LEGO Star Wars Set Discussion 2025 - READ FIRST POST!!!

[Mandalorianknight]

5 hours ago, Tariq j said:

What are people’s thoughts on the Death Star now that it’s out? I saw the set in person today and I must admit it’s kind of growing on me. I would have preferred it if they stuck to the spherical shape and too many of the figures need more detail but I don’t think it’s awful either.

I haven't seen it in person yet, but I think it looks fine... from the exact front. The issue is that for a thousand dollars, for the flagship of the theme, it needs to be more than fine. It needed to be damn near perfect.

[eldiano]

8 hours ago, Tariq j said:

What are people’s thoughts on the Death Star now that it’s out? I saw the set in person today and I must admit it’s kind of growing on me. I would have preferred it if they stuck to the spherical shape and too many of the figures need more detail but I don’t think it’s awful either.

It’s a solid 35 pounds when assembled. Carrying it around is not a joke. The build is like dioramas stacked on top but if you pick it up wrong it will come apart. Some parts are flimsy, like the dish is frail and will fall apart when putting it together. 

The space backdrop looks out place and I removed it, I’m glad lego made it easy to pop it out. 

I upgraded all my minifigs to the modern setups that should had been included in the set. I also swapped the gender of the majority of the staff. I found Galen’s Eros lower torso in green/black and just waiting on that.  It’s a plus that the mini falcon build fits perfectly in the bay, but I loved the imperial shuttle in the same format. 

I’m still feeling the price, but it sold out locally in San Antonio and Austin already. The figures was the main factor I got this set. 

 

Edited October 6 by eldiano

[Lordhelmet]

8 hours ago, Tariq j said:

What are people’s thoughts on the Death Star now that it’s out? I saw the set in person today and I must admit it’s kind of growing on me. I would have preferred it if they stuck to the spherical shape and too many of the figures need more detail but I don’t think it’s awful either.

 

7 hours ago, TheScaryDoor said:

I saw the set yesterday in person. Looks great, maybe a little overwhelming with all the different scenes. I also don't mind the missing details or the form of the set but the price is still way too much for me.

 

 

It's growing on me too.  I want to a Lego store to look at it in person and was surprised that I liked it much more in person than what the pictures/videos have shown.  I still think the price is too high (I know what we get may be "fair" part per piece or whatever - but I think $800 is what it looks like).  I will hold out and see if we ever get a discount at which point I would purchase it.  It definitely looks more impressive in person (probably because your eye is drawn to sections more than a video or picture can support.  

[JohnTPT17]

A leak for the Smart Brick X-Wing (and Pikachu) are floating around now.

[Paul11283652]

That X-wing is so laughably bad that it must be a joke. 150 dollarydoos for something that looks to be less than 30x30 studs in size is ridiculous.

[Llewop]

That x wing looks disgusting 

[CloneCommando99]

 

Tie Avenger save us from the smart brick scourge (Day #165)

 

 

 

Also there’s no way that abomination is 500 pieces. 300 is more accurate. So there has to be some sort of extra build.

21 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Wow. We’re in a bit of a news drought right now aren’t we? Hopefully that’s rectified soon.

16 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Indeed! I hope we hear more about the March sets soon  More minifig leaks for the January sets would also be appreciated. Also the M&G sets, even though it’s way too soon for them.

Monkey’s paw strikes again!

Edited October 6 by CloneCommando99

[wicket]

Are we ever going to get a good X-Wing? This is the third downscaled version since 2021 and somehow they just keep getting worse. And now it’s $90???

[MKJoshA]

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I haven't seen it in person yet, but I think it looks fine... from the exact front. The issue is that for a thousand dollars, for the flagship of the theme, it needs to be more than fine. It needed to be damn near perfect.

I think this sums up the general sentiment well. Most of us are fine with the set. It looks good for what it is. It's just not worthy of the $1000 price tag.

6 hours ago, eldiano said:

It’s a solid 35 pounds when assembled. Carrying it around is not a joke. The build is like dioramas stacked on top but if you pick it up wrong it will come apart. Some parts are flimsy, like the dish is frail and will fall apart when putting it together. 

The space backdrop looks out place and I removed it, I’m glad lego made it easy to pop it out. 

I upgraded all my minifigs to the modern setups that should had been included in the set. I also swapped the gender of the majority of the staff. I found Galen’s Eros lower torso in green/black and just waiting on that.  It’s a plus that the mini falcon build fits perfectly in the bay, but I loved the imperial shuttle in the same format. 

I’m still feeling the price, but it sold out locally in San Antonio and Austin already. The figures was the main factor I got this set. 

Thanks for including a picture of the old Death Star next to the new. It's crazy that the new is almost double the height.

3 hours ago, Paul11283652 said:

That X-wing is so laughably bad that it must be a joke. 150 dollarydoos for something that looks to be less than 30x30 studs in size is ridiculous.

I thought we were getting a bad deal till I saw the Pikachu. The Megablocks version looks better.

[CallumPears]

1 hour ago, MKJoshA said:

I thought we were getting a bad deal till I saw the Pikachu. The Megablocks version looks better.

Yeah the Pikachu looks like they took the worst aspects of Brickheadz and the Mario sets and smushed them together. 

 

The X-wing looks slightly better than the sketch, but still pretty terrible. I guess whenever you're feeling down about yourself, you can just think about how someone actually got paid to design this thing. As a downscaled 4+ set or something I guess it wouldn't be terrible, but for $90? All for the sake of some electronic feature nobody asked for? 

In particular I really don't like the patch of bright red where R2 is sitting- could that be a button or something to activate the Stupid Brick™️? It just screams "look at me" like what they sometimes do with levers and knobs in sets with the more traditional play features. 

[Kaijumeister]

As much as I’m trying to keep an open mind with the Smart Brick (and will continue to do so until we see more pictures of the other sets along with actual demos of these bricks being used), seeing the X-Wing confirms my reservations that build quality can severely decline for the sake of incorporating new gimmicks no-one asked for. Of course, these are still being priced at a premium one would associate with better designed builds.

What’s interesting is that it doesn’t look like the X-Wing is a ~500 piece build to begin with. Maybe there’s a side build? Given the footprint of the Smart Brick, it shouldn’t have to require too many compromises with build quality to begin with.

Edited October 6 by Kaijumeister

[Commander501]

Somehow the X-Wing/Tie-mash-up seems to become a better deal when going on discount before Christmas. 

[Tariq j]

18 hours ago, TheScaryDoor said:

I saw the set yesterday in person. Looks great, maybe a little overwhelming with all the different scenes. I also don't mind the missing details or the form of the set but the price is still way too much for me.

Yeah, the price is the probably my main barrier here. I might wait until it’s discounted at some point to get it.

18 hours ago, Commander501 said:

I really like the shape, and I also like the decision to include multiple dioramas. I'm still unsure if I'll get the DS. "Unfortunately," I already have all the dioramas (Final Duel, Trash Compactor, Meditation Chamber), so there aren't many reasons why I absolutely need the DS...

 

And of course there is also the question of how to display it, a case case costs 200 Euro.

Yes, quite a few of the rooms were done as dioramas. Part of me wonders how the set would have turned out if they’d taken an approach similar to the current Hogwarts by releasing different sections of the DS.

13 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I haven't seen it in person yet, but I think it looks fine... from the exact front. The issue is that for a thousand dollars, for the flagship of the theme, it needs to be more than fine. It needed to be damn near perfect.

Yeah if it was a lot cheaper it might have been more acceptable but for 1000 dollars this needs to be THE Lego Star Wars set. It should stand head and shoulders above the rest and be truly awe inspiring in some way like the Falcon was.

10 hours ago, eldiano said:

It’s a solid 35 pounds when assembled. Carrying it around is not a joke. The build is like dioramas stacked on top but if you pick it up wrong it will come apart. Some parts are flimsy, like the dish is frail and will fall apart when putting it together. 

The space backdrop looks out place and I removed it, I’m glad lego made it easy to pop it out. 

I upgraded all my minifigs to the modern setups that should had been included in the set. I also swapped the gender of the majority of the staff. I found Galen’s Eros lower torso in green/black and just waiting on that.  It’s a plus that the mini falcon build fits perfectly in the bay, but I loved the imperial shuttle in the same format. 

I like the figure changes you made. I think it’s still insane they had a perfect C-3PO waiting to be used and threw in an inferior version. Good to see that the backdrop can be removed easily.

10 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

It's growing on me too.  I want to a Lego store to look at it in person and was surprised that I liked it much more in person than what the pictures/videos have shown.  I still think the price is too high (I know what we get may be "fair" part per piece or whatever - but I think $800 is what it looks like).  I will hold out and see if we ever get a discount at which point I would purchase it.  It definitely looks more impressive in person (probably because your eye is drawn to sections more than a video or picture can support.  

There’s a lot more depth to the set than I expected. The leaks made it look really thin but there is a good level of detail in there.

I also want to keep an open mind but that smart brick set doesn’t look great. If it looked like some of the previous X-Wing sets I suppose that would have been ok but this one looks more like the 4+ version. It feels like this smart brick thing might go the same way as Lego Dimensions - the sets will just be too expensive and not many people will buy them. The theme has survived for 25 years without needing light or sound bricks so I’m not sure why they suddenly need them now. 

[Mandalorianknight]

5 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

I thought we were getting a bad deal till I saw the Pikachu. The Megablocks version looks better.

In the pikachu set's defense (purely from a value scale- it looks awful. The fact that it's extremely simple and blocky and yet they still couldn't make ANY of the face without printed details is absurd. The Kylo Ren's Helmet of nintendo sets), the set is at least "and pokeball", so assumably there's a pokeball build included that fits the pikachu inside, accounting for most of the parts. There's got to be SOME sort of side build with the X-wing, since that's not 584 pieces, but the X-wing is definitely the main build in it's set.

2 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

What’s interesting is that it doesn’t look like the X-Wing is a ~500 piece build to begin with. Maybe there’s a side build? Given the footprint of the Smart Brick, it shouldn’t have to require too many compromises with build quality to begin with.

Has to be a side build. The footprint thing is an excellent point- this isn't mindstorms, the smart brick is only 2x4x2. Why does it turn the entire set into a juniors build? It's wireless, allegedly, so it's not like they have space for wires running throughout the ship.

1 hour ago, Tariq j said:

Yeah if it was a lot cheaper it might have been more acceptable but for 1000 dollars this needs to be THE Lego Star Wars set. It should stand head and shoulders above the rest and be truly awe inspiring in some way like the Falcon was.

Yup. This just doesn't give the same "better than the rest" vibe the falcon does.

[Meaf]

Wow that certainly is a 4+ X-Wing. One thing I have been kind of baffled by ever since the rumors came out is exactly why this set has to look like this? Like, is the smart brick just designed such that any set that incorporates one has to look bad??? Or is that the smart brick costs a lot of money and these sets are supposed to be extra playable, so to keep them somewhat affordable and toy-ish the sets had to be massively simplified?

[Yperio_Bricks]

14 minutes ago, Meaf said:

Or is that the smart brick costs a lot of money

Lego is really spinning straw into gold here. Take 50 cent electronics, put your logo on it and voilà, it costs $50 now 

[Meaf]

2 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Lego is really spinning straw into gold here. Take 50 cent electronics, put your logo on it and voilà, it costs $50 now 

Yeah that's the thing, there's absolutely no world where those bricks cost so much. It's somewhat fair with the motors or the computers they used to do, but a tiny little mass-produced brick that has at most a very simple computer built in is not worth $50 extra, and you'd think they know that. Maybe it's just hubris or something, I don't know, but I can't imagine they haven't found in their market research that most parents are going to choose to buy the bigger, cheaper set for their kid if they're stuck between two options.

[Lordhelmet]

Hahaha the x wing looks bad!  I thought the two recent ones were pretty good (closer to scale than the older ones) and they were getting some of the shaping right agin, then there is this 4 plus design for crazy money. 

[Darth_Bane13]

It really seems like this theme has gotten worse every year since 2020

[Lego Nostalgia]

I'm sorry 2021 X-Wing, you're not as small as I remembered, perhaps I treated you too harshly 

Wouldn't it be funny if the Mando AT-AT is the size of the Gingerbread one

Soundbrick included

[Rwbricks]

That X-wing is definitely something. Hopefully LEGO does not become too proud of this technological terror they’ve constructed. The ability to respond to play is insignificant next to the power of imagination. 
 

But if we’re doing these tech-based sets, where’s my brick-built Salacious B. Crumb with a laughing sound brick?

[Samppu]

13 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

As much as I’m trying to keep an open mind with the Smart Brick (and will continue to do so until we see more pictures of the other sets along with actual demos of these bricks being used), seeing the X-Wing confirms my reservations that build quality can severely decline for the sake of incorporating new gimmicks no-one asked for. Of course, these are still being priced at a premium one would associate with better designed builds.

What’s interesting is that it doesn’t look like the X-Wing is a ~500 piece build to begin with. Maybe there’s a side build? Given the footprint of the Smart Brick, it shouldn’t have to require too many compromises with build quality to begin with.

My thoughts exactly as well.

[CloneCommando99]

“Stupid Bricks, Stupid Bricks They're funny 'cause they're awful! Stupid Bricks, Stupid Bricks. Hope next time it's not you (Tie Avenger)! Hoo hoo!”

Execute Day #166 of the Tie Avenger crusade.

[Renny The Spaceman]

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

“Stupid Bricks, Stupid Bricks They're funny 'cause they're awful! Stupid Bricks, Stupid Bricks. Hope next time it's not you (Tie Avenger)! Hoo hoo!”

Execute Day #166 of the Tie Avenger crusade.

Wasn't Stupid Deaths guy a pilot in Rogue One? Star Wars is truest to itself when the leads are American but all the extras are the most aggressively British minor actors possible. That's the big issue with the prequels and (to a lesser extent) sequels. The Sequels at the very least had one of the most forgettable Doctor Who companions as a rebel pilot

[eldiano]

On 10/6/2025 at 6:36 AM, Tariq j said:

 

I like the figure changes you made. I think it’s still insane they had a perfect C-3PO waiting to be used and threw in an inferior version. Good to see that the backdrop can be removed easily.

I bought the Death Star for the minifigures that were rare, however my biggest complaint was the majority of the other minifigure designs, It baffles me how lego moves backwards sometimes considering some figures peaked a few years ago also when it came to their best design. Luckily I had a majority of the imperial officer pants I bought a few a years ago from PAB but i found the new C-3PO figure for cheap the other day and couldn’t pass him up. 

Weirdly enough, either lego didn’t make that many death stars or they are selling out like hot cakes, because it’s on back order on lego.com on the US site.