Five surprising misses from the LEGO Star Wars 2024 line-up

The full picture of the LEGO Star Wars theme in 2024 is beginning to crystallise, and obvious gaps in the line-up are forming as a result – including these five surprising absences.

More details on the rumoured May and June 2024 LEGO Star Wars range emerged over the weekend, solidifying what to expect from the next two waves of sets from a galaxy far, far away. Add to those the already-revealed or released January and March waves, a rumoured August range and a couple of late drops in the final quarter of 2024, and you’ve got what looks like a complete picture of this year’s slate.

But with one eye on the two major anniversaries in 2024 – those of both the LEGO Star Wars theme as a whole and The Phantom Menace – and precedents set in previous years, there are more than a few obvious contenders for sets that are completely missing from the list. Here are five surprising absences from the LEGO Star Wars 2024 line-up as things stand…

5 – More LEGO Star Wars mechs

Okay, hear us out. It’s not that we necessarily want more LEGO Star Wars mechs: it’s just that we’re surprised there aren’t more on the way. The LEGO Group introduced yet another new subtheme from a galaxy far, far away in 2023 with a trio of buildable mechs hooked to original trilogy baddies (Darth Vader, Boba Fett and a Stormtrooper), paving the way for plenty more in 2024 and beyond.

Instead, we’re apparently looking at just one new suit of sci-fi armour in 75390 Luke Skywalker X-wing Mech. And you know what? It sounds pretty fun! The latest details suggest it’ll be inspired by the vehicle itself rather than Luke’s pilot fatigues, with giant S-foils protruding from its shoulders. If that’s the future of LEGO Star Wars mechs, maybe we do want more… 

4 – More LEGO Star Wars 1999 remakes

The LEGO Group celebrated LEGO Star Wars’ 20th anniversary by revisiting retro sets from the theme’s earliest days (and including classic yellow-skinned minifigures in those models), but it’s taking a different approach for the 25th anniversary. While we’re apparently getting a couple of nods to the early 2000s (such as the May the 4th gift-with-purchase 40686 Battle Droid Carrier), direct remakes of 25-year-old sets are few and far between.

From the current line-up, only 75383 Sith Infiltrator is specifically revisiting a set from the theme’s launch year. That’s all the more surprising because 1999 saw the first versions of sets that have received consistent love from the LEGO Group in the quarter-century since, but not in the immediate past – to the point that it felt like a new Naboo Fighter, Snowspeeder and Vulture Droid were being saved specifically for 2024.

3 – The Bad Batch: Season 3 LEGO sets

The LEGO Star Wars theme has gotten much better at timing over the past few years, launching waves of sets alongside new TV shows as they drop on Disney+ (even if they do have to remain completely spoiler-free for the most part). No such luck for Season 3 of The Bad Batch, which premiered on the House of Mouse’s streaming platform this week with absolutely zero LEGO tie-in material.

Both 75314 The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle and 75323 The Justifier (based on Seasons 1 and 2 respectively) have long since retired, and there are no signs of anything else on the way for Season 3 in 2024. The LEGO Group could still surprise us, but it looks like those first two sets perhaps didn’t perform as well as hoped…

2 – Star Wars: The Acolyte LEGO sets

While the LEGO Star Wars team has plenty of data on The Bad Batch and audience interest (along with the reception to its first two sets), Star Wars: The Acolyte is an unknown quantity – but it’s still surprising that we apparently won’t see even one tie-in LEGO Star Wars set for the live-action show this summer. That would have at least echoed the strategy around Star Wars: Andor, even if the LEGO Group doesn’t want to risk dedicating an entire wave to the series.

There’s a chance that 75392 – a set touted as a buildable creature – may stem from The Acolyte, but that would still likely rule out minifigures based on characters from the High Republic-era show. Collider reports that The Acolyte has a tentative release date of June 5 on Disney+, right around the time the LEGO Group is said to releasing a wave of The Mandalorian Season 3 sets. So much for improved timing. 

1 – A LEGO Star Wars Duel of the Fates diorama

This is the biggie; the one that most of us would have predicted would land on shelves in 2024 and which bookmakers everywhere would have had odds-on (and then raked in all the Republic credits, seemingly). There was no lower-hanging fruit; no more obvious home run than a LEGO Star Wars diorama based on the climactic duel between Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul, in what is not only the 25th anniversary of LEGO Star Wars but also the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace.

But leave it to the LEGO Group to completely defy expectations. Only one LEGO Star Wars diorama is said to be on the cards for 2024 as the designers seemingly wind down the still-young subtheme (although here’s hoping it continues into 2025 anyway) with the microscale 75380 Boonta Eve Podrace Diorama.

Is there anything else you would have expected to see from the LEGO Star Wars theme in 2024? Let us know in the comments below. For now, here’s a reminder of the entire slate as it stands. Remember that not all these details are confirmed at the moment.

LEGO Star Wars sets confirmed and rumoured for 2024

LEGO set	Price	Pieces	Release date
30680 AAT	TBC	75	January 1, 2024
30685 TIE Interceptor	€3.99	48	May 1, 2024
40675 Commander Cody	$9.99	147	May 2024
40676 The Phantom Menace BrickHeadz Collection	$54.99	TBC	May 1, 2024
40686 Battle Droid Carrier	TBC	262	May 1, 2024
40730 [Star Wars GWP]	TBC	145	October 2024
75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack	£24.99 / $29.99 / €29.99	215	January 1, 2024
75373 Ambush on Mandalore Battle Pack	$19.99 / €21.99	108	June 1, 2024
75374 Onyx Cinder	$129.99 / €139.99	1,325	June 1, 2024
75375 Millennium Falcon	£74.99 / $84.99 / €84.99	921	March 1, 2024
75376 Tantive IV	£69.99 / $79.99 / €79.99	654	March 1, 2024
75377 Invisible Hand	£46.99 / $49.99 / €52.99	557	March 1, 2024
75378 BARC Speeder Escape	$29.99 / €29.99	221	May 2024
75379 R2-D2	£89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99	1,050	March 1, 2024
75380 Boonta Eve Podrace Diorama	$69.99 / €79.99	718	May 1, 2024
75381 Droideka	$59.99 / €64.99	583	May 1, 2024
75382 TIE Interceptor	$239.99 / €239.99	1,931	May 2024
75383 Sith Infiltrator	$69.99	640	May 2024
75384 The Crimson Firehawk	£46.99 / $49.99 / €52.99	136	January 1, 2024
75385 Battle on Peridea	$49.99	382	August 1, 2024
75386 Paz Vizsla and Moff Gideon Battle	$39.99	289	June 1, 2024
75387 Boarding the Tantive IV	£49.99 / $49.99 / €54.99	502	March 1, 2024
75388 Jedi Bob’s Starfighter	$39.99	310	August 1, 2024
75389 Dark Millennium Falcon	$169.99	1,578	August 1, 2024
75390 Luke Skywalker X-wing Mech	$15.99	195	June 1, 2024
75391 Captain Rex Y-wing Microfighter	$12.99	99	June 1, 2024
75392 [Potential Creature Build]	$99.99	1,186	August 1, 2024
75393 X-wing and TIE Fighter	$109.99	1,058	August 1, 2024
75394 Death Star Playset	TBC	1,555	August 1, 2024
75395 Star Wars Advent Calendar	$44.99	368	September 1, 2024
75396 Escape from the Sarlacc	$89.99	558	August 1, 2024
75398 Buildable C-3PO	$149.99	1,132	August 1, 2024

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