From Sig’s unique saber to our hopes for real porgils, here are a few we’ve spotted in the sequel series!
Sig and Dev Greebling are back and ready to save the galaxy again! Are you?
When a new threat named Solitus wreaks havoc in the galaxy, the estranged siblings must combine their special Force Building and Sith Breaking skills to stop him. Alongside Sig’s Master, Jedi Bob, and their friends Yesi Scala and Servo, they will have to use every piece of the past at their disposal in order to save their new world! Along for the adventure, of course, are brand new friends (more on them below), as well as plenty of brick-based surprises!
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past is here and full of excellent nods to decades of LEGO Star Wars lore. In honor of the premiere of the sequel series on Disney+, here is our spoiler-filled rundown of our favorite deep cuts and references.
1. Wish fulfilment unlocked. Sig Greebling’s lightsaber is a gleaming orange, by request of voice actor Gaten Matarazzo.
2. “Holy Hutch!” Jaxxon the Lepi, a self-proclaimed “real deep cut,” is a rather green callback to the earliest era of Star Wars. He appeared in the eighth issue of the original 1977 Marvel comics series, and has become a fan favorite. If you’re trying to, ahem, go deeper into the rabbit hole, there’s a full introduction to Jaxxon waiting for you!
3. All shapes and sizes. One of the biggest differences between Pieces of the Past and its predecessor, LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, is that it doesn’t just star LEGO minifigures! There are so many different types of LEGO models on display in this sequel series, including BrickHeadz and larger statues, just like your LEGO shelf at home! We quickly noticed the LEGO BrickHeadz style buildable figure of Ahsoka Tano, the build-and-display model of Chewbacca, and we clocked a K-2SO buildable set.
4. The strong, silent type. As revealed in this clip, Pieces of the Past marks the first on-screen appearance of Darth Revan, a fan-favorite character from the classic Knights of the Old Republic video game. They may be “not much of a talker,” but you can’t mistake their red and purple lightsabers.
5. What’s in a name? When Yesi exclaims, “We found a Baby Yoda!”, it is a cheeky reference to the Earth-based nickname that some fans of The Mandalorian have latched onto. But the Landolorian wisely reminds us all, “The baby’s name is Grogu, baby.” Thank you, Mando Calrissian.
6. Jump to flightspeed! We can’t stop thinking about those porgils traveling through hyperspace from the official trailer. In a charming twist, their character design is based on the recent (nearly life-size) porg LEGO set. We can’t wait to see LEGO fans physically create the model mismatch.
7. “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?” In this reality, the Daysisters of Dathomir (now a lush jungle instead of an arid planet) are protectors of all that is light in the galaxy, a 180 from the Nightsisters we know and love. They even ride atop giant rancors (as first seen in the Legends novel, The Courtship of Princess Leia).
8. That’s no moon. The Death Star, er, “Battle Ball” in this case, is revealed to actually be built into a LEGO diorama shape, providing an incredibly kinetic chase sequence (which includes a mini Dark Falcon in the same scale).
9. Name game. Solitus’ first name is “Pab” a traditional abbreviation in the LEGO community that stands for “Pick-A-Brick.” The nod is perfectly matched to Solitus’ former student, Bobarian Afol, whose last name is a nod to the “Adult Fan of LEGO” community.
10. Gotta "Hand" it to ‘em. We had to check if our ears were deceiving us, but the captions confirm that at one point, Yesi Scala exclaims, “Mara?” Now, there are many in the galaxy who could be named that, sure, but there’s a certain redhead once known as an Emperor’s Hand that comes to mind.
11. ‘90s kids, unite. At the beginning of the second episode, the original LEGO Star Wars logo accompanies a Solitus flashback that gives us flashbacks to the LEGO toy commercials of the 1990s.
12. “Arr you an angel?” Pirate Queen Amidala sails aboard a gilded sail barge, with loyal scoundrels R2-D2, or Arrrgh2-D2 as we like to call him, and this galaxy’s bounty hunting C-3PO in tow. Look carefully and you’ll notice an “angel” figurehead statue at the helm, a nod to the famous question young Anakin Skywalker asks the first time he sets eyes on his future wife in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
13. A queen’s crew. There are several pirate versions of characters seen here, including Captain Phasma, Cassian Andor, Zam Wesell, and Nien Nunb, as well as Legend’s favorite Kyle Katarn.
14. Clones for hire. All those extra Snokes we saw in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are put to work in the Dune Sea inside the Snoke Pit.
15. “They fly now?” They fly now! The newly introduced BB-wing is explained as “a fleet of ships… that are a droid… to combat Solitus’ droid ships.” No matter why they exist, we love them just the same.
16. Mixed-up quotes. From Obi-Wan Kenobi’s reversed “Goodbye there!” to Sig and Dev Greebling repeating Han Solo and Leia Organa’s “I love you”/”I know” exchange, we’d recognize these quotable quotes in any mixed-up format.
17. Another fallen Jedi. Director Chris Buckley recalls hearing the crowd at the El Capitan launch event for LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy cheer for Jedi Cad Bane. “That’s when I knew we had to kill him so it feels more dangerous for our heroes.” Sorry, Cad.
18. “Meesa back!” One of the series’ original antagonists, Darth Jar Jar, looks a bit different this time around. Darth Jar Jar now has mechanical spider-like legs, much like Maul as we first meet him in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
19. Look closely. Every episode has at least one mini-kit hidden in it… just like in the LEGO Star Wars video games! Can you find them all?
20. Familiar faces. Is that Omega of Star Wars: The Bad Batch? Cal Kestis from the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor video games? Who else might show up in this series?
Spot these (and other) deep cuts and nods when you watch all four parts of LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past, now streaming on Disney+. Let the hunt begin!
