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

[BrickPrick]

10 hours ago, TheScaryDoor said:

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)

Yeah, that's fair enough. 

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

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.

Didn't know the building techniques were all that different compared to play scale sets, superior even, though I suppose it makes perfect sense for a pure display model. They won't have to deal with designing actual interiors, too  Which compliments your point of lesser stability standards being needed. Due to similarities in scale, the Slave 1 might not be the first ship I would consider in terms of new additions to the Starship Collection. But it would be a valid choice nonetheless. 

 

30 days until I will be joined by the most detailed Cad Bane minifigure yet... allegedly. 

[CloneCommando99]

On the fourth day of Christmas, Lego sent to me:

Four Republic Commandos,

Three Imperial Venators,

Two KOTOR Sith 

And a TIE Avenger for free.
 

Day #248 of our noble cause. 75458 looks promising though. With a piece count of 775 and unlike the rest of the June sets, it’s not listed as M&G based.

 

 

 

 

[BrickPrick]

5 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

On the fourth day of Christmas, Lego sent to me:

Four Republic Commandos,

Three Imperial Venators,

Two KOTOR Sith 

And a TIE Avenger for free.
 

Day #248 of our noble cause. 75458 looks promising though. With a piece count of 775 and unlike the rest of the June sets, it’s not listed as M&G based.

This is certainly one demanding human being, rightfully so. 

I have been thinking about this as well. While this definitely appears to be our best bet right now, does the piece count match a potential TIE Avenger play scale set? Build-wise, I considered the best point of comparison would be 2019's Major Vonreg's TIE Fighter. Yet I was shocked to see the piece count as low as 496... Though given the fact that more modern sets contain more smaller parts, this inflated count is easily explained. And when you look at more recent releases such as the TIE Bomber (625 pieces plus side build) and the Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs. TIE Interceptor (957 pieces, I'd imagine 650+ parts reserved for the latter), you get dangerously close to them 775 pieces. So yeah, fingers crossed for sure. 

[CloneCommando99]

On the fifth day of Christmas, Lego sent to me:

Five Green Lanterns and their rings,

Four Republic Commandos,

Three Imperial Venators,

Two KOTOR Sith

and a TIE Avenger for free

(Day #249)

 

18 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

I have been thinking about this as well. While this definitely appears to be our best bet right now, does the piece count match a potential TIE Avenger play scale set? Build-wise, I considered the best point of comparison would be 2019's Major Vonreg's TIE Fighter. Yet I was shocked to see the piece count as low as 496... Though given the fact that more modern sets contain more smaller parts, this inflated count is easily explained. And when you look at more recent releases such as the TIE Bomber (625 pieces plus side build) and the Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs. TIE Interceptor (957 pieces, I'd imagine 650+ parts reserved for the latter), you get dangerously close to them 775 pieces. So yeah, fingers crossed for sure. 

What can I say? I’m ready to for my heart to be broken again.

Edited December 29, 2025 by CloneCommando99

[BrickPrick]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

On the fifth day of Christmas, Lego sent to me:

Five Green Lanterns and their rings,

Four Republic Commandos,

Three Imperial Venators,

Two KOTOR Sith

and a TIE Avenger for free

(Day #249)

 

What can I say? I’m ready to for my heart to be broken again.

Brother... We were forged in victory. A victory that ended the great purge and brought fourth the reign of the Eurobricks fleet. Born from the depths of the internet connection, rooted in the river of people's imagination, our fleet emerged out of the galactic crisis. As it grew, so too did the might of it's users. We created a world of peace, a world of freedom and justice, a world that lives in the shadow and security of our fleet. A fleet that has come to be the absolute measure of strength and power. Brother, put aside the petty grievances that have splinted us for so long. We will unite. We will stand together. And we will wipe out this TIE Avenger curse. EUROBRICKS. WILL. PREVAIL.

Edited December 29, 2025 by BrickPrick

[Kaijumeister]

On 12/27/2025 at 11:41 AM, BrickPrick said:

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. 

Yeah I can totally understand this. On one hand I can agree that Andor is largely unsuitable to base that many sets on, but on the other it would have been nice to see a little bit more coverage on it.

Whilst the mature tone of Andor largely contributes to its reduced Lego coverage, I do think this still ties into a wider issue where despite the current Star Wars canon being quite extensive now (focusing on movies, shows, and games as audiovisual source material obviously maps better to merchandise), Lego’s approach towards it still feels narrower than it should be. Even when considering that a) There is simply too much content for Lego to realistically cover and b) Not all content would translate well into sets that sell well, what we do get nonetheless seems limited and repetitive.

On 12/27/2025 at 7:08 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

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.

This speaks to my ignorance and dismissive attitude towards the Starship Collection, but I wasn’t aware its building techniques are more advanced than playscale sets and this is now something I want to keep a closer eye on. The Falcon always impressed me from its pictures but the other ships didn’t strike me as particularly impressive (although the Venator does look awesome). I guess I was wrong, although I still maintain it was incredibly underwhelming seeing the 2026 Star Wars sets unveiled at the Lego Fan Media Day in comparison to other themes.

Having built the UCS Jango’s Slave I, all I can say is wow! I owned Boba’s back in 2016 but in terms of structural integrity, detailing, and shaping, you can certainly feel 10 years of advancements in building techniques, design methodology, and new parts with Jango’s version. I remember Boba’s feeling quite fragile to move around whilst Jango’s doesn’t have that problem. What a great set and I would love to see more minifigure-scale UCS sets at the lower end of the UCS price range in the future.

Edited December 29, 2025 by Kaijumeister

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

And we will wipe out this TIE Avenger curse. EUROBRICKS. WILL. PREVAIL.

Another one successfully brainwashed to fight for our glorious cause! ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US

Can‘t wait for 75458 to be revealed as a boring remake or another Clone set  Or a buildable figure, if we‘re particularly unlucky.

[BrickPrick]

2 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Yeah I can totally understand this. On one hand I can agree that Andor is largely unsuitable to base that many sets on, but on the other it would have been nice to see a little bit more coverage on it.

Whilst the mature tone of Andor largely contributes to its reduced Lego coverage, I do think this still ties into a wider issue where despite the current Star Wars canon being quite extensive now (focusing on movies, shows, and games as audiovisual source material obviously maps better to merchandise), Lego’s approach towards it still feels narrower than it should be. Even when considering that a) There is simply too much content for Lego to realistically cover and b) Not all content would translate well into sets that sell well, what we do get nonetheless seems limited and repetitive.

Yeah, from a mere quality standpoint, Andor would have deserved everything in terms of set coverage. Thematically speaking, though, I can see the restraint to do much more than they did. Nevertheless, a sweet spot between what we've got and what could have been possible, would have been awesome to see. Still is possible, to be honest... I mean, a set like Cobb Vanth's Speeder, even if now convenient for building up some additional Mando hype, was not on my bingo card after all this time. So given certain circumstances, Lego is willing to return to some Disney+ shows to deliver some leftover sets, so let's see. 

Last but not least, in regards to the variety of additional sub-themes Lego has nowadays has to account for, those were just simpler times back then. Again, not everything was better per se... not by a long shot. But just simpler times, indeed. For a good 15 years, all you had to wrap your head around were six movies, The Clone Wars/Rebels, a little bit of The Old Republic and other occasional videogame based sets... that's basically it. 

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Another one successfully brainwashed to fight for our glorious cause! ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US

Can‘t wait for 75458 to be revealed as a boring remake or another Clone set  Or a buildable figure, if we‘re particularly unlucky.

What are you talking about? I've been a brainwashed Eurobricks citizen ever since @CloneCommando99 started this noble cause for everyone else's sake. 

Yep, everything we just discussed comes across as almost too interesting and cool. On the other hand, what you just described sounds so terrible, that you might be right. 

Edited December 29, 2025 by BrickPrick

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, BrickPrick said:

What are you talking about? I've been a brainwashed Eurobricks citizen ever since @CloneCommando99 started this noble cause for everyone else's sake. 

My apologies, I wasn't sure how long ago you've joined our noble cause  

1 hour ago, BrickPrick said:

Yep, everything we just discussed comes across as almost too interesting and cool. On the other hand, what you just described sounds so terrible, that you might be right. 

Or maybe it's another M&G set after all! I wouldn't mind that  As long as it's a playset with something new, it's all good in my book! 

[BrickPrick]

3 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

My apologies, I wasn't sure how long ago you've joined our noble cause  

Or maybe it's another M&G set after all! I wouldn't mind that  As long as it's a playset with something new, it's all good in my book! 

Ha, do not mistake my silence for lack of commitment. Not that I was THAT silent to begin with. Just not nearly as vocal as @CloneCommando99 was ever since. To be fair, nobody is. 

Oh, definitely. I take a good old/fresh feeling play scale set over nearly anything else these days! 

Though in my newly formed head canon, partially thanks to your "painfully accurate assumptions", I'm afraid it will be yet another buildable character. 

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Whilst the mature tone of Andor largely contributes to its reduced Lego coverage, I do think this still ties into a wider issue where despite the current Star Wars canon being quite extensive now (focusing on movies, shows, and games as audiovisual source material obviously maps better to merchandise), Lego’s approach towards it still feels narrower than it should be. Even when considering that a) There is simply too much content for Lego to realistically cover and b) Not all content would translate well into sets that sell well, what we do get nonetheless seems limited and repetitive.

This speaks to my ignorance and dismissive attitude towards the Starship Collection, but I wasn’t aware its building techniques are more advanced than playscale sets and this is now something I want to keep a closer eye on. The Falcon always impressed me from its pictures but the other ships didn’t strike me as particularly impressive (although the Venator does look awesome). I guess I was wrong, although I still maintain it was incredibly underwhelming seeing the 2026 Star Wars sets unveiled at the Lego Fan Media Day in comparison to other themes.

This was unfortunately always going to be an issue with how much disney's increased the content flow of movies and shows. Back before the disney era, we'd have sets based on the six movies and TCW, and if we were lucky, once in a blue moon a set or figure based on TCW 03 or EU comics. And even back then, some of the shows were completely neglected- not that I particularly wanted anything from Droids or Ewoks. But now, with nine saga movies, two-but-soon-to-be-four spinoff movies, six live-action shows, 6-10 cartoons, and just as many games, comics, and books as we got when lego had the license pre-disney, there's just too much content to cover effectively. And then it becomes a question of why take a risk on a Rogue One X-wing when the ANH version would probably sell better anyway? Why take a risk on new Kenobi or Andor sets when there's still plenty of stuff from Mando and it's spinoff they haven't covered? ...why make anything else at all when they could shovel clone battle packs down our throats? :/

As much as I love Rogue One (and think Solo was underrated) I wonder if making them shows would have helped prevent this feeling that the SW movies aren't as special anymore. Though it wouldn't fix anything in regards to lego.

I may be a victim of small sample size since I only own the falcon and have seen my friend's copies of the Executor and Invisible Hand, but those three at least are built with techniques they would not try putting in a standard system set. I'm sure it's not all of them- Kylo's shuttle and the Tantive don't seem like they required much thought- but some of the others' designs would lead me to believe they also include those techniques. 

[Darth_Bane13]

8 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

As much as I love Rogue One (and think Solo was underrated) I wonder if making them shows would have helped prevent this feeling that the SW movies aren't as special anymore. Though it wouldn't fix anything in regards to lego.

I think the countless shows have made SW as a whole feel less special. I do think a movie every year from 2015-2019 was too much though. A movie every 3 years plus animated shows, comics, books, games is the ideal amount for Star Wars content.

[Lordhelmet]

21 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I think the countless shows have made SW as a whole feel less special. I do think a movie every year from 2015-2019 was too much though. A movie every 3 years plus animated shows, comics, books, games is the ideal amount for Star Wars content.

Agreed, things were watered down too much.  We got one strong movie out of five and one and half good shows out of 7 or 8?  focusing resources to produce less but excellent content was a better choice.  Interesting note on this, there’s a store called Ollie s in the US, they basically collect everything that doesn’t sell at discount at places like Walmart and sell at a reduced amount.  I don’t think Lego has ever been in one but there were a ton of last Jedi action figures selling for $2 at one this weekend (they were not selling). Ashoka was also well represented.  To note most of the other toys were from wish, black panther two, and random other toys.  The over saturation of mediocre shows and movies leads to poor merchandise sales.  This leads me to two thoughts.  1) I am curious what Legos negotiating power is with Disney, is Lego bolstering merchandise sales for them now?  Or is Star Wars bolstering Lego sales?  Probably a combo, but not sure that it is as one sided as it was years ago.  2) Lego should be responsive to the few good things (looking at you tie avengers) more than trying to have a bunch of stuff out for new movies (I think this just means better mix of products each year with a more balanced approach vs. dedicating half of a wave to a new movie)  We will see how mando changes the landscape.

[CloneCommando99]

On the Sixth Day of Christmas Lego sent to me:

Six Consulars a praying, 

Five Green Lanterns and their rings,

Four Republic Commandos,

Three Imperial Venators,

Two KOTOR Sith,

and a TIE Avenger for free

(Day #250 of pestering everyone until a TIE Avenger is achieved)

5 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

 We will see how mando changes the landscape.

Well my prediction and attitude to Disney is basically this when it comes to M&G merch:

Any child or fan-girl who would want to buy a Grogu plushie or toy, who is evidently what the focus of merch will be on due the film’s stupid name, will have had more than five years at this point to buy one, a movie isn’t going to make them buy more in this economy. Even though Mando is exclusive to D+ the Baby Yoda became a cultural phenomenon back in the early 2020s. But despite this, as I’ve mentioned before, I volunteer in a Cancer Research charity shop, and in the past year we’ve recieved a quite a lot of sealed Baby Yoda and ST toys from donations to put on 50-75% off.

The merch sales are going to be handicapped by the fact they’ll be relying the exact same plushie that people have had the last 5 years to buy. Lego will do ok because it has more versatility, but other Toy companies are kinda screwed for the merch imo.

The same could be argued for Mando himself but to a lesser extent.

But that’s just my prediction .

5 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

This leads me to two thoughts.  1) I am curious what Legos negotiating power is with Disney, is Lego bolstering merchandise sales for them now?  Or is Star Wars bolstering Lego sales?  Probably a combo, but not sure that it is as one sided as it was years ago. 

Oh it’s definitely a combo. But it’s becoming less and less so in Lego’s favour.

Say what you want about Clone Bros, but Lego definitely rules the roost with Clone Army building. A highly profitable endeavour that only Lego is able to due to its battlepacks and cult following. You don’t see anyone army building vintage series or black series. Ironically evident that it’s leaning in Lego’s favour since Lego’s making more clone sets instead of promoting Skeleton Crew and Acolyte. I don’t think the decision to ignore what was supposed to be last year’s flagship show would have come from Disney.

Edited December 30, 2025 by CloneCommando99

[BrickPrick]

8 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I think the countless shows have made SW as a whole feel less special. I do think a movie every year from 2015-2019 was too much though. A movie every 3 years plus animated shows, comics, books, games is the ideal amount for Star Wars content.

Yeah, despite a couple of bright spots here and there, it definitely did more harm than good to the Star Wars brand as a whole... or it would have, anyways. Because the funny thing is, they initially wanted to release a new movie every freaking year for such a long time that most of us wouldn't even be able to experience them all. But after the massive box office flop that was the Solo movie, they changed course rather quickly. And switched things up to TV shows in order to feed their freshly established Disney+ subscription service.

Like good old George once said... "I sold it (his baby) to the white slavers who do that thing." 

Edited December 30, 2025 by BrickPrick

[Lordhelmet]

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Say what you want about Clone Bros, but Lego definitely rules the roost with Clone Army building. A highly profitable endeavour that only Lego is able to due to its battlepacks and cult following. You don’t see anyone army building vintage series or black series. Ironically evident that it’s leaning in Lego’s favour since Lego’s making more clone sets instead of promoting Skeleton Crew and Acolyte. I don’t think the decision to ignore what was supposed to be last year’s flagship show would have come from Disney.

This is a good point, the clone army building options the last few years have been significant (no matter how many complaints about the helmets and prints there have been it has not seems to hurt the sales).  Clones army building has shaped the current landscape substantially.

 

[Kit Figsto]

I was just at Target today and was in the LEGO aisle looking at the post-Christmas carnage.  What was really interesting is that at both the location I was at, as well as another location that I visited two days ago, the aisles were completely bare save for some of the black-box 18+ stuff and a few random sets here and there.  The main exception that I saw today?  The 2025 Star Wars wave.  They had probably 15 of the Hot Rod Snowspeeder, 2-3 each of the MTT and CTT, about 8 V-19s, and a handful of Jango ships.  

My hope is that this is due to people not buying because of insane pricing.  I've said many times, I'm not against downscaling (the 2021 X-Wing/TIE were great in that regard) but we can't also be jacking the prices up to insane values and still expect customers to buy it.

[BrickPrick]

On 12/29/2025 at 1:59 PM, Kaijumeister said:

Having built the UCS Jango’s Slave I, all I can say is wow! I owned Boba’s back in 2016 but in terms of structural integrity, detailing, and shaping, you can certainly feel 10 years of advancements in building techniques, design methodology, and new parts with Jango’s version. I remember Boba’s feeling quite fragile to move around whilst Jango’s doesn’t have that problem. What a great set and I would love to see more minifigure-scale UCS sets at the lower end of the UCS price range in the future.

Before I forget, reading this made me quite happy for you, man. It must have been quite the Christmas treat building this beauty from start to finish. I don't have any UCS sets at my disposal. Or any 18+ sets (except the MBS Cantina) for that matter. But I said to myself, if I ever get to own one, it will be Jango's Slave 1. 

 

On another note, I was lucky enough to get one of the most recent Lego Star Wars Magazines featuring the Clone Pilot. Now a little tempted to rip open that minifigure bag and replace the very old version with it. But given I get that figure soon-ish anyways, I'll best be off saving it for family, as intended. 

Edited December 30, 2025 by BrickPrick

[Mandalorianknight]

17 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I think the countless shows have made SW as a whole feel less special. I do think a movie every year from 2015-2019 was too much though. A movie every 3 years plus animated shows, comics, books, games is the ideal amount for Star Wars content.

The live-action shows definitely have as well, but I think the movies contributed even more. We've had shows before- we've had live-action content outside the saga films before- but they were mostly forgotten. TCW stayed by virtue of how long it ran and how it redeemed the prequels, but most of the rest faded into the background, and I think the movies would still have felt special if we didn't drop five of them in five years.

I'd go so far as to say the best move would be a movie every 3 years for a trilogy, then a decade-long gap between trilogies. You want to explore other genres/lower scales like Mando or Starfighter, that's where the live-action shows would go.

16 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

Agreed, things were watered down too much.  We got one strong movie out of five and one and half good shows out of 7 or 8?  focusing resources to produce less but excellent content was a better choice.  Interesting note on this, there’s a store called Ollie s in the US, they basically collect everything that doesn’t sell at discount at places like Walmart and sell at a reduced amount.  I don’t think Lego has ever been in one but there were a ton of last Jedi action figures selling for $2 at one this weekend (they were not selling). Ashoka was also well represented.  To note most of the other toys were from wish, black panther two, and random other toys.  The over saturation of mediocre shows and movies leads to poor merchandise sales.  This leads me to two thoughts.  1) I am curious what Legos negotiating power is with Disney, is Lego bolstering merchandise sales for them now?  Or is Star Wars bolstering Lego sales?  Probably a combo, but not sure that it is as one sided as it was years ago.  2) Lego should be responsive to the few good things (looking at you tie avengers) more than trying to have a bunch of stuff out for new movies (I think this just means better mix of products each year with a more balanced approach vs. dedicating half of a wave to a new movie)  We will see how mando changes the landscape.

I gotta know where your Ollies is, the ones I go to don't have any Ahsoka merch besides the monopoly game and those weird montral headbands (And believe me- I look for Ahsoka show merch every time I go). Most of the rest is the same though. Still a TON of figures from last jedi, plenty of stuff from Kenobi and other TbobF shows, to @CloneCommando99's point a surprisingly large amount of Mando merch, and we started getting some Acolyte stuff in now that the retailers have finally given up. (I don't look at stuff like Wish, but in terms of marvel most of it is Black Panther ll, Eternals, What If, and some BNW stuff trickling in as retailers realize it's not going to sell)

In terms of lego, the only official set I've ever seen at Ollies is the young jedi temple one, and even then it was only like 30% off. (And some of the books with minifigures- always check the book aisle, I haven't seen any star wars ones yet but you can get a fig for like $3)

11 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The merch sales are going to be handicapped by the fact they’ll be relying the exact same plushie that people have had the last 5 years to buy. Lego will do ok because it has more versatility, but other Toy companies are kinda screwed for the merch imo.

Say what you want about Clone Bros, but Lego definitely rules the roost with Clone Army building. A highly profitable endeavour that only Lego is able to due to its battlepacks and cult following. You don’t see anyone army building vintage series or black series. Ironically evident that it’s leaning in Lego’s favour since Lego’s making more clone sets instead of promoting Skeleton Crew and Acolyte. I don’t think the decision to ignore what was supposed to be last year’s flagship show would have come from Disney.

This is a BIG issue for lego. Baby Yoda was already getting diminishing returns- the last statue has been heavily discounted already, and if you look on bricklink, even the statue from 2021 routinely goes for like $20 complete, which is absurdly low.

Yeah- I think Lego has a lot of freedom in terms of what they do. It's also clear that while they make a lot of baffling choices (and I think we're starting to see the clones become oversaturated), lego obviously does have some marketing sense (Though I feel like everyone saw Acolyte coming, I don't know how much credit I can give them for dodging that bullet, especially when they turn around after and make a $140 set for the live-action series most aimed at kids).

6 minutes ago, Kit Figsto said:

I was just at Target today and was in the LEGO aisle looking at the post-Christmas carnage.  What was really interesting is that at both the location I was at, as well as another location that I visited two days ago, the aisles were completely bare save for some of the black-box 18+ stuff and a few random sets here and there.  The main exception that I saw today?  The 2025 Star Wars wave.  They had probably 15 of the Hot Rod Snowspeeder, 2-3 each of the MTT and CTT, about 8 V-19s, and a handful of Jango ships.  

My hope is that this is due to people not buying because of insane pricing.  I've said many times, I'm not against downscaling (the 2021 X-Wing/TIE were great in that regard) but we can't also be jacking the prices up to insane values and still expect customers to buy it.

This is almost 1:1 with what I've been seeing. Either we go to the same Targets or this is a nationwide issue.

Yup. You get one or the other, you can't have both.

5 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

Before I forget, reading this made me quite happy for you, man. It must have been quite the Christmas treat building this beauty from start to finish. I don't have any UCS sets at my disposal. Or any 18+ sets (except the MBS Cantina) for that matter. But I said to myself, if I ever get to own one, it will be Jango's Slave 1. 

I was the same with Boba's for awhile, before I got a good deal on the AT-AT by selling some other sets. You'll pick up Jango's Slave One eventually, I'm sure.

[BrickPrick]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I was the same with Boba's for awhile, before I got a good deal on the AT-AT by selling some other sets. You'll pick up Jango's Slave One eventually, I'm sure.

Oh man... The UCS AT-AT is such a heavy hitter as well. I remember it took them quite a while to figure out the stability for the legs and all. And to pull it off like that, despite maybe being slightly top-heavy, with a fully designed interior fitting all those troops, whew... it truly is a sight to behold. 

As for my case, well, it heavily depends on both the set's lifetime and on personal spacing. But yeah... after the MBS Cantina, this would be another dream come true. When in landing position, the design of the Slave 1 always reminds me of an iron. You know... the one for clothes, the Bügeleisen? 

 

Just a couple days back, when I finally finished cleaning up all my Star Wars minifigs, I re-counted them as well. So after eight full years of collecting, it has technically been a decade since my first sets after childhood, if I remember correctly, I currently have 316 unique figures, including a couple (brick-built) droids and 139 generic troops for a grand total of 455 figures. Not too shabby, but there's still lots to be done there. 

Edited December 31, 2025 by BrickPrick

[Kaijumeister]

6 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Before I forget, reading this made me quite happy for you, man. It must have been quite the Christmas treat building this beauty from start to finish. I don't have any UCS sets at my disposal. Or any 18+ sets (except the MBS Cantina) for that matter. But I said to myself, if I ever get to own one, it will be Jango's Slave 1.

I appreciate that bud! I have my fingers crossed for you that you’ll rack up a UCS collection in due course too. It’s a bit of a wish fulfilment for me as I never could get any large LEGO Star Wars sets as a kid so being able to do so now genuinely feels wonderful. I just wish we had more minifigure-scaled UCS sets at lower price points.

@Mandalorianknight Totally agree content saturation is a thing with Star Wars now and Lego are *somewhat* justified in playing it safe. I just wish this didn’t preclude them from finally covering things that have demonstrated to be popular - a small set with Qimir and Sol from the Acolyte for instance, despite being based on a failed show, would doubtless sell well. As would a highly requested ship with a humungous wing from a highly popular canon video game series, or a certain Haulcraft from a niche spy thriller. Sure Lego would miss out on synchronising such sets whilst their subject matters are at the peak of fandom consciousness, but the demand is still there for stuff that they just seem to turn a blind eye to.

With 2025 drawing to a close, it’d be fun reflecting on how this theme has fared this year. Here are my thoughts:

The Good 

- UCS Jango’s Slave I. Enough said!

- The introduction of the £60 ‘ship with three minifigures (and a droid if applicable)’ price point. The ARC-170, U-Wing, Slave I, and V-19 are  all top-notch Lego Star Wars sets. I would love this trend continuing for subsequent years as I feel this is the best price point in the theme at the moment.

- Highly requested characters like Plo Koon, General Kenobi, Phase 1 Clone Pilot, and various clones finally being represented in Lego form either for the first time entirely, or the first time in modern Lego Star Wars.

- A fantastic array of buildable characters. Whilst I’m not a fan of the sheer quantity, there is no denying their quality for the most part.

The Bad

- The  aggressive reduction in playscale sets to appeal to the 18+ ‘I’m too embarrassed to buy a Lego set’ crowd, coupled with the excessive number of buildable characters (5 in one year!). Brickset has an interesting article on this from June, and it gives me some hope that even LAN members are seeing and pointing this out.

- The further dilution of playscale sets across normal playsets / battle packs, mechs, and microfighters, coupled with a focus on clone sets. This wouldn’t be such an issue if playscale sets weren’t sparse. 

- Lego finally revisiting the Sequel Trilogy, only to produce a sub-par helmet relying on prints for textured detail and very mid midi-scale set. Not having even just one set with some core ST minifigures is a shame, and next year’s BB-8 even having the old 2015 Kylo Ren minifigure on the box art shows an almost ironic lack of self awareness.

- The again, aggressive reduction in ‘volume of stuff’ (as coined by Jangbricks) that we get with sets with respect to increasing prices. It’s one thing to raise prices to outpace inflation, but severely reducing piece counts etc. at the same time is a shame. The Lego Star Wars Team are trying to have their cake and eat it too as has already been pointed out above.

My main hope for 2026 is that the Smart Brick sets aren’t Lego’s way of introducing ‘more’ playscale sets again. My hopes lie with the Mandalorian and Grogu wave and the 2HY offerings, and I’m hoping the Smart Brick sets have some merit to them despite how they’re sounding so far.

Edited December 31, 2025 by Kaijumeister

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Oh man... The UCS AT-AT is such a heavy hitter as well. I remember it took them quite a while to figure out the stability for the legs and all. And to pull it off like that, despite maybe being slightly top-heavy, with a fully designed interior fitting all those troops, whew... it truly is a sight to behold. 

As for my case, well, it heavily depends on both the set's lifetime and on personal spacing. But yeah... after the MBS Cantina, this would be another dream come true. When in landing position, the design of the Slave 1 always reminds me of an iron. You know... the one for clothes, the Bügeleisen? 

 

Just a couple days back, when I finally finished cleaning up all my Star Wars minifigs, I re-counted them as well. So after eight full years of collecting, it has technically been a decade since my first sets after childhood, if I remember correctly, I currently have 316 unique figures, including a couple (brick-built) droids and 139 generic troops for a grand total of 455 figures. Not too shabby, but there's still lots to be done there. 

It is. It's one of my favorite sets- the size is very imposing- about the size of my dog- and the ability to fill it up with figures really sells the figure-scale. I love sets that feel complete in that manner, like here's where the speeders go, here's where the troopers go, etc.

You've luckily got some time there, UCS sets usually last a good few years unless they're selling really poorly. I agree- definitely looks like an iron.

I thought I would check this- I have ~30 back at my apartment so I can't give the 1:1, but I have roughly 500 SW minifigures (all official lego, but many of them being purist customs- I have a good 30 or so generic aliens and civilians that are kitbashed from other themes' figures). Some of my highlights:

77 Mandalorians (This counts my named mandalorians as well, so 3 Dins, 3 Bobas, 2 Sabines, and then The Armorer, Paz, purist custom Bo and Jango, etc): Shocking, I know, you'd never guess from my name and profile picture that I like mandalorians. Despite this, I don't actually have every mandalorian- I don't have the full official figures for Jango and Bo, and I don't own Gar Saxon, the torso of the 2013 mauldalorian (Though I have a TON of their helmets from a bricklink store that was selling them cheap), or most of the rare bobas.

33 Rebel Fleet Troopers (23 of the 2008 version and 10 of the 2024 version): My favorite rebel design, and they used to be dirt-cheap to army build the 2008 version.

139 Clone Troopers (Counting named clones like Rex, Fives, the Bad Batch, Cody, etc- a big part of this is an order of multiple battle packs I made that lego accidentally duplicated, as well as the fact I wouldn't accept payment for helping a friend of mine with a physics class so she decided to just give me copies of the 501st specialist pack instead): Never let it be said that I don't like clones, just that I don't want them to be every other set we get.

1 hour ago, Kaijumeister said:

I appreciate that bud! I have my fingers crossed for you that you’ll rack up a UCS collection in due course too. It’s a bit of a wish fulfilment for me as I never could get any large LEGO Star Wars sets as a kid so being able to do so now genuinely feels wonderful. I just wish we had more minifigure-scaled UCS sets at lower price points.

@Mandalorianknight Totally agree content saturation is a thing with Star Wars now and Lego are *somewhat* justified in playing it safe. I just wish this didn’t preclude them from finally covering things that have demonstrated to be popular - a small set with Qimir and Sol from the Acolyte for instance, despite being based on a failed show, would doubtless sell well. As would a highly requested ship with a humungous wing from a highly popular canon video game series, or a certain Haulcraft from a niche spy thriller. Sure Lego would miss out on synchronising such sets whilst their subject matters are at the peak of fandom consciousness, but the demand is still there for stuff that they just seem to turn a blind eye to.

With 2025 drawing to a close, it’d be fun reflecting on how this theme has fared this year. Here are my thoughts:

The Good 

- UCS Jango’s Slave I. Enough said!

- The introduction of the £60 ‘ship with three minifigures (and a droid if applicable)’ price point. The ARC-170, U-Wing, Slave I, and V-19 are  all top-notch Lego Star Wars sets. I would love this trend continuing for subsequent years as I feel this is the best price point in the theme at the moment.

- Highly requested characters like Plo Koon, General Kenobi, Phase 1 Clone Pilot, and various clones finally being represented in Lego form either for the first time entirely, or the first time in modern Lego Star Wars.

- A fantastic array of buildable characters. Whilst I’m not a fan of the sheer quantity, there is no denying their quality for the most part.

The Bad

- The  aggressive reduction in playscale sets to appeal to the 18+ ‘I’m too embarrassed to buy a Lego set’ crowd, coupled with the excessive number of buildable characters (5 in one year!). Brickset has an interesting article on this from June, and it gives me some hope that even LAN members are seeing and pointing this out.

- The further dilution of playscale sets across normal playsets / battle packs, mechs, and microfighters, coupled with a focus on clone sets. This wouldn’t be such an issue if playscale sets weren’t sparse. 

- Lego finally revisiting the Sequel Trilogy, only to produce a sub-par helmet relying on prints for textured detail and very mid midi-scale set. Not having even just one set with some core ST minifigures is a shame, and next year’s BB-8 even having the old 2015 Kylo Ren minifigure on the box art shows an almost ironic lack of self awareness.

- The again, aggressive reduction in ‘volume of stuff’ (as coined by Jangbricks) that we get with sets with respect to increasing prices. It’s one thing to raise prices to outpace inflation, but severely reducing piece counts etc. at the same time is a shame. The Lego Star Wars Team are trying to have their cake and eat it too as has already been pointed out above.

My main hope for 2026 is that the Smart Brick sets aren’t Lego’s way of introducing ‘more’ playscale sets again. My hopes lie with the Mandalorian and Grogu wave and the 2HY offerings, and I’m hoping the Smart Brick sets have some merit to them despite how they’re sounding so far.

I like this, this is a good way of looking at this:

The good:

-Plenty of long-requested characters appeared or were updated. Our first ever Bacara, Bly, Galactic Marine, Babu Frik, and the Eternal Emperor outfit for palpatine. Even more obscure ones like Lama Su or the Purple Hat Man. Long-off-shelves requested characters like Jango, Plo, K-2SO, Colonel Yularen, Ventress, Clone Wars Obi-Wan, and the Clone Pilot (Take your pick of the four). And the Night Trooper became army-buildable.

-The $50-70 ship with 3-4 figures price point, as you say. The one real bright spot left in the theme's playset rollout, with pretty much no misses (aside from the Slave One not really fitting the price point, but it's still a competent set)

-The best holiday selection for the theme. Ever. The Gingerbread AT-AT is an excellent, whimsical set, and the Advent Calendar, while light on figs, finally broke the mold to be a themed calendar not reliant on a ton of microbuilds and actually created a figure-scale build with FIFTEEN droids (counting the battle droid that can be fully built from different days' part bins).

-Lego remembered the sequels exist. Not everyone likes them, but they ARE a third of the saga, and have plenty of cool designs that would make great sets. A Black One remake is one of the few sets left that would be a day-one buy from me even in this state of the theme.

The bad:

-Disgusting prices, specifically the battle pack price creep. Ahsoka's Interceptor heralded this in, but I'd say it's most egregiously shown off by the 327th pack- 50% more expensive than what is essentially the same type and value of set from just a year ago.

-Quality slip. The house-of-cards juggernaut displays this best, but print quality and sprue marks continue to become worse instead of better as lego's QC department seems to be apathetic.

-As you say, the continued loss of normal, system, lego PLAYSETS at the expensive of gimmicks. Whether it's mechs and microfighters, 18+ sets, or the godforsaken smart sets, we get fewer and fewer playsets.

-Going hand in hand with that last one, the clone domination of the few playsets we get. The majority of playsets this year were clone-related, and this marks the first time in a quarter-century, since almost the start of the theme, that there were no OT imperial troopers of any sort in system sets this year. That is extremely concerning. Nor could any system sets get you Luke, Han, Leia, Chewie, Vader, Lando, Palpatine, Yoda, or the like. Since 2026 appears to be curling the monkey's paw and making the OT sets all smartslop, there's a real solid chance that by mid-2026, anyone wanting a normal, "dumb" version of any of the main cast of the OT will- I believe for the first time- be entirely out of luck. And it's not just the OT- The sequel trilogy may be remembered now, but we didn't get any minifigure sets, so any kids wanting Rey or Kylo or Poe or Finn are out of luck. Even the prequels aren't safe if they aren't fighting alongside the clones- Dooku's absence isn't anything new, but this is the longest Grievous has ever been off shelves.

The ugly:

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[CloneCommando99]

On the Seventh Day of Christmas Lego sent to me

The 7th Fleet a scheming

Six Consulars a praying, 

Five Green Lanterns and their rings,

Four Republic Commandos,

Three Imperial Venators,

Two KOTOR Sith,

and a TIE Avenger for free

(Day #251)

[BrickBob Studpants]

11 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

I currently have 316 unique figures, including a couple (brick-built) droids and 139 generic troops for a grand total of 455 figures.

I assume you looked it up on Brickset? If so, is there a way to factor in duplicates?  According to Brickset, I have 1406 SW minifigs, but when looking at smaller themes, I think that‘s „only“ the unique minifigs, ignoring the duplicates. 

[BrickPrick]

Eurobricks K-Knight. Not the worst thing in the world to end the year on a new title. Right now I picture myself as Starkiller getting crowned as apprentice by Vader after the opening of The Force Unleashed. Only question is... who is gonna be the Darth for this one? 

19 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I appreciate that bud! I have my fingers crossed for you that you’ll rack up a UCS collection in due course too. It’s a bit of a wish fulfilment for me as I never could get any large LEGO Star Wars sets as a kid so being able to do so now genuinely feels wonderful. I just wish we had more minifigure-scaled UCS sets at lower price points.

Haha, UCS collection? Easy there, space cowboy, I'm only here for Jango's Slave 1. 

Although I did say something similar when dreaming about the MBS Cantina, so who know's what the future holds. 

Well, more than enough larger set options to choose from nowadays, I suppose. Though I agree the pricing for clearly different scaled UCS sets should be a lot more flexible. A freaking UCS Landspeeder should not be priced the same as an actual X-Wing. Stuff like this really highlights the problem with pre-determinded price points. 

17 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It is. It's one of my favorite sets- the size is very imposing- about the size of my dog- and the ability to fill it up with figures really sells the figure-scale. I love sets that feel complete in that manner, like here's where the speeders go, here's where the troopers go, etc.

You've luckily got some time there, UCS sets usually last a good few years unless they're selling really poorly. I agree- definitely looks like an iron.

77 Mandalorians (This counts my named mandalorians as well, so 3 Dins, 3 Bobas, 2 Sabines, and then The Armorer, Paz, purist custom Bo and Jango, etc): Shocking, I know, you'd never guess from my name and profile picture that I like mandalorians. Despite this, I don't actually have every mandalorian- I don't have the full official figures for Jango and Bo, and I don't own Gar Saxon, the torso of the 2013 mauldalorian (Though I have a TON of their helmets from a bricklink store that was selling them cheap), or most of the rare bobas.

33 Rebel Fleet Troopers (23 of the 2008 version and 10 of the 2024 version): My favorite rebel design, and they used to be dirt-cheap to army build the 2008 version.

139 Clone Troopers (Counting named clones like Rex, Fives, the Bad Batch, Cody, etc- a big part of this is an order of multiple battle packs I made that lego accidentally duplicated, as well as the fact I wouldn't accept payment for helping a friend of mine with a physics class so she decided to just give me copies of the 501st specialist pack instead): Never let it be said that I don't like clones, just that I don't want them to be every other set we get.

Yes, truly most impressive. And it's funny you would mention the size comparison with your dog. I said the same thing about mine but with the 2020 play scale AT-AT. Ultimately, doggo still had it dwarfed quite considerably when standing up. However, as far as the UCS one is concerned, I definitely wouldn't be so sure. 

Yeah, I figured I've probably got at least two years to get it before officially retirement. Need to check how the UCS Gunship did and when it went EOL; might be a valid point of comparison, if only because of it's OT, uh, I mean PT heritage. 

Oh no, I never would have guessed you had a thing or two left for Mandalorians, Mando man. So glad you finally cleared this one up. 

I have a whopping four (!!!!) Rebel Fleet Troopers. One of the old 2008 ones, the remaining three are the updated 2019 and onward ones. In terms of pure troops, when compared to the Empire, the Separatists and the Republic, the Rebel Scum TM is now by far my smallest main fraction. I find their lack of overall presence in the last couple of years disturbing. 

Including the Bad Batch, I've got to be in the three digits area for Clones as well by now. And just like you said... I love my Clones as much as the next person who grew up as a tiny toddler with the prequels. I just don't like the ongoing overkill... especially at the expense of certain quality standards. 

11 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I assume you looked it up on Brickset? If so, is there a way to factor in duplicates?  According to Brickset, I have 1406 SW minifigs, but when looking at smaller themes, I think that‘s „only“ the unique minifigs, ignoring the duplicates. 

No, I actually counted them one by one by myself. Though I need to check again for the actual precise numbers. Think I am shy of ten minifigs or so. In terms of defining "unique minifigs", other than taking the official way where every tiny little printed detail already is enough to make up a new variant, everyone probably got an own way of thinking about it. Mine is... complicated, to say the least. 

 

What I will say in addition is the overwhelming majority of my minifigures, except just a couple of those Magazines for a little bit of boosting, came from different sets. There are no duplicates for army building purposes, which puts the total amount a little bit into perspective. =)

Edited December 31, 2025 by BrickPrick