When your best-selling toy line has the word “war” in it, it’s hard to avoid the context of violent weapons, but for over 20 years LEGO has worked hard to draw a distinction between weaponry […]
While the video games based on the LEGO Star Wars universe have been on everyone’s radar since they started coming out in 2005, the attention that LEGO sets based on Star Wars games have received […]
The long-term universal popularity of the LEGO Star Wars theme – a phenomenon that doesn’t look to settle down any time in the next 10 years – has meant that potential licensing partners have been […]
These days we’re all used to going into LEGO branded stores and website to buy the latest Star Wars sets, but a couple of decades ago – back before the turn-of-the-century-slash-dawn-of-the-new-Millennium – our options were […]
Whether you accidentally stepped on a LEGO brick, an important piece got sucked up in the vacuum cleaner, it’s road trip time and the back seat is covered in loose bricks, or you’re about to […]
After almost ten years of producing sets based on the Star Wars movies, LEGO had to make a sea change to its content when, in 2008, Lucasfilm released The Clone Wars animated TV series. This […]
Originally intended to be played with by children, the arrival of the LEGO Star Wars theme drew in a whole new breed of consumers – the collector. […]
Tucked away in the modern LEGO corporate campus in Billund is a traditional red brick house which, being Ole Kirk Christiansen’s first home in Billund, is the original site of The LEGO Group and to LEGO […]
Take a twenty year jourey in this recap every of every Attack of the Clones set ever made! […]
After more than two decades of LEGO Star Wars content, the developers know what fans want right? If you follow social media or listen to LEGO YouTubers you’d think that the answer is no. While […]
Is this the seed that 75341 Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder grew from, or is it just a case ofgreat minds thinking alike? […]
Lauded by fans as the most overproduced LEGO Star Wars set in the history of everything, we take a look at how repetative the humble landspeeder set really is. […]
We’ve put down our stud separator and picked up a video game controller, because we’re starting our nine-part play through of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga from where it all began – The Phantom Menace! […]
Following yesterday’s release of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and the exclusive 30625 Luke Skywalker with Blue Milk minifigure, we’ve identified five times that blue milk has made appearances in the LEGO Star Wars […]
It’s only been a couple of years since the launch of the Adult Collector range and with the Star Wars theme being at the forefront of the push to draw in grown-ups who are discovering […]
Unique to the LEGO Star Wars licensed range of sets, the initial wave in the Microfighter subtheme was released in 2014 after a selection of chibi-style exclusives were made available during the summer convention cycle […]
Added to the Ultimate Collector Series (UCS) subtheme in the third quarter of 2021, the release of 75309 Republic Gunship was significant because it was the first time that the prequel trilogy had been visited […]
Brickfilms have long existed within the LEGO community, with the first recorded film – Journey to the Moon – dating as far back as 1973. Still, the release of the LEGO Studios Steven Spielberg MovieMaker […]
Design master Henrik Andersen wasn’t wrong when he declared that the new AT-AT “is the one everyone has been waiting for” and judging by the amount of coverage that the Ultimate Collector Series AT-AT received […]
For many years, the Galactic Empire was portrayed as pro-human/anti-alien autocracy, and though it is fictional this stance by creator George Lucas – and the writers who followed him – has resonated through pop culture […]
Changes to the LEGO catalog come after a great deal of research and deliberation; with the increasing cost of product development, materials and transportation, the Danish construction toy company doesn’t want to release a lame […]
As any kid knows, the best way to build a LEGO set is to dump out all the bags on the floor, and then pour the pieces into a giant pile, right? That might be […]
It was in Australia where the new 75313 AT-AT made landfall when LEGO certified retailer lego.brickstore.com, confused by AEDT daylight savings, started the advance at 11 pm instead of midnight. The official LEGO shop@home website […]
The first The Phantom Menace toys hit shelves in May 1999, and from that moment on the prospect of being the first to own the latest collectible from a galaxy far, far away has caused […]
The fun of going on a toy run at midnight is nothing new for Star Wars fans, who have been enjoying Midnight Madness since the first toys from The Phantom Menace hit branches of the […]
The long-awaited Ultimate Collector Series AT-AT is here, and as many collectors all over the world begin purchasing and building the model it’s time to start planning what to do with it. Some may build […]
The increasing price of LEGO sets has created a certain amount of controversy within the community, and while those LEGO fans in the United Kingdom have cause to celebrate the recent price drop, it doesn’t […]
Whether the inspiration of the All Terrain Armoured Transport (AT-AT) was really the container cranes at the Port of Oakland or not, there’s no denying that the four-legged transport was the chosen means of deploying […]
If you’re reading this you’ll already know how significant the appearance of the All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) was in The Empire Strikes Back, and how popular the Imperial walker has been with Star Wars […]
For the past couple of years new content has been created to celebrate the holiday season, but many probably don’t know that a LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special goes back further than 2020. In fact […]
What began in 1973 with Journey to the Moon, a six-minute-long stop-motion movie that depicted the Apollo 17 mission, opened the flood gates of creativity and launched a new way for LEGO fans to demonstrate […]
LEGO key chains date back as far as the minifigure itself. They’re a cheap, timeless accessory that allows kids and adults alike to keep a piece of ABS with them all day long. When the […]
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 […]
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