How well did LEGO cover the two major Star Wars anniversaries in 2025?

2025 marked two major milestones for Star Wars – but how well did LEGO cover those anniversaries across its product line-up?

Are you ready to feel old? Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith turned 20 years old in 2025, while Star Wars: The Force Awakens turned 10 years old. Doesn’t really feel like it’s been a full decade since we watched Kylo Ren put his lightsaber through Han Solo on the big screen, does it? Yet here we are, older if not wiser, a little greyer around the edges and with hundreds more LEGO sets to collect or pass up.

The LEGO Star Wars theme doesn’t always directly acknowledge anniversaries (outside its own – it went big for both its 20th and 25th birthdays in different ways), though, so there were no guarantees we’d see a flood of new Revenge of the Sith or Force Awakens sets in 2025. With hindsight now firmly on our side, let’s revisit the range and see how well the LEGO Group covered (or didn’t cover) these two milestones.

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens 10th anniversary

We’ll start with the anniversary around which there was probably a little less expectation, because the years have not been especially kind to the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The era as a whole has been pretty neglected by Disney canon, wider Star Wars merchandising and of course the LEGO Star Wars theme since we waved goodbye to Rey, Kylo Ren, Finn, Poe and the gang in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker.

In fact, the last time we saw a minifigure-scale Force Awakens playset that wasn’t a 4+ X-wing was 2019, in 75326 Duel on Starkiller Base. So you could probably say that expectations were actually rock bottom for much in the way of 10th anniversary sets – but against all odds, the LEGO Group did cook up a couple of models for 2025. But minifigure-scale they were not.

75415 Kylo Ren Helmet and 75406 Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle both tap into the sequel trilogy’s main antagonist through the lens of existing subthemes – the Helmet Collection and Starship Collection respectively – and together feel like not much more than a token gesture for Force Awakens fans. Not least because the command shuttle is one of the year’s worst offenders from a value perspective (and that’s saying something).

The helmet fares a little better, especially with its multitude of printed pieces to convey the detail of Kylo Ren’s mask, but these still don’t feel like the ultimate celebration of The Force Awakens. For starters, while you’ve got Kylo’s helmet and ship there’s no actual Kylo minifigure currently available on shelves. And though the LEGO Star Wars theme covered most of The Force Awakens’ major movie moments in the second half of the 2010s, some of those sets could stand to be revisited – while there’s still potential for a sequel trilogy UCS set.

Poe’s Black One X-wing Starfighter, for example, would have made for a nice departure from the three Red Five UCS X-wings we’ve had so far, while a bigger and better Takodana Castle could have been a great source of funky and obscure Star Wars minifigures. But the audience for sets like those is probably much smaller than original trilogy or even prequel trilogy sets, so the fact we got anything at all for The Force Awakens’ 10th anniversary does feel like a small blessing in a way.

LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 20th anniversary

It feels like the Star Wars prequel trilogy is going through a real renaissance period right now, and especially within the LEGO portfolio. Ever since 75309 Republic Gunship and 75280 501st Legion Clone Troopers proved there was an appetite among adult fans for LEGO prequel trilogy sets, we’ve seen an avalanche of Clone Wars-era models tumble on to shelves.

So if expectations for The Force Awakens’ anniversary were on the floor, expectations for Revenge of the Sith’s 20th anniversary were on the ceiling. And in the run-up to 2025, plenty of viable contenders for potential sets were being thrown around the LEGO Star Wars community, mostly through the lens of current subthemes – Anakin vs. Obi-Wan and Palpatine’s arrest dioramas, a Master Builder Series Kashyyyk set, UCS Jedi Interceptors, and so on.

In the end, the LEGO Star Wars Diorama Collection took a year off, the UCS slots were handed over to an Attack of the Clones ship and the $1,000 Death Star, and even the Helmet Collection’s resurgence focused on three characters from completely different films. That doesn’t mean LEGO Star Wars ignored Revenge of the Sith altogether, though – it just went about its celebration of the milestone in less overt ways.

You could argue, for example, that 75400 Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter Microfighter, 75402 ARC-170 Starfighter, 75413 Republic Juggernaut, 75431 327th Star Corps Clone Troopers Battle Pack and 75435 Battle of Felucia Separatist MTT are all LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith sets, even if the box art suggests the LEGO Group considers them all Clone Wars sets first and foremost.

The Juggernaut is paired with Ki-Adi-Mundi, Commander Bacara and Galactic Marines, while the MTT includes both Aayla Secura and Commander Bly to complement the 327th battle pack. Those groupings of Jedi and Clone Trooper legions were all famously together during Order 66 in Revenge of the Sith. The same is true of Plo Koon in his Jedi Starfighter and the ARC-170, even if the LEGO sets are built to slightly different scales.

What the LEGO Group has really done here, then, is honour Revenge of the Sith with the first LEGO sets based on Order 66 (outside The Mandalorian’s 75378 BARC Speeder Escape). It’s just not advertising them as such presumably because of the whole ‘killing younglings’ business. Which, you know… fair enough. But as a celebration of Episode III’s 20th anniversary, it could certainly have been a lot worse.

Between these sets we had a couple of Jedi we haven’t seen for a few years, our first 327th Legion Clone Troopers (based on the movie designs) in two decades, and the first-ever debuts of Commanders Bly and Bacara and the Galactic Marines. 2025 was a real boon for Revenge of the Sith minifigure collectors in that regard. As for the sets themselves… well, that’s a different story.

75413 Republic Juggernaut has been widely panned for downsizing the Turbo Tank to the nth degree while still jacking up the price; the MTT and 327th Clone Troopers battle pack have both been criticised for their similarly-extortionate price tags; and there were more than a few fans hoping Plo Koon’s starfighter was actually to scale with the ARC-170 (although thankfully the community has come in clutch there anyway).

It’s also a shame to see Revenge of the Sith’s anniversary pass by with no acknowledgement of some of its more iconic scenes – any of its five lightsaber duels, for example, two of which (Anakin and Obi-Wan vs. Dooku, and Yoda vs. Darth Sidious) have never been represented in LEGO before. But to cover all bases would have meant devoting an entire wave at least solely to Episode III, and that’s just not how LEGO Star Wars operates any more.

Once upon a time we had full waves – or thereabouts – dedicated to single movies, such as the Attack of the Clones range in 2013. But outside new theatrical releases, the modern LEGO Star Wars approach is variety above all else. So while you may feel like the LEGO Group dropped the ball a little on Revenge of the Sith’s 20th anniversary, it’s almost a small miracle that we got the relatively obscure characters we did.

It’ll be interesting to see how or if the LEGO Group acknowledges Episode VII’s 15th anniversary and Episode III’s 25th anniversary in 2030, but given that year also marks the 50th anniversary of the Empire Strikes Back, the Star Wars team may have bigger fish to fry…

Check out all our reflections on 2025 in LEGO here, or browse the table below for the full LEGO Star Wars 2025 slate.

LEGO Star Wars 2025 sets

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