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

[Virginia_Bricks]

48 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

U-Wing's looking good.

Could be another figure cropped off (after all the same picture has cropped Anakin out of January's Ahsoka Starfighter)

 

4 lines up with the Arc-170 which was the same price

[Meaf]

Wow the U-Wing looks pretty good. I wish it could have been a bit bigger but for what it is, I think it's great. Kind of insane that it's only $10 cheaper than the original, though I'm sure the original would be at least $100 if it released now.

[icm]

It's possible I'll like it better once I see the full pictures, but for now I'm not impressed by the new U-wing. The troop bay of the 2016 model was already pretty small and cramped, but at least it had sliding doors. It doesn't look like the new model has a decent front/lower windscreen, and that was one of the best parts of the first version. If they were going to brick-build the engines instead of using the big 4w cylinder pieces like last time, they should have scaled them down to 3w instead of 4w to match the reduced scale of the ship. As it is, the engines are the same diameter as on the old set but they're a lot clunkier and blockier around the middle. But it does look a lot lighter and easier to swoosh than the old model, and that's not a bad thing.

[Llewop]

1 hour ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

But the full picture is available and Anakin is there, but sadly no additional minifig for the U-Wing is shown.

If it’s true I wonder were someone got two stormtroopers and Daedra from?

can’t wait for more detailed pictures 

[AD_Bricks]

WOWOW it looks great!! Did not expect the dual-moulded cap but they really did it!! I was sure they'd also find away to excuse themselves of putting the insignias on K2's shoulders but he has them!! Yay!!!!!!!

[Darth_Bane13]

The U wing is yet another disappointing modern Lego star wars remake.

[Mandalorianknight]

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

(Wait where is the 2nd trooper?!)

Lost the same way Yavin and the "death star playset" fig counts were.

6 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

She looks magnificent! The coat, a fitting faceprint, AND a dual-moulded hat? Is this a dream? I am actually amazed that she looks as good as she deserves to, I am speechless.

They really did go all-out on dedra, happy for you.

3 hours ago, Llewop said:

If it’s true I wonder were someone got two stormtroopers and Daedra from?

can’t wait for more detailed pictures 

Assumably either
A: Lego originally intended that to be the figure setup but as we've seen a couple times before now, dropped the fig count before release

B: Someone mistook the unhelmeted stormtrooper for a normal one and assumed "they wouldn't just have one stormtrooper in the set"

 

Cautiously optimistic. This is a bad angle for the ship but the value doesn't look bad, and from what I can see the ship seems good. 3 figures and a droid in a $70 set isn't great but it's not terrible, especially when as I said the ship seems fairly sizeable for $70.

One note though- with the exclusion of the stormtroopers, this is the first year in the 26-year history of the theme that none of the Original Trilogy imperial troopers (Storm, Snow, Scout, Sand) have appeared in a standard retail set. This is the first time (with the possible exception of 2022- who's only stormtrooper inclusion was in a multipack rerelease so it's a bit of a grey area) since 2018 that a normal stormtrooper has not appeared in a standard retail set.

14 minutes ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

The U wing is yet another disappointing modern Lego star wars remake.

We aren't exactly being given the most flattering angles here but I wouldn't count it out yet. For one thing, it's $10 cheaper than the 2016 model was at retail discounting inflation, or $35 cheaper than it would be after accounting for inflation. At least the smaller size corresponds to a significantly lower pricetag.

[AD_Bricks]

2 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

One note though- with the exclusion of the stormtroopers, this is the first year in the 26-year history of the theme that none of the Original Trilogy imperial troopers (Storm, Snow, Scout, Sand) have appeared in a standard retail set. This is the first time (with the possible exception of 2022- who's only stormtrooper inclusion was in a multipack rerelease so it's a bit of a grey area) since 2018 that a normal stormtrooper has not appeared in a standard retail set.

Assuming stormtroopers were indeed the first imperial troopers to be released, 1999 and 2000 technically also had no imperial troopers, but your point still very much stands.

[icm]

Set 7128 in 1999 had two scout troopers. A minifig pack in 2000 also had two scout troopers. The first stormtroopers weren't released until 2001.

Edited March 4 by icm

[BrickBob Studpants]

Oh, that U-Wing looks good! Nice to have Dedra with a dual-moulded cap plus one of those new helmetless troopers! I gladly trade the rumoured two Stormies for that

[Darth_Bane13]

47 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

We aren't exactly being given the most flattering angles here but I wouldn't count it out yet. For one thing, it's $10 cheaper than the 2016 model was at retail discounting inflation, or $35 cheaper than it would be after accounting for inflation. At least the smaller size corresponds to a significantly lower pricetag.

I don't think the value on the new one is bad but they should've made it $100 and done it justice. Some sets are okay downsized but this isn't an iconic ship and doesn't need to be affordable like a Tie fighter or an X-wing does, in my opinion.

[Samppu]

I am melting for the dual-molded cap as well. That alone is reason enough for me to get my hands on the set now, unless that piece becomes easily available in the aftermarket. It goes very well for Juno Eclipse as well.

The only thing I find typically lazy from Lego are the leg pieces for her. They have printing on the front, which is nice, but no dual-molding, even if that particular color combination of white upper part and black lower part certainly is easily available and probably the difference in price is marginal given that it is an old one and very frequently used.
Without dual-molding the result seems like a cooking dress from the 50s, not like a trench coat as it should.

For me personally it does not really matter though, because I make my own trench coats for the figures from the fabric anyway. This is just a general thought.

[AD_Bricks]

1 hour ago, icm said:

Set 7128 in 1999 had two scout troopers. A minifig pack in 2000 also had two scout troopers. The first stormtroopers weren't released until 2001.

Ah, thanks for clarifying that. I had no idea scout troopers came out 2 years before the first stormtroopers!

[icm]

As a kid who was really excited for the very first Lego Star Wars sets, it was incredibly disappointing and puzzling that there weren't any stormtroopers for two whole years.

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, AD_Bricks said:

Assuming stormtroopers were indeed the first imperial troopers to be released, 1999 and 2000 technically also had no imperial troopers, but your point still very much stands.

Scout Troopers appeared in 1999 and 2000, but like you say, either way this is a crazy thing to happen. The first year- in the entire life of the theme- that no imperial troopers from the OT appear in a single retail set.

2 hours ago, Darth_Bane13 said:

I don't think the value on the new one is bad but they should've made it $100 and done it justice. Some sets are okay downsized but this isn't an iconic ship and doesn't need to be affordable like a Tie fighter or an X-wing does, in my opinion.

This is fair. I will say I think your iconicity point is actually the other way around- we've seen in the past that making the big sets less iconic things leads to poor results, whereas smaller sets have a larger margin of people who might not be as familiar with the ship but still pick it up- but it's a moot point as I think the U-wing is known well enough and fits the rebel design scheme well enough that a $100 set would be fine.

That said, I'm sure lego was just told "Make a set for andor" and some exec picked the $70 price point off which the specific model was then chosen, so I'd rather we get this than no U-wing at all. Though a TIE Avenger could also have worked...

2 hours ago, icm said:

As a kid who was really excited for the very first Lego Star Wars sets, it was incredibly disappointing and puzzling that there weren't any stormtroopers for two whole years.

A very strange choice- though to be honest, the early years of lego star wars were an interesting selection. Why did we get Vader's TIE before a normal one, for instance?

 

 

I want to make clear that- unless more images show that the U-wing is either tiny or looks awful from other angles- I think it's a good set, and while I won't personally get it as I own the 2016 one I'm glad it's on shelves.

But it is ABSURD that this theme has reached a point where no OT imperial troopers appear in retail sets this year.

[ForgedInLego]

12 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Scout Troopers appeared in 1999 and 2000, but like you say, either way this is a crazy thing to happen. The first year- in the entire life of the theme- that no imperial troopers from the OT appear in a single retail set.

If we're counting 3342 as a "retail set", we also have to count the UCS Death Star, from what I can tell, 3342 was a limited release only available direct from Lego

[Lordhelmet]

18 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That said, I'm sure lego was just told "Make a set for andor" and some exec picked the $70 price point off which the specific model was then chosen, so I'd rather we get this than no U-wing at all. Though a TIE Avenger could also have worked...

Probably right about the process, and a $70 tie avenger would have been a day one buy for me, but I do like the u-wing as an alternate option (I missed the last one so will be picking this one up)

[Kaijumeister]

I’ll reserve my thoughts on the build itself until we get more images (seriously, it’s the least flattering angle to get a first look), but the minifigures are stunning! I donated my 2016 U-Wing years ago so might just pick this up.

[Mandalorianknight]

36 minutes ago, ForgedInLego said:

If we're counting 3342 as a "retail set", we also have to count the UCS Death Star, from what I can tell, 3342 was a limited release only available direct from Lego

Alright. We'll put aside that I wouldn't count a minifigure pack as even remotely close to a $1000 set. So sure. Instead of the first ever, it's the first time since the second year of the theme, a quarter century ago, when it was just starting out.

33 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

Probably right about the process, and a $70 tie avenger would have been a day one buy for me, but I do like the u-wing as an alternate option (I missed the last one so will be picking this one up)

Yeah I think they would both have been good choices. and if they didn't want to use the U-wing on a $100+ slot anytime soon I think this is fine.

[icm]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The early years of lego star wars were an interesting selection. Why did we get Vader's TIE before a normal one, for instance?

That was also incredibly puzzling and disappointing to me as a kid when LSW was just starting out. It makes sense in retrospect though. They only had a limited number of set slots, so the first TIE fighter they made was the main villain's personal ship.

[Clone OPatra]

My first instinct was that the U-Wing was pretty ugly compared to the old one (not talking about accuracy, just aesthetics), but other angles might be better.

Dedra is mostly great, but why oh why are they doing white on black printed legs when they're going to be so ugly and dual molded white top and black bottom legs currently exist and are in production? I know Star Wars almost never has dual moulded arms or legs, but that part literally exists right now!

[AD_Bricks]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

But it is ABSURD that this theme has reached a point where no OT imperial troopers appear in retail sets this year.

While this is kind of crazy, I do think that to an extent, this is a sort of arbitrary category to make such a big deal about (talking about all of us, not that we're making that big of a deal but still), especially considering we are still getting imperial troopers (night troopers, the shield one from the U-Wing), just not OT, and we are also getting the set with possibly the most OT imperial figures ever, just not a regular retail one, and this is coming off the back of a year in which we got two mid-sized sets that are probably two of the best regular army builders for regular imperial stormtroopers and rebel navy troopers in the last several years, both of which are still available. 

So really, even though it seems a bit crazy when we narrow it down to the specific category of OT imperial troopers in regular retail sets released in 2025, it's really just a combination of specific factors that we haven't really encountered before now, and the situation isn't going to have any drastic effects on the theme as a whole.

Edited March 5 by AD_Bricks

[Mandalorianknight]

23 minutes ago, AD_Bricks said:

While this is kind of crazy, I do think that to an extent, this is a sort of arbitrary category to make such a big deal about (talking about all of us, not that we're making that big of a deal but still), especially considering we are still getting imperial troopers (night troopers, the shield one from the U-Wing), just not OT, and we are also getting the set with possibly the most OT imperial figures ever, just not a regular retail one, and this is coming off the back of a year in which we got two mid-sized sets that are probably two of the best regular army builders for regular imperial stormtroopers and rebel navy troopers in the last several years, both of which are still available. 

So really, even though it seems a bit crazy when we narrow it down to the specific category of OT imperial troopers in regular retail sets released in 2025, it's really just a combination of specific factors that we haven't really encountered before now, and the situation isn't going to have any drastic effects on the theme as a whole.

I was initially just going to say it's the first year since 2018 with no retail releases of imperial stormtroopers (With a grey area for 2022) but while I was researching to confirm I found out about that, I realized it was the first year ever without any OT imperial troopers (or first since 2000 if you don't count the minifig pack) and included that broadened statistic.

In my view the night troopers and shield guys don't count because they're incredibly specialized units (I could end up being wrong on the unhelmeted ones). If we got normal death, shore, shock, etc troopers I would have been more lenient. 

As for the $1000 death star coming with stormtroopers, that means nothing as far as general availability on shelves (I specify retail in my thing, but really even if this was availible at Walmart I'd feel the same.) Precious few children are going to get the $1000 death star. For any person who is spending $1k on a lego star wars set, I hope to GOD they know what bricklink is at that point. 

My point is, this isn't like some sneaky wording to deliberately obfuscate the issue- the reason there's no OT imperial troopers in playsets this year is because there are no OT playsets this year. I think that really is a big deal.

43 minutes ago, icm said:

That was also incredibly puzzling and disappointing to me as a kid when LSW was just starting out. It makes sense in retrospect though. They only had a limited number of set slots, so the first TIE fighter they made was the main villain's personal ship.

I guess I can see that point of view, but I still feel like the standard TIE is more well known. That said, from the perspective that they knew the theme would be going on for some time, I can understand not wanting to dump out the three most iconic ships in the same year.

24 minutes ago, Clone OPatra said:

My first instinct was that the U-Wing was pretty ugly compared to the old one (not talking about accuracy, just aesthetics), but other angles might be better.

Dedra is mostly great, but why oh why are they doing white on black printed legs when they're going to be so ugly and dual molded white top and black bottom legs currently exist and are in production? I know Star Wars almost never has dual moulded arms or legs, but that part literally exists right now!

This is why I'm withholding judgement, it was just about the worst angle it could leak at. At least if it was the underside of the ship or something most people would agree there's not enough to make a judgement off of.

And they just gave them to Thrawn too. I have to assume creating a new leg print is at least roughly equivalent to the cost of using an in-production set of dual molded legs, so I wonder why they made that choice. (I don't wonder why they aren't factoring in the ugliness of printing light colors on dark ones, though. At this point we can pretty confidently say the figure designers are deep in "everything is fine" land with those printing issues.)

[Classic_Spaceman]

14 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The rumoured stormtroopers are actually the cap and armour guys we see in the trailer. CompForce troopers?

 

 

This is pure hopium, but I would really like to see the “Stormtroopers” turn out to be the (what are probably) CompForce troopers that we see in the trailer! 

On 2/24/2025 at 2:37 PM, Classic_Spaceman said:

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one! 
 

[Swordy]

12 hours ago, Llewop said:

Compared to the last one where you could fit troops in this one looks like you might fit one or two at best and they might have to sit down. But like someone else said as a display piece it looks nice 

Andor S1, E2

(Sorry, I felt compelled by an energy field far greater than myself to borrow someone else’s joke.)

I do agree, which is why it should’ve been at a much higher price point. Sadly the executives at TLG probably chose the price beforehand, so compromises had to be made. However, it does look like that, with the doors wide open, a figure could stand and shoot out of the troop compartment.

12 hours ago, Darth Malgus said:

The shrinking of this ship is crazy.  The original one is still superior in shape and size IMHO.

Conversely, I always thought the original to be weak in it’s proportions—particularly the wings, which look tiny compared to the ship itself. The new version, having been shrunk down, solves that problem for me. The engines are wonky, that I won’t deny. In the end, the scale was meant to be going up, not down; if they applied the same principles they use with the Republic Gunship to its Rebel equivalent, it would be nearly perfect.

Then again, I already strongly disliked the 2016 U-Wing, aesthetically speaking, while many others continue to praise it. I believe I’m in the minority on both versions. (: