The April wave's role in LEGO's 2026 Star Wars calendar
LEGO's 2026 Star Wars plan landed on a three-beat calendar. January delivered the midi-scale Original Trilogy wave (75420-75427) plus the Venator 75441 — display-focused, collector-oriented, priced for breadth. April pivots to the Mandalorian & Grogu sub-line (75436, 75437, 75440, 75443, 75444, 75446, 75447) — character-driven, play-feature-forward, tied to the theatrical film promotional calendar. May the 4th (Star Wars Day) will bring the traditional promotional drop with limited-edition sets, VIP gifts-with-purchase, and a bridge into the summer wave.
The April drop is the commercial centerpiece of this arc. Where January's midi wave targeted adult collectors, the April wave targets the broader family-play market. The Mandalorian media property is LEGO's most consistent Star Wars animated-series translator — it converts live-action and animated Mando/Grogu fans into LEGO buyers at a higher rate than any other post-OT sub-property.
Seven sets span a wide piece-count and price range. The $10 speeder bike and the $180+ Razor Crest bookend the wave. In between, the AT-AT, the Cobb Vanth speeder, the Grogu Homestead, and the companion small-scale sets fill every price tier. That range is deliberate — LEGO's April wave is built to be accessible at the gift-purchase tier while still giving collectors a hero-build option.
Seven-set Mandalorian & Grogu tie-in wave launching April 2026
75447 Razor Crest — the wave's anchor build
The Razor Crest, Din Djarin's gunship and home base through the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, is the April wave's tentpole. LEGO has shipped Razor Crest builds before (the 75292 from 2020 was a well-received midi build; the 75331 UCS release in 2022 delivered a 6,187-piece collector-grade version). The 2026 Razor Crest lands in a middle position — larger than the 2020 midi but more accessible than the UCS.
Build highlights that reviewers have emphasized: the cargo bay opens to accommodate a carbonite-frozen figure and Mando-era cargo. The ramp extends for landing-scene play. The cockpit canopy lifts for access to the pilot's seat. Landing gear deploys and retracts as a single mechanical linkage. The hull uses printed tiles (not stickers) for the weathered Razor Crest paint scheme, which is quality-of-life improvement over the 2020 version.
The Razor Crest at this scale pairs with the midi wave on a display shelf. The proportions are compatible with the 75426 Millennium Falcon. Collectors building a cross-era Star Wars display can slot the Razor Crest next to the OT ships without scale conflicts.
For Mandalorian fans specifically: this is the current-generation LEGO Razor Crest. Unless you need UCS scale, the 2026 version is LEGO's current default.
The Razor Crest
The Razor Crest — Mando's gunship, the wave's anchor ship build.
AT-AT
525 pieces. AT-AT with four-leg articulation and rotating turret.
75440 AT-AT — walking-leg engineering at 525 pieces
75440 AT-AT anchors the Imperial hardware side of the wave. At 525 pieces, this is the most accessible AT-AT LEGO has shipped in recent memory. Previous AT-AT releases have clustered at either very small scale (micro-fighters, under 100 pieces) or very large UCS scale (75313 at 6,785 pieces, priced at $800+). 75440 is the first midi-scale AT-AT that lands in the accessible-to-collector sweet spot.
The articulation engineering is the standout. Each of the four legs uses a ball-and-socket joint system that holds walking poses. The head swivels 360 degrees on a friction-fit peg. The torso opens for cargo access. The chin-gun turrets are spring-loaded for projectile firing play.
Reviewers have highlighted that 525 pieces is a challenging piece count for an AT-AT. Too few pieces and the articulation fails; too many and the price spikes. LEGO's designers threaded the needle — the leg joints are engineered to hold pose under their own weight through a combination of friction-fit geometry and ball-joint resistance. This is the kind of engineering detail that separates solid LEGO builds from loose-articulated ones.
The set ships with zero minifigs, which some reviewers have flagged. But at this price tier ($40-60 MSRP range), the absence of minifigs is the trade that kept the set accessibly priced. Collectors who want AT-AT + minifigs will need to pair with a separate Imperial battle pack or existing Imperial figure inventory.
75437 Cobb Vanth's Speeder — Book of Boba Fett tie-in
75437 Cobb Vanth's Speeder at 207 pieces bridges the Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett continuities. Cobb Vanth, the Marshal of Mos Pelgo in The Mandalorian season 2 and a central character through Book of Boba Fett, rides a modified speeder that incorporates Boba Fett's original jetpack housing.
The speeder build is small but detail-rich. Reviewers have called out the paint scheme (specifically the rust-and-chrome weathering on the body panels), the spring-loaded firing mechanism, and the two-minifig loadout (Cobb Vanth and a companion). The build takes 1-2 hours and delivers display-quality finish.
For Mandalorian-universe completists, Cobb Vanth's appearance in LEGO form is overdue — the character has been on fan wishlists since Season 2 of The Mandalorian aired. The 75437 entry finally delivers him as an official LEGO minifig alongside his canonical speeder.
At approximately $20 MSRP, the 75437 slots in as the wave's solid mid-price option. Not the cheapest, not the most expensive, delivering one of the wave's best minifig-value equations.
Cobb Vanth's Speeder
207 pieces. Cobb Vanth's Speeder from The Book of Boba Fett continuity.
Grogu's Homestead
107 pieces. Grogu's Homestead — small-scale scene-completion build.
75443 Grogu's Homestead and the small-scale diorama tier
75443 Grogu's Homestead at 107 pieces anchors the small-scale diorama side of the April wave. The build recreates a quiet homestead scene from the current Mandalorian storyline, with a farmhouse structure, a small water-well feature, a weather vane, and atmospheric detail pieces.
At 107 pieces, the Homestead isn't a hero build. It's a scene-completion piece — the set that fills out a Mandalorian display with environmental context. For collectors who want to build a full Mando-era diorama, 75443 provides the ground-level scene setting that complements the ships (Razor Crest, AT-AT) and speeders (Cobb Vanth's, Mando's bike).
Reviewers have emphasized that the small scale forces creative design decisions. The homestead structure is built from a minimum of pieces, but the proportions and detailing (the weather-vane geometry, the water-well scaling, the window-placement choices) read as authentically rural Mando-era. It's exactly the kind of restrained LEGO design that pays off in display context.
75436 Mando & Grogu Speeder Bike — the $10 entry anchor
75436 The Mandalorian & Grogu's Speeder Bike at 58 pieces is the wave's $10 entry point. This is the set that sits on Target endcaps through spring, gets bought by grandparents for Easter baskets, and introduces new Mandalorian fans to the LEGO line.
Despite the entry-tier positioning, LEGO's design team still packed meaningful play into 58 pieces. The speeder bike has pose-able handlebars, a seat that accommodates both Mando and Grogu minifigs, and a swivel mount for Grogu's carrier pod. The two minifigs (Mando in beskar armor, baby Grogu) are the value core — at this price tier, two canonical Mandalorian figures for $10 is strong per-figure math.
This is the set that will sell the biggest units of the wave by volume. Not because it's the most sophisticated, but because it's the most accessible. LEGO's consistent commercial win has been engineering these entry-tier sets to still deliver satisfying build experiences — 75436 continues that discipline.
The Mandalorian & Grogu's Speeder Bike
58 pieces. Mando & Grogu Speeder Bike — two canonical minifigs at entry price.
Wave buying priorities and shelf positioning
If you're budgeting across the wave rather than buying everything, the priority order most reviewers converge on:
Priority one: 75447 Razor Crest. The wave's tentpole, Mando's iconic ship, the highest-impact single set in the April drop. If you're only buying one set, buy this.
Priority two: 75440 AT-AT. Marquee Imperial hardware, articulation engineering, fills a display niche LEGO hasn't hit at this scale in years.
Priority three: 75437 Cobb Vanth's Speeder. Character completeness, solid mid-price execution, bridges Mando and Boba Fett continuities.
Priority four: 75436 Mando & Grogu Speeder Bike. Entry anchor, two canonical minifigs at $10, display-shelf-starter for new Mando collectors.
Priority five: 75443 Grogu's Homestead. Scene completion, works best as a companion to ships/speeders rather than standalone.
Shelf layout: place the Razor Crest and AT-AT as anchors (Imperial hardware on one end, Mando's ship on the other). Position the smaller speeders (75436, 75437) as ground-level complements. Use the Homestead (75443) as a transitional diorama element between ship scales.
Taken together with the January midi OT wave and the Venator, the April drop completes a display shelf that spans the prequel era (Venator), Original Trilogy (midi wave), and Mandalorian era (April wave). Three hero tentpoles — Venator, Millennium Falcon, Razor Crest — define the shelf at their respective scale corners. 2026 is the most coherent Star Wars LEGO display year in the brand's recent history.
