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

[Lordhelmet]

N1 looks like a good set, but just not interested in more Mando stuff given the past 5 years with so much unexplored.  GWPs are meh, the dark saber looks good, just not interested in the set (wasn't interested in any of the lightsaber hilts personally), miss the poly bags with a minifigure for a gwp.

My real question is when do you think we will get info on sales/discounts.  Last year in the US was super disappointing for sales (I think only two sets had them).  Hoping the Sail Barge finally gets a discount, isn't it supposed to retire this year?

[BrickPrick]

4 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I for one love the maxifigs! They seem to be quite popular, so it’s no surprise Vader also gets one

Well yeah, I guess it was only a matter of time until these things swapped over to Lego Star Wars as well... just like the Busts did. I don't even hate their looks or anything. Actually think they capture the essence of the minifig designs rather well. It's just way too much additional stuff, man. In a year like this it becomes especially apparent. 

 

Until some of the bigger sets get leaked or officially revealed, my boyo Bane did a lot of the heavy lifting for this year. Without him, it would be an absolute no-show this time around. 

[Mandalorianknight]

23 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

Still? I remember everyone talking about him back in 2019/2020 but I never hear anyone mention him anymore. 

Absolutely. You don't hear about it because it's not from people who are typically big star wars fans, but a lot of people think baby yoda is cute and will go take their kids to a movie featuring him.

1 hour ago, samsz_3 said:

I don't normally care for larger than minifig scale UCS sets ( I like Slave 1 or Venator scaled). I don't particularly like BoBF or Mando S3. I know it's overpriced. But I can't explain it, I am really drawn to thie UCS N1...

It's just really well made. The designers did a great job and the drumlacquer gives it a really good look.

36 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

My real question is when do you think we will get info on sales/discounts.  Last year in the US was super disappointing for sales (I think only two sets had them).  Hoping the Sail Barge finally gets a discount, isn't it supposed to retire this year?

Black Friday last year was also brutal for sales- I can't actually remember if any LSW playsets HAD sales.

[Kaijumeister]

On 4/14/2026 at 8:26 AM, CloneCommando99 said:

My desired fig list: Officer Beard (the confirmed warlord), the armoured commander from the D23 trailer, 2 Remnant Snowtroopers, Mando and 2 AT AT Drivers. Mando is optional, can be replaced with another AT RT driver or one of the other warlords at the meeting. I think I heard somewhere that Pellaeon’s actor was on the casting calls but I’m honestly not sure.

As for features: 3 seater cockpit, decent troop capacity/ main bay, weapon racks, cargo crates, accurate mid section entrance hatch, and not too spindly on the legs.

These all sound great, I’m getting more and more hopeful for the Remnant Snowtroopers given how much merchandise has been shown with them without those environmental filters on.

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

A lot of them are based on M&G and leakers have less information about sets based on new movies by default  The only real mystery is the $70 set! Unless it’s also based on the movie, like a Snowtrooper helmet as I’ve suggested before ^^

Haha, true enough. I guess this is just me futilely hoping for a system set or two we don’t know about.

A helmet set would make sense at that price point, but getting busts AND helmets in the same year clogging up more slots would be a bummer.

2 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Oh man, it might be premature for me to say, but I'm afraid there won't be many sets still to be revealed for this summer. All those additional tiny waves over the course of this year, eight freaking "Smart Play" sets among them, may took a terrible toll on it all. It sucks as I am in the very same boat as you are. I just want to feel something. Preferably, some much needed excitement. And hopefully I can soon laugh out loud about how wrong I actually was. But right now... I'm not exactly filled with the utmost amount of confidence.

Realistically, you’re probably right. As you say, the most perplexing thing is the simple lack of sets at lower price points. If these upcoming large Mando sets are good, I’ll happily pick them up, but it’s just so limited.

2 hours ago, samsz_3 said:

I don't normally care for larger than minifig scale UCS sets ( I like Slave 1 or Venator scaled). I don't particularly like BoBF or Mando S3. I know it's overpriced. But I can't explain it, I am really drawn to thie UCS N1...

I’m usually the exact same as you - completely apathetic to UCS sets bigger than minifigure scale. 

The large UCS vehicles are always good, but that the curvature and sleekness of the N1 has been captured pretty much perfectly is a beautiful indicator of how far advanced building techniques have come over the past few years. Lego really is the perfect testament to the idea of true innovation coming from working under constraints. 

But yeah, if you look at the UCS N1 from a distance you can’t even tell it’s Lego. It’s a set I really want to build and swoosh around despite my usual aversion to these types of sets.

48 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

Well yeah, I guess it was only a matter of time until these things swapped over to Lego Star Wars as well... just like the Busts did. I don't even hate their looks or anything. Actually think they capture the essence of the minifig designs rather well. It's just way too much additional stuff, man. In a year like this it becomes especially apparent. 

That’s what really annoys me. There’s so many good things they could do, but it seems their focus is on what brand new ideas they can introduce for 18+ black box sets with fancy overblown instruction manuals. I find it almost pretentious.

It does make me wonder what Lucasfilm think of having a licensee as big as Lego routinely ignoring a lot of popular and contemporary content to base sets on as well.

I don’t have an issue with Lego Star Wars having a wide breadth of content, but this theme lacks moderation in the pursuit of mature audiences that other themes seem to have better restraint with. 

[BrickPrick]

26 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

Realistically, you’re probably right. As you say, the most perplexing thing is the simple lack of sets at lower price points. If these upcoming large Mando sets are good, I’ll happily pick them up, but it’s just so limited.

That’s what really annoys me. There’s so many good things they could do, but it seems their focus is on what brand new ideas they can introduce for 18+ black box sets with fancy overblown instruction manuals. I find it almost pretentious.

It does make me wonder what Lucasfilm think of having a licensee as big as Lego routinely ignoring a lot of popular and contemporary content to base sets on as well.

I don’t have an issue with Lego Star Wars having a wide breadth of content, but this theme lacks moderation in the pursuit of mature audiences that other themes seem to have better restraint with. 

Limited is the right way to describe it. It just feels ludicrously limited this year. It basically says "give us a lot of money for the bigger stuff or just don't bother with the theme at all." 

Yeah, but that focus gotta be intentionally, right? This stuff has to sell well enough. Otherwise the production pipeline, let alone new sub-themes releasing at a steady pace, would eventually slow down. And unless we know whose crusade it truly is, it's next to impossible to blame anyone but the situation as a whole. Suffice to say, it feels pretty pretentious to me. And yes, other themes, more popular or not, seems to be better balanced and less overblown. 

 

Anyways, can't wait to return to the Grey Baseplate™, if only for a slight minifigure update.

Edited April 16 by BrickPrick

[Lordhelmet]

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Black Friday last year was also brutal for sales- I can't actually remember if any LSW playsets HAD sales.

True thankfully other retailers had lots of sales, but Lego had very few.  I spent very little collectively last year at may the 4th and Black Friday at Lego because of the lack of sales,  hoping for something better this year (for both)

[Alex_South]

the N-1 is fine but frustrating, i don't buy UCS but i was curious to see how premium LEGO would go with this set as a litmus test. The designer in the recent youtube video has a moment where he acknowledges the whole thing is supposed to be silver, and yes I am aware the metal under the yellow paint isn't the same as the metal under the chrome, but lets be real, light grey doesn't do it justice, ideally there would have been a lot more silver metallic or flat silver pieces instead of light gray, maybe some dark grey metallic, and then the drum lacquer up front, but it's clear they were barely willing to do the drum lacquer front, you can see on the playset that there are a few random pieces in the colors i mentioned, dark metallic on engines and some flat silver on the cannons, they know what the darn color is supposed to be, but they will never approve it in the budget. i think that sinks my hope for them doing an improved playset, it's just not in the cards for that ship.

complaining aside, the model looks pretty good, but UCS is not my thing.

Edited April 16 by Alex_South

[CloneCommando99]

Just stop your crying, it's a sign of the times
Welcome to the final show
I hope you're Lego is pressing on your toes
You can't bribe the corp on your way to the TIE
You look pretty good down here
But you ain't really good

If we never learn we've been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets, the bullet?
We never learn, we've been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
Your bullets, a bullet?

Just stop your crying, it's a sign of the times
We gotta get away from here
We gotta get away from here
Just stop your crying, it'll be alright
They told me that the end is near
We gotta get away from here

Just stop your crying, have the build of your life
Breaking through the Mandosphere
Things look pretty good from here
Remember everything will be alright
We can build a fleet again somewhere
Somewhere far away from here

Cassian TIE Avenger save theme? (#356 of this Hail Mary of a project.)

 

9 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I don’t have an issue with Lego Star Wars having a wide breadth of content, but this theme lacks moderation in the pursuit of mature audiences that other themes seem to have better restraint with. 

Another big issue in my eyes also is that the SW team don’t use the 18+/ collector subthemes to as much of its full potential as other themes do. Instead of the complex and intricate building techniques that Ninjago Legends and the new Marvel epic battle sets utilise, SW midiscale is literally “what if we made x vehicle smaller and smoother with no minifigs or play-features.” 
 

Give me an epic battle set depicting the Millenium Falcon’s and Wedge’s escape from DSII. Give me a Battle of the Heroes set that’s similar to the new Dragon Blade Battle. Give me a small diorama of Cal Kestis taking on a Mogu or Jotaz or one of the other large creatures with Merrin tag-teaming. Mace Windu on a AT RT curb stomping a AAT. Ahsoka vs Maul duel on Mandalore with pieces of shattered glass around them..

My point is that so far the 18+ sets have been rather rudimentary in design compared to the display lines of other themes. If they can’t offer us anything more exciting than play-sets, I’ll just stick to play-sets. But that might just be me.

Edited April 16 by CloneCommando99

[Kaijumeister]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Another big issue in my eyes also is that the SW team don’t use the 18+/ collector subthemes to as much of its full potential as other themes do. Instead of the complex and intricate building techniques that Ninjago Legends and the new Marvel epic battle sets utilise, SW midiscale is literally “what if we made x vehicle smaller and smoother with no minifigs or play-features.” 

[Banger ideas]

My point is that so far the 18+ sets have been rather rudimentary in design compared to the display lines of other themes. If they can’t offer us anything more exciting than play-sets, I’ll just stick to play-sets. But that might just be me.

EXACTLY. You’ve nailed it. I’m sorry but placing builds where half the piece count is on a black stand and half the effort is on creating a fancy instruction manual on such a high pedestal is laughable. It’s taking ‘less is more’ to extreme lengths. 

And yep. If Star Wars had the ambition of sets like Ninjago Legends then I’d really be all-in for more mature sets because the scope is virtually limitless.

[BrickPrick]

I just endured and survived Lego's infamous May the 4th "Reveal" livestream. And it was just as cringy and even more corporate as you would remember it to be. They even got one of their precious Marketing bigwits to host the show this time around. As if it wasn't immediately clear this event's purpose serves little more than one big advertisement to get people spending even more money for the convenient occasion. Well, I had a good laugh here and there, so I'm not gonna complain about something that wasn't for me to begin with. 

[Meaf]

12 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

It does make me wonder what Lucasfilm think of having a licensee as big as Lego routinely ignoring a lot of popular and contemporary content to base sets on as well.

I don't really get it either, but surely they must at least be signing off on everything Lego is doing, if not actively being involved in the developing ideas for set concepts, right? I don't know if anyone at Lego has explained precisely how the process works but you'd think the licensees aren't just going to let Lego do literally anything they want with the brand, there's gotta be some level of marketing synergy going on what with the new movies and stuff. Idk though maybe Lego just told them that the TV stuff doesn't sell as well.

[Kaijumeister]

2 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

I just endured and survived Lego's infamous May the 4th "Reveal" livestream. And it was just as cringy and even more corporate as you would remember it to be. They even got one of their precious Marketing bigwits to host the show this time around. As if it wasn't immediately clear this event's purpose serves little more than one big advertisement to get people spending even more money for the convenient occasion. Well, I had a good laugh here and there, so I'm not gonna complain about something that wasn't for me to begin with. 

It would be cool if they used the May 4th livestreams to officially reveal summer sets. Plenty of themes get their August waves revealed 4 months early after all.

12 minutes ago, Meaf said:

I don't really get it either, but surely they must at least be signing off on everything Lego is doing, if not actively being involved in the developing ideas for set concepts, right? I don't know if anyone at Lego has explained precisely how the process works but you'd think the licensees aren't just going to let Lego do literally anything they want with the brand, there's gotta be some level of marketing synergy going on what with the new movies and stuff. Idk though maybe Lego just told them that the TV stuff doesn't sell as well.

Oh they would be signing off on these things for sure, it’s more a personal musing on my side than anything else.

[BrickBob Studpants]

The final Mando trailer is out!  Would be a good opportunity to reveal another set or two

[Mandalorianknight]

15 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Just stop your crying, it's a sign of the times

Another big issue in my eyes also is that the SW team don’t use the 18+/ collector subthemes to as much of its full potential as other themes do. Instead of the complex and intricate building techniques that Ninjago Legends and the new Marvel epic battle sets utilise, SW midiscale is literally “what if we made x vehicle smaller and smoother with no minifigs or play-features.” 

Crazy coincidence. I added it to my playlist this morning and had the song on repeat today while I was driving around between tasks for a project, and I get back to see it transcribed in a plea for the TIE Avenger.

Ninjago Legends really shows off what you can do with a collector subtheme. I'd been considering getting either the Lambda or the AT-AT, but the Ultra Dragon will 100% be usurping those spots pretty much no matter the builds of the former. All of your set ideas sound awesome and I really wish lego would dive into that sort of thing.

14 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

They even got one of their precious Marketing bigwits to host the show this time around. 

This is something that I always think is a mistake. It's very, very easy for even kids to tell when it's a marketing/corporate person vs a designer. Something Hasbro does really well is when they reveal new Transformers (and presumably the same for Black Series, Marvel Legends, Classified Series, etc) is they have the designers show them off, talk about design choices, and even though I don't buy too many of those, I love watching those livestreams because of it. The designers clearly know what they're talking about and love the source material. They bring their own, older models from home to compare them too. They have palpable excitement for the toys and are overwhelmingly transparent about why they make certain choices (such as a wave that had a number of repeats, where the designers said it was entirely because the budget was low for the wave).

You get a smaller version of this from the designer comments on BL and various other designer videos they've done, but allowing them to be more candid and more prominent in these big livestreams would be a really good idea in my opinion. 

[Shiva]

Oh, the movie version of the 75445 anzellan starship, is small! LEGO version seems ok, comparing to trailer. 

[Alex_South]

Just now, Shiva said:

Oh, the movie version of the 75445 anzellan starship, is small! LEGO version seems ok, comparing to trailer. 

I know right, it's so funny that it's basically 1:1 minifig scale if not a bit oversized, it's the UCS Anzellan Starship.

[Shiva]

4 minutes ago, Alex_South said:

I know right, it's so funny that it's basically 1:1 minifig scale if not a bit oversized, it's the UCS Anzellan Starship.

Looking at Adam Savage's Tested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijk4XMe7n_c it is bigger than 1:1, but, I don't think that much smaller would been possible to do. Maybe shave off a plate, or 2, max? If one wants a set with interior.

 

[CloneCommando99]

17 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The final Mando trailer is out!  Would be a good opportunity to reveal another set or two

If I’m being honest… this trailer isn’t doing anything for me.

And they’ve gone and spoiled that the Hutts get defeated by a NR air strike. However I think the fact that we haven’t seen anything from Officer Bald who’s supposed to be the main villain suggests that they’re hiding something.

We should have gotten the Hutt starfighter and an imperial remnant bp as sets though.

And also from a new poster we should have gotten this:

Spoiler

Behind the Razor Crest… they fly now?!

Kenner minirig got canonised. Love to see it. This poster does more for me than the trailer.

 

14 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Crazy coincidence. I added it to my playlist this morning and had the song on repeat today while I was driving around between tasks for a project, and I get back to see it transcribed in a plea for the TIE Avenger.

Ninjago Legends really shows off what you can do with a collector subtheme. I'd been considering getting either the Lambda or the AT-AT, but the Ultra Dragon will 100% be usurping those spots pretty much no matter the builds of the former. All of your set ideas sound awesome and I really wish lego would dive into that sort of thing.

I never thought I’d be putting Harry Styles on my Spotify but PHM was just that good.

Maybe next year… but nah we must get more Smart Play I guess. Maybe if Smart Play bombs hard enough this year Lego will scramble to replace any future planned set slots. Paving the way for something creative like NJ or… THE GODDAM TIE AVENGER!/s

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

If I’m being honest… this trailer isn’t doing anything for me.

And they’ve gone and spoiled that the Hutts get defeated by a NR air strike. However I think the fact that we haven’t seen anything from Officer Bald who’s supposed to be the main villain suggests that they’re hiding something.

I never thought I’d be putting Harry Styles on my Spotify but PHM was just that good.

Maybe next year… but nah we must get more Smart Play I guess. Maybe if Smart Play bombs hard enough this year Lego will scramble to replace any future planned set slots. Paving the way for something creative like NJ or… THE GODDAM TIE AVENGER!/s

Yeah, I think their... second? official trailer, whichever one was a few months ago- maybe it was a few days after the super bowl? is the only one I've thought was particularly good. This renews my skepticism in the movie.

I'm glad that the NR has a spine here but also find it funny that within a very small amount of time they go from nuking the Hutts off the map to essentially removing their standing military entirely. 

Oh, I got around it, I added some fan one where it's a different person singing, I believe.

TBF it's not Smart Play that's preventing marvel moment or ninjago legends SW sets, it's the helmets, midi-scales, etc. The Smart Play sets are just taking away from our normal system sets (and maybe not even that if the august wave has any meat on its bones.)

16 hours ago, Alex_South said:

I know right, it's so funny that it's basically 1:1 minifig scale if not a bit oversized, it's the UCS Anzellan Starship.

Assuming the prop in the video is full sized, the ship would have to be a ~$25 set size to be accurate- Mando should be significantly taller than it, right? So it's a UCS anzellan Starship

Though of course scale-wise I'm not sure that you can get much smaller- lego anzellans and baby yoda are significantly larger than minifigure-scale, just because if they were too much smaller they wouldn't really be able to have any detail on them.

Edited April 17 by Mandalorianknight

[BrickPrick]

On 4/16/2026 at 2:55 PM, Kaijumeister said:

It would be cool if they used the May 4th livestreams to officially reveal summer sets. Plenty of themes get their August waves revealed 4 months early after all.

Yep, feels like we are saying this every year. While I'm aware these things are probably pre-recorded the maker knows how far im advance, you'd think they give fans anything that hasn't already leaked yet. But when you're busy counting bills over there in Billund and want to maximize profits for this special occasion, you wouldn't exactly care about doing more than the absolute bare minimum. And yes, the discrepancy in terms of timing between revealing and releasing sets is moderately annoying compared to other themes. 

[Alex_South]

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Though of course scale-wise I'm not sure that you can get much smaller- lego anzellans and baby yoda are significantly larger than minifigure-scale, just because if they were too much smaller they wouldn't really be able to have any detail on them.

ah yes, I mistakenly said minifig scale, I should have said micro-fig, and relative to available parts that can't be negotiated in terms of size like the canopy and stuff, this is about as close as they could possibly get to proper scale I think. It's a wonderful little set, because of the wacky tiny scale I don't think it displays well with other playsets but this has always seemed like an incredibly desk set. It's really cool, and I am glad to see it's going to play a significant role in the movie.

[Kaijumeister]

4 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Yep, feels like we are saying this every year. While I'm aware these things are probably pre-recorded the maker knows how far im advance, you'd think they give fans anything that hasn't already leaked yet. 

I think the tone deafness of it is to be expected at this point unfortunately. Who am I to judge as I have little idea of the work that goes into marketing, but I also can’t help but think it isn’t hard to get these things right especially for a theme that’s been running for almost three decades.

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

TBF it's not Smart Play that's preventing marvel moment or ninjago legends SW sets, it's the helmets, midi-scales, etc. The Smart Play sets are just taking away from our normal system sets (and maybe not even that if the august wave has any meat on its bones.)

Yep. I would argue that out of the Helmets, Busts, Statues, Starship Collection, and Dioramas, all but the last of these 18+ offerings try extremely hard to appeal to Star Wars fans rather than Lego Star Wars fans.

It’s why the 18+ surplus wouldn’t be so bad if they at least reinstated dioramas for Lego Star Wars fans who are looking for that extra display-worthy step beyond playsets. But right now they’re leaving the average Lego Star Wars fan out to dry who wants something that’s a little more advanced but also retaining the spirit of normal Lego sets.

But like @CloneCommando99 has already said, there are so many ambitious and appealing ways to do ‘mature’ sets. Unfortunately this theme tends to be very unambitious and uninspiring in that regard.

On 4/16/2026 at 11:29 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

The final Mando trailer is out!  Would be a good opportunity to reveal another set or two

I quite enjoyed the trailer, seeing the BTS that YouTubers have been showing off of the props and set pieces is also pretty cool! I think I’ll find this to be a ‘fun’ movie like Solo (which I similarly had no anticipation for, but ended up enjoying a lot). It won’t be groundbreaking, but it’ll whet cinematic appetites until Starfighter comes next year.

There’s clearly a lot Lego can still do for the remaining TMaG sets in June-August that should be more interesting than the (IMO) extremely safe approach they’ve taken to the initial film wave. I suspect the ‘Hutt Droid’ set in August will be either one or both of the massive stop-motion droids Din fights that are guarding Jabba’s cousins. They’ll probably throw in a Mercenary Droid minifigure or two just to make the lineup more tantalising than just including Din and Grogu again.

As for the remaining supposedly playscale TMaG sets we don’t know the full details of, I can only suspect they’ll cover 1) The arena fight on Nar Shaddaa 2) The battle on Nal Hutta (probably a vehicle set) or 3) Something with Embo or the Imperial Remnant.

 

Edited April 18 by Kaijumeister

[BrickPrick]

Bricks, sweat and tears, one year. Here's to much more madness at Eurobricks. 

Hey @BrickBob Studpants, what do you make of my fine little Christmas selection? Is this like the one area where I can even remotely compete with your extensive collection? 

 

Edited April 18 by BrickPrick

[Darth_Bane13]

12 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Bricks, sweat and tears, one year. Here's to much more madness at Eurobricks. 

Hey @BrickBob Studpants, what do you make of my fine little Christmas selection? Is this like the one area where I can even remotely compete with your extensive collection? 

 

That's a cool collection, is that all the Christmas figs?

[BrickPrick]

7 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

That's a cool collection, is that all the Christmas figs?

The majority of them, yes. I don't collect anything ST related, so a couple minifigs are missing. The Jawa has a little bit of BB printing on the back, but since he's no main character... I don't care. I treat him like OT era or Mandoverse. I remember the 2014 Advent Calendar being among the most expensive ones on the aftermarket, so I only got it's respected figures and that's it. 2013's Jango, for the longest time, was my only one until last year. Still have a soft spot for 2012's Happy Sithmas Maul, my first Christmas figure. I also really enjoy all these different GONK droid builds.