>>11667405Smart Brick is unironically the best thing to happen to Lego Star Wars in at least a decade.
Seeing all the seething afools has brought me insurmountable joy. All retarded e-celebs crying about how it's not "displayable" and "muh heckin minifigs are ruined" (even though they never take apart their figs anyway and the back print won't be visible from their soulless fig display case). This is the exact kind of thing I've been pestering Lego for in all the feedback forms and surveys. You are finally allowed to play with your sets rather than have them collect dust and not have any fun ways to interact with them except a tacked on stud shooter.
Granted I still kind of expected more from the brick. For now all we've seen it do is make noise and flash annoyingly. I have Star Wars McDonalds toys from the 2000s that make noise whenever you swoosh them, the tech is hardly new or innovative. I don't see how this couldn't have been achieved with the sound bricks they already have. The dogfighting gimmick seemed fun at least, hopefully there's more to it than they show. Also it makes me wonder why they decided to stuff the entire smart brick kit with every set instead of selling it separately. Now if you buy the whole wave you'll get a bunch of extra chargers and bricks you don't need. And if you happen to want an extra smart brick for MOCs or to play with, well fuck you, buy an entire set.
The sets themselves are genuinely fine. The only headscratcher is the X-wing with its retarded cockpit placement. Everything else looks fine and would have been great sets even if they didn't have the smart brick. Side builds are cool and would make for fun scenarios to play out. I'm particularly excited for the Echo Base rumour, that seems like it'd be perfect for the new system - run missions in and out of the base while you get sound queues to what's happening.
This is a good thing for the brand. We might finally have a year of Lego Star Wars that isn't just 50% 18+ slop.
