>>9720028>some would argue it never had any due to being a licenced productWell, anyone is free to form their own opinions, but people swearing on this take may have never built a 1999 star wars set. Those things were very much a pile of hard slopes and wedge plates that were available in '99, and build-wise carried a strong sense of old Space sets, just spiced with couple new canopy and cylinder pieces.
Back then the sets were Lego first, star wars second. They were a reimagining of familiar shapes in lego form, and where the movie vehicles had to compromise to fit into lego standards, they did so. Builds themselves were so-so, but they were meant to kickstart your imagination to build something even greater. Nowadays, it's practically completely the opposite.
Add to this that the original set minifigs were rather unremarkable, such as Luke, Obi-Wan and Han all sharing the same classic bowl cut hairpiece, and many non-named characters having a classic yellow smile head (perhaps with a headset print, but anyway). Nowadays, minifigures are seen more desirable than the sets themselves. This is a complete mockery of what lego is supposed to be about, static action figures being highlighted as collectors' items instead the building blocks themselves, to realize your creativity.
