‘Solo: A Star Wars Story" LEGO Sets Confirm The Kessel Run, Landspeeder Action & More
Even thoughSolo: A Star Wars Storyis only five months away from release, we’ve yet to see a teaser trailer or even an official still from the movie. However, last week a piece of official-lookingpromotional art surfaced online, even though it wasn’t created by either Disney or Lucasfilm. But today, we found out where that art came from, and we have even more interesting details.
The golden artwork in question forSolo: A Star Wars Storyis merchandise artwork, and one of the images is specifically being used by LEGO. A handful of leaked images from LEGO sets tied to the movie have been released online, and the box art featured one of the layouts that appeared online before the end of 2017. The LEGO sets in question also reveal a little bit more about what we can expect from theStar Warsorigin story as well. Find out what we learned from theSolo: A Star Wars StoryLEGO sets below.
We’re not going to post these images since they are obviously not supposed to be online and we’re not fond of getting cease and desist letters (though you canfind them elsewhere online). But here are the names of the LEGO sets in question (viaStarWarsNewsNet):
Let’s just get the big revelation out of the way first, and that’s the fact that we’re getting a new version of the Millennium Falcon. Furthermore, this version is being called the Kessel Run Millennium Falcon, and it looks just as the Falcon did in that promotional artwork that was posted over a week ago. Gone is the gap between the front of the Falcon, which one fan already pointed out might go against the canon established inThe Force AwakensIncredible Cross Sections book:
However, it has also been pointed out that the image in questionnever made it into the final book, so it’s not actually established as canon. Therefore, seeing the Falcon without the pronged front doesn’t violate anything already established in theStar Warsuniverse. Even if it did, it would stand to reason that this could easily just be a modification that might help Han Solo make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, and it could only be a temporary addition.
Other interesting tidbits include a new Imperial soldier called a Range Trooper, as well as what might be a pair of bounty hunters who come with that Landspeeder set. It seems they might be in pursuit of Han Solo since the smuggler has a Landspeeder of his own as a separate LEGO set. Could these bounty hunters be working for Jabba the Hutt or has Solo not yet disappointed the gangster?
Unfortunately, there aren’t as many specific details as we would like because the quality of the images is too low to be able to see the names of all the LEGO minifigure characters on the front of the boxes. Hopefully some high-resolution images surface online soon so we can start using character names for this movie.
Stay tuned for moreSolo: A Star Wars Storyupdates leading up to the film’s release onMay 25, 2018.
