Five key takeaways from the new LEGO Star Wars summer 2024 set pictures

Fresh images have revealed even more details in the two new LEGO Star Wars summer 2024 sets, so here are the biggest takeaways we’ve spotted so far…

The LEGO Group has yet to officially pull back the curtain on 75389 The Dark Falcon and 75393 TIE Fighter and X-Wing Mash-up, but online retailers are slowly drip-feeding increasingly higher-quality images of the two new LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy sets. The latest pictures give us our best look yet at these August 2024 models, revealing several details that weren’t necessarily clear from the first batch of images.

From the way the X-wing and TIE Fighter can snap apart and mash together to a key story detail for the Rebuild the Galaxy Disney+ animated special, here are our major takeaways from the latest images. 

5 – The TIE Wing and X-Fighter should be pretty sturdy

At first glance, it looked like the swappable S-foils and solar panels on the ships in 75393 TIE Fighter and X-Wing Mash-up could expose both craft to some serious stability issues. But look a little closer at these images, and you’ll see the LEGO Star Wars designers have devised an ingenious solution to the potential problem: each wing connects to a hull using a 2×2 brick with Technic pin, followed by an axle that slides through the 2×2 brick and anchors it in place.

That reinforced secondary connection should mean the TIE Wing and X-Fighter are both just as strong and sturdy as you’d expect of any LEGO Star Wars vehicle in 2024.

4 – PlayStation exists in space… sort of

Hologram tables are so last century. Instead, 75389 The Dark Falcon has transplanted classic Millennium Falcon game Dejarik into video game form, with one interior shot setting up a father-son duel between Jedi Vader and Beach Luke. And if that’s supposed to be the console on the floor next to the TV… well, don’t try to tell us it doesn’t look just a little bit like a PS5.

3 – Darth Jar Jar is the master of the Sith

There are a bunch of baddies included in 75389 The Dark Falcon, including Darth Rey (first glimpsed in The Rise of Skywalker), Darth Dev Greebling (a new and original character for Rebuild the Galaxy), and Darth Jar Jar (the embodiment of a generation of fan theories). And while we’ll have to wait for the animated special to find out more about these characters, it seems pretty clear who rules the roost. Just spy that huge brick-built throne for the Gungan Sith…

2 – Beach Luke is central to Rebuild the Galaxy

Whether he’s playing Dejarik: The Video Game or spending his time locked up inside a trans-red prison cell, Beach Luke seems to be pretty integral to whatever narrative is playing out in 75389 The Dark Falcon. It’s tricky to tell from these images whether he’s supposed to be a hostage aboard the freighter or one of the gang – one moment Vader’s breaking him out of a cell, the next he’s grabbing his surfboard – but we reckon he’s going to be important either way.

1 – The bad guys could be hunting kyber crystals… or holograms

Eagle-eyed readers will already have spotted that Darth Jar Jar is holding a trans-blue 1×1 round brick, printed versions of which have previously been used to represent holograms in LEGO Star Wars. But there’s seemingly a crate full of these things at the back of the Falcon, so chances are they’re actually something else. Maybe kyber crystals? Let us know your theories in the comments…

75389 The Dark Falcon and 75393 TIE Fighter and X-Wing Mash-up will be available to buy from August 1, 2024. Check out more images of the two new LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy sets here.

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