Lego Star Wars question...Which sets have the most figures? Details below?

Question

O.K. I am going crazy here. My kids want the lego Star Wars figures. They are too young to put the big sets together. So I went to ebay to buy the figures they are around $15.00 each plus shipping! No freakin way!!!! So, then I went to the Lego site...they can't sell just the figures due to liscencing agreements. They said some of the sets have alot of figures, to look into it. Any way I tried and all I am doing is frustrating myself. Any Big fans out there who happen to know which sets would be good for lots of ppl. would be much appeciated!!!

Answer 1

The Trade Federation MTT set contains 16 regular battle droids, 2 red security battle droids, 2 blue pilot battle droids and a destroyer droid!

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=7662&cn=475&d=322

However, if you're looking for greater diversity, the Sandcrawler set contains 11 minifigures and droids: Uncle Owen Lars, 3 Jawas, R2-D2, C-3PO, R5-D4, R1-G4, ASP droid, gonk droid and Treadwell droid.

http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=10144

The Imperial Star Destroyer contains nine minifigures: Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, an Imperial Officer, two Stormtroopers, two Emperor's Royal Guards, an Imperial Astromech Droid, and a Mouse Droid minifigure.

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=6211&cn=240

Jabba's Sail Barge contains eight minifigures: Jabba the Hutt, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian in guard disguise, prisoner Princess Leia, Boba Fett, a Gamorrean Guard, and R2-D2 with serving tray!

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=6210&cn=240

Other sets contain seven minifigures, including the Hoth Rebel Base and Cloud City.

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=7666&cn=240

http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?image=/toys2/legocloudcity-figs.jpg

I also recall that the Imperial Inspection set I bought came with 10 minifigures, not the new Imperial Landing Craft set but an earlier set, which came with four bonus Stormtroopers. Yep, it did here's a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Lego-Imperial-Inspection-Shuttle-7264/dp/B0006HBROU

For my money, I'd go with Jabba's Sail Barge. It recreates one the most memorable scenes in Star Wars movie history.

Answer 2

You can find out by going to the lugnet guide and looking at the Star Wars category:
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?qc=*starwars&qn=0&v=c
then you can look through the list of all 149 sets to see which one has the most. Highest I saw was 7662 Trade Federation MTT™ with 20 figs, but you can bet most of those are troopers or battle driods.