This video is so high quality, this deserves more attention

Lego comes off as a foreign company that you’d expect to do simple things but chooses not to with no good reason at all. They are like Nintendo but for toys. Heck the Mario Lego sets are proof of how weird their decisions are. Instead of giving us sets like the Sonic theme with mini figures, they made a whole new system which is just a glorified board game.

this Commander Fox looks like he was designed by the Lego Duplo designers

I would like to remind everyone of the lego clone wars arc trooper set with an arc trooper which had a helmet with correct visor hole placement but a phase 1 style fin (To match the phase 1 arc troopers which phase 2 shaped helmets excluding the fin) I don't see why lego has not just altered the fin and added a few other little details to make it look a little less flat and shipped the helmet design.

Just want to say I really enjoy this niche you’ve moved into. You’ve gone in the direction of critiquing Lego’s strategy and I find that necessary in a crowded landscape of Lego KZfaqrs who tend to accept everything and make the same complaints

I for one like the helmet holes. I enjoy the customizability of them.

Another thing that bothers me personally is how lego is mixing the animated and movie realistic clone trooper styles. You can more or less get away with it on the phase II troopers but it's too obvious on the phase I where we have the movie realistic helmets, but animated phase II style bodies.

Send this to Lego come on people This is tbh the best solutions to this situation I’ve seen

I get that people dont like the helmet holes but i dont think it was a bad idea for lego to add them. With Lego being a product that you can build, customize, and excercise your creativity on, it makes sense that you can add a visor or antenna to your clone troopers if you want. Also I know it makes the helmet less accurate to the real-life counterpart but lego figures already obviously arent supposed to be realistic compared to something like mega bloks figures

It's frustrating that LEGO has basically zero community management and interaction. The ambassadors in LAN do not actually advocate for consumers and fans but instead just shill products so they can continually get them for free.

I appreciate presenting solutions instead of just criticism. I really don’t like how Lego has responded negatively by ignoring criticism while getting worse quality control.

Finally someone that doesn’t pretend Phase I visors just HAVE to be used for Phase II, that LEGO can in fact make new accessories

Yeah the helmet holes are really icky

What I find hilarious is that because the official images of the range finders on the helmets have them in the correct position, this implies Lego would rather use photoshop to false advertise than actually put holes for the finders. Greedy companies do be greedy.

i wish more people talked about the storm trooper helmets as i see them as a bigger issue then helmet holes. go back the old ones were perfect. i haven't been able to find a single reason why they cant got back. also yea i would die for a knight trooper battle pack.

So to fix Legos problem with waist capes not being able to sit with you ive seen some someone I don’t know who did the KZfaqr was, but he made a custom Lego waist cape in which you can sit down with on and walk. It’s connected to the legs and it looks really freaking nice.

i would like to shed more light on the printed kama issue. because the kama's rapped around the figures legs back and front, posing the legs would put stress on the kama's. this would cause short term wear, fraying the kama's. especially with how rough kids can be you can see where this is an issue. another good example of this is fabric skirts, which now either get printed or replaced with a plastic skirt. so its not just clone troopers. now the waist fabrics other figure are receiving are not quite the same, as they do not rap around the legs. which when posing the figure does not cause as much stress. for clarification i don't like the printed kama's either, but there is a good reason for it. i just wish more people knew.

I agree with everything he said because currently my commander For is wearing custom paper Kamas😅

Biggest problem is that we have too many Phase 2 Clonetroopers. People are too biased… I think Phase 1 is way Cooler and they should concentrate on making them !

thank you for the great info, what are your favorite phase 1 battle packs or trooper minifigures?

I completely agree that they should have made a different visor for the phase 2 clones. They ruined the helmet just to accommodate the ugly old visor piece. One thing you didn't mention and is the main reason why I'm not collecting clones, is the movie/cartoon mixed design. I personally prefer the movie design for the helmet and the torso, and I think the mixed design doesn't look that nice.

Why dont people understand that the holes are in this place so that the Accessoires fit exactly on top of the lenses if they were lower it wouldn't fit

if they printed the kamas on the side of the legs, they could show the pistol holsters.

As a dane, I would like to say that the phrase "only the best is good enough" is actually a mistranslation of the original phrase. The original phrase translates to: "The best is not too good." Which yes, is very close in meaning, but not the same. They're essentially saying that the phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is bullshit and you absolutely should keep improving, even if you're on top of the market.

A storm trooper battle pack would be sick

Is speak with my wallet, the last clones I bought where without the stupidly placed helmet holes.

I love Lego figures, but lego should do some basic research on the wishes and priorities of their customers. wouldn't that make them even more money?

Fox has also white printed in the middle of the torso wher it should be red

lego has proven they can do multi layer printing so light colors look good over top of dark colors. they do it all the time in lego minecraft. it baffles me they downright refuse to do it in any other theme then minecraft. well besides darth mauls head, that multi layer printed.

i hate the holes, on the old clone wars figures, the holes weren't as prominent from the front so id didn't mind them, but the phase 2 without look just 100x better

Great video but you mixed up phase1 and phase 2 troopers but still provide a non biased look on this issue

This is a really good vid Honest

No more asking and let the lego group cook

Idc about Rex having an oversized pauldron. Better than nothing lol or tiny

A rubber waist cape that clipped around the body could be a a solution. Easily removable when they want to be seated

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“Only the best is good enough” is a mistranslation. The actual slogan is “the best isn’t too good”. Might seem trivial and maybe it is, but I do think there’s a difference

The thing with the accessories, I think theyre fine. If people say theyre fine with the p1 having those visors then they should be with p2 having them aswell. The lego version is too long in both cases. But again lego proportions so I guess its fine.

14:30 Just rise the round part from the helmet just a little bit and than put the hole in it. That's not that Accurate but it's worlds better than the helmets as they are right now and if u make new attachment they wouldn't fit on the old trooper wich would suck.

My biggest complaint with the new figures are the helmets holes the helmet prints the torso prints and the no cloths Those big mouth prints are not in the animation or in the realistic version except for Rex but his is just wird In general becouse it sould look like phase 2 mouth peace but it is not if we look at the other animation phase 2 helmets The torso printing lookes just way out of proportion for animation clones it sould be a bit smaller and realistic of course is way smaller Cloths where never an issue you even head instructions on how to put them on so you could just take them of again The helmet holes as said just put them where they would normally go instead of where no holes sould be even tho cac uses there one helmets they still got that right and print better the Lego dos Just put the holes in the right place and change the face printing so everything fits together

id be okay w kamas being printed on the sides of the legs. rn tho? its awful not even a kama xd

Love the video

The reason they added helmet holes is because without the helmet holes and accessories is because it limits kids creativity to making there own figures

I’m not really a fan of the double standard of Lego Star Wars fans. Nobody cared when the snowtroopers in 2022 didn’t come with fabric kamas. Everyone only started throwing a fit when the clones didn’t have them. I get that they don’t look good, but if you’re going to complain, don’t ignore the snowtroopers

I wish Lego would make Kamas again, even if they wouldn’t be able to make cloth kamas why couldn’t they make plastic ones?

Lego is billion dollar company, and they can’t get the one p2 commander Fox they have ever done right. All they had to do was look at some concept art as for kamas I think they are just greedy. The kamas didn’t stop u from sitting the clones down and if them wearing down was really a problem they could use another material, and they could even do both and leave the option for a physical kama

Printed wastecape🤮

Me personally I'm fine with the way the helmets look now, but as a consumer of a company who's motto is "Only the best is good enough" and as a major Clone Wars fan, I do have an alternative solution: Don't get rid of the current helmet mould, it's perfect the way it is. Instead, only use the current mould for characters that use Sun Visors and Macrobinoculars, such as Commander Cody, Commander Fox, Commander Bly, Captain Vaughn, Snipers, etc. Then, create a new helmet mould that uses the design practice of the current one (mainly the brow line being protruded out) and put the holes in the correct spot, the bumps that are underneath the current holes, and use that for every other Clone Trooper like the grunts, Captain Rex, ARC Trooper Fives, etc, and have that helmet only be used for Rangefinders and flood lights. At first I thought maybe they could get away with having only one hole on the right of the helmet since nearly every Clone Trooper that has a Rangefinder only has one and it's always on the right, but then if Lego wanted to bring back the flood light attachment, then they'd have to have a 2nd hole on the other side so you could have two floodlights or have a Rangefinder on the right and a flood light on the left, or have two Rangefinders for some weird custom figure. This would solve the problem of the current helmet, because as it is, the current helmet mould is perfect, but only for a specific set of figures. The holes are aligned perfectly so that when you use a Sun Visor or Macrobinoculars, the holes are filled and the bumps bellow the holes line up perfectly to the old helmet mould, which makes sense, since Sun Visors and Macrobinoculars don't go on the bumps in-universe, they go above them in the negative section between the bumps and the top of the helmet, but for Rangefinders and flood lights, they go in the bumps, not in the negative space above them, so you can have the helmet mould that works for characters like Cody, and you can have a new helmet mould that works for characters like Rex, and you can use this new mould as the main helmet mould for the grunts so you can give them Rangefinders, or you can use the other helmet mould to give your grunts Sun Visors or Macrobinoculars. This would be the best solution and I hope it happens because I don't want this currenf helmef mould to be taken out of production, it can still run concurrently as long as Lego keeps producing Clones that utilize Sun Visors and Macrobinoculars, which there are a lot. In fact, the new Rex minifigure can still have his current helmet in production alongside a new one that gives him his Rangefinder in the correct position, as they could make an Umbara set and use his current mould for the scenes where he's using Macrobinoculars, and then use the other helmet mould for the scenes where he has his Rangefinder, same goes for other 501st Troopers like the grunts, Fives, Jesse, Hardcase, and Kix

The printed kama is ok looking I guess

2:00 big correction, Lego’s choice being between using helmet hole helmets for all clones vs only the named clones is a huge false dichotomy. LEGO could have simply made A new Phase II specific visor mould to accommodate the screen accurate helmet holes, such as they side with Phase I. However, they didn’t

I don't believe lego is JUST a kids toy. Am just more pissed people Complain that helmet holes suck and are EXTREMLY biased

Lego Star Wars fans when they want something:😡 Lego Star Wars fans when they get something:😡 Lego Star Wars fans when they improvise a set:😡 Lego Star Wars fans when they don’t improvise a set:😡 (No hate)

I really couldn’t care less about the helmet holes

These design choices are odd and annoying as a huge lego and star wars fan this actually enrages me

I agree with everything he said because currently my commander For is wearing custom paper Kamas😅

Biggest problem is that we have too many Phase 2 Clonetroopers. People are too biased… I think Phase 1 is way Cooler and they should concentrate on making them !