Buy this book from one of our chosen retailer partners below. LEGO® Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded DK Readers L1: LEGO NEXO KNIGHTS Stop the Stone Monsters! The Amazing Book of LEGO Star Wars DK Readers L3: Star Wars: Death Star Battles Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia Factivity Fun: LEGO® NEXO KNIGHTS LEGO Star Wars: Build Your Own Adventure DK Readers L3: Star Wars: Finn's Mission DK Readers L2: Star Wars: Rey to the Rescue! The LEGO® Batman Movie: The Making of the Movie LEGO Star Wars: Chronicles of the ForceThese are Star Wars Lego sets you're looking for. Lego may be keeping upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII Lego sets under wraps — they literally had nothing to show for the upcoming film at New York Toy Fair — but that doesn't mean there aren't a whole bunch of new Star Wars sets on the horizon. Lego has dozens of new sets and character variations, even tiny Mini Figures. The new Lego sets traverse, among others, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars Rebels TV series.
Instead of presenting everything Lego has planned for the Star Wars Universe, we picked out the five coolest sets, ones that you'll probably want to add to your collection. 1. Darth Vader Transformation The transformationImage: lance ulanoff/mashable Anakin is back there.Image: lance ulanoff/mashableThis 282-piece set is a recreation of the transformation chamber from Star Wars: Episode III (perhaps the only watchable episode from George Lucas' prequels). The set also manages to make the Sith Lord's transformation fun. On one side of a tiny Lego table lies the scarred, broken Anakin Skywalker without his helmet. You press in a dial, twist and the table turns to reveal the suited-up (or rebuilt) Darth Vader. It ships in June for $24.99. 2. The Battle on Scarif Lego palm trees made the cut. Always remember the Lego Battle on Scarif. — Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) February 20, 2017 Has there ever been a more tragic scene depicted in Lego? Spoiler Alert: A lot of bad stuff goes down on Scarif during Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
The 419-piece Lego set features most of the key Rogue One characters, including Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor. It ships in March for $49.99. Run for your lives!Image: Lance Ulanoff/mashableOne of the most action-packed and, yes, funniest scenes in Star Wars: Episode VII is Hans Solo, Chewbacca, Rey and Finn's escape from the insane, octopus-like Rathtar's while on board Solo's freighter, the Eravana. The 836-piece set has all the key characters, a multiple Rathtars and cage for the monster. It ships in June for $79.99.Image: lance ulanoff/mashableOne of the best things about Lego's Star Wars series is all the inventive ways the toy company figures out how to recreate the special effects wizardry from the movies. The usually outdo themselves on the spacecraft, The Y-Wing Starfighter from Rogue One is no exception. At 691 pieces, it's impressively detailed and even includes the "evil" R2, the C2 B5. The set ships in March for $59.99 5: Jaku Quad Jumper You can blow this one up, too.
Image: lance ulanoff/mashableThis Quad Jumper will get more playtime on your desk than it did in Star Wars: Episode VII. It's the ship Finn and Rey plan to make a getaway in until The First Order Tie fighters blow it to smithereens. Now you get to rebuild it out of 457 pieces. It ships in June for $49.99. BONUS: This flying motorcycle is straight out of Star WarsYou come expecting the youthful exuberance of Finn, Rey and BB-8 and instead you’re treated to a thick shot of greatest hits nostalgia. The first 30 minutes of LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a victory lap of every battlefront featured in Return Of The Jedi’s Battle Of Endor. It’s a fitting start. Eleven years ago it was in Star Wars’ universe that TT Games established a template for its multi-billion-dollar business: recreating megawatt movie franchises in digital LEGO. Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, The Lord Of The Rings, Jurassic Park — few big blockbusters have avoided the brick treatment. Understandable, then, that in returning to the galaxy where it all began, the studio should first pay tribute to the Empire that built an empire.
No cinematic blockbuster fits the LEGO template quite so snugly. LEGO’s elemental appeal, as any child can tell you, is the joy of building a house then knocking it down again in a shower of plastic bricks — something particularly suited to a Jedi’s unique abilities. With a humming swish they can wreak destruction with a lightsaber. Then, with a quiet wave of a hand, reassemble the wreckage. In this way LEGO Star Wars allows us to smash a tree into its plastic molecules, then rebuild it as a ladder, an anti-aircraft gun, or a switch for BB-8 to turn with his gyrating torso. The game follows a now familiar rhythm. It breaks the film’s story into a series of chapters, providing a slapstick but faithful take on the original work. You control a vast and expanding cast of characters — everyone from the marquee stars to the bit-part characters that only the most studious Star-gazer will recognise. Each has an ability that must be used like a key to solve the lock of specific puzzles.
Rey, for example, is a natural gymnast, able to fling her staff into cracks where it becomes an impromptu pole, which she can swing on to reach ledges. Chewbacca can lob grenades that explode otherwise impervious silver bricks. When it comes to faraway switches that can only be reached with a blaster bullet, Han Solo always shoots first. You can switch between characters with ease, while each level strains at the seams with secrets that can only be accessed when you’ve unlocked the requisite personas and returned for a second play-through. For veterans, The Force Awakens introduces a clutch of new ideas to go along with its pristine new game engine, which renders the LEGO world with unrivalled weight and sheen. One example being the sections when you must hide behind cover in a shoot-out, the game switching to an over-the-shoulder camera view as you line up headshots as if playing Gears Of War. Those piles of bricks can now be used to build more than one object at a time as well, breathing fresh air into the puzzle design.