Disney just dropped the perfect LEGO Star Wars summer 2024 set

As many of us suspected might happen eventually, the latest episode of Star Wars: Ahsoka has just dropped the perfect LEGO set for summer 2024.

Disney’s new streaming series from a galaxy far, far away already has three tie-in LEGO sets – 75357 Ghost & Phantom II, 75362 Ahsoka Tano’s T-6 Jedi Shuttle and 75364 New Republic E-wing vs. Shin Hati’s Starfighter – which is more than some of its other Star Wars shows have received (The Mandalorian notwithstanding). And those three sets cover most of the first half of the series between them, including nearly every major character.

But with part six dropping on Disney+ this week, an obvious contender for a fourth Ahsoka set has finally arrived on screens – and it feels almost too obvious to guess that we’ll see it on shelves next summer…

Spoilers follow for the sixth episode of Star Wars: Ahsoka.

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After weeks of build-up, the fifth season of Star Wars Rebels – sorry, the first season of Star Wars: Ahsoka – has finally left behind the galaxy we’re all familiar with to venture to strange new worlds. The first of those is Peridea, original home of the Nightsisters, and the planet to which Purrgil go to die. (Its ring of Purrgil carcasses is a sight to behold.) It’s here that Morgan Elsbeth hopes to find the exiled Grand Admiral Thrawn.

And find him she does, though in a sorrier state than we last saw him in the finale of Star Wars Rebels, when Ezra Bridger and the Purrgil zipped him out of the known galaxy and into unknown territory. His kintsugi army is battered and bruised; their armour damaged, repaired and damaged again; and his Star Destroyer – the Chimaera – has been patched up with clearly non-standard materials.

It’s very recognisably the Chimaera, though, thanks to the huge chimaera decal on its belly (which showrunner Dave Filoni and episode director Jennifer Getzinger make sure to show us). And while there have been other candidates for potential LEGO sets in this episode and the last few – the Starhopper-style ship the crew use to travel from the Eye of Sion down to Peridea here, for example – none feels more obvious than a play-scale Chimaera.

2024 will mark 10 years since our last Star Destroyer at that scale, for one thing, in 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer. And the unique aesthetic of the Chimaera as it appears in Ahsoka, both top and bottom, would help it to carve out its own identity on shelves regardless – you can imagine dark grey elements used on the underside to replicate the glyph, and dark tan (drum-lacquered gold feels too much to hope for) on top to recreate the capital ship’s repairs.

Plus, the minifigure selection essentially writes itself. Thrawn has yet to return to the LEGO Star Wars line-up, and the LEGO Group can’t ignore the big bad of the series – and presumably Filoni’s eventual Heir to the Empire movie – forever. Toss in Morgan Elsbeth (the LEGO Group could stand to get some more mileage out of her new hair mould), mysterious second-in-command Captain Enoch, a couple of Night Troopers and Sabine Wren, and you’ve got yourself a LEGO Star Wars set for the ages.

The LEGO Group has already carved out the perfect price point for it, too: the same one recently filled by another flagship in 2021’s 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser, and then again by 2022’s 75323 The Justifier and 2023’s 75357 Ghost & Phantom II. A $150-170 Chimaera Star Destroyer would be the ideal LEGO Star Wars summer 2024 set, so the only question that remains now is: will the LEGO Group and Disney seize that low-hanging fruit?

We’ll have to wait until next year to find out for sure. For now, click here to check out the latest list of LEGO Star Wars sets currently rumoured for 2024.

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