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.

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. Maybe if the FO AT-ST had at least improved on the design of the legs by making them posable it wouldn't be as bad. Unfortunately it doesn't do that though so it easily gets my vote.I agree with those who have suggested that early sets are beholden to different standards in relation to those released today and made certain to stress the limited availability of parts and colours during that period in the article, as well as the potential for limited source material being available. Prices were not taken into consideration either as they vary a great deal between different countries and regions, although this may be a factor in choosing your least favourite Star Wars set. 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. T-16 Skyhopper - as featured in A New Hope. Err... really? It's not a bad model, but it's presence here perplexes me. At least I saw the Jakku Quadjumper in TFA. this could be literally anything else. Say whatever you want, but calling licenced sets a bad thing just shows your ignorance of the wider market and how business works.

Fill out an Inventory Change Request ( ?) [ Show Inv Item IDs ] if you found an error in this inventory. 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. The reason there is a large market of child star wars fans is because there parents are either SW fans themselves, or watched the movies as a child.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. However, I think it would be unfair to ignore sets from the first few years of LEGO Star Wars entirely. Sets should be judged according to the context of their release and in that regard I think certain older models, such as those mentioned in the article, fare comparatively poorly in relation to other sets released in the same year. Also, from a purely practical perspective it would be almost impossible to identify a single year after which we are able to judge sets by modern standards. I think it is not fair to say those sets from early years are bad, because designers got limited amount of well designed slope pieces[1] and the idea of combining interesting building technics to create play feature revolves over times.[2] Once again, this issue can be attributed to the limited selection of colours available. Dark green pieces are ideally suited to Boba Fett's Slave I and have been used on every subsequent model of the vessel. Unfortunately, they did not appear until 2003 so the designer had to use the standard shade of green which is not at all suitable. This model also suffers from a severe scaling issue and its flaws become even more apparent when the set is compared with 7153 Jango Fett's Slave I which was released just two years later. 7257 Ultimate Lightsaber Duel LEGO Star Wars will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary next year and most of the 643 sets released since 1999 have been excellent in my opinion, depicting numerous iconic vehicles, locations and characters.