New LEGO Star Wars: Ahsoka set gets one detail wrong – but it’s easily fixed

One of the two newly-revealed LEGO Star Wars: Ahsoka sets gets one tiny detail from the TV series wrong – but the good news is that it’s easily remedied.

The LEGO Star Wars design team famously has to design the majority of its products hooked to upcoming projects on concept art and conversations with Lucasfilm, so it’s easy to excuse mistakes that make it to shelves – whether major, such as the first iteration of Kylo Ren’s Shuttle lacking folding wings, or minor, such as the error already apparent in one brand new Star Wars: Ahsoka set.

Revealed today alongside 75371 Chewbacca and 75362 Ahsoka Tano’s T-6 Jedi Shuttle, 75364 New Republic E-Wing vs. Shin Hati’s Starfighter includes both lightsaber-wielding baddies from the upcoming Disney+ series, Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati. But as anyone who’s seen the trailer(s) for Ahsoka knows, they should technically be brandishing orange blades.

Instead, their first-ever minifigure counterparts are wielding red-bladed lightsabers, moving away from series creator Dave Filoni’s intentions with the characters. Skoll and Hati are both deliberately designed with blades that sit somewhere between orange and red to clue audiences into the fact that ‘they might not straight up be what you think they are’, as Filoni told ScreenRant earlier this year.

Given how acute that difference is on-screen – initial reactions were that the orange hue could be accidental – it’s not too surprising that the LEGO Group went with red blades for the mysterious characters. But if you’d rather have them wielding orange lightsabers, it’s a very easy fix, because trans-neon orange 4L bars already exist.

The piece has appeared in a total of 20 sets to date, most recently in seven different NINJAGO products in 2020, including 71712 Empire Temple of Madness and 71713 Empire Dragon. As a result, they’re not what you’d call difficult to come by on the aftermarket: the cheapest examples available on BrickLink at the time of writing cost just pennies.

In fact, their earliest use was way back in 2003 for 4485 Mini Sebulba’s Podracer & Anakin’s Podracer, so you might even have a few in your collection already. While the on-screen characters use lightsabers that perhaps sit somewhere between the LEGO Group’s trans-red and trans-neon orange colours, orange feels like a better fit for their characters from the two options available.

75364 New Republic E-Wing vs. Shin Hati’s Starfighter is available to pre-order at LEGO.com now, and will start shipping from September 1. Click here to check out more images of all three new LEGO Star Wars sets revealed for SDCC 2023.

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