Here’s what the rumoured LEGO Star Wars 2024 dioramas will probably look like

Two more LEGO Star Wars dioramas are rumoured to join the growing collection in 2024 – and you don’t need a vivid imagination to realise what they’re probably going to resemble.

The tentatively-named 75380 Boonta Eve Podrace Diorama and 75387 Tantive IV Boarding Diorama, which Promobricks reports will arrive on shelves in May and March 2024 respectively, look sure to take inspiration from The Phantom Menace and A New Hope – marking the first time the LEGO Star Wars Diorama Collection has tackled the prequel trilogy, and our first minifigure-scale set dedicated specifically to the opening scenes of A New Hope.

But while their subject matter may represent fresh and fertile ground for the LEGO Star Wars team, the ways in which those scenes could be implemented within the wider Diorama Collection feels pretty easy to predict. For example, 75380 Boonta Eve Podrace Diorama is said to retail for €69.99 – a piece count that surely points to a microscale diorama, with two (or more) tiny podracers screaming through the sands of Tatooine.

Three different LEGO Star Wars sets can help us imagine what that might look like. First, there’s 2003’s mini 4485 Sebulba’s Podracer & Anakin’s Podracer, which includes microscale renditions of a pair of Episode I podracers. Their designs would surely be different 21 years later, but there’s only so much variation you can introduce at this scale.

The second is 2021’s May the 4th promo 40451 Tatooine Homestead, which also recreates the sandy dunes of Star Wars’ most-visited planet in microscale. This is arguably almost nanoscale – put the aforementioned podracers next to Luke’s two-piece Landspeeder, and the difference is stark – but it still gives us a solid impression of how the LEGO Group might tackle the deserts of Mos Espa.

Finally, there’s the most obvious parallel for the rumoured 75380 Boonta Eve Podrace Diorama: 2022’s 75329 Death Star Trench Run Diorama, to date the one and only LEGO Star Wars Diorama Collection set built in microscale. Add those sets together, and you get a pretty good idea of how the LEGO Star Wars team could translate The Phantom Menace’s most frantic moments in bricks.

And then there’s 75387 Tantive IV Boarding Diorama, for which we only really need to look to last year’s 75324 Dark Trooper Attack. Based on probably the third-most iconic hallway scene in franchise history, the 166-piece model depicts the moment Luke Skywalker tears through an army of Dark Troopers in The Mandalorian Season 2 – and is the perfect template for any and all future hallway sets.

That includes 75387 Tantive IV Boarding Diorama, because it’s not difficult to picture the grey walls here swapped out for white, and the entire scene popped on a brick-built black base. You’d expect a few more pieces devoted to recreating a more detailed hallway for an 18+ set, but you probably wouldn’t need a much bigger budget – which explains why this is rumoured to be the cheapest diorama to date at €54.99.

Replace Luke and the Dark Troopers with Darth Vader, a couple of Stormtroopers and one or two Rebel Troopers, and you’ve got the makings of an ideal set. That horizontal view with only the one wall and a doorway feels much better suited to display than enclosing the entire hallway with a second wall, so it’s difficult to imagine the LEGO Group going with anything else.

Regardless of how predictable the format of these sets might be, though, it hopefully won’t take anything away from actually seeing them in the flesh. And you never know: the LEGO Group could yet surprise us with something entirely unexpected. We won’t find out one way or the other until next year, so fingers crossed you’re happy to play the waiting game – and in the meantime, remember never to put too much stock in any LEGO rumours…

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