fixer79 said:
You can say that again...
This was the Star Wars exclusive set, btw...
That thing's got 16 minifigs or somethin'...
Gentlemen, we've been had again.
Stupid favourite first-born...
That is interesting. This set went completely under the radar; I had no idea LEGO was also going to have any kind of
Star Wars SDCC exclusive at all.
FWIW, though, do note that one costs $75 at SDCC (and there's no telling how much it'll be on eBay
), but it's really very similar to a combination of three sets that together cost $40 (or did before one of them was discontinued just weeks ago). That set looks very much like the total you'd get by buying
Hailfire Droid & Spider Droid, the
Droids Battle Pack and the just-discontinued
Clone Troopers Battle Pack, with three differences:
? The SDCC set has the new
Clone Wars cartoon-style versions of the old "Phase I" clones from
Episode II rather than the later "Phase II" ones from
Episode III
? The SDCC set has one more Clone Trooper and one more Super Battle Droid than would be in the combination of sets I've described
? The SDCC set seems to lack the tiny speeder and gun turret found in the Clone Troopers Battle Pack
Otherwise, this set effectively duplicates the contents of those three sets, for $30 more. Indy fans, OTOH (isn't there a lot of overlap between the two camps anyway?) get a smaller set, but one that gives us our only additional Ugha warriors outside Temple of the Crystal Skull, which we'd need to spend $80 a pop on. I really like this little set; I think I'd like to buy several of them to get more Ugha and more general bricks if it were widely available. As it is, I'll be lucky to get one at all, but we'll see (to be honest, I'm really
hoping that each of two people at CC I've asked to try for it are able to come through, and that I therefore score a couple, but I'm not holding my breath). I still don't know how much this one costs, though. Might it be $35? I'm guessing that based on the pricing for the
SW:CW exclusive and how it relates to comparable sets, but I haven't seen anything on the price for this yet, except what somebody's already asking on eBay...