In 2015, Star Wars is set to have a third-coming as a franchise the likes of which the box office has never seen before. And while we’re still more than a year away from seeing the first LEGO Star Wars Episode VII set, LEGO has got a pretty solid LEGO Star Wars 2015 sets wave lined up to launch in winter 2015! If you’re hoping for original trilogy LEGO Star Wars sets you may be disappointed, but if you’re looking forward to new LEGO Star Wars MicroFighters, Rebels or Troop Builder sets, you’ll be pleased with early 2015…

Typically I do my best to put off talking about upcoming sets until there are images available of said sets. But there’s so much textual LEGO 2015 sets new floating around that I’m getting a little bit antsy and can’t help myself anymore. I just gotta talk some LEGO, you know…? Anyway…

I was extremely wary last year when the first images of the LEGO Star Wars Micro Fighters sets leaked out, as I was dubious about the success of crazy, chibi-fied LEGO Star Wars vehicles. Well, the joke’s on me–the LEGO Microfighters line has been a big success with lots of kids and adult collectors who love it. As such, we’ll be getting a fresh half-dozen LEGO 2015 Microfighters sets come January 2015!

The LEGO Star Wars Winter 2015 Micro Fighters sets are as follows:

2015 LEGO Star Wars MicroFighters ARC-170 Starfighter 75072
2015 LEGO Star Wars MicroFighters Vulture Droid 75073
2015 LEGO Star Wars MicroFighters Snowspeeder 75074
2015 LEGO Star Wars MicroFighters AT-AT 75075
2015 LEGO Star Wars MicroFighters Republic Gunship 75076
2015 LEGO Star Wars MicroFighters Homing Spider Droid 75077

With a good mix of four prequel vehicles (including two Separatist droid vehicles) and two ultra-popular Original Trilogy Hoth vehicles, I think that this is going to be another successful series of LEGO Microfighters. The Vulture Droids are always a personal favorite of mine, so I’m especially looking forward to seeing a cute spin on it with the Microfighters Vulture Droid!

For the LEGO Star Wars Original Trilogy fans, there’s a whopping one (yes, one) Winter 2015 LEGO Star Wars OT set. The LEGO Star Wars 2015 T-16 Skyhopper 75081 is of course the famous starship that Luke Skywalker mentions his expertise with in Star Wars Episode IV. I thought this ship’s appearance might have been zapped out of continuity now, but I had forgotten that Luke plays with a model of one in “A New Hope” and one flies overhead in Mos Eisley in “Return of the Jedi”.

I don’t know that anyone has been dying to see LEGO create a new LEGO T-16 Skyhopper set, but this set will include a badly-needed new LEGO Tusken Raider minifigure as well as the most beloved Star Wars creature of all, a LEGO Womp Rat.

Fans of the prequel era will fare a little bit better, as LEGO has four Star Wars prequel trilogy sets scheduled for the LEGO Star Wars Winter 2015 wave…

LEGO Star Wars 2015 AAT 75080

To my utter astonishment, the last time LEGO made a regular-sized, movie-based LEGO AAT set will be fifteen years ago when the LEGO Star Wars 2015 AAT 75080 set comes out. Yikes! We’ll be getting a new LEGO Jar Jar Binks minifigure with this set, which is fine with me–kids love Jar Jar (and so do I!).

LEGO Star Wars 2015 Hailfire Droid 75085

It’s been over a decade since LEGO released an AOTC LEGO Hailfire Droid set, and there’s definite room for improvement over the original one that we got. I’m anxious to see what LEGO has whipped up for us with the LEGO 75085 Hailfire Droid.

LEGO Star Wars 2015 Anakin’s Custom Jedi Starfighter 75087

This particular LEGO Star Wars sets is pretty baffling to me. The only Custom Jedi Starfighter I remember Anakin ever having was the blue one in the now-defunct Tartakovsky Clone Wars cartoon series. I wouldn’t expect LEGO to make a set of a now non-canonical starship, but I’ve no idea what else this particular set could be.

LEGO Star Wars 2015 Geonosis Troopers 75089

I was sort of hoping that the 75089 LEGO Geonosis Troopers set would just be a pack of the different clone officers as minifigures, but it appears that this is going to contain brown clone troopers and brown ARF Trooper minifigures based off of the Clone Wars Geonosis episodes.

And yes, for those who don’t know, the just-ended-this-year Star Wars Clone Wars series is canon. This is not to be confused with the original Clone Wars cartoon by Tartakovsky, which is totally stricken from the annals of history.

And to close things out we’ve got a half-dozen LEGO Star Wars Rebels 2015 sets. I know some people are going to gripe about this, but Rebels is literally the only fresh Star Wars thing going until Star Wars Episode VII hits at the end of 2015, so I have no issues with LEGO giving the LEGO Rebels theme a big push.

The LEGO 2015 Star Wars Rebels sets coming in January 2015 are as follows:

LEGO Star Wars 2015 Imperial Troop Transport 75078

Based off the vintage Kenner Star Wars Imperial Troop Transport, this previously toy-only vehicle is finally coming to life in the real Star Wars canon! On one hand, I think this is a ludicrous-looking vehicle that doesn’t make any logical sense to me. On the other hand, a lot of adults today grew up with this toy and loved it, and will be very happy to see this finally become a “real” vehicle in the Star Wars universe. I’ll try to reserve judgment on the 75078 LEGO Imperial Troop Transport until I see the vehicle in Rebels, but it still seems very nutty to me.

LEGO Star Wars 2015 Shadow Troopers 75079 

Supposedly 75079 LEGO Shadow Troopers will be a Battle Pack that will give us LEGO Shadow Stromtrooper minifigure as well as LEGO Shadow Guard minifigures (black Royal Guards). As both of these designs are now out-of-continuity, they must be appearing in Star Wars Rebels and brought back into canon. A lot of people love black Stormtroopers and will be excited to see them as part of the main canon for the first time!

LEGO Star Wars 2015 TIE Advanced Prototype 75082 (with LEGO Inquisitor Minifigure)

This is the Inquisitor’s Ship for Star Wars Rebels, and one of the more “big name” LEGO Star Wars 2015 sets announced thus far. I have plenty of LEGO TIE Fighters already, but if Rebels impresses me, I’m willing to add the new LEGO 75082 TIE Advanced Prototype to my collection as well.

LEGO Star Wars 2015 AT-DP 75083

I was in the crowd at the Star Wars Rebels New York Comic Con 2014 panel when Pablo Hidalgo revealed the Imperial AT-DP (All-Terrain Defense Pod) vehicle for the very first time, so it holds a special place in my heart. This will obviously be similar to the LEGO AT-ST sets released in the past, but it’ll be nice to have a new twist on that design in LEGO form.

LEGO Star Wars 2015 Wookie Gunship 75084

The 75084 LEGO Star Wars Rebels Wookie Gunship was actually the very first of the LEGO 2015 sets to be revealed for any theme! I talked about the LEGO Wookie Gunship pretty extensively when it was revealed last month. I’m still not too excited about this set, but hopefully that will change ones I’ve seen the episode of Rebels that this ship is from for context.

LEGO Star Wars 2015 Ezra’s Speeder Bike 75090

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Based off of text and anecdotal details only, are you excited for the Winter 2015 LEGO Star Wars sets, LEGO fans? Do you think LEGO is focusing too much on Rebels and not enough on the movies, or are intrigued to see what new and interesting designs we get in the LEGO Rebels theme?