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 21 hours ago 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 16 hours ago 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 12 hours ago 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.