Should LEGO Star Wars Sets Last Forever? 

Let me know what sets you think belong in this evergreen subtheme and why. With enough feedback, I'll make a video going over the most popular ones, and maybe some that have strong reasons to be there.

Would love it if Lego would make sets on other elements of Star Wars, other than just the movies and tv shows. We need sets based off the Expanded Universe, so much material there for Lego to use.

I like the idea. However, I think what would be economical for Lego is have these sets, the “ever green”, be your Army Builders. Using the OT as an example, instead of having Luke’s X-Wing, have the X-wing with three characters - a pilot, an astromec droid, and a mechanic. Three generic characters so you can use it for the Rebellion, New Republic, and the Resistance. This set is truly meant for mass production to be sold a a set price, like $50, for a few years at a time. Then every three years have Luke’s or Poe’s X-wing come in at $70 have more unique pieces and color, have have five to seven characters. The same thing can be said with the Tie-Fighter, set it at $50 with special versions of the First Order/The Empire’s at $60-70. I think viewing it as an “army builder” is a better way to describe it.

regarding the idea of the x-wing being interchangeable with different characters, making those pieces be something like a polybag would be an incredible idea for Lego. imagine being able to buy Luke’s X-wing but say you want Bigg’s X-wing or Wedge’s, buying say a $5 or $10 bag with a figure, some pieces, maybe stickers, and instructions to change the original set to those other ones would be fantastic and i’d love that. It would be cool too if a pack was made to make it the version that Rey pilots in TROS, it would be such a cool way to get unique mini figs and update a timeless set at a relatively cheap way for Lego and for the customers.

I think another good idea is "starter packs" similar to battlepacks but with the main cast of *insert show/movie* with a small side build for example; the bad batch, phoenix cell, the falcon crew (episode 4 crew and another set for the episode 7 crew) i love sharing my ideas for sets!

I really like the idea of the swap out parts! I think that it would work best for different squadrons on ships rather than something like the AT-AT ones, as those have significant differences

A LEGO Star Wars evergreen subtheme made up of essentials would be a perfect addition to the brand. Would allow collectors of all ages the opportunity to get essential LEGO Star Wars sets at the same time. I’ve always had an issue with LEGO putting out remakes that are subpar to their predecessor. It’s probably part of the reason why I’ve lost interest in LEGO Star Wars. This would solve that issue, as these are common sets, and as you said, there’s not much you can improve upon in just a couple years, which leads to LEGO putting out sets that aren’t as good as their predecessor. If a remake can’t be better than what came it before it, don’t put it out. Just leave the current edition on shelves, especially if it’s an in demand product. Sorry for leaving an essay lmao, this was a fantastic video that deserved a response of this size. Keep up the great work Pen.

I'm not huge into Lego Star Wars, but I found your ideas really engaging and your business proposals solid. Start to finish was very well done; I was hooked the whole time. You should feel proud of your work. Great job.

What I think would work for this line is it starts off as regular normal retail sets that are then moved into the “Evergreen” line that is more or less a Lego exclusive keeping iconic sets available until an updated version is released. What I think should always be available for Sets: 1. X-Wing 2. The Falcon 3. A Tie Fighter 4. Anakin’s Jedi Starfighter 5. Imperial AT-AT 6. Imperial AT-ST 7. Republic Gunship 8. Droid AAT 9. Naboo Starfighter 10. Luke’s Landspeeder Battlepacks should be separate from sets, and need to include a minimum of 3 of the exact same trooper if not all 4 the same. 1. Clone troopers P1 (BARC Speeder) 2. Clone Troopers P2 (AT-RT) 3. Droid battle pack 4. Imperial Stormtroopers 5. First order stormtroopers The rest should follow your idea of being interchangeable parts having completely swappable parts to make dozen of different trooper options just by buying multiples of the same sets 6. Rebel troopers 7. Resistance troopers 8. Mandalorians 9. Jedi 10. Pirates (like Jabba’s henchmen)

I love this idea, and I would definitely recommend the mtt to be a evergreen set. it's iconic from phantom menace, comes with a load of battle droids, and they can even offer a alt color one for the cis version from the clone wars. same build just different colored pieces. heck even have a addon pack that includes a alternate rack build to hold super battle droids instead of b1s.

I came up with a set series called "Legions". Basically a type of set included in every wave similar to brickheadz, microfighters etc. The set consists of a build and 4-5 minifigures, 2 named, 2-3 troops. This way, we could get Clone Wars minifigures like Anakin and Rex +501st troopers, Obi Wan and Cody +212th, Plo Koon and Wolffe +Wolfpack troopers etc. in just one set. Include one per wave and you get 4 different clone legions per year, leaving enough space for Lego to cover current star wars media. This structure can also be adapted for OT content, make a set with Luke Leia Han Chewie and Lando for example. The goal of these sets is that collectors have access to essential character figures for a good price.

I think Lego did the the idea of a package refresh with the first wave of Toy Story sets from 2010 going into the third movie and its tie in sets which in that case, Lego seems to have overlooked that strategy themselves. If I had to choose sets to be evergreen, I would pick Republic gunship and Sith infiltrator. The former since that one has the most custmization potential and the latter since it would be at least one way to get Darth Maul consistently and have one vehicle to represent the first episode which has already had iterations before.

Completely agree, some sets should always be around for obvious reasons.

I totally agree with the concept of this idea and would love lego to do it. But you also have to remember that they know what they are doing. By making sets especially battle packs, not include just generic troopers all the time it means people have to keep buying loads of them and then they end up with something like 50 darth vaders. But thats whats clever about their marketing. They pull you in with the unique characters and then add in some others that noone is perticularly interest in and that way your pay for a product which only contains half of what you actually want. This means you then want to buy more than one to make up for it. Overally though i would love them to do actual battle packs that are just characters and or with one speeder or something but make them as cheap as they can i.e £10 or so.

I love your evergreen set idea! That is so smart!

Great video! This idea sounds great!

Excellent concept, video and montage. Continue like that 👍

Love this idea!!

Brilliant!

Brilliant idea.

Another example of packaging changes can be seen in Mega’s products. They changed a ton of 2020 Halo Infinite sets to have the new Mega logo and new box design, but the sets and figures stayed the same.

Pen Plays for Lego CEO when?

We NEED a new Vader's tie fighter we haven't had one in years

Eh, I think what keeps Lego Star Wars alive is the re-interpretation of the same themes every few years or so. As a kid, I owned the 2012 Y-Wing and TIE-Fighter sets. When I became a teenager, I sold those sets and bought their 2017 and 2018 equivalents. It was fascinating to see how the models had evolved over time, and I was ready to give the new versions a shot. Now, as an adult collector, I’ve sold those 2017 and 2018 versions for the 2004 and 2005 sets. If Lego had just kept the 2012 sets around through like 2016 or 2019, they would have felt very out-of-place with the newer models that would have been out at the time.

all though i have made several comments countering things you have said i am completely on board with this idea and would love to see lego actually do this.

This is a great idea

Not the topic of the video but for me the 2021 Lukes X-Wing was a big step down from the 2019 one, not just in size but also detail and funktion

So agree, that Falcon is perfect, just change out some figures and the packaging and maybe brand them classics, nice video btw 👍

I'd love it if they made a Star Wars video game sub-theme where they made sets based on the video games like Fallen Order/Jedi Survivor, Battlefront, The Old Republic, etc. We already got some of those in the past with the Force Unleashed Rogue Shadow in 2007, SWTOR sets in 2012 and 2013, and the Inferno Squad battle pack from EA's Battlefront II, not to mention the buildable BD-1.

I think the evergreen sets could be good if it was a lego store exclusive

I really like this idea there are about 5 sets that should stay all year long and that’s an x wing a tie fighter millennium falcon and something with darth Vader and hopefully some prequel sets too

I can't wait for a new variation of a landspeeder next year!

You lost me at ” the sequels will be beloved” lol

I like the idea. I think the sets overall should be iconic in the universe as well as some army builderish sets

I like this idea.

LEGO have actually done a packaging refresh for Star Wars sets once before. The 2004 wave of Original Trilogy sets was first released in special edition boxes with silver details, then promptly re-released with the blue house style of LEGO boxes of the time.

I love this idea, but I think that a Gunship belongs into this line as the X-Wing of the Prequels in terms of popularity.

Great video

I really like this idea

Fantastic ideas, I think the clone trooper pack should include both phase 1 and 2 helmet option and I disagree that the stormtrooper pack has to just be storm troopers. We see so many imperial officers staffing imperial ships and installations than I think they are equally massable and the stormtrooper should include at least 1 if not 2

A republic gunship that is colour swapped every once in a while would work well. plain, 104th, coruscant guard and lego could do that with multiple rebel ships too for the likes of the partisans and phoenix cell.

Lol I was the one who took the pic of the target shelves here at 3:49

I really like this idea. I'd say add a playscale Death Star to the list, too.

They could have an AT-AT in an Endor moon themed box. Include a scout trooper and two stormtroopers, an Imperial officer, and the two drivers. Then they should have a small box set, say for $20 or $30, with Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, including a small build for the platform that the AT-AT is docked at from Return of the Jedi.😂 I was most 11 years old and Return to the Jedi was in theaters, but my parents only allowed for me to have the Marvel comic book adaptation. For many reasons I always will love that, because it allowed for me to recreate scenes whenever I wanted without having to watch the movie.

"The sequel trilogy will be just as beloved in time." Nope. Nuh uh! Never!

Remember when Lego rereleased that one Fiat set in a different colour? That kinda counts as a packaging refresh but they haven't done it since, even though they made a big deal out of it at the time

Yess

Love the idea of having add on packs/swapping out bits, if anything it would make them more money as you buy a 2nd set plus an add on

I think new parts for battle droids would be good as current battle droids kinda just are made up of clips that will break on mine despite not being touched lol

personally thrilled that the sets that represent the lego star wars identity and continue bringing in the cash is the original trilogy sets.

SAND BLUE DOME

The sequel trilogy will never be loved.

Part swap packs are a cool idea but lego wouldn't do them because it would take everything to make the part pack but only a fraction of the people who bought the set would buy it. Also most battle packs would need atleast 1 different trooper as regular people would be bored with 4 generic troopers so sales would be hurt and they also allow people to obtain a quantity of rarer troopers like the shock trooper or another uncommon one i can't think of. (i say battle pack golden ratio is 2 generics with 2 different troopers like the first clone troopers battle pack)

I believe Jabba's throne room should be evergreen. I was thrilled they rereleased it as a Mandalorian set! Yoda's swamp dwelling is also iconic yet highly redesignable, and likely to spark joy with every inviting iteration.

battle packs with a set of regular clones, droids, storm troopers, rebellion, first order, and resistance

One thing I'd also suggest is that, with a package refresh, LEGO could also rerelease the same set under a different trilogy/movie. For example, they could keep the Millennium Falcon build around, but at the usual refresh time, they could make the EPVI version an EPVII version, or an EPIV version, etc. This would obviously change the budget slightly, but if LEGO wants to incentivize people who already have the Falcon to buy another, it accomplishes this without having to redesign the build. Alternatively, on "refresh years," they could just release companion sets for the larger models. For example, when the Episode IV Falcon is 4-7 years old, release a Home One set that has all of the figs to make it an EP VI version, or a Bespin set with the Han and Leia to make it an EP V version. That way, they can avoid $15 parts packs if they want, but still give the option to redo the Falcon build as people want it. And on a more drastic change, they could also release the exactly same Delta-7 build with a different color scheme for Ahsoka instead of Anakin, etc.. Again, a little more budget, but not as much as releasing a full new design for it.

If Lego just released a battlepack for the Empire and the Republic including at least five figs like in the 501st troopers set I’m sure they could keep them up for years as long as it has desirable minifigs such as a bulk of stormtroopers and one or two rebels.The Republic battlepack could just be 3 grunts and two normal b1’s.

I hate how the TROS millenum falcon is the one thats sticking around. I want an OT falcon with han solo.

It's crazy to me that they take up so many slots with rehash sets each year and how they retire sets like the razor crest or havic marauder so quickly

i was a freshman in hs when the falcon came out and in a month im graduating from hs. great set i love it though

Very interesting idea, would love to see true battle packs like that also, highly doubt the sequel trilogy will ever be as liked as the prequel trilogy

I think a regularly priced Battle Droid battle pack should have 8 figures. Not 4. 5 normal B1s and 3 Super Battle Droids. Have a Droideka and Stap as the build too. Maybe do A Geonosis variant with a Dwarf Spider Droid instead with red B1s and a Utapu one with a Crab Droid instead.

I feel like the ideal evergreen TIE fighter would have at least two pairs of interchangable "wings". The first one could have parts for a pair of traditional hexagon wings and a pair of interceptor wings, a future one could replace those with treads, etc. It would require some more design ingenuity, but I think a bomber or defender could be worked in as alt-modes, too. Vader's TIE may be too specific, though, so it could be a set that just gets remade every now and then. I suppose you could even work in First Order/Final Order alt-modes.

Shelf space and variety

Finally, someone talks about this issue. I am very tired of LEGO re-making a set years later after the initial release. You buy an AT-AT and you like it, you say to yourself, this is the best one and LEGO just decides, yeah it's not good enough and they make another one. The only option you can solve this issue is by buying a UCS ser which, not many people afford. If they do decide to make a Definitive Collector Series that are the best of the best and never get improved they would need to: - Upgrade printing machines, yes, I am tired of getting my R2-D2 head print tilted. - Remove stickers, I know it's going to be expensive, but no one likes stickers. - Make minifigures accurate and perfect, that means no hybrid between cartoon and movies like the 2020 style, 2014 style of clones are superior, add some leg printing, arm printing, MORE CLOTH PIECES, PONCHOS, PAULDRONS, etc. - Make the sets affordable-ish, make the sets stunning to look at and accurate, custom molds, etc.

Hold on, this man has a genuine point.

Someone get this idea to Lego ASAP

I just built the falcon today

The last Luke’s landspeeder from 2019 is actually such a good set

like to point out captain rex's y-wing is just a dream they more likely will never make it.

Needs more prequel sets tho

With the idea for a prequel jedi interceptor and starship, have the first one be lets say an obi wan interceptor and an anakin starfighter, then in maybe 3 years with the exact same builds, reskin them and swap the jedi over

Yo has the rise of skywalker set really been out for 4 years??? 😮

For the battle clone battle pack it should be called army pack

i think changing the set number on a theoretical package refresh would be annoying for catalouging sets. just like it is with a lot of 80s/90s sets

I hope lego sees this

instead of a rebel or droid battle pack, id throw ina First Order Trooper battle pack with 4 FO orders, that way we have a battle pack of each trilogy in the evergreen battle packs.

Release a Wedge Antilles X Wing!

They could possibly do a tie figther 3 in 1 set that can be either of the 3 main tie ships maybe even darth vader's tie too

How do you edit your videos?

I would make an argument with the stormtrooper battlepack would be to at least include 1 or 2 imperial army troopers (maybe the car build from andor), many fans will agree we are long overdue for some army troopers

What if when they redo the millennium falcon they started with a new hope, and then repackaged the same ship with empire strikes back figures a year later. Then the same for jedi in another year and so on and so forth. I think it would be really cool, gives us figures we've never had before and it would be cheap for lego. The way I'd do it is: A new hope: Han, Chewie, Luke, Leia, Obiwan, Vader, And a stormtrooper. The side build would be the scanning machine. The empire strikes back: Han, Chewie, Leia, 3po, Lando, Lobot, Bespin guard. The side build would be a treadwell droid and a minoch. Return of the jedi: Lando, Nien numb, Rebel trooper, Rebel ground crew, Wedge antilles, Admril ackbar. The side build would be a ship matinence cart. The force awakens: Han, Chewie, Rey, Finn, BB-8, Guavian death gang leader and member. The side build would be a rathtar, and the radar dish is changed to rectangle until episode 9. The last jedi: A bunch of Porgs, Rey (poncho), Chewie, R2, Luke, Nun and finally a shirtless Kylo. The side build would be the porg camp fire. The rise of skywalker: Lando, Chewie, R2, Finn, Poe, Kluad, Jahnna. The sidebuild would be a space horse. I know there's also solo, but that Falcon's such a big departure I decided not to do it.

the current millennium falcon is probably the peak of that set

Make this man the new lego ceo

@lego watch this it is a great idea

Death Star should always be available. No extra arguments needed.

Unrelated but I respect the Metriod Prime background music

Personally, I think the Y-Wing should be evergreen.

To be fair, LEGO definitely has some evergreen sets, such as the fact that they periodically release a City Passenger Train and Cargo Train. Those are generally the only train sets available, and therefore they last for many years before getting a refresh.

imagine they make a set no one likes that would be on shelves for years and these sets would reduce the amount of sets we get per year.

they need to discontinue that millennium falcon and release a new one based on return of the jedi.

They would need to be updated every 3-5 years, but yeah, these ships should always be on shelves

I’m so tired of Red 5 being the only T65 X-wing that gets produced. Where’s Hera’s Phoenix Squadron X-Wing or Blue Squadron from Rogue One? Attack on Lothal and Battle of Scarif might not be as iconic as the Battle of Yavin but they’re just as great (in my opinion better).

i hope sequel set's never get made again.

Wait. Most kids lose interest in lego for only around 2 years? There's no way.

I wish Lego would put out cheaper versions of iconic sets like in the old days.

Bro, you should work as a consultant for Lego lol

This sounds like a good idea but I don’t like it , theirs just this joy to get a set , it retire , and then get a new version of that set and know the version you got will never be like the newer one , but that newer one still be just as fun

Can you just apply at Lego already? Please?

You are speaking my language