Details on a string of cancelled LEGO Star Wars sets have surfaced via BrickLink, including an early version of the Bad Batch Shuttle and an additional 20th anniversary model featuring Count Dooku.
Redditor DCMicroSquad used BrickLink’s inventory comparison tool to find the parts lists for skipped set numbers in LEGO Star Wars’ product line, and in doing so unearthed fresh information on a handful of models that were apparently in production but cancelled before release. Some of these sets were reworked and released further down the line, while others were shelved permanently.
BrickLink’s ‘LEGO Data’ includes an incomplete parts list for each set – with only existing pieces in circulation – but there’s enough to go on that DCMicroSquad has been able to share a few key insights into each cancelled Star Wars LEGO set, including a general sense of what it was intended to be. Browse through them one by one below…
Note: all images used in this story are for illustrative purposes only, and are of officially-released sets.
75143 Rebels A-wing
Original release year: 2016 Pieces: Approx. 371
A standalone A-wing Starfighter based on its appearance in Star Wars Rebels was reportedly in the works for 2016, before ultimately arriving as part of a two-pack in 75150 Vader’s TIE Advanced vs. A-wing Starfighter. The parts list for 75143 shares much of its DNA with the A-wing in that set, save for a couple of colour changes (the engines were apparently grey rather than tan) and a handful of side builds, including a ladder and storage box.
75231 Death Star Cannon
Original release year: 2018/9 Pieces: Approx. 241
Another LEGO Star Wars set that did materialise in some form, 75231 Death Star Cannon is thought to have been on the cards for 2018 or 2019 with roughly 241 pieces and three minifigures (Obi-Wan Kenobi, a Death Star Gunner and a Stormtrooper) in the box. This would eventually become 2019’s 75246 Death Star Cannon, which contains only 159 pieces and omits the Stormtrooper.
75260 Yoda vs. Dooku Battle
Original release year: 2019 Pieces: Approx. 236
We’ve been waiting for a new Count Dooku minifigure since 2013, and we were apparently on the cusp of getting one in 2019 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of LEGO Star Wars. Unfortunately, 75260 Yoda vs. Dooku Battle (if that was indeed its official set name) was cancelled ahead of release and to date has never been revisited. The parts list includes Princess Leia’s hairpiece, suggesting she may have been included here as a 20th anniversary minifigure rather than in 2019’s 75243 Slave I.
75287 Bad Batch set
Original release year: 2020 Pieces: Approx. 800
While our first Star Wars: The Bad Batch set arrived on shelves in 2021 alongside the animated spin-off series, the LEGO Star Wars team had already mapped out Clone Force 99’s debut in a 2020 set. 75287 included an almost identical version of the Marauder to the one we wound up getting in 2021’s 75314 The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle, but would have been based on the squad’s appearance in The Clone Wars Season 7, leading to a couple of key differences in the minifigures and side builds.
According to the part data on BrickLink, 75287 would have omitted the speeder bikes from the finished model and swapped the printed sand blue windshield for a trans-red canopy, while it seems likely that Crosshair would have been based on his Republic rather than Imperial affiliation thanks to the additional pair of legs printed with Bad Batch armour. We can only speculate, but it would make sense for this set to have been pushed back and reworked to marry up with the first season of The Bad Batch rather than The Clone Wars.
75303 UCS Luke’s Landspeeder
Original release year: 2021 Pieces: Approx. 1,839
Two LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series sets debuted in 2021 in the form of the fan-voted 75309 Republic Gunship in July and 75313 AT-AT in November, while that year’s May the 4th slot was taken by 75308 R2-D2 – a buildable character that doesn’t carry the UCS label. But once upon a time, 2022’s 75341 Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder was apparently intended to arrive in 2021, numbered 75303.
The parts lists between the two different sets are nearly identical, although the LEGO data for 75303 suggests the version of C-3PO in that set wouldn’t have included a dual-moulded leg. For reasons we can only guess blindly at, the LEGO Group apparently decided to postpone the Landspeeder entirely until 2022, but at least we did get this one in the end.
30622 Millennium Falcon polybag
Original release year: 2019 Pieces: Approx. 44
Last up is a tiny Millennium Falcon that DCMicroSquad suggests was probably intended to release in time for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, and would have included the printed cockpit element from 2018’s 75193 Millennium Falcon Microfighter. This year’s 30708 Millennium Falcon polybag, by comparison, includes an unprinted cockpit piece.
We’ve managed to verify most of this info by recreating the process on BrickLink, which you can also do by hitting this link (at least at the time of writing). Type any cancelled set number below into ‘Inventory A’ and choose ‘LEGO Data’, then keep ‘Inventory B’ as 630-1, with ‘BrickLink Data’ as the source.
While this data does appear to come from an official source, it’s best not to treat details such as set names as gospel, while assumptions made about particular minifigures (such as Crosshair in the Bad Batch set) are better treated as speculation at this stage. The LEGO Group rarely talks about cancelled sets, so it’s unlikely we’ll get official insight into any of these models any time soon.
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