Here's another which was up on the front page for a bit:
An interesting news post appeared on the Dutch-language LEGO news site [/FONT][/COLOR]
bouwsteentjes.info yesterday, with word on two rumoured LEGO Star Wars sets for 2018. Note that the quotes below are translated from Dutch using a Babel fish so might read as a touch odd.
"LEGO Star Wars Build Able Figures are a special case. You must love to find them beautiful. There are plenty of fans of these sets may be clear for LEGO brings them still out. In 2018 LEGO comes with some models and one of the models is Boba Fett."
Originally introduced to the LEGO Star Wars theme in 2015, the lineage of buildable figures or "constraction" (*gag*) sets can be traced as far back as 2011 with the release of three DC Comics Super Heroes sets, though LEGO aficionados at
Maskofdestiny.com might argue that the first Bionicles, dating as far back as 2001, were the "Lucy" of today's buildable figures.
Now it sounds like there might be the possibility of adding Boba to the Fett family Christmas card. Curiously this isn't the first time Boba Fett has appeared as a Builable Figure, because notorious LEGO (pardon the pun) cloner KSZ produced a
Boba Fett constraction figure as long ago as 2013. This was considerably well ahead of the release of 75107 Jango Fett buildable figure in 2015. A comparison of the two demonstrates that there isn't much of a family resemblance - the Boba Fett build more closely resembles the more rudimentary Hero Factory constraction figures of the time and lacks the detailed elements or required building skills of the more advanced 75107 Jango Fett.
This suggests that this wasn't a knock-off that was ahead of its time, but a bootleg of one of the rumoured
cancelled wave of six LEGO Star Wars Ultrabuild sets that were due out in 2013, and a quick tally of the Ultrabuild line shows that C-3PO and Boba Fett are the only ones that haven't been released yet. This has led fans to speculate that other
high-quality bootleg Star Wars sets coming out from the likes of Lepin might be similarly cancelled sets that could - albeit in a repurposed form - see the light of day further down the track.
"The first rumor about LEGO Star Wars BrickHeadz. Now Hasbro has the sole right to issue action figures under the Star Wars license and LEGO somewhat limited when it comes to the release of LEGO Star Wars Minifigs. As a solution, they have Battlepacks created and it looks as though they will tackle the exclusive Hasbro with the LEGO BrickHeadz."
It has been long acknowledged that, after the flying elbow Hasbro brought to bear on LEGO in 2000 when they released three minifig triple-packs (3340,3341 and 3342) and Lucasfilm had to act as arbitrator between these two giants of ABS, LEGO has steered clear of producing individual LEGO Star Wars character builds - much to the dismay of LEGO and Star Wars fans who have been clamouring for a dedicated LEGO Star Wars Collectible Minifig series.
As curiously adorable as BrickHeadz are it isn't quite what army builders and minifig collectors were expecting and, humourously, with the minifig range at one end of the scale and the buildable figures at the other end this possible addition parallels Hasbro's judgement to sandwich a 6 inch line between their 3-3/4 and 12 inch lines.
Those of us who have been following LEGO Star Wars through the non-movie years will remember the 2010 convention exclusive CubeDude sets that came in two flavours - Clone Wars (San Diego Comic-Con) and Bounty Hunters (Celebration V). For whatever reason prompted LEGO to make the decision not to produce these in commercial numbers, that reason doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Taking a look at twelve existing examples in the
Brickheadz section on the Shop@Home website, the break down is four Disney characters (Belle, Beast, Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Armando Salazar), four DC characters (Batman, Robin, Batgirl and The Joker) and four Marvel builds (Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk and Black Widow). If this rumour is true has the door been opened for four Star Wars characters?
And don't forget that there is currently a
LEGO Ideas campaign for a series of LEGO Star Wars bobble heads that could really do with your support.
You can read the original Dutch-language report at
http://www.bouwsteentjes.info/lego-star-wars-brick.... Remember that these are rumours at the moment and no-one is reporting them to be true.
