Lego’s X-Wing Starfighter will get a refresh in time for Star Wars Day

That is the third time we’ve seen the T-65 X-Wing Starfighter in brick type, and it’s Lego’s most detailed but. The 1,949-piece X-Wing prices $239.99 and joins the opposite units within the Lego Star Wars Final Collector Collection, which embody the behemoths which are the 7,541-piece UCS Millennium Falcon and the 6,785-piece UCS AT-AT.

Outfitted with 4L4 fusial thrust engines and the KX9 laser cannons, the design of Lego’s newest UCS X-Wing equipment doesn’t deviate a lot from its earlier iterations. Nonetheless, it does function a number of hundred extra items when in comparison with the 1,304-piece X-Wing set launched in 2000 and the 1,559-piece one from 2013. The brand new X-Wing measures 10.5 inches in peak and 21.5 inches in size as soon as full.

Apart from the precise X-Wing equipment, Lego can be together with a lightsaber-wielding Luke Skywalker minifigure in a Insurgent flight swimsuit, which has a devoted spot on the equipment’s show stand. There’s additionally an R2-D2 minifig that sits contained in the X-Wing Starfighter. When you by no means acquired your palms on the X-Wing units Lego launched years in the past — or don’t need to pay the inflated value for a used one — this much more detailed set is your likelihood to get an unopened and never but overpriced equipment.

The set goes on sale on Star Wars Day on Could 4th and is unique to Lego’s on-line and bodily shops. You possibly can try another pictures of the set from Lego on the backside of this text.

However that’s not the one set that Lego’s displaying off forward of Star Wars Day. The brickmaker additionally introduced two new diorama units depicting scenes from Return of the Jedi: one which’s modeled after Emperor Palpatine’s throne room and one other that has Luke Skywalker racing between bushes on a speeder bike. Whereas the 807-piece Emperor’s Throne Room set prices $99.99, the 608-piece Endor Speeder Chase set is priced at $79.99. Each units hit retailer cabinets on Could 1st.