LEGO® 75253 Star Wars™ BOOST Droid Commander – these are the droids you were looking for

Today, the LEGO Group unveils the latest addition to its much-loved Star Wars™ range – and it’s something even Yoda’s Force sense didn’t see coming. The new 75253 LEGO Star Wars BOOST Droid Commander set offers all the creativity and coding fun of LEGO® BOOST alongside the chance to build three of the film franchise’s most iconic droids: R2-D2; the Gonk Droid; and the Mouse Droid.  

The set will be available from the 1st of September 2019 and the price is
US $199.99 –  CA$249.99 – DE €199.99 – UK £179.99 – FR €219.99 – DK 1799.00DKK – AUS 359.99.

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LEGO Powered Up components available at shop.lego.com & app update

Update – I created a page dedicated to Powered Up to have all information available in one place. Click here!

I presented you in details all the LEGO Powered Up components in January in my video and we’ve been waiting for these parts to show up at shop.lego.com since then. The wait is finally over, you can buy them following the links below – click on the Euro / USD / GBP price for the country-specific LEGO shop site.

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All we know about the LEGO 42100 Liebherr R 9800 set

UPDATE #4 – Here is my full review with unboxing, build details, feature presentation and an outdoor field test in a quarry!

UPDATE #3 – According to zusammengebaut.com LEGO Germany confirmed that the release of the set will be delayed until October 2019 because of some production problems of certain parts. This delay does not affect the other Technic sets scheduled for August.

UPDATE #2 – Check out my detailed summary about the Powered Up system and the currently available components that will power this set as well

UPDATE – We received a some detailed images of this gigantic construction set from the Bauma 2019 convention that happened last week (image source – Promobricks)

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LEGO Powered Up status review January 2019 – what we have and how they work with each other?

Update – I created a page dedicated to Powered Up where you can see all the information I collected in one place – click here.

Last year we saw the first sets appearing with the new Powered Up components expected to replace Power Functions, we have Boost as well belonging to the same ecosystem. As you’ll be able to buy most of these components separately at shop.lego.com soon I took a look what we have at the moment, how they work with each other, are there any alternatives to have a wider range of control options (sure!) and what I am expecting to see in the future. Let’s check the video:

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