True! Also, he mentions begging a lot of commanders, but if you take the range finder off and swap the officer legs to a heavy trooper, you make yourself a standard trooper.
I think it's also important to note that these sets absolutely go together. Only a minority of the 332nd had orange helmets, and most just looked like the greater 501st. So you can and absolutely should mix these guys together in battle scenes and all that. They all look great together, and make sense to put together.
Basically if you got an Ahsoka and Anakin and mix the 2 groups together in a setup vs droids you are good to go. It will look just great. In particular if you got the CIS tank set. Which came with 1 332nd trooper.
Finally! Someone who is not nitpicky about the helmet holes. I already have 2 501st specialist battle packs. Can’t wait to get the 332nd battle pack. For the Vaughn minifig, all I have to do is switch the visor from orange to red.
@@RichardMontgomeryYT i am gonna try and put the white markings on there with tape, and even if that doesn't work, i Will put a red one on there because i think it looks good
@@Tijsdr Red doesn’t look good to me either. On Vaughn the orange is a bit darker than what LEGO printed. So the orange visor they use blends well. I think the red would look good had LEGO gone with a blood orange for the Ahsoka print.
@@BuzzGlitcher agree i love helmet holes but people complain that set with regualr p2 clone tropes coems with no acesories but still it easy to find acesories so people shold not complain
Honestly, the biggest downside to the current clones for me is the lack of waist cape. Other themes have them, and they look better than printing imho. Both sets look great though !
Good point about all the criticism. It cracks me up how upset people get. They’re Lego figures for goodness sake. There are other options if you’re looking to buy something super accurate.
What I like about this is that I have 1 regular 501st with the regular body so I can get 2 332 battle packs and get 1 extra normal trooper and 1 Vaughn
Hey studs! What clone are you hoping for next? Personally i agree with you and am just happy to see the less popular clones being made, im hoping for a commander Bly, captain keeli or commander Thorn the GOAT clone
@@STUDSRepublicooh true, i think a set based off the prison planet with fives, echo, even piell and tarkin would be cool, maybe make it a sepratist shuttle with an explosion play fearure to recreate echos supposed death
Tbh while the figs aren’t perfect I’m annoyed with the constant clone criticism to the point that I just tune it out most of the time now. It’s not that I totally disagree, I just find it disingenuous and repetitive. I still can’t wrap my mind around the helmet holes being such a massive deal. People expect a whole new visor piece that would work with the holes being in the correct spot on the helmet, comparing the piece to customs and basically forgetting that this is Lego and they hardly ever change molds, they mostly just change the prints. Oh, and when they do change molds, people complain. People complain about the visor piece being bulky and inaccurate… on a square figure proportioned like a human infant. The visor pieces are fine. If you want something sleeker and fancier with a little antenna on one side, go buy a custom, they look great but IMO they look very obviously not aesthetically Lego. Also people gloss over the fact that new visor and helmet molds that change the position of the pins/holes would retroactively make old helmet accessories less compatible with new helmets and vice versa, which is a no go for me since they’ve made them in so many colors over the years and they’re not just going to drop all those colors again for new accessory molds at once, if ever. I personally like the backwards compatibility with old accessories. To illustrate my point, since I’m buying multiple of the new pack for army building, I’m going to have one “main” Vaughn that is more accurate with a dark red visor and blue arms (like I said, the figs aren’t perfect) and turn the rest into jet troopers and ignore the tiny rank insignia. If the holes were lower on the helmet, I couldn’t use my old dark red visors from the ARC trooper to do this. I also couldn’t use old black visors to further customize my several 501st officers, or also use the new rangefinder piece on other helmet molds if the piece was made to fit different hole placement, and so on. Backwards compatibility is a gift for customization. That being said, if I had it to do over when they made the new helmets, I personally would have just done away with the circles under the helmet holes that are where the “accurate” holes would be, but are just useless circles, and keep the same accessory pieces. The holed helmets would look slightly different than the old helmets, but they already do anyway, because the hole, so all it would do is make the molds look a little cleaner. And without the redundant circle, I don’t think anyone would have complained about inaccuracy. But overall, I really don’t care. It’s a pin hole on what is at the end of the day a tiny plastic toy for children. So to me the constant fever-pitch whining about clone minifig accuracy on RUclips and Reddit is honestly just ridiculous. It may have started out with honest, well-intentioned criticism, but let’s be honest here, it’s become massively overblown because it’s 2023 and we’re all terminally online and everyone has to have an opinion on everything (typically a critical one parroted by enough other people that it doesn’t feel like too hot a take for comfort). If it were 2010, only a handful of people would care while most people wouldn’t even think about it because there wouldn’t be a massive attention-seeking backlash bandwagon spreading like wildfire in the online Lego Star Wars community. Like the figs or don’t like the figs, I’ll respect your individual opinion, but when we have such a massive amount of people complaining while still buying duplicate sets all over the place anyway, to me that just shows that the flaws aren’t actually a big enough deal for those people to put their money where their mouth is, and instead they’re just complaining to complain, because it’s the internet in 2023 and a bunch of people repeating the same tired points every chance they get so that other people on the bandwagon agree in the replies, while offline the vast majority of them continue eagerly purchasing the products while not really caring all that much in real life, is just the typical herd mentality validation-seeking internet “discourse” that goes on about literally everything no matter how minor. In short, opinions are fine, but when they’re exclusively in online comment sections and don’t extend into real life in any tangible way, something like this being such a massive and inescapable “thing” in the community that is everywhere you go, is just annoying to me. I just wanna look at Lego sets man, not hear the hundredth guy in a row say the same minor criticism I just heard the previous 99 shoehorn into every Lego Star Wars-related conversation they can.
Do you think they will release more 501st troopers in another somewhat cheap set in the near future? I only have 3 regular from the old 501st Legion Set. Edit: I display the minifigs and sets in a battle, where I throw them on a baseplate and add a few pieces to make the illusion of a battlefield, and most are in vehicles.
I like both Sets. I have a few of the 501st battle packs and just love them. I'm excited about getting the 332nd Battle pack, can't wait till August 1st so I can get my hands on a few!!! The helmet holes don't really bother me at all. As for who else I'd like to see - Fives, Jesse and Bly.
Ya I’d love a Rex y-wing. I think there would be a good chance we could get a season 7 Jesse in that set, which would be sick. And I hope we get Bly in 2025. And fives is my favorite clone so I’d love him too
I love both of these , got 4 of each, they definitely go together since anakin leads the 501st and Ashoka leads the 332nd , two dope sets I’ll be sad when they retire
Honestly Both are good for arm my building.I don’t care about helmet holes, But A lot of people hate it. I Buy a lot of these, And even make some custom Alternate builds
I really want a bunch of the 332nd because I can mix pieces to get regular 501st troopers and I can convert some of my hoard of specialists into 332nd to kinda even things out. I’m a big fan of the swamp speeder, yes it’s a bit small but I can actually use it in my collection, I am lookin at a nice replacement for that AV-7 cannon because let’s face it that cannon was kinda garbage in the specialist battle pack. I still really wish the figs were 327th because I’ve been trying to build an army of those to help my lonely republic bricks Bly, but the 332nd is definitely a smarter move for Lego. Unfortunately I got fired from my job a few months ago because they found out I was homeless(still kinda pissed off about that, but it’s fine because I was the only person that wanted to work there anyway) and haven’t been able to find a new job, I’m trying to enlist into the marines, but I’m pretty sure the set will retire before I have the opportunity to buy a bunch. I think I might be able to convince a friend to buy some and hold on to them until I’m ready and I can hopefully buy them off him, idk haven’t asked yet. Still gotta get accepted into the marines. My collection is currently disassembled and I’m storage but once I’ve got my life together I plan to build it even bigger. I really liked the republic fighter tank, it was an alright build and the 187th troopers are awesome. Say what you want about not being canon or whatnot, I’ve never seen such good lookin troopers. Yes doom legion be lookin cool, and yes Wolfpack is still my favorite, but no one looks snazzier than my bois in purple, wish I could get more.
You won’t change your mind. I already have it. The thing that makes 332nd good is scalability. Other than that, the 501st is better since that type of pack is what the helmet holes are intended for. The helmet print suffers on the 332nd because of the holes.
For the first time in years we have have two Clone battle packs on shelves at the same time and yet Lego fans whine endlessly about it. Helmet holes don’t phase me at all cause there is no reason to dislike them.
fans complain about everything (from the keyboard). The arms, the legs, the helmet, the printing, the colors, the PRICE, the weapons, the selection, the name/no names, the accessories, the PRICE, the build, the #of bricks, price of milk, the lack of jobs, the # of hours of work, politics, Nintendo, music, etc.
Am I the only one who is a little surprised that he complains about that there are “too many” specialist characters in the 501ste battle pack when that’s literally the point, to be able to get a lot of specialists with 1 set, if you want the normal ones too just get the original 501ste battle pack?
great video!! i picked up 2 of the 501st battle packs when there was a deal, looking forward to getting some of the 332nd!! (and ty for not making the helmet holes a big deal lol)
if you get both packs you can combine pieces and make 2 standard 501st troopers
Right you are my friend! Was going to comment that exact same thing
Nah why is that genius 😂
But helmet holes 😭😭
@@jediswitajewski8271😊😊
And don’t forget that also gives you some 332nd specialists
True! Also, he mentions begging a lot of commanders, but if you take the range finder off and swap the officer legs to a heavy trooper, you make yourself a standard trooper.
I think it's also important to note that these sets absolutely go together. Only a minority of the 332nd had orange helmets, and most just looked like the greater 501st. So you can and absolutely should mix these guys together in battle scenes and all that. They all look great together, and make sense to put together.
Basically if you got an Ahsoka and Anakin and mix the 2 groups together in a setup vs droids you are good to go. It will look just great. In particular if you got the CIS tank set. Which came with 1 332nd trooper.
Finally! Someone who is not nitpicky about the helmet holes. I already have 2 501st specialist battle packs. Can’t wait to get the 332nd battle pack. For the Vaughn minifig, all I have to do is switch the visor from orange to red.
I am gonna do the exact same with the 332nd, i have already 9 specialist 501st battle packs and im gonna get as much of these possible
it looks really bad with a red visor tbh
@@RichardMontgomeryYT i am gonna try and put the white markings on there with tape, and even if that doesn't work, i Will put a red one on there because i think it looks good
@@Tijsdr Red doesn’t look good to me either. On Vaughn the orange is a bit darker than what LEGO printed. So the orange visor they use blends well. I think the red would look good had LEGO gone with a blood orange for the Ahsoka print.
@@EchoBaseplates I'm not gonna judge the looks of it till i get the set myself so i can see for myself
you can make default 501st clones by putting the specialist or officer helmets on the 332nd trooper
I like the helmet holes lmao, I can officially decorate my otherwise bare bones phase 2 troopers with accessories!
Exactly! And now we're getting the regular phase 2 clones again.
@@BuzzGlitcher agree i love helmet holes but people complain that set with regualr p2 clone tropes coems with no acesories but still it easy to find acesories so people shold not complain
Honestly, the biggest downside to the current clones for me is the lack of waist cape. Other themes have them, and they look better than printing imho. Both sets look great though !
Good point about all the criticism. It cracks me up how upset people get. They’re Lego figures for goodness sake. There are other options if you’re looking to buy something super accurate.
What I like about this is that I have 1 regular 501st with the regular body so I can get 2 332 battle packs and get 1 extra normal trooper and 1 Vaughn
The 501st look cooler imo, but the 332nd still look good and are more army buildable
I think the 332nd is the best of all time- special figures, but all can be normal trooper to army
Hey studs! What clone are you hoping for next? Personally i agree with you and am just happy to see the less popular clones being made, im hoping for a commander Bly, captain keeli or commander Thorn the GOAT clone
Fives
@@STUDSRepublicooh true, i think a set based off the prison planet with fives, echo, even piell and tarkin would be cool, maybe make it a sepratist shuttle with an explosion play fearure to recreate echos supposed death
I agree with you I like them both and tired of the helmet hole’s controversy
I like how they all have the same face. I mean, they are _clones_ after all.
Tbh while the figs aren’t perfect I’m annoyed with the constant clone criticism to the point that I just tune it out most of the time now. It’s not that I totally disagree, I just find it disingenuous and repetitive.
I still can’t wrap my mind around the helmet holes being such a massive deal. People expect a whole new visor piece that would work with the holes being in the correct spot on the helmet, comparing the piece to customs and basically forgetting that this is Lego and they hardly ever change molds, they mostly just change the prints. Oh, and when they do change molds, people complain.
People complain about the visor piece being bulky and inaccurate… on a square figure proportioned like a human infant. The visor pieces are fine. If you want something sleeker and fancier with a little antenna on one side, go buy a custom, they look great but IMO they look very obviously not aesthetically Lego.
Also people gloss over the fact that new visor and helmet molds that change the position of the pins/holes would retroactively make old helmet accessories less compatible with new helmets and vice versa, which is a no go for me since they’ve made them in so many colors over the years and they’re not just going to drop all those colors again for new accessory molds at once, if ever. I personally like the backwards compatibility with old accessories.
To illustrate my point, since I’m buying multiple of the new pack for army building, I’m going to have one “main” Vaughn that is more accurate with a dark red visor and blue arms (like I said, the figs aren’t perfect) and turn the rest into jet troopers and ignore the tiny rank insignia. If the holes were lower on the helmet, I couldn’t use my old dark red visors from the ARC trooper to do this. I also couldn’t use old black visors to further customize my several 501st officers, or also use the new rangefinder piece on other helmet molds if the piece was made to fit different hole placement, and so on. Backwards compatibility is a gift for customization.
That being said, if I had it to do over when they made the new helmets, I personally would have just done away with the circles under the helmet holes that are where the “accurate” holes would be, but are just useless circles, and keep the same accessory pieces. The holed helmets would look slightly different than the old helmets, but they already do anyway, because the hole, so all it would do is make the molds look a little cleaner. And without the redundant circle, I don’t think anyone would have complained about inaccuracy. But overall, I really don’t care. It’s a pin hole on what is at the end of the day a tiny plastic toy for children.
So to me the constant fever-pitch whining about clone minifig accuracy on RUclips and Reddit is honestly just ridiculous. It may have started out with honest, well-intentioned criticism, but let’s be honest here, it’s become massively overblown because it’s 2023 and we’re all terminally online and everyone has to have an opinion on everything (typically a critical one parroted by enough other people that it doesn’t feel like too hot a take for comfort).
If it were 2010, only a handful of people would care while most people wouldn’t even think about it because there wouldn’t be a massive attention-seeking backlash bandwagon spreading like wildfire in the online Lego Star Wars community.
Like the figs or don’t like the figs, I’ll respect your individual opinion, but when we have such a massive amount of people complaining while still buying duplicate sets all over the place anyway, to me that just shows that the flaws aren’t actually a big enough deal for those people to put their money where their mouth is, and instead they’re just complaining to complain, because it’s the internet in 2023 and a bunch of people repeating the same tired points every chance they get so that other people on the bandwagon agree in the replies, while offline the vast majority of them continue eagerly purchasing the products while not really caring all that much in real life, is just the typical herd mentality validation-seeking internet “discourse” that goes on about literally everything no matter how minor.
In short, opinions are fine, but when they’re exclusively in online comment sections and don’t extend into real life in any tangible way, something like this being such a massive and inescapable “thing” in the community that is everywhere you go, is just annoying to me. I just wanna look at Lego sets man, not hear the hundredth guy in a row say the same minor criticism I just heard the previous 99 shoehorn into every Lego Star Wars-related conversation they can.
Nice Essay.
The alternative builds on yt for the 501st battle pack make it a lil better imo
Do you think they will release more 501st troopers in another somewhat cheap set in the near future? I only have 3 regular from the old 501st Legion Set.
Edit: I display the minifigs and sets in a battle, where I throw them on a baseplate and add a few pieces to make the illusion of a battlefield, and most are in vehicles.
Can you please make a 332nd specialist batllepack using the 332nd and the 501st specialist batllepack?
I’d use the canon for a ventor sine or something like that
Hi! I love your vids! Been watching for a while now! Cant wait for yout gunship review when it comes out!!
I like both Sets. I have a few of the 501st battle packs and just love them. I'm excited about getting the 332nd Battle pack, can't wait till August 1st so I can get my hands on a few!!! The helmet holes don't really bother me at all. As for who else I'd like to see - Fives, Jesse and Bly.
Ya I’d love a Rex y-wing. I think there would be a good chance we could get a season 7 Jesse in that set, which would be sick. And I hope we get Bly in 2025. And fives is my favorite clone so I’d love him too
I love both of these , got 4 of each, they definitely go together since anakin leads the 501st and Ashoka leads the 332nd , two dope sets I’ll be sad when they retire
It’s CAPTAIN vaughn right? Because captain Rex became the commander of the 501st (if I remember it correctly)
Honestly Both are good for arm my building.I don’t care about helmet holes, But A lot of people hate it. I Buy a lot of these, And even make some custom Alternate builds
I really want a bunch of the 332nd because I can mix pieces to get regular 501st troopers and I can convert some of my hoard of specialists into 332nd to kinda even things out. I’m a big fan of the swamp speeder, yes it’s a bit small but I can actually use it in my collection, I am lookin at a nice replacement for that AV-7 cannon because let’s face it that cannon was kinda garbage in the specialist battle pack. I still really wish the figs were 327th because I’ve been trying to build an army of those to help my lonely republic bricks Bly, but the 332nd is definitely a smarter move for Lego. Unfortunately I got fired from my job a few months ago because they found out I was homeless(still kinda pissed off about that, but it’s fine because I was the only person that wanted to work there anyway) and haven’t been able to find a new job, I’m trying to enlist into the marines, but I’m pretty sure the set will retire before I have the opportunity to buy a bunch. I think I might be able to convince a friend to buy some and hold on to them until I’m ready and I can hopefully buy them off him, idk haven’t asked yet. Still gotta get accepted into the marines. My collection is currently disassembled and I’m storage but once I’ve got my life together I plan to build it even bigger. I really liked the republic fighter tank, it was an alright build and the 187th troopers are awesome. Say what you want about not being canon or whatnot, I’ve never seen such good lookin troopers. Yes doom legion be lookin cool, and yes Wolfpack is still my favorite, but no one looks snazzier than my bois in purple, wish I could get more.
*yes*
Also since I had 4 Vaugns I put a blue visor on one and a orange antenna and a blue antenna on the other two
It's been some time for Republic studs to do lego star wars stuff
I feel like the swamp speeder would go better with the 501st trooper and the av 7 cannon would go better with the 332nd clones
👇 if you agree
Honestly I think the 501st one is better but if I get my hands on the 332nd one I might change my mind
You won’t change your mind. I already have it. The thing that makes 332nd good is scalability. Other than that, the 501st is better since that type of pack is what the helmet holes are intended for. The helmet print suffers on the 332nd because of the holes.
I has 4 501battlepacks and cant wait for 332nd
For the first time in years we have have two Clone battle packs on shelves at the same time and yet Lego fans whine endlessly about it. Helmet holes don’t phase me at all cause there is no reason to dislike them.
I feel like a droid pack would be cool in January 2024😢
WHAT MAGIC DO YOU HAVE
Love all 3 of those sets
You can get 4 if you put the 501st helmets on the 332nd bodies
I personally like to give my "commander vaughn" the range finder and my jetpack troopers the visors
Just take off the officer's view thingy, and boom, regular 501st trooper.
The leg print and torso are different
@@STUDSRepublic in masses you can't tell.
@themonkeyandgorilla1845 yea I was thinking the same thing
I guess lego will pump a 501st battlepack every two or three years, given how succesfull these packs are 😂
I'm gonna take the jetpacks from the jet troopers to make from the remaining vaughns jettroopers so that Vaughns backpack isn't visible anymore
Fives and Jesse would be nice
fans complain about everything (from the keyboard). The arms, the legs, the helmet, the printing, the colors, the PRICE, the weapons, the selection, the name/no names, the accessories, the PRICE, the build, the #of bricks, price of milk, the lack of jobs, the # of hours of work, politics, Nintendo, music, etc.
Nice vid
So, could somebody use a very small drill bit to correct the helmet holes, or would that be considered illegal craftiness?👀🧑🏭⚠️🧰
Ilegal to me
Next figure that will be coming out will be Fox and then in 2024 there will be fives
Bought 3 of these from my local warmart.. sadly i had to pay 21$ more than i should have needed to.
Am I the only one who is a little surprised that he complains about that there are “too many” specialist characters in the 501ste battle pack when that’s literally the point, to be able to get a lot of specialists with 1 set, if you want the normal ones too just get the original 501ste battle pack?
The point being that the original one is retired.
The 501st one is better minifig wise
Got headache from camera work… 😣
ill army build the 332nd but ill just buy a custom vaughn that looks better
Really want to get the 332nd😢😊
I Have And Duo Battle puck
And also have the 501st (1 though)😅
Battle pack
Hey
2:33 captain not commander
great video!! i picked up 2 of the 501st battle packs when there was a deal, looking forward to getting some of the 332nd!!
(and ty for not making the helmet holes a big deal lol)
501st
Hi
HI
Hi first
No one asked
@@nandcproductions6810 ok I don't remember caring
Both these sets suck compared to the Snowtrooper battle pack. Not every starwars fan likes the prequels and clones.
Okay? Just because you don’t like the prequels doesn’t mean you have to hate the prequel LEGO sets.
@@quixquire1761 Grow up
@@keno31186oh the irony