What is your favourite May the Fourth promotion?

missed out on many of the early ones, so it's Tatooine Homestead for me

While I love the Lars Homestead, it hits the box of an exclusive, desirable, minifigure and a solid build. It is also something that could be included in a regular retail set, or as a set on its own. Just throw that in as a sidebuild on the next Lukes Landspeeder.

As such my favourite one is Darth Revan as that's not someone they could put into a set and is someone highly desired.

Huh, I always thought the chrome stormtrooper was a may 4th promotion. Well, if it was, it'd get my top spot. But since it apparently wasnt, I'll give it to Yularen, because I love him and how else were we ever going to get a Yularen minifig?

Homestead won my vote, exclusive minifig and a build to go with it. The price point was heavy though.

Just because it's now expensive, doesn't mean it is the best.

Including a pic of each would have been nice.

Went for Revan, the Prodigal knight

Free marketing research survey for LEGO! Let's hope they do something with this information.

Shadow ARF Trooper edged out Hoth Han for me.

Always hoped after the release of Darth Revan we might get more KOTOR and KOTOR II characters like. Darth Sion or Malak

And here I thought people kinda hated Revan because of the whole “super cool fig that is impossible to get” thing.

The kitchen, by far.

I've never managed to get any, so none of them :(

I still have my Darth Revan out on my shelf. Up until this article I’d completely forgotten where I got him. Thanks Brickset!

The one I never got! (Shadow ARF)

@sjr60 said:
"Easy... R2-D2 is the only one I've ever heard of!"

It's fascinating that someone reading this article has never heard of Han Solo! I envy your journey of discovery ahead (just skip the actual Solo movie).

Revan

Only because I just sold him for enough to cover my SW purchase this year :-)

Otherwise Battle of Hoth because I am a builder not a collector

My Revan's hand is loose. :-( I still vvoted for him though. :-)

@Huw said:
" @BernardBlack said:
"Just because it's now expensive, doesn't mean it is the best.

Including a pic of each would have been nice."

Hover over the set number links for pictures."

This is an awesome feature. Thanks, Huw!

@jkb said:
" @GrizBe said:
"Hands down it was Revan. The MVP of the KOTOR series and everyones favourite Sith Lord. (Sorry Darth).

Just wish they'd do a modern legends set of some kind with him."

Sorry Darth? Wich one?"

Brain blip... meant to write Vader.... Though insert other sith lord to personal liking... Bane, Plagueis, Sideous, Nihlus, Tyranus, Maul... etc.

@Huw said:
" @BernardBlack said:
"Just because it's now expensive, doesn't mean it is the best.

Including a pic of each would have been nice."

Hover over the set number links for pictures."

Doesn’t help anyone on mobile, where that doesn’t work

@Terreneflame said:
" @Huw said:
" @BernardBlack said:
"Just because it's now expensive, doesn't mean it is the best.

Including a pic of each would have been nice."

Hover over the set number links for pictures."

Doesn’t help anyone on mobile, where that doesn’t work"

Just tap on the set number, it'll take you there.

@CCC said:
" @Zayzon said:
" @sunko13 said:
"this one is easy.... the best Star wars character ever...."

Admiral Yularen?"

Clearly it is Hoth Han."

Clearly it is First Order Stormtrooper.

@560heliport said:
" @Terreneflame said:
" @Huw said:
" @BernardBlack said:
"Just because it's now expensive, doesn't mean it is the best.

Including a pic of each would have been nice."

Hover over the set number links for pictures."

Doesn’t help anyone on mobile, where that doesn’t work"

Just tap on the set number, it'll take you there."

Yes, but then I have to tap on every single one to see all the options, when a picture of each in the article would allow comparison and no unnecessary clicks.

I really loved the R2-D2 brick built promotional set, but had to vote for Darth Revan. It was really just the coolest minifig, and it’s video game origins made it a great shout out to that portion of the fan base. I’ve never even played KOTOR, but still … REVAN!

The non-minifig builds, the droids, dioramas, etc, should probably be separate sets.

Star Wars can be a very expensive theme, not only due to the infamous tax, but also the size and detail of so many minifig-scale builds. So it seems odd to me that these are locked behind a limited promotion.

@MORLU said:
"Always hoped after the release of Darth Revan we might get more KOTOR and KOTOR II characters like. Darth Sion or Malak"

Or the Ebon Hawk :)

I like the Shadow ARF Trooper.
It’s a unique design that isn’t tied to any other media, but still fits right in with the Star Wars universe. It’s also not an important character that I wish was available in a widely released set.

This might be my personal bias, but I’m kinda wary of May the 4th promotions. I don’t have $100+ dollars to drop when it rolls around, so I don’t really get a shot at the rare minifigures. That’s not even getting into them running out!

Darth Revan by far.

That was a tough one, but I went with Revan in the end.

@chuckschwa:
You don’t think the 50208 Imperial Boardroom set would be popular?

@magmafrost:
They also used to run Star Wars Days promos later in the year. I don’t know if they all came from that source, but this list is also missing White Boba Fett, Black-Chrome Darth Vader, Rusty-Arm C-3PO, That One Astromech From Something, TC-4, Clone Trooper Lieutenant, Stormtrooper Sergeant, and everyone’s favorite, Shirtless Darth Maul. Also, there was a Flying Nun, a Dirt-trooper, and Mud-Wrastlin’ Han Solo from Disney Wars. There’s also a carded Chrometrooper that was a TRU exclusive, which only differs from the polybag version in the size of his gun, and the fact that he came assembled with a detachable magnet brick.

@sunko13:
Ducktroopers not allowed!

@sir_vasco:
You mean the infamous still-costs-the-same-as-Classic-Space-did-four-decades-ago?

@BernardBlack said:
"Just because it's now expensive, doesn't mean it is the best.

Including a pic of each would have been nice."

Just roll over the set number, pic pops out.

@Mucktard said:
" @BernardBlack said:
"Just because it's now expensive, doesn't mean it is the best.

Including a pic of each would have been nice."

Just roll over the set number, pic pops out."

Not on mobile ;)

Not sure why 40362 didn’t make the list but it is by far my favourite mini diorama.

Had to go with Revan. Although I missed it by several years, the idea of an obscure figure with such great production value seems like a real treat. Yularen and the other polybags are slso great for the same reason.
Although Lars Family Homestead also has a unique figure AND a great little build, too, the spend threshold is too high for me to vote for it.

@Terreneflame said:
" @560heliport said:
" @Terreneflame said:
" @Huw said:
" @BernardBlack said:
"Just because it's now expensive, doesn't mean it is the best.

Including a pic of each would have been nice."

Hover over the set number links for pictures."

Doesn’t help anyone on mobile, where that doesn’t work"

Just tap on the set number, it'll take you there."

Yes, but then I have to tap on every single one to see all the options, when a picture of each in the article would allow comparison and no unnecessary clicks."

You should hold down the hyperlink and then click somewhere to the side.

@slvrlksrfr said:
"Not sure why 40362 didn’t make the list but it is by far my favourite mini diorama."

I think that one was available later in the year, not the May promotion.

I know this sounds cringe, but Darth Revan.
He fetches an absurd price nowadays on the aftermarket, and he was also a great figure back when he was released.
None of the other GWP's really interest me.
I see others voting according to the concept of sets (see Lars Homestead Kitchen) but personally I don't judge sets by concepts but by the execution. The concept, I agree, is great, but there are many more scenes to be recreated in the Lars Kitchen format.

Revan by far, though I quite like the Yularen and Aunt Beru promos as well. Shadow ARF was a nice minifig but an army builders nightmare.

Revan because the sequel is the greatest game of all time.

40333 Battle of Hoth - 20th Anniversary Edition by far for me.

I'd have loved the kitchen but it's gone and I can't order it now.

All I can get is the stupid key chain. Nope. Sorry, Lego. No sale this year.

Why even fool people with a promotion that doesn't actually last the length of the promotion?

I thought the Shadow ARF Trooper would look like a black lab....

@guachi said:
"I'd have loved the kitchen but it's gone and I can't order it now.

All I can get is the stupid key chain. Nope. Sorry, Lego. No sale this year.

Why even fool people with a promotion that doesn't actually last the length of the promotion?"

Such things are ALWAYS "while supplies last".

@Toa_of_Pi:
Brickset shows 40362 was a 20th Anniversary set, available in 2019 for almost three months (somewhere), from October 4 to December 31.

@DarthNox:
Shadow ARF Trooper was a nightmare for anyone who just wanted one. They added a checkbox to the checkout process. If you didn’t notice, and didn’t click it, you didn’t get one. I _almost_ missed it on my first of three purchases. Someone else from my LUG missed it on his only purchase, so he got no GWP with his order. By the time he realized what had happened, they were out of stock. On one or two more occasions, these popped up again, and every time I spotted them, I let him know right away. I _think_ he finally managed to nab one the last time they were offered. But that might have been a year or two after the original offer.

@guachi:
If you live near a LEGO Store, call and see if they still have any. The GWP offers are good through the 8th, for some odd reason.

Darth Revan may be popular and well-known within the Star Wars fandom, but when you consider the types of Star Wars characters that make it into LEGO sets, historically, those from outside the films and television shows have been very rare. Yes, it was great that we got sets from "The Old Republic" MMORPG a decade ago, but there were only four of them, if I recall. And TOR takes place a few centuries after the beloved "Knights of the Old Republic" video game that features Revan rather prominently. Seeing him as a GWP for May 4th, 2014 just blew my mind in the same way the Azure Angel Lego set from Genndy Tartakovsky's "Clone Wars" did a year later. I just didn't expect it to ever happen. Imagine if in 2004, LEGO released a Kyle Katarn minifigure as a GWP. It would've had the same effect. Heck, if LEGO released a Kyle Katarn minifigure today, I'd be pushing aside little old ladies and children to get a hold of one.

So that's why I voted for Revan, even if the Lars Kitchen is a better set overall.

I came here to vote for Revan, and I'm delighted to see him winning by so much.

The first one I got was the Hoth diorama and I thought it was brilliant. However, this years set is easily my favorite simply because you get both a build and a minifigure. I really think that Lego sets should be toys first, so while I appreciate the beauty and originality of the dioramas, to me they are incomplete as they are simply for display. As for the minifigures, it was before I really got back into Lego, but they simply don’t excite me, for the same reason I don’t buy CMF (although I may have to get the Muppets ones).

@slvrlksrfr said:
"Not sure why 40362 didn’t make the list but it is by far my favourite mini diorama."

Because that was part of the Triple Force Friday promotion in October, not May the 4th.

@guachi said:
"I'd have loved the kitchen but it's gone and I can't order it now.

All I can get is the stupid key chain. Nope. Sorry, Lego. No sale this year.

Why even fool people with a promotion that doesn't actually last the length of the promotion?"

As @PurpleDave said, call your local store. I was back at mine today and they still had all of the stackable GWPs (including the Friends flower w butterfly 34147- which is pretty cool spring set (reminds me of the old free monthly minibuilds)). You might get lucky!

I put Revan because it's an awesome minifig and because I don't like microscale dioramas. However, I do agree with those who said 40531 because it does incapsulate what LEGO is all about.

The diorama with the minifig this year is the best of both options but the price to get it was very steep, so therefore not my first choice. My vote was for Hoth 20th anniversary, nice little build. Overall though I prefer the rare minifig, because the price to qualify for it is more reasonable.

@jkb:
Canonical precedent! Obi-Wan calls Darth Vader “Darth” as they’re beginning their duel on the Death Star.

@MainBricker:
Eh, why not? We already have Darth Tantrum (aka Darth Whingy, Darth Bothsucksandblows, Darth Emo…)

I really like that small R2-D2 build! The minifigures are cool, but kind of disappointing as a singular promotional item.

@PurpleDave I remember well! That was before Darth was a title. Or has it always been? "The Star Wars", the comic book that is based on Lucas' early draft, Darth Vader is appears but he is NOT the Sith lord!

Nonetheless, everyone must choose Darth Raven.

(i don't have it, and never had a chance, but I know TLG uses this polling for plans for the future).

@jkb:
Lucas has made several contradictory claims about various aspects of the six SW films, including the meaning/origin of Darth Vader’s name.

I voted Revan, but honestly Hoth Han should have gotten way more votes than it did. Totally underrated. Same with Admiral Yularen. Both are way better than the diorama promos. Honestly all the minfig polybags are

I always liked the R2D2 and BB8 builds.

@StyleCounselor said:
" @guachi said:
"I'd have loved the kitchen but it's gone and I can't order it now.

All I can get is the stupid key chain. Nope. Sorry, Lego. No sale this year.

Why even fool people with a promotion that doesn't actually last the length of the promotion?"

As @PurpleDave said, call your local store. I was back at mine today and they still had all of the stackable GWPs (including the Friends flower w butterfly 34147- which is pretty cool spring set (reminds me of the old free monthly minibuilds)). You might get lucky!"

Oops. Meant 30417.

Disappointment

@Agnew said:
"Disappointment"

Best reply EVER! And all too true.

I feel like a dufuss even replying because that was the best culmination of this thread but I had to respect.

@HOBBES said:
"Never heard of Darth Revan outside of this Lego minifig - also never heard anything about him in any Star Wars movies - yet he is the most popular - go figure..."
Me neither. Otoh, I have never heard of Admiral Yularen either. I only know Ensign Ro Laren...
Oh wait, wrong franchise ;-)

As for "hover over the link to see the picture", is there a way to get this to work on mobile phones where you haven't got a mouse?

@AustinPowers:
_Colonel_ Wullf Yularen is seen twice in Ep4, but it’s a non-speaking role. He’s one of two officers wearing white jackets seen walking past when Han and Luke (disguised as stormtroopers) escort “prisoner” Chewbacca off the turbolift. More notably, he’s one of several officers present when Tarkin informs them that the Imperial Senate has been dissolved, following the completion of the Death Star. Besides Tarkin and Vader, this group includes:

Chief of the Imperial Army, General Cassio Tagge: seen discussing the Imperial Senate as Tarkin and Vader enter the conference room, and notes that the Rebels have obtained stolen plans for the Death Star. Originally said to have perished with the rest when the station exploded, Lucasfilm archivists determined that he disappears halfway through the film, so he was reconned as being sent to investigate the base on Dantooine.

Chief of the Imperial Navy, Admiral Conan Antonio Motti: insults Vader and his “sorceries ways”, gets Force-choked in response, saved by Tarkin, dies when the station explodes.

General Moradmin Bast: brown hair, grey uniform, seen walking up to Vader after he kills Kenobi, later offers to ready Tarkin’s shuttle after reporting that a vulnerability has been identified, definitely dies when the station explodes.

General Hurst Romodi: bald guy in a grey uniform, yellow rank bar, not shown to be present when the station exploded.

General Trech Molock: brown hair, grey uniform, red rank bar, probably died on the Death Star.

Major Siward Cass: white hair, grey uniform, reports that the base on Dantooine was determined to have been abandoned for a while, probably died on the Death Star.

Colonel Wullf Yularen: white hair & mustache, white uniform jacket, formerly an Admiral in the Republic Navy (hence why people keep getting his rank wrong) who served with Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. When the Republic became the Empire, he resigned his commission and took a new position with the Imperial Security Bureau, before being put in charge of the Naval Intelligence Agency. In this capacity, he was serving on the Death Star when it exploded.

So, if you read all of those descriptions, one thing that should stand out is one thing that did stand out in the conference room scene from Ep4. Yularen’s uniform was unique. Everyone else besides Vader wore the same grey uniforms, even though they served in two different branches of the military. It would be easy to fake the rest of the officers, but Yularen and his cohort from the turbolift scene needed a new torso, so this minifig’s release was a fairly big deal at the time.

@PurpleDave: thanks for the heads up.
Problem is, while I enjoy Star Wars (and SciFi and Fantasy in general), I am only a casual viewer of the movies. Of course I know all the main characters and locations, as well as the general storyline, but all those background and secondary characters, I haven't got a clue. And honestly, as long as they aren't really relevant to the story, I don't care too much about them and their personal details.
And as for characters like Darth Revan, who aren't even in the movies, I care even less. And that is coming from someone who enjoyed Jedi Knight, KOTOR, and several other Star Wars games, going back to X-Wing versus TIE Fighter.

As someone who loves miniature versions of highly complicated machines, I have to go with 40333 Battle of Hoth. (IMO it's a better representation of the battle than any of the larger-scale versions!)

@AustinPowers:
Most of that wasn’t part of the movie. There were people wearing costumes in the room, a few had speaking roles, those characters may have actually had names (if not in the script, then in the novelization), but at least two of them were only identified as “Imperial bureaucrat” in the continuity notes from the production. This led to some uncertainty in which named officers were canon to the film, and which were names that had been created for other purposes and later assumed to have been present.

And you never played the original X-Wing or TIE Fighter games? My all-time favorite mission from any of those games was in X-Wing. You got a Y-Wing, and you had to fly past a line of containers and scan their contents. It’s a terribly boring training mission. But if you take too long (or just loiter until the timer runs down), an ISD shows up and starts dropping six TIE Interceptors at a time on your lone Y-Wing. It holds 72 of them. If you want a fun endurance challenge, wiping out an entire wing of the Empire’s top Ep6-era fighter with the slowest boat in the Rebellion, all by yourself, really tests your skills.