Kaijumeister

Oh man, don’t remind me about Ubisoft cancelling that Sands of Time Remake after teasing it for so long… At least Rogue was awesome and Lost Crown looks pretty good too. I’ll continue huffing the hopium for a Last Airbender set. Heck, a single ~£70+ set of Appa with the GAang (along with Zuko and Iroh) would make me really happy. I’m in the same boat as you though, most of my favourite IPs are now represented in Lego. Avatar is the only thing missing for me.

If one of these themes is Avatar: The Last Airbender I’d be so happy. It’d tie in nicely with Season 2 of the Netflix show and the Legend of Aang film later this year (I still can’t believe it was decided to relegate the movie to streaming only with no theatrical release!).

It’s a winning formula and reminds me of the earliest years of this theme - we’d get so many of those £20 3-minifigure sets. Not that there needs to be any correlation, but Hot Toys have unveiled a new battle damaged Spidey from the first Raimi film. Maybe it’s not so far fetched for Lego to follow suit.

I’d love to see this as well, along with a playscale Gringotts based on DH Part 2 and the Inferi scene from HPB. The latter would make for an awesome diorama. I’m guessing that with 3 of the 4 Hogwarts House Ghosts now being released under the current castle system, we can expect one of the summer expansion sets to include the Slytherin Common Room and the Bloody Baron?

@Legochaek Just reiterating what everyone else has already said but getting to intern at Lego and actually see your ideas manifest as products is ridiculously cool and something to be incredibly proud of! Nice work on the polybag.

Great looking helmet, it’s a skip for me (not overly keen to have Sauron staring at me on my bookshelf) but I’m glad to see more LotR sets that don’t break the bank or require significant real estate to display. No doubt this will sell out on release.

Agreed, although at the same time I won’t complain if this January’s sets are the only Starship Collection sets we get for the year. I’d add the Solo sets for consideration too, funny how the tie-in waves for the ‘Star Wars Story’ films largely outclassed what we got for the Sequel Trilogy, with a few exceptions. I find it ironic how often Lucasfilm try making toy-friendly designs for characters and vehicles but at the same time, their stringent anti-spoiler policy means toy representation of said designs typically happens a good while after their source media has actually debuted. Mando S2 and S3 certainly had this issue with respect to Lego sets, although Ahsoka didn’t all that much. Not arrogant, just frustrated (as much as one can be for what’s ultimately a hobby!), it’s a feeling I share too. Also my bad - ‘published’ wasn’t the right word to use as it’s a video interview. I only listened to it for background noise whilst playing the Rogue Prince of Persia. It’s always interesting getting an insight into how Lego Star Wars models are developed but I find it weird seeing so much focus being placed on these types of sets when they’re largely secondary to playscale stuff which is the bread and butter of most Lego themes. I guess that’s a notion we need to let go of for this theme. Good points, I don’t think I’d ever want to be the person / people making these decisions to be honest! That said, I don’t think it’s that difficult keeping a finger on the pulse of what’s ‘hot’ for Star Wars and what’s in demand. Seeing the various clone legions and commanders last year along with characters like Plo Koon, General Kenobi, a P1 pilot and so on certainly shows Lego are listening to fans have been asking for to some degree - although the almost excessive focus on clone stuff for playscale along with the shortcuts and design / QC problems is where a lot of the 2025 sets fell short. Moreover the focus on clone stuff shows an overemphasis on tending to certain (often vocal) demographics at the expense of others. You could also argue that the dilution of playscale sets due to other sublines means what playscale sets that we do get just invite greater scrutiny than they did until, say, the end of 2024 where said dilution wasn’t anywhere near as bad. The inordinate number of clone sets from last year wouldn’t have been such a big issue in 2020 - 2024 because there’d still be a fair number of slots left for normal sets covering other films / shows etc. It’s like a perfect storm where you’re vastly cutting down the number of normal sets being put out every year whilst also focusing a large fraction of said sets on one area of Star Wars only. Hopefully this is an area that this theme improves upon this year and beyond - if you’re going to keep reducing the number of playscale sets, at least put more of an effort in to providing some diversity in the content covered. Again, it’s not difficult to see what’s popular in Star Wars (both from contemporary and evergreen perspectives) if you know where to look and listen. Dedicating a couple of slots to knock out some ships and characters that people have been asking for for 3+ years isn’t going to kill the theme. On another note, with leakers saying we should see the Smart Brick sets officially revealed by the end of the month, I’ve been wondering why practically the entire Smart Brick lineup consists of sets we’ve largely already seen in some shape or form over the past few years (some repeatedly so…). Offering Lego the benefit of the doubt, it does make sense to base these experimental sets on things they’ve already done because a) There’s no point integrating Smart Bricks into sets covering something new when there’s no guarantee people will buy into the play pattern even if they are interested in what the sets themselves are based on and b) If you want to prove the Smart Brick is as groundbreaking as you claim, where better to start than with vehicles and locations you’ve already done to prove how much of a force multiplier the Smart Brick is for play? I still have significant reservations about this entire March wave and have already written it off mentally, but nonetheless I am very interested to see how these sets will look and what the Smart Brick is like in action. The X-Wing does not fill me with confidence though.

Totally agree! The concept art we have seen for Ahsoka S2 is already rife with potential - those Dathomiri witches would look fantastic as minifigures too. There’s no way they aren’t doing Enoch this time too and I’m sure his (presumably) more prominent role in Season 2 is the reason Lego chose not to include him in the Peridea set. @BrickPrick Whilst it’s easy to remind ourselves that the LSW Team’s process for choosing which sets get made every year is doubtless quite nuanced and complicated, I still agree with your sentiment that they leave so many objectively good ideas on the drawing board year after year. Online voices can be anecdotal and not indicative of what the general consumer would be looking for (but at the same time, I don’t think anyone can claim with a straight face that the general consumer has been clamouring for Bacara, Bly, the Galactic Marines, and 327th). But nonetheless, there are still ships, locations, and characters people routinely do express interest in year after year that Lego just never seem to acknowledge in any way, shape, or form. The Mantis and Fondor are more contemporary examples, but from an evergreen standpoint how is it that we still haven’t seen anything based on the Battle of Endor or Cloud City in so long?

To be honest, the demand for more clone sets genuinely was there at least for a few years since the resurgence of the Clone Wars in 2020 (in modern LEGO Star Wars’ typical risk-averse fashion, they barely had two small sets to coincide with the show in 2020 before realising how big the demand was and course-correcting afterwards). Now it feels like they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel. *Sigh* I complain about this every other post, but I still struggle to believe how Lego refuse to give us even one Jedi: Survivor set. With all the stuff they’ve been putting out over the past couple of years, is this really where they draw the line? Ah that’s right, I still remember Promobricks doing an info dump of the 2023 summer wave on April Fools’ Day and how we were all stumped because it sounded too good to be true. In that case hopefully some more rumours will be out by the end of the month. January last year is also when MaxBaut started teasing information about the summer wave on his Instagram stories if I recall. Yeah I can see this happening if Ahsoka S2’s release window is similar to S1. A handful of sets tying into the show releasing in September plus maybe another random unrelated set (like the Coruscant Guard Gunship in 2023). I just hope there are plans to release at least a couple of sets on the show given how strong the S1 sets were. Agreed! @Mandalorianknight already pointed this out but yes, we need 18+ sets that are compatible with minifigures and the Diorama Collection was the perfect realisation of that (prices aside). Plus with the Starship Collection now being a thing, if the DC was revisited I would hope they wouldn’t waste slots on microbuild dioramas. Given that even LAN (e.g. Brickset) have noticed the excess of 18+ sublines and buildable characters, I’m surprised this hasn’t been broached with their Lego Fan Media Days interviews with the Lego Star Wars Team. I’m curious to know if these sets are equally as popular as the playscale sets. BD-1 is certainly up there as one of the best LEGO Star Wars sets, it’s as close to a perfect set as one can ask for in a buildable character. I still remember back in 2022 thinking this was going to herald some playscale Jedi Fallen Order sets. The most ironic thing for me is they released a buildable BD-1 without Cal, and then in 2024 they released the Cal anniversary minifigure without BD-1 (don’t get me started on how they couldn’t even bother to give him a poncho). What’s even more confounding is the inclusion of a BD droid in last year’s advent calendar, so they could have included BD-1 with Cal. Presumably budget is the reason they didn’t. My first thought when seeing the Sauron helmet is what the implications are for future Star Wars helmets too, hopefully them including minifigures is now on the table. For anyone interested, Brick Fanatics have published an interview with the LSW Team around this January’s BB-8 and Starship sets.

Haha I feel that! I’ve decided to wait until March to pick up my first batch of 2026 sets. A remake of the original monastery would be a perfect Legacy set IMO, although that just speaks to my inherent bias in favour of location builds.

Really glad to see how well the Blacksmith and Character Display have been selling! They’re outstanding sets. Can’t wait to hear about what the summer lineup will be, the piece counts are exciting in themselves!

There’s seldom consistency every year (plus with TMaG and Ahsoka S2, there’ll be the usual level of secrecy around merchandise until closer to their release dates), but last year we did get a chunk of summer set information by the end of January. So fingers crossed the leakers do us a solid soon. Lego is also hosting a conference at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, not something they’re known to do so it makes sense that the Smart Brick will officially be unveiled there. @Mandalorianknight Yeah it’s really interesting to see quite a few Marvel, Harry Potter, Ninjago etc. sets either out of stock or on backorder for up to 60 days. I’m not surprised at this though given that as a whole, these themes have very strong January lineups. Star Wars-wise, both the Starship Collection sets have already sold well in the UK (Venator has a delayed shipment date of next week now, whilst the AT-AT has been delayed to February), but everything else isn’t as popular it seems.

There’s great potential filling some gaps that the current ATSV set and CMF haven’t yet filled (e.g. Prowler’s motorbike). I can see them going dormant with more sets until the next film releases though. As much as I share the cynicism a lot of you have around Doomsday, I can’t deny I’m feeling quite excited for the film and what Lego sets we’ll get around it. Presumably the Doomsday wave should release around October? The initial No Way Home tie-in sets released that month ahead of the film’s release in December.

Well, I finally bit the bullet and bought the Main Tower and Herbology Class. Merlin knows when I’ll actually build them but I’m invested in the latest Hogwarts system now.

The Solo sets were really damn good as a whole. I’ve always held them as a gold standard for modern film tie-in sets alongside the Rogue One wave. Han’s Landspeeder and the Cloud Rider Swoop Bikes are particularly unforgettable sets that were low priced, yet contained really well designed builds and minifigures. Solo’s failure at the Box Office is definitely a marketing mishap; the film was barely marketed, released during a period of intense competition with Deadpool 2 and Infinity War, and came hot on the heels of a ST film with divided reception. I’m surprised how good the film itself was given how much Ron Howard had to reshape it. - I completely forgot about how good the two holiday sets have been, absolutely! With the success of the Gingerbread AT-AT, here’s hoping for more holiday sets next year. They’ve struck gold with the idea. Hasbro currently do Halloween / Christmas Star Wars Black Series figures too which sell pretty well I believe. - What bothers me with the enbrickification (language) of this theme is that no other theme is as disparate with its play scale / buildable / 18+ offerings the way Star Wars is. You don’t see this much of a weird imbalance of sets with Harry Potter, Marvel / DC, or Minecraft. Though they dabble with alternatives to playscale sets, playscale is always front and centre. Conversely with Star Wars, we always have to wait longer for the good stuff. - Wicket is an ugly set I agree! I said it before but it’s ironic how Lego are fine with not putting a Battle of Endor set despite it having been years since the last one, but think it’s a higher priority to push out a buildable Wicket and UCS AT-ST within the same wave. By the right of the Council, by the will of the Force. Dub thee we do…Jedi. Knight of the Republic. (Anakin’s knighting ceremony in the CW microseries is so well done, I wish we could see it revisited in canon). Yeah I feel the same way. The £400+ UCS sets are all minifigure scaled and that’s great, but there is certainly room to do this at the lower price points too. Not everyone has room for the humongous UCS sets and not everyone wants oversized detailed ships - we’ve seen in 2025 that three UCS sets within a single year is possible anyway, so it’s certainly possible to cater to all audiences. Wishing all of you good folks a happy new year. Hoping some of the reliable leakers begin parcelling out some tantalising 2026 information.

I appreciate that bud! I have my fingers crossed for you that you’ll rack up a UCS collection in due course too. It’s a bit of a wish fulfilment for me as I never could get any large LEGO Star Wars sets as a kid so being able to do so now genuinely feels wonderful. I just wish we had more minifigure-scaled UCS sets at lower price points. @Mandalorianknight Totally agree content saturation is a thing with Star Wars now and Lego are *somewhat* justified in playing it safe. I just wish this didn’t preclude them from finally covering things that have demonstrated to be popular - a small set with Qimir and Sol from the Acolyte for instance, despite being based on a failed show, would doubtless sell well. As would a highly requested ship with a humungous wing from a highly popular canon video game series, or a certain Haulcraft from a niche spy thriller. Sure Lego would miss out on synchronising such sets whilst their subject matters are at the peak of fandom consciousness, but the demand is still there for stuff that they just seem to turn a blind eye to. With 2025 drawing to a close, it’d be fun reflecting on how this theme has fared this year. Here are my thoughts: The Good - UCS Jango’s Slave I. Enough said! - The introduction of the £60 ‘ship with three minifigures (and a droid if applicable)’ price point. The ARC-170, U-Wing, Slave I, and V-19 are all top-notch Lego Star Wars sets. I would love this trend continuing for subsequent years as I feel this is the best price point in the theme at the moment. - Highly requested characters like Plo Koon, General Kenobi, Phase 1 Clone Pilot, and various clones finally being represented in Lego form either for the first time entirely, or the first time in modern Lego Star Wars. - A fantastic array of buildable characters. Whilst I’m not a fan of the sheer quantity, there is no denying their quality for the most part. The Bad - The aggressive reduction in playscale sets to appeal to the 18+ ‘I’m too embarrassed to buy a Lego set’ crowd, coupled with the excessive number of buildable characters (5 in one year!). Brickset has an interesting article on this from June, and it gives me some hope that even LAN members are seeing and pointing this out. - The further dilution of playscale sets across normal playsets / battle packs, mechs, and microfighters, coupled with a focus on clone sets. This wouldn’t be such an issue if playscale sets weren’t sparse. - Lego finally revisiting the Sequel Trilogy, only to produce a sub-par helmet relying on prints for textured detail and very mid midi-scale set. Not having even just one set with some core ST minifigures is a shame, and next year’s BB-8 even having the old 2015 Kylo Ren minifigure on the box art shows an almost ironic lack of self awareness. - The again, aggressive reduction in ‘volume of stuff’ (as coined by Jangbricks) that we get with sets with respect to increasing prices. It’s one thing to raise prices to outpace inflation, but severely reducing piece counts etc. at the same time is a shame. The Lego Star Wars Team are trying to have their cake and eat it too as has already been pointed out above. My main hope for 2026 is that the Smart Brick sets aren’t Lego’s way of introducing ‘more’ playscale sets again. My hopes lie with the Mandalorian and Grogu wave and the 2HY offerings, and I’m hoping the Smart Brick sets have some merit to them despite how they’re sounding so far.

Yeah I can totally understand this. On one hand I can agree that Andor is largely unsuitable to base that many sets on, but on the other it would have been nice to see a little bit more coverage on it. Whilst the mature tone of Andor largely contributes to its reduced Lego coverage, I do think this still ties into a wider issue where despite the current Star Wars canon being quite extensive now (focusing on movies, shows, and games as audiovisual source material obviously maps better to merchandise), Lego’s approach towards it still feels narrower than it should be. Even when considering that a) There is simply too much content for Lego to realistically cover and b) Not all content would translate well into sets that sell well, what we do get nonetheless seems limited and repetitive. This speaks to my ignorance and dismissive attitude towards the Starship Collection, but I wasn’t aware its building techniques are more advanced than playscale sets and this is now something I want to keep a closer eye on. The Falcon always impressed me from its pictures but the other ships didn’t strike me as particularly impressive (although the Venator does look awesome). I guess I was wrong, although I still maintain it was incredibly underwhelming seeing the 2026 Star Wars sets unveiled at the Lego Fan Media Day in comparison to other themes. Having built the UCS Jango’s Slave I, all I can say is wow! I owned Boba’s back in 2016 but in terms of structural integrity, detailing, and shaping, you can certainly feel 10 years of advancements in building techniques, design methodology, and new parts with Jango’s version. I remember Boba’s feeling quite fragile to move around whilst Jango’s doesn’t have that problem. What a great set and I would love to see more minifigure-scale UCS sets at the lower end of the UCS price range in the future.

Right back at you! I can understand the Mandalorian S3 and Ahsoka S1 weren’t your cup of tea, but I do agree with some of the other posters that the Lego sets we got based on them have been awesome for the most part. I’d argue all the Ahsoka sets have been fantastic (and I hope Season 2 does get decent Lego coverage), and sets like the Mandalorian Bunker feel like a step up from the usual quality of Star Wars sets we’re used to - almost MOC-like as @Mandalorianknight points out. What I find really annoying about this trend is that small single-pilot vehicles like the Eta-2s, BARC Speeders, AT-RTs, and so on receive unnecessarily large and over-engineered builds occupying higher price points, whilst larger vehicles that should have sufficient scale, interiors, and functionality like the Juggernaut and MTT are almost ruthlessly downscaled. I will grant that I still think the MTT is a pretty great set, especially with the deployment mechanism. Anyhow, past a certain point, do the smaller vehicles really need to be that large? Are children’s hands somehow getting substantially bigger and necessitating tactile considerations for bigger models in general? Certainly not. I think it shows a misunderstanding of priorities and consistency within the theme, but it’s easy for me to say that as a consumer. Touching on the point of whether Lego representation (or just toy representation in general) for Star Wars content should be driven by how toyetic said content is or iconic or relevant to the fandom it is is a tricky subject IMO, especially with reception to contemporary Star Wars media always being difficult to anticipate (and exacerbated by the Lego Star Wars team’s general aversion to taking risks). If you’re a Lego Star Wars fan, chances are you’ll be interested in a set that probably is a little boring as a Lego set in isolation, but still holds appeal because it’s a representation of the subject matter. Contrast that with sets based on original Lego themes for example (like Ninjago), where they’re just cool toys or display pieces without depending on external source material to actually be appealing. It’s why I’m glad shows like Ahsoka are actually taken seriously by Lego, because content like that actually introduces ships and locations that just look cool as toys (yes, even Peridea) even if the show isn’t held in the same esteem as, say, Andor. You don’t have to care about E-Wings, Fiend Fighters, the Ghost, or T-6, but their Lego representations are nonetheless colourful, well designed, and just fun to build and swoosh around. All that said, I think the Lego Star Wars team could be doing more to keep a finger on the pulse of the theme (again, easy for me to say this as a mere consumer). Online discourse may be anecdotal, but that shouldn’t preclude them from at least identifying trends and seeing what’s in demand. The Fondor has been highly requested since 2022, the Mantis since 2019, more Bad Batch stuff in general since 2021 (although the Justifier did not help matters), the list goes on and on. Even the TIE Avenger, meme status aside, would just work as a cool toy, regardless of whether the source material is considered too mature for Lego.

Haha I feel this. I always put movies on when building sets (especially the larger ones) which substantially pads out my build time. Not that I mind because building Lego is such a therapeutic experience, but it’s always amusing seeing reviews mention how a set took a fraction of the time for the reviewer to build that it took me. Merry Christmas (and happy holidays) everyone. Genuinely a pleasure participating in this forum with an articulate and well natured group of fans. I’m spending some of my Christmas break building the UCS Jango’s Slave I and binging films. Dear Lego Star Wars Team, my Christmas wish is that you one day make some playscale sets on the Jedi games. Come on, surely you can allocate at least one set out of everything you put out every year.

Ditto. This is why I’ll always get excited for new trooper variants even if they’re blatant merchandise bait - chances are they’ll translate well into good Lego minifigures. This is partially why the lack of any Purge Trooper minifigures confuses me, the black / purple / red colour scheme is so striking. @BrickPrick Nice score on the U-Wing. Funny you should mention the box art, I’m 99.9% sure the exact same shot is used in the final Andor S2 arc where he, K2, and Melshi jump to hyperspace to rescue Kleya from Coruscant. I agree the arena fight from TMaG is a sensible choice for one of the sets, plus it’s a rare instance where you can incorporate buildable figures into a playscale context. I’m picturing something along the lines of the Thor vs Hulk Arena Clash from 2017 combined with several buildable monsters. Surely the AT-RT will be represented as a side build in one of the larger sets too. Licensees have known of this for ages after all, even Hot Toys had a Mando / Grogu with AT-RT displayed at Star Wars Celebration Japan back in April.

Hopefully not far to go until we get an August price and piece count list (or at least confirmation that an August wave is coming). I would love to see an 1809 piece playscale set but, yep, a buildable character is more likely. A Mandalorian in the same style as next year’s buildable Iron Man would be pretty cool. Overall with the busts being introduced this year, I do hope they give it a rest with the buildable characters.

Yeah I agree. I’m really not a fan of how badly the usual £140 price point has been completely butchered as of late. I can imagine it must be quite frustrating from a creative standpoint for the designers too that the parts count for even these large expensive (but not UCS) sets are being cut so ruthlessly. Remember when summer sets actually had over 1000 pieces and substantial builds? I feel lucky enough that all the sets I’ve wanted this year have been obtained on discount, outside of Cobb’s speeder I’ll be going into hibernation until either the TMaG wave or the summer wave. I wonder if the rumour about the new Grogu mould in the UCS N-1 (and presumably the TMaG sets) may have been misinformed? They’re still using the usual mould in Mando’s speeder, and even the new box art still depicts that version of him.

Gotta be honest, this strikes me as a nothingburger of a wave. The introduction of £9 sets is most welcome (and frankly, I would much rather have these than mechs and microfighters) and Cobb’s speeder looks like a good purchase on discount, but it says a lot that the new package design genuinely feels like the highlight of this wave of sets. I feel like Star Wars has reached a point where the fairly wide spread of waves throughout the year means that the early year waves feel somewhat hollow, disparate, and almost like a tickbox exercise. We’ve become accustomed to almost entirely overlooking early-year set lineups in the hopes that the summer waves are worth the wait. Hopefully the rest of the year’s sets will be worth the wait, and I’m sure some of them will be, but it would be nice if winter waves actually felt exciting and substantial again. The last time that truly felt the case was 2020. On a more positive note, it is nice to get some sets that are essentially based on the Season 2 premiere episode of The Mandalorian. That episode felt truly cinematic. I also echo that it does look like Mando and Cobb have new blaster pieces, although it could just be a matter of angles and the poor image quality. I’m also surprised to see the Grogu mould being reused despite the rumours of the UCS N-1 introducing a new mould for him. I suspect the updated Grogu mould will debut with the TMaG sets.

What a brilliant MOC @Mandalorianknight, you’ve captured the shaping perfectly and this looks addictively swooshable! Omitting the grey edges is also a smart choice as the Avenger’s wings looks ‘sharper’ anyway. I’m largely apathetic to TIE variants (they’re cool, I just care little for them), but for some reason I absolutely love the Avenger. It’s a shame Lego will seem to be ignoring this as a potential set.

The leaked list comes from MaxBaut, he’s as reliable as it gets The Four Weapons looks simply incredible. I can understand some of the concerns that it looks a little small, but nonetheless it looks dense and packed with detail and easter eggs rather than this being a matter of small surplus pieces that only exist to pad out the piece count. I mostly liked what Lego tried with Legacy in 2021, trying to reinterpret evergreen locations and vehicles, however this 15th anniversary celebration strikes me as far better. The build and minifigures look incredibly faithful to the show, only with modern sensibilities, building techniques, and price-points that we couldn’t have gotten back in 2011. The display stands for the annniversary minifigures look incredibly ornate too. I can’t wait to see what the remaining 15th anniversary sets look like.