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

[Kit Figsto]

I'm predicting that smart brick thing is going to fail.  There's basically no reason why a playscale X-Wing should ever cost $100.  I don't care if it shoots actual lasers out of it, the X-Wing should pretty much always be an affordable, entry-level set for anyone to get into LSW with.  

I saw a Reddit comment that sums up my feelings on these prices, the person basically said that the reason for all of LEGO's adult collectors that exist nowadays are because of people that were kids in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s.  Yeah, LEGO was always expensive, but if they keep pricing kids out of the hobby, that adult base is just going to get smaller and smaller.

[brimbolet]

The smart brick was tested in the UK right? Any more information from there, does it actually work, what's the sound quality?

[Lordhelmet]

1 hour ago, Shiva said:

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

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

1 store - Lego.com PAB so free shipping, but here it would be plus tax (so would the set).

[Shiva]

11 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

1 store - Lego.com PAB so free shipping, but here it would be plus tax (so would the set).

Ahh.

So you do not have tax already calculated into the price.

[Lordhelmet]

16 minutes ago, Shiva said:

Ahh.

So you do not have tax already calculated into the price.

Right so apples to apples would put the set at $172 (roughly) and $120 (roughly) for PAB.  Plus there were two parts missing, that would either need to be bought in a different color or through brick link (they were the round 1x1 tile, and the round plate for the wheels).

Edited 4 hours ago by Lordhelmet

[Llewop]

Oh great another X wing. At least there is a different TIE fighter. Genuinely feel bad for OT fans like of all the sets and ships they could do for the rebellion they flog a dead horse. Like you can defend this summer as it’s things we haven’t had before figure wise and design and colour wise. It’s not even aimed at kids they aren’t going to spend $100 on one LEGO set especially when for that money they could get 4/5 from other themes for the same money. 

actually I’m annoyed about the TIE advanced actually because it’s mean another Darth Vader figure and you know it won’t be a new design, it’s just so boring.

thank god I can save a load of money next year. So far across all themes 2026 is looking absolutely shocking and uninspiring and even more overpriced than the crap they’ve produced this year. 

Genuinely hope they’ve saved all of their budget to go all out on the Mando and Grogu sets or even Ahsoka S2 otherwise might just sell up genuinely cba.

genuinely has triggered me like parents could buy for their kids the x wing and tie mash up set get more figures for less than what one of the new x wing. And then to get a nice luke red 5 figure spend £10 on the mech and another £10 on the Vader one as that probably on the shelf somewhere warming up and you e got it all for a fraction of these two new sets. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Llewop

[THELEGOBATMAN]

1 hour ago, Kit Figsto said:

I'm predicting that smart brick thing is going to fail.  There's basically no reason why a playscale X-Wing should ever cost $100.  I don't care if it shoots actual lasers out of it, the X-Wing should pretty much always be an affordable, entry-level set for anyone to get into LSW with.  

I feel like anytime LEGO tries being innovative and incorporating things like smartphones AR, electric bricks etc. they end up failing miserably.

People and kids genuinely don't care for those, according to my observations. We all just want good-looking, affordable sets with nice play features. A "smart brick" won't make a LEGO X-Wing any more exciting, especially when it effectively almost doubles its cost.

[Llewop]

2 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

I feel like anytime LEGO tries being innovative and incorporating things like smartphones AR, electric bricks etc. they end up failing miserably.

People and kids genuinely don't care for those, according to my observations. We all just want good-looking, affordable sets with nice play features. A "smart brick" won't make a LEGO X-Wing any more exciting, especially when it effectively almost doubles its cost.

Lego has been around for decades, kids have been playing with Lego for decades and have never needed any gimmicky tech to help play. Like you said every tech gimmick they’ve tried has failed. Even introducing this smart brick has failed I thought it was supposed to be out in some city sets last summer?

Edited 4 hours ago by Llewop

[Samppu]

Oh, I am actually all in for gadgets like the Smart Brick.

They may enable unseen play features in the right hands, and personally I would be willing to pay some premium for a set, if it included something of the sort.

For me getting simply the laser shooters in 2014 began a whole new era of Lego building by enabling seriously cool functions in very cramped spaces.

However, the question comes then down on the features and the quality of the Smart Brick itself.

Sounds are cool already, but I can see some other potential depending how the scanning feature actually works.

E.g. it would be quite exciting if you could "target" another ship or base with a ship in your hand, and if the Smart Brick hidden into the structure of your ship succeeded to scan the code part somewhere at the back of the aimed target, the Smart Brick would make a sound of an explosion as a sign of winning the dogfight or the bombing run being successful.

Edited 3 hours ago by Samppu

[Tariq j]

Not too sure how to feel about the smart brick. My worry is the precedence it sets. Sets like Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor or the 327th Battle pack are already quite pricey, I dread to think how much they would have cost if LEGO had put these smart bricks in sets like those. 

[wicket]

$100 for 584 pieces is crazy… I’m worried the 2026 sets will make the horrible summer 2025 wave look reasonably priced

[Sucram]

Agree with everyone that the Death Star looks great, I think a vast improvement over the 2008 and 2016 ones, which I still consider poor sets for anyone over the age of 13. Am now looking into the cost of Bricklinking the 10143, seems a bit cheaper than this new set

[eldiano]

8 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

I think it looks good, and is far better than just a large sphere, which would be fragile, awkward to put anywhere, and just look a bit dull.

I like the dioramas and think they offer good looking models with a fun build. To cram a load of them together into a circle is neat and it looks fine, but it feels like there are really only tree areas that draw the eye - the throne room (which we already have), the laser, and the shuttle bay. Everything else feels kind of small and cramped, which is a shame. If there are a load of functions across it (which there could be), then it might improve the prospect of it further. But the value of this to me might be in three $100 dioramas, rather than a single $1000 set. I'm glad it exists and I hope to see it in real life at some point, but I won't get the set.

I’m actually shocked people here had problems with it’s stability, It never wobbled with me for the longest time, even with toddlers tripping over it’s furniture LOL. 

[Mandalorianknight]

On 8/9/2025 at 1:32 AM, CloneCommando99 said:

I do not plan on buying a single SW set for the rest of the year due to a combination of being awfully overpriced or repetitive clone slop. Instead, I’m going to have fun with Arkham which, unlike the majority of this year’s SW offerings, actually seems decently priced. I’ll of course wait for a 2x point and GWP window but still.

Same here. I was talking to relatives the other day and realized that as of now, the only 2025 lego set I have purchased is a little $15 impulse buy from the Marvel Line (Iron Man mech with Ultron.)

The year just isn't doing it for me. what few sets actually interest me are ones I am waiting for sales on. It's possible the Night Trooper Pack reaches... I'd say $17 is what I'd get it for.... before the end of the year, but if it doesn't, my lego spending went from a few hundred in $2024 to... $15* of official sets and a few bricklink part orders.

*I bought two copies of the 2024 skeleton crew set because they were on absurd walmart discounts to sell the figures and use the parts for a MOC, but the discounts were so deep that selling the figs was a net gain, meaning my lego spending would be negative for the year!

16 hours ago, samsz_3 said:

Crazy weekend for Eurobricks to be down!!.

Honestly it probably displays better than the 2008/2016 Death Stars as you can see it all. But not for 1000USD. That needed to be a sphere.

Exactly. At $500, this would have been a fine, unique format for the DS. At $1000, it really should have been a sphere.

15 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

But there is 0% chance I would ever pay $1000 for that. 

I think this is going to be a big factor for a lot of people. There's a lot of analysis as to whether or not it's "worth it", and while I personally think it seems better value than most SW sets these days... I honestly don't care if the value is there or not. $1000 is just more than I would personally drop on a single set.

5 hours ago, Kit Figsto said:

I'm predicting that smart brick thing is going to fail.  There's basically no reason why a playscale X-Wing should ever cost $100.  I don't care if it shoots actual lasers out of it, the X-Wing should pretty much always be an affordable, entry-level set for anyone to get into LSW with.  

I saw a Reddit comment that sums up my feelings on these prices, the person basically said that the reason for all of LEGO's adult collectors that exist nowadays are because of people that were kids in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s.  Yeah, LEGO was always expensive, but if they keep pricing kids out of the hobby, that adult base is just going to get smaller and smaller.

Yup. Though if it shot actual plasma bolts I would probably pick it up just for the novelty of owning an X-wing capable of lethal force. (If it was lasers as in just the literal meaning of the laser lights, I honestly don't see $100 still. lighting kits are expensive but not THAT expensive.)

Yes- if kids aren't into a toy product now, the brand will die. It's true of anything that can't draw in new fans. With lego star wars there's the additional wrinkle of needing new star wars fans.

4 hours ago, Llewop said:

It’s not even aimed at kids they aren’t going to spend $100 on one LEGO set

I agree with your wider point that these smart brick sets are a bad idea, but come on. This is ridiculously false. Lego makes scores of $100+ sets aimed at kids every year. Star Wars, Ninjago, City, Friends, etc.

 

Lot to go over during the down time:

$1000 death star: Not as bad as it could have been. I think it actually looks quite nice, and the value doesn't seem bad. My primary issue is simply that it should have been a sphere. This is a nice display model, for $1000 the value is there, but the $1000 price point needs to be the flagship of a theme. The Death Slice simply doesn't work for me as the crown jewel of star wars. The old death star is more kid-oriented, sure, but it was iconic. It's quite literally so iconic that an emotional beat about it is part of the final scene of a spider-man trilogy. (We get a shot where Peter adjusts the Emperor Palpatine minifigure from the set- assumably the only part of it he could scavenge from his apartment- on his table before leaving to swing into the night.) I just can't see what is much more of an art set/display model taking it's place in that regard.

It should have been smaller, correspondingly cheaper, and able to be wall-mounted.

 

Other leaks:

Yoda and Amended Vader busts: Another new 18+ gimmick to abandon after two years. Excellent. I hope the yoda looks worse than his 2018 buildable figure.

TIE Advanced and X-wing:

"Boy, I hope we get some new OT sets, maybe a TIE advanced"

*Monkey's Paw curls*

This is awful. We might not have two normal OT sets for another 1HY, for one thing, but it's not even as if they're being replaced by helmets or busts or system sets from another era. No. They're a gimmick, and one that drastically increases the price, but in a horrible twist of fate they're also a gimmick that resets the clock on getting a normal version of the advanced. I will be tweaking my digital Advanced moc tonight and ordering parts tomorrow, because it looks like we really aren't getting a normal one any time soon.

2 minutes ago, eldiano said:

I’m actually shocked people here had problems with it’s stability, It never wobbled with me for the longest time, even with toddlers tripping over it’s furniture LOL. 

Yeah, I've never heard about stability issues either. I had mine up on top of a dresser that I bumped into probably every morning before school (I was not the most coordinated child or teenager) and it never so much as wobbled, even when other builds fell over or plopped off the shelf. 

I wonder if it's people who don't own it thinking a sphere would be unstable, and not really getting that it was flattened on the bottom and not fully spherically built down to a 6x6 or something.

7 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

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?

Come on, don't be like this. It's not unreasonable to hype up the first version of a major vehicle in a full decade. Don't act like that's some sort of slight.

7 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

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

If there truly is an electric brick in it, this is no win. Arguably it's significantly worse than a TIE avenger, because instead of getting a different cool TIE variant and waiting a little longer for the Advanced, it's an overpriced gimmick that resets the clock on a normal version of the set. 

If it's any consolation it was highly unlikely that if there was an avenger in the pipeline, it would have been this anyway. We know the fastest turnaround for a full system set is 1.5 years (assuming the No Way Home set was pushed out as fast as they could), so if Lego thinks the demand is sufficient, we won't see it until 2027 anyway.