complain about a lack of playability, because they don't have a reasonable complaint."

I was a kid once, too and had many issues with the things he listes. The poseability of action figures that were sculpted in permanent crouches or had no elbows or wrists was idiotic and made me go with Lego because at the end of the day Hasbro figures weren't more poseable than Lego, most of the time they were even lacking in basic features of Lego figures like being able to sit down.

Same with the 90$ podrace diorama, not only do you pay so much for just two mini scale models, you can not even really play with the scenerey included, so how can you seriously call that not an issue that affects people or children? How grotesquely dumb do you think children are? They see these issues too and go to computer games because of it, because there they do have enough clearance for their podracers to go through caves and arches and even have a multitude of different ones too choose from for much less of a price (90$ vs 2.50 - 20$ for the average racing game). And by your reasoning why would this 90$ set then still be good when two 4$ mini polybag podracers would do the exact same job? By your reasoning two rocks and a cut up shipping box would be just as good because they do the exact same job. Don't mention being able to build the structures out of bricks, the percentage of people that build and rebuild the exact same item multiple times is tiny compared to people that view the building of such expensive toys as required assembly. Your arguments are all ridiculous hypotheticals taken to extremes through isolation while ignoring most easily observable characteristics to avoid any comparison between two different toys.

If you got goaded into paying 90$ for a set and then only end up really using parts worth 8$ you got scammed and that should be called what it is. This same thing happened to me too with a bunch of old LSW items. Technic figures looked interesting but could only move their shoulders and maybe head and the lack of heroes meant there wasn't any fight to play out except for 3PO getting blasted apart. The presentation and "unique" parts tricked me into wanting these when I would have been better off using the money for any othe

@fakespacesquid @ShilohCyan
If 'anything can be played with', why buy your kid a £90 Star Wars diorama when you could just give them a stick? Some things are better to play with than others. I had toys that I never played with and toys that I played with a lot, and there were reasons for that. The good toys had moving parts, action features, were small enough to fit in my hand but big enough that they felt substantial. They were durable and could fit minifigures inside. Are we gonna pretend that Lego can just put anything out and call it a playset?

Droideka is my favorite Droid, I wish they remade technic model.

@SI15 said:
"Missed opportunity to not make the quote "Now this is podracing" on set 75380 ."

While I agree that is a great quote,
It is from a different scene, so wouldn't fit.

If it were a Diorama of the N1, then absolutely that should be the quote.

All that effort and the mini-droideka can't roll? Boooo! Boooooo!! /j

Jokes aside those both look pretty cool, these are the first Star Wars sets in some time not to include a minifigure I think.

Honestly, on minifig Droidekas the proportions of their "head and neck" curve only ever felt correct on the original 2002 ones.

Even the 18+ set still contains this issue on the minifig scale version. It sticks out like a sore thumb especially when placed next to the more accurate bigger scale version. The curve bricks used are at too sharp of an angle, compared to the 1x2 chain on the 2002 ones that got the shape of the curve down more accurately on an otherwise inaccurate build.

@xoddam said:
" @fakespacesquid @ShilohCyan
If 'anything can be played with', why buy your kid a £90 Star Wars diorama when you could just give them a stick? Some things are better to play with than others. I had toys that I never played with and toys that I played with a lot, and there were reasons for that. The good toys had moving parts, action features, were small enough to fit in my hand but big enough that they felt substantial. They were durable and could fit minifigures inside. Are we gonna pretend that Lego can just put anything out and call it a playset?"

Stick!!!

ugh guys... no one's saying there's no distinction between playsets and display pieces. Just that they're all Lego and they can all go on a shelf and all be picked up and played with. My point with the mini falcon is the scale of the podracers don't matter and once you take them off the base, they serve the same purpose as 4485 which was clearly intended as a toy. Heck, I'd say it's easier to play with tiny versions and swoosh them around your bedroom than 7962 that needs at least 3 hands and a living room to swoosh around.

I'm not debating that some sets are playsets and some sets are display pieces. I'm saying there's nothing stopping you from using either as the other because they're all the same components. That's the whole point. that is why we're all still here 15-70 years later.

@bnic99 said:
" @SI15 said:
"Missed opportunity to not make the quote "Now this is podracing" on set 75380 ."

While I agree that is a great quote,
It is from a different scene, so wouldn't fit.

If it were a Diorama of the N1, then absolutely that should be the quote."

I had similar thoughts to both of you. "It should say 'Now this is podracing!' Oh wait, that line wasn't from this scene."

That Droideka set looks great. Even better how it can actually fold up and roll!!! :D