We don't do a lot of opinion pieces here at JD, but hey, we did one... or I did anyway.
https://www.jedidefender.com/index.php?id=2345It sums up what we're discussing here mostly, I believe, but I think it's something the broader Star Wars collecting audience is turning its nose up at, maybe a tad too quickly? For my $, and at $50 a pop it's a lot of my $, I think these at least have potential to work for OTHER scales as well as they are ultimately designed for 6" scale... Stick with me on this.
In the past several years I've found other scaled "things" actually look pretty damn good with 3.75" figures running around in them... Various displays and such, but even cargo boxes and gear made for larger figures can find a home in a 3.75" diorama. So why can't a 6" Diorama look good with 3.75" figures in it? That Vader display, it could be really any ship... It's a basic grey/gunmetal color, very simplistic styling... Nothing to say some 3.75" Stormies rushing through a larger blast door isn't as possible as Vader leading troops through a 6" man-door.
Same on the Hoth set, and maybe even more so. That AT-AT foot isn't scaled to 6" figures. If it were, it'd be significantly larger than it appears to be. The foot of an AT-AT covers a Snowspeeder... but through some 3.75" Rebel Troopers rushing over it? Suddenly it looks a hell of a lot cooler to me. Fill the "foot prints" with a chunk of debris (or even leave them empty, it's just a snow blob) and that set may work pretty nice too.
The light effect on the ship hallway looks really well done, the detail on both looks impressive... $50 sucks, but similar pricing sucked for the Lars Homestead too. I'm not expecting these to be a great success, but I am looking at them as something I can see displaying 3.75" figures around, and not the instant throw-away I'm seeing around the collecting world.
Hell I really could see the Vader one for my Bandai kit figures too, I like it a lot. But I seriously think a cargo hold door being blasted open by 3.75" Stormies would look neat there. Don't even need Vader, just a Stormtrooper with a torch who cut it open and a bunch more to bust through.
The hobby isn't wow'ing me these days, but there are still things I see that appeal to my collecting senses.