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

[BrickPrick]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the forum

Not a Eurobrick poster was stirring, not even a turtle;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that TIE Avenger soon would be there;

The AFOLs were nestled all snug in their beds;

While visions of Gingerbread AT ATs danced in their heads;

And Dave Filoni with his Grogu, and Kevin Feige with his Cap,

Had just turned off their brains for a nostalgia bait slap…

(Day #244, complete the story if you dare…)

Haha, merry Christmas to you man. Merry Christmas to each and everyone at Eurobricks. Merry the Force be with you. Always. 

[CloneCommando99]

On the first day of Christmas Lego sent to me…

A TIE Avenger for free.

 

(#245, my friends. And I wish you all a very merry Christmas)

[BrickBob Studpants]

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

On the first day of Christmas Lego sent to me…

A TIE Avenger for free.

You must‘ve hit yer head a little harder than ya thought there, didn‘t ya, Commando?

Merry Christmas to everyone! ^^

[BrickPrick]

7 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

On the first day of Christmas Lego sent to me…

A TIE Avenger for free.

 

(#245, my friends. And I wish you all a very merry Christmas)

You are obviously joking, but this is actually what should happen, if an actual TIE Avengers ever materializes. Also, holy smokes, you weren't kidding with your "through the roof swooshability" claim in regards to the U-Wing. It's so silky smooth to swoosh that thing around, like I absolutely adore it. 

 

Listening to some of the incredible Andor score went really hard when building this set. Speaking of which, it took me almost two hours to build this sucker. For my personal low standards, this is actually on the quicker side. In reality, this is bordering on embarrassment. I mean, little kids are supposed to build these play sets with ease in absolutely no time. Sometimes, my mental health is really worrying me. 

[Kaijumeister]

1 hour ago, BrickPrick said:

Listening to some of the incredible Andor score went really hard when building this set. Speaking of which, it took me almost two hours to build this sucker. For my personal low standards, this is actually on the quicker side. In reality, this is bordering on embarrassment. I mean, little kids are supposed to build these play sets with ease in absolutely no time. Sometimes, my mental health is really worrying me. 

Haha I feel this. I always put movies on when building sets (especially the larger ones) which substantially pads out my build time. Not that I mind because building Lego is such a therapeutic experience, but it’s always amusing seeing reviews mention how a set took a fraction of the time for the reviewer to build that it took me.

Merry Christmas (and happy holidays) everyone. Genuinely a pleasure participating in this forum with an articulate and well natured group of fans. I’m spending some of my Christmas break building the UCS Jango’s Slave I and binging films.

Dear Lego Star Wars Team, my Christmas wish is that you one day make some playscale sets on the Jedi games. Come on, surely you can allocate at least one set out of everything you put out every year.

Edited Thursday at 04:40 PM by Kaijumeister

[BrickPrick]

5 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Haha I feel this. I always put movies on when building sets (especially the larger ones) which substantially pads out my build time. Not that I mind because building Lego is such a therapeutic experience, but it’s always amusing seeing reviews mention how a set took a fraction of the time for the reviewer to build that it took me.

Merry Christmas (and happy holidays) everyone. Genuinely a pleasure participating in this forum with an articulate and well natured group of fans.

Dear Lego Star Wars Team, my Christmas wish is that you one day make some playscale sets on the Jedi games.

Depending on the set, I sometimes would play something in the background, like a few TCW episodes, to compliment the overall building experience, but it usually distracts me too much. So I like to let Lego be one of those savory screen-less hobbies you can have as well. That's also a nice way of saying that I freaking suck at the multitasking thing. So nah, just putting some fitting music on next to the set is the sweet spot for me. And yeah... I'm always on the high end when when it comes to building time. If it's a small up to medium sized set, then it's... okay, I'd say. Then I can manage 300 pieces per hour, deliberately taking my time. But anything drastically above that tanks down that average rather quickly. I just have trouble concentrating in a single sitting way beyond the two hour mark. So I have to take some breaks in between building 1000+ pieces sets. Which "luckily" are getting more rare by Lego nowadays anyways. 

The pleasure is truly on my side as well, man. Really like reading your takes independent of my own. Though they seem to tend to match together often quite nicely.  

My Christmas wish is more Jedi minifigures for the foreseeable future. Getting an awesome new Plo Koon was great. So was getting the best Obi-Wan figure they ever made. But don't let that be a fluke. Please keep on doing them. Bring back long overdue main characters like Count freaking Dooku. And please deliver a TCW General Anakin Skywalker minifig on the same level as the aforementioned Kenobi figure. Sincerely, thank you. 

Edited Thursday at 09:46 PM by BrickPrick

[Renny The Spaceman]

My Christmas wish is they make loads of Clone sets that are ridiculously overpriced in the new year

[Murdoch17]

There's an interesting extremely deep-dive article on Brickset today about all the SW advent calendars, just in case anyone hasn't seen it yet. It's a bit long, but well worth a read.

Edited Thursday at 05:38 PM by Murdoch17

[BrickPrick]

Oh man, I know quality and quantity can unfortunately be sometimes at odds with each other, but if it weren't and one is to apply that to the Andor show, we would have been blessed with so many Andor sets down the line. If necessary, cut down all that Mando season 3 and Ahsoka slop. And you might as well further adjust the already slim offerings for the Kenobi show and The Book of Boba Fett. By the maker, what could have been! 

My 2025 Lego Star Wars set list appears to be much bigger than some of you guys in here. Let's say it was more than @CloneCommando99 and less than @BrickBob Studpants. 

In chronological order, they were as follow:

ARC-170 Starfighter, Ahsoka's Jedi Interceptor (both birthday gifts), Imperial Star Destroyer plus Kamino Training Facility, Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter Microfighter, Death Trooper & Night Trooper Battle Pack, Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator, Jango Fett's Slave 1, Rebel U-Wing Starfighter. 

Including the GWP, that makes nine full sets. To me, based on the last couple of years, pretty much an average amount of sets. 

Edited Thursday at 10:46 PM by BrickPrick

[BrickBob Studpants]

25 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

lf necessary, cut down all that Mando season 3 and Ahsoka slop.

To each their own, but I think calling the sets based on those two seasons “slop” is unfair. The first Ahsoka wave is still one of the best ones in years and both follow-up sets were great, and as far Mando S3 is concerned, we got our first official Order 66 set, an awesome new TIE Interceptor, a bunch of great minifigs based on the finale, and more!

I can’t think of a badly designed set (or even a mediocre one) between them, and neither outstayed their welcome in my opinion ^^ Besides, blaming Mando and Ahsoka for a lack of Andor sets makes little sense to me. They’re simply vastly more toyetic than Andor, and if those shows didn’t exist, their set slots likely would’ve gone to more OT and Clone sets, not more Andor stuff 

Edited Thursday at 11:10 PM by BrickBob Studpants

[Mandalorianknight]

6 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Haha I feel this. I always put movies on when building sets (especially the larger ones) which substantially pads out my build time. Not that I mind because building Lego is such a therapeutic experience, but it’s always amusing seeing reviews mention how a set took a fraction of the time for the reviewer to build that it took me.

Merry Christmas (and happy holidays) everyone. Genuinely a pleasure participating in this forum with an articulate and well natured group of fans. I’m spending some of my Christmas break building the UCS Jango’s Slave I and binging films.

Dear Lego Star Wars Team, my Christmas wish is that you one day make some playscale sets on the Jedi games. Come on, surely you can allocate at least one set out of everything you put out every year.

Funnily enough I'm the exact opposite. I had about 1100 pieces worth of sets this christmas and I've already torn through all of them. 

Merry Christmas, and absolutely agree. You can have so much more actual discussion here than on something like reddit or instagram.

As much as I hope they've finally realized their mistake and will be making material for Jedi 3, lego never seems to learn the right lesson from anything so I could easily see them looking at how poorly Outlaws did and thinking "Man, star wars games must be unpopular. We dodged a bullet not making playscale Jedi sets, good thing it was only that droid statue"

53 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

ARC-170 Starfighter, Ahsoka's Jedi Interceptor (both birthday gifts), Imperial Star Destroyer plus Kamino Training Facility, Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter Microfighter, Death Trooper & Night Trooper Battle Pack, Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator, Jango Fett's Slave 1, Rebel U-Wing Starfighter. 

Including the GWP, that makes nine full sets. To me, based on the last couple of years, pretty much an average amount of sets. 

That's a pretty respectable number, I'm glad to see four of that excellent $60-70 starfighter archtype made it on there.

At year-end, my SW purchases and gifts of the year consist of:

Night Trooper Battle Pack (x2) (Gift)

Moff Gideon Battle (Gift)

The Night Trooper packs are good- as with most battle packs, they're mainly for the figures, though while I know they're disliked I personally love the little beetle gunships. There's no size-accurate canon builds they could have done for the night troopers, so I appreciate that they at least made an attempt to represent something canon, much less one that's fully functional despite how small the part count for battle packs is. I've planned since the start to have one hovering around my UCS AT-AT, but I'm torn right now on whether to take apart the other one for MOC fuel or have it dropping off troopers on my peridea set/figure display.

Moff Gideon Battle is an excellent set, and while it worked out to my personal benefit, on a wider level I'm disappointed this thing is reaching 50% off. Most of it really is built like a MOC, and I especially love how they got the shaping for the windows in the blast door. Figures are excellent as well, my main criticism is that the top feels a bit unfinished, and that I just know that turret is eating up that parts that could have finished the set. Lego is experimenting with cheaper, minifigure-including sets aimed for adults with the marvel epic battles, and I can't help but think that if they'd eschewed the turret for a bit of polish on the build, this set would have been a prototype to that subline.

Overall pretty rough-not a single set I bought myself, and the only actual full set was from 2024. So far I don't think that'll change into the new year unless the August wave surprises me, but I have plenty of backlog to work through. If that Sarlacc Pit set ever reaches a reasonable price...

Edited Thursday at 11:39 PM by Mandalorianknight

[BrickPrick]

41 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

To each their own, but I think calling the sets based on those two seasons “slop” is unfair. The first Ahsoka wave is still one of the best ones in years and both follow-up sets were great, and as far Mando S3 is concerned, we got our first official Order 66 set, an awesome new TIE Interceptor, a bunch of great minifigs based on the finale, and more!

I can’t think of a badly designed set (or even a mediocre one) between them, and neither outstayed their welcome in my opinion ^^ Besides, blaming Mando and Ahsoka for a lack of Andor sets makes little sense to me. They’re simply vastly more toyetic than Andor, and if those shows didn’t exist, their set slots likely would’ve gone to more OT and Clone sets, not more Andor stuff 

Oh, no, no, no... I'm not calling these sets slop. I'm calling these shows, despite them delivering some very solid sets, slop. Uninspired, unimaginative, mass produced filthy slop. And yes, I'm not blaming those sub-themes per se for the lack of Andor. I'm blaming Lego for not taking a little bit more creative risk to see it done. And I partially blame the general audience for eating up some slop like Ahsoka with covered eyes, while abondoning Andor altogether. 

What can I say, man. I'm hot off the heels of the U-Wing and some of my initial frustration starts showing up again, making me more emotional than rational right about now. I know Andor is not as merchandise compatible as the other mentioned TV shows are. And that removing two other sub-themes would probably have it replaced by something else.

However, that doesn't mean that the best you can do is a single set per season. Like I said, if quality was automatically matching quantity (fully aware it doesn't always work out like this), then Andor could have been an absolute frontrunner and giving us sets left and right. Just sad that Andor ended up as niche as it was, that's basically all I'm saying. 

12 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That's a pretty respectable number, I'm glad to see four of that excellent $60-70 starfighter archtype made it on there.

Moff Gideon Battle is an excellent sez, and while it worked out to my personal benefit, on a wider level I'm disappointed this thing is reaching 50% off.

Yeah, I'm still quite fond of these mid-sized sets. Could use some more of those super solid $40 sets. And I mean proper sets for 40 bucks... not outrageously overpriced Jedi Starfighters. 

Mando 3 TV show slop or not, I really enjoyed that 1-2 punch and would like to see this modular approach being utilized more often for Lego Star Wars. If you think about it, the benefit of getting this in a double pack rather than a single set, can not be understated. You get eight full figs and around 400 pieces for 60 bucks. That's not too shabby. Because it definitely would be worse on the figure front if this was one bigger set. But this way, due to the Battle Pack, the count kinda gets inflated. 

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Oh, no, no, no... I'm not calling these sets slop. I'm calling these shows, despite them delivering some very solid sets, slop. Uninspired, unimaginative, mass produced filthy slop. And yes, I'm not blaming those sub-themes per se for the lack of Andor. I'm blaming Lego for not taking a little bit more creative risk to see it done. And I partially blame the general audience for eating up some slop like Ahsoka with covered eyes, while abondoning Andor altogether. 

Yeah, I'm still quite fond of these mid-sized sets. Could use some more of those super solid $40 sets. And I mean proper sets for 40 bucks... not outrageously overpriced Jedi Starfighters. 

Mando 3 TV show slop or not, I really enjoyed that 1-2 punch and would like to see this modular approach being utilized more often for Lego Star Wars. If you think about it, the benefit of getting this in a double pack rather than a single set, can not be understated. You get eight full figs and around 400 pieces for 60 bucks. That's not too shabby. Because it definitely would be worse on the figure front if this was one bigger set. But this way, due to the Battle Pack, the count kinda gets inflated. 

The thing is, these are mostly toys for kids. It's- while not quite to the same extent- complaining that Bluey gets sets whereas breaking bad doesn't. Andor is not a show most kids in that 8-12 demoshould be watching- especially that second season- and moreso than that, it's one they'd probably find quite boring for long stretches. (Also, as much as I loved the Ahsoka show, it didn't do all that much better than Andor to my recollection financially. It's just got more interesting vehicles and character designs than Andor, which is- intentionally- a lot more drab and less spectacle-driven. And, the target demo of the show is a better match for the target demo of most lego sets). I'm all for an 18+ midi-scale Fondor, or lego sneaking a TIE Avenger into the playset lineup, but unlike a lot of their recent decisions, not making more Andor sets is totally understandable.

Yup. These playsets- though they're a bit larger at $55- haven't been too bad, but we need smaller ones, as well as space and ground vehicles both at more reasonable prices. The $10 sets are a good step in that direction but we need to make up that $30-40 middle ground that's largely turned into "big battle pack and/or jedi starfighter". And you're not wrong on the jedi starfighters being oversized- I just did some Eta MOCs as part of the anniversary MOC wave I posted here, and in my research for that... the Etas can really be small enough to be more of $20-25 sets. Even if the Ahsoka starfighter was WORTH $45, there's no reason for it to be that big.

I love the modular approach- it's why I've been driven back into the marvel theme. Ironically, I'm not connecting this set to the battle pack- I've long since scrapped my copies of that for parts- but were I a kid I definitely would have.

Edited Friday at 05:49 AM by Mandalorianknight

[betaplayer]

10 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

, not making more Andor sets is totally understandable..

Yes and no imo: a Tie avenger f.e. is recognizable enough to get sold as a cool tie fighter regardless of familiarity with the actual show, I think. I find it hard to believe it would sell worse than the force burner snowspeeder f.e.

[CloneCommando99]

On the 2nd Day of Christmas Lego sent to me:

Two KOTOR Sith

And a TIE Avenger for free

Day #246

9 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

My 2025 Lego Star Wars set list appears to be much bigger than some of you guys in here. Let's say it was more than @CloneCommando99 and less than @BrickBob Studpants. 

In chronological order, they were as follow:

ARC-170 Starfighter, Ahsoka's Jedi Interceptor (both birthday gifts), Imperial Star Destroyer plus Kamino Training Facility, Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter Microfighter, Death Trooper & Night Trooper Battle Pack, Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator, Jango Fett's Slave 1, Rebel U-Wing Starfighter. 

Including the GWP, that makes nine full sets. To me, based on the last couple of years, pretty much an average amount of sets. 

Very nice. I got two Night Trooper Battlepacks and a Plo Koon’s Microfighter.

2 hours ago, betaplayer said:

Yes and no imo: a Tie avenger f.e. is recognizable enough to get sold as a cool tie fighter regardless of familiarity with the actual show, I think. I find it hard to believe it would sell worse than the force burner snowspeeder f.e.

Preach brother

 

Now, I eagerly await summer 2026 set news.

[BrickPrick]

8 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The thing is, these are mostly toys for kids. It's- while not quite to the same extent- complaining that Bluey gets sets whereas breaking bad doesn't. Andor is not a show most kids in that 8-12 demo should be watching- especially that second season- and moreso than that, it's one they'd probably find quite boring for long stretches. (Also, as much as I loved the Ahsoka show, it didn't do all that much better than Andor to my recollection financially. It's just got more interesting vehicles and character designs than Andor, which is- intentionally- a lot more drab and less spectacle-driven. And, the target demo of the show is a better match for the target demo of most lego sets). I'm all for an 18+ midi-scale Fondor, or lego sneaking a TIE Avenger into the playset lineup, but unlike a lot of their recent decisions, not making more Andor sets is totally understandable.

Yup. These playsets- though they're a bit larger at $55- haven't been too bad, but we need smaller ones, as well as space and ground vehicles both at more reasonable prices. The $10 sets are a good step in that direction but we need to make up that $30-40 middle ground that's largely turned into "big battle pack and/or jedi starfighter". And you're not wrong on the jedi starfighters being oversized- I just did some Eta MOCs as part of the anniversary MOC wave I posted here, and in my research for that... the Etas can really be small enough to be more of $20-25 sets. Even if the Ahsoka starfighter was WORTH $45, there's no reason for it to be that big.

I love the modular approach- it's why I've been driven back into the marvel theme. Ironically, I'm not connecting this set to the battle pack- I've long since scrapped my copies of that for parts- but were I a kid I definitely would have.

Look at you guys with all your perfectly sound arguments and all. 

The thing is... I know. Coming off the only proper Andor season 2 play set, I was just a little bit... melancholic. So I won't be even pretending to be the reasonable person in this very conversation. I know, I don't. 

The argument about Lego system scale sets being still a toy for kids obviously still rings true. And we won't have to argue that the show definitely isn't suitable to watch for children like most other Disney Star Wars shows are. What the hell, I know adult folks who just don't see the appeal of Andor either and find it too boring to watch. Yet I still stand by my point that more could have been done... more still can be done. Especially with Lego's love to speak to the adult market. Though to be perfectly honest with you, if the TIE Avengers had released as a Midi-scale with zero minifigs, I probably had complained about this, too. What I want, is not what I'm gonna receive and I need to accept that. Just a mere day later, this feels already easier to do. 

Ha, how could I not mention overpriced Super Battle Pack slop in the same sentence as outrageously overpriced Jedi Starfighters. When I finally get the former, which despite some very decent price drops I'm still in no rush to do so, I will put both sets next to each other and say "that will be $90 good sir." NINETY. US. DOLLARS. 

Yep, to me it's just super noticable that you wouldn't have gotten that amount of minifigs if this wasn't split from two separate sets. So that's definitely something that can work in the modularity's favour. 

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

On the 2nd Day of Christmas Lego sent to me:

Two KOTOR Sith

And a TIE Avenger for free

Day #246

Very nice. I got two Night Trooper Battlepacks and a Plo Koon’s Microfighter.

Preach brother

 

Now, I eagerly await summer 2026 set news.

Can you send me something of your hopium bottle? I'd like to have some of it, too. 

Although good for your wallet in the present, you'd like to see better LSW days again as well, don't you? 

Edited Friday at 02:38 PM by BrickPrick

[Mandalorianknight]

11 hours ago, betaplayer said:

Yes and no imo: a Tie avenger f.e. is recognizable enough to get sold as a cool tie fighter regardless of familiarity with the actual show, I think. I find it hard to believe it would sell worse than the force burner snowspeeder f.e.

To be fair, I did say I was all for a TIE avenger in the sentence you quoted a fragment of, and I've made that exact argument about it probably being OK as a generic TIE fighter before. But in terms of the force burner snowspeeder, that's entirely different. Lego produced that as a tie-in to their own lego show- it's deliberately something unique and non-canon for cross-promotion purposes. They don't look at it the same way as making tie-ins for non-lego media. 

7 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Look at you guys with all your perfectly sound arguments and all. 

The thing is... I know. Coming off the only proper Andor season 2 play set, I was just a little bit... melancholic. So I won't be even pretending to be the reasonable person in this very conversation. I know, I don't. 

The argument about Lego system scale sets being still a toy for kids obviously still rings true. And we won't have to argue that the show definitely isn't suitable to watch for children like most other Disney Star Wars shows are. What the hell, I know adult folks who just don't see the appeal of Andor either and find it too boring to watch. Yet I still stand by my point that more could have been done... more still can be done. Especially with Lego's love to speak to the adult market. Though to be perfectly honest with you, if the TIE Avengers had released as a Midi-scale with zero minifigs, I probably had complained about this, too. What I want, is not what I'm gonna receive and I need to accept that. Just a mere day later, this feels already easier to do. 

Ha, how could I not mention overpriced Super Battle Pack slop in the same sentence as outrageously overpriced Jedi Starfighters. When I finally get the former, which despite some very decent price drops I'm still in no rush to do so, I will put both sets next to each other and say "that will be $90 good sir." NINETY. US. DOLLARS. 

Yep, to me it's just super noticable that you wouldn't have gotten that amount of minifigs if this wasn't split from two separate sets. So that's definitely something that can work in the modularity's favour. 

That's understandable. I do think an 18+ midi-scale Fondor has a good chance at showing up sometime soon, and maybe more reassuringly I don't think they'd make the TIE Avenger Midi-scale as they haven't done that to a starfighter yet.

Yup. And that's part of how they get you- with the smaller and mid-range sets, sometimes the price doesn't seem so bad because it's only a few dollars more than it seems like it should be, but when you add a few of them together it becomes a lot more apparent. 

Oh yeah, whenever a battle pack is able to tie into a larger set it's a great day, whether it's a $40 bunker or a $800 walker.

[BrickPrick]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That's understandable. I do think an 18+ midi-scale Fondor has a good chance at showing up sometime soon, and maybe more reassuringly I don't think they'd make the TIE Avenger Midi-scale as they haven't done that to a starfighter yet.

Yup. And that's part of how they get you- with the smaller and mid-range sets, sometimes the price doesn't seem so bad because it's only a few dollars more than it seems like it should be, but when you add a few of them together it becomes a lot more apparent. 

Oh yeah, whenever a battle pack is able to tie into a larger set it's a great day, whether it's a $40 bunker or a $800 walker.

Get ready for the $60 Midi-scale Starfighters! Due to release in 2028 onwards!

I'm usually not one of the "everything was better back then" kinda days, but I swear to the maker, when it comes to big old companies' pricing policies, we live in the stupidest timeline. 

Yeah, this is certainly true. I wish it would happen on a more regular basis.

 

Well, it's that time of the year again when I gather everyone of my Star Wars plastic puppets, strip them off all their handheld accessories and put them down in the "bacta tank" for some extensive cleaning/healing purposes. It's a whole process. 

[Darth_Bane13]

20 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Funnily enough I'm the exact opposite. I had about 1100 pieces worth of sets this christmas and I've already torn through all of them. 

Am I the only one who likes to space out larger sets? For 1000+ piece sets I'll build a couple bags in the morning or night over multiple days.

[TheScaryDoor]

4 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I do think an 18+ midi-scale Fondor has a good chance at showing up sometime soon

I hope you are right. I think this would be a good spot for the Fondor as a lego-set which targets the audience from Andor. But the question is if Lego is willing to give up a spot for the Fondor when they also could publish a Stardestroyer, Imperial Shuttle, Slave 1, Razor Crest etc.

[Kaijumeister]

On 12/25/2025 at 4:56 PM, BrickPrick said:

The pleasure is truly on my side as well, man. Really like reading your takes independent of my own. Though they seem to tend to match together often quite nicely.  

Right back at you! 

I can understand the Mandalorian S3 and Ahsoka S1 weren’t your cup of tea, but I do agree with some of the other posters that the Lego sets we got based on them have been awesome for the most part. I’d argue all the Ahsoka sets have been fantastic (and I hope Season 2 does get decent Lego coverage), and sets like the Mandalorian Bunker feel like a step up from the usual quality of Star Wars sets we’re used to - almost MOC-like as @Mandalorianknight points out.

20 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 

Yup. These playsets- though they're a bit larger at $55- haven't been too bad, but we need smaller ones, as well as space and ground vehicles both at more reasonable prices. The $10 sets are a good step in that direction but we need to make up that $30-40 middle ground that's largely turned into "big battle pack and/or jedi starfighter". And you're not wrong on the jedi starfighters being oversized- I just did some Eta MOCs as part of the anniversary MOC wave I posted here, and in my research for that... the Etas can really be small enough to be more of $20-25 sets. Even if the Ahsoka starfighter was WORTH $45, there's no reason for it to be that big.

What I find really annoying about this trend is that small single-pilot vehicles like the Eta-2s, BARC Speeders, AT-RTs, and so on receive unnecessarily large and over-engineered builds occupying higher price points, whilst larger vehicles that should have sufficient scale, interiors, and functionality like the Juggernaut and MTT are almost ruthlessly downscaled. I will grant that I still think the MTT is a pretty great set, especially with the deployment mechanism. Anyhow, past a certain point, do the smaller vehicles really need to be that large? Are children’s hands somehow getting substantially bigger and necessitating tactile considerations for bigger models in general? Certainly not. I think it shows a misunderstanding of priorities and consistency within the theme, but it’s easy for me to say that as a consumer.

Touching on the point of whether Lego representation (or just toy representation in general) for Star Wars content should be driven by how toyetic said content is or iconic or relevant to the fandom it is is a tricky subject IMO, especially with reception to contemporary Star Wars media always being difficult to anticipate (and exacerbated by the Lego Star Wars team’s general aversion to taking risks). If you’re a Lego Star Wars fan, chances are you’ll be interested in a set that probably is a little boring as a Lego set in isolation, but still holds appeal because it’s a representation of the subject matter. Contrast that with sets based on original Lego themes for example (like Ninjago), where they’re just cool toys or display pieces without depending on external source material to actually be appealing. 

It’s why I’m glad shows like Ahsoka are actually taken seriously by Lego, because content like that actually introduces ships and locations that just look cool as toys (yes, even Peridea) even if the show isn’t held in the same esteem as, say, Andor. You don’t have to care about E-Wings, Fiend Fighters, the Ghost, or T-6, but their Lego representations are nonetheless colourful, well designed, and just fun to build and swoosh around.

All that said, I think the Lego Star Wars team could be doing more to keep a finger on the pulse of the theme (again, easy for me to say this as a mere consumer). Online discourse may be anecdotal, but that shouldn’t preclude them from at least identifying trends and seeing what’s in demand. The Fondor has been highly requested since 2022, the Mantis since 2019, more Bad Batch stuff in general since 2021 (although the Justifier did not help matters), the list goes on and on. Even the TIE Avenger, meme status aside, would just work as a cool toy, regardless of whether the source material is considered too mature for Lego.

[CloneCommando99]

On the Third Day of Christmas, Lego sent to me:

Three Imperial Venators

Two KOTOR Sith

and a TIE Avenger for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

(Day #247)

[BrickPrick]

16 hours ago, TheScaryDoor said:

I hope you are right. I think this would be a good spot for the Fondor as a lego-set which targets the audience from Andor. But the question is if Lego is willing to give up a spot for the Fondor when they also could publish a Stardestroyer, Imperial Shuttle, Slave 1, Razor Crest etc.

The current Slave 1 might as well already be considered midi-scale. Apart from no minifigure included, I don't know how an official model would actually differ from that. 

11 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Right back at you! 

I can understand the Mandalorian S3 and Ahsoka S1 weren’t your cup of tea, but I do agree with some of the other posters that the Lego sets we got based on them have been awesome for the most part. I’d argue all the Ahsoka sets have been fantastic (and I hope Season 2 does get decent Lego coverage), and sets like the Mandalorian Bunker feel like a step up from the usual quality of Star Wars sets we’re used to - almost MOC-like as @Mandalorianknight points out.

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Are children’s hands somehow getting substantially bigger and necessitating tactile considerations for bigger models in general? Certainly not. 

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Oh, my complaints was strictly or primarily based on the source material. It just annoyed me that something like Andor, which I like to consider the best thing ever happened since the Disney Star Wars takeover, is getting next to no coverage. While stuff like Mandalorian season 3 and Ahsoka, which I would perceive mediocre at best, both got above average coverage. However, that doesn't mean I have any hate left in my heart for these sets at all. Like I said, there have been some great sets coming out of those shows. Some of them I own myself. I planned to pick up more but it wasn't meant to be. And I truly do understand the reasoning behind all these decisions. But so too do I realize that even slightly more Andor sets couldn't have hurt anybody. It may very well be less toyetic than almost everything else, but there is still plenty of ships that would make a damn fine toy or display model, I'd say. So yeah, still somewhat annoying to me, though. 

No, it's just Lego's pockets which got even bigger throughout the years. 

Edited yesterday at 02:50 PM by BrickPrick

[TheScaryDoor]

26 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

The current Slave 1 might as well  already be considered midi-scale. Apart from no minifigure included, I don't know how an official model would actually differ from that. 

Thats true but the starship collection is another area than the playsets. But Slave 1 and Co. are just examples what Lego could realize instead of the Fondor (but fingers crossed for the Fondor to become a set... and of course the Tie Avenger)

[Mandalorianknight]

22 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Am I the only one who likes to space out larger sets? For 1000+ piece sets I'll build a couple bags in the morning or night over multiple days.

Those were actually five smaller sets of varying sizes in my case.

16 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

What I find really annoying about this trend is that small single-pilot vehicles like the Eta-2s, BARC Speeders, AT-RTs, and so on receive unnecessarily large and over-engineered builds occupying higher price points, whilst larger vehicles that should have sufficient scale, interiors, and functionality like the Juggernaut and MTT are almost ruthlessly downscaled. I will grant that I still think the MTT is a pretty great set, especially with the deployment mechanism. Anyhow, past a certain point, do the smaller vehicles really need to be that large? Are children’s hands somehow getting substantially bigger and necessitating tactile considerations for bigger models in general? Certainly not. I think it shows a misunderstanding of priorities and consistency within the theme, but it’s easy for me to say that as a consumer.

Yes. Though to be fair, while some of the larger vehicles are getting smaller, the smaller vehicles haven't been getting larger per se. The 2005 clone scout walker and ETA-2 are about the same scale as the 2025 ones. 

7 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

The current Slave 1 might as well already be considered midi-scale. Apart from no minifigure included, I don't know how an official model would actually differ from that. 

In scale, yes, but not in design. The starship collection's building techniques are really a cut above that of the playsets, and they don't have to worry about play features or keeping the stability standards as stringent. I think a Boba's Slave One in the starship collection would be sufficiently different from the playset Jango's Slave One on shelves.