Five Star Wars Celebration moments that matter for LEGO fans

Star Wars Celebration is over for another year, so with all the announcements on the table, here are the five biggest moments that matter for LEGO Star Wars fans.

A whirlwind weekend of news, trailers, announcements and more from Star Wars Celebration in London has given fans of a galaxy far, far away plenty to pick over – but if you just want the headlines, and what they mean for LEGO Star Wars fans, we’ve got you covered. Here’s how the future of Star Wars will likely shape the LEGO sets coming our way over the next six or seven years…

5 – The Acolyte release date

Star Wars: The Acolyte promises to deliver something totally fresh for a galaxy far, far away on the small screen, winding the clock back 100 years to the High Republic era. Lucasfilm confirmed the series is coming to Disney+ in 2024, pegging a potential release date for LEGO Star Wars: The Acolyte sets, and revealed a first trailer exclusively for Star Wars Celebration attendees.

According to those on the show floor, Star Wars: Acolyte will feature multiple Jedi – including one wielding a yellow lightsaber – alongside plenty of aliens and a ‘jaw-dropping martial arts fight’. Fingers crossed that all adds up to some explosive LEGO sets, along with a minifigure of the first Wookiee Jedi Master, portrayed by Star Wars veteran Joonas Suotamo.

4 – The Bad Batch Season 3 confirmed

Star Wars: The Bad Batch has inspired two different LEGO Star Wars sets to date, in 75314 The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle and 75323 The Justifier. The show’s second season recently wrapped up on Disney+, and Lucasfilm revealed at Celebration that a third and final season will debut on screens in 2024. We wouldn’t be surprised to see at least one more LEGO The Bad Batch set to match.

3 – Skeleton Crew will tie into The Mandalorian

Another new project that’s sure to get at least one LEGO Star Wars set, Skeleton Crew is now confirmed to take place concurrently with The Mandalorian – and will feature at least one character from that show in Vane, the pirate who squared off with Din Djarin and Greef Karga on Nevarro. We’re already getting a minifigure of Vane in 75346 Pirate Snub Fighter, so that’s technically one Skeleton Crew minifigure already.

The show’s cast and crew revealed at Star Wars Celebration that it will focus on ‘children’s experiences in a galaxy far, far away’, and is designed to cater to audiences both young and old. That sounds like the perfect recipe for the LEGO Star Wars team…

2 – Ahsoka trailer and release date

Star Wars: Ahsoka is just four short months away from arriving on screens, and a first trailer out of Star Wars Celebration gave us a fantastic glimpse of what to expect from the Dave Filoni-helmed live-action series. Basically: it’s a spiritual successor to Star Wars Rebels, bringing Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren, Ezra Bridger, Chopper and Grand Admiral Thrawn into live action for the first time.

Multiple LEGO Star Wars sets are rumoured to be on the way for Ahsoka, and the source material for one of those – 75362 Ahsoka’s T-6 Shuttle – features front and centre in the trailer. Several of the show’s main characters are said to be spread across the three sets, though there’s no word yet on the return of Thrawn in minifigure form.

1 – Three new movies are on the way

Probably the biggest news to come out of Star Wars Celebration full stop was the announcement of three new feature films, each tackling a different era in the Star Wars timeline. While no release dates have been locked in yet, Disney does have placeholder dates for Star Wars films in December 2025, 2027 and 2029. Regardless, these films will undoubtedly shape both the future of the franchise, and the future of the LEGO Star Wars theme to boot.

While LEGO Star Wars sets based on the many Disney+ shows have been relatively piecemeal as the LEGO Group struggles to divide its attentions, each of the Disney-fronted Star Wars movies has had its own dedicated wave of products. We can probably expect the same for the films from James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Dave Filoni.

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