A few days ago, The Brick Fan reported that there will be some new LEGO Star Wars Character Construction sets coming this September/October which were seen at the 2015 Nuremberg Toy Fair. There’s a new report coming out of ToyArk that names the characters in the wave including Jedi Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Jango Fett, Commander Cody, Clone Wars Obi-Wan, and General Grieveous. However, this conflicts with the report by Promo Bricks because they mentioned Boba Fett would be in the wave instead of Jango. We’ll see in the near future of which Mandalorian we’ll be getting.
Star Wars (75107) – £14.99
Star Wars (75108) – £14.99
Star Wars (75109) – £19.99
Star Wars (75110) – £19.99
Star Wars (75111) – £24.99
Star Wars (75112) – £29.99
I find it odd that several sets are coming out of LEGO's productions with similar or similar to LEGO Ideas submissions by fans, The Brick Show made a video a few years back with pictures of the concepts by Pekko:

I personally think LEGO always have hundreds of ideas and this happened to be one of them. Like the Helicarrier, I'm pretty sure LEGO had passion to release a large Helicarrier set back in 2010/2011 but I guess they thought they could wait until they get a positive response from fans on the new 'Super Heroes' theme and now LEGO and Marvel have a larger fan base so this year LEGO thought was a better time to release a Helicarrier set before things get dark in future movies.
What's your thoughts on the new Star Wars Ultra Build sets? What do you think of the conflict between similar LEGO products and LEGO Ideas projects?
Source:
http://www.thebrickfan.com/#sthash.0QzJanTs.dpuf
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Lego don't have hundreds of ideas. That's the reason they nearly went under. They rely on trends, licenses and new ideas from fans. If they've found a way to get the general Lego buying public to design sets that sell free of charge, then it's a win to them.
It therefore surprises me that LEGO are apparently producing their own series as I would have thought this would conflict with Hasbro's arrangement for producing Star Wars action figures. The Constraction figures themselves probably wouldn't interest me very much as I doubt they could capture a sufficient level of detail. However, I am fascinated to hear more about these as it suggests that something has changed in how Star Wars is licensed to Hasbro.
If a completely new idea was to appear on ideas, be rejected after reaching 10000, and then produced by TLG that would be a different matter of course.
Hence why ideas should be predominately for original content, but people are lazy.
I'm gonna buy Slave 1 as some other such big sets like the Ewok Village which I think is going to retire after this year. I'm so looking forward the battle droid carrier even just for the droids. I would like to buy a few of those but at the same time I'm thinking 'no I get the droids much cheaper from bricklink or even from ebay'.
And my first big MOC will take a lot of time and money.
I'm interested but only going to buy these if I really want them. Decisions.
@graphite I don't know if it is just me, but I clearly saw Bobba and Jango Fett. Bobba at the beginning of the figures showcase and Jango at the end.
I really wish TLG would make some Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Constraction Figures.
A lot of my personal interest in the line will of course come from the possibility of new constraction parts to use in MOCs! But I'm also interested in seeing how well the characters are realized, and perhaps what other Star Wars characters I might be able to build using the same scale and design language. I'm also curious if some of the new parts seen in the summer BIONICLE sets, like the new 5M beams used on some of the skull warriors, might be shared by this new Star Wars range, since Star Wars has more than its fair share of droids with bony limbs!
As far as licensing go with Hasbro and Lego, Disney is the one calling the shots...and both Hasbro and Lego are happy to have access to Disney's products. Personally I think if LEGO ever went public or agreed to sell, Disney would buy it.