Mechs? 75368 Darth Vader Mech, 75369 Boba Fett Mech and 75370 Stormtrooper Mech The mech review is finally here! A massive amount of the community replied with an outroar of anger regarding these sets. The […]
75365 Yavin 4 Rebel Base We first heard about this set being a possible release back in 2021, now about two years later we finally have Yavin 4 in hand. The LEGO Group has made […]
When LEGO anounced another 4+ Star Wars set we were all understandably concerned. However tying it directly to the Disney show was a stroke of marketing genius. 75358 Tenoo Jedi Temple We always wondered who […]
The Pirate Snub Fighter, is sleak and elegant. 75346 Pirate Snub Fighter This set doesn’t waste any time or space, it’s simple the figures are solid. The set features two sections which can be used […]
Even though in recent years most sets are leaked before their official reveal, set 75356 has managed to surprise LEGO Star Wars fans after going live on LEGO.com. This slot had previously been rumored for […]
When this Gift with Purchase was announced the community was in a tizzy, pictures of massive Death Stars were spreading around and the rumour mill went buck wild. 40591 Death Star II Now that we’ve […]
When it was first announced we were beyond excited to build and review the UCS Razor Crest having already been released in System scale, as a Microfighter, and in micro/mini scale. The Razor Crest was […]
Not every reader is a completist, is interested in every set that comes out, or can even afford them all, so we’ve collected all our reviews into one handy digest to help you decide what […]
Announced during the Summer of LEGO Star Wars panel during Star Wars Celebration 2022, teased during LEGO Con 2022, and to be streamed on Disney+ on August 5th, the latest LEGO Star Wars special is getting The Holo-Brick Archives’ scrutiny […]
Be transported to the desert planet of Tatooine as we review the first-ever Ultimate Collector Series version of Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
You don’t need to be a Jedi Master to enjoy this set – build or build not, there is no try. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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! […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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