After a much-publicised fan vote, the LEGO Ideas team have revealed the much anticipated results – the Republic Gunship has been voted by fans to become one of the next Star Wars UCS sets.
It defeated the Nebulon B Escort Frigate (which I was campaigning for), and the TIE Bomber, with over 50% of the vote, proving that Prequelers are now the dominant force over Original Trilogy fans.
Memes aside, while I am disappointed that my first pick didn’t make it, I’m quite happy about the Republic Gunship. It’s been a long time coming for such an iconic Prequel ship to receive the UCS treatment.
With the upcoming Disney+ Clone Wars final season, I’m sure we’ll see a lot more appreciation for all things Prequel in 2020 and beyond.
I can’t wait for this set, and it would be amazing if we get a Plo’s Bros version but I’ll be VERY surprised if that happens.
To everyone that voted TIE Bomber and Nebulon, better luck next time and hopefully LEGO just has the Nebulon in their product development pipeline for eventual release.
This has been an interesting experiment from LEGO, and I love the entire concept of fan-voting UCS sets. I hope we see a lot more of this, where the LEGO fan community gets more of a say with future releases.
With this as a precedent, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to see a vote for the next modular building, or even an entirely fan-picked LEGO minifigures series!
What do you think of the results? Let me know in the comments!
Fan picked minifigure series… Star Wars please, no chance ?
Curses! I voted for the Nebulon B Escort Frigate-sigh….
Same here, but the Gunship was my second choice, so I’m pretty happy.
I wanted the Nebulon B – but love the gunship (and Tie) so whatever won, ended up being a win for me !
yup! This was a fun exercise, and there’s just something about being involved in the entire process that just feels nice.
Yay! That was my pick. When can we expect this to hit the shelves?
Not too sure. Early next year might be possible?
Really bummed about the escort frigate!! Hopefully it will happen someday.
Same! Hopefully this shows LEGO that there’s strong demand for the frigate
I voted for the Nebulon B Frigate too but I’m not disappointed in the result either. However, I still think the Republic Gunship is better suited to a system-scale playset with a decent selection of minifigs. I missed out on the 2013 version which looked really good but it’s too expensive on the secondary market. Given the UCS version will probably be huge and not minifig scale I suspect they’ll only include a couple of minifigs to put on the display stand. Nice memes btw ?
Same! I missed out on the previous minifig-scale one as well, so I’d definitely be in line to pick this up.
Apparently we’ll be getting a whole slew of Clone Wars sets this year in H2 (to tie in with the Disney+ series), so here’s hoping for a Clone Battle pack to shore up numbers!
Memes are the only way I know to interpret important news.