My dream LEGO Star Wars Battle Pack

I agree with @essel and @TomKazutara. Don't care much for the Clone War era.

I would buy at least x4 of that pack but I would also add that other BP should be:
-Fallen Order Imperial BP (x2 Purge Troopers with melee weapons, x1 Flame Trooper, x1 Heavy Trooper (Rocket launcher or a Machine Gun);
-Fallen Order Partisan BP (x1 Wookie, x1 Female soldier, x1 Male soldier, x1 alien);
-Imperial Mandalorian BP (x1 Flame Trooper, x2 Stormtroopers, x1 Death Trooper).

A true Republic Commando pack would be stellar, be it Delta or Omega Squad. I'd like to see a Jedi battle pack as well. Two Knights, one Master, and one Padawan.

I agree with @Thego76 and @JaredHinton, too. Cantina aliens or an Ewok pack would be fun!

Great and thought-provoking article to start off my Sunday!

Only clones? Well, true to your name I guess :)
I'd like to have a no similar to the previous clone and jedi, true these are not for army building but a great way to get interesting minifigs at a good price.
Maybe some tuskens? Perhaps not just man, but women and children too?

I want a 212th with 2 212th troopers, 1 212th airborne trooper, and a Phase II Commander Cody. I know we got one a while back but they’re probably my favorite clone battalion.

Anything without boring officer figures.

@Lego_Prime said:
"It may break the rules as it consists of 5 troopers, but Domino Squad would be my perfect ballet pack. Droidbait and Cutup would appear in standard Phase l Clone armour with standard blasters, Hevy would be similar but include a brick-built Z-6 rotary cannon, and Echo and Fives could appear in their Arc Trooper gear. Another one I’d like would be Delta Squad from the Star Wars: Republic Commando video game, as the Clone Commando has never appeared in minifigure form."

Yes, yes, and double yes. That would be amazing!

I would like to see simultaneous releases, of Battle Packs of opposing factions, again. Any Clone Trooper variant Battle Pack will do, Phase I and Phase II armor. A Delta Squad Battle Pack would be great for the exclusive minifigures.

I'd like a pure army-building battle pack.
So 4 similar figures instead of the mix they're doing nowadays.
I'd like to see those with Imperial Stormtroopers, Sith Stormtroopers, Separatist droids (they could bump it to 8 in this one), and Republic clones. Maybe also one with Naboo Royal Guards for fans of the prequels (all 3 of them :P).

I don't think LEGO should do identifiable battle packs. And definitely no 501st battle pack (they won't anyway, specially after that whiny YouTube brat had his child viewers spamming LEGO's social platforms with silly comments about it).

Gungans, Ewoks, Cantina, Rebel pilots with individual helmet decorations, Phase 2 Clone Troopers, Jabba's minions- anyone from his palace we don't already have, Bespin- two Bespin Guards and two Ugnaughts.

I would buy this several times! Something I’ve yet to do

I’ll take any battle pack with just troopers. No officers in dark suits who never even appeared on the battle field. No jet pack whatevers or flame this or that. Just grunts. And sargeants. And lots of em. Can you skip the vehicle and put in a whole squad? A Sargeant and 10 troopers. Please. Thank you!

I don't mind the stud shooters, but how about 3 blasters and 1 stud shooter per pack?

Overwhelmingly, Nova Corps...

Rogue One: Saw Gerrera, Edrio and Benthic Two Tubes, and Weeteef Cyu-Bee. Because Warwick Davis needs another minifig!
The Last Jedi: Canto Bight, the three stable kids and a brick-built fathier.

Death Star Battle pack, so people can make MilF scenes more easily! Yes, I know Stormtroopers are available, but hard to find consistent designs now

For each of the OT movies:

ANH: Cantina Patrons: Chalmun (Wookie owner of the Cantina), Bith Musician, Ithorian (Momaw Nadon) & Snivvian (Zutton/Snaggletooth) with a curved bar section

ESB: Cloud City Denizens: Two Bespin Guards (B&W duo), Ugnaught, & Cloud Car Pilot with modified red passenger transport

ROTJ: Ewoks v. Troops: A redo of 7139 Ewok Attack would real nice.

Your idea is terrible because all notable ROTS clone legions deserve their own separate packs instead of a weird Hasbro Actionfigure style 4-pack box like this.

It's sad that Lego removed clone troopers entirely from their line-up after 2014 despite their packs having been the most popular.

The worst offender is the absence of Phase 2 clone battlepacks. Only one exists, the orange 212th Attack Batallion, all others don't really count due to the camouflage color schemes or because it's the very first battlepack that uses a more than outdated helmet mold. The following are just the most notable legions and theoretically Lego should have done all of the legions from ROTS a long time ago already, not necessarily as battlepacks but in some form at the very least.

501st Legion Phase 2 version
plain white Phase 2 clone troopers (maybe with jetpacks inspired by Genndys Microseries and a Saleucami trooper/Captain Fordo)
Galactic Marine Nova Corps
Grey or dark red clone Legions Phase 2 from 2017s Battlefront 2
Geonosis Camouflage Phase 1 and ARF troopers (this is the worst because had Lego already did this but packed in the wrong helmets, preventing many from wanting to buy even one of those battlepacks)
Republic Commandos
ARC Troopers Phase 1 style

Phase 1 legions are all TCW styled so maybe do some of those. A set with 4 different versions would make the most sense here as those episodes showed different legions operating together more often.

Then there are major omissions from the new movies and the shows since 2012 of seemingly all the best designs.

Canto Bight Police
Mudtroopers and imperial officers with coats
Resistance Troopers Crait style
Shore Troopers with AT-ACT Driver
Range Troopers and more winter coat imperials
Resistance Troopers from episode 7 that were actually visible onscreen
Rebels from Rebels (that concept art inspired design with the shell helmets and goggles)
Imperial Rocket Troopers from Rebels
Clone Sandtroopers (Wolfpack from TCW season 6 finale)

And even if they think all the same white troopers are boring there certainly have been better choices than friggin Jawa & Tusken Raider, choices that have actually been involved in battles.

Gungans
Naboo Palace Guards
Senate Guards (with capes)
Geonosians
Ewoks
Wookiees
Aqua Droids
Magna Guards
Darth Mauls Mandalorian army
Mandalorians from Rebels or just invent some Mando color combos like Hasbro since they are all canon
Neimoidians (think of 1 or 2 Warriors like in the Vulture Droid 2014 set and 2 Controlship officers)
Umbarans

And don't forget the last few OT&PT options that have been kept exclusive and rare to bigger sets and could need an armybuilder

Battle Droids
Superbattledroids
Sandtroopers
Endor Rebels
Hoth Rebels

Think about non-canon color variants and weird alien/civilian type packs after all of these have been done.

Echoing another previous comment, in the name of army building, I too would like to see full squads of troopers with specialist roles in a battlepack rather than specific, named characters.

Obscurity, or limited screen time would not concern me, in fact it would be a positive bonus to see a unit of bomb disposal clones, engineers or whatever. A standard selection of 2 troopers, a section leader and commander, or similar, would be good to see replicated across a number of disciplines. Each having their own battlepack. Well, we are talking fantasy/wishlist territory aren’t we?

Also packs from prequel, OT, sequel or stand alone films (and video games) wouldn’t worry me. Although I think clone troopers from prequels have been under used and also exhibit the most scope for new novel battlepacks.

@jaredhinton said:
"Am I the only one who wants an Ewok battle pack?"

no you're not; I came here to say Ewoks

The Bad Batch

I think they should release Battle Packs with 1 of each trooper/soldier.
For example, an O/T pack of Original Stormie, A Hoth trooper, A Speeder biker and a Tie Pilot for the empire or a Rebel Fleet trooper, Hoth Soldier, Endor Soldier and Pilot for the rebels. If you put four different heads in each of the packs you could mix and match to make a whole load of variant troopers . They could do a similar thing with the CW era and ST era so that you could build an army of varying troopers to what ever size you wanted.

I would love to see the random officer left out of the battlepacks. If we're going to get four minis and an OK small build at the approximately $15(US) price point, then they should be useful for force building.

I would love to see four regular troopers with a random pauldron for NCOs and Officers, with how to read them right on the sheet, with an OK small build, and keep it at $15. I would love to see this go a slight different way, and given how the CMFs have sold I think it will work. It's going to "break the rules", so bear with me.

An ACTUAL battle pack. Four regular Stormtroopers in every box. And they have a "blind" module. Lets say there are 12 per cycle. Four of those are fixed, the others are in, for lack of a better word, "blocks" which rotate on say a six or nine month period. So the four in "A" class are always going to be in the mix, "B" would be the premeire, limited edition ones, and "C" the first of the regular rotation. At the start of the second period (phase?) B goes out and D comes in. Each module has 2 minis and a micro build or two, or a minifig and a small build. Examples that come to mind are:
-Scouttrooper and a minfig scale speederbike and some terrain
-2 Stormtroopers with a second pauldron and equipment
-2 Snowtroopers and an E-web
-2 Imperial Guardsmen with... something?
-2 Rebel Commandos
-etc

And the blind modules would also be available on the side like a booster pack.

And maybe with every cycle there is the one "different box". Four Jawas and four to six droids. 4 rebel pilots, 4 astromechs and something like a tredwell. 5 clone troopers and an AT-RT. 6 B1 battledroids, a B2 heavy, and a STAP. Something like that.

But I'd be willing to spend 50 bucks on a Mos Eisley People Pack. Heck, I'd spend that for a pack with 20 stormtroopers, two e-webs, and a couple of pauldrons, so long as they had blasters rather than stud shooters.

I don't know, I'm dreaming out loud.

I really wants Galactica marines to be in minifig form because we have already have 501st in 2013

I dont think there should be four clones from different legions/battalions/corps in one set, when at most you see two fighting together. I would like one 327th, one 442nd (white with light green markings) and two plain phase II clones.

For any legion/battalion/corps, two regular clones and two special variants e.g. arf trooper or paratrooper will always work.

If they want to include a jedi, temple guards are somewhat massable. They could do a coruscant battle pack with one of those, two shocktroopers, and one of the arf troopers with sniffer dogs that hunted ahsoka.

Maybe they could do larger army building sets, like the city people packs. A few named characters wouldnt be minded in a set with like 12 generic ones.

@essel said:
"As an OT fan (though I do not hate the prequels or sequels), I don't care for Clone troopers much. As a result, I'd prefer a pack with Stormtroopers, Imperial officers, Scout Troopers, Mimban Troopers, TIE Fighter pilots, etc. Generic Rebel soldiers and officers would be nice, too."

And the crowd roared with exhilaration...!!!

I want a death watch battle pack, with three normal black and red troopers, and one commander with the Maul style horns on the helmet.

The 501st Legion needs a battle pack. The thing would sell like hot cakes.

I personally believe that Clone Battle packs seem to be in more demand then Stormtrooper and other Star Wars infantry unit.

Enough troops for now i think. Please make:

Knights of Ren Battle Pack!
Another Bounty Hunter Battle Pack! (That includes Zuckus, please!!)

@Alakazam03 . Those Battle packs would be my top choice as well.

How about a squad of Company 77 ex-stormtroopers riding Orbaks…..so we can assault star destroyers with space horses. Just what the Star Wars universe was waiting for.

Light Side battle pack:
ET (from the prequels)
Baby Yoda
Mara Jade
The Daughter from Mortis (in both human and animal form)
Adult Ahsoka Tano

Dark Side battle pack:
Darth Bane - the cool one from the Legends novels, not the one (maybe orbalisk-encrusted) from the Clone Wars
The Son from Mortis (in both human and animal form)
Darth Plagueis
Vergere
Mother Talzin

Or how about a battle pack of Yuuzan Vong?

I’d be happy with just having blasters back instead of those absolutely awful stud shooters we’ve been getting.

Something with non-humans. Ewok battle pack. Geonosian battle pack. Gungan battle pack.

@TimmyConstantine said:
"I’d be happy with just having blasters back instead of those absolutely awful stud shooters we’ve been getting.
"

I'm sure they can do both. It is only 4 more pieces. Recently they have been making lots of single molds that contain multiple pieces, like the clone commander gear in the first wave of clone wars. They could make one of those with 4 blasters and put it in every battle pack. that would only be 1 extra piece

Should be 38 not 40. Forty includes the 2 packs. But I would offer 1 more to the list 75037-1: Battle on Saleucami. To me this is also a battle pack

I think they should introduce bigger battle packs, similar to the People Packs or Gamer's market.
That way they could find a better balance between more generic troopers and more specialized characters, and you could build a big army faster.

Modal Nodes Battle Pack!

I'd really like to see a Resistance Pilots Battle Pack:

Jess Pava
Nien Nunb
Ello Asty
Jaycriss Tubbs

Would also love to see a Rogue Squadron battle pack, with Corran Horn, Tycho Celchu, Hobbie Klivian and Whistler. (doubt we'll ever get anything from EU)

Anything and Everything

I'm honestly fine with most clones, rebel, imperial, etc. type of battlepack, the only issue I have is the inclusion of named figures or "specialized" figures. Including jedi and named characters in a battlepack is just a ridiculous and, in my opinion, unprofitable decision. I get why they want to do that, however, they can just throw them into other $10, $20+ sets. The purpose of battlepacks are to make an army for battle. And by including named characters defeats this purpose and removes the motivation to buy more than one. So the ideal and probably most profitable way to design the battlepack is to have 4 generic (but not like the rebels stormtrooper one...), maybe customizable, figures (e.g 2 plain clones & 2 501st clones) in a batlepack. If not then, 3 generic figures and one specialized and unnamed figure. But overall, this trend of having named figures and seemingly anti-army building extra figures, LEGO is really not doing a good job in satisfying consumers and making better profits.

I wish they did post-apocalyptic Lego Movie 2 battle packs. I need them scavenger warriors in greater quantities.

If it's for army-building, I completely agree with CapnRex101's choices. If it were to be specific characters, I'd have to go with Delta Squad from Republic Commando.

I greatly prefer the design of phase I clones from AotC. There has been a severe shortage of those unfortunately.

@Lego_Prime said:
"Another one I’d like would be Delta Squad from the Star Wars: Republic Commando video game, as the Clone Commando has never appeared in minifigure form."

Would be cool to see Boss, Fixer, Sev, and Scorch as minifigures.

This is a actually a really good idea for a Battle Pack, and imo is better than just purely a 501st battle pack

I know people love Army Builder Battle Packs but I love the ones that contain otherwise rare figures like the Jedi. A great compromise would be 3 army builder troops and a unique figure.

The Solo Imperial pack was great as the speeder was accurate to a vehicle from the movies

I know this is talking about Star Wars but Superhero battlepacks would be great, especially from the final battle in endgame. One consisting of 4 of Thanos's Soldiers and one of heros, a sorceror, a wakendan, a ravager and an asgardian. I saw a Moc of such a battlepack on instagram back when Endgame was released. These would have sold loads, I think at least as much as the average Star Wars battlepack.

I agree that clones and stormtroopers woukd be great. I would also like to see more packs that could fill in gaps. Like a droid pack of different astromech and protocol droids.

Ewok bp: teebo, a baby ewok and some random ewoks
Cantina bp: ponda baba, dr. Evazan, Zutton, hrcheck kal fas, Elis Helrot
Jabba bp: Tessek, yakface, Ananaman, Nikto, Klaatu
Jabba musicians: sy snootles, max rebo, droopy mccool, twil’ek singer and rodian flutist
Home one bp: orrimaarko, major panno, nien numb, ishi tib or a random mon calamari guard, y-wing pilot

For me, 501st BP (yes cliche) with 3 phase 2 troopers and 1 ARF trooper on an AT-RT would be ideal. It fits nicely with the Umbara arc.

Battlepacks, by virtue of their name, are based around combatants in the SW universe. Army building is important to some (I would include myself in that group) but less so to others. But we should accept that multiple purchases are far more likely with these sets than any other from the SW theme.

I think it is important to make the distinction between a Battlepack and a Character pack. A Character pack is not without merit as a concept, but they will nearly always be single purchases, i.e how many Cantina bands would one need? I think they made an error in this respect with the bounty hunter pack. I appreciated getting the figures, but only a single purchase was made. Call us mad, but some people would, and in my case definately did, get a dozen Batlepacks to build ranks of Deathtroopers. I just love ‘em!

Also, doesn’t just having four figures per pack (and adding some usually pointless brick built items) get round the whole “Lego aren’t an action figure company” restriction that the SW license made some time ago. If this has expired, let’s go for it and have 8, 12 & 16 figure battlepacks. But joking aside why not go to 6 figues, 4 troops, 2 ancillaries? The ancillaries being a droid, commanding officer or support member such as a rebel mechanic?

Pardon the self promotion, but for an updated bricklist of all 38 (and counting!):
https://brickset.com/sets/list-23063

I'd really like to see the format of Lego City with the theme of Star Wars. Lego Star Wars needs more world building in general.

I would have two 501st and two 212th clones in a battle pack. When they were in the same battle, you know they would win. Another battle pack could be the commandos ("you", Sev, Scorch, and Fixer) from Republic Commando.

They should make one with 4 of the new Imperial Stormtroopers, one of which would have a commander flag.

I pretty much agree with everything said in this article.

however, i think i'd prefer to have a plain ol' 501st battlepack and a plain 327th star corps instead just because i d get more of each type

@Alakazam03 said:
"I have 2 ideas, but would probably be unpopular. First is a from Solo, a Mimban Troopers battle pack with 2 Mimban stormtroopers and 2 Mudtroopers. Build could be a trench build similar to the build in 75202 Defense of Crait with a cannon. Second, from Rogue One, s Scarif Troopers battle pack with 2 Shoretroopers, 1 Death Trooper, 1 Stormtrooper. Build could be a master switch station with turret and an orange imperial crate.

"

I've never even considered any of these 2 Battle Packs,
But now I'm a bit bummed out.
Because I know that they will never happen.
Great Idea Dude,
Seriously way to think out side of the box.
I absolutely Love both ideas.

LEGO, stop making insanely overpriced LEGO city “people packs” and more Star Wars battle packs

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I'd like a Jedi battlepack, maybe from Geonosis, but a "generic" group would probably appeal more to me... I'd just like the opportunity to create (more) non-specific Jedi characters... perhaps even with a set of new lightsaber moulds?

@Bycougars said:
"I would be happy with any clone battle packs"

I totally agree!

Yes.

Great article with some great comments and ideas. Can't believe no-one's suggested a Bespin BP featuring the legendary Ice Cream Maker Guy though. Two camps of thought, it seems, army builders and character collectors though currently we're getting a bit of both so we can all be happy. We need Ponda Baba and more wookiees and any kind of creature that can be ridden, imho.

I agree! While I’d want 4 Troopers, I don’t need 4 of each, 4 different types (similar to Mando Battle Pack) is the way to go... that way if one wanted and army of storm trooper or clone troopers, they could buy multiple, to grow armies of 4 types of each. Good idea!

My ideal battle pack would be 3 regular stormtroopers, a scout trooper and a scout speeder bike

Definatly some 501st troopers and 332nd troopers. maybe add a shock trooper or 212. A barc speeder would fit nicely with them.

My current favorite battle pack of all time actually isn't from Star Wars at all. It's the Green Army Men from Toy Story 3. I usually only buy one of any battle pack, but in that case I bought several and modified them with different poses and accessories to make a full spread based on actual plastic army men poses.

But what would really geek me out is if they gave us a Claw Alien battle pack. TS4 looks like it's done as a theme, so unless they produce TS5 someday, I very much doubt this is likely to happen...but it would be so awesome if it did.

@PurpleDave said:
"I'd prefer a Scout Trooper battlepack. Whether it be just plainvanilla RotJ Scouts, or includes a spread of different deco patterns on the same armor style, I don't really care. Just Scout Troopers and a couple speederbikes."

Agreed! One with scout troopers and one with 2 Endor rebel troopers and 2 Ewoks

In fact, we only have a few rebel packs, most are either outdated or not from originals

How about a new resistance battle pack as well? Or a seperatist battle pack?

Love the idea of doing an iconic range from all 3 trilogies:

1) Stormtropper, Sandtropper, Snowtrooper w/ cannon, Scouttrooper with speeder bike

2) Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3 Clonetroppers with Unique, yet to be made Clone Armor with AT-RT.

3) First Order Special Forces Trooper or Watertrooper (Resistance) newer Snowtrooper, Sith Royal Guard, Sith Special Forces Tie Pilot (The Rise of Skywalker) with TBA

This could be also be extended to cover ranges from The Clone Wars, Solo, Rebals, Rogue One, etc...

I'd love to see a Republic Commandos battle pack. Though their canonicity has been relegated to relative obscurity, ever since the original video game came out, they've been my favorite troops.

We all want the minfigures from the Cantina and Jabba's Palace. Lego should make sets that are not battlepacks but are modular and help build out a large version of both places. Lego should design a large building and break it up into small sections like the alcove that Han and Greedo sit in and sell those. This is not a new idea; it is done all the time for 3.75" inch Hasbro figures. Lego should make more special star wars minifigures.

I also say if LEGO City can give us massive 50$ people packs, Star Wars should do the same.

Slightly off topic, but we need Galen Erso, Saw Gerrero, Dryden Vos, Ponda Baba, Dr. Evazan, Garindan, L3...

I think Ewoks would make for a great battle pack, as would Hondo’s pirates, and Chem’s twilek resistance.

Ok, for myself...even though they're not cannon anymore: Zero-Grav Stormtroopers. I imagine a 'Axel'-like body (from 'Nexo Knights') w/'Woody' like legs (from T.S.3 not 4); not sure what the vehicle/device build would be though.

Oh, and something to Hasall bananas: A 'heroes' pack: Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewy w/an armed speeder bike (akin to that one the Rebel Pack had years ago). 'Look' wise, don't know: Endor would be a given, but would awesome as well; or their 'first looks' might be seller too..

Also I agree w/BOBJACK_JACKBOB: the Superhero sets should be doing 'Battle Packs' as well.

I want a pack of various aliens to fill out my cantina.

I'd like to see more location based Battle Packs, like an Endor set with different Ewoks, or a Mos Eisley with the Cantina patrons.

PS I like most of Ryan's videos but his logic towards the Battle Packs really annoy me. He knocked down the Jedi & Clone Troopers and Bounty Hunters Battle Packs for containing named characters, even though not all of us use the packs for army building but a cheaper way of obtaining certain minifigs. Also for some reason he disliked the Senate Commando Battle Pack for making a formerly rare minifig common.

@MarxMarvelous:
It sounds like a great idea at first, but the trick is you need to get a constant refresh on the assortment for it to really mean anything. If you get four aliens in jumpsuits, and that's it, then if you buy multiple copies it just looks like you've got militaries from four alien worlds comingling. Maybe you can swap bodies and heads and get a little more variety, but to really have the effect you want, they'd need to do a new alien battle pack every few years. You know, put it in rotation with some of the other stuff that gets regular coverage.