Marking their 25th year in collaboration, LEGO has announced some special anniversary Star Wars products to celebrate the occasion. The brick maker is also to launch the LEGO Star Wars 25-Second Film Festival which will be celebrated in March.
First revealed at the International Toy Fair in New York in 1999, the LEGO Star Wars collaboration marks its 25-year milestone at the Spielwarenmesse with a selection of 25th-anniversary LEGO Star Wars building sets, launching March 1st.
This looks absolutely fantastic and is a must for any fans of the hit sci-fi franchise and the toys that have come with it in various forms since its conception.
The new sets include a new Starship Collection line featuring brand-new builds inspired by the Millennium Falcon and the Invisible Hand starships; not one but two building sets inspired by the Tantive IV ship; and a special 25th-anniversary edition building set honouring R2-D2. Some sets will include collectable minifigures never seen before in LEGO form or anniversary tiles, marking the special occasion.
The new Falcon can be seen below.
The new sets will come with a new LEGO Star Wars 25th anniversary logo featuring a LEGO recreation of R2-D2. Visitors to the recent Spielwarenmesse, where this new collection was launched, were greeted with a 1:1 LEGO brick build inspired by R2-D2 made from 27,797 LEGO elements. An R2-D2 life-size build will travel across Europe and the U.S. throughout 2024 to celebrate the new range and 25th anniversary celebrations.
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“The LEGO Star Wars collaboration has enjoyed a most impressive 25 years with products, video games, animated content, big builds, merchandise, and more! We want to celebrate all those years and milestones with everyone who helped us get here, but especially with the fan community as we would never be where we are today without their creativity and passion,” said Mike Ilacqua, Head of Product at the LEGO Group.
On March 1st, the LEGO Group will kick-off the LEGO Star Wars 25-Second Film Festival, inviting fans around the world to submit their own 25-second film that recreates their favourite Star Wars moments or forges a new one with LEGO Star Wars building sets and minifigures they treasure.
“It’s been 25 years of true fun combining Lucasfilm’s expansive Star Wars galaxy with the ingenuity of the LEGO Group, offering fans exciting ways to recreate their favorite scenes, vehicles and characters from our stories,” said Paul Southern, Senior Vice President, Lucasfilm Franchise and Licensing, Disney Experiences. “With the enthusiasm of our fans to engage with the Star Wars galaxy and express creativity through building, we look forward to continuing the legacy of fun for decades to come.”
You can check out all of the details of the new products, which we hope to feature here on the site in the coming weeks, here.
