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Fact: Next (not) UCS set to be Cloud City

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  • samtheqsamtheq Member Posts: 47
    On the instagram link, is that a new Ugnaught that I see, also?
  • the_creative_boxthe_creative_box Member Posts: 90
    ^Yes, it is! I think that figure pretty much confirms a UCS Cloud City, unless Lego is planning to release a Cloud Car *and* another cloud city play set, which I personally doubt. 
  • J0rgenJ0rgen Member Posts: 591
    Ugh. Those figs are certainly a turn-off...the set will have to be really good to make up for it. Please have Han with flight jacket and Chewie with C-3PO!
  • Baby_YodaBaby_Yoda Member Posts: 1,295
    Mr_Cross said:
    ^ it's still on instagram via few other users though:
    https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/legoleaks/?hl=en
    Awesome, thanks!
  • samtheqsamtheq Member Posts: 47
    There is a video on YouTube that shows "all Fall 2018 SW Sets," and has several photos of what is supposedly a UCS Cloud City set.  However, it is the only set that doesn't include box artwork, or catalog-type posed shots of the set.  No minifigures are shown. I know the policy here forbids posting photos of unreleased items, but I'm really not convinced that this is the real thing.  I'm not even sure I'm allowed to link to the video here, but if you want to pull it up yourself, the title is:

    ALL LEGO STAR WARS FALL 2018 SETS in HD !!!

  • omniumomnium Member Posts: 831
    edited July 2018
    samtheq said:
    There is a video on YouTube that shows "all Fall 2018 SW Sets," and has several photos of what is supposedly a UCS Cloud City set.  However, it is the only set that doesn't include box artwork, or catalog-type posed shots of the set.  No minifigures are shown. I know the policy here forbids posting photos of unreleased items, but I'm really not convinced that this is the real thing.  I'm not even sure I'm allowed to link to the video here, but if you want to pull it up yourself, the title is:

    ALL LEGO STAR WARS FALL 2018 SETS in HD !!!

    He says something like this in the video, "I hoping it's going to be like VAkkron's LEGO Ideas project as shown here", so no it's not the real thing, it's this:


    the_creative_boxBaby_Yoda
  • PapaBearPapaBear Member Posts: 638
    I agree with @Redbullgivesuwind that the Death Star is a boring set.  It takes up way too much space and all those gray pieces to give it structure.  I can see why kids and others like it, but it's not for me.  So I'm hoping the UCS Cloud City isn't designed like that.  I like the look of the original a lot better.

    Thx for the info @samtheq
    Redbullgivesuwind
  • theLEGOmantheLEGOman Member Posts: 1,524
    It should be of modular design, 1 section per year.
  • LyichirLyichir Member Posts: 1,018
    theLEGOman said:
    It should be of modular design, 1 section per year.
    I feel like the drawback to a strategy like this is that as far as Cloud City is concerned, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. There are a few key scenes that would have great appeal, but also many in-between scenes that would not be as impressive when removed from the overall context of the rest of the City.
    SirBrickalotOfLego
  • theLEGOmantheLEGOman Member Posts: 1,524
    You can always start off with bumper set with 2 or 3 to start with.
  • PaperballparkPaperballpark Member Posts: 4,268
    No it's nothing like the ideas set at all.

    I posted some details about it earlier in the thread.
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    theLEGOman said:
    You can always start off with bumper set with 2 or 3 to start with.
    Eh, but you'd have to keep them, and all the other modules, on the market for the entire duration of the project, because inevitably you'd have people starting half-way through and going nuts if they couldn't get it all. You'd have to keep the hype going year after year, even when you have rather dull modules that year (Luke peeking 'round a corner, anyone?). It would be a massive committment in terms of shelf space in shops, ongoing publicity, continued development, etc, for something that might prove to be a flop by year two, after your 2 or 3 module bumper set. But you wouldn't be able to drop it because you've already committed, and pulling out would raise a stink and then some.

    Even if you could get enough of a buzz the first year, it would still be a massive gamble. Sometimes, gambles do pay off and then some - last year's MF was way more popular than the quantity initially produced would indicate they predicted, and more people bought it than someone reading the many "nice, but to pricey" comments on the thread on this forum would think. But this is a gamble they could still be paying five, ten years down the line.

    Now I think about it, don't they need to renew the SW licence in a few years? Imagine if they lost it halfway through a modula project...
    Baby_Yodabeemo
  • Pitfall69Pitfall69 Member Posts: 11,454
    I really don't understand why we haven't seen more Cloud City sets from Lego? The most iconic scene in Star Wars (arguably cinema history) happened at Cloud City. You meet Lando and Boba Fett for the first time. Leia tells Han she loves him. Han gets frozen in carbonite and and epic light saber battle. You spend practically 45% of the entire movie in Cloud City, from the time the Falcon gets shot at by the Cloud Car to when Lando rescues Luke. 
    Rainstorm26gmonkey76Lobot
  • BumblepantsBumblepants Member Posts: 7,624
    Pitfall69 said:
    I really don't understand why we haven't seen more Cloud City sets from Lego? The most iconic scene in Star Wars (arguably cinema history) happened at Cloud City. You meet Lando and Boba Fett for the first time. Leia tells Han she loves him. Han gets frozen in carbonite and and epic light saber battle. You spend practically 45% of the entire movie in Cloud City, from the time the Falcon gets shot at by the Cloud Car to when Lando rescues Luke. 
    Probably because of the lack of vehicles more than anything.  
    Baby_Yodagmonkey76MAGNINOMINISUMBRAPapaBearFollowsClosely
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    And isn't there some fan-hate for ESB?

    That wouldn't explain all the Hoth kits. Hmm.
  • Baby_YodaBaby_Yoda Member Posts: 1,295
    The only sub-group of Star Wars fans that would have anything against Episode V that I can think of is the recently emerged online "fandom" for the Sequel Trilogy. You know those sites where young teens would write weird and creepy fan-fictions about Harry Potter and The Twilight Saga? They've turned to Star Wars, and they apparently prefer the likes of The Last Jedi to The Empire Strikes Back.
    VorpalRyuPitfall69
  • BumblepantsBumblepants Member Posts: 7,624
    Mr_Cross said:
    ^ I thought ESB was universally accepted to be the best Star Wars movie... it most certainly amongst my 'meat space' friends.
    What is a meat space friend? It sounds fun
    oldtodd33SumoLegoMr_CrossBaby_YodaAstrobricks
  • CCCCCC Member Posts: 20,526
    Pitfall69 said:
    The most iconic scene in Star Wars (arguably cinema history) happened at Cloud City.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZVLb1MDWk

    Bumblepantsoldtodd33Pitfall69MAGNINOMINISUMBRASumoLegoGothamConstructionCoRonyarBaby_Yodamessy
  • Mr_CrossMr_Cross Member Posts: 1,688
    edited July 2018
    ^^ 'meat space' or 'meatspace' as opposed to 'cyberspace' or 'internet': the real world.
    SumoLego
  • SumoLegoSumoLego Member Posts: 15,229
    What's a cyberspace?
  • playwellplaywell Member Posts: 2,304
    ^ If only you didn't know.
    SumoLego
  • oldtodd33oldtodd33 Member Posts: 2,694
    Pitfall69 said:
    I really don't understand why we haven't seen more Cloud City sets from Lego? The most iconic scene in Star Wars (arguably cinema history) happened at Cloud City. You meet Lando and Boba Fett for the first time. Leia tells Han she loves him. Han gets frozen in carbonite and and epic light saber battle. You spend practically 45% of the entire movie in Cloud City, from the time the Falcon gets shot at by the Cloud Car to when Lando rescues Luke. 
         You forgot the the most iconic part, Luke I am your father.
  • GIR3691GIR3691 Member Posts: 674
    I figure a $30 Bespin duel set would be a good pairing for the Carbon Freeze chamber. Bespin Luke, Vader, Lando (though it'd likely a Stormtrooper or R2 or something).

    I'm definitely looking forward to a UCS Cloud City, but I have nowhere to put it.
    Baby_Yoda
  • oldtodd33oldtodd33 Member Posts: 2,694
    MrJackson said:
    @oldtodd33 Apparently you've fallen into the Mandella Effect trap of repeating the most misquoted line in cinematic history.  Watch it again: Vader never says "Luke I am your father." It's "No. I am your father." Sorry if I'm nitpicky. 
        Yes, I know but I don't mind you being nit picky. I even said it right in my head but repeated it because everyone else says it wrong too. By the way, nit picky is two words:)
    BobflipAstrobricks
  • Pitfall69Pitfall69 Member Posts: 11,454
    oldtodd33 said:
    Pitfall69 said:
    I really don't understand why we haven't seen more Cloud City sets from Lego? The most iconic scene in Star Wars (arguably cinema history) happened at Cloud City. You meet Lando and Boba Fett for the first time. Leia tells Han she loves him. Han gets frozen in carbonite and and epic light saber battle. You spend practically 45% of the entire movie in Cloud City, from the time the Falcon gets shot at by the Cloud Car to when Lando rescues Luke. 
         You forgot the the most iconic part, Luke I am your father.
    Actually, no; I DID mention it, as most iconic is definitely the "No, I am your father" scene  ;)

    ...and I knew @CCC would post something related to Willrow Hood ;)
    SumoLego
  • SumoLegoSumoLego Member Posts: 15,229
    edited July 2018
    Pitfall69 said: 
    ...and I knew @CCC would post something related to Willrow Hood ;)
    You should get a 'promote' for that.
    SMC said:
    ^ If only you didn't know.
    I thought 'meatspace' was Tinder before myspace.
    Pitfall69Switchfoot55davetheoxygenmanBumblepantsBillyBricks84Baby_Yoda
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    While I am happy to accept that I am wrong about there being fan-hate for ESB, I am still fairly sure I saw it being mentioned in relation to middle-of-trilogy-movie problems.

    BTW, I do like ESB. I just prefer the PT to the OT, because they're the ones released during my childhood.
    beemo
  • Pitfall69Pitfall69 Member Posts: 11,454
    ^Yoda says: "Prefer the PT to the OT you do? That is why you fail."
    floridabrickTkattSumoLegogmonkey76Baby_YodaMr_CrossJohnyk668dmcc0
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    ^It's to do with the memory associations. I remember doing a creative writing thing in class in primary school with a set of storyboards from AotC and that was my first introduction to Star Wars, seeing RotS in the cinema for my twelfth birthday, being scared to watch TPM because of the creepy music (overheard Duel of the Fates one time). I don't have the same connection to the OT, or the ST, or any of the others. I like them all, but the PT has that special place in my heart.
    UmandraugMr_CrossMAGNINOMINISUMBRAthedingman5beemo
  • Muftak1Muftak1 Member Posts: 550
    SumoLego said:

    I thought 'meatspace' was Tinder before myspace.
    I thought meatspace was just another name for Grindr

    But what that has to do with a smiling Doctor I'll never know...
    SumoLegogmonkey76Pitfall69wardm
  • Baby_YodaBaby_Yoda Member Posts: 1,295
    Pitfall69 said:
    ^Yoda says: "Prefer the PT to the OT you do? That is why you fail."
    Except where memes are concerned. Then you get the (Baby) Yoda Seal of Approval.
  • UmandraugUmandraug Member Posts: 91
    edited July 2018
    Kaitch said:
     a creative writing thing in class in primary school with a set of storyboards from AotC
    A school that uses Star Wars in the curriculum?

    Time to move to Ireland, I guess.
    Baby_YodaOnebricktoomany
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    It wasn't part of the curriculum. The teacher had a set of boards with a still and brief summary from each scene of AotC, and she showed us the first four, and we had to write what come next. As I recall, the story was cut off just as the poisonous bugs were put in Padme's bedroom, and I wrote that Jar Jar ate them.

    Also, I lved in England at that time.
  • CCCCCC Member Posts: 20,526
    Umandraug said:
    Kaitch said:
     a creative writing thing in class in primary school with a set of storyboards from AotC
    A school that uses Star Wars in the curriculum?

    This is also known as the good old "teacher not bothered to prepare the lesson" plan.
    MAGNINOMINISUMBRABaby_Yodabandit778
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    She was prepared enough to have the storboards
  • Stvoyager04Stvoyager04 Member Posts: 120
    Umandraug said:
    Kaitch said:
     a creative writing thing in class in primary school with a set of storyboards from AotC
    A school that uses Star Wars in the curriculum?

    Time to move to Ireland, I guess.
    Yeah, it’s not the only occurrence. We were shown the Rancor scene from RotJ in an English lesson and asked to write an essay describing it. 

    It was actually my first exposure to Star Wars, so I’m eternally grateful for it, though my wallet isn’t!
  • The_RancorThe_Rancor Member Posts: 2,573
    Stvoyager04 said:
    We were shown the Rancor scene from RotJ in an English lesson and asked to write an essay describing it. 
    Now that's an English lesson I can get on board with ;)
    dmcc0Stvoyager04
  • PaperballparkPaperballpark Member Posts: 4,268
    When I was at school, our history teacher showed us an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth.
    MAGNINOMINISUMBRAThe_RancorMaffyD
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    In fairness to your history teacher, there were some wickedly accurate moments in it.
  • samtheqsamtheq Member Posts: 47
    So now on the Instagram link, there is a new Lando minifigure pictured!! Things are shaping up nicely...
  • CCCCCC Member Posts: 20,526
    Pitfall69 said:

    ...and I knew @CCC would post something related to Willrow Hood ;)
    I'm glad to know my Jedi mind trick worked. 
    Pitfall69SumoLego
  • The_RancorThe_Rancor Member Posts: 2,573
    ^^ wait is this the possible fake one or another one? Surely it wouldn't be capeless?
  • Penkid11Penkid11 Member Posts: 788
    edited July 2018
    samtheq said:
    So now on the Instagram link, there is a new Lando minifigure pictured!! Things are shaping up nicely...
    The_Rancor said:
    ^^ wait is this the possible fake one or another one? Surely it wouldn't be capeless?
    It's the fake one from a couple years ago. Someone posted it up on reddit again, and it made the rounds as if it was a new thing.
  • eMJeeNLeMJeeNL Member Posts: 789
    Paperballpark said:
    When I was at school, our history teacher showed us an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth.
    At my high school (and many at that in The Netherlands) "Blackadder - Corporal Punishment" was actually part of the English-Curriculum. :)

    Not that I hadn't seen that episode many times before, but I still laughed my ass of. Some of my less-talented-in-English classmates were stumped, though.
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    Any particular reason why Coporal Punishment and not one of the others? Admittedly, it does have one notably brilliant line from George: "Oh my head. It feels like the time I got initiated into the Silly Buggers Society. I misheard the instructions and shoved a whole aubergine in my ear." I never quite worked out what he was meant to do with it that he misheard...
  • redarmyredarmy Member Posts: 741
    Kaitch said:
    Any particular reason why Coporal Punishment and not one of the others? Admittedly, it does have one notably brilliant line from George: "Oh my head. It feels like the time I got initiated into the Silly Buggers Society. I misheard the instructions and shoved a whole aubergine in my ear." I never quite worked out what he was meant to do with it that he misheard...
    'ear'..'rear'...i would presume with them being Silly Buggers and all..;-)
    Baby_YodaMuftak1
  • eMJeeNLeMJeeNL Member Posts: 789
    ‘THE FLANDRES PIGEON MURDERER’

    guess that helped sales in Belgium ;)
  • KaitchKaitch Member Posts: 386
    ^Flanders.
    wardm
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