LEGO Star Wars 2025 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

[Agent Kallus]

9 minutes ago, Meaf said:

 I can't find the exact quote but I believe it was along the lines of "we shouldn't expect much from it," so I suppose that could really be taken any number of ways. A remake of an OT ship still seems like the most likely option for that sort of sentiment, but again, I don't know why that would need to be kept secret. 

Yeah it feels very oxymoronic for something to uninteresting and also something that makes sense to be kept secret? 

I feel like the 'don't expect much from it' has to be from some sort of internal bias. Because if it's not a really common repeat then it's something a little bit different and therefore more interesting. And if it is a common repeat then it's nothing that needs to be more secret than anything else.

Maybe it's a Lego original thing from RTG or something and it's got lame figs like the Acknar trooper? ( Rather than the pretty fun ones in the dark falcon like Sith Jar Jar and Jedi Vader). That could sort of make sense. Because it's not something We've been waiting for because it'll be something TLG made up ( so could be considered uninteresting) but it is from something new ( and so they are keeping more under wraps)?

I'll combine my guesses and say  maybe it's some sort of rebuild the galaxy Snowspeeder with figs made from existing parts?

Edited January 21 by Agent Kallus

[Tariq j]

5 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

I'll combine my guesses and say  maybe it's some sort of rebuild the galaxy Snowspeeder with figs made from existing parts?

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. Or maybe something like a rebuild the galaxy Luke's landspeeder? (Never seen the show so I'm not sure what vehicles they could do).

[Brickwraith]

Yeah the combined clues of "don't get your hopes up" and "It's being kept secret" feel almost diametrically opposed. Once again, and Andor set feels the most logical, as it could have an OT set remake as a part of the show, but we've been told we already know all the Andor sets, and it wouldn't be kept a secret unless it had at least one character from the show. I guess a set based on an animated show that is going to be announced at Star Wars Celebration in April would be possible, but I don't see how that would be uninteresting. Unless it's a clone based show and they were just saying don't get your hopes up about sets without clones, but I feel like people would have interest in a new property even if it was that.

[Llewop]

2 hours ago, Meaf said:

I don't really see it being Acolyte given how long it's been since it aired, especially since if it took this long to make, it'd mean they likely didn't even start working on it until after it was already known to have flopped. Snowspeeder makes a lot of sense as a relatively bland choice, but I cannot think of any reason why it would need to stay secret. I can't find the exact quote but I believe it was along the lines of "we shouldn't expect much from it," so I suppose that could really be taken any number of ways. 

Could be another Yodas Jedi Starfighter lol.

i wouldn’t put too much faith in it being to long after a show has aired for a set to come out. Especially as last years we had Mando S3 set a couple of years after being out and then Ahsoka sets last year and this year which again is coming a while after the series release. 

Am I the only one hoping the night troopers aren’t the zombie versions? Also don’t generally like their design I just prefer normal stormtroopers and normal death troopers.

with regards to the battle pack I like the sound of it, wonder what the walker will be like. If it’s oversized, if it’s going to be similar colours to the battalion like the 501st one, happy they aren’t putting more B1s in the battle pack as well, just wish they could chuck in a droideka or two in one of these sets one day. 

again I’d like the sound of the B1 buildable if it was the only one on the shelves 

[BrickBob Studpants]

13 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

He is the messiah!

Lisan al Gaib!!  

Happy to see Double Death Troopers in the BP, but sadly no Enoch. And where‘s Bly in the other BP?!

So, based on what we know, this is the list of confirmed new characters / trooper types for 2025: 327th CT, Galactic Marine, Double Death Trooper. Bly, Bacara, a CIS higher-up, and Dedra may follow. 

Less than 10 new characters / trooper types in a year is bleak  2024 had more than 30, 2023 and 2022 both around 20, and 2021 around 15. New characters isn‘t the only metric to judge a year by, but this has to be a new negative record

[THELEGOBATMAN]

18 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

[something about other boring characters] and Dedra may follow. 

Yes please! I need a Dedra minifigure! 

Damn, I really hyped myself up for her inclusion in the U-Wing. My dissappoiment will be immeasurable if she isn't included.

[Zap Rowsdower]

12 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Interesting tidbit about 75433, an unknown ship set. A reliable leaker on Discord said that it's a "regular retail" set, and "they think they understand why it's being kept a secret".

Wonder what it could be then... this is the only unknown set left for 2025. Kinda crazy that it's January, and we already know the full line-up for the year (which is great, since it helps assess the budget).

Maybe it's like the Rogue One Y-wing or Solo TIE Fighter. Uninteresting because it's not new, but secret because it includes some spoilers with recent media. 

Some sequel-era sets could make sense. A T-70 or First Order TIE Fighter would be welcome and connect with the Force Awakens Anniversary. It's also been five years since we've gotten Luke's Landspeeder or a snowspeeder (which was 4+). 

Having a price or piece count would really help. 

 

 

[BrickBob Studpants]

The tidbits about the unknown set being contradictory probably reflects differing opinions  I‘m not falling for this again! The last two times we had pages worth of speculation thanks to vague hints, it turned out to be red herrings / misunderstandings  Remember the 1984 hint and Enoch‘s helmet piece?

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

CIS higher-up

Do we know for sure this is a new person? It could be one we've gotten before like Poggle or Nute.

1 hour ago, Zap Rowsdower said:

Maybe it's like the Rogue One Y-wing or Solo TIE Fighter. Uninteresting because it's not new, but secret because it includes some spoilers with recent media. 

I'm assuming it'll be almost exactly like the X-wing/TIE set last year- a remake of a ship, but it comes with generics and/or the OC characters rather than something like Jedi Vader.

[Samppu]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Lisan al Gaib!!  

Happy to see Double Death Troopers in the BP, but sadly no Enoch. And where‘s Bly in the other BP?!

So, based on what we know, this is the list of confirmed new characters / trooper types for 2025: 327th CT, Galactic Marine, Double Death Trooper. Bly, Bacara, a CIS higher-up, and Dedra may follow. 

Less than 10 new characters / trooper types in a year is bleak  2024 had more than 30, 2023 and 2022 both around 20, and 2021 around 15. New characters isn‘t the only metric to judge a year by, but this has to be a new negative record

True, but at least the ones we are about to get are diehard-hot-wants!

A CIS higher-up, pretty much anyone we haven't yet seen like Watt Tambor? Yes please!

Galactic Marine? I wished you to accompany the Kashyyyk and Utapau troopers back then, but better late than never. The same is true for the other remaining movie troopers.

Dedra? Just please, please give her double molded hair/cap piece...

Even if the overall amount is small, the rate of interest in them is at least high

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

where‘s Bly in the other BP?!

So, based on what we know, this is the list of confirmed new characters / trooper types for 2025: 327th CT, Galactic Marine, Double Death Trooper. Bly, Bacara, a CIS higher-up, and Dedra may follow. 

Less than 10 new characters / trooper types in a year is bleak  2024 had more than 30, 2023 and 2022 both around 20, and 2021 around 15. New characters isn‘t the only metric to judge a year by, but this has to be a new negative record

Wait is Bly in the 327th set or no, or has it just not been stated yet?

I think while this is a weak year, like you say, the relative lack of new characters isn't necessarily the only metric even within the figure category- if there are normal death troopers in the U-wing, it's been 8 years since the last ones so I feel that should count for something. Similarly, Dooku in the MTT would be a big win for us Dookheads, since it's been 12 years since his last figure. I mean honestly at this point I'd consider a new general or blue shirt Lando somewhat of a win- it's been awhile since either of those have been accessible and the cheapest in the US are around $50 for general lando (geez, maybe I should sell mine, I like Lando but for $50 I'll slap Skiff Lando's head on a generic light blue shirt) and TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR THE BLUE SHIRT ONE? HOLY CRAP LEGO THROW HIM IN THE NEXT BOBA SLAVE ONE OR SOMETHING. (I know we've had old lando and skiff disguise lando more recently, but that'd be like if we didn't have ANH Han but we had the stormtrooper outfit and TFA Han on shelves)

Kind of went on a "dear lord why are people paying so much for a minifigure" tangent there but point being I think remakes we haven't had in awhile should be factored in. I guess on that same line of thought if we wanted to try and make some sort of comprehensive metrics for it, we'd want to factor in figure detail (where applicable) and some form of "is the main cast on shelves" criteria. This sounds like a fun Excel project.

[BrickBob Studpants]

12 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Wait is Bly in the 327th set or no, or has it just not been stated yet?

He‘s not on the current list of figures, hence the uncertainty

14 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I think remakes we haven't had in awhile should be factored in. 

2025 looks pretty weak in that regard too. 2024 brought back Jabba and his entourage, plus Skiff Guard Lando, and  Super Battle Droids, which is a lot more impressive!

[Llewop]

13 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Wait is Bly in the 327th set or no, or has it just not been stated yet?

Maybe he isn’t easily recognisable from any prelim pics or they haven’t shown the actual figures. Would be odd if they don’t include him then we also haven’t had a clone commander in such a “cheap” set in recent years.

26 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Wait is Bly in the 327th set or no, or has it just not been stated yet?

I think while this is a weak year, like you say, the relative lack of new characters isn't necessarily the only metric even within the figure category- if there are normal death troopers in the U-wing, it's been 8 years since the last ones so I feel that should count for something. Similarly, Dooku in the MTT would be a big win for us Dookheads, since it's been 12 years since his last figure. I mean honestly at this point I'd consider a new general or blue shirt Lando somewhat of a win- it's been awhile since either of those have been accessible and the cheapest in the US are around $50 

Was there not something teased about gold leader a while back? we all assumed either Enoch or the guy from ANH but I mean Lando was gold leader for Endor so you never know your wish could be closer than you think. 

[Kaijumeister]

Some quick thoughts:

- No Enoch is a huge bummer. I can’t see there being more Ahsoka sets and it just goes to show he should’ve been included in last year’s Peridea set to begin with.

- I’m sure Bly will be included in the 327th Battle Pack, just doesn’t make sense to omit him and Lego haven’t used the macrobinocular piece since that one battle pack in 2023.

- A buildable B1 makes all the sense in the world but I really hate how much these ~$100 price point sets keep getting allocated to buildable figures rather than some well designed ships and locations. I’m craving a set with the same quality that ships like the Scythe have.

I wonder how many new minifigure parts will be introduced this year? The potential for them seems quite low given what we know. I’d love to see Dooku and some new Magnuaguards be introduced in the MTT.

[Mandalorianknight]

9 minutes ago, Llewop said:

Maybe he isn’t easily recognisable from any prelim pics or they haven’t shown the actual figures. Would be odd if they don’t include him then we also haven’t had a clone commander in such a “cheap” set in recent years.

Was there not something teased about gold leader a while back? we all assumed either Enoch or the guy from ANH but I mean Lando was gold leader for Endor so you never know your wish could be closer than you think. 

That's my guess, out of all the legions we've had so far he looks the closest to his troops, he's got the same helmet accessory and all.

It was a line from a scene with the V-19 Torrent and that set leaked shortly after so I think we have to assume it meant that, and the "in more ways than one" was in a reference to the Dutch Vander actor's passing away. 

20 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

He‘s not on the current list of figures, hence the uncertainty

2025 looks pretty weak in that regard too. 2024 brought back Jabba and his entourage, plus Skiff Guard Lando, and  Super Battle Droids, which is a lot more impressive!

Good to know. I assume they'd throw him in, they've been pretty good about giving each legion it's commander in the current design scheme- even if some of his prints are those of generic troopers.

Oh I agree, you'd just mentioned that new figs shouldn't be the only metric to judge a year by so I was bringing up some other ones.

[Swordy]

7 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Obviously I'd kill for another Andor set, as you all probably know,

With that profile picture and your love for Dedra… yeah, we know.

1 hour ago, Zap Rowsdower said:

Maybe it's like the Rogue One Y-wing or Solo TIE Fighter. Uninteresting because it's not new, but secret because it includes some spoilers with recent media. 

I’m going with this theory. This makes the most sense so far, although I have no idea what it could possibly be from recent shows (I’d love a certain remake from Skeleton Crew, but that ship would be actually be interesting). Maybe a Partisan X-Wing (with Two-Tubes, of course) but that would be an interesting set choice.

9 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Wait is Bly in the 327th set or no, or has it just not been stated yet?

According to a guy on r/Legoleaks, he says that the battlepack includes four of the same 327th troopers. Could be nothing, could be everything.

10 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I mean honestly at this point I'd consider a new general or blue shirt Lando somewhat of a win- it's been awhile since either of those have been accessible and the cheapest in the US are around $50 for general lando (geez, maybe I should sell mine, I like Lando but for $50 I'll slap Skiff Lando's head on a generic light blue shirt) and TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR THE BLUE SHIRT ONE? HOLY CRAP LEGO THROW HIM IN THE NEXT BOBA SLAVE ONE OR SOMETHING.

I’ve been thinking this for years. As a newish LSW collector myself, I’m missing one of the main characters because…, well, why, exactly? Yes, Lando products from Funko and Hasbro have historically been shelf warmers—most of the time they’re not ESB-based, though—but we could stand to get one of the most iconic SW characters in a set. Furthermore, Han seems to have been neglected outside of ANH, and just in 2023, after five years, did we get Leia in something other than her white dress and cinnamon buns.

It speaks to a greater truth. (One must destroy—no not that.) For being a company that is proud to speak of diversity and inclusion, I see very little diversity that matters. The disproportionate amount of Luke variants I have compared to Han, Leia, Lando, even Anakin, is concerning to me. To my understanding, Lando was a trailblazer for that group of people to be seen in sci-fi, and yet how many figures have we gotten of him in even the past 25 years? Padme has even fewer minifigs. The only reason we have a healthy amount of Reys and Finns is that the films in which they starred were produced at LSW’s height of production.

I’m not one to preach diversity and inclusion, but TLG is; and I find their hypocrisy just as upsetting. Their “solution” to a lack of diversity was switching out the heads of stormtroopers (which, HA, we don’t see much of them in 2025). So the bad guy red-shirts look like me? Big whoop. Again, we need diversity that counts, not what just fulfills criteria.

 

Alright, I’ll get off my soap box and talk about the new rumors.

327th BP sounds like a rip-off, sadly. It’s a shame that BPs aren’t the cheap impulse buys they once were.

The ratio of Double Death Troopers and Night Troopers feels off, similar to how it was with the 2020 Sith Trooper BP (whoever wanted an army of Sith Jet Troopers over an army of Sith Troopers, raise your hand). Plus, I already have a custom Double Death Trooper, which I consider absolute perfection, so an official LEGO minifig would never live up to that. It feels like a waste of resources to devote two out of potentially four unique designs to a trooper of which I only need two.

AT-AT Driver Helmet? Seriously? Guess it shows that not every cancelled idea will never see the light of day.

[CallumPears]

5 hours ago, Llewop said:

Am I the only one hoping the night troopers aren’t the zombie versions?

Yeah I legit think you might be lol. They look exactly the same with the helmets on so I don't see why it makes such a huge difference to you but if you really want them to be not-zombies then just get any of the dozens of regular heads available for 20p on Pick a Brick or a wider range on Bricklink. 

Conversely, people like me who want zombie heads wouldn't be able to do that if the set included a bunch of cheap random reused normal heads. 

Also the only Death Troopers we see in the show are already zombies so it wouldn't be accurate for them to have regular faces.

2 hours ago, Swordy said:

The ratio of Double Death Troopers and Night Troopers feels off, similar to how it was with the 2020 Sith Trooper BP (whoever wanted an army of Sith Jet Troopers over an army of Sith Troopers, raise your hand)

Yeah really stupid decision to do that. Even as someone who was not a fan of TRoS I thought the Sith Troopers looked cool but they completely dropped the ball with that battle pack (it warmed shelves for a looong time around me and I saw them going for as little as £5 each, the cheapest I've ever seen a battle pack), and there have been a lot of others like it over the years. Of course, we're assuming LEGO are capable of learning from mistakes like that (which based on this they aren't). As I mentioned in my previous post, the only positive will be if the 2 Death Troopers have unique damage patterns (unlikely) but even then I think most people would prefer a 1:3 ratio with the standard Night Troopers. 

At least there's no Enoch included (yeah they need to make him at some point but I'm very much a no-named-characters-in-battle-packs kinda guy).

[Darth_Bane13]

The buildable B1 battle droid actually sounds kind of cool to me. Lego has always done a good job with the buildable droid characters like the Droideka, Probe droid, R2 D2. The 327th set sounds really lame, should've been a swamp speeder or a homing spider droid as the build. I dislike this trend of sets being so minifigure focused instead of getting a decent build, I think the mid-low priced playsets are very poor nowadays.

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, Swordy said:

With that profile picture and your love for Dedra… yeah, we know.

I’m not one to preach diversity and inclusion, but TLG is; and I find their hypocrisy just as upsetting. Their “solution” to a lack of diversity was switching out the heads of stormtroopers (which, HA, we don’t see much of them in 2025). So the bad guy red-shirts look like me? Big whoop. Again, we need diversity that counts, not what just fulfills criteria.

Alright, I’ll get off my soap box and talk about the new rumors.

327th BP sounds like a rip-off, sadly. It’s a shame that BPs aren’t the cheap impulse buys they once were.

The ratio of Double Death Troopers and Night Troopers feels off, similar to how it was with the 2020 Sith Trooper BP (whoever wanted an army of Sith Jet Troopers over an army of Sith Troopers, raise your hand). Plus, I already have a custom Double Death Trooper, which I consider absolute perfection, so an official LEGO minifig would never live up to that. It feels like a waste of resources to devote two out of potentially four unique designs to a trooper of which I only need two.

AT-AT Driver Helmet? Seriously? Guess it shows that not every cancelled idea will never see the light of day.

Lego may want to put out some alerts for this guy, but if it's a goofier silver age joker... I might be OK with him pieing the designers or... trademarking fish? He did that right? to get some changes made to the theme.

Yeah, it's a really bad way to go about it IMO. Making grunts more diverse (especially since I feel like they almost exclusively do it in scenarios where it's not accurate to the scene being depicted) feels very much like it's being done to check boxes- I do sincerely believe that they have internal quotas to fill in terms of the gender or skin tone of minifigures- and it's crazy that we can have that going on but they don't make Lando or Padme readily accessible. Plus, while it's not the case in-universe, in the OT the imperials were very much nazi stand-ins, so it's weird to see them suddenly more diverse than most real-world militaries. It's a touchy topic so I won't speak on it much more- plus your comment is more or less just a more eloquent version of what I'm trying to say, but yeah, point being, how do we have these drives at lego and yet I have to shell out $200 for Lando?

It's a real issue- We used to get two $13-15 BPs a year, and now it's one $20 BP and one just straight up set that's only a battle pack in that it has an undersized build for the price. $40 what essentially boils down to removing two droids from the $30 set last year is just sad.

Yeah exactly (and good callout- I would have bought a lot more of that set if it had the sith troopers- and if the sith troopers were cool. I don't hate TROS, but I was so excited for what amounted to stormtrooper reskins. Battlefront 2 did a much better job with them). It should have been one double death trooper, or better yet, four night troopers with Enoch in the Peridea set and a nightdeath trooper in a new Patrol Gunship, because that vehicle's been in a billion projects and we've never had an imperial version.

I can't imagine this does well. I feel like a Royal Guard one would have done better. That said, I thought the Boushh one would do poorly and I don't recall seeing any sales on it, at least any more than the rest of the helmets, so maybe I'm wrong.

12 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I dislike this trend of sets being so minifigure focused instead of getting a decent build

I agree. I think lego is now fully aware that by including multiple troopers in a sub-$50 set, the grey baseplate people will army build it, and that even children might be persuaded to buy multiple copies. Building off that (pun unintended only because it's really the inverse), I think they feel the builds don't have to be as good because the set'll sell a number of copies just for the minifigures. 

[Ringwraith]

On 1/20/2025 at 3:46 PM, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Yeah, that's the August wave. Besides the January one already being mostly Clone Wars stuff, and the May and June one consisting almost entirely of gimmicks (helmets, microfighters, buildable figures), it turns out the August one (the main one of the year) is 80% Clone Wars and buildable figures.

(Which made plenty of people here annoyed, because Clones are cool and all, but we're at a point where there's a visible overload of those.)

The rumours are all reliable, except the Turbo Tank, which some leakers are unsure about. Anyway, here's a list (just for August though—we're still getting eight sets in May, three in June, an Advent Calendar in September, and a 1000€ Death Star in October):

75413 UT-AT (150€, 813 pcs; includes two Galactic Marines)

75414 Turbo Tank / Rebuild the Galaxy set (50€, 349 pcs)

75417 AT-ST [18+] (200€, 1513 pcs)

76428 ??? (???, ???)

75430 Buildable Ewok (90€, ???)

75431 327th Star Corp Battle Pack (40€, 258 pcs)

75432 V-19 Torrent Starfighter (60€, 537 pcs; includes three minifigures—Asajj Ventress, a Phase I Clone Pilot, and possibly Obi-Wan Kenobi)

75433 Ship (???, ???)

75434 Buildable K-2SO (90€, ???)

75435 MTT (150€, ???; based on Clone Wars with a blue and white colour scheme)

So as you can see, at least half their sets in August are based on Clone Wars.

Don't get me wrong I'm happy as a clam as clone wars cool buuut this does seem like slight over-saturation. I'm happy to discount the UT-AT as RoS 20th anniversary set but is there a hidden lego dossier somewhere which says that Clone Wars stuff sells better lol or are they just running out of OT ideas 

[BrickBob Studpants]

The more I think about the „understandably being kept secret“ part, the less sense it makes. There‘s nothing new coming out beside Andor, and even if there was a second season of RTG, why would a set based on it be a secret? Last year‘s RTG sets were leaked alongside the rest, well before we even knew RTG was a thing!

It’s probably just a purposefully vague hint to spark some discussions  I compared it to the 1984 hint before, but it‘s more like the young Leia hints that sent us on a wild goose chase and bent ourselves into pretzels, trying to make sense of them.

Edited January 22 by BrickBob Studpants

[Calanon]

10 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yeah, it's a really bad way to go about it IMO. Making grunts more diverse (especially since I feel like they almost exclusively do it in scenarios where it's not accurate to the scene being depicted) feels very much like it's being done to check boxes- I do sincerely believe that they have internal quotas to fill in terms of the gender or skin tone of minifigures- and it's crazy that we can have that going on but they don't make Lando or Padme readily accessible. Plus, while it's not the case in-universe, in the OT the imperials were very much nazi stand-ins, so it's weird to see them suddenly more diverse than most real-world militaries. It's a touchy topic so I won't speak on it much more- plus your comment is more or less just a more eloquent version of what I'm trying to say, but yeah, point being, how do we have these drives at lego and yet I have to shell out $200 for Lando?

Admittedly I'm a white man so maybe not the best person to weigh in, but I like that we get more variety of heads for what are ultimately regular people in SW universe. There's also been a lot more diversity in Imperials in new canon in regards to human race and gender with the focus being anti-alien sentiment. The OT is rather a product of its time with how white everyone is. It's a huge galaxy, not Europe. I also enjoy how mad it makes some people that oh no we've got a Hoth rebel trooper with darker skin.

I do solidly agree though the rarity of Lando and Padmé is wrong.

[Meaf]

15 hours ago, Swordy said:

With that profile picture and your love for Dedra… yeah, we know.

I’m going with this theory. This makes the most sense so far, although I have no idea what it could possibly be from recent shows (I’d love a certain remake from Skeleton Crew, but that ship would be actually be interesting). Maybe a Partisan X-Wing (with Two-Tubes, of course) but that would be an interesting set choice.

According to a guy on r/Legoleaks, he says that the battlepack includes four of the same 327th troopers. Could be nothing, could be everything.

I’ve been thinking this for years. As a newish LSW collector myself, I’m missing one of the main characters because…, well, why, exactly? Yes, Lando products from Funko and Hasbro have historically been shelf warmers—most of the time they’re not ESB-based, though—but we could stand to get one of the most iconic SW characters in a set. Furthermore, Han seems to have been neglected outside of ANH, and just in 2023, after five years, did we get Leia in something other than her white dress and cinnamon buns.

It speaks to a greater truth. (One must destroy—no not that.) For being a company that is proud to speak of diversity and inclusion, I see very little diversity that matters. The disproportionate amount of Luke variants I have compared to Han, Leia, Lando, even Anakin, is concerning to me. To my understanding, Lando was a trailblazer for that group of people to be seen in sci-fi, and yet how many figures have we gotten of him in even the past 25 years? Padme has even fewer minifigs. The only reason we have a healthy amount of Reys and Finns is that the films in which they starred were produced at LSW’s height of production.

I’m not one to preach diversity and inclusion, but TLG is; and I find their hypocrisy just as upsetting. Their “solution” to a lack of diversity was switching out the heads of stormtroopers (which, HA, we don’t see much of them in 2025). So the bad guy red-shirts look like me? Big whoop. Again, we need diversity that counts, not what just fulfills criteria.

 

Alright, I’ll get off my soap box and talk about the new rumors.

327th BP sounds like a rip-off, sadly. It’s a shame that BPs aren’t the cheap impulse buys they once were.

The ratio of Double Death Troopers and Night Troopers feels off, similar to how it was with the 2020 Sith Trooper BP (whoever wanted an army of Sith Jet Troopers over an army of Sith Troopers, raise your hand). Plus, I already have a custom Double Death Trooper, which I consider absolute perfection, so an official LEGO minifig would never live up to that. It feels like a waste of resources to devote two out of potentially four unique designs to a trooper of which I only need two.

AT-AT Driver Helmet? Seriously? Guess it shows that not every cancelled idea will never see the light of day.

I was actually just talking about the Lando situation with someone the other day, and yeah I completely agree. It just seems like such an obvious oversight to make his ESB version so rare despite him being such an iconic character. I know we don't get a ton of Cloud City sets but I'm surprised he's never been thrown into any of them, he could have easily been in a Slave I or the carbonite freezing chamber. I guess it's just a matter of him being less important/iconic than Luke, Han, Leia, Vader, and Boba, but still, you'd think he'd show up at least once in a smaller set.

As far as the trooper heads go, I'm all for having them be more diverse. On the OT side of things I mostly just buy Stormtroopers, so it's more beneficial for me to have them be more diverse so I can reuse them elsewhere if I want. It's definitely an upgrade over the days of having all plain black heads, even if I do miss them a little.

[Agent Kallus]

3 hours ago, Calanon said:

 I like that we get more variety of heads for what are ultimately regular people in SW universe. There's also been a lot more diversity in Imperials in new canon in regards to human race and gender with the focus being anti-alien sentiment. 

I do too.

I think we need more in-universe diversity too. More aliens! The battlefront rebel BP was decent for this but I'd love to see more standard galactic citizens with all sorts of aliens. Like a cantina patrons add-on pack, or Jabba's guards or background jedi or senators. Just more aliens!

Edited January 22 by Agent Kallus

[Samppu]

15 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

I do too.

I think we need more in-universe diversity. More aliens! The battlefront rebel BP was decent for this but I'd love to see more standard galactic citizensnwith all sorts of aliens. Like a cantina patrons add-on pack, or jabbas guards or background jedi or senators. Just more aliens!

Yes. This would be perfect, something akin to the Bountyhunter Battlepack.
Jabba's thugs would be a sensible addition now that we have the sail barge available.

Of course, I wonder how the bountyhunter pack performed, because there seems to be no excuse to not have released one with a toy scaled desert skiff along with the barge in the first place. Namely, there are no aliens in the skiff set or in the barge really, so a battlepack would not have decreased the incentive to buy them, on the contrary, it would have made it more appealing when the scene could be completed with more than just one Gamorrean guard...