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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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First Impressions On LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Historians agree that there are three points on the human timeline when new discoveries changed the course of our lives: making stone tools nearly two million years ago, the invention of paper in the 1st […]
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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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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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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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Latest Blocks Reviews UCS Republic Gunship
Blocks magazine Issue 83 is heading deep into the Wizarding World of LEGO Harry Potter, with set reviews including 76391 Hogwarts Icons complemented by a guide to making the 2021 Hogwarts set match the other […]
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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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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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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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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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Blocks Reviews Winter Wave, MOCS The Clone Wars And Serves Up Refreshments
The latest issue of Blocks Magazine, the ultimate monthly celebration of all things LEGO, is out now and has plenty of articles, builds and features. Hogging the cover is the momentous 10276 Colosseum – the […]
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75290 Mos Eisley Cantina: The Review
Like the saying goes, the Devaronian is in the detail and 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina has a lot of hellishly clever element use and design features that lifts the entire build to a level that […]
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Day 5: Razor Crest
Proving itself to be as popular a spacecraft as any in the Star Wars galaxy, this new Razor Crest to be produced by LEGO comes in mini-scale. Complete with forward cannons, twin engines, its signature […]
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75279 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar: What’s Inside?
Unlike those killjoy LEGO reviewers who published their door-by-door account of each what’s behind each door in this year’s LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar back in August, we at The Holo-Brick Archives have held off […]
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The Last Ship: 77904 Nebulon-B Frigate Reviewed
It’s quite poignant that the last spaceship seen in The Empire Strikes Back is also the final LEGO Star Wars set of 2020 – the year that marked the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes […]
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How Special Was It?
It’s taken a long time to get where we’re at today – 42 years in fact – and today is the day that we can answer the question we’ve all been asking ourselves: was the […]
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31200 The Sith: What’s The Pointillism?
For the last 88 years LEGO, which was founded in a carpenter’s workshop, has concentrated on making toys for children – first it was piggy banks, pull toys, cars and trucks, and houses before moving […]
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Under The Spotlight: 75318 The Child
With all the attention that The Child has got since his first appearance in The Mandalorian’s premiere episode, you’d be pardoned from thinking that ABY – the nominated Star Wars calendar era timeline origin – […]
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Imperial Walkers On The North Ridge: 75288 AT-AT Reviewed
It’s often said that so-and-so is an iconic Star Wars vehicle, making it – after “most impressive” – one of the most over-used descriptive words applied to a galaxy far, far away. That said, when […]
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Much Ado About Nothing: 75291 Death Star Final Duel In Review
Much like the Empire has multiple Death Stars, so too does LEGO – who have made a staggering sixteen sets based on the great, gray ball of destruction, with 75291 Death Star Final Duel being […]
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75268 Snowspeeder Reviewed
From as far back as 2009 LEGO has produced simplified sets – with chunky elements and easy-to-follow instructions – to help children transition from DUPLO to the System-scale, but it wasn’t until 2019 that Star […]
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The Rise of Skywalker: All You Need To Know
From start to finish the road to The Rise of Skywalker has been a long journey, with a lengthy and tempered promotional, marketing and merchandising campaign that took a full three quarters of a year […]
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Building Tatooine By The Numbers
Since the beginning, The LEGO Group’s foundation of “play well” has meant that they have developed their products with imagination and creativity in mind. Some sets – like the programmable 75253 Droid Commander set from […]
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75255 Yoda Reviewed
The year that celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the launch of LEGO Star Wars is casting its retrospective eyes back across the last two decades in a search for ways to commemorate the success […]
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LEGO UCS Imperial Star Destroyer (75252) In Review
It’s been over 15 years since LEGO released their first UCS Imperial Star Destroyer – and seventh in the Ultimate Collector Series run – so, according to Creative Director of the Star Wars team Jens […]
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DK: LEGO Star Wars Build Your Own Adventure: Galactic Missions Review
As the summer break comes to an end and with the prospect of giving up those halcyon days of playing hoop and stick in the street or skimming rocks across the duck pond, the prospect […]
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75190 First Order Star Destroyer
Released during Force Friday (September 1st through 3rd, 2017) as part of The Last Jedi selection of LEGO Star Wars sets, 75190 First Order Star Destroyer formed the vanguard of the movie’s LEGO merchandise assault. […]
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The Star Wars Resistance Is Here
Originally airing in October, 2018 the on-going animated television series Star Wars Resistance looks at how the Resistance quietly grew its ranks of spies and pilots while the New Order brazenly expanded its borders and […]
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75236 Duel On Starkiller Base Review
I have to admit that I found myself in a high state of anticipation at the thought of building this set because the graphics on the front of the box was so evocative and captured […]
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Action Battles For Hoth!
Too many of us in the original generation of Star Wars fandom, LEGO is synonymous with our childhood and playing with these multi-coloured bricks come as naturally as bullseyeing womprats in a T-16. But times […]
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40333 Battle of Hoth – 20th Anniversary Edition Reviewed
Far from being the first Hoth scene depicted in LEGO (not including a cool boardgame, there are actually six minifig sets that fit the bill) this Battle of Hoth micro-scene is a perfect example of […]
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20th Anniversary Edition Sets
With twenty years of LEGO Star Wars under its belt, LEGO has raised their lightsabres to salute the fans who’ve been in it since day one, which has been declared as the 1st of April, […]
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75244 Tantive IV Reviewed
Last month at Star Wars Celebration Chicago 2019, LEGO took the opportunity during their compactly titled “20 Years Of The LEGO Star Wars Story – A Retrospective And Forward Look” to provide a glimpse into […]