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LEGO STAR WARS

MANDALORIAN “I have spoken to numerous

MYSTERY fans who enjoyed LEGO as a kid, and

LEGO Star Wars was the thing
One of the delights of LEGO Star Wars is how the behind-the- that brought them back.”
scenes history of Star Wars’ development provides inspiration
for the range—such as the mysterious white minifi gure of chris m a l l oy
Boba Fett included as an exclusive with Dorling Kindersley’s
LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia.
“I thought that I knew everything about these minifi gures,”
smiles Becraft, “but as we were writing about Boba Fett, I found the original Star Wars trilogy much in the early days of the
this white minifi gure. After some research, I realized it was a was represented in five sets, internet, and there were very
version of Boba Fett that Ralph McQuarrie had designed as including the line’s very first few online communities that
a stormtrooper—with the Mandalorian-style helmet—that X-wing, a Snowspeeder, and brought people together. All of
instead evolved in two directions: Boba Fett with other colors, Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder. a sudden you had adults going
and the stormtrooper.” “I went into a Toys R Us,” recalls into toy stores, seeing each

Andrew Becraft, founder of other in the aisles, and picking
brothersbrick.com and fellow up Star Wars sets. That fan
co-author of Ultimate LEGO community emerged for the fi rst
Star Wars. “I was very excited time, spawning major online
about LEGO doing Star Wars and communities and forums that
bought one of every set with my united like-minded LEGO fans.”
new-found adult money.” “I don’t think it was LEGO’s
“A lot of fans have what’s intent to find that audience,”
known in the LEGO community adds Malloy, “but within a year
as a ‘dark age,’” continues or two it had recognized that
Malloy, “a period when you’re audience was out there.”
14 or 15 years old, and you start
moving away from LEGO and Brick Revolution
finding other interests. You set Following the initial wave in
the hobby aside and maybe 1999, LEGO continued to issue
come back to it as an adult. I a wide-range of Star Wars sets,
have spoken to numerous fans covering both the original
who enjoyed LEGO as a kid, and trilogy and prequel movies. By
LEGO Star Wars was the thing the release of Star Wars: Revenge
that brought them back.” of the Sith (2005), a total of
04
0 The exclusive For Becraft, the cultural shift 128 LEGO Star Wars sets had
Boba Fett
minigure, that LEGO Star Wars influenced been released, including several
based on coincided with the emerging promotional exclusives. By
04 Ralph effect of the internet on fan this stage, the range included
McQuarrie
concept art. communities. “This came very six X-wings, three Millennium

BRICK PICK
MILLENNIUM FALCON

– Ultimate Collector Series (Set 75192-1)

Released: 2017 Pieces: 7541
Minifi gures Included: Original trilogy Han Solo, Princess Leia (Hoth
Outfi t), C-3PO, Chewbacca, Sequel Trilogy Han Solo (Old), Rey, Finn, a
buildable mynock and two porgs.
ANDREW BECRAFT: "The scale of how the Technic frame inside holds it
all together is impressive in its own right. One of the many things I love
about the UCS Millennium Falcon is the detailed interior, and that you
can swap back and forth between the original trilogy version and The
Force Awakens version."

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