I carry excellent news for all you Lego Star Wars nerds: After a decade of a number of units coming with a crappy, generic Lego Darksaber piece that nobody likes, issues are lastly altering. An upcoming new Mandalorian-themed set will embrace a extra correct Darksaber piece as a substitute of the present, missing design, which is simply an ordinary lightsaber piece molded in black plastic.
The Darksaber is cool and I by no means anticipated it to grow to be an enormous a part of live-action Star Wars after first showing within the animated Clone Wars present and its sequel collection, Rebels. So many rad and fascinating bits of Star Wars lore by no means escape from the cartoons, or the pages of previous novels. And The Darksaber—a legendary laser sword created by the primary Mandalorian Jedi—is unquestionably a type of rad bits of Star Wars ephemera. In contrast to normal lightsabers, it’s a shorter and extra katana-like weapon with a singular black-and-white glow. And when it appeared on the very finish of The Mandalorian’s season finale, I obtained very excited in a manner that I nonetheless really feel embarrassed about to today. Later it popped up in a Lego set based mostly on the present, and I used to be upset to see it was nonetheless utilizing the identical inaccurate, crappy piece that Lego had been utilizing for a decade in Clone Wars units. However no extra!
Revealed yesterday by Lego and Disney as half of a bigger Mandalorian-themed week of latest merch, the upcoming Spider Tank set (75361) ditches the previous piece for a brand new, sharper-looking black blade that extra intently resembles the Darksaber because it seems within the present. I’m very pleased.
Final 12 months, I used to be excited to purchase the then-new Mandalorian N1-Starfighter set as a result of I just like the character and the present, and the N1 is my favourite Star Wars ship. (Sure, it’s from the prequels, however don’t maintain that in opposition to it.) Nonetheless, I used to be bummed that even after two seasons of The Mandalorian and some years of Lego making units based mostly on the present, the corporate was nonetheless transport that terrible black lightsaber piece. In 2022, Lego prompt that it didn’t have sufficient time to create a brand-new piece for the N1 set, however nonetheless needed to incorporate the Darksaber regardless. Now it looks like the corporate has had sufficient time to lastly create the brand new piece.
Yeah, that’s completely what occurred. No manner Lego saddled a well-liked set with a crappy piece followers disliked after which added the cool new Darksaber piece to a set that appears fairly bland as a way to get nerdy grownup Lego followers (good day!) to purchase it only for the shiny new Darksaber. Nope, that’s completely not what occurred. And admittedly, I resent the implication.
The brand new Mandalorian Spider-Tank set is scheduled to go on sale August 1 and can value $50.
