Following the runaway success of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game with its six million sales, it was inevitable that a sequel game would follow – and, naturally, it would cover the movies of the […]
Stop-motion LEGO films – otherwise known as brickfilms – have existed within the LEGO community since 1973, with Journey to the Moon being the first known example, but it wasn’t until the very end of […]
When the first LEGO Star Wars video game was released in 2005, one of the game’s most popular play features was the opportunity to assemble a collection of specially crafted mini-scale spaceships, podracers and speeders, […]
Throughout their long history – from their first appearance in LEGO Mania (United States) and Bricks N Pieces (United Kingdom) in 1999 to the latest issue of the LEGO Star Wars Magazine, the cartoon artistry […]
When it comes to setting records in a galaxy far, far away there’s no beating Steve Sansweet at Rancho Obi-Wan, who has held the record for the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia (including a […]
Popularized by the Memphis Belle and Enola Gay, the practice of decorating the front panels of the Republic gunship grew out of a developing need for clones to express some non-conformity and their growing sense […]
Regardless if it’s a Cold War or a Clone War, it’s the grunts that take a beating on the ground so getting them in and out of harm’s way – whether by kicking up dust […]
Quickly becoming one of the most screen-seen vehicles in the Star Wars universe, the Republic Gunship has made appearances in two movies, eight episodes of the original Clone Wars cartoon, 73 episodes of The Clone […]
From the big screen to the little brick, DK looks back at ten years of LEGO Star Wars in their new LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary. How do you review a book you helped […]
For fans of the Star Wars theme, LEGO CON was a disappointment. The expected reveals and updates didn’t materialize and many felt that the presentation and content was too young for the theme’s largely adult […]
For the last 15 years, LEGO fans and video gamers have been able to control their favorite LEGO Star Wars minifigures with their thumbs, and living alongside pixellated minifigures has become taken for granted because, […]
Perhaps the most contentious Star Wars subtheme – due to its loose definition and flexible application of criteria – the Ultimate Collector Series has been causing consternation amongst LEGO Star Wars fans for decades, and […]
Star Wars is more than just a movie. It’s more than a film franchise, a merchandising cash cow or a pop-cultural icon too. It’s all of these and more, and it’s largely because George Lucas […]
After a year-long marketing campaign that started with a printed comic series, moved on to an eight-part web-comic, was followed by a mini-movie that aired on Cartoon Network and culminated in a web-based video game […]
With all the hype that May The 4th Be With You – aka Star Wars Day – gets it’s fair to say that most LEGO fans know what to expect when it comes to celebrating […]
The multimedia marketing campaign to promote the new LEGO Clone Wars sets that started early in 2009 culminated in a free online video game that was an instant hit with LEGO Star Wars fans and […]
It all began once upon a long time ago, in a land far, far away (unless you are reading this in the United Kingdom) land when – according to the Danish Broadcasting Network who record […]
The long-forgotten The Quest For R2-D2 was a 12-month multimedia stealth onslaught devised by LEGO to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Star Wars theme that culminated in one of the most endearing LEGO Star […]
When the curtains opened on the sixth-but-third movie of the Star Wars saga in 2005, we were treated to the culmination of what would become the Skywalker Saga, and went away expecting that to be […]
Seemingly appearing out of nowhere at the height of the 2010 convention season when LEGO released a set of CubeDude – Clone Wars Edition exclusives at San Diego Comic-Con, attendees were taken by surprise by […]
A decade (and change) ago, when the LEGO Star Wars juggernaut was just coming up to full speed, a unique building fad caught someone’s eye at the LEGO office in Enfield, Connecticut and inspired two […]
Guest writer Russ Dawson looks back at the full 20-year history of the sets that LEGO has transformed this unique Star Wars vehicle into. The Imperial Shuttle, or to give it the correct name Lambda-class […]
The lightsaber is one of the most iconic weapons of all time. In 1999 when LEGO released the first sets, they knew they had to capture the look correctly. Of the fourteen regular production sets […]
Now that both internal set designs and external packaging layouts have been discussed, it’s time to take a look at a few minifigure changes that have occurred during various production runs. As we started to […]
In the last installment we covered a variety of sets that have changed in their overall build design during production. However, it isn’t just the items within the box that can be changed but so […]
By this point you will have figured out what your LEGO Star Wars angle is, what approach to collecting you’ll be adopting and where you’ll be doing your shopping – but how are you going […]
Just like when Qui-Gon Jinn told a young, blonde Anakin Skywalker that “Your focus determines your reality,” what you decide to buy will determine the extent (and cost) of your collection. There are lots of […]
LEGO’s process of creating a set begins months before a product is launched and has multiple stages where the concept and design are tested and tweaked. As anyone who has launched a product can tell […]
The toy run, a staple collecting activity in the 1990s and early 2000s, might be long gone thanks to the closure of so many chains of toy stores and the rise of the Internet, but […]
‘Tanocouture’ might not be in the vocabulary of the average LEGO Star Wars fan, but when Ashley Eckstein – founder of the groundbreaking fangirl HerUniverse.com fashion company as well as voicing Ahsoka Tano in The […]
Unsurprisingly, having been around for 20 years, the LEGO Star Wars theme has a broad range of publications and while many collectors focus on sets, minifigures, and the occasional promotional item, books receive far less […]
The hardest part of collecting LEGO Star Wars sets is spending your money, and unless you are taking part in the LEGO equivalent of a paperclip challenge you’re going to want to know the ins […]
Before delving into the various aspects of where to shop for LEGO Star Wars sets, it’s important to understand the different ways – and not just the different places – you can shop for LEGO. […]
LEGO makes billions of elements every year, and they are well-known for the strict quality standards that they have. This is what allows parts from today to connect with parts from decades ago. There is […]
The next step in committing yourself to collect LEGO Star Wars sets is understanding when they are released – getting to grips with this will help you grow your collection at a sustainable rate. When […]
Of the myriad of LEGO themes, there are only two that are available year in, year out and continually refreshed with new set designs – City and Star Wars. Being an evergreen theme also means […]
Heads were scratched and eyebrows raised when LEGO started promoting a whole new concept – the midi-scale – when it was first introduced on StarWars.com in the Spring of 2009. Described as a between miniature […]
The blaster is as old as LEGO Star Wars itself as the two as inextricably linked. Although some have clamored for more realistic weapons, the simple yet instantly recognizable designs are perfect for the LEGO […]
From the very first Snowspeeder in 1999 to the latest ex-convention exclusives of 2020, minor, major and milestone sets are featured in this unique retelling that celebrates the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back […]
As remarkable as they are ubiquitous, the LEGO brick becomes something extra special when combined in certain ways, and the LEGOLAND California Han Solo on his Tauntaun (LLCA53) exclusive is a great example of how […]
It all began back at the start of August 2020 when Amazon in Germany removed the pre-order page from their site, canceled all pre-orders of 75292 The Razor Crest, and issued the following email by […]
When it comes to LEGO stop-motion movies Brotherhood Workshop is the force to be reckoned with; if you haven’t already checked out the Youtube channel you’ve probably come across the work they did for LEGO […]
Though the LEGO Star Wars line had received a star-studded launch when it debuted in 1999, their first foray into the most mammoth example of Imperial engineering is still to this day one of the […]
It’s hard to think of a time when there wasn’t a new LEGO Star Wars video game coming out, and with the imminent release of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga we are looking back […]
So part of the pixellated landscape are the LEGO video games that it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t around – and it was Traveller’s Tales first Star Wars title that made it […]
Billed as a deep dive into the extensive LEGO Star Wars collection housed at Rancho Obi-Wan, this ticketed event treated guests to a tour – with Steve as the guide – of the world’s biggest […]
Fans of Star Wars and polls are no strangers to each other and go back as far as the summer of 2000 when Hasbro ran their first Fan’s Choice action figure poll. Hosted on a […]
For the millions of LEGO fans around the world the release of a new Star Wars movie means new sets but, inevitably, it’s not always possible for LEGO to capture every new environment, vehicle or […]
At the age of forty-eight I get odd looks from friends when they find out I spend much of my free time building LEGO Star Wars models, and when I tell them that I get […]
Synonymous with holidays and celebrations, Hallmark (named after brother-founders J.C. and Rollie Hall) has been on the innovative edge of greeting cards, holiday ornaments, and other seasonal essentials from its Kansas City headquarters since the […]
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