LEGO Star Wars could be cooking up the most boring Death Star set of all time
‘Death Star’ and ‘boring’ generally don’t belong in the same sentence, but that’s exactly what the LEGO Star Wars team could be going for with a rumoured summer 2024 set…
Think of all the action sequences that take place aboard and around the first Death Star in A New Hope: there’s the daring rescue of Princess Leia from cell block 1138; the gang’s adventures through the garbage compactor while escaping the laser fire of Stormtroopers; the fatal duel between Ben Kenobi and Darth Vader; the trench run on the surface that culminates in a big bang; and so on.
All of those and more have been recreated in LEGO in one form or another over the years, mostly as part of 10188 Death Star and 75159 Death Star, though also in sets like 75339 Death Star Trash Compactor Diorama and 75229 Death Star Escape. The larger sets have also used their expanded scope to include rooms that wouldn’t normally justify individual sets, such as the hangar, interrogation room and conference room. The key word here is ‘normally’.
Rumour has it that the LEGO Group is now planning to return to the Death Star… but not in the way you’d expect. Instagram user Unibricks claims that 75394 Death Star Conference Room will arrive on shelves later this year (1414falconfan suggests August 1 as a potential release date), complete with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s Cal Kestis as a bonus 25th-anniversary minifigure.
Let’s quickly recap all the important events that happen in the Death Star’s conference room: Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin have a conversation, Darth Vader chokes out Admiral Motti, and… that’s it. A scene most memorable for the moment in which a Sith Lord tries to crush the windpipe of a subordinate doesn’t sound like the most thrilling recipe for a LEGO set, which has us scratching our heads over 75394 Death Star Conference Room.
That’s not least for its price tag, which is rumoured to come in at $79.99. We’ve seen other LEGO Star Wars Death Star playsets occupy a similar price point, but they’re typically anchored around an action scene with a bit more going on (the final duels aboard the second Death Star, the functioning trash compactor built on a black display base for a diorama, et al). The conference room is basically just a table.
If that sounds pretty dull on paper, we can at least take solace in the fact that it’s still just a rumour for now – and 1414falconfan still refers to 75394 as only a ‘Death Star playset’, so it could yet end up being something completely different to the conference room (if it exists at all). That would explain the mysterious minifigure line-up, which Unibricks claims will include Darth Vader, two Stormtroopers, an Imperial Officer and a Death Star Trooper.
That doesn’t sound like an appropriate list of characters for the conference room, which would surely include Grand Moff Tarkin and a handful of Imperial Officers at a minimum. For his part, 1414falconfan only lists Darth Vader, Cal Kestis and ‘about five or six more’ minifigures alongside 75394. Fingers crossed more detailed descriptions of the set’s contents emerge online soon, although of course nothing is confirmed until we get official word from the LEGO Group anyway.
Every LEGO Star Wars set confirmed and rumoured for 2024
| LEGO set | Price | Pieces | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30680 AAT | TBC | 75 | January 1, 2024 |
| 30685 [Polybag] | TBC | TBC | May 2024 |
| 40675 Commander Cody | $9.99 | TBC | May 2024 |
| 40676 [The Phantom Menace BrickHeadz] | $54.99 | TBC | May 2024 |
| 40686 [Star Wars GWP] | TBC | TBC | May 2024 |
| 75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack | £24.99 / $29.99 / €29.99 | 215 | January 1, 2024 |
| 75373 Mandalorian vs. Super Commando Battle Pack | $19.99 | 109 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75374 Skeleton Crew Ship | $129.99 / €139.99 | 1,325 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75375 Millennium Falcon | $79.99 / €84.99 | 921 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75376 Tantive IV | $69.99 / €79.99 | 654 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75377 Invisible Hand | $52.99 / €52.99 | 557 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75378 BARC Speeder Escape | $29.99 / €29.99 | 221 | May 2024 |
| 75379 R2-D2 | $99.99 / €99.99 | 1,050 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75380 Boonta Eve Podrace Diorama | $69.99 / €79.99 | 718 | May 2024 |
| 75381 Droideka | $59.99 / €64.99 | 583 | May 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 Mandalorian Imperial Bunker | $39.99 | 289 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75387 Tantive IV Hallway | $54.99 / €54.99 | 502 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75388 Jedi Bob’s Starfighter | $39.99 | 310 | August 1, 2024 |
| 75389 Dark Millennium Falcon | $169.99 | TBC | August 1, 2024 |
| 75390 X-wing Pilot Luke Mech | $15.99 | 195 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75391 Captain Rex’s Y-wing Microfighter | $12.99 | 99 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75392 TBC | TBC | TBC | August 1, 2024 |
| 75393 X-wing and TIE Fighter | $109.99 | 1,058 | August 1, 2024 |
| 75394 Death Star Conference Room | $79.99 | TBC | 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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