Rumours of a new Cloud City for LEGO Star Wars in 2027 are swirling, and here are six things we'd like to see in a third iteration of the iconic airborne city.
As part of the latest batch of LEGO Star Wars rumours, it's claimed that a new 75494 Cloud City model is coming next year, following in the footsteps of 10123 Cloud City and 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City. There is no rumoured piece count or price at the time of writing, giving us only the name to go off until anything is officially confirmed.
That still allows room for some speculation, though, and here are six things we'd like to see in a new LEGO Star Wars Cloud City set.
A wider model
The original 10123 Cloud City was a fairly wide build, but with some depth thanks to a built-in landing pad. 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City is circular in its shape, following the on-screen appearance of Cloud City more closely.
While both builds are great in their own respect, they aren't the easiest to display on anything but a deep shelf or table. A shelf-friendly version of Cloud City is what we'd like to see most, and thankfully there's an ideal foundation.
77015 Temple of the Golden Idol is a wider build with a display-centric focus, but it integrates play features and minifigures into the location-inspired model. Taking the Indiana Jones model and applying a Cloud City coat of paint would be the LEGO Star Wars set of our dreams.
A comprehensive carbon-freezing chamber
Another feature we'd love to see in a new LEGO Star Wars Cloud City set would be a comprehensive carbon-freezing chamber. The previous two Cloud City sets featured such a space, but they weren't nearly as comprehensive as they could be to be more completely accurate to the scene.
75137 Carbon-Freezing Chamber was better in some ways, worse in others, but demonstrates how much space an ideal LEGO carbon-freezing chamber needs to be.
Lobot and a Twin-Pod Cloud Car
Whether as a must-have component of any Cloud City set, or a callback to 2002's 7119 Twin-Pod Cloud Car, we'd love to see a new LEGO Star Wars Cloud City model include both Lobot and a Twin-Pod Cloud Car.
Lobot is a more challenging minifigure for the LEGO Group to produce since it requires wrap-around printing, which is rarely seen in sets. However, a new element for the exposed circuitry on the character's head would be a solution, even including a sculpted bald head similar to that of other bald characters in minifigure form.
Bespin decor
One aspect of 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City that we adored was the integration of Bespin-specific decorations and patterns. This more expensive iteration of Cloud City allowed for such inclusions, but we'd love to see the LEGO Star Wars design team find a way to include at least the wall patterns in a new Cloud City model.
A suggestion of the clouds
Image: Star Wars
Also from 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City is a suggestion of Cloud City's iconic skyline with the domed shape. The larger budget of that Star Wars set made this feature possible, and it would be hard to repeat this on a significantly smaller build.
There is a way to suggest at least the airborne nature of Cloud City in a more affordable model, though. Monkie Kid's The 80039 Heavenly Realms includes clouds at the bottom of the build to suggest that it is floating above them.
Repeating this with brick-built clouds or different graphics would achieve a similar effect in a new LEGO Star Wars Cloud City model to make sure the build lives up to its name.
Leave out the landing pad, unless it has Slave I
The original and newer LEGO Cloud City sets both dedicate a significant portion of their parts budget to a landing pad that can fit a LEGO Slave I. The first of these sets didn't include a Slave I as standard, while the more recent version included a downscaled depiction of the starship.
We'd prefer to see something similar to the latter, or no landing pad at all in a new Cloud City build. This would make sure that the budget goes towards more useful parts of the set, rather than a landing pad that remains empty unless you make another purchase.
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