LEGO Star Wars 2016 Sets First Official Photos!

If you’ve been waiting patiently to see beautiful, hi-res official photos of the winter 2016 LEGO Star Wars sets, well… you’re gonna have to be patient a while longer. But if you’re willing to settle for sort-of-grainy images scanned from a catalog that wasn’t meant to be out in the wild yet, then you’re in luck: images of the first eight LEGO Star Wars 2016 sets have  now popped up online!

LEGO Star Wars 2016 Sets Photos

Just when I think we’ve seen new sets revealed in every possible way, a new iteration occurs. This time, a LEGO Star Wars Finn polybag that wasn’t meant to leak out for at least another month yet found its way out of the factory early–and inside that polybag was an insert showing eight of the LEGO 2016 Star Wars sets!

And thanks to the magic of the Internet, said catalog insert ended up being distributed all across the world in under a day. Bet the Emperor wishes he had technology like this, right?!

Of these eight sets, two are Battle Packs from the new Star Wars Battlefront game, two are from Star Wars The Force Awakens (Episode VII), one is from the prequels and three are from the original trilogy.

LEGO Star Wars 2016 Minifigures PosterAnyway, the eight sets shown in the Finn Minifigure polybag are as follows:

75131 LEGO Star Wars 2016 Episode VII Heroes Battle PackEpisode 7: The Force Awakens Heroes Battle Pack 75131

These basically seem to just be generic Rebels from The Force Awakens. Not a whole lot to talk about here…

75132 LEGO Episode VII Villains Battle PackEpisode 7: The Force Awakens Villains Battle Pack 75132

It is very disheartening to see only one regular First Order Stormtrooper Minifigure in the 75132 Episode VII Villains battle pack–I can’t imagine army-building collectors will be happy having to buy a whole battle pack for each plain Stormtrooper they want.

LEGO Star Wars 2016 Rebels Battle Pack 75133 Rebels Battle Pack 75133

Aliens!! Finally, a Rodian (like Greedo, but not!) and a Duros (like Cad Bane, but not!) join the Rebels to take on the Galactic Empire! While I’d dig it if these aliens were part of the Rebels in The Force Awakens, this set is actually based off of the Star Wars Battlefront video game coming out this month.

LEGO 75134 Galactic Empire Battle PackGalactic Empire Battle Pack 75134

This is another set from the new Star Wars Battlefront game, and as such, I don’t expect too many people to care about it. The new Shocktrooper minifig looks neat and I like the Imperial Officer, but I don’t like the weird look of those other Stromtroopers at all.

LEGO Star Wars 2016 Obi-Wan’s Jedi Interceptor 75135Obi-Wan’s Jedi Interceptor 75135

The one new prequel set is 75135 Obi-Wan’s Jedi Interceptor from Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. This ship was originally only available a decade ago in a Target exclusive two-pack that is hugely expensive on the aftermarket, so it’s tremendous to see Obi-Wan’s Jedi Starfighter from Episode III finally getting an upgrade!

LEGO Star Wars 2016 Obi-Wan's Jedi Interceptor SetAnd yes, it does come with a new Minifigure of my absolute favorite astromech droid in the whole saga: an R4-P17 Minifigure. Alas, poor, doomed R4-P17! “I don’t recall ever owning a droid.” What a jerk you are, Obi-Wan!

LEGO Star Wars 2016 Droid Escape Pod 75136 SetDroid Escape Pod 75136

Meanwhile, 75136 Droid Escape Pod rehashes the Escape Pod set we got a few years ago, but this time it comes with two Jawa Minifigures! LEGO Jawas have never come in a cheap set before, so it’s finally, finally time to army-build Jawas Minifigures at last!!

LEGO Star Wars Carbon Freezing Chamber 2016 SetCarbon Freezing Chamber 75137

I imagine the set most fans will be most stoked about is the new 75137 Carbon Freezing Chamber, as it’s been like forever since we got any kind of brick-built Bespin environment. The translucent orange bricks in this set look terrific, don’t though?

75137 LEGO Star Wars Carbon Freezing Chamber SetIt’s a little weird to not get a Bespin Lando or Leia with this set (who’s gonna tell Han that they love him before he goes into his deep freeze?), but hey, you can’t go wrong with Boba Fett and Ugnaughts Minifigures, right?!

2016 LEGO Star Wars Hoth Attack 75138 Hoth Attack 75138

Finally, we’ve got 75138 Hoth Attack. This is… pretty weak, honestly. We’ve seen so many Hoth sets over the years that it’s challenging to get excited for another one, especially when we know there’s an infinitely cooler UCS Hoth Echo Base set due out next year (oh wait–we’re not supposed to know about that?).

75138 Hoth Attack LEGO Star Wars 2015 SetThe new Probot (Imperial Probe Droid) looks neat, but that’s genuinely the only thing about this set that’s really grabbing my attention. Maybe I’ll be impressed more when we see better images, but I sort of doubt it in this case. And speaking of better photos…

I’ll be providing more in-depth coverage and commentary on each of these sets–and the several other LEGO Star Wars 2016 sets shown here–as soon as better, hi-res images are released by TLG. Be sure to watch the Bricks And Bloks Facebook and Twitter pages for updates!

Based off our first good looks, which 2016 LEGO Star Wars sets will you be buying and/or army-building, Star Wars fans? Does it look like 2016 is off to a hit start to you?

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LEGO Star Wars 2016 Sets First Official Photos! — 7 Comments

  1. Will definitely be snatching up the Jawas, the carbon freezing chamber, and probably the Rodian/Duros set.

    Thanks for the tip about the upcoming Echo base set!!

  2. man i still have all the sw sets from this year to get still!! luckily these should be relatively cheap (4 being battle packs), so you can comb a bunch together for those monthly deals and get a bonus set in the bargain. i’m so pumped about the carbon freezing chamber set, and battle packs are a must-have for me. i have the previous versions of the escape pod, so why not get gen 3 and a couple of jawas as well? 🙂

  3. I’m most stocked about the stormtroopers battle pack. Any variation of stormtrooper gives me wide eyes. Can’t wait!

  4. The carbon freezing chamber is teh PERFECT place 4 Lando! Plus now that they have the black guy hair, his figure would have been sooo good 2 put in there!