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

[THELEGOBATMAN]

The only 2025 LEGO Star Wars set as far as I'm concerned. Andor supremacy! 📣

[BrickBob Studpants]

Hopefully, the U-Wing and MTT deliver when it comes to new characters, otherwise this may end up as the year with the lowest number of new characters in AGES, if not ever

Currently, we have a grand total of 0. That said, Bly and Bacara are incredibly likely and Dedra Meero has decent chances as well. Enoch is unlikely, but still possible.

Beyond that, it looks rather grim at the moment  The MTT has a lot of potential, but I‘ll hold my horses before we hear more.

[ArrowBricks]

To be honest, I am a huge Clone Wars fan and if the rumours are true, I am looking forward to the 327th BP, V-19, UT-AT, and MTT. 

These are either new releases or worthy re-releases so I don’t think the criticism is all that fair. I do appreciate personal preference, though. 

I can see the frustration given the lack of OT playsets. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

29 minutes ago, ArrowBricks said:

These are either new releases or worthy re-releases so I don’t think the criticism is all that fair. I do appreciate personal preference, though. 

Agreed. My issue is that in the last 10 years, we got used to having lots of variety in the 2HY sets, and the August wave currently consists purely of Clone sets. Playset-wise, I mean!

We actually have plenty of variety this year if you also consider the midi-scale ships and buildable figures, but that‘s not the kind of variety people want

[Agent Kallus]

Yeah while I understand and agree with criticisms about lack of variety at least it's mostly either new things or things they've not done in a while.

Do I think an Imperial Laat/Le would be more interesting than any of these sets? yes. Do I think these are still more interesting than another X-wing, Barc, At-St, Snowspeeder or Luke's Landspeeder? Also yes . Do I wish that in general we'd get more content for new releases rather than just the OT, and there favourites from the PT and Clone Wars? Yes. Are there still interesting things they could do from the Clone wars? Yes NIGHTSISTERS!!! (amongst other things).

Edited January 9 by Agent Kallus

[Mandalorianknight]

7 hours ago, Rwbricks said:

Maybe LEGO was counting on the fact that all of the fans who are cloned-out and thus won’t have spent much on Star Wars this year will have saved enough by the end of the year to buy one of the only non-clone sets: the $1,000 Death Star. 

They counted wrong, even if I was buying every LSW playset I don't think I'd even be up to half of that, even if I wanted a 3ft ball in my home.

7 hours ago, Llewop said:

I’d be more annoyed had it been another kasshyk (I can’t spell it but you know what I mean) wave or another 501st but definitely after this year Lego needs to chill with the P2 clones. I always want more Empire stuff, I want Purge Troopers, I want more inquisitiors, more shore troopers, that random flame trooper from the Mandolorian ( if they can do that Mortar trooper they can do him :D ). I always think it’s impossible to please everyone especially with how big SW is I think the nature of the beast is some fans will have expensive years and some will have cheap years. Just as long as they still have a focus on the system sets I don’t mind what they do.

This is generally true, but my issue is twofold:

1) I can't think of the last time it was this bad variety wise. Maybe around the release of 2008 clone wars, when those were almost all they made? I looked back on Brickset and every year through 2014 (which is just when I stopped searching, but I know we had the outer rim siege sets+cantina, ISD and AT-AT in 2014, and I know we had a geonosis wave+ a number of OT sets in 2013, etc) has some variety to it.

2) they aren't having as much of a focus on system sets as they used to. This number of clone sets wouldn't bother me if it was among a few more OT or sequel system sets, but it's peers are all buildable creatures or midi-scale ships. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike the midi ships, but they're pumping out waaaaaay to many 18+ gimmick sets.

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Hopefully, the U-Wing and MTT deliver when it comes to new characters, otherwise this may end up as the year with the lowest number of new characters in AGES, if not ever

Currently, we have a grand total of 0. That said, Bly and Bacara are incredibly likely and Dedra Meero has decent chances as well. Enoch is unlikely, but still possible.

Beyond that, it looks rather grim at the moment  The MTT has a lot of potential, but I‘ll hold my horses before we hear more.

I think we can assume a minimum of 4: 327th trooper, Bly, Bacara, Galactic Marine. 

51 minutes ago, ArrowBricks said:

To be honest, I am a huge Clone Wars fan and if the rumours are true, I am looking forward to the 327th BP, V-19, UT-AT, and MTT. 

These are either new releases or worthy re-releases so I don’t think the criticism is all that fair. I do appreciate personal preference, though. 

I can see the frustration given the lack of OT playsets. 

The issue is moreso that there's ONLY clone/clone wars sets. It's not even all prequel-era, it's specifically 99% clone trooper/clone related sets. Why not at least throw in a new Mustafar or a senate duel or something?

[BrickBob Studpants]

4 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I think we can assume a minimum of 4: 327th trooper, Bly, Bacara, Galactic Marine. 

I specifically meant new characters, not new variants. Sure, technically every clone is unique, but you could just as well say the 327th troopers and Galactic Marines are variants of shinies we got before  Every specialised CT used to be a shiny, after all, right?

If we count variants too, the minifig list so far doesn‘t look too bad, but it’s still a far cry from previous years. At least we got TROS Palpy

[CloneCommando99]

Any ideas on what the May 4th Promo will be?

[Kaijumeister]

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

1) I can't think of the last time it was this bad variety wise. Maybe around the release of 2008 clone wars, when those were almost all they made? I looked back on Brickset and every year through 2014 (which is just when I stopped searching, but I know we had the outer rim siege sets+cantina, ISD and AT-AT in 2014, and I know we had a geonosis wave+ a number of OT sets in 2013, etc) has some variety to it.

2) they aren't having as much of a focus on system sets as they used to. This number of clone sets wouldn't bother me if it was among a few more OT or sequel system sets, but it's peers are all buildable creatures or midi-scale ships. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike the midi ships, but they're pumping out waaaaaay to many 18+ gimmick sets.

Remember the good old days where we all thought the saturation of 18+ sets during 1HY25 meant we’d get lots of cool system sets during the summer? Those were simpler times. It’s almost comical how much this year is largely split between 18+ sets and clone sets with very little in between.

I wonder how many new minifigure moulds we’ll be getting this year. Given the abundance of clone sets they’ll obviously only need to reuse the P2 helmets for the vast majority of them. Still holding out for an Enoch in the Night Trooper BP.

Super happy to hear TCW Season 1 Obi-Wan is included with the V-19 though. If Mace of all characters can get arm printing there really is no excuse for Obi-Wan not to. It’d be cool to get Season 1 Anakin with the MTT too.

Edited January 9 by Kaijumeister

[THELEGOBATMAN]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Any ideas on what the May 4th Promo will be?

Clone set, obviously.

Two hundred thousand units are ready, with a million more well on the way.

[Tariq j]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Any ideas on what the May 4th Promo will be?

I would think it would be something ROTS related maybe? Given it’s the 20th anniversary and they did a TPM anniversary one last year. A mini diorama (similar to the Lars Homestead Kitchen) depicting the battle of the heroes would be fun.

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Remember the good old days where we all thought the saturation of 18+ sets during 1HY25 meant we’d get lots of cool system sets during the summer?

Well, we do in fact get a bunch of cool system sets! It’s just too bad they all feature Clones  

I hate to criticise this wave this much since there are quite a few things in here I was wishing for before, but it does feel like they took three years worth of Clone sets and decided to shove them into one wave  

[Mandalorianknight]

8 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I specifically meant new characters, not new variants. Sure, technically every clone is unique, but you could just as well say the 327th troopers and Galactic Marines are variants of shinies we got before  Every specialised CT used to be a shiny, after all, right?

If we count variants too, the minifig list so far doesn‘t look too bad, but it’s still a far cry from previous years. At least we got TROS Palpy

Sure, but if we want to get pedantic to the level of "these are variants of existing shinies", Bacara and Bly are variants of lego's favorite clone, the P1 commander. (I think? I know it's been different at various points- some were trained as ARCs, Rex I think at one point was said to not have started as any sort of specialist but gone through ARC training, etc).

1 hour ago, Tariq j said:

I would think it would be something ROTS related maybe? Given it’s the 20th anniversary and they did a TPM anniversary one last year. A mini diorama (similar to the Lars Homestead Kitchen) depicting the battle of the heroes would be fun.

Battle of the heroes would be cool.

[CloneCommando99]

Soooooooooo

We thinking there’ll be a Death Trooper in the U-Wing? There’s no way Lego doesn’t pass up on the obvious opportunity to reuse a returning mould in more than one set.

 

Also. You know what’s funny? The 2025 advent calendar will probably have a better era balance than the entire LSW year.

[BrickBob Studpants]

6 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Soooooooooo

We thinking there’ll be a Death Trooper in the U-Wing? There’s no way Lego doesn’t pass up on the obvious opportunity to reuse a returning mould in more than one set.

Yeah, I‘d be very surprised if not! Two birds with one stone

7 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The 2025 advent calendar will probably have a better era balance than the entire LSW year.

The year actually has a good era balance! The playsets obviously don‘t, but the buildable figures, helmets, and midi-scale ships do have quite the range (OT, PT, ST, Mando, Ahsoka, Andor). 

[saibot]

On 1/9/2025 at 12:34 PM, ArrowBricks said:

To be honest, I am a huge Clone Wars fan and if the rumours are true, I am looking forward to the 327th BP, V-19, UT-AT, and MTT. 

These are either new releases or worthy re-releases so I don’t think the criticism is all that fair. I do appreciate personal preference, though. 

I can see the frustration given the lack of OT playsets. 

Agree with this, my Star Wars preference is 65% Clone wars related and 35% OT era. So all the sets you mention above and include the arc-170 and Ashoka's interceptor is great. There is even a chance the Turbo Tank could be related (fingers crossed). My biggest worry is what will I have to look forward to next year!!

What even makes the year better is the the rumoured GWP of Ro Laren in a Shuttle with the Enterprise-D

Edited January 10 by saibot
Star Trek!

[CloneCommando99]

12 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeah, I‘d be very surprised if not! Two birds with one stone

I’d just hope they’d do the tactical gear variant with the pauldron.

12 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The year actually has a good era balance! The playsets obviously don‘t, but the buildable figures, helmets, and midi-scale ships do have quite the range (OT, PT, ST, Mando, Ahsoka, Andor). 

Touché.

 

 

 

The final ship set has to be a villain set right? There’s no way the MTT is the only play-scale villain vehicle of the year right? Something needs to counter the ARC 170, U-Wing, Ahsoka’s Interceptor, V-19 Torrent…

 

It makes no sense for Lego to allow the light-side to have complete aerial superiority. Who are they supposed to fight against?

Edited January 10 by CloneCommando99

[Lordhelmet]

I say bring on the clone sets this year.  That way I can save for the u wing and the Death Star. 

[Mandalorianknight]

48 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

It makes no sense for Lego to allow the light-side to have complete aerial superiority. Who are they supposed to fight against?

I mean to be fair this MTT is the first real chance the seppies have had against the clones since the clone age began, so I think anything else might be too much to expect from lego. Something for the empire would be nice, but I don't have any hope.

10 minutes ago, Lordhelmet said:

I say bring on the clone sets this year.  That way I can save for the u wing and the Death Star. 

Lol. I do wonder if that's part of their strategy, but at the same time the death star is SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive than a full wave of lego star wars sets normally is, and of course I doubt most people buy they entire wave at once even if they want all the sets- hardcore collectors, maybe, but the average person is going to space those out.

[Renny The Spaceman]

On 1/9/2025 at 1:48 PM, Agent Kallus said:

Yeah while I understand and agree with criticisms about lack of variety at least it's mostly either new things or things they've not done in a while.

Do I think an Imperial Laat/Le would be more interesting than any of these sets? yes. Do I think these are still more interesting than another X-wing, Barc, At-St, Snowspeeder or Luke's Landspeeder? Also yes . Do I wish that in general we'd get more content for new releases rather than just the OT, and there favourites from the PT and Clone Wars? Yes. Are there still interesting things they could do from the Clone wars? Yes NIGHTSISTERS!!! (amongst other things).

As someone who was never gonna be torn up about how a year from this theme went I think it's very funny what it ultimately appears to come down to is people arguing about either of the two factions that have over the years gotten the most sets (Clones and Empire) being underrepresented.

Honestly I feel bad for fans of the new Rebels from the sequels, their troops never do anything so there's next to nothing to base sets on so they're never gonna get a set again. Eventually they'll do another Poe's X-wing but that'll be it, unlikely it'd even come with any unnamed new Rebels. 

 

[Agent Kallus]

39 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Honestly I feel bad for fans of the new Rebels from the sequels, their troops never do anything so there's next to nothing to base sets on so they're never gonna get a set again. Eventually they'll do another Poe's X-wing but that'll be it, unlikely it'd even come with any unnamed new Rebels. 

 

Resistance.

And the problem with them is that half of their vehicles are just slight adjustments of rebels vehicles.

46 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

As someone who was never gonna be torn up about how a year from this theme went I think it's very funny what it ultimately appears to come down to is people arguing about either of the two factions that have over the years gotten the most sets (Clones and Empire) being underrepresented.

In an ideal world they'd have a lot more variety. A jedi Vector here, The Wild Karde there, a Stinger Mantis over there, Gaze Electric under a bench, a Qimir Forest battle playset in the loft, an Ebon Hawk in the larder, a Drengir in the park, a Scarif Citadel tower in the wardrobe, a Dagan Gera Duel under the bed, a Fondor Haul craft on top the tumble dryer, a Trailblazer on the desk, a Nightsister battle pack on the roof, the ISD Chimera in the bathtub, the Nightsister fortress on the coffee table, an Ewok battle pack in the treehouse, The Lourna Dee in the cellar, Boba's Rancor Versus the Scorponek droid in the pillow case, Purge trooper BP in the drawer, and so on. 

[Renny The Spaceman]

22 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

Resistance.

And the problem with them is that half of their vehicles are just slight adjustments of rebels vehicles.

I'll forget that name in a month.

But yeah, you're right, with the exception of the X-wing being Halloween coloured for Poe all the others are way too similar to the OT ones to justify production. People who'd buy the sequel ones would probably be more likely to buy the OT ones than OT fans buying the sequel ones. Probably why they haven't done Captain Rex's Y-wing either.

24 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

 

In an ideal world they'd have a lot more variety. A jedi Vector here, The Wild Karde there, a Stinger Mantis over there, Gaze Electric under a bench, a Qimir Forest battle playset in the loft, an Ebon Hawk in the larder, a Drengir in the park, a Scarif Citadel tower in the wardrobe, a Dagan Gera Duel under the bed, a Fondor Haul craft on top the tumble dryer, a Trailblazer on the desk, a Nightsister battle pack on the roof, the ISD Chimera in the bathtub, the Nightsister fortress on the coffee table, an Ewok battle pack in the treehouse, The Lourna Dee in the cellar, Boba's Rancor Versus the Scorponek droid in the pillow case, Purge trooper BP in the drawer, and so on. 

Oh, of course! Let's not forget the Scompers scavenger hunt and chudwumpas bubble craft, the Nick Clegg battle pack, the star strider's splat lizard and the washed machine of Cal-Gon 

[Coryo]

I have a feeling that the other buildable droid in the 2HY will be a new BB-8, he seems to be the safest choice from the Sequels in terms of merchandise

14 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The final ship set has to be a villain set right? There’s no way the MTT is the only play-scale villain vehicle of the year right? 

It makes no sense for Lego to allow the light-side to have complete aerial superiority. Who are they supposed to fight against?

tbf you could consider the ARC-170 as a villain set once Plo Koon's starfighter hits shelves

Since the Mando & Grogu movie seems to be centred around the New Republic/Imperial Remnant conflict, Lego might be holding off on making a few OT era ships this year and saving them for movie tie-ins in 2026. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

I still wonder which minifigs Maxbautde was hinting at. Sure, the Clones were all on many people‘s wishlists, but I think he must‘ve referred to other (new?) characters as well

• For the BP, it‘s likely Bly plus a couple of 327th CTs, maybe a new version of Aayla.
• The UT-AT must come with Bacara and an updated Ki-Adi Mundi at least.
• The Juggernaut is a wild card, but maybe it‘s not even based on ROTS/TCW? I know, it’s extremely unlikely, but it could theoretically be based on RO or TBB. Or even better, the juggernaut from the Mando S2 episode (which would explain the low price)  …Not gonna happen, I know. I smell another Gree incoming.
• The MTT has so much potential! Wat Tambor, Cham Syndulla, a new Tactical Droid, they would all fit so well! Keeping my expectations low though.

The minifigs are what will make or break this wave for me.

Edited January 11 by BrickBob Studpants

[CloneCommando99]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I still wonder which minifigs Maxbautde was hinting at. Sure, the Clones were all on many people‘s wishlists, but I think he must‘ve referred to other (new?) characters as well

General Kenobi and Ventress could have been what he was referring to.

But he might have been misleading with that statement as he also said that LSW fans were eating well this summer, though now we have more knowledge, it mostly appears to be TCW fans specifically who are eating well.

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The Juggernaut is a wild card, but maybe it‘s not even based on ROTS/TCW? I know, it’s extremely unlikely, but it could theoretically be based on RO or TBB. Or even better, the juggernaut from the Mando S2 episode (which would explain the low price)  …Not gonna happen, I know. I smell another Gree incoming.

Those would be great alternatives instead of another clone one. R1 would also give them the chance to reuse K2S0. But Mando S2 would give us more troopers. Bad Batch on the other hand could give us Republic Crosshair and/or Rampart (BBY Vice-admiral Torso!) and Howitzer.

Maybe we still don’t have any additional details on it because it’s based on the animated show that’s in development? 
 

16 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I mean to be fair this MTT is the first real chance the seppies have had against the clones since the clone age began, so I think anything else might be too much to expect from lego. Something for the empire would be nice, but I don't have any hope.

Touché. 

2 hours ago, Coryo said:

Since the Mando & Grogu movie seems to be centred around the New Republic/Imperial Remnant conflict, Lego might be holding off on making a few OT era ships this year and saving them for movie tie-ins in 2026. 

True. I hope that Lego’s better at balancing next year though. It’d be just as bad if there were no Clone Wars or prequel sets.

I just hope that Tie Defender, Patrol Gunship and ITT will make the cut.

Y’know what. I’m not going to lie that i find the wave a bit disappointing. But I’m now just going to focus on the positives, I’m tired of being negative. (Unless yet another clone set is announced)

327th BP will be hype if it includes both Bly, Aalya and a decent number of 327th. I think the build will be either a minifigure scale swamp speeder or a Corporate Alliance Tank Droid.