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

[GMW79]

I just got my Cobb Vanth Speeder, Mando Speeder, and Siege of Mandalore (2x) sets.

The Siege sets were purchased mainly for the Mandalorian figs, but I have no complaints about the set overall. It's a fun little addition for my personal world building and I'll be setting up the barriers in front of my Visla/Gideon + Ambush on Mandalore combo for some added security.

Mando's Speeder is a nice little addition, since I didn't get the previous version. Getting a Mando cloak and baby carrier for my collection are pluses too. It was a fun 5- to 10-minute build and thematically pairs up nicely with:

Cobb Vanth's Speeder, my favorite addition of the day. I realize it's not quite in scale in comparison to it's on-screen appearance, but it's a decent enough size. Cobb and Cad are a couple of characters I enjoy, so I've been looking forward to this one for them too. The one thing I wish they'd done differently was to have used the round 2x2 tile w/ hole with the rotor blade pattern printed on it instead of the plain gray version, so I'll probably get one of those and switch it out for a little extra detail.

All in all, I'm happy with the "Speeders and Mandalorians" start to 2026.

 

 

[Darth_Bane13]

12 hours ago, hikouki said:

Are there really that many AFOLs that swoosh and swish their models and ships around, playing as if you were 8 years old again?

Yeah I still my fly my sets around sometimes. 

5 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

If we didn’t, then what’s the point?

To make pew noises, or not to make pew noises that is the question. I still hum my own ISD klaxons just for whenever I move around the personnel on my 2016 Death Star. I sometimes do little space battles between my Tantive and Light Cruiser. Making your own noises is part of the damn experience even as an adult. So Smartbricks mean we pay more for something that is arguably less creatively genuine.

Exactly. My favorite set to swoosh is the 2010 ARC-170, I love opening the wings. Also any set with those old rubber tipped missiles are a lot of fun. Seems a bit silly to me to put Lego in a display case and never touch it again. Smart bricks are definitely pointless though and don't justify the upcharge for sounds you can make with your mouth.

[Mandalorianknight]

13 hours ago, hikouki said:

Are there really that many AFOLs that swoosh and swish their models and ships around, playing as if you were 8 years old again?

Yes.

And regardless, the smart brick sets aren't targeted at AFOLS, they're for younger children. That said, I think the smart brick removes some of the imaginative aspects of play rather than enhancing it. Ironically, I think something like this would work very well for the 4-7 demo, as they often enjoy a sort of defined play pattern, but the issue there is these sets seem a bit expensive and complex for your average 5 year old. 

16 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I think @Mandalorianknight may be right on the $75 April set being a Razor Crest. Just having been given the Slave One treatment. Basically a $70 style ship with Mando, Grogu and Sigourney Weaver or Zeb. Then the additional $5 being allocated to some form of Rotta. (Ninjago Serpentine tail?) It’d kinda make sense for the movie’s main ship and main cast to be more accessible.

Either that or the $150 930 piece April set. But that may be the imperial shuttle due to the close price point. (Would be 7 pieces less than the 2015 Lambda, so better pray that the shuttle is a Sentinel upgrade if it is the $150 set)

If you’re right about the $75 Razor Crest, then a Y-Wing is 100% happening next year.

We saw the Crest having a dog fight with what looked like vulture droids in the trailer. So he probably has it through a large chunk of the movie.

Anzellan spaceship

Yeah, the more I think about it the more I think this is a legitimate possibility. I hope not- the RC needs to be large, and Mando already has a starfighter that could easily be made an accessible main hero ship set at as low a price point as $40, but it's definitely possible.

Don't you dare curse me with that mental image. (I'm also imagining that, since he's buff, it'd keep the Hutt arms, which if you've ever put on a normal minifigure torso, are actually wider than the torso itself.)

Unfortunately, inflation alone would take the Tydirium to $140 today, so that's not far off.

I hope so.

That's a fair point- it could be the final act or an ending scene, but you're right that it's likely present for a fair bit of the movie.

Right. I think I've heard that before, though I can't find anything on google.

6 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Talking about contrasting emotions. However, like I already said, abondoning the theme... or how you just put it losing all hope, was never on the table and no deciding factor for me. If I had to consider leaving Lego for good every time they experiment on something stupid, whew... that's like running a marathon or rather a sprint in circles on a yearly basis. But I will say all this Smart Play stuff is not quite as amusing as I thought it would be. Yesterday, I actually had some angry bursts because I can literally make no sense of it all and because of the wasting aspects. It's not like Buildable Characters or other formats where I can see they are not for me, but also acknowledge their worth for others. But yeah, one moment I'm a little angry, the next I'm very amused... talking about contrasting emotions again. 

Yep, that's right. The Bespin Luke is like the light version in terms of limitation compared to the modern rendition of the Cloud City Lando. Hopefully he will be next in line. 

Hahaha, imagine a pros and cons list about Smart Play integration and one of the very few positives is "it doesn't actually feature an app". And oh man... I hope this whole stuff is gone before we even know it. Let it just be another one of these terrible trends, although on a larger scale than we may used to, and move on with our respected Lego lives. 

The execution is frankly ridiculous. And the thing is... While Lego may had licensing issues with Disney for some of the audio and music, you still need to go full force in on it. That stuff should be sorted out early on. And if you know for certain you won't get the Cantina theme going, well... maybe don't do a Cantina set at all! But no, they have to serve us the holy grail that is undoubtedly the old trilogy and fast forward their greatest hits collection. I'm telling you, I can't stand this "everything is better than nothing"-mentality. If the result is like this, then no... it's definitely not better!

But I ask again, what do you make of that brick-build Dewback? Have you seen it?

Oh, yeah, I wouldn't say I would have abandoned the theme, just that I wouldn't have had any hope of it coming back to a point where I'd be all that excited or buying many sets anytime soon. As is, with those summer wave leaks there's now three different flagship-level sets that are desirable to me which I have to choose between, so it's a complete turnaround.

Man, Cloud City Lando NEEDS to become more availible. It's the main costume of a pretty major character, and yet he's Padme-level difficult to get ahold of. 

To be fair to lego, not requiring an app is a major win... as far as "smart" integration goes. If this required kids to use a tablet or phone to achieve the "smart" play, it'd lose the entire point of lego IMO. As is, I still don't like the concept, but I can at least recognize that it's more akin to a fancy lights-and-sounds system than, say, hidden side.

Yeah, I don't understand the point to a cantina smart set without the cantina music, as it was already a tough sell on why it needed to be "smart" given there's no laser cannons or swooshing noises in the first place (not that I think any of these need to be "smart", but you know.) I wonder if disney nixed the licensed music at the last minute, because otherwise I just don't get why this would be chosen.

I haven't gotten a good look at it yet- the blurry image of the cantina box in the usual place had me thinking it was some kind of aircraft, though, so make of that what you will. I knew a smart-compromised dewback was never going to be able to compete with the molded one, but I maintain that brick-built creatures of that scale can, in theory, compete with their molded variants-

 

[Seagull King of Vaughan]

13 hours ago, hikouki said:

Are there really that many AFOLs that swoosh and swish their models and ships around, playing as if you were 8 years old again?

Absolutely I do. If I’m not disassembling a set for parts, you better believe I’m going to swoosh it around, and make the noises while doing so.

14 hours ago, hikouki said:

Given these first videos, what do people think about the introduction of Smart Bricks in general?

Should this be the future of Lego, or is it rather unnecessary.

I don’t find the mere existence of the Smart Bricks offensive, but I want options without them. I don’t intend to deal with them at this time. In my mind, as others have said, imagination is the fun part.

[BrickPrick]

35 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Oh, yeah, I wouldn't say I would have abandoned the theme, just that I wouldn't have had any hope of it coming back to a point where I'd be all that excited or buying many sets anytime soon. As is, with those summer wave leaks there's now three different flagship-level sets that are desirable to me which I have to choose between, so it's a complete turnaround.

Man, Cloud City Lando NEEDS to become more availible. It's the main costume of a pretty major character, and yet he's Padme-level difficult to get ahold of. 

To be fair to lego, not requiring an app is a major win... as far as "smart" integration goes. If this required kids to use a tablet or phone to achieve the "smart" play, it'd lose the entire point of lego IMO. As is, I still don't like the concept, but I can at least recognize that it's more akin to a fancy lights-and-sounds system than, say, hidden side.

Yeah, I don't understand the point to a cantina smart set without the cantina music, as it was already a tough sell on why it needed to be "smart" given there's no laser cannons or swooshing noises in the first place (not that I think any of these need to be "smart", but you know.) I wonder if disney nixed the licensed music at the last minute, because otherwise I just don't get why this would be chosen.

I haven't gotten a good look at it yet- the blurry image of the cantina box in the usual place had me thinking it was some kind of aircraft, though, so make of that what you will. I knew a smart-compromised dewback was never going to be able to compete with the molded one, but I maintain that brick-built creatures of that scale can, in theory, compete with their molded variants-

 

Yeah, this 1-2 punch surely works wonders for raising anyone's excitement for this Lego Star Wars year as a whole. Like it went from bleak to bliss in an heartbeat. 

Yes, there is seriously no debate here. The way Lego treats Lando like some sort of irrelevant or semi-irrelevant background character will forever remain a mystery to me. 

Well, of course this would be a good thing! I meant it in a "imagine them doing nothing really right anywhere else so that the best thing you have to mention in your review is about supporting no actual app" kinda way. Like this was basically their one and only redeeming quality to this slop... that would be funny for me to see.

You don't understand it. I don't understand stand it. Others don't understand it. Because there is literally nothing there to make someone understand. It just makes no sense at all. And not gonna lie, now I'm even more pissed one precious Cantina set slot was wasted for all this mumbo jambo. Now you probably gotta wait another five-ish years to get another single shot for some new Cantina Alien characters. Thanks, I hate it. 

Yeah, we talked about this whole thing not that long ago. A brick-built version, although not my desired first choice, can match their moulded counterparts by now. The final result, however, as expected, is nothing like your clean creature's design. It's actually much worse than I could ever imagined. Like way worse than the Microfighter from 2018 or so. It's tiny, it's blocky, it's a bad joke. But you can see for yourself... if you like @18:42 in all it's glory).

Edited January 7 by BrickPrick

[Yperio_Bricks]

23 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

And not gonna lie, now I'm even more pissed one precious Cantina set slot was wasted for all this mumbo jambo. Now you probably gotta wait another five-ish years to get another single shot for some new Cantina Alien characters. Thanks, I hate it. 

Yeah, it looks pretty bad!

A proper playscale cantina was no 1 on my wishlist! All the years since I left my dark ages I was waiting for such a set. And now that Lego is releasing a cantina, it has to be some smart play garbage 

No, thanks! I'll boycott this smart play slop. I am here for dumb Lego.

 

Edited January 7 by Yperio_Bricks

[BrickPrick]

2 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Yeah, it looks pretty bad!

A proper playscale cantina was no 1 on my wishlist! All the years since I left my dark ages I was waiting for such a set. And now that Lego is releasing a cantina, it has to be some smart play garbage 

No, thanks! I'll boycott this smart play slop. I am here for dumb Lego.

Word up, man. 

As a pretty proud owner of the MBS Cantina, I will never miss out on something main build-wise ever again. But the same can just not said about the countless Cantina characters that are still up in the air. Like I'm not even close to get tired of saying... this is the definition of wasteful. Even though this is just the tip of the iceberg... as the Smart Slop Hoth Echo Base will be personally much worse to stomach. 

There was never a chance for me support any of these stuff. But holy hell... this is truly something else. 

[Lobot]

I don't always agree with Mandr's views but his video (above) mirrors my thoughts entirely.  The new Smart Bricks are just a bad, expensive gimmick! The 'strobe' light on the X-Wing is bordering on uncomfortable to look at, and the sound effects are just awful! I really don't understand why they didn't use accurate Star Wars sounds, or why the minifigures can't 'talk'; Luke sounds like a bad Imperial Probe droid!   I'll be amazed if these sell at all well, and expect them to hit 40% off within the first 3-4 months of release!

At least the latest list of standard 2026 sets is giving me something to look forward to this year.  Hopefully the Bounty Hunter Pursuit, Bespin Duel and Imperial Shuttle will be worth buying.

[Darth_Bane13]

The 1999 X-wing is more accurate than the new one.

[L-Gauger]

1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

The 1999 X-wing is more accurate than the new one.

I have to largely agree. I like the s-foils of the new X-wing, but pretty much nothing else. 

I have to say, though, the TIE Advanced looks better than I thought it would. It looks like it might aesthetically fit alongside set 75300 or 75393. Sure, it's not a perfect model, but there might be some potential to modify the TIE advanced to make it look better, unlike the X-wing... 

Edited January 7 by L-Gauger

[CloneCommando99]

This just in:

75453 is Sand Tank (probably the crawler)

75455 is Anzellan Starship.

75454 is AT AT

75455 is Boba Fett

 

Razor Crest and shuttle are MIA. Where are they?!

[BrickPrick]

1 hour ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

The 1999 X-wing is more accurate than the new one.

Everything X-Wing-related ever released, including the Advent Calendar micro-builds, looks better than this hunk of junk. They actually went through all that trouble making a whole new cockpit piece only for it to look like an vehicle that clearly belongs on the sea. Then you've got this unbelievably ugly gap to make up the required space for all this lame Smart Play nonsense. Don't get me started on all these red emergency bricks and handles. Next time, make it a big fat clown nose, it fould fit the entire vibe much better. R2-D2 looks like he's on sale for laughing out loud! When the best looking part are the shorty wings, from an design standpoint, you know you are in knee deep trouble. I may go out on a limb here, but combined with the terrible price point, this set truly feels to me like the worst Lego Star Wars deal since the First Order AT-ST! 

Edited January 7 by BrickPrick

[CloneCommando99]

75446 is another Buildable Grogu

[BrickBob Studpants]

23 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

This just in:

75453 is Sand Tank (probably the crawler)

75455 is Anzellan Starship.

75454 is AT AT

75455 is Boba Fett

 

Razor Crest and shuttle are MIA. Where are they?!

The Razor Crest is 75447! We also have 75446 Grogu ^^

Sounds awesome! But yet another buildable Grogu?? What was the point of the 2025 model then? Couldn’t have waited a bit?  

[icm]

5 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The Razor Crest is 75447! We also have 75446 Grogu ^^

Sounds awesome! But yet another buildable Grogu?? What was the point of the 2025 model then? Couldn’t have waited a bit?  

It'll be buildable Grogu in Mandalorian armor with a rocket backpack that really shoots. I jest, of course.

[BrickBob Studpants]

And we now know how they could justify the new piece for Babu Frik in the AC  The M&G sets sound very exciting to me!

[icm]

20 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I think @Mandalorianknight may be right on the $75 April set being a Razor Crest. Just having been given the Slave One treatment. Basically a $70 style ship with Mando, Grogu and Sigourney Weaver or Zeb. Then the additional $5 being allocated to some form of Rotta. (Ninjago Serpentine tail?) It’d kinda make sense for the movie’s main ship and main cast to be more accessible.

Either that or the $150 930 piece April set. But that may be the imperial shuttle due to the close price point. (Would be 7 pieces less than the 2015 Lambda, so better pray that the shuttle is a Sentinel upgrade if it is the $150 set)

And the monkey's paw curls again. The RC is now said to be the $150, 930p set. The original set 75292 was $130, 1023p in September 2020, which is about $160 today, so judged against inflation the new price and parts count isn't too bad. But the original was already overpriced at $130, so now the PPP of the new version is almost as bad as the PPP of last year's CTT. As usual, I hope I can get it half price secondhand without minifigs.

[CloneCommando99]

26 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Sounds awesome! But yet another buildable Grogu?? What was the point of the 2025 model then? Couldn’t have waited a bit?  

4 different Buildable yodas will be available this year. All of them taking up a slot an able bodied TIE Avenger could. smh.

26 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The Razor Crest is 75447!

Mando, Sigourney Weaver, Zeb, Grogu and Rotta as figures probably.

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yeah, the more I think about it the more I think this is a legitimate possibility. I hope not- the RC needs to be large, and Mando already has a starfighter that could easily be made an accessible main hero ship set at as low a price point as $40, but it's definitely possible.

Don't you dare curse me with that mental image. (I'm also imagining that, since he's buff, it'd keep the Hutt arms, which if you've ever put on a normal minifigure torso, are actually wider than the torso itself.)

Unfortunately, inflation alone would take the Tydirium to $140 today, so that's not far off.

Welp. That idea aged like fine milk.

You’ll get Ozempic Hutt and you’ll like it!!!

That’s why we should hope it’s a Sentinel. Guaranteed upgrade. We may even get a accurate interior and entrance hatch this time.

18 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The M&G sets sound very exciting to me!

But the best ones aren’t releasing until months after the movie

1 minute ago, icm said:

But the original was already overpriced at $130, so now the PPP of the new version is almost as bad as the PPP of last year's CTT. As usual, I hope I can get it half price secondhand without minifigs.

FYI. The Smart Play Throne Room has better PPP than the Turbo Tank.

[icm]

10 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

FYI. The Smart Play Throne Room has better PPP than the Turbo Tank.

!

!!

!!!

Edit to keep this from being an unreasonably low effort post:

Of course, I should have already realized that. 813p for $160 vs 962p for $160, some of which are the bestest electronic light and sound and charging gizmos ever made in the history of the world. When you put it that way, the Smart Play Throne Room is an absolute bargain! Happy face. /s ...... Speaking of getting sets half price without minifigs secondhand, I really hope some reseller offers just the A-wing for a decent price. Apart from its lack of a fairing behind the cockpit, which should be easy to add, it's easily the best-looking A-wing ever and a cracking good prototype for the next standalone minifig scale A-wing. Too bad the X-wing and TIE Advanced regress instead of progress in their looks.

Edited January 7 by icm

[Kaijumeister]

5 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

4 different Buildable yodas will be available this year. All of them taking up a slot an able bodied TIE Avenger could. smh.

4+ Grogu, Yoda Bust, Buildable Grogu, Buildable Yoda, yeeeeesh. Does no one scrutinise these proposed set ideas just to check that there might be a little too much overlap? May as well have reissued last year’s buildable Grogu in TMaG packaging.

Buildable Boba Fett too, great. Here I was thinking they actually would have toned down the buildable figures for just one year. If it’s as good as this year’s Iron Man though, that would be cool.

 

[BrickBob Studpants]

11 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Mando, Sigourney Weaver, Zeb, Grogu and Rotta as figures probably.

The idea of Sigourney Weaver just playing herself in the movie got a good chuckle out of me

13 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

But the best ones aren’t releasing until months after the movie

Aren’t the RC & Anzellan ship scheduled for May and the Sandcrawler & AT-AT for June? ^^

[BrickPrick]

Another something something Grogu something something?! You've got to be freaking kidding me! What's it gonna be this time... his new socks?! This kinda feels like new Luke's Landspeeder levels of low!

I also have no faith the Bounty Hunter Pursuit remake is gonna end up retailing for $60. Though I would already be very happy if the euro price remains unchanged... just like Cobb Vanth's Speeder did. 

[icm]

5 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

Another something something Grogu something something?! You've got to be freaking kidding me! What's it gonna be this time... his new socks?!

So far, Grogu is nowhere near as dynamic and complex of a character as ... Dobby the house-elf. No socks for baby Yoda. Just frogs, Frog eggs, and newly hatched spider monsters.

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, BrickPrick said:

Yeah, this 1-2 punch surely works wonders for raising anyone's excitement for this Lego Star Wars year as a whole. Like it went from bleak to bliss in an heartbeat. 

Yes, there is seriously no debate here. The way Lego treats Lando like some sort of irrelevant or semi-irrelevant background character will forever remain a mystery to me. 

Yeah, we talked about this whole thing not that long ago. A brick-built version, although not my desired first choice, can match their moulded counterparts by now. The final result, however, as expected, is nothing like your clean creature's design. It's actually much worse than I could ever imagined. Like way worse than the Microfighter from 2018 or so. It's tiny, it's blocky, it's a bad joke. But you can see for yourself... if you like @18:42 in all it's glory).

"bleak to bliss" is a good way to put it

It's so weird. Lego owns bricklink, they know how much he goes for there. We've seen them do Rex and Bane and other expensive figures, why not Lando, who's a major character in multiple films?

Ah. Yeah, that's... that's really something. If there's a walking feature of some sort, while I don't think it was needed I could at least understand the legs, but the giant saddle is not something I think I'll ever be able to rationalize.

3 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

dumb Lego.

It is going to be really funny when there becomes a huge rallying cry of "WE WANT DUMB LEGO!". But I'll be right there with you.

3 hours ago, Lobot said:

I don't always agree with Mandr's views but his video (above) mirrors my thoughts entirely.  The new Smart Bricks are just a bad, expensive gimmick!

Yeah, he's right to be upset with these. If they don't take up normal "dumb" set slots I'll be mostly fine, but even then, now we have to wait longer for a normal playscale cantina, or TIE Advanced :(.

3 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

The 1999 X-wing is more accurate than the new one.

This is me with the snowspeeder. They just look grey to me.

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

This just in:

75453 is Sand Tank (probably the crawler)

75455 is Anzellan Starship.

75454 is AT AT

75455 is Boba Fett

75453's name just refers to the Libyan Government's somewhat understandable reaction to seeing that thing parked on a dune outside their border back during ANH's filming.

I guess I'll now see what the Anzellan starship looks like, I still can't find any images. Is it a cool design? I'm imagining like a little pod that they fit in but if they're making it at the $70 price point, it's probably a large-enough ship with some weapons. It also implies it will be the best set of an already nice sounding wave if the precedent starships at that price point have set is to be considered.

AT-AT is good, predicted for awhile but nice to have a number for it.

Buildable Boba Fett... I'm not gonna lie guys this one might get me. I have a Boba collection- the brickheadz, the UCS Slave One, some of the minifigs, a Bandai kit- this is 100% personal bias, I don't like how many statues we have this summer in general, but this one I might pick up if it's anything like that last iron man.

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

75446 is another Buildable Grogu

We are now literally at the point of multiple buildable grogus a year, but we can't get a buildable Jeff the Land Shark?

55 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Welp. That idea aged like fine milk.

You’ll get Ozempic Hutt and you’ll like it!!!

That’s why we should hope it’s a Sentinel. Guaranteed upgrade. We may even get a accurate interior and entrance hatch this time.

What's funny is the new crest is essentially the same cost as the old one, accounting for inflation, with a 69 piece drop. It could easily be nearly a 1:1 remake.

I refuse. I don't want Ozempic the Hutt, I want Gym Bro Jabba. Jeremy Allen White better make Grakkus look like a Muun in terms of build.

Yeah, you've got me on that one. The classic shuttle is more iconic and I still think more likely, but the Sentinal would be a bigger upgrade. (And on a personal level, I already own the 2015 shuttle, which is pretty much perfect, so I would be more likely to skip a new one)

28 minutes ago, BrickPrick said:

something something Grogu something something

The official pitch for The Mandalorian and Grogu movie.

 

Alright, so what's the new news?

$70 Anzellen ship- I still can't find what this thing looks like in-universe, but the price point hasn't let me down yet.

Literal Third Buildable Grogu To Be On Shelves At The Same Time: I can't understand why this decision was made, especially given the 2025 one shelfwarmed off the bat. Is it life sized? It can't be, right? He's at least the size of a human infant at this point.

$150 Razor Crest is fine, glad it's back on shelves

As I said with the buildable Boba above... I'm still opposed to how many of this style of set we get, but Boba is one of the few I would buy. (Him and a GNK droid)

Overall, mostly good. Lego may be doing some weird "smart" stuff, but the "dumb" sets are sounding excellent- the system playsets, at least.

 

Edited January 7 by Mandalorianknight

[Darth_Bane13]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

This is me with the snowspeeder. They just look grey to me.

Yeah I agree, a gray snowspeeder with the new cockpit would be the best one they've made.