Any chance for a Lego captain Rex in 2023
Hello there!
So as you well know, phase 2 Captain Rex was only released in one set many years ago and the $200 price tag on the minifig is now infamous history. But I saw a lot of youtubers, like MandR, extremely confident that we would get a set in 2023. I think the faith in their specultation is well placed too, we are getting a Helmet of all things, and he was at the forefront of all promotional material for the clone wars dlc pack for the TSS videogame! Unfortunately, all those things could easily be explained away, the helmet could just be because lego's marketing department is probing and testing reasonable products for age demographics, (ant they have been famously oblivious to fans' desires), assuming that the people who like Cpt Rex are adults now mostly, and thus would be einterested in more serious collectables like a bust, as well as the fact that character dlc's are just rent extractions, they cost very little to make and no matter how few downloads they get (in the millions), they are promoting their product and making money regardless. Furthermore, there isn't, to my knowledge, any evidence to indicate that because we have gotten a bust or a dlc in the past, we were necessarily going to get a minifig of that particular character (though Commander Cody from 2022 suggests otherwise).
What do you think? Maybe we'll get another captain REX?
Posted Jan 4, 2023, 6:15 PM UTC