Palpatine's Arrest

legoDad

In case ya'll haven't seen these pics (forgive if you have...I'm slow at times..;).
Front and back of the box pics from Toysnbricks and Hoth Bricks.

graphite

I'm glad to see it comes with all 3 of the 'died way to quick' jedi knights. The set itself looks meh though.

legoDad

^I hear ya' that it's not a great design (good but not great) but I still dig it. I like all the play features, a little ship and a plethora of Jedi figs.

starfire2

Why is it missing the piece count if this is real?

legoDad

Looks like you can move around and attach sections in various places. Wonder if they'll add some more modular sections that can be purchased separately.

LegobrandonCP

Why is it missing the piece count if this is real?

There was discussion a while back on piece counts in different continents. And it is real because this set was on the shelves at the LEGO Store in Germany.

Pitfall69

I would just get it for the figures, but those Jedis died far too quick!!! This is one of the many reasons why I didn't like Episode 1-3. Ridiculous

LegobrandonCP

This was mentioned on Toys N Bricks but, the Technic holes could mean there will be more playsets in the future that can connect to this one.

legoDad

Why is it missing the piece count if this is real?

Seems like in the USA the boxes all have piece counts while in Europe they don't. All the graphics are the same. Not sure why. Marketing to show more value on the item with the piece count?

brickupdate

Funny how most of the "new" bubbles next to each minifig is really just a slightly redesigned version of an already existing minifig. 6 figs is impressive for a set like this, though I'm not sure the price. Seems a lot like a mini-version of the old Bespin set!

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Pitfall69

Funny how most of the "new" bubbles next to each minifig is really just a slightly redesigned version of an already existing minifig. 6 figs is impressive for a set like this, though I'm not sure the price. Seems a lot like a mini-version of the old Bespin set!

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I was going to say the same thing

legomatt

What really bugs me with this box-image, is that it's a play set (i.e one where there's an actual floor!), and they go and place Mace Windu 'off set', kinda' breaking the fourth wall.

Lego_Lord_Mayorca

I ADORE how the back of the box seemingly delights in showing the carnage that ensued when the Jedi Masters challenged Palpatine. Windu being fried and thrown out the window really makes a case for Lego's so-called "iffy" stance on violence in licensed themes.

This is a nice-looking set, but yes, price will undoubtedly make me do a double-take before buying it. Lego might win this time and get my hard-earned dollars for MSRP.

doriansdad

Wow I am really liking this set! Thanks for the pics. $90 seems steep, will have to pick it up during a sale of some sort.

IronMan

I am really drawn to that small shuttle for some reason?

I bet this will be more than $90 for us over in the US unfortunately. Especially with the TRU mark up I would not be surprised if this got up to $110.

samiam391

To me, it looks like $90 for some figures and a pile of bricks. To bad I'm a minifigure collector... LEGO has me cornered.

BoiseState

Me too. Like building the sets, but the minifigures are the draw.

hoyatables

To me, it looks like $90 for some figures and a pile of bricks. To bad I'm a minifigure collector... LEGO has me cornered.

To be fair, aren't virtually all LEGO sets "some figures and a pile of bricks?" :). And yet I spends hundreds of dollars on the stuff . . . .

dougts

To me, it looks like $90 for some figures and a pile of bricks. To bad I'm a minifigure collector... LEGO has me cornered.

Which is ironic, since the explosion of minifigure collectors has likely been the biggest cause for set price inflation over the past decade. Those of us who think LEGO is about the bricks and building and that minifigures are just accessories are certainly paying more since sets that in the past would have come with 2 figures now come with 6. Oh well, at least I can sell them off to the collectors and recoup some of my brick costs.

thornie

Awkward looking set, and at an awful price. No thank you. This set is comparable to Weathertop in the amount of figs and overall size of the set, yet Weathertop (which is overpriced as well IMO) is 30 bucks cheaper. I also had to do a double take on that minifig of Palpatine.

mattheww888

Depending on the piece count (anyone know how many?), and comparing the size of the box to Anakin's Jedi Interceptor next to it, I bet this set will be more in the $60 range.

drdavewatford

Which is ironic, since the explosion of minifigure collectors has likely been the biggest cause for set price inflation over the past decade. Those of us who think LEGO is about the bricks and building and that minifigures are just accessories are certainly paying more since sets that in the past would have come with 2 figures now come with 6.

Absolutely - the minifigure obsession is adding a packet to the price of new sets, not to mention making some older sets ridiculously expensive. Why else would mediocre sets like Cloud City and the Cantina be so expensive on the secondary market ?

richo

I am a big star wars Lego fan, but I have to agree it is a little awkward. I much prefer most of the other summer range, which in my view is the strongest line up for some time. Still, credit Lego for making what a lot of fans wanted.

monkey_roo

Must say, my gut reaction was I like it. Not been a fan of this sort of set but for some reason I like this one. Yes the figs are nice, the small shuttle is good, it is movie focused not clone wars but there is a real scene recreation / playability with this one. I suspect this will find its way into my collection.

y2josh

To me, it looks like $90 for some figures and a pile of bricks. To bad I'm a minifigure collector... LEGO has me cornered.

Which is ironic, since the explosion of minifigure collectors has likely been the biggest cause for set price inflation over the past decade. Those of us who think LEGO is about the bricks and building and that minifigures are just accessories are certainly paying more since sets that in the past would have come with 2 figures now come with 6. Oh well, at least I can sell them off to the collectors and recoup some of my brick costs.

To be fair, this set actually should have six minifigs (or five, at the very least), unlike the superfluous minifigs with... say... the Y-Wing, the X-Wing, the TIE Fighter, or the Gungan Sub.

zjygkmatt

I feel like they could have made the floor a bit bigger...

mattheww888

^I'm not really a fan of the "floor plan" either. It's not true to the movie. There should be the main meeting room with the big pane of glass (like they included), but there should be a corridor (like where Anakin finds out Palpatine is a Sith) connecting the meeting room to the smaller room where the 4 Jedi find Palpatine sitting in front of the projection screen. I'm not being too picky here, am I?

legoDad

^I think this set will be modular. Separate purchased new sections to attach. Not certain, but I think that's how it'll go.

legoDad

Depending on the piece count (anyone know how many?), and comparing the size of the box to Anakin's Jedi Interceptor next to it, I bet this set will be more in the $60 range.

Toysnbricks is sayin' checking around various sources and forums it's a 645 piece set retailing for around $90. I hope it cheaper than that. Should be no more than a $75 set.

lulwut

Was that small ship actually in the movie?

mattheww888

@legoDad,
That would be cool. That would be something to really spark new interest in the SW theme--start making modular playsets, buying new sections one at a time, getting bigger over time.

dougts

^I think this set will be modular. Separate purchased new sections to attach. Not certain, but I think that's how it'll go.

I doubt it. maybe in the vein of Joust, where you can buy multiples and build them up/connect them. But what other conceivable sets would connect to Palpatine's office?

dougts

To me, it looks like $90 for some figures and a pile of bricks. To bad I'm a minifigure collector... LEGO has me cornered.

Which is ironic, since the explosion of minifigure collectors has likely been the biggest cause for set price inflation over the past decade. Those of us who think LEGO is about the bricks and building and that minifigures are just accessories are certainly paying more since sets that in the past would have come with 2 figures now come with 6. Oh well, at least I can sell them off to the collectors and recoup some of my brick costs.

To be fair, this set actually should have six minifigs (or five, at the very least), unlike the superfluous minifigs with... say... the Y-Wing, the X-Wing, the TIE Fighter, or the Gungan Sub.

Agreed on this set - I was talking more generically about the minifig craze driving up set prices, not specifically about this set. But I will add that the minifig craze has also led to the whole concept of sets not really being sets. They are just a collection of minifigs with fluff thrown in around them - "sets" themselves are constantly being slimmed down and dumbed down to accomodate more minifigures for the same price point. This is especially prevalent in licenses, and not just SW.

mattheww888

^Maybe not Palpatine's office in particular, but they could do other scenes in this manner, i.e. a Yavin 4 command center, a SSD interior, or Mos Eisley spaceport....Just throwing those out as examples--I'm sure some will think those are so-so ideas.

littletoki

The title of this thread always throws me. I keep thinking this Palpatine fellow must have been caught barcode scamming at Target.

dougts

^ lol

dougts

^Maybe not Palpatine's office in particular, but they could do other scenes in this manner, i.e. a Yavin 4 command center, a SSD interior, or Mos Eisley spaceport....Just throwing those out as examples--I'm sure some will think those are so-so ideas.

sure, but why would you connect any of those things to each other or Palp's office? that really makes no sense.

As discussed previously, I like the idea of making multiple sets work together to form something bigger. They did this well with Helms Deep/Uruk-Hai army. I think (and hope) LEGO will continue to expand on this concept, just not sure that this Palpatine set is a good candidate for that kind of thing. From the SW universe, something like Mos Eisley, Echo Base, or Jabba's palace are the best candidates, but we've just seen the latter two, and they don't appear to be doing that.

graphite

Was that small ship actually in the movie?

It was. It is the ship Anakin flys in from the temple to Palpatine's office for the arrest. It's only shown for a few seconds.

graphite

just not sure that this Palpatine set is a good candidate for that kind of thing

Depends on what other sets they have planned. They could have a Palpatine/Yoda showdown set and I believe this office is connected to the room below the senate building that has the chancelor's platform elevator thing that goes up during that fight scene so they could make that attach. As well as maybe a small "Anakin's discovery" set that is the hall where he finds out the chancelor is the sith. Lots of opportunity for (IMO boring) sets that *could* connect. But I do agree that it isn't really a great candidate for this type of thing.

y2josh

^Maybe not Palpatine's office in particular, but they could do other scenes in this manner, i.e. a Yavin 4 command center, a SSD interior, or Mos Eisley spaceport....Just throwing those out as examples--I'm sure some will think those are so-so ideas.

sure, but why would you connect any of those things to each other or Palp's office? that really makes no sense.

As discussed previously, I like the idea of making multiple sets work together to form something bigger. They did this well with Helms Deep/Uruk-Hai army. I think (and hope) LEGO will continue to expand on this concept, just not sure that this Palpatine set is a good candidate for that kind of thing. From the SW universe, something like Mos Eisley, Echo Base, or Jabba's palace are the best candidates, but we've just seen the latter two, and they don't appear to be doing that.

I'm REALLY hoping that when they FINALLY release the rancor pit next year (I have no proof of that... just thinking the RotJ 30th anniversary is the perfect time for that set), it will snap right onto the bottom of the new Jabba's Palace. Shouldn't be that hard to do, even if it's not already planned that way, and it would be a no-brainer on TLG's part (at least I think so).

mattheww888

@dougts,
I wasn't saying attach any of these other playsets to Palpatine's office, because they're WAY not related to each other. I was implying making other playsets in this "modular" style where you buy certain sections as they become available with the ability to attach them in various configurations. So for Palpatine's office, TLG would need to make the section of the other office area and corridor where the lightsaber fight began, and maybe another larger section for the senate auditorium.

dougts

^ both of which seem highly unlikely and farfetched, which was my point in replying to the initial idea of @legodad. "hey mom, I really need that hallway set. it attaches to the chancellor's office!!!"

Modulars/extendables make sense. on this set though? I don't see it. likely those technic bricks are used for some configurable feature in the set itself, and we shouldn't try and read too much into it.

mattheww888

^Hey, I can dream, can't I? :)

graphite

^^ It appears the little landing platform and the arched doorway section both probably attach to the dark red platform areas with technic pins so they probably did that so you can put them wherever on the set you want. It's also possible it is just for design detail so that its not just a flat brick edge.

legoDad

@dougts...hopefully it'll be more creative than just a hallway.

Redbullgivesuwind

Just another meh summer set imo. Perhaps I got my hopes up but for 100 quid I hoped for alot more. Could have removed Anakin and put a few senators in it instead. Made it bigger as well. I hate the way that the door just opens into nothing as well. Either the jedi can transport themselves or if palpatine wants to leave he os going to fall off the edge.

graphite

^ Not that having a senator or two in a set wouldn't be a bad thing but you can't make this set with Palpatine, windu and the other 3 Jedi and exclude Anakin (the only other person that was there) for some random character that wasn't even in the scene.

mressin

In the lower right corner, is that a small sand barge from RotJ I see? Is that already a photographed box, or why is nobody excited?

And at the top they have the ToR sith ship already. Good I'm flying to Hamburg tomorrow.

samiam391

^That's the $20 (or $30?) skiff set which had a press release quite a while ago.

mressin

^ Upps, you're right. Still, didn't know these sets were available already.

legomatt

Speaking of modular sets, this from the front page:

I would love to see a modular Jedi council (Ep1) set (sort of segmented so that when you combine them all, side to side, it completes the circle/chamber).

Set one would be the room centre-piece leading to the doorway, featuring young anakin & Qui-Gon, possibly combined with Yoda's chair/window section, too, so that the starter set makes narrative sense.

Then the rest of them would each be a jedi from the scene, and his/her chair/window section. When you have them all, you have a complete jedi council chamber.

It would be an excellent way for LEGO to churn out those film version Jedi, and make a tidy profit from an otherwise cheap set to produce. One fig, plus repeated chair/window build, sell starter set at about £25, then a dozen or so add-on sets (per collector) for a complete room, at about £12 each, makes well over £100+, and nobody complaining that they can't afford the characters they want.