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Hit The Road In 75341 Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder Review
Be transported to the desert planet of Tatooine as we review the first-ever Ultimate Collector Series version of Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder. […]
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MT4BWY ’22 GWP Review: 40531 Lars Family Homestead Kitchen
Long-suffering wife of the grumpiest moisture farmer on Tatooine, Aunt Beru had a happy place she could go to – and so can you, with the new 40531 Lars Family Homestead Kitchen set. […]
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MT4BWY ’22 GWP Review: 5007403 The Mandalorian Beskar Keyring
The second-of-three gift with purchase (GWP) items given away by LEGO during this year’s May The 4th Be With You promotion was a nifty beskar keyring. […]
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MT4BWY ’22 GWP Review: 30495 AT-ST Polybag
Taking its first ministeps at the start of the year when it had limited release in the United States, LEGO included this tiny two-legged terror in this year’s May The 4th Be With You celebration. […]
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75339 Death Star Trash Compactor Diorama Reviewed
With its combination of tension, comedy and action, there’s no other moment in all of the Skywalke Saga quite like the scene when the Luke. Leia, Han and Chewbacca are caught in a tight squeeze. […]
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75330 Dagobah Jedi Training: Is It A Slimy Mudhole?
You don’t need to be a Jedi Master to enjoy this set – build or build not, there is no try. […]
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Is The Force With 75329 Death Star Trench Run Diorama?
Nothing says Star Wars like the iconic Death Star trench run from A New Hope, and LEGO have captured it perfectly in this new Diorama series set. […]
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How Awesome Is LEGO Star Wars: Awesome Vehicles?
Sandwiched between two hardback covers are 88-pages of eye-bulging imagery, mouth-watering graphics, a Poe Dameron minifigure and all kinds of information on the awesome vehicle of Star Wars – so click through and check out our first impression! […]
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Location, Location Location: 75326 Boba Fett’s Throne Room
The newest chapter in the story of the Star Wars galaxy begins in the the palace of the once-mighty Jabba, which has changed hands more times than a second-hand R5 unit with a bad motivator. […]
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75324 Dark Trooper Attack Reviewed
Playsets and Star Wars have been happy bedfellows ever since 1978, and this latest world-in-a-box brings all the intense action and drama of Luke’s appearance in The Mandalorian out of the TV and to your collection in 166 pieces. […]
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Cracking Into 75343 Dark Trooper Helmet
New to the Star Wars galaxy, the latest Imperial weapon has been added to the Adult Collector subtheme as the newest buildable helmet, and though they are known for their climactic appearance in The Mandalorian, their roots reach back to the earliest days of the Expanded Universe. […]
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Exposing 75328 The Mandalorian Helmet
The helmet of the enigma that is The Mandalorian joins the ranks of the Adult Collector subtheme with this new release from LEGO and marks the first helmet derived from the Disney live-action series of the same name. […]
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Getting Under 75327 Luke Skywalker (Red Five) Helmet
Grown up packaging, grown up instructions but is it an adults-only build? We put this latest addition to the 18+ subtheme to the test with an underage builder! […]
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Getting Stuck Into 40558 Clone Trooper Command Station
Finding new ways and creative ways to satisfy the Star Wars community is a never-ending task for LEGO, and with the arrival of 40558 Clone Trooper Command Station this accessory pack, it looks like they’ve come across another winning idea. […]
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Preparing For 40557 Defense of Hoth
Always the ever-inventive company, LEGO has delivered Star Wars collectors a whole new way to access minifigures and interesting add-ons with the arrival of an accessory packs – 40557 Defense of Hoth. […]
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75320 Snowtrooper Battle Pack Reviewed
This new battle pack of Imperial recon and raiders is very reminiscent of the Imperial Attack Base playset that Kenner released in 1980, and slots in remarkably well with the rash of sets that LEGO released to (belatedly) mark the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back. […]
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40539 Ahsoka Tano Under Review
Long time friend of the Skywalker family, Ahsoka “Snips” Tano was Anakin’s first Padawan and fought at his side during the Clone Wars, survived Order 66, and took on a personal quest to the Unknown […]
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75322 Hoth AT-ST Reviewed
Developed by Kuat Drive Yards, these swift, two-legged combat walkers were used by the Galactic Empire for reconnaissance, anti-personnel hunting, or as a picket or flanking force during major ground operations – and was one […]
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Micro Review: 75321 The Razor Crest Microfighter
Since the creation of the Microfighter subtheme in 2014 – following its successful soft launch as convention exclusives in 2012 – this growing collection of exaggerated and slightly-out-of-scale conveyances (both vehicles and beasts of burden) […]
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75307 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar: Final Thoughts
Some sets take a handful of minutes to build, others need a week of knee-crushing dedication but the yearly LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar is always twenty-four days in the making – if you do […]
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75313 AT-AT: The Ultimate Review
Whether you say “aye-tee aye-tee” or simply pronounce it as “AT-AT”, the Imperial walker (which is the only way it has ever been enunciated in a Star Wars movie) ranks high up on the list […]
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The New LEGO Star Wars Keepsakes Are An Ornamental Success
It’s the season to go big – and Hallmark has done just that with their latest Keepsake LEGO Star Wars minifigure ornaments of Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper, new for 2021! You’d think that something […]
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Review: 40483 Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber
Handed down from father to son – from a certain point of view – the lightsaber that was crafted by Anakin Skywalker and saw action during the Clone Wars, briefly took part in the insurrection […]
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What’s Inside 75307 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar?
Just like every year, we start our LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar review with a reminder that Advent, meaning “arriving” in Latin, began in the 5th century CE as a Roman practice of penitence and […]
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Vader’s Castle of Horrors: Terrifying Tales Reviewed
Beginning its promotional campaign at the start of August, the October 1st release of LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales on Disney+ launched a month-long build-up to the annual kid-friendly festival of all things scary, and […]
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Built Of Beskar: 75319 The Armorer’s Mandalorian Forge
Forced into exile by the Empire during the Great Purge, the people of Mandalore lost their homeworld and access to the only known source of beskar, one of the toughest and most legendary metals in […]
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Ride Of The Valkyries: 75309 Republic Gunship
Dropping out of the Geonosian sky, with its characteristic hum-thrum heralding its arrival, the first glimpse that the Star Wars fans had of this soon-to-be-iconic troop transport came at 1 minute and 42 seconds into […]
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Is 75296 Darth Vader Meditation Chamber The Ultimate More-Machine-Than-Man Cave?
Whether you call it a she shed or a mantuary, everyone needs somewhere they can go for a little alone time – and Darth Vader is no different. With his body ravaged as a result […]
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Blades Of Glory: 75316 Mandalorian Starfighter Gets Reviewed
Designed and constructed by MandalMotors, the Kom’rk-class fighter was famed for its speed and maneuverability – making it popular amongst the elite warrior caste of Mandalorian society. Most famous of which was the Death Watch, […]
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Moff Gideon’s Flagship: 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser
While the vast array of capital ships in the Republic, Rebel and Resistance fleets are reasonably well represented within the LEGO Star Wars theme, the variety of the navies of the Empire and First Order […]
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Does 75314 The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle Deserve A High Five?
Having been partially developed for the proposed seventh The Clone Wars season prior to the show’s cancellation in 2013, the inclusion of the Bad Batch story arc was revealed at the show’s revival panel at […]
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It’s Good To Be Back: 75312 Boba Fett’s Starship
Returning to the Star Wars universe by way of the small screen, the First Mandalorian of the Star Wars saga puts on his armor and resumes his position as the galaxy’s greatest bounty hunter in […]
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75311 Imperial Armored Marauder: Packed With A Plenitude Of Pew-Pews
Not to be confused with the more common K79-S80 Imperial Troop Transport, which – as every fan knows – is the more lightly armored troop transport that LEGO produced as 75078 Imperial Troop Transport in […]
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Game Of Thrones: 75310 Duel On Mandalore
Making its first appearance as long ago as the second season of The Clone Wars in 2010, it wasn’t until the animated series got its reprieve an entire decade later, when the seventh season (which […]
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The Book Of Rafa: Ultimate UCS Collector’s Book Reviewed
Without a doubt, the Ultimate Collector Series – or the Undefined Collector Series as some LEGO fans dub it – range of sets is one of the most contentious lines that LEGO has ever introduced; […]
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Home, Home On The Wastes: 40451 Tatooine Homestead Reviewed
Out on the plain, where the eopies and womprats play, is a dome that is like no other. More futuristic than the Eden Project, older than the Great Stupa at Sanchi, entombing more remains than […]
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Shining The Light On 75308 R2-D2
Appearing in every Star Wars movie, TV series and special, video game and the focus of more LEGO sets than any one character in the entire franchise, you’d be pardoned for thinking that the Star […]
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Dark Father Who Art In The Force, Reviewed Be Thy Name: 75304 Darth Vader Helmet
Fulfilling his role as the backbone character in two-thirds of the Journal of the Whills/Skywalker Saga and as the Sword of the Emperor, the Jedi turned to the Dark Side known as Darth Vader hunted […]
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75305 Scout Trooper BucketHeadz Reviewed
Having gone from the ultra-cool Imperial reconnaissance specialists (despite wearing white armor in the verdant Forest Moon) that was debuted in Return of the Jedi in 1983 to the biggest scumbags in the galaxy after […]
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75306 Imperial Probe Droid: The Stuff Of Dreams And Nightmares
Forty years ago and long before LEGO fans got treated to a detailed version of the reconnaissance drone that raised the alarm about the presence of Rebels on the frozen planet of Hoth, those around […]
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Retro Review: SDCC & SWCV CubeDude Exclusives
Meant to be the missing link between Miniland-scale and the minifigure, CubeDudes evolved into their own branch of the LEGO tree of life when Angus MacLane, way back in April 2009, got up from watching […]
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Retro Review: 10198 Tantive IV Blasts In From The Past!
For a large number of Star Wars fans the first starship ever seen in the saga was the Rebel Blockade Runner which was carrying Princess Leia and the stolen plans of the Death Star on its ill-fated […]
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Runabout, Recovery & Recon: 75302 Imperial Shuttle Reviewed
Including the digitally retconned Imperial shuttle that ferried Darth Vader to the Executor in the closing scenes of The Empire Strikes Back: Special Edition, there have been precisely seven appearances of the unforgettable Lambda-class shuttle […]
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Imperial/Rebel Death Match: 75298 AT-AT vs Tauntaun Microfighters
It was an awesome day in May 2003 when LEGO released their first Imperial Walker (4483 AT-AT) and again when they capitalized on the set’s immediate popularity when followed it up with the Mini-Scale version […]
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Is 75297 Resistance X-Wing Fun Or Futile?
With the success of the Space (now called Classic Space) theme came a profusion of simplified parts – usually bulkier than the standard bricks and plates many of us remember from the old days – […]
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A Guide To The Guide Of LEGO Star Wars Worlds: Yoda’s Galaxy Atlas Reviewed
While travel – whether it be domestic, international, or even intergalactic – might not have been on many Star Wars fans’ agendas over the last year, one gnomelike Jedi Master has visited 25 different worlds […]
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Fly Casual With 30388 Imperial Shuttle
Made available through Meijer, the Mid West-based big box chain, in the USA and at LEGO branded stores in Europe and Australia during the first few months of 2021, this first polybag of the year […]
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The Trouble With 75299 Trouble On Tatooine
Ever since the first reference to the Mandalorians in Marvel’s Star Wars #68 comic in November 1982, the popularity of this race of supercommando warriors has only ever waxed, and never waned. Over the years […]
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Does 75301 Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing Fighter Mark The Spot?
Since the earliest of days, Luke’s X-Wing Starfighter has filled an important roll in the LEGO Star Wars theme. First released as part of the original wave in March 1999, this distinctive starfighter maintained its […]
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75300 Imperial TIE Fighter Joins The Fleet
The ubiquitous TIE (or Twin Ion Engine) Fighter – aka ‘The Eyeball’ – has been the mainstay of the Imperial Navy since it first rolled off the Sienar Fleet Systems’ production lines at the start […]