Rumoured LEGO Star Wars 2024 set is not the polybag you were looking for
The first details on this year’s second rumoured LEGO Star Wars polybag have surfaced online, and it sounds like it’s not going to be the set we were looking for.
LEGO Star Wars has put out a single vehicle-focused polybag each calendar year pretty consistently over the past half-decade. Last year saw the release of 30654 X-wing Starfighter (marrying up with 75355 X-wing Starfighter); 30495 AT-ST accompanied the beefier 75322 Hoth AT-ST in 2022; 30388 Imperial Shuttle flew on to shelves in 2021; and so on.
That meant eyebrows were raised when a second LEGO Star Wars polybag was rumoured for 2024, following January’s 30680 AAT with a mystery second pocket money-priced build – or minifigure. Hopes for a character-driven polybag weren’t unfounded, either. The last two times the LEGO Star Wars theme has put out more than one polybag per year, at least one of them has included a minifigure.
2022’s 30495 AT-ST was joined by 30625 Luke Skywalker with Blue Milk courtesy of the LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga video game (the minifigure was bundled in with the deluxe edition), while 2019 saw a total of four different polybags debut for the LEGO Star Wars theme’s 20th anniversary – one of which was a retro Obi-Wan Kenobi minifigure to match the other remade characters scattered throughout the special-edition May 2019 wave.
Those two instances set a precedent of sorts going into 2024. Not only was there a second polybag apparently on the way, but this year also marks the 25th anniversary of LEGO Star Wars – and the LEGO Group is going big on the occasion by including obscure characters such as ARC Trooper Fives and Darth Malak in certain (unrelated) sets. Expectations were that this mystery polybag could well include a minifigure, whether hooked to the 25th anniversary or not.
It’s worth noting here that the LEGO Group had already stated there would be a total of six LEGO Star Wars 25th-anniversary minifigures included in sets, but DK’s updated LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary is reported to come with an additional character with ‘25th anniversary printing’, so it wasn’t out of the question that a polybag might also play fast and loose with what the LEGO Group classifies as a specific 25th-anniversary minifigure.
All this is to say that hopes for a LEGO Star Wars minifigure polybag weren’t completely asinine. But you can now consider those hopes dashed quite expertly – at least according to YouTuber MaxBaut, who claims that 2024’s second LEGO Star Wars polybag will actually be a tiny buildable TIE Interceptor. That lines up with the rumoured 75382 TIE Interceptor, which is thought to be this year’s first Ultimate Collector Series model.
Given 2023’s UCS X-wing was accompanied by a microscale polybag version, the existence of 30685 TIE Interceptor feels entirely predictable in hindsight. And the 48-piece build will no doubt be pretty strong – the LEGO Star Wars team has been knocking it out of the park with polybags in the past few years – but it’s still no minifigure. Hard times for character collectors, for sure.
There may be one silver lining, and that’s the potential for two free LEGO Star Wars polybags during this year’s May the 4th celebrations. 30680 AAT marks the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace, and with one eye on the other rumoured LEGO Star Wars Episode I sets rumoured to be coming in May, it would make sense to offer the Trade Federation tank as a freebie.
But you can’t launch the UCS TIE Interceptor without its polybag counterpart, so fingers crossed we get twice the usual number of free polybags (with qualifying purchases) for Star Wars Day 2024. Click here to find out everything we know about May the 4th this year, and head here for more of the latest rumoured details on this year’s LEGO Star Wars range. None of those (including this polybag rumour) should be treated as confirmed until revealed by the LEGO Group.
LEGO Star Wars sets confirmed and rumoured for 2024
| LEGO set | Price | Pieces | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30680 AAT | TBC | 75 | January 1, 2024 |
| 30685 TIE Interceptor | €3.99 | 48 | May 1, 2024 |
| 40675 Commander Cody | $9.99 | 147 | May 2024 |
| 40676 The Phantom Menace BrickHeadz Collection | $54.99 | TBC | May 1, 2024 |
| 40686 Battle Droid Carrier | TBC | 262 | May 1, 2024 |
| 40730 [Star Wars GWP] | TBC | 145 | October 2024 |
| 75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack | £24.99 / $29.99 / €29.99 | 215 | January 1, 2024 |
| 75373 Ambush on Mandalore Battle Pack | $19.99 / €21.99 | 108 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75374 Onyx Cinder | $129.99 / €139.99 | 1,325 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75375 Millennium Falcon | £74.99 / $84.99 / €84.99 | 921 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75376 Tantive IV | £69.99 / $79.99 / €79.99 | 654 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75377 Invisible Hand | £46.99 / $49.99 / €52.99 | 557 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75378 BARC Speeder Escape | $29.99 / €29.99 | 221 | May 2024 |
| 75379 R2-D2 | £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 | 1,050 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75380 Boonta Eve Podrace Diorama | $69.99 / €79.99 | 718 | May 1, 2024 |
| 75381 Droideka | $59.99 / €64.99 | 583 | May 1, 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 Paz Vizsla and Moff Gideon Battle | $39.99 | 289 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75387 Boarding the Tantive IV | £49.99 / $49.99 / €54.99 | 502 | March 1, 2024 |
| 75388 Jedi Bob’s Starfighter | $39.99 | 310 | August 1, 2024 |
| 75389 Dark Millennium Falcon | $169.99 | 1,578 | August 1, 2024 |
| 75390 Luke Skywalker X-wing Mech | $15.99 | 195 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75391 Captain Rex Y-wing Microfighter | $12.99 | 99 | June 1, 2024 |
| 75392 [Potential Creature Build] | $99.99 | 1,186 | August 1, 2024 |
| 75393 X-wing and TIE Fighter | $109.99 | 1,058 | August 1, 2024 |
| 75394 Death Star Playset | TBC | 1,555 | 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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