LEGO announces Clone Trooper helmets!

Is it that late? Okay, I'm expecting some great Ep6-sets to come!

I really like the SW helmet sets and these two look like great editions. I'll definitely be picking these two up.

Cool but I think it would've made more sense to have Cody be phase 2 and Rex be phase 1

I’m so modifying the Cody one into a generic P1 helmet! The shapes on that look absolutely superb. Rex’s one is fantastic and long overdue too but upon closer inspection has a few shortcomings around the chin area. Still, it’s a fantastic model and absolutely perfect for Clone Wars fans.

So the leaks were real, huh.

I normally don't get the helmet sets as I think most of them look terrible (though I think I'll be sorry in the future for missing out on the Scout Trooper) but these look really great to me, if imperfect. I quite like the characters and the colors so I may pick these up.

I so not want these it is not even funny. The boushh helmet is kinda neat though.

Man, I really wish Captain Rex's chin came a little farther forward. From the side, it looks smashed in.

I thought for sure Captain Rex would be my first helmet set when I heard the leaks, but now I'm not so sure... :(

@WemWem said:
"Cody looks good. Less sure about Rex. The “jaw” part of the helmet reminds me of a segmented caterpillar."

Same technique as on the stormtrooper helmet. A case could be made for updating the design since this is a few years newer, but I'm okay with the uniformity if it.

I really think these helmets look great but unfortunately I'm not going to buy them because the cost of $70 a piece would buy me 7 501st BPs.

I think they look great, but I'd rather spend my money on minifig-scale sets.
I bought the Boba Fett helmet on sale and was given the Stormtrooper. I might build these from my pieces- the stickers are unimportant.

If these sell well I could envision LEGO releasing a generic clone helmet with several extra elements that allow for customization. I feel like this is more likely than releasing another helmet from a specific clone.

Both helmets look awesome! These are the first from the helmets series that I'm considering to buy.

@bnic99 said:
"Both look decent, making them different phases makes sense in some ways (so not too similar to each other) but then hurts the uniformity with them not matching. Would have been fun to have them both able to build either phase (though I imagine incredibly difficult)

Not got any of the helmets so far, and while I do like Rex (as a character, front of model looks a little flat), that is unlikely to change.

Now where is a Rex Minifig..."

Yes, they missed a really opportunity to be innovative and include extra pieces so that both helmets could be rebuilt in the alternative phase.

Overall, look good though.

Wow a lack of comments moaning about how expensive Lego sets are!

The sets look as you would expect, but I don't know who these characters are.

Why is Cody with a Phase 1 helmet?

They look quite good.....except for the stickers that already look terrible in these official images. Seriously, how hard can it be to make better matching colors? Or if they really are incapable of doing better, please stick to clear backed stickers.

CapnRex looks particularly sticker heavy, so maybe it would be too much to ask for all prints here (although some for those diagonal lines would have been nice). But looking at Cody, there appears to be only a single sticker on the front, would only a print for that be unreasonable?

I definitely like the Cody helmet better than any of the others I've seen in this collection so far; that said, it still doesn't especially tempt me. I do like that some of the 'adult-targetted' sets are available at < £100 price points, but...

If I was going to spend £60 on Lego, I'd still rather get something a little less static than a helmet to display.

Interesting that both helmets are strictly Clone Wars material!
I suppose we're reaching the start of the era where the folks who grew up on CW actually have money? If so, I'm looking forward to seeing more products from it!

The two clone helmets look quite good, and I shall doubtless buy them as I have all the others in the series, but I'm not excited by them. The Boushh helmet is quite another matter though. Despite being one of the first rumours no pictures have leaked which is very surprising (although it does lend weight to the theory that LEGO themselves are behind many of the "leaks"). Probably because it relates to the original trilogy but Boushh is easily my favourite.

I understand why they chose Rex to be P2, but it feels weird to have Cody be P1. I don't any helmet sets, but if I were to buy one, Cody would absolutely be my first. Then I would see how to mod him into Rex. I'm looking forward to the customs. As to the price...ouch. It's nice to see them branch out more though.

@bnic99:
Buy two of each, and it should just be a few color swaps to convert them. You might not get all the necessary parts in each set, but blue and orange shouldn’t be that hard to source. Sticker sheets are also an easy swap if you have both.

@Bison_Bricks said:
"Are these considered Prequel Trilogy helmets or Clone Wars? I don’t believe haven’t had any Sequel Trilogy helmets yet, where’s Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, etc?"

75339.

I've already seen someone complain about it being a phase 1 commander cody helmet...

70€ each? Ahahahahah no.

These are worth, at most, 50€. Definitely gonna skip them unless I find them with a massive discount that brings these down to a fair price for what they are.

@mr_Fikou:
Dude! Did you get bitten by a rabid spider or something?

@2GodBDGlory:
Yesterday I had a coworker come up and say he knew I was into LEGO stuff, and then wanted to know if these were real. Oddly, he doesn’t care about the prequels at all (even though he’s the right age), but it’s the animated series that he wants them for.

@MegaBlocks said:
"Wow a lack of comments moaning about how expensive Lego sets are!

The sets look as you would expect, but I don't know who these characters are."

Then I would highly recommend the 08 Clone Wars series, the later seasons are some of the best star wars TV content there is,
(TV as in not books/games, because then 1991 Thrawn Trilogy/Kotor)

Feeling like they should have switched the Phases for each other. That would align with Rex being introduced as a Phase 1 clone and Codys introduction in ROTS with Phase 2 helmet. That's what most fans picture in their mind when thinking of those characters, right?
I want to know why there has been no Phase 1 Rex in all Star Wars merchandise since the cancellation of a Hasbro Phase 1 Rex Vintage Collection figure around 2013. It's honestly like they banned him along with Oola and Slave Leia. Not to ruin anyones fun when the overdue Phase 2 Rex with rangefinder minifig finally releases but he was the poster child of the 2008 show and the Phase 2 Rex everywhere reeks of recency bias when there could easily Rex figures of both phases available.

They could have also made a Phase 1 helmet set and a Phase 2 set and included pieces for Shiny, Rex and Cody in both, maybe even a few more legions and commanders. Would have even enabled them to charge more per set with all those fluff pieces, I know how they love doing that for every set whose entire selling point is one or two minifigures.

Rex is UP THERE with my favourite Star Wars characters. I have never got a helmet collection set before, but Rex may be the reason I start!

I cannot wait for these to be released.
Read on a few places that it would have been nice to include the parts to transform the characters to different clone phases. An interesting idea. I wonder if Lego considered that at any point.

as soon as I saw that was for the '20 years of the Clone Wars' I literally Laughed Out Loud. Star Wars the Clone Wars (which was release in 2028) is a completely ("completely" might be a bit of a over reaction) differed show than Star Wars Clone Wars (which was release in 2003). In the 2003 show there were no p2 Clones, or even a Captain Rex.

They’ve done well with Cody, but Rex seems a bit flat. He might be the better character, but Phase I seems more suited at this scale.

Maybe they should’ve done Rex akin To 76215

@Bison_Bricks said:
"Are these considered Prequel Trilogy helmets or Clone Wars? I don’t believe haven’t had any Sequel Trilogy helmets yet, where’s Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, etc?"

I want to get clone wars and prequel helmets before they even think about sequel helmets

@BenRen1001:
SW:TCW was released five years in the future?!?!?!?

@PurpleDave said:
" @BenRen1001:
SW:TCW was released five years in the future?!?!?!?"

lol, just noticed that typo.

Yeah, I've not been a fan of the helmet sets to date (the Boushh one is tempting, though), but the marketing copy provided for these clone helmets is really egregious and really dashes any hope of this "anniversary" highlighting scenes and characters from the OG "Star Wars: Clone Wars" show that did premiere 20 years ago. I guess I'll treasure my Anakin's Custom Jedi Starfighter from 2015 all the more.

For those dinosaurs of prequel-era Star Wars fandom like myself, the timeline goes a little like this.
May 2002 - Episode II: Attack of the Clones premieres. The "Clone Wars" ostensibly begin! In other media (the comic books, in particular), publications begin to release with the "Clone Wars" branding.
2003 - Full launch of "Clone Wars" comics, novels, and tie-ins with the Cartoon Network shorts series, "Star Wars: Clone Wars". I remember the series beginning in November and running the first 10 chapters (up to Anakin engaging Asajj Ventress's starfighter over Muunilist). Of particular note in this time period is that while the multimedia campaign for "Clone Wars" covers toys, LEGO produces a sparse amount of sets related to the Clone Wars, and even these are really from Attack of the Clones, not the comics, novels, or cartoon series.
2004 - Comics and novels continue; General Grevious is introduced in the last chapter of "Clone Wars" in April 2004 during the Battle of Hypori.
2005 - Revenge of the Sith premieres in May. The comics and novels wrap up the "Clone Wars" campaign. In April 2005, the final batch of "Clone Wars" shorts are released, although these are longer (12 minutes) than the ones from 2003 and 2004.
2006 - With the saga "complete", Lucasfilm turns to the "Dark Times", the Knights of the Old Republic, and beyond in multimedia publishing. LEGO still trundles along with a few more sets related to Revenge of the Sith in addition to mainline OT sets.
2007 - Not really a good time to be a fan of the Clone Wars. It is seemingly forgotten, even though Lucasfilm Animation has been hard at work for a couple of years on a new CGI show titled "The Clone Wars".
2008 - Well before the movie "The Clone Wars" premieres in August, LEGO releases a new set featuring a hitherto-unseen Jedi Starfighter for Anakin Skywalker. A hideous visage marrs the minifigure's face, a sign of horrible things to come. Full launch of "The Clone Wars" sets arrives in the summer. And we're off to the races!

So you see, it is correct to say this is the 20th anniversary of a "Clone Wars" multimedia project. But in the pursuit of the almighty dollar and the short memories (due to young age) of the fans, LEGO seems fine with just presenting the Clone Wars as this thing that only got on people's radar in 2008. Whatever. A small part of me will continue to hope and pray an Obi-Wan in clone armor on speeder bikes dueling IG-lancer droids somehow materializes.

So many exciting plates and curved elements :) but thats all, I dont like helmets and Brickheads series ...

@The_Sly_Fox:
I think converting either of these helmets to a different Phase would require such a ground-up rebuild as to be prohibitively expensive. Just looking at the two helmets, you’d need as much as 50% of one set to allow the other set to be converted. Much easier would be color packs that allow you to turn Rex into Cody or vise versa. Or a white color pack that lets you make a generic helmet. I already have my own recolor in mind for one of these helmets.

@Lego_Lord_Mayorca:
I remember being excited about the first Clone Wars series, until I realized I couldn’t set my DVR to record them. I think I had to wait for the two DVD releases to actually finally watch any of this. And regarding 2008, I remember there was a massive digital countdown clock at TRU that let you know precisely when SW:CW merch was allowed to be sold, which included the Twilight. And the “movie” was a last-minute thing. All they did was stitch together four related episodes that were already complete and ready for broadcast. What I heard at the time was that it was a late request from Lucas himself, so not something that was planned at the start.

Tricky part with swapping Rex to some other P2 clone would be giving him standard P2 eyes. I'm sure someone can do it, though

@PurpleDave said:
"
I think converting either of these helmets to a different Phase would require such a ground-up rebuild as to be prohibitively expensive. Just looking at the two helmets, you’d need as much as 50% of one set to allow the other set to be converted. Much easier would be color packs that allow you to turn Rex into Cody or vise versa. Or a white color pack that lets you make a generic helmet. I already have my own recolor in mind for one of these helmets."

I think that makes much more sense. Once I have them I will decide whether or not to get a few more to make Fox, Wolffe etc.

@Lego_Lord_Mayorca said:
"Yeah, I've not been a fan of the helmet sets to date (the Boushh one is tempting, though), but the marketing copy provided for these clone helmets is really egregious and really dashes any hope of this "anniversary" highlighting scenes and characters from the OG "Star Wars: Clone Wars" show that did premiere 20 years ago. I guess I'll treasure my Anakin's Custom Jedi Starfighter from 2015 all the more.

For those dinosaurs of prequel-era Star Wars fandom like myself, the timeline goes a little like this.
May 2002 - Episode II: Attack of the Clones premieres. The "Clone Wars" ostensibly begin! In other media (the comic books, in particular), publications begin to release with the "Clone Wars" branding.
2003 - Full launch of "Clone Wars" comics, novels, and tie-ins with the Cartoon Network shorts series, "Star Wars: Clone Wars". I remember the series beginning in November and running the first 10 chapters (up to Anakin engaging Asajj Ventress's starfighter over Muunilist). Of particular note in this time period is that while the multimedia campaign for "Clone Wars" covers toys, LEGO produces a sparse amount of sets related to the Clone Wars, and even these are really from Attack of the Clones, not the comics, novels, or cartoon series.
2004 - Comics and novels continue; General Grevious is introduced in the last chapter of "Clone Wars" in April 2004 during the Battle of Hypori.
2005 - Revenge of the Sith premieres in May. The comics and novels wrap up the "Clone Wars" campaign. In April 2005, the final batch of "Clone Wars" shorts are released, although these are longer (12 minutes) than the ones from 2003 and 2004.
2006 - With the saga "complete", Lucasfilm turns to the "Dark Times", the Knights of the Old Republic, and beyond in multimedia publishing. LEGO still trundles along with a few more sets related to Revenge of the Sith in addition to mainline OT sets.
2007 - Not really a good time to be a fan of the Clone Wars. It is seemingly forgotten, even though Lucasfilm Animation has been hard at work for a couple of years on a new CGI show titled "The Clone Wars".
2008 - Well before the movie "The Clone Wars" premieres in August, LEGO releases a new set featuring a hitherto-unseen Jedi Starfighter for Anakin Skywalker. A hideous visage marrs the minifigure's face, a sign of horrible things to come. Full launch of "The Clone Wars" sets arrives in the summer. And we're off to the races!

So you see, it is correct to say this is the 20th anniversary of a "Clone Wars" multimedia project. But in the pursuit of the almighty dollar and the short memories (due to young age) of the fans, LEGO seems fine with just presenting the Clone Wars as this thing that only got on people's radar in 2008. Whatever. A small part of me will continue to hope and pray an Obi-Wan in clone armor on speeder bikes dueling IG-lancer droids somehow materializes.
"

Yeah, what an absolute joke of an "anniversary celebration". It would be like doing an anniversary for the OT and only releasing sets of the added CGI creatures from the Special Editions. This is not what the Clone Wars looked like 20 years ago-- 20 years ago, it was something actually worth celebrating.

@123MrBrick:
Like doing a 40th anniversary for RotJ and only using the logo on a TIE Bomber that’s only associated with Empire?

@PurpleDave said:
" @123MrBrick:
Like doing a 40th anniversary for RotJ and only using the logo on a TIE Bomber that’s only associated with Empire?"

Yep, definitely that too. XD