LEGO 75419 Death Star has broken the $1,000 price barrier, making history for LEGO Star Wars – but what comes next?
75419 Death Star has made history as the most expensive LEGO set ever, coming in at a massive £899.99 / $999.99 / €999.99. That milestone goes to the LEGO Group's most successful theme, but the brick-built galaxy far, far away has been known to set new precedents for the LEGO system, only for other themes to follow suit.
After all, Star Wars was the very first licensed LEGO theme. Without it, there wouldn't be LEGO Harry Potter, Marvel, or any other licensed sets. Could 75419 Death Star pave the way for more $1,000 sets? There are a few potential avenues...
An ever-growing Wizarding World
Another licensed theme that has been known for its large (although not quite as large) builds is LEGO Harry Potter. The most expensive set in the magical theme is 71043 Hogwarts Castle, priced at £409.99 / $469.99 / €469.99, but there are other pricey, display-centred builds that widen the brick-built Wizarding World, like 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank – Collectors' Edition, 75978 Diagon Alley, and 76457 Hogsmeade Village – Collectors' Edition.
With LEGO Harry Potter's large-scale builds focusing more on locations than ships as in LEGO Star Wars, it's hard to see where it could expand from here. What could warrant a price tag that's more than double 71043 Hogwarts Castle?
Of course, a beefed-up Hogwarts Castle would do the trick, at the same scale as 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank – Collectors' Edition, 75978 Diagon Alley, and 76457 Hogsmeade Village – Collectors' Edition. However, the LEGO Harry Potter team are arguably already working on that with the biggest Hogwarts ever, split over various different sets.
This feels like the future of the Harry Potter LEGO theme, at least for now. We wouldn't expect to see a $1,000 LEGO Harry Potter set anytime soon – although collecting the full Hogwarts Castle range could easily exceed $1,000 pretty soon. The nine existing sets come to a total of $832.90, with another wing of the castle still left to recreate if the designers intend to render the entire school.
The MCU's fading light
Another theme that could offer the audience size and inspiration material depth to warrant a $1,000 LEGO set is LEGO Marvel. Like Harry Potter, we've already had various larger display models, the most expensive of which is 76269 Avengers Tower at £429.99 / $499.99 / €499.99. The towering homage to the Infinity Sage era of the MCU came out in 2023, four years after Avengers: Endgame hit cinemas.
Now in 2025, the MCU's light has started to fade. Recent releases like Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four: First Steps have either floundered at the box office or made a fairly average impression. Has the time for a mammoth LEGO Marvel release passed?
Indeed, some of the more recent releases have leaned more into nostalgic material, like 76264 X-Men: The X-Mansion leaning more into old-school comic characters and style than modern movies. Even for millennials wanting to relive their childhoods, it's tricky to think of a classic comic inspiration that has the same weight and depth as the Death Star.
Is Middle-earth ramping up – or ramping down?
Another option is LEGO The Lord of the Rings, now nestled under the LEGO Icons banner. The rich fantasy setting of Middle-earth offers more than enough fodder for $1,000 sets: a sprawling Minas Tirith, a detailed Lothlorien, or a visit to Erebor, to name but a few.
When compared to Harry Potter and Marvel, The Lord of the Rings feels like the most likely of the trio to see a set to rival 75419 Death Star in price. After all, the modern era of LEGO The Lord of the Rings has been largely focused on bigger display sets, rather than the smaller play sets we had in the past.
That said, the recent releases – 10367 The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook and 10354 The Lord of the Rings: The Shire – have been smaller than the mammoth 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell and 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-dûr. If The Lord of the Rings LEGO sets are scaling down as time goes on, is there still a possibility for a set that would double the price tag of its most expensive set ever?
Realistically, it's too early to say. Two smaller LEGO releases in the same year doesn't mean that the LEGO Icons theme is done with larger Lord of the Rings builds, especially when the modern collection is only four sets strong. All in all, there's certainly still time for a Minas Tirith to match fans' hopes and dreams...
It could only ever be Star Wars
At the end of the day, however, the first $1,000 LEGO set was always going to be Star Wars. As one of the most successful LEGO themes and the most popular licensed collection, LEGO Star Wars is the heart and soul of the LEGO community.
While the demographics of LEGO shoppers have changed in recent years, the LEGO Star Wars community has endured for years. What's more, the world of Star Wars, with its various enormous ships that seamlessly translate into standalone display models, was just asking for a display set on this scale.
75419 Death Star was, in essence, inevitable. Could LEGO Star Wars do it again one day – or even push for a set with an even higher price? It feels like the Death Star would be the pièce de résistance, but never say never. 20,000-piece Starkiller Base, anyone?
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