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

[EvanHnuel]

Does anyone have any ideas as to what the build between Krennic & Galen is on the stand for DS?

[icm]

3 minutes ago, starlego98 said:

X wing and Vader tie leaked, maybe they come with some sort of electric brick

Where are you seeing that? First I've heard of any X-wing and Vader TIE two-pack.

[EvanHnuel]

This whole DS situation is crazy too. Big bombshell leak. Do we think Lego is just gonna start giving it to LAN & officially reveal sooner rather than later? 

I want to see all the bells & whistles that it hopefully has. 

[TheScaryDoor]

8 minutes ago, starlego98 said:

X wing and Vader tie leaked, maybe they come with some sort of electric brick

Nice, I really need a Tie Advanced. I just hope it will look good enough with this piece count.

[mirkwoodspiders]

3 minutes ago, EvanHnuel said:

I want to see all the bells & whistles that it hopefully has. 

Same here. I'm not sure what functionality would sway me closer to picking it up, but a fully-functioning elevator (better quality than the one in 75159) would be cool. There's also an entire surface we haven't seen. Probably not much there, but there could be some neat surprises.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Those piece counts are horrendous...

An X-Wing for $100 with 584 pieces? No thanks, I still love my beautiful $50 2021 X-Wing.

[Virginia_Bricks]

3 minutes ago, mirkwoodspiders said:

Same here. I'm not sure what functionality would sway me closer to picking it up, but a fully-functioning elevator (better quality than the one in 75159) would be cool. There's also an entire surface we haven't seen. Probably not much there, but there could be some neat surprises.

I'm not sure it is deep enough, but the screw piece used for Harry Potter last year could create a pretty easy elevator function. And by the looks of it there does seem to be something that can be turned at the top of the Death Star right above the elevator shaft.

[Tariq j]

$100 for an X-Wing? That really is outrageous. That being said I am excited for the TIE Advanced since it’s been 10 years since we last saw it. 

16 minutes ago, EvanHnuel said:

Does anyone have any ideas as to what the build between Krennic & Galen is on the stand for DS?

Looks like some kind of control panel? Maybe the Death Star plans or something.

[Lordhelmet]

18 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

No thanks, I still love my beautiful $50 2021 X-Wing

This is my favorite X-wing so far, perfect size, well built, good functionality.  Will be tough to beat, and especially the $50 price.  

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

It‘s rumoured to be a TIE Fighter, so I wouldn‘t get my hopes up for anything too fancy  One of the minifigs is allegedly the same TIE pilot from the UCS TIE Interceptor

 

I am good if it is, that means I can wait for a discount.  Unless the Tie Fighter is a full size one with good minifigures it will be worth waiting in my opinion.  Also funny if they give Arm printing to a gwp Tie pilot, but there are some key details missing from the actual set mini figures (like printing on the dress piece for Sim Aloo).

Oh and, an X-wing for $100 and a tie advanced for $70?  Yikes.  That should have been a $120 combo pack, and the piece counts are scary.  At least I can pick them (probably just the tie advanced) up when they hit some good discounts.  

Also sad that it is not a Tie Avenger.

Edited 8 hours ago by Lordhelmet

[Brickwraith]

9 minutes ago, Tariq j said:

Looks like some kind of control panel? Maybe the Death Star plans or something.

I thought that at first but if you look closely Galen is holding them already

[Kingslayer]

I so wish the GWP was Narkina 5 instead of a TIE Fighter

[BrickBob Studpants]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! It‘s actually a TIE Advanced?!  I jinxed it! My suggestion was just supposed to be an example!  Well there goes our TIE Avenger. My condolences to @CloneCommando99.

And another Luke’s X-Wing eurghhhhh  The saving grace for the 1HY sets is definitely the Mando stuff.

[Samppu]

The new Death Star looks better than I expected to say the least.

I concur that the compromise in its shape seems reasonable. A ball shape with full wrappings and detailed interior would not have been realistic for even 1000 dollars.

However, the play value does not seem imminent and a lot of the building techniques appear trivial for a set of this price and size. E.g. it doesn't seem that all the rooms would be connected, though I hope I am wrong. Also like someone already mentioned, the trash compactor does not seem to link to the prison level, and neither does the Emperor's throne room seem to have a veil to drop into unlike the previous versions did.

I hope that the elevator at least works.

Not a set for me, I rather buy bricks and build a moc version for myself for the same bang of bucks, but interesting.

Minifigure-wise there is mostly nothing to mention here. One Emperor's court member, but that's it.

[BrickBob Studpants]

Bruh. Did the leakers seriously hype up TIE Advanced #6 or so, knowing full well that everyone wanted a TIE Avenger?! Is this a joke?

[stevej]

I really thought they would save the next X-Wing and Darth Vader's Tie Fighter for A New Hope's 50th anniversary and I was really hoping the $100 set would be a B-Wing but I'll still take these. Mind you, the X-Wing needs to prove itself at that price (I'm still clinging onto my 75218 set for now).

[EvanHnuel]

With a $100 sub-600 piece X-Wing, I've hit my limit with this theme. This is absurd & we need a form of organized boycott.

Edited 7 hours ago by EvanHnuel

[Shiva]

On 8/6/2025 at 3:33 AM, Lordhelmet said:

So I just did something fun with the juggernaut.  I went to rebrickable downloaded the parts list for lego pick a brick and put the parts in Lego pick a brick.  There were 21 parts missing (looking these up in brick link they all appear to be minifigures, droids, and weapons) plus a 6x6 round plate and a 1x1 round tile.  The total for the parts that are available is $111.45.  I view Pick a Brick as a premium cost for lego parts (I think a set should be able to sell parts cheaper than pick a brick prices).  This means that Lego is placing a $48.55 price tag on the minifigures and the two round parts missing.  The battle pack is similar - $19 for the parts on pick a brick (minus the droids/minifigures with one or two other parts missing) so $25 for the minifigures in that set. (oh and sticker sheets).    

Well, then the actual LEGO price tag is not that bad actually!

How few stores were those prices from? aka total cost?

[CloneCommando99]

1 hour ago, starlego98 said:

X wing and Vader tie leaked, maybe they come with some sort of electric brick

 

 

17 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! It‘s actually a TIE Advanced?!  I jinxed it! My suggestion was just supposed to be an example!  Well there goes our TIE Avenger. My condolences to @CloneCommando99.

I would say that I was a fool to ally with you, o blasphemous sponge. But not to worry (any more than we already are)…

Help me 75445. You’re my only hope.

The campaign will continue until either Victory or Death

20 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

And another Luke’s X-Wing eurghhhhh  The saving grace for the 1HY sets is definitely the Mando stuff.

For me, these were supposed to be the saving grace. The others are either Mando slop or clone slop. The AT AT will have some heavy lifting to do I guess.

 

Congratulations @Mandalorianknight it appears you won the battle. But the war isn’t quite over. Not yet.

53 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Those piece counts are horrendous...

An X-Wing for $100 with 584 pieces? No thanks, I still love my beautiful $50 2021 X-Wing.

This is where the clone bros army building day 1 no matter the cost has gotten us.

40 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

Also sad that it is not a Tie Avenger.

Me too buddy. Me too.

12 minutes ago, EvanHnuel said:

With a $100 sub-600 piece X-Wing, I've hit my limit with this theme. This is absurd & we need a form of organized boycott.

Agreed. But many AFOLs can’t hold the damn trigger for a couple of months.

[BrickBob Studpants]

I hope the OT fans are happy with their boring remakes  I guess the next time we get a Landspeeder, the leakers will hype that up too

[icm]

So the leak is (copying from Reddit):

March 1, 2026

75421 Darth Vader's TIE Advanced, $70 USD, 473 pieces, age rating 7+

75423 Luke's Red Five X-wing, $100 USD, 584 pieces, age rating 7+

 

Ay yi yi yi yi.

I imagine the builds for these will be really good, but those prices are just awful. 

 

In February 1999, set 7150 was 407 pieces and $50 USD with two minifigures and one astromech droid. Let's assign $25.00 of that to the TIE Advanced; the CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $49.02 in June 2025.

In January 2009, set 8017 was 251 pieces and $30 USD with one minifigure. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $45.83 in June 2025.

In June 2016, set 75150 was 702 pieces and $90 USD with four minifigures, and it felt so overpriced at the time that it warmed shelves pretty badly. The Imperial half of the set was 413 pieces, so ~$52.95, which the CPI Inflation Calculator puts at $70.86 in June 2025.

We've had $70 TIE fighters before, like the 75154 TIE Striker in September 2016 with 543 pieces and four minifigures and the 75211 Solo TIE in April 2018 with 519 pieces and four minifigures, but those had lots of big pieces. I guess this will probably be about the same size as the 75150 version from 2016, which has about the same inflation-adjusted price. With a more refined build the extra 60 pieces can easily go into the same size of build. But that one warmed shelves hard back then because it was so overpriced. This will be another shelf-warmer for sure.

Meanwhile the $70 Star Wars sets from 2025 are: 

• 75429 AT-AT Driver Helmet, 730 pieces, 0 minifigures
• 75433 Jango Fett's Starship, 707 pieces, 3 minifigures
• 75408 Jango Fett Helmet, 616 pieces, 0 minifigures
• 75399 Rebel U-wing Starfighter, 594 pieces, 3 minifigures and 1 bipedal droid
• 75405 Home One Starcruiser, 559 pieces, 0 minifigures
• 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet, 529 pieces, 0 minifigures
• 75402 ARC-170 Starfighter, 497 pieces, 3 minifigures and 1 astromech droid
• 75406 Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle, 386 pieces and 0 minifigures
• ($65): 75432 V-19 Torrent Starfighter, 567 pieces and 3 minifigures

So the $70 Vader TIE has fewer pieces than any $70 Star Wars set in 2025 except the midi-scale Kylo shuttle, and all the $70 sets from 2025 (and the V-19) already feel rather overpriced. The playscale starfighters at the $65-$70 price point currently feel like the best value for LSW, but still not greeat value, and that is taking a pretty big hit next year. Blame it on tariffs, blame it on inflation - but I read somewhere that all the Lego in the US comes from the Mexico factory and is tariff-exempt under the USMCA? Bah.

 

As for X-wing pricing:

In February 1999, set 7140 was 263 pieces and $30 USD with three minifigures and one astromech droid. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $42.51 in June 2025.

In January 2004, set 4502 was 563 pieces and $50 USD with two minifigures and one astromech droid. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $87.08 in June 2025.

In September 2006, set 6212 was 437 pieces and $50 USD with five minifigures and one astromech droid. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $79.50 in June 2025.

In January 2012, set 9493 was 560 pieces and $60 USD with two minifigures and two astromech droids. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $85.38 in June 2025.

In September 2015, set 75102 was 717 pieces and $80 USD with three minifigures and one astromech droid. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $108.45 in June 2025.

In June 2016, set 75149 was 740 pieces and $80 USD with three minifigures and one astromech droid. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $107.07 in June 2025.

In August 2018, set 75218 was 731 pieces and $80 USD with two minifigures and two astromech droids. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $102.34 in June 2025.

In January 2020, set 75273 was 761 pieces and $90 USD with three minifigures and one astromech droid. The CPI Inflation Calculator puts that at $112.53 in June 2025.

In January 2021, set 75301 was 474 pieces and $50 USD with three minifigures and one astromech droid. The CPI Inflation Calculator put that at $61.66 in June 2025.

In August 2024, set 75393 was 1063 pieces and $110 USD with four minifigures and one astromech droid, but it was a two-pack, so let's assign 5/9 of the set cost to the X-wing and 4/9 to the TIE Fighter. Those are the same proportions as the relative costs of the 75300 TIE Fighter for $40 and the 75301 X-wing for $50 in 2021. So we have 5/9 * $110 = $61.11, which the CPI Inflation Calculator puts at $62.62 in June 2025.

So,  $100 for the X-wing isn't out of bounds for historical inflation-adjusted pricing of a single X-wing, but the build is probably going to be a "small" X-wing like 75301 or 75393 rather than a "large" X-wing like 9493 or 75218, so it's going to feel a lot more overpriced that those did. Even at the time, 75218 and especially 75273 felt dramatically overpriced, which is why Lego pivoted to the "small" 75301 and 75393. But here we are at top-tier X-wing pricing again, with what's probably going to be a subpar build. Lego has done good things recently with the ~550 parts count for the V-19 and the U-wing, but those are overpriced at $70. Pushing it to $100 is almost Hoopty/X-jet/Juggernaut-awful pricing. I better stock up on Pilot Luke and R2-D2 in order to backfill this X-wing with older figures if I'm lucky enough to be able to find it without figures for a reduced price.

 

I'm a sucker for X-wings, but with that price it's going to be hard to get excited about this one. Here's what Lego could do to make me excited about it:

The number one way Lego could improve on any previous playscale X-wing would be to finally have true scissor wings with a single central pivot point. The second and third UCS X-wings had true single-pivot wings, but the closest the playscale X-wings have come to that is with set 75301 in 2021. The wings on that version had two pivot points, whereas all the other playscale X-wings have had a separate pivot point for each wing.

The number two improvement would be to have fully retractable three-point landing gear. The only version to have that is the 75393 RTG version from 2024, but the landing gear there is far too tall and stocky because of the wing-swapping gimmick.

The number three improvement would be to bring back a decent cargo space, or at least somewhere to stow the lightsaber. The cargo holds of set 7140 from 1999 were always fun when I was a kid, and I really loved the cargo bay under the nose for set 4502 in 2006. The versions in set 9493 from 2012 and set 75218 at least had a cramped, awkward place to stow the lightsaber behind the seat, but the versions in set 75301 from 2021 and set 75393 from 2024 didn't even have that.

 

As for the Death Star, I don't hate it but I sure don't love it either. Setting aside the price for a moment, I like the looks of the individual rooms, but the rooms aren't connected in a way that makes any sense. The rooms from the prison block - trash compactor - air bridge sequence especially are all jumbled together without the proper connections for the story. I think the Imperial Shuttle side-build looks great and I would love to be able to buy it separately, but I should be careful what I wish for. I wanted to be able to buy the small Slave 1 side-build from 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City separately and we pretty much got that a few years later in 75312 Boba Fett's Starship, but then it doesn't look like the larger playscale Slave 1 models are ever coming back. So with the Imperial Shuttle already downsized from 75094 Imperial Shuttle Tydirium in 2015 to 75302 Imperial Shuttle in 2021, a separate set version of the Death Star Imperial Shuttle would pretty much mean we would never get another large Imperial Shuttle again. And then the prices would creep back up to the "big shuttle" prices while we continued to get "small-small shuttle" builds....

 

[TheScaryDoor]

22 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I hope the OT fans are happy with their boring remakes  I guess the next time we get a Landspeeder, the leakers will hype that up too

The last Tie Advanced was a long time ago. I'm happy with this one (but I also wouldn't mind a new Andor set). 

[CaptainMarvel]

A tie advanced you say. Well well, thank you john lego for reading my message from a week ago.

[Gontron]

We just had an X-Wing last year, why not a new Y-Wing or B-Wing? 

[Nobricksleft]

Absolutely relieved this Death Slice MBS design leaves me unimpressed. Unfortunately that means waiting and hoping Galen can make himself indispensable again one day.

Also very surprised they didnt try to include some sort of trompe-l'oeil circular cover to hang over over the whole thing, to increase the display value and keep away space dust.

Edited 6 hours ago by Nobricksleft

[ArrowBricks]

Smart bricks. Seen some talk about those. Would make sense for the rumoured price.