Lego unveils Star Wars 50th anniversary sets and the Force is with them

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Yes, Star Wars really is that old (Lego) Star Wars will be five decades old next year and Lego is preparing for the anniversary with seven new sets, including an amazing movie…

Star Wars will be five decades old next year and Lego is preparing for the anniversary with seven new sets, including an amazing movie poster recreation.

2027 is going to be an emotional time for Star Wars fans… and their bank accounts. Lucasfilm has just announced that the original, non-Special Edition version of A New Hope will be released in cinemas for the first time since the 80s and every company imaginable is racing to produce nostalgia-friendly merchandise.

Lego is getting ahead of the curve with seven new sets for release in January, with more expected later in the year. Not all of them are related to the original movie but they all look great, with the poster recreation being a particular standout.

Whether the set is related to the original trilogy or not, they all come with either a special collectible movie poster tile or an exclusive minifigure inspired by concept art for the original film. Which makes for some very welcome extras.

All the sets below, except the poster, will be released on January 1, which is one of the key dates in the year that Lego always releases new product. At that point they’ll each become available via Lego stores and the Lego website.

The cheapest of the sets is based on the final confrontation between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, at the end of Revenge of the Sith. So you get lots of lava, a moving platform, and the droid Anakin was balancing on. It also comes with a concept art version of Han Solo and, yes, that is a lightsaber he’s wielding.

This is not the first time the Dark Lord of the Sith has appeared as Lego wall art, but it is the most affordable design and arguably the best. The main build of Vader’s helmet looks great, but you can also reuse the same pieces to create a different design, with Vader’s lightsaber in the background and a famous Star Wars quote on top of it. It comes with a Lego-fied version of the most famous Empire Strikes Back movie poster.

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