Events
House Party
LEGO House is hosting a special, one-off LEGO® Star Wars fan evening and the invitations list is wide open. If you find your calendar is empty on March 29th and you fancy a trip to […]
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Books & Mags
UK News: LEGO Star Wars Magazine – Issue 44 Out Now
This latest issue, with a price tag of £3.99, is out now! In addition to original comic strips, games, puzzles, posters and competitions is a brand new foil bagged Resistance Bomber – which is apt […]
Features
The Story Behind 75204 Sandspeeder
The background of this specialised airspeeder began when Kenner, in 1984, started to plan their post-Power of the Force line up. Nowadays we talk about Star Wars fatigue, but back in the mid 1980s fans […]
Multimedia
UK News: All-Stars Set To Air
The canon-adjacent, animated LEGO Star Wars All-Stars series, that sews The Freemaker Adventures into the galaxy’s greater timeline is set to come to the UK, starting on February 2nd at 8am (and repeated at 430pm). […]
Collecting
Nuremberg Toy Fair Reveals
Spielwarenmesse – the Nuremberg International Toy Fair – started today and LEGO has come out strong. Unlike last year, when LEGO severely curtailed press access and only had a limited amount of Star Wars sets, […]
Events
UCS Millennium Falcon Giveaway
To celebrate International LEGO® Day (January 28th), LEGO Discovery Centre Melbourne is giving away a LEGO® STAR WARS® UCS MILLENIUM FALCON set, valued at $1299.99! To enter you have to visit the LEGO Discovery Centre […]
Grapevine
Is A UCS Yoda Being Teased?
It’s been over a decade and a half since the release of the first and only plus-sized Yoda (7194), which was the precursor to the recent 75187 BB-8 and 75230 Porg, and now there is […]
Books & Mags
DK: New LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary Revealed
Not including the Ultimate LEGO Star Wars collecting book, released by DK in October 2017, the Visual Dictionary series hasn’t had an update since 2014, when they published LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary: Updated […]
Grapevine
LSW20 – What We Think We Know
While the twentieth anniversary of the first LEGO Star Wars sets might not garner the worldwide attention and ticker-tape parades we know it deserves, LEGO is still going to mark the occasion – in a […]
Customs
Efferman’s Vertical Stand
With a name like Efferman and a building style that makes grey rectangles look graceful, you’d be pardoned for thinking he might be a descendant of a certain engineer who gave his name to a […]
Books & Mags
UK News: LEGO Star Wars Magazine – Issue 43 Out Now
This latest issue, with a price tag of £3.99, is out now! In addition to original comic strips, games, puzzles, posters and competitions is a brand new foil bagged Luke Skywalker minifig. The magazine is […]
Grapevine
Is A Star Wars CMF Wave Coming?
We at Rebelscum want to make it clear that the sum of the evidence – of which one point is rumour – is circumstantial, but there are enough clues circulating to suggest that the likelihood […]
Reviews
Return To Cloud City
Back in 2003, when the world was flat, LEGO gave us the opportunity to recreate our favourite moments from The Empire Strikes Back through 10123 Cloud City, which, at the time, was the biggest playset […]
Community
Casting Call!
Dust off your camera because LEGO is looking to showcase collections from the Star Wars community, and Rebelscum has been tasked to assist. Do you have – or know someone who has – a collection […]
Collecting
VIP Holder Offer Lengthened
A number of eagle-eyed forum members, including dr_jedi and theottomanguy, noticed a discrepancy concerning the end date of the promotion. The issue being that the initial promotion notification for 5005747 VIP Frame had it ending […]
Grapevine
Twentieth Anniversary News
On top of The Phantom Menace no longer being a teenager, a hootenanny taking place in Chicago, Hasbro rolling out the very first action figured-scaled Jabba’s Sail Barge, not one but two Star Wars TV […]
Collecting
Winter Wave Drops
Though these have been reported as on shelves in a number of US and Canadian retailers, their official on-shelf date is January 1st – and LEGO being the sticklers they are stuck to their guns […]
Features
Remembering The Falcon
When LEGO made the official announcement on August 31st, 2017 that they had re-designed the classic and record-breaking 10179 Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon it came after months of rumours, speculation and Easter egg teases that […]
Collecting
Last Day Of VIP Holder Promotion
Today marks the final day of the black Star Wars VIP card promotion – dubbed Club 75192 by Rebelscum – and with its passing so will the last chance to get the latest exclusive offering. […]
Collecting
Sales Now On!
Regardless of whether you call them post-Christmas sales, Boxing Day Sales or the sale following someone else’s holiday, you’ll want to get in on the discounted action because LEGO has been reduced at a number […]
Grapevine
75252 Mystery Set Teased
Readers may remember that the speculative 2019 list we posted in October included an unknown UCS set of the same number that we expected to be released in May. Information just made available by Hungarian […]
Reviews
5005747 VIP Frame Review
Right after 75192 Millennium Falcon went on sale at the special midnight opening event of the LEGO store at Leicester Square in London on September 14th, we got out very first glimpse of the black […]
Reviews
Essential Guide To Star Wars Playsets – 2018 Edition
Little worlds in a box have been around a lot longer than most people think with some of the first examples – typically included tin soldiers and revolved around warfare – started to appear at […]
Collecting
5005704 Free Star Wars Box
In what many believe to be a cancelled promotion for holders of the Black VIP Card, between the 17th and 19th of December LEGO allowed US and Canadian shoppers at their online and bricks […]
Collecting
Exclusive Minifig GWP Bundle Offer
A special offer just popped up on our radar, thanks to a report by to Toys ‘N’ Bricks. Shoppers of LEGO.com (United States & Canada) and North American brand stores are getting the opportunity to receive […]
Features
Dare We Define UCS?
With the successful release of the LEGO Star Wars theme in 1999, fans of both genres went wild. Initially, the sets were intended for the typical LEGO fan, and when their popularity amongst adults – […]
Events
Star Wars Days Are Cancelled
With the slow trickle of information coming from LEGO, silence on the part of Merlin Entertainment (owner of the LEGO Star Wars Days hosting locations) and the static coming from the franchise’s owners it was […]
Events
Are Star Wars Days 2019 Cancelled?
Ever since 2008, a special Star Wars Days celebration has been an important event on the LEGOLAND and LEGO Discovery Centres around the world – so much so that special promotional bricks are “minted” to […]
News
Egmont: LEGO Star Wars Magazine Distribution Woes
The Federation of Independent Retailers (NFRN) – the organisation that help the small shops of the United Kingdom “compete more effectively in today’s highly competitive market” – declared their ire with Egmont Magazines, the British […]
Collecting
Double Down On Vader!
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the first Star Wars movie with this metallic-looking pod with mini console build, detachable Lightsaber and the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader! Initially offered as a warm-up act […]
Community
Modular LEGO Death Star Poll
Looking back to those early years when playsets like 4475/6 Jabba’s Message/Prize and 7257 Ultimate Lightsaber Duel were the norm, it’s evident that LEGO has really pivoted on how much effort it puts into the […]
Collecting
Star Wars VIP Card Holder Goes Live
The last hurrah of the Star Wars VIP Card is finally here and card holders have each received an email with a unique code and the instructions “Use the following code on any shop.LEGO.com Star […]
Reviews
The World Of BB-8
Fans of Star Wars have always had a soft spot for the droids of the galaxy – the inquisitiveness of R2-D2, the ineptitude of Separatist battle droids, L3-37’s no-nonsense approach and the admirably low centre […]
Books & Mags
UK News: LEGO Star Wars Magazine – Issue 42 Out Now
This latest issue, with a price tag of £5.99, is out now! In addition to original comic strips, games, puzzles, posters and competitions is a brand new foil bagged Star Destroyer build plus a minifigure […]
Collecting
5005747 Star Wars VIP Gift
Briefly revealed earlier today when it popped up on LEGO.com, is the final 5005747 Star Wars VIP Gift that holders of the Star Wars VIP card are entitled to receive this month. While the mechanism […]
Features
LEPIN: Attack Of The Clone Brands
For nearly 20 years Star Wars fans have been building their favorite playsets and ships out of the wildly popular LEGO bricks. Since 1999, the Danish company has made hundreds of cool sets and fun […]
Grapevine
Club 75192 Swan Song
Back in November when Rebelscum got wind of a final promotion that the holders of the exclusive black VIP card for the first wave of 75192 Millennium Falcon owners the feedback we received was flavoured […]
Collecting
LEGO To Make Running Change To 75188 Resistance Bomber Minifigure Complement
According to The Last Jedi cast member Kevin Layne, who played Resistance Bomber Pilot #1 in the opening sequence that saw the Resistance’s fleet of heavy bombers turned to chaff, the unnamed female pilot that […]
Reviews
Porgs Unplucked
Having spent a number of years living in Pembroke Dock – the town in which the first full-scale Millennium Falcon was built for the production of The Empire Strikes Back in 1977 – and walking […]
Collecting
75229 Death Star Escape Revealed
Probably the most anticipated minifig-scale playset since LEGO released the 75137 Carbon Freezing Chamber, the new Death Star Escape is sure to be a big seller next year when it’s released. 75229 Death Star Escape […]
Collecting
Star Wars 2019 Microfighters Sets
Superdeformed and chibi have been long-running tropes in the merchandised Star Wars galaxy, and the LEGO Microfighters subtheme is no different. As before, each vehicle/pilot pair consists of a small version, with exaggerated features, of […]
Collecting
USA Brick Friday Deals
There’s just too many sets on offer in this the Black Friday 2019 sales at LEGO.com so click on the screencap below to jump directly to the LEGO Star Wars sales portal. Purchases made through […]
Collecting
Star Wars 2019 Battlepack Sets
Though these leaked images have been circulating for a couple of days, Recognised LEGO Fan Media (RLFM) sites were asked not to share them until they had been officially released. In a rare move away […]
Collecting
Star Wars 2019 Vehicles
The onslaught of officially condoned unofficial release information continues with pics and descriptions of two re-treads from 2008/14. 75233 Droid Gunship – US$49.99 Create your own Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith style battles […]
Reviews
Look Sir, Reviews.
Once upon a time, in a bedroom recalled with fondness and nostalgia, there was a child who used to spend hours at play with LEGO bricks spread across the floor. Castles, spaceships, pirate strongholds and […]
Collecting
Star Wars 4+ 2019 Sets
New to the Star Wars license in 2019 is the LEGO 4+ subtheme – which were previously branded as LEGO Juniors – selection, a specially designed range for fun and easy assembly for youngsters and […]
Collecting
Black Friday Offers
While the details of the Black Friday offers, which run from November 22nd to 26th, differ by region there are a number of great catches for LEGO fans of all levels. While the main lead-in […]
Grapevine
Rumoured Winter Wave Sets
Before you think we’re leading you up the garden path, Rebelscum is going to be clear that this is a rumour report. We have no proof that the following is accurate, but the reliable reputation […]
Collecting
Star Wars Toys FTW
It’s the time of year when the what’s-hot lists start appearing across a multitude of platforms to steer your purchasing instincts in the run-up to Christmas and getting in on the action is The Toy […]
Community
League Of Extraordinary Galactic Outlaws T-Shirt Available
Express your love of LEGO Star Wars and Classic Space with this bodacious mash-up of two top-tier themes in one t-shirt. Available in two colours and a variety of sizes for men and women, this […]