LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian builds offer first look at rumoured 2023 sets

Two LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3 sets are rumoured for release in 2023, and a pair of keen builders have already shown us what they might look like.

On the docket for next year – according to the rumour mill – are 75346 Pirate Snubfighter and 75348 Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs. TIE Interceptor, both supposedly based on the upcoming third season of The Mandalorian. Only one of these ships will be familiar to wider Star Wars audiences, but thanks to Star Wars Rebels and a trailer for the next season of The Mandalorian, we do have a good grasp of the other two.

That’s allowed a couple of imaginative builders to take the rumoured price points and piece counts of those two sets and figure out what they might look like, in turn giving us an idea of what to expect from the official sets in 2023 (if they exist at all). Rebrickable user PiXEL-DAN has come up with a concept for the Snubfighter, for instance, based on AI-enhanced footage from The Mandalorian Season 3’s first trailer.

The result is a small and sturdy starfighter unlike any we’ve seen from LEGO Star Wars before. While the custom build comes in at just 191 pieces, the official model is said to have 285 parts, so there’s a good chance any Snubfighter that comes out of Billund will be a little bit bigger than this one. (The LEGO Group has never been too concerned with scale: just look at the size of its A-wings and Jedi Interceptors.)

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If you don’t want to wait until 2023, you can put PiXEL-DAN’s Snubfighter together right now using the instructions over at Rebrickable. The builder estimates you’ll need to spend around €17 for the parts required, depending on which windshield you use: the piece in the rendered images is quite rare and expensive, but there’s a cheaper and more readily-available one in the inventory.

Redditor Catapimbson, meanwhile, has come up with a concept for 75348 Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs. TIE Interceptor that could actually be very close to the final product. That’s because it uses almost exactly the same number of pieces as the rumoured set (957), with enough spares to account for three or four minifigures.

Their TIE Interceptor is a recoloured and slightly redesigned version of 75240 Major Vonreg’s TIE Fighter, a red and black ship from Star Wars: Resistance, while their Fang Fighter – originally seen in Star Wars Rebels, and again during the climactic space battle in The Rise of Skywalker – is an entirely new design. The basic shape of the vehicle shares its DNA with 75316 Mandalorian Starfighter, which is retiring this year, with angled wings and a gyroscopic cockpit.

It’s possible that the LEGO Group might elect for a bolder colour scheme for its own Fang Fighter, if only to add a little more visual contrast to the muted hues of the TIE Interceptor, but that will likely depend on the ship’s appearance in The Mandalorian Season 3.

This is all contingent on rumours around next year’s LEGO Star Wars line-up bearing fruit, of course – for now, take them with a pinch of salt. But if they are true, we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see the first two LEGO The Mandalorian 2023 sets looking a little something like these concept models.

Every LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian set rumoured for 2023

LEGO setPricePiecesMinifiguresRelease date
75346 Pirate Snubfighter€34.99 285 TBC May 2023 
75348 Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs. TIE Interceptor€99.99 957 TBC May 2023 

Featured image: PiXEL-DAN

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Chris Wharfe
I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

Chris Wharfe

I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

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