As you may remember from the 2015 LEGO Store Exclusives & Promotions discussion from back in January, we suppose to get a LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Hoth Echo Base in October of this year. According to early rumors, the set is going to be massive. After the release of the #76042 LEGO Ultimate Collector Series SHIELD Helicarrier some people even speculated that the set may be using micro-figures instead of regular minifigs to make the base realistically to scale. You might also remember that the short LEGO Star Wars films you can find on the official LEGO Star Wars website are often indicators of what’s coming (see: LEGO Star Wars Videos Hints on the Future). 🙂
In the recently released LEGO Star Wars Mini-Movies: Episode 11 – Battle of Hoth, the entire scene is played out at Echo Base, and while some of the models look familiar like the Snowspeeder, AT-AT and Wampa Cave, other sections like the big entrance doors, the command center, the shield-generator, and the ion-cannon are entirely new. All of this made LEGO Star Wars fans speculate that this might be the setup what we are going to get in the new LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Hoth Echo Base. Below is the full episode, so you can see it for yourself:
There was actually an earlier version of this scene in the #7879 LEGO Star Wars Hoth Echo Base set (see below). It was a 773 piece, $90 set released in 2011 – a very nice setup including many of the scenes from the movie. For the new LEGO Star Wars Echo Base to receive Ultimate Collector Series status, it must be at least twice as big in both piece-count and price.
I’m not entirely convinced that what we see in this mini-movie is enough to indicate a Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series set. It seems too small and chopped up – more like a regular large LEGO Star Wars set. At least in my mind an LEGO Ultimate Collector Echo Base would include a complete building, not just a doorway and some big guns here and there. It is possible that this is just a teaser that something Echo Base-related is coming, or it may have no relation to the upcoming set at all. And we may not even get an Echo Base – remember that the 2015 LEGO Store Exclusives & Promotions discussion from January was only a list of rumors – although I might add that so far all of them came true…
What do you think? Do you believe that the mini-movie is featuring the new LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Hoth Echo Base? Are there any other indicators you notice in the movie that might confirm that this is the set we are getting? Or do you think that this movie has nothing to do with the upcoming set? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉
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