Solo: A Star Wars Story’s potential LEGO sets are underwhelming (except for the spoilers)

Solo: A Star Wars Story has its first possible (and unofficial) LEGO reveal, and the overall result is mostly … unimpressive.

At this point, it should be pretty clear that the general Culturess impression of Solo: A Star Wars Story is a resounding “meh, but we’ll probably see it because we’re weak.” And, via both io9 and Star Wars News Net, the latest round of possible LEGO reveals has this writer effectively saying the same thing, with the addition of “I’ll probably see it for Emilia Clarke and Donald Glover, even if I don’t really want to support Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo.”

That’s because the above link from SWNN has what appears to be the key art — you know, the kind of merchandise art that showed us that Rey would let her hair down in The Last Jedi — for the Solo efforts. And … hoo boy.

Let’s start with the positives. We still don’t know a ton about Emilia Clarke’s role in the film, although it does look like she’s incredibly important in the film — enough to score a view of her in character, albeit in profile, on this art. (It’s that or the marketing team is banking on Clarke’s general recognizability, even when she isn’t in full Mother of Dragons mode, to help the toys have some appeal to an older audience.)

However, Donald Glover looks ridiculously cool as Lando Calrissian. Now, I’m not so sure that FanSided editor Nick Tylwalk is right in his hypothesis that Glover could be cooler than Billy Dee Williams in the role, but I’m open to the possibility, and it’s more open than I’ve been to Solo as a film for months, so that’s an improvement at least.

The focus of io9 is primarily that one of the sets appears to spoil that we’ll see Han’s attempt to make the Kessel Run, which … isn’t honestly a huge surprise, either. It’s one of the first things we learn about him in the films — that helps explains io9’s image choice, too. But it’s also expected, and it’s hard to believe that Lucasfilm can pull off making a foregone conclusion not-so-foregone twice in the span of two anthology films. It happened in Rogue One with the theft of the Death Star plans, and Han’s succeeding in his efforts would make for a pretty great climax … unless we meet Han right after he’s finished it.

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Now there’s your subversion. Er, probably.

What do you make of these images from SWNN?