Earlier this 12 months, Lego and Lucasfilm lifted the lid on Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a what-if type Lego sequence that takes the already high-zaniness of many of the animated Lego specials and cranks all the things up even additional, in a world the place heroes turn out to be villains, vice versa, and, in fact, there’s Jar Jar being a more literal Phantom Menace. Now, the sequence is getting just a few Lego units to go along with the launch—and Jar Jar is alongside for the trip.
In the present day Lego revealed two Rebuild the Galaxy Lego units on account of arrive in August, a month forward of the miniseries’ arrival on Disney+ September 13. They’re each fairly expensive units, even for Star Wars. The primary, retailing for $110, is a conventional X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter two-pack with a mash-up twist, letting you cut up the S-Foils and panels from every ship and put them on the principle physique of the opposite, creating your very personal equal to the old “Uglies” of the Expanded Universe—mash-up starfighters constructed out of scraps and a dream. Coming with 4 minifigures within the type of a generic X-Wing and TIE pilot, Rebuild the Galaxy protagonists Yesi Scala and Sig Greebling, and an additional, Lego-themed Astromech named (in fact) L3-G0, it’s the one which in all probability greatest displays the topsy-turvy nature of the particular present itself.
It’s the second set, retailing for $180, that’ll in all probability be of extra curiosity to Star Wars followers past the present, nevertheless: the Darkish Falcon. An entire re-do of Lego’s final minifigure-scale Millennium Falcon, the Rise of Skywalker iteration launched in 2019, however given a Darkish Facet-inspired black-and-red shade scheme, the brand new set has a suitably reworked inside, together with a Sith Throne, a jail, command heart, and… an leisure space? Dangerous guys want enjoyable too, I suppose. However except for the Falcon itself, the draw here’s a bunch of enjoyable minifigures. Only one is an unique character, the Darth model of Rebuild the Galaxy’s Dev—however the remainder are wild twists on beloved Star Wars heroes, from a relaxing out Seaside Luke and a Star Wars Infinities-inspired, all-white Jedi Vader, to a trio of shock villains, together with a Bounty Hunter C-3PO, the aforementioned Darth Jar Jar, and the first-ever minifigure of Darth Rey, impressed by the dark vision glimpsed in The Rise of Skywalker.
Each the Dark Falcon and the TIE Fighter and X-Wing mash-up units shall be out there August 1—click on via to see extra footage!