My old LEGO podracer had been disassembled for a recent move, so I had the perfect opportunity to evaluate and compare the two ‘racers. (Honestly, the LEGO X-wing and the snowspeeder seem to be released every other year, and seldom seem to change.) So… would the new podracer measure up, be the same, or would it surpass? I was eager to find out and ordered my set and waited impatiently for it to arrive. My thought was that it would be little more than an iteration like so many of the X-wing sets have been. I was honestly skeptical that the new LEGO podracer would be worth it. I loved the way that this LEGO podracer incorporated swooshability and display into the design with the clear Technic beams and the little sand dune to “park” it in. It looked close to the film podracer and was a nice size and proportion. It has been a favorite of mine to display, and I considered it a great version. (In my pictures, the 2011 is on the left and 2019 on the right.) This is the version I wanted to compare to this year’s set. 2011 was the last major release of a LEGO podracer, and this was a set that included Sebulba’s large orange and black ‘racer and Anakin’s smaller yellow and blue ‘racer. Not the first podracer, as honestly LEGO’s podracer design back then was a little clunky, but to a middle release. I was curious how this new release would compare to an older ‘racer. One of those released was a new version of Anakin’s podracer. This year, LEGO tipped their hat to those sets of old, and released a special line of 20th anniversary sets. One was a set containing only Anakin’s podracer, the other was a keystone set featuring Anakin’s podracer with that of Sebulba’s and Gasgano’s green ‘racer. LEGO released a licensed theme based on Star Wars that spring, and to no one’s surprise, a key part were two sets of LEGO podracers based on those in the film. Plus, it was fun and exciting, which is exactly what Star Wars was always about. The podrace was that in spades: a bunch of super fast hover pods with massive engines built from this and that. At 12, I was just slightly past the target audience age, and while I thought Jar Jar Binks was odd, I loved the new Star Wars! One of my favorite sequences was the podrace in the middle, and today, I will be talking about the two LEGO Podracers LEGO has released.Įver since I first saw Star Wars I loved the design aesthetic: that lived in, old and junky feel to the galaxy. With The Phantom Menace, many fans who had grown up with the three films were disappointed. Twenty years ago this May, the first Star Wars film since 1983’s Return of the Jedi premiered to wild expectations and a fevered desire for more from the galaxy far, far away.
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