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

[Mandalorianknight]

11 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

I am now hoping the gwp does not have any unique minifigures.  I think this has gone from a day one buy for me to a wait for a really good deal in the next few years.  Hoping the GWP doesn’t have anything unique so I don’t miss out.

 

just read that’s it’s not spherical but a rectangle 

I'd be shocked if this doesn't hit 30% off within a year, if it's true that it's not really a sphere.

 

Lego.... what are you even thinking? You can't even get the basic shape right?

18 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Potential hot take here but I would've just preferred a remake of the 2005 death star 2 for around $500, no interior. A giant diorama of scenes just isn't as cool to me.

Either this or just do what they did in 2016 and update the previous version with some new figures and build updates. 

[CloneCommando99]

28 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

just read that’s it’s not spherical but a rectangle 

Wait. So basically what I imagined when we thought the ISD was a DS play-set last year?!!! What the mustafar is happening?!

53 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

To be a TIE avenger.”

Welcome to the cause.

[Lordhelmet]

11 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I'd be shocked if this doesn't hit 30% off within a year, if it's true that it's not really a sphere.

 

Lego.... what are you even thinking? You can't even get the basic shape right?

Either this or just do what they did in 2016 and update the previous version with some new figures and build updates. 

Hoping that the leak is wrong and it is a sphere, but I agree if it is not, this thing will have to hit 30% off at some point.  A $1k box with Death Star scenes would have be something special to sell at that price.  

2 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Wait. So basically what I imagined when we thought the ISD was a DS play-set last year?!!! What the mustafar is happening?!

Welcome to the cause.

I thought about this too, I still like the idea of a DS Play set - similar to Yavin.  But I was also thinking a price similar to Yavin, or even double the price.

 

I still want to see it to make my final decisions but all of the leaks so far have been discouraging.

 

Hopefully we hear about a tie Avenger soon.

[JohnTPT17]

Wait... Rectangular? For an icon well-known for being spherical?! I mean, I understand that displaying an entire sphere is going to be a pain for people, and even potentially difficult to move, but if you have a thousand dollars to drop on this, surely you have the shelf space for it.

Either way, that now seems like an odd decision. This could be one of the worst-received UCS sets since Hoth. 

My prediction now is that it's going to be several mini-dioramas that slide out like the most recent Ninjago City set. The diorama Trash Compactor was about 6 inches deep, and if this Death Star is about 10, they could expand on that size a hair, plus have a little extra room for a "case," and display things that way.

[avengers777]

On 4/24/2025 at 1:06 PM, FoggyFate said:

Oh wow, guess that means that fig list I saw with Galen and Krennic might have been true after all.

I know most of the lineup is already known, but now that Galen and Krennic are confirmed, is there any truth to the rumors about Mas Amedda and Sly Moore?

[Mandalorianknight]

40 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

Hoping that the leak is wrong and it is a sphere, but I agree if it is not, this thing will have to hit 30% off at some point.  A $1k box with Death Star scenes would have be something special to sell at that price.  

I thought about this too, I still like the idea of a DS Play set - similar to Yavin.  But I was also thinking a price similar to Yavin, or even double the price.

Can't wait for @Ransom Fern to somehow alt-build the box into a geometrically perfect sphere with full shell and interior, like he's done for the two marvel UCS sets that failed on this level.

Yeah, a death star playset that doesn't have exterior representation would be cool- but not as the most expensive set of all time. It'd make a good $130-200 playset, like yavin, as you say.

49 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Welcome to the cause.

Oh don't get me wrong I'd still much rather a defender or reaper, I just thought I owed it to your consistent efforts to make the quote end in your champion set.

30 minutes ago, JohnTPT17 said:

Wait... Rectangular? For an icon well-known for being spherical?! I mean, I understand that displaying an entire sphere is going to be a pain for people, and even potentially difficult to move, but if you have a thousand dollars to drop on this, surely you have the shelf space for it.

Either way, that now seems like an odd decision. This could be one of the worst-received UCS sets since Hoth. 

My prediction now is that it's going to be several mini-dioramas that slide out like the most recent Ninjago City set. The diorama Trash Compactor was about 6 inches deep, and if this Death Star is about 10, they could expand on that size a hair, plus have a little extra room for a "case," and display things that way.

Rectangular continues to blow my mind even more than the half sphere. It's such a monumentally stupid move to, as you say, make the spherical icon a rectangle.

15 minutes ago, avengers777 said:

I know most of the lineup is already known, but now that Galen and Krennic are confirmed, is there any truth to the rumors about Mas Amedda and Sly Moore?

IIRC that was a separate rumor that turned out to be false, but either way at this point I don't care whatsoever. I knew I was never buying this set but thought it would be something like the falcon, an ideal set to admire in a lego store. As-is the best case scenario has somehow turned into this being a $1000 wall-art with interior, and if the rectangle stuff is true it could be much worse than that.

[CallumPears]

1 hour ago, Lordhelmet said:

I am now hoping the gwp does not have any unique minifigures.  I think this has gone from a day one buy for me to a wait for a really good deal in the next few years.  Hoping the GWP doesn’t have anything unique so I don’t miss out.

 

just read that’s it’s not spherical but a rectangle 

Yeah I'll definitely not be getting the GWP. Hopefully it's just more Stormtroopers. 

Are we sure the rectangle thing wasn't just someone making a joke about it? I remember seeing someone say it and didn't think they were serious but can't find it now to confirm. 

Edited July 26 by CallumPears

[Brickify]

Heard some people say it’d be just a big gray ball but that’s exactly  what the Death Star is lol it’s still one of the coolest things in Star Wars a full sphere that can open up with all the rooms sounds amazing to me and I’m very disappointed in it being a huge half diorama I don’t think im going to pick this one up.A couple never made before figs like sly Moore or ameeda would entice me but the selection while makes sense isn’t going to make me budge.

Edited July 27 by Brickify

[Darth_Bane13]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Either this or just do what they did in 2016 and update the previous version with some new figures and build updates. 

Yeah I'd prefer that too

[Llewop]

9 minutes ago, CallumPears said:

Yeah I'll definitely not be getting the GWP. Hopefully it's just more Stormtroopers. 

Are we sure the rectangle thing wasn't just someone making a joke about it? I remember seeing someone say it and didn't think they were serious but can't find it now to confirm. 

GWP was a TIE fighter wasn’t it? And I think it was 3 figures so a TIE pilot Is obviously one the other two could be anyone maybe a random Admiral and/or droid.

i think the set is going to be like barad dur on one side is the outside ie the side with the laser all grey and spherical and then flip it 180 will have a load of highly detailed rooms all at the detail or dioramas. I’m guessing maybe 6-8 rooms maybe 10 at most

[avengers777]

9 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

IIRC that was a separate rumor that turned out to be false, but either way at this point I don't care whatsoever. I knew I was never buying this set but thought it would be something like the falcon, an ideal set to admire in a lego store. As-is the best case scenario has somehow turned into this being a $1000 wall-art with interior, and if the rectangle stuff is true it could be much worse than that.

I don't know if it was necessarily debunked. I think Jedi Bricks shared the list with Mas, Sly, Rae Sloane, and Gallius Rax, and that one was debunked—but I'm not sure if that's the same list Foggy was referring to. Foggy usually has good info, and I’m also not sure if Childish Landino was talking about the Death Star set or a 2026 rumor.

[Sucram]

Wow if this set really doesnt have any display value as an actual death star and is just some Betrayal at Cloud City type shit then this will go down as my biggest disappointment for a Lego set ever. At least Cloud City has interesting rooms, the Death Star only has a couple somewhat interesting locations

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, Brickify said:

Heard some people say it’d be just a big gray ball but that’s exactly  what the Death Star is lol it’s still one of the coolest things in Star Wars a full sphere that can open up with all the rooms sounds amazing to me and I’m very disappointed in it being a huge half diorama I don’t think going in to pick this one up.A couple never made before figs like sly Moore or ameeda would entice me but the selection while makes sense isn’t going to make me budge.

Exactly! The whole POINT of a giant death star is for it to RESEMBLE THE IN-UNIVERSE OBJECT.

1 hour ago, avengers777 said:

I don't know if it was necessarily debunked. I think Jedi Bricks shared the list with Mas, Sly, Rae Sloane, and Gallius Rax, and that one was debunked—but I'm not sure if that's the same list Foggy was referring to. Foggy usually has good info, and I’m also not sure if Childish Landino was talking about the Death Star set or a 2026 rumor.

If Foggy spoke on it, he may be right.

1 hour ago, Sucram said:

Wow if this set really doesnt have any display value as an actual death star and is just some Betrayal at Cloud City type shit then this will go down as my biggest disappointment for a Lego set ever. At least Cloud City has interesting rooms, the Death Star only has a couple somewhat interesting locations

If the rectangle rumor is true this is a monumentally bad misstep that's going to cost lego a TON of money. 

Even sales are going to be rough- even at 30% off, that's still $700. It might be a better deal, but regardless of the value that'd still be the most money most potential buyers would ever have spent on a lego set. At 30% off. And there's the space angle too, even if it was something crazy like 70% off, at least for me, I still personally just wouldn't want a giant grey rectangle in my room that in no way resembles the death star. I predict secondhand sales of the 2008 and 2016 sets are going to SPIKE.

Even without a shell, the sphere shape and the superlaser gave the impression of the death star. If it really is rectangular, the outline won't resemble it at all.

And will it have a turbolaser? It would feel absurd to leave that out, but I also can't imagine how silly a big block with the DS laser sticking out of it would look.

Edited July 26 by Mandalorianknight

[Sucram]

All I wanted was a giant display Death Star. The 2005 one but bigger. It can have zero figs or interior for all I care. I’ll just wait another decade.

Edited July 26 by Sucram

[Tariq j]

So if I’m understanding correctly it’s something along the lines of this? I really don’t know. Between so many of the figures being under detailed/lacking dual moulded legs and the design of the set itself it sounds like it could be a big misfre.

2 hours ago, Brickify said:

Heard some people say it’d be just a big gray ball but that’s exactly  what the Death Star is lol it’s still one of the coolest things in Star Wars a full sphere that can open up with all the rooms sounds amazing to me and I’m very disappointed in it being a huge half diorama I don’t think going in to pick this one up.A couple never made before figs like sly Moore or ameeda would entice me but the selection while makes sense isn’t going to make me budge.

Yeah, the whole appeal is that it looks like a sphere. I think I would have preferred an updated version of the 2016 version or just a display model like others have suggested.

As far as an updated 2016 model goes, they could have made the model slightly larger, added some more figures like they did here: Palaptine’s advisors, Krennic, Erso, Motti, Tagge etc. and updated existing ones and maybe added an exterior layer that could be removed - all while keeping the set at a more reasonable price point. 

Edited July 26 by Tariq j

[hikouki]

23 minutes ago, Tariq j said:

So if I’m understanding correctly it’s something along the lines of this? I really don’t know. Between so many of the figures being under detailed/lacking dual moulded legs and the design of the set itself it sounds like it could be a big misfre.

Yeah, the whole appeal is that it looks like a sphere. I think I would have preferred an updated version of the 2016 version or just a display model like others have suggested.

As far as an updated 2016 model goes, they could have made the model slightly larger, added some more figures like they did here: Palaptine’s advisors, Krennic, Erso, Motti, Tagge etc. and updated existing ones and maybe added an exterior layer that could be removed - all while keeping the set at a more reasonable price point. 

So, it is going to be a "Death Star Diorama" instead of a "Death Star Model (with scenes/ vignettes)"??? 

I also would have expected a spherical model, given the leaks from months ago.

If what was leaked months ago was that it was going to be a diorama, would we all have been as much disappointed?

On a slightly different note, regardless of the form, if this were going to be a UCS set, shouldn't the minifigs be CMF-quality, or even better???

[Classic_Spaceman]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Royal Guard: The skirt/robe piece would have been nice, but I have to hard disagree on the helmet. The current one is fine, and I just don't see what the benefit would be to having a dual-molded one.

The helmet looks antiquated next to the more modern ones, as does the Minifig’s overall design (no apparent leg printing, the Harry Potter cape, etc) - The helmet is too large and thick (and the visor groove is unsightly), and the ‘chin’ extends too far over the torso (it should be tall, slender, and only cover a quarter of the torso rather than a third). 
Ideally, an updated version would have (printed) dark red torso and legs, a new red cloak element (either cloth or vinyl), and an updated (either dual-moulded or solid and printed) helmet; that said, I would also be OK with just a new helmet and printed skirt paired with the existing torso. 
 

[Darth_Bane13]

2 hours ago, Sucram said:

Wow if this set really doesnt have any display value as an actual death star and is just some Betrayal at Cloud City type shit then this will go down as my biggest disappointment for a Lego set ever. At least Cloud City has interesting rooms, the Death Star only has a couple somewhat interesting locations

And the most interesting Death Star locations have already been made into dioramas.

8 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

The helmet looks antiquated next to the more modern ones, as does the Minifig’s overall design (no apparent leg printing, the Harry Potter cape, etc) - The helmet is too large and thick (and the visor groove is unsightly), and the ‘chin’ extends too far over the torso (it should be tall, slender, and only cover a quarter of the torso rather than a third). 
Ideally, an updated version would have (printed) dark red torso and legs, a new red cloak element (either cloth or vinyl), and an updated (either dual-moulded or solid and printed) helmet; that said, I would also be OK with just a new helmet and printed skirt paired with the existing torso. 
 

For me the Royal Guards ranks pretty low in the issues with the figures in this set

[AD_Bricks]

Where did the rectangle thing come from? All I heard were the dimensions, and that it's "not a full sphere". That sounds like it's just going to be half a ball, so you can have semi-spherical exterior on one side and cross-section interior on the other side. While a full sphere would be ideal, I don't think it's going to be anywhere near as bad as it would be if it was a rectangle.

[Lordhelmet]

14 minutes ago, AD_Bricks said:

Where did the rectangle thing come from? All I heard were the dimensions, and that it's "not a full sphere". That sounds like it's just going to be half a ball, so you can have semi-spherical exterior on one side and cross-section interior on the other side. While a full sphere would be ideal, I don't think it's going to be anywhere near as bad as it would be if it was a rectangle.

There have been a few Reddit/instagram posts with conflicting information.  I have seen some saying half a sphere and some saying rectangle.

[Classic_Spaceman]

12 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

An image of the box top leaked on Reddit, but with the final 5  mini-figures off to the side for 38. At least 5 stormtroopers but possibly more.

Lineup, as of the most recent pic: 
 - Luke (ANH farmboy) 
 - Luke (ANH Stormtrooper disguise) 
 - Luke (RotJ final duel) 
 - Leia (ANH) 
 - Han (ANH) 
 - Han (ANH Stormtrooper disguise) 
 - Chewbacca 
 - Obi-Wan (ANH) 
 - C-3PO 
 - R2-D2 
 - Darth Vader (//ANH// RotJ) 
 - Palpatine (RotJ) 
 - “Imperial Dignitary” (RotJ) 
 - Yularen (ANH) 
 - Motti (ANH) 
 - Tagge (ANH) 
 - Krennic (R1) 
 - Galen Erso (R1) 
 - 5D6-RA-7 Protocol Droid (ANH) 
 - Stormtrooper (5x) 
 - Death Star gunner (2x) 
 - Imperial technician/Scanning crew (2x) 
 - Shuttle pilot/Security officer (ANH, RotJ - 1x) 
 - Royal Guard (RotJ - 2x) 
 - Astromech droid (ANH - Either R3-T6 or R3-A2, depending on whether the print is red or reddish orange) 
 - Hot Tub Stormtrooper (1x) 
Tarkin is also confirmed via the first leaked pic, so he must be one of the covered ‘figs in the second (possibly the first on line 2?), and there are a total of six Minifigs either covered or cropped in the second pic. 

Presumed missing Minifigs: 
 - Tarkin (confirmed in the set), line 2 
 - Stormtrooper (sixth overall), line 3 
 - Imperial Navy Trooper (2x), line 4 
 - Security/Stormtrooper officer Captain 1x), line 4 
 - TIE Pilot (1x), line 4 
//I can also see RotJ Vader being on line 2 (ANH is confirmed via the first pic, but the torso is difficult to make out on the second; RotJ also makes sense for the final duel section, and can be included via a reuse of the existing Minifig), pushing Tarkin to line 3 (in place of a sixth Stormtrooper).// 
The placement of Minifigs in order from named to generic also rules out Bast, Romodi, or Jerjerrod (as the only possible slots for them are on line 4). 
 

10 hours ago, JohnTPT17 said:

Apparently not - Clay_Bricks has said that the dignitary's hat is "Close, but hers will be wider and have her hair coming out the back."

Thank the maker and the Great Bird of the Galaxy!! This makes “Imperial Dignitary” even stranger, though, since if they had made Guinan’s hat without the moulded hair (inaccurate, but not unacceptably so), Kren Blista-Vanee could have reused it. 
Regardless, we should have at least gotten Janus Greejatus (the most prominent advisor, alongside Sim Aloo aka “Imperial Dignitary”), especially since he shares a hat mould with Sate Pestage. 😐
 

4 hours ago, avengers777 said:

I don't know if it was necessarily debunked. I think Jedi Bricks shared the list with Mas, Sly, Rae Sloane, and Gallius Rax, and that one was debunked

At least Grand Admirals Sloan and Rax can be made from existing pieces, so no major loss in that respect. 
 

1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

And the most interesting Death Star locations have already been made into dioramas.

Uh, conference room??? The detention block would make a better playset than diorama, but it also has not appeared outside of the MBS set. 

1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

For me the Royal Guards ranks pretty low in the issues with the figures in this set

While I agree, it is just yet another point against the most expensive LEGO set to-date. 😠


 

Edit: Upon closer inspection of the first images, Vader is actually RotJ, not ANH! 🤬
This makes him yet another lazy reuse, and we still do not have an ANH Vader in production! I really just hope that the ANH torso does not get paywalled behind the GWP, though I can absolutely see that happening now!! 
 

Edited July 27 by Classic_Spaceman

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

The helmet looks antiquated next to the more modern ones, as does the Minifig’s overall design (no apparent leg printing, the Harry Potter cape, etc) - The helmet is too large and thick (and the visor groove is unsightly), and the ‘chin’ extends too far over the torso (it should be tall, slender, and only cover a quarter of the torso rather than a third). 
Ideally, an updated version would have (printed) dark red torso and legs, a new red cloak element (either cloth or vinyl), and an updated (either dual-moulded or solid and printed) helmet; that said, I would also be OK with just a new helmet and printed skirt paired with the existing torso. 

I agree with the rest of the figure, but again, not the helmet. Sure, it's a bit too big, but that's not uncommon for lego, and you really think a dual-molded helmet would DECREASE the size or thickness?

2 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

For me the Royal Guards ranks pretty low in the issues with the figures in this set

Yeah in terms of everything wrong here, even just with the figures, the royal guards being unupdated isn't my biggest gripe.

 

I still just don't get it. How is this rectangular? Who at lego saw their previous death stars, some of the best-selling, coolest sets ever made, a set that was so iconic it featured as not only a running gag but emotional sting in the last Spider-Man movies, and went "clearly what we need to do here is make the famous spherical object a box"?

[Classic_Spaceman]

10 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I agree with the rest of the figure, but again, not the helmet. Sure, it's a bit too big, but that's not uncommon for lego, and you really think a dual-molded helmet would DECREASE the size or thickness?

Probably about the same thickness, but upon reflection, printing would probably be sufficient. 

10 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I still just don't get it. How is this rectangular? Who at lego saw their previous death stars, some of the best-selling, coolest sets ever made, a set that was so iconic it featured as not only a running gag but emotional sting in the last Spider-Man movies, and went "clearly what we need to do here is make the famous spherical object a box"?

I wonder if it will be a vertically-cut hemisphere? The set could be designed to mount on a wall, but also have interior scenes that are visible if displayed on a table. This gives multiple display options, and actually makes more sense than a giant ball or a big Kenner-style playset diorama. 
 

[Darth_Bane13]

1 hour ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Edit: Upon closer inspection of the first images, Vader is actually RotJ, not ANH! 🤬
This makes him yet another lazy reuse, and we still do not have an ANH Vader in production! I really just hope that the ANH torso does not get paywalled behind the GWP, though I can absolutely see that happening now!! 
 

The set is partly based off of ROTJ so technically it is accurate, it would be nice to get the correct torso for ANH Vader eventually though.

[Flawless Cowboy]

If it is indeed a box, a height of 70 cm and length of 79 cm seems staggeringly large. How do you vertically populate a diorama that tall over such a length?