Six LEGO Star Wars minifigures that make no sense

Next year’s LEGO Star Wars sets will reportedly include random bonus characters – but it’s not the first time we’ve seen LEGO Star Wars minifigures that make no sense in their respective sets…

Recent rumours suggest 75379 R2-D2 and 75387 Tantive IV Hallway will include first-ever minifigures of Darth Malak and Fives, neither of which has any association with the sets in which they’re said to be packaged. (Malak is roughly 4,000 years older than Artoo, while Fives is long dead by the time Darth Vader boards the Tantive IV.) But you can see what the LEGO Group’s going for here, celebrating the theme’s 25th anniversary with characters that would be unlikely to show up in a regular set.

And this would hardly be the first time a LEGO Star Wars set has included a seemingly irrelevant minifigure – even if none of the previous instances quite rival popping a Knights of the Old Republic character into a buildable R2-D2. From sets possibly skewed by being produced ahead of a movie or TV show’s release to others that just pack in characters purely to get them on shelves, here are six examples of LEGO Star Wars minifigures that make no sense in their respective sets.

6 – Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi appears in six Star Wars movies, seven seasons of The Clone Wars and even has his own live-action TV show, so the LEGO Group has had no shortage of opportunities to include him in sets. But that still didn’t stop the designers cramming him into 7962 Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba’s Podracers in 2011, despite the fact the Jedi Padawan never left Padmé’s ship during the Tatooine detour in The Phantom Menace.

Qui-Gon Jinn would have made way more sense here, but he was already earmarked for 7961 Darth Maul’s Sith Infiltrator in the same wave. The real issue here was how little George Lucas gave Obi-Wan to do during this sequence, so it’s hard to fault the LEGO Group for finding somewhere to drop him in this small range of Phantom Menace sets. But poor Obi-Wan never did get to see his future Padawan win a podrace…

5 – Coleman Trebor

The LEGO Star Wars team has brought us plenty of obscure Jedi over the years, and 2013’s Attack of the Clones wave kept the party going by including Coleman Trebor in 75019 AT-TE. But eagle-eyed moviegoers will recall the Vurk Jedi Master was mercilessly gunned down by Jango Fett in Petranaki Arena, long before the Republic’s reinforcements – and their six-legged walkers – turned up to save the day.

By the time AT-TEs were stomping across the sands of Geonosis, Coleman Trebor had already become one with the Force, which is to say he was dead. So he makes no sense here, but hey – we’’ll take any excuse to add more Jedi to our LEGO Star Wars minifigure collections.

4 – Ahsoka… or droids?

This one’s a little bit trickier, because it’s sort of a ‘chicken and the egg’ scenario. 75283 Armored Assault Tank (AAT) includes Ahsoka Tano in her Clone Wars Season 7 garb, along with a 332nd Company Clone Trooper, but neither of those characters ever fought the Separatists on screen (they were too busy coming to blows with Mandalorians). So there’s a bit of a mismatch here, and the instinct is to say Ahsoka and the trooper don’t belong in an AAT set.

Yet at the same time, this was clearly released to tie in with the final season of The Clone Wars, which had landed on Disney+ only months earlier. So it’s as much a vehicle for what were at the time brand new minifigures, essentially meaning the AAT plays second fiddle in its own set. What we’re saying is: maybe it’s the droids that don’t make sense in this one, rather than Ahsoka…

3 – Kit Fisto

While plenty of Jedi have only shown up once in LEGO Star Wars sets (leading to high prices for a complete collection on the aftermarket), Kit Fisto has found his way into a surprising number of builds over the years. In only one of those does he truly make sense, though: 9526 Palpatine’s Arrest, which allows kids to recreate the bit in the movie where Palpatine massacres a room full of Jedi (including poor Kit).

His other two appearances feel very much in the vein of ‘here’s a Jedi for the sake of it’, in both 2010’s 8088 ARC-170 Starfighter and 2007’s 7661 Jedi Starfighter with Hyperdrive Booster Ring. The former can at least claim a loose connection through The Clone Wars, but Kit was getting ready to be sliced up by Darth Sidious on Coruscant when Obi-Wan took his replacement Jedi Interceptor to Utapau. That was his minifigure debut though, so again, no complaints from us.

2 – Yoda

What is it with Jedi showing up where they don’t necessarily belong? Maybe it’s some kind of meta commentary by the LEGO Group on the state of the Order during the prequel trilogy. In any case, even wizened Master Yoda couldn’t resist the allure of an irrelevant appearance, popping up in 75002 AT-RT in 2013. The Clone Wars set is inspired by the Umbara arc from the show’s fourth season, which definitely did not involve Yoda.

This was the cheapest way to get your hands on the little green Jedi’s Clone Wars variant in a regular retail set, and he’s clearly a popular character – why else would he get not one, but two Jedi Starfighters? – so you can see why the LEGO Group included him in the AT-RT. But this set did arrive a fair while after the relevant episode aired, so you can’t chalk it up to ignorance.

1 – Mace Windu

Ignorance may well be an excuse for Mace Windu, though, who’s arguably the most iconic example of a LEGO Star Wars character that makes no sense. 7261 Clone Turbo Tank debuted on shelves in 2005 as part of the initial tie-in wave of sets for Revenge of the Sith, so was clearly designed from concept art and initial story details. That likely explains why Sam Jackson’s first LEGO Star Wars minifigure is running around Kashyyyk.

If you remember – and chances are you do – Mace Windu never set foot on Kashyyyk (at least in Revenge of the Sith), because it turned out Yoda had good relations with the Wookiees. (Or at least he told everyone he did – maybe he was just bored of sitting around in the Jedi Council chambers?) What exactly Mace is doing here will remain forever a mystery, but at least we got our first purple lightsaber out of it.

Click here for more details on the rumoured LEGO Star Wars 25th anniversary minifigures (h/t Max Börnicke), or head here for an initial list of other obscure characters we’d like to see make their way into random sets in 2024.

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