LEGO Star Wars is said to be cooking up its cheapest playset since 2006
A $9.99 LEGO Star Wars speeder bike is said to be on the way in 2026, marking the theme’s cheapest regular playset for two decades.
75436 Mando & Grogu Speeder Bike is the most inexpensive set currently slated for LEGO Star Wars in 2026, coming in at only $9.99 in the US for 58 pieces. And while LEGO Star Wars as a whole is no stranger to that price point, you have to go back a very long way to find a set for less than double figures that isn’t part of a wider collection or subtheme from a galaxy far, far away.
In fact, we haven’t seen a regular LEGO Star Wars playset for that price since the advent of battle packs in 2007, which originally sold for $9.99 with 7654 Droids Battle Pack and 7655 Clone Troopers Battle Pack. Once those army builders bumped up in price to $11.99 (the start of a slippery slope), the $9.99 slot was briefly filled by the Planets collection in 2012 and 2013.
Once those sets had run their course, the LEGO Group switched its focus to Microfighters in 2014. The original series of chibi-style vehicles retailed for $9.99 apiece, starting with 75030 Millennium Falcon, 75032 X-wing Fighter and so on, before their prices also eventually climbed up to $12.99 with 2024’s 75391 Captain Rex Y-wing Microfighter.
All that means our last regular LEGO Star Wars set to come in at $9.99 was actually 2006’s 6205 V-wing Fighter, a 118-piece Revenge of the Sith set that adjusted for inflation would retail for $15.95 today. A year earlier, both 7251 Darth Vader Transformation (53 pieces) and 7250 Clone Scout Walker (108 pieces) came in at under $9.99 apiece.
This is an important price point for LEGO Star Wars and one that was once filled by small vignettes, ships and other models in scale with the wider collection of more expensive playsets. Battle packs do technically fulfil that role too, but given their rapid increase in price that still makes 2008 the last gasp of the sub-$10 playset, before separately-scaled collections began exclusively occupying this slot in the portfolio.
This rumoured 2026 speeder bike is therefore pretty welcome news, insofar as it should deliver a cheap and accessible way to get your hands on The Mandalorian and Grogu – stars of their own imaginatively-titled movie The Mandalorian and Grogu – alongside a model that better integrates with the rest of your LEGO Star Wars collection. That can’t really be said about 75363 The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter Microfighter (for example).
Further details on 75436 Mando & Grogu Speeder Bike are few and far between, but the rumoured product name alone tells you pretty much everything you need to know. We’ve already seen the pair atop a speeder bike in 75299 Trouble on Tatooine too (pictured up top), although with only 58 pieces in the box it’s reasonable to assume that this 2026 version might be a little less detailed.
That’s assuming it exists at all, and the reported price is accurate – neither is confirmed for now, so best to take it all with the usual grain of salt. But a return to sub-$10 LEGO Star Wars playsets is long overdue at this point, particularly in an era when the theme as a whole is getting more and more expensive (see this summer’s Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith sets).
Rumoured LEGO Star Wars 2026 sets
| LEGO set | Price | Pieces | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 75421 TBC | $69.99 | TBC | January 2026 |
| 75423 TBC | $99.99 | TBC | January 2026 |
| 75436 Mando & Grogu Speeder Bike | $9.99 | 58 | January 2026 |
| 75437 Cobb Vanth’s Speeder | $29.99 | 207 | January 2026 |
| 75440 Midi-scale AT-AT | $59.99 | TBC | January 2026 |
| 75441 Midi-scale Venator | $79.99 | 643 | January 2026 |
| 75443 Buildable Grogu | $19.99 | TBC | January 2026 |
| 75448 Shocktrooper Mech | $14.99 | 151 | January 2026 |
| 75449 Siege of Mandalore Battle Pack | $19.99 | 116 | January 2026 |
| 75452 Buildable BB-8 | $89.99 | 569 | January 2026 |
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My prediction is it’ll be a 4+ set, much as I’d like a good detailed Mando’s speeder.