Star Wars Holiday 2017 Live Build

[Hapori Tohu]

This Saturday, December 16th, at 5 PM Eastern we're getting on board the Star Wars hype train! We're building three sets from the three different trilogies to cover all of the main eras of our favorite space opera. Watch us build 75191 Jedi Starfighter with Hyperdrive, 75175 A-wing Starfighter, and 75102 Poe's X-wing Fighter while we talk about Star Wars (no The Last Jedi spoilers though!). Of course there will be plenty of giveaways as well. Can't wait to see you there and may the Force be with you!

 

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[Pohaturon]

Had my eye on that A-Wing for a while now. Not missing this one!

 

[Wazdakka]

I'm increasingly disappointed in the massively overhiked prices of Star Wars sets; I always notice it when each movie comes out. 

[Pohaturon]

I'm increasingly disappointed in the massively overhiked prices of Star Wars sets; I always notice it when each movie comes out. 

Something I noticed is that Lego dumps a bunch more minifigs into sets than they used to, possibly precisely to jack up the price. Like, what is Lando doing in the A-Wing? Pushing its price up to $40 is what.

 

[Lyichir]

 

I'm increasingly disappointed in the massively overhiked prices of Star Wars sets; I always notice it when each movie comes out.

Something I noticed is that Lego dumps a bunch more minifigs into sets than they used to, possibly precisely to jack up the price. Like, what is Lando doing in the A-Wing? Pushing its price up to $40 is what.

 

 

I think in some of those cases it's mainly to provide a "main character" to go with ships piloted by more minor characters (in this case, not even a named character). Tie in the fact there aren't a lot of other sets that would be MORE suited to this version of Lando (since by the time we're due for a new Millennium Falcon they'd probably stick Han and Chewie in there again anyway), and it maybe makes more sense to put him with a minor ship from the same movie.

[CyclonatorZ]

 

I'm increasingly disappointed in the massively overhiked prices of Star Wars sets; I always notice it when each movie comes out. 

Something I noticed is that Lego dumps a bunch more minifigs into sets than they used to, possibly precisely to jack up the price. Like, what is Lando doing in the A-Wing? Pushing its price up to $40 is what.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, the most expensive sets in the line barely have more figures. A grand total of five each in the Resistance Bomber, First Order Walker and Star Destroyer. I realize this has kinda been a problem with the line for ages, and has only gotten worse as they've shifted away from the Prequel era (which allowed TLG to inflate the figure counts with battle droids). But really, what is stopping them from including a couple more stormtroopers with the walker, or a few more personel with the star destroyer? Certainly not the design budget - they already have every single mold and printing created. And I doubt the production budget is going to suffer much either, when they're already mass producing these things by the millions overseas.

[Pohaturon]

 

 

I'm increasingly disappointed in the massively overhiked prices of Star Wars sets; I always notice it when each movie comes out. 

Something I noticed is that Lego dumps a bunch more minifigs into sets than they used to, possibly precisely to jack up the price. Like, what is Lando doing in the A-Wing? Pushing its price up to $40 is what.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, the most expensive sets in the line barely have more figures. A grand total of five each in the Resistance Bomber, First Order Walker and Star Destroyer. I realize this has kinda been a problem with the line for ages, and has only gotten worse as they've shifted away from the Prequel era (which allowed TLG to inflate the figure counts with battle droids). But really, what is stopping them from including a couple more stormtroopers with the walker, or a few more personel with the star destroyer? Certainly not the design budget - they already have every single mold and printing created. And I doubt the production budget is going to suffer much either, when they're already mass producing these things by the millions overseas.

 

I'd be all on board with them migrating minifig ratios to put fewer into smaller sets and more into bigger sets. I usually find the smaller ones more appealing anyway, and such a setup might bring their prices down a tad.

 

On that same note, as someone who doesn't much care for minifigs but likes the builds, currently most sets are "cheaper" since I get some returns on selling off the minifigs...