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

[Kaijumeister]

I’m shocked that Cobb’s Speeder is £25! Sucks that the American price is so egregious. This is definitely the highlight of an otherwise small and by the numbers January wave:

- Outside of needing a new hat piece, Bane looks perfect. Very happy to see he gets arm printing.

- The Timothy Oliphant likeness on Cobb is spot-on. Always appreciate it when Lego’s graphic designers go that extra mile to nail an actor’s resemblance and I would love to see more of that.

- The speeder is oversized and the shaping of the main engine should be much rounder, but at £25 I can live with it.

The new Mandalorian box-art really does pop. The fact that the key art is actually art and not a render looks awesome and seeing this approach adopted on LSW packaging for sets based on new content would be a great change of pace from the art style they’ve been using since 2022.

As much as Mando’s speeder is very meh, the fact that you can get that and Cobb’s Speeder for £34 is genuinely great. I feel like a kid again where £32 was enough to obtain a starfighter and battle pack.

The January lineups for other themes such as Marvel (still surprised at this), Minecraft,  Harry Potter, Ninjago, etc. all outclass Star Wars by a wide margin. Let’s hope the post-January LSW sets make up for it.

Edited December 2, 2025 by Kaijumeister

[BrickPrick]

9 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

That is clearly the best possible Cad Bane minifig we ever could have wished for, dayum!! Didn‘t expect arm printing but they did it!  And Cobb Vanth looks great as well! 

Absolutely no lies detected! 

8 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I’m glad someone’s happy with the wave.

 

Day #222 of the Tie Avenger campaign.

Ha, to say I'm happy with the wave, would be a stretch. Let's say I'm very happy the way Cad Bane turned out. And since I don't rely on single waves to be amazing in the first place, that's good enough for me. 

 

When I look at both Cad Bane and Cobb Vanth, I genuinely think this is the quality standard Lego should aspire to deliver for the Star Wars theme. Even for lower priced sets like this one. I mean, it may be much less money to spend on but it's still an overpriced set, especially in the US. So when someone is pouring their hard earned cash into one of your products, what's the best you can do? You make the customer/consumer forget about that. And how do you achieve that? By just making high quality stuff! When you pay premium prices, you deserve some premium quality aspects to it. Such a set absolutely should be 30 bucks TOPS. But when you go all out on the two figs that are actually included in there, it just makes it a bit easier to justify and look over the usual extra fee. Like yes, it still is too much money they ask for, but you are really getting something out of there and are ultimately satisfied, you know? 

Edited December 2, 2025 by BrickPrick

[Renown]

Re: 2026. It seems the Throne Room Duel is due to become the new Luke's Landspeeder meme. 

[betaplayer]

10 minutes ago, Renown said:

Re: 2026. It seems the Throne Room Duel is due to become the new Luke's Landspeeder meme. 

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A ROTJ Luke wasn't on the list for the smart brick sets either? So this is a regular set then?

[CloneCommando99]

2 minutes ago, betaplayer said:

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A ROTJ Luke wasn't on the list for the smart brick sets either? So this is a regular set then?

But Palpatine was

19 minutes ago, Renown said:

Re: 2026. It seems the Throne Room Duel is due to become the new Luke's Landspeeder meme. 

I mean. 501st Battlepack has already eclipsed Luke’s Landspeeder thrice in the past 5 years.

 

 

[Mandalorianknight]

43 minutes ago, Renown said:

Re: 2026. It seems the Throne Room Duel is due to become the new Luke's Landspeeder meme. 

Feels like it's been forever since the last post from you, I'm surprised this wasn't something like "And now, young skywalker... you will die."

Honestly I'm totally fine with it, like you say we've had the throne room set twice in the last 5 years so I'm OK with them wasting this one on smart brick stuff. Unlike the advanced, which was to be our first in a decade. :(

26 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I mean. 501st Battlepack has already eclipsed Luke’s Landspeeder thrice in the past 5 years.

And at least the three throne rooms over this 6 year interval were/are targeted at very different demos (Kids, adults, and nobody, respectively). 

 

January 2026 official images don't tell us much we didn't already know. Cad looks great, happy for @BrickPrick. Cobb looks weirdly old between the hair and beard but the armor is cool. None of the builds are good and the rest of the figures are either re-uses or ones we've seen high-quality pictures of already.

[Renown]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Feels like it's been forever since the last post from you, I'm surprised this wasn't something like "And now, young skywalker... you will die."

Honestly I'm totally fine with it, like you say we've had the throne room set twice in the last 5 years so I'm OK with them wasting this one on smart brick stuff. Unlike the advanced, which was to be our first in a decade. :(

As far as am aware, nothing covered in the mix of these smart brick compatible sets hasn't already been on shelves in some iteration within the last five years. 

Edited December 2, 2025 by Renown

[CF Mitch]

Yay, HD pictures!

All of these sets look pretty good, but I will definitely get Cobb Vanth's Speeder.
I kinda like its oversized-ness and the minfigure seems great. Not really interested in Cad Bane, though  

Regards,
Mitch

[Kaijumeister]

1 hour ago, Renown said:

As far as am aware, nothing covered in the mix of these smart brick compatible sets hasn't already been on shelves in some iteration within the last five years. 

To paraphrase Gandalf, it is in the summer wave and TMaG sets that we must place our hope.

I understand the DSII final duel being a scene Lego want to keep represented on shelves, but having a system set, diorama, substantial representation in a UCS set, and another system set within the span of seven years seems a little excessive - even though these may have catered to slightly different audiences. I’m sure they’ll reuse Palpatine’s advisor in here as a selling point, and am interested to see if they change up the overall layout of the 2015 / 2020 versions.

Whilst we’re on the subject, a Bespin Duel playscale set (that isn’t region-locked) is long overdue. The 2020 diorama was excellent, it’s a shame that had such limited availability.

Edited December 2, 2025 by Kaijumeister

[Renny The Spaceman]

I really am glad the gingerbread AT-AT is doing well, would love to see more small or midrange gingerbread sets across themes, it's an adorable potential sub-line

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, Renown said:

As far as am aware, nothing covered in the mix of these smart brick compatible sets hasn't already been on shelves in some iteration within the last five years. 

Interesting. Are you counting the mini tie advanced included in the death star, as that set retired just under five years ago? 

I assume you meant that or the European magazine polybag from 2023, but I will irresponsibly be taking this as evidence the TIE Advanced set isn't actually compromised by smart bricks.

2 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I understand the DSII final duel being a scene Lego want to keep represented on shelves, but having a system set, diorama, substantial representation in a UCS set, and another system set within the span of seven years seems a little excessive - even though these may have catered to slightly different audiences. I’m sure they’ll reuse Palpatine’s advisor in here as a selling point, and am interested to see if they change up the overall layout of the 2015 / 2020 versions.

Whilst we’re on the subject, a Bespin Duel playscale set (that isn’t region-locked) is long overdue. The 2020 diorama was excellent, it’s a shame that had such limited availability.

I wouldn't count the UCS set, as it's just a segment of a $1000 set so it's wild different than anything else, but I'd agree that the diorama is more or less the same as the 2020 set in terms of representation and that this new one's coming a bit soon. That said, being a smartslop set, at least it resets the clock on the next actual throne room duel set. I'd much rather the smart sets be remakes of things we've recently gotten than new or long-retired material.

They really need to do a cloud city in the vein of the old 2003 set, or similar to 2023's Yavin.

[CallumPears]

3 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Whilst we’re on the subject, a Bespin Duel playscale set (that isn’t region-locked) is long overdue. The 2020 diorama was excellent, it’s a shame that had such limited availability.

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

They really need to do a cloud city in the vein of the old 2003 set, or similar to 2023's Yavin.

Yeah I really want some smaller Bespin stuff. The 2017 Carbon Freezing Chamber was great (wish it included Lando though!) and getting the various iconic scenes as smaller sets (e.g. a Tantive Hallway -style set for when they're escaping the city) or a Yavin style one (which could capture the essential stuff while being more accessible than the 2018 MBS set) would be amazing. 

Time to huff the rhydo hopium and pray that Vader's TIE is a regular set I guess 

Edited December 2, 2025 by CallumPears

[CloneCommando99]

9 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Time to huff the rhydo hopium and pray that Vader's TIE is a regular set I guess 

Good luck with that. All my rhydo is going towards the Tie Avenger (Day #223)

 

So as for the March of the Fart brick :

• Disgusting X-Wing
• Tie Advanced
• Emperor’s Throne Room
• Mos Eisley Cantina
• Dagobah Training
• ?
• ?
• ?

From the leaked list of smart brick minifigs, we can surmise that Mos Eisley and Dagobah are happening in some capacity. That leaves 3 unknown set numbers. Any predictions? Smart brick republic gunship with Wolfpack?

[MKJoshA]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

So as for the March of the Fart brick :

• Disgusting X-Wing
• Tie Advanced
• Emperor’s Throne Room
• Mos Eisley Cantina
• Dagobah Training
• ?
• ?
• ?

From the leaked list of smart brick minifigs, we can surmise that Mos Eisley and Dagobah are happening in some capacity. That leaves 3 unknown set numbers. Any predictions? Smart brick republic gunship with Wolfpack?

Renown says everything with a smart brick has been on the shelves at some point in the past 5 years. Doesn't that rule out a TIE Advance? 

[CloneCommando99]

24 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

Renown says everything with a smart brick has been on the shelves at some point in the past 5 years. Doesn't that rule out a TIE Advance? 

True. But remember that all the March sets are supposed to be smart brick compatible according to bricktap. That may mean that they’re all designed to accommodate smart bricks, but don’t all have smart bricks. So while a Tie Advanced may not have a Smart Brick, it may be built to accommodate one.

The entire march wave is supposed to be a smart-bricks wave. So if the Tie Advanced isn’t at least smart brick compatible, it may not exist.

13 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Interesting. Are you counting the mini tie advanced included in the death star, as that set retired just under five years ago? 

I assume you meant that or the European magazine polybag from 2023, but I will irresponsibly be taking this as evidence the TIE Advanced set isn't actually compromised by smart bricks.

Tie Advanced from the 2022 Trench Run Diorama 

[Yperio_Bricks]

Does anybody remember the post when someone posted the number of LSW minifigs that were released in the past 10 or 15 years? The statistics showed that the number of minifigs declined over the past years and that we nowadays only get roughly half the number of minifigs compared to the "best" years. I tried to find that post but had no luck.

[Meaf]

1 hour ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Does anybody remember the post when someone posted the number of LSW minifigs that were released in the past 10 or 15 years? The statistics showed that the number of minifigs declined over the past years and that we nowadays only get roughly half the number of minifigs compared to the "best" years. I tried to find that post but had no luck.

I did a quick search but I couldn't find it either. I remember exactly which one you're talking about though, and I'd be very curious to see how 2026 stacks up (based on what we know so far). I imagine the smart brick figs could bump up the count a bit but I guess those don't really count for most people on this forum.

[Lordhelmet]

1 hour ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Does anybody remember the post when someone posted the number of LSW minifigs that were released in the past 10 or 15 years? The statistics showed that the number of minifigs declined over the past years and that we nowadays only get roughly half the number of minifigs compared to the "best" years. I tried to find that post but had no luck.

I remember the discussion too, I think I had a post in 2024 about averages over different time periods in response to someone's post about playset percentages, but I think those discussions were 2024.  There is a good resource from bricknerd covering through 2022, https://bricknerd.com/home/the-missing-minifigures-of-lego-star-wars-3-24-23.  But it does not have the data from the past few years. 

[Yperio_Bricks]

40 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

I remember the discussion too, I think I had a post in 2024 about averages over different time periods in response to someone's post about playset percentages, but I think those discussions were 2024.  There is a good resource from bricknerd covering through 2022, https://bricknerd.com/home/the-missing-minifigures-of-lego-star-wars-3-24-23.  But it does not have the data from the past few years. 

Thanks! That link is a good start  

 

Also, more info about the March smart play wave is out!

 

Edited December 3, 2025 by Yperio_Bricks

[Llewop]

So March is good if you like the OT but bad if you hate the prices and smart bricks.

bit weird having an a wing pilot in a throne room duel. But I’ve already got most of this I presume most long term collectors have some of this wave so for me it’s a whole load of money saved for May

[a_clay_brick]

I have posted a Youtube video breaking down the entire March wave, thanks to info submitted by Brick Tap source Legosnoop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwuNOw7dZgs

All the sets will be Smart Play, as rumored. 

All-in-one sets: (Include Smart Brick, a wireless charger, Smart Minifigures, and Smart Tags)

75421 Vader’s TIE Advanced

75423 Luke’s X-wing

75427 Throne Room Duel

Compatible sets: (Include Smart Minifigures and Smart Tags)

75420 Luke’s Landspeeder

75424 AT-ST

75422 Dagobah Training

75425 Mos Eisley Cantina

75426 Millennium Falcon

Smart Tags are 2x2 tiles that change the way the Smart Brick interacts with sets. 

 

Edited December 3, 2025 by a_clay_brick

[BrickPrick]

On 12/2/2025 at 3:33 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

 January 2026 official images don't tell us much we didn't already know. Cad looks great, happy for @BrickPrick. Cobb looks weirdly old between the hair and beard but the armor is cool. None of the builds are good and the rest of the figures are either re-uses or ones we've seen high-quality pictures of already.

Oh, I am happy about this too, man. Just knew you wouldn't let me down on this. And that you would live up to your reputation as Prophet of Positivity. 

On 12/2/2025 at 6:38 PM, Renny The Spaceman said:

I really am glad the gingerbread AT-AT is doing well, would love to see more small or midrange gingerbread sets across themes, it's an adorable potential sub-line

Yeah, there is clearly lots of potential there. 

21 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Yeah I really want some smaller Bespin stuff. The 2017 Carbon Freezing Chamber was great (wish it included Lando though!) and getting the various iconic scenes as smaller sets (e.g. a Tantive Hallway -style set for when they're escaping the city) or a Yavin style one (which could capture the essential stuff while being more accessible than the 2018 MBS set) would be amazing.

I absolutely agree. Considering how Bespin plays a major part in the story, it's criminal how underrepresented it is. 

10 minutes ago, Llewop said:

So March is good if you like the OT but bad if you hate the prices and smart bricks.

bit weird having an a wing pilot in a throne room duel. But I’ve already got most of this I presume most long term collectors have some of this wave so for me it’s a whole load of money saved for May

Seriously, what a tragedy. Apparently, there won't even be new Aliens included in the Cantina, which I can't even put the blame on the smart bricks. 

[Lordhelmet]

I am an OT fan, this wave doesn't offer anything to me.  The two builds we could use a remake of are the Tie Advanced and an AT-ST (from Endor).   These two builds would have to be good to consider (especially at the crazy prices).  Based on the note about the AT-ST , that it has a giant head, and the previous X-wing picture that was floating around I have my doubts about both of these builds.

The rest, nothing new or unique to set them apart (so far, although the Ewok being Teebo, or a new alien mould might sway me on one of them).  No special minifigures called out, bad pricing, just smart brick or comparable.  

 

Hard pass, hoping I am wrong, and the AT-ST and Tie advanced are great builds but this is a sad wave.  

 

Maybe kids will love it?

 

Edit: Between smart bricks and Mando movie sets (I am over all the Mando lego)  I may pass on everything this year (not the worst situation with some LOTR rumors, and the OOT teaser)

Edited December 3, 2025 by Lordhelmet

[TeddytheSpoon]

So these sets have low part counts AND side builds? Hmm. That doesn't fill me with confidence.

[Mandalorianknight]

21 hours ago, CallumPears said:

Yeah I really want some smaller Bespin stuff. The 2017 Carbon Freezing Chamber was great (wish it included Lando though!) and getting the various iconic scenes as smaller sets (e.g. a Tantive Hallway -style set for when they're escaping the city) or a Yavin style one (which could capture the essential stuff while being more accessible than the 2018 MBS set) would be amazing. 

Those would both be good options. A Carbon Freeze Chamber with bespin lando specifically would be a great choice because I don't think that figure's been reasonably accessible in modern design scheme. Ironically the last two of him in system sets were BOTH the 2003 look.

9 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Tie Advanced from the 2022 Trench Run Diorama 

If that's what Renown meant I'm gonna lose it.

32 minutes ago, Llewop said:

bit weird having an a wing pilot in a throne room duel. But I’ve already got most of this I presume most long term collectors have some of this wave so for me it’s a whole load of money saved for May

Preseumably there will be a mini and gross "smart" A-wing included but I will excuse this build, and this build ONLY, for the fact that intentionally or not they're representing the scene where that one A-wing pilot crashes into the executor bridge and it's somehow the straw the breaks the camel's back, causing the executor to crash into the death star.

32 minutes ago, a_clay_brick said:

All-in-one sets: (Include Smart Brick, a wireless charger, Smart Minifigures, and Smart Tags)

75421 Vader’s TIE Advanced

9 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

I am an OT fan, this wave doesn't offer anything to me.

Maybe kids will love it?

Yup. This wave is irrevocably compromised. None of these should count as "resetting the clock" on our remakes so to speak, but I have no doubt this will set the timeline back even farther on our next normal TIE Advanced. (I also think the Endor AT-ST and playset Mos Eisley were about due for a remake, but they're compromised as well.)

I just can't see that being the case either unfortunately. Almost all of lego's app-or-technology-integration effects this past decade or so have failed. Mario seems to be doing well enough, but we have no metric for how well "dumb" mario playsets would do so it's hard to compare.

 

This is almost a worst-case scenario for me. Not only is it a full wave of irrevocably compromised sets, but it sets the clock back on a number of sets I either really wanted to get normal versions of (TIE advanced) or thought could really use some solid updates (A new Endor AT-ST, a playset Mos Eisely, and an OT millenium falcon). It will now be longer still before we get actual good versions of those. Not to mention, given the literal only time lego's ever learned the correct lesson from set sales was "nobody is buying $18 mechs make them cheaper",  this will probably lead to lego thinking OT playsets won't sell and doubling down on making sure the few system sets we still get are just different sizes of clone battle packs.