LEGO Star Wars Set Discussion 2026 - READ FIRST POST!!!

[Kaijumeister]

@CloneCommando99 A true piece of art good sir. “On your left-I mean right.”

The Sandcrawler sketch does look really good. I’d love to see them tackle the Kuiil mould again given that the original one in the UCS Din Djarin’s Starship looked really off, but that’s definitely not happening. I understand making the vehicle grey for accuracy but this also highlights how grey pretty much dominates most of TMaG / Mando sets this year. At least the packaging is colourful.

YouTube reviews for the Genius Brick sets are trickling out too now. It’s definitely…interesting seeing them in action.

Edited Thursday at 09:45 PM by Kaijumeister

[Alex_South]

13 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

First the TIE Avenger and now this. Did Lego hire JJ Abrams?

i bet they will make that variant eventually, but I am ready to be let down because Lego would make it only seat 1 fig and it's supposed to have room for several. The design is still cool but my favorite part about that ship was the interior space for hyperspace travel.

 

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I personally wasn't a fan of that build- IMO the large molded chunks don't mesh well with the bricks.

yeah, I don't know much about creature builds, I just hope it looks good, if they are going to go through the trouble of doing the Mudhorn I sorta think they ought to do it right.

3 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

This has been on my mind as well. They may mould the head and the rest of the body will be brick-built, like the did for Fluffy from Lego Harry Potter in 2021.

That's another great example, there are just so many ways it could go.

 

I don't have a preference but I really hope it looks good, the Mudhorn is arguably the most character-significant monster in Star Wars. Din's whole journey is based on that encounter, so I hope Lego actually tries. I know that Luke and the rancor is iconic because it's OT, but in-universe luke never got a tattoo of it and made his entire career about that defining moment. I like what the mudhorn represents. It contrasts against how often Din wins his fights. The mudhorn was the moment he was without a doubt beaten and 100% would have died unless he had his "clan" with him, fate literally told him, "Din the solo bounty hunter is dead, you are part of a clan now" and as grogu's story continues, potentially past Din into new post ST eras that symbol and underlying message are going to become even more iconic. I know at its core it's just "The power of friendship" but it's done in a way that makes it cool, the idea of the clan symbol being a foe so great it took a clan to defeat it, a clan of 2 haha. It does make me wonder if we are going to see anyone else added to the clan. That's also my favorite episode of Mando, I love the Jawa wackiness. I am doing my best to talk myself out of the 200$ set so I tell myself if the Mudhorn build sucks I am out haha.

[BrickPrick]

4 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Yeah I suppose it is, I first noticed it happening to LSW in 2022 with the Hoth Rebel Pack. I've seen it get worse every year since, it seems like they have to fulfil a DEI quota with minifigs. If you want to argue it doesn't matter for kids sets, that's fine, but adult sets should prioritize accuracy first and foremost.

That's the thing, I don't even value accuracy in terms of minifigure details as much as some of you guys do. Creative freedom can be a good thing to some extent. However, to act like the Empire is this diverse, tolerant group of people and operates regardless of gender and skin tone, all these decades later because the world is apparently now "progressive" enough to artificially create and execute these arbitrary agendas, despite the source material clearly stating otherwise, then it can be annoying as heck. On one hand, I shouldn't care all that much, because I display Stormies with helmets on all the time anyways. But on the other hand, 99 % of people will do so too. Which gives you all the more reason to not waste precious resources on any of that stuff. Like you said, there should be a difference between a somewhat affordable play set aimed primarily at kids and a very expensive adult oriented display model. Look at how much efforts they put into all these different unnamed Imperials in the UCS Death Star, while the named ones were left in the dust as far as much more crucial decorations go. Someone at Lego should get their priorities right. The design decisions have to be more sensible and need to make more sense for the people you ask to purchase something you position as a $1000 premium product. 

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

We have this discussion every time it happens, but yeah, this is the dichotomy at play. For people who have been collecting for decades and/or have enough to buy every set when it comes out, the new color scheme is nice, but for the people that doesn't apply to it feels like a misstep.

While this ever so rarely has stopped me from voicing my personal standpoints, I may be in the absolute minority here... I don't mind the more obscure variants, despite not owning any of the original more iconic designed vehicles. I didn't mind the fresh coat of paint for the Coruscant Guard Gunship. I won't mind that for the Speratist MTT and new Mando Sandcrawler. I dunno... I just can't be really bothered with that. My general satisfaction of finally getting any desired variant of an iconic Lego Star Wars set at all may outweight any concern of it not being the most popular one. Though I can still definitely get behind people's desire of wanting exactly that first and foremost after waiting for it all this time. 

3 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

 

YouTube reviews for the Genius Brick sets are trickling out too now. It’s definitely…interesting seeing them in action.

Interesting is such an interesting word to describe even the worst stuff out there in a very polite manner. 

1 hour ago, Alex_South said:

That's another great example, there are just so many ways it could go.

Yeah, I'm just glad we get muddy Mando at last. Nothing could have prepared me for the potential "well, this is him before fighting the Mudhorn" Lego PR on why they just included the regular Mando minifigure. 

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, Alex_South said:

yeah, I don't know much about creature builds, I just hope it looks good, if they are going to go through the trouble of doing the Mudhorn I sorta think they ought to do it right.

I don't have a preference but I really hope it looks good, the Mudhorn is arguably the most character-significant monster in Star Wars. Din's whole journey is based on that encounter, so I hope Lego actually tries. I know that Luke and the rancor is iconic because it's OT, but in-universe luke never got a tattoo of it and made his entire career about that defining moment. I like what the mudhorn represents. It contrasts against how often Din wins his fights. The mudhorn was the moment he was without a doubt beaten and 100% would have died unless he had his "clan" with him, fate literally told him, "Din the solo bounty hunter is dead, you are part of a clan now" and as grogu's story continues, potentially past Din into new post ST eras that symbol and underlying message are going to become even more iconic. I know at its core it's just "The power of friendship" but it's done in a way that makes it cool, the idea of the clan symbol being a foe so great it took a clan to defeat it, a clan of 2 haha. It does make me wonder if we are going to see anyone else added to the clan. That's also my favorite episode of Mando, I love the Jawa wackiness. I am doing my best to talk myself out of the 200$ set so I tell myself if the Mudhorn build sucks I am out haha.

Yeah. I think it can be made well brick-built since it's pretty big, but we'll see.

I really like this analysis, it's a neat way of looking at it.

Regarding that last bit about adding anyone into the clan, in early mando S2 with all the "mandalorian is a creed, not a people" theming and the buildup towards removing his helmet, I thought after baby yoda was captured, there'd be a scene where Din confronted the armorer about what it meant to be a mandalorian. Since their covert was wiped out and she didn't have the numbers to help him, she wouldn't want to, and he'd give a speech about what it meant to be a mandalorian to convince her to make new armor sets. Than we'd get a scene where all his allies- Cara, Greef, Cobb, etc- get their own armor and help him, Boba, and Bo save Baby Yoda.

It would have done a few things (Capped off "what it means to be a mandalorian" better than I think S3 did, actually show some growth for the armorer, and I think there's a neat dichotomy in the final fight being extremely armored dark troopers vs similarly armored mandalorian armor users. Gideon's army would be built by him, where Mando's would be the friends he gained. And as much as I love the scene where Luke appears, this would avoid the deus ex machina of him being the one to defeat all the dark troopers.)

3 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

@CloneCommando99 A true piece of art good sir. “On your left-I mean right.”

I didn't realize this was day #300, I got a present for @CloneCommando99:

[Llewop]

Having seen pictures of the F1 helmets I do feel Lego have shafted SW again. First Sauron helmet has a minifigure, now the F1 helmets have figures. Just shows it is possible and Lego have chosen all these years not to include one. Even though 90% of the helmets all have figures that are accessible (accept for probs p1 Cody) it would still add something to all these sets. 

[MKJoshA]

18 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Why are so many Lego Imperial officers, Stormtroopers, and Rebel troopers so diverse with women and POC? The Death Star set for example is pretty ridiculous, it's clearly not accurate to what we see in the movies. Are we really prioritizing diversity over accuracy? 

Hollywood has been prioritizing diversity over accuracy for years now. It's a divisive subject online and I request that we leave it at that. It's a valid topic of conversation since TLG is including it in their sets. But for sake of peace and harmony as we discuss together on Eurobricks we need to save that discussion for PMs or other channels. 

[CloneCommando99]

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I didn't realize this was day #300, I got a present for @CloneCommando99:

Oh my… I think I’ve found my lantern failsafe construct. On day #301 of the crusade.

6 hours ago, Llewop said:

Having seen pictures of the F1 helmets I do feel Lego have shafted SW again. First Sauron helmet has a minifigure, now the F1 helmets have figures. Just shows it is possible and Lego have chosen all these years not to include one. Even though 90% of the helmets all have figures that are accessible (accept for probs p1 Cody) it would still add something to all these sets. 

Boushh would have been a bit more problematic, but yeah. 5 years of helmet sets and we got scammed.

 

Soooooo… is Rebuild The Galaxy going to have a 3rd season this year? We’re this close to a Mara Jade appearance. And perhaps a back door TIE Avenger set.

Edited 12 hours ago by CloneCommando99

[Murdoch17]

47 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Soooooo… is Rebuild The Galaxy going to have a 3rd season this year? We’re this close to a Mara Jade appearance. And perhaps a back door TIE Avenger set.

I sincerely hope it gets a third season!

Edited 11 hours ago by Murdoch17

[Darth_Bane13]

11 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

That's the thing, I don't even value accuracy in terms of minifigure details as much as some of you guys do. Creative freedom can be a good thing to some extent. However, to act like the Empire is this diverse, tolerant group of people and operates regardless of gender and skin tone, all these decades later because the world is apparently now "progressive" enough to artificially create and execute these arbitrary agendas, despite the source material clearly stating otherwise, then it can be annoying as heck. On one hand, I shouldn't care all that much, because I display Stormies with helmets on all the time anyways. But on the other hand, 99 % of people will do so too. Which gives you all the more reason to not waste precious resources on any of that stuff. Like you said, there should be a difference between a somewhat affordable play set aimed primarily at kids and a very expensive adult oriented display model. Look at how much efforts they put into all these different unnamed Imperials in the UCS Death Star, while the named ones were left in the dust as far as much more crucial decorations go. Someone at Lego should get their priorities right. The design decisions have to be more sensible and need to make more sense for the people you ask to purchase something you position as a $1000 premium product. 

Well said.

2 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Hollywood has been prioritizing diversity over accuracy for years now. It's a divisive subject online and I request that we leave it at that. It's a valid topic of conversation since TLG is including it in their sets. But for sake of peace and harmony as we discuss together on Eurobricks we need to save that discussion for PMs or other channels. 

I wont bring it up again.

[BrickPrick]

3 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Hollywood has been prioritizing diversity over accuracy for years now. It's a divisive subject online and I request that we leave it at that. It's a valid topic of conversation since TLG is including it in their sets. But for sake of peace and harmony as we discuss together on Eurobricks we need to save that discussion for PMs or other channels. 

From now on, I will no longer speak about any of this stuff in here as well. 

1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Well said.

I kinda wish I didn't. 

 

Going from the Sandcrawler sketches, what size are we expecting the new one to be? Contrary to Lego's ongoing mantra of downscaling sets in favor of improved design and stability, I'm under the impression it looks a little larger or at least the same scale as the 2018 one. The fact the Mando version is supposed to include 400+ pieces compared to the last one doesn't have to mean much when you factor in both the Mudhorn and more modern building techniques consisting of many small pieces. 

[Alex_South]

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Regarding that last bit about adding anyone into the clan, in early mando S2 with all the "mandalorian is a creed, not a people" theming and the buildup towards removing his helmet, I thought after baby yoda was captured, there'd be a scene where Din confronted the armorer about what it meant to be a mandalorian. Since their covert was wiped out and she didn't have the numbers to help him, she wouldn't want to, and he'd give a speech about what it meant to be a mandalorian to convince her to make new armor sets. Than we'd get a scene where all his allies- Cara, Greef, Cobb, etc- get their own armor and help him, Boba, and Bo save Baby Yoda.

It would have done a few things (Capped off "what it means to be a mandalorian" better than I think S3 did, actually show some growth for the armorer, and I think there's a neat dichotomy in the final fight being extremely armored dark troopers vs similarly armored mandalorian armor users. Gideon's army would be built by him, where Mando's would be the friends he gained. And as much as I love the scene where Luke appears, this would avoid the deus ex machina of him being the one to defeat all the dark troopers.)

Maybe they might still do something like that down the road, it's a good idea, even if it's not full armor but more like beskar friendship bracelets it would be cool to see the clan signet given to someone new. Mando culture lore is hard, there's always been several competing visions for as long as I have been a fan, even back in the EU days it was that way. I like how simple the new movie looks, I am kinda done with lore after S3, I want adventure now.

I am excited to see the rest of the sets leak, it's fun to be excited about a creature build, I have never really cared about star wars creature builds. This set especially could have so many fun easter eggs like the literal mudhorn egg. My dream would be that it somehow also came with a blurgg and the parts sled. Just no way though.

[BrickBob Studpants]

14 minutes ago, Alex_South said:

This set especially could have so many fun easter eggs like the literal mudhorn egg.

Well that is a must. You can’t have a Sandcrawler and a mudhorn in the same set without including the thing that connects the two  The question is if they’re just gonna reuse the regular egg piece in brown or dark tan or provide a brick-built egg ^^ I’d prefer the former, despite it being a bit undersized.

Edited 9 hours ago by BrickBob Studpants

[Mandalorianknight]

12 hours ago, Llewop said:

Having seen pictures of the F1 helmets I do feel Lego have shafted SW again. First Sauron helmet has a minifigure, now the F1 helmets have figures. Just shows it is possible and Lego have chosen all these years not to include one. Even though 90% of the helmets all have figures that are accessible (accept for probs p1 Cody) it would still add something to all these sets. 

I have some hope in that department, it's entirely possible that Lego has just decided to start adding figures to helmets. We don't have any star wars helmets this year to go off of IIRC, but it's important to remember that it wasn't just star wars who didn't get minifigures in helmet sets- none of the superhero or sonic helmet/cowl/mask/heads got minifigures either. I think they might just be including them in all helmets now.

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Oh my… I think I’ve found my lantern failsafe construct. On day #301 of the crusade.

I'll have something small for day 365 as well. 

3 hours ago, Alex_South said:

Maybe they might still do something like that down the road, it's a good idea, even if it's not full armor but more like beskar friendship bracelets it would be cool to see the clan signet given to someone new. Mando culture lore is hard, there's always been several competing visions for as long as I have been a fan, even back in the EU days it was that way. I like how simple the new movie looks, I am kinda done with lore after S3, I want adventure now.

I am excited to see the rest of the sets leak, it's fun to be excited about a creature build, I have never really cared about star wars creature builds. This set especially could have so many fun easter eggs like the literal mudhorn egg. My dream would be that it somehow also came with a blurgg and the parts sled. Just no way though.

Maybe something a little more substantial than bracelets, but yes, it would be fun to see Mando build out his clan a little.

You might have a shot- the sandcrawler, while a little larger than the 2018 one, doesn't seem to be too many more pieces- and the 2018 one included some droids and the cart. Let's say 1400 to be safe. I doubt the mudhorn is 300 pieces. I would be fairly confident we'll see some sort of cart or sled. Blurrg is a maybe, but it's also not too many pieces and I think it would help sell the $200 price point. (Though this is already shaping up to be one of the best larger sets value-wise of the past year or two.)

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Well that is a must. You can’t have a Sandcrawler and a mudhorn in the same set without including the thing that connects the two  The question is if they’re just gonna reuse the regular egg piece in brown or dark tan or provide a brick-built egg ^^ I’d prefer the former, despite it being a bit undersized.

the former would be nice, but I also wouldn't mind if they used something like the lower balloon and 2x2 dome so you could crack open the egg like in the show.

[ArrowBricks]

Here’s hoping there’s a good villain vehicle (minus the AT-AT) that can go well with the X-Wing and the RazorCrest. I like those sets. 

[Kaijumeister]

21 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Interesting is such an interesting word to describe even the worst stuff out there in a very polite manner. 

Yeah, I'm just glad we get muddy Mando at last. Nothing could have prepared me for the potential "well, this is him before fighting the Mudhorn" Lego PR on why they just included the regular Mando minifigure. 

Sometimes politeness in the face of absurdity is the highest form of indictment  Seriously man, the Dumb Yoda audio genuinely sounds traumatising. At least the Dumb Luke and Vader audio is somewhat reminiscent of the classic Lego Star Wars games. 

I’m looking forward to the muddy Mando figure too (bonus points if we get a new faceprint of Pedro Pascal just not having a good time). And yes, our crusade for that General Skywalker minifigure shall hopefully end this summer!

1 hour ago, ArrowBricks said:

Here’s hoping there’s a good villain vehicle (minus the AT-AT) that can go well with the X-Wing and the RazorCrest. I like those sets. 

I find it ironic that we’re seeing this issue 2 years in a row where we receive a deluge of hero vehicles (clone vehicles last year. Mando / New Republic ones this year) with not a single villain starfighter to actually dogfight against. But hey, maybe the Smart Play vehicles are the friends enemies we met along the way.

@Alex_South Really enjoyed your take on the Mudhorn, always appreciated when good takes deepen my appreciation of the story and characters.

Edited 44 minutes ago by Kaijumeister