Seasonal

Star Wars Advent Calendar 2025

Twenty four little doors, twenty four little reasons to grin before breakfast.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 75418 · 2025

Pieces263

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number75418

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The verdict

I love the ritual of this box more than I love any single thing inside it.

Cracking open one numbered door a day with a kid on either elbow is its own kind of magic, and this year's mix of tiny ships, a few brick built droids, and a handful of minifigures keeps that daily reveal genuinely fun instead of repetitive. It is not a set you buy for the piece count or the per dollar value, and if you go in expecting a proper vehicle build behind every door you will be disappointed by the little accessory builds mixed in. Buy it for the countdown experience with your family, not as a standalone Star Wars set.

Best for: families doing a daily countdown with young Star Wars fans

The full review

What it is

This is LEGO's yearly Star Wars countdown box, twenty four numbered doors hiding a mix of tiny vehicles, brick built droids, minifigures, and small scene pieces, with the biggest reveal saved for door twenty four. At 263 pieces spread across all those little builds, no single door is going to blow you away on its own, but that was never really the point. The point is the ritual, one door a morning, a few minutes of building, and a small Star Wars moment before the day starts.

The catch

I will be honest about the tradeoff here. Piece for piece this is one of the worst value sets LEGO makes all year, because you are paying for the packaging, the surprise format, and the seasonal license, not for maximum bricks per dollar. A handful of the doors are genuinely just a prop or a small accessory rather than a build worth keeping out, and that unevenness is the most common complaint I see from builders who track these calendars year to year.

Who it's for

Get this if you have kids, or a Star Wars fan of any age, who will actually enjoy the daily countdown ritual through December. Skip it if you are shopping purely for parts or a satisfying single build, there are better sets in this theme for that money.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this one is less a build and more twenty four tiny builds spread across a month, which changes how it feels in the hand. Each door takes a few minutes at most, so the experience lives in the anticipation of opening the next number rather than in any one long sitting at the table. That makes it a completely different kind of LEGO experience than a normal set, closer to opening a stocking than following an instruction booklet.

The pieces themselves lean small and specific, the kind of tiny greebled panels, blaster accessories, and print heavy minifigure torsos you rarely see outside the Star Wars line. The real value for collectors is usually in one or two exclusive minifigure variants and small ship builds that do not appear anywhere else that year, and those are worth checking for before you commit, since the rest of the box is mostly filler around them.

Fun facts

01LEGO has released a Star Wars themed advent calendar almost every year since 2011, making it one of the longest running seasonal traditions in the LEGO catalog.
02The final door, number 24, traditionally holds the largest build in the box, usually a small starship or a scene featuring a fan favorite character.
03Because these calendars are seasonal releases tied to a single holiday period, they typically leave retail shelves within a few months and are not restocked, which drives secondary market interest the following year.