LEGO Star Wars 7662: Trade Federation MTT

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Upload an Image in the specific color if you have one and the one in the above listing is not available. Meanwhile, the Heavy Scout Walker not only looked completely out of place, out of style with everything else Star Wars, but its cardinal sin is that it didn't appear in the film at all. Unless it makes an appearance in a future film, you can't even consider that thing canon. It might as well be some random sci-fi MOC. It also included a very random, bland selection of minifigures, not that it mattered since it wasn't in the film anyway and it could never have included an accurate assortment. The Ultimate Collector's Series represents the pinnacle of the LEGO Star Wars theme, usually valuing detail and authenticity over every other factor. 75098 Assault on Hoth was released in 2016 and does not adhere to those principles at all, instead containing an array of small models which would be far better suited to a standard retail set by the admission of the set designer in the instruction manual. These models are of mixed quality and combining them to form a focal point does little to improve the design. It surprises me in how many cases do I actually fundamentally disagree with the choice you made for the worst set contenders. Actually, I agree just about the Assassins Droid BP, which is trully odd and then the new releases - Scavenger, Hoth and two TLJ sets. had a bunch of small sets that were mostly pretty good. The worst to me, by far, is 4489: AT-AT. It makes me sad to say an AT-AT is the worst set of a year.

Say whatever you want, but calling licenced sets a bad thing just shows your ignorance of the wider market and how business works. However, there are a couple of mitigating factors to be taken into consideration. Firstly, the designer probably only had access to limited material from which to take inspiration as the set was created while the film was in production. The range of pieces and colours available was also far less comprehensive than it is today. Elements such as curved slopes, which have been used to good effect in modern Sith Infiltrator sets, were not created until 2004. 7184 Trade Federation MTT As for "accountants had taken over Lego and people only care about making money instead of bringing joy and creativity to children", any company nowadays is about money. Like it or not that's the world we live in. LEGO can't make sets if they don't bring in the money to do so. Star Wars brings in the money, and quite a lot of it.LEGO has released a number of sets based upon their own animated series in recent years, the latest of which are from The Freemaker Adventures. On the one hand, these sets are at a disadvantage because they are not based upon a familiar or beloved design from the Star Wars movies. However, this situation also allows the designers to create something from their own imagination, without the restrictions imposed by a source material. System-scale Thomas trains certainly has a potential, but personally I think Lego should stay far away from both Thomas, Cars and the other licenses listed as they all have a stigma of excessive merchandising. After 2007, things are a little more difficult for me. I never had a real connection to the Clone Wars show (though I greatly enjoyed the initial shorts). Lego also begins adding in some other Star Wars properties that I have no connection to (such as Force Unleashed, Yoda Chronicles, Freemaker Adventures). In a few years, you get more and more exclusive sets and small polybag type sets, both of which can be difficult to obtain. There are a lot more sets I don't care about. Even some of the base movie sets are at times uninteresting. Just because I'm not interested, are they really that bad? Hard to say. I definitely fall into the camp that believes comparing the builds from the first few years to sets from several years later is something of a pointless exercise. As already mentioned numerous times, the color palette, available parts, and experience in creating these sets was at a much lower level than later. For the most part, the best you could hope for was an approximation of what was being created. I think each of the three sets listed here actually do a good job in that respect. There are studies proving that a parent is much more likely to buy something if they can relate to it. While children may be the target audience, Lego is really selling sets to adults. So when Star Wars is chosen over say, Castle, its because of the parents, not the children.

The first ever MTT was on my list until the 2007 version, and the only reason to get it now would be for completionist means for the older sets. I could have chosen something I knew was not good by word of mouth like the latest MTT and that AT-ST, but with all the mudslinging I saw at those older sets in the AT-ST review purely because they were old (I doubt most that crapped on them actually owned them. They have some fantastic functions and utilize great innovation in my opinion.), what are we going to do with the sets we have coming out now in ten years? While I may know that the sets I listed are considered bad, I do not know firsthand why they are bad. It's easy enough to do like knowing a Transformers movie is going to be bad, but how severe?I don't know who's the worst troll here - the user who says "Sod Star Wars" and "Fanboys has taken over the community", or the one who says "There’s no place for your statements here" and "Every sentence you wrote reeks of stupidity". I have selected ten sets which I believe to be among the worst ever released and have tried to explain my reasoning for each selection below. The following items have not been taken into consideration as I do not think they can be properly compared with conventional System sets. The "selling to parents" point definitely is important, but another reason people don't buy Castle and Space is because Lego doesn't sell them as they would "conflict" with licenses like SW, Harry Potter and LOTR. I'd love to see a well-built semi-realistic space theme (inspired by the type of illustrations you'd see in popular science mags) with sets based on locations in the solar system like the Moon, Mars, Venus, Titan and Europa. It would also be nice with a castle theme with a little more focus on "civilian" structures similar to Medieval Market and Mill Village Raid, too bad Lego has such a rigid attitude to religious buildings as a church really is the centerpiece of any medieval village.