LEGO The Sith (31200)

Name: LEGO The Sith
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 31200

Three Sith Lords, one calming pile of tiny round plates.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 31200 · 2020

Pieces3,406

Minifigsn/a

Year2020

Set number31200

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The verdict

If you want a piece of Star Wars wall art and you find repetitive builds soothing rather than boring, this one genuinely delivers.

You get three portraits (Darth Maul, Kylo Ren, and Darth Vader) from one box, though you can only display one at a time unless you buy three copies for the giant combined mosaic. I'll be honest, it's not really a traditional build, so if you chase clever techniques or minifigs you'll want to look elsewhere. For a chill weekend project that ends with something cool on the wall, though, it does exactly what it sets out to do.

Best for: Star Wars fans who find repetitive, meditative building relaxing

The full review

What it is

The LEGO Art Star Wars The Sith set is a wall-mounted mosaic that quietly hides three portraits inside one box: Darth Maul, Kylo Ren, and Darth Vader. You pick a Sith Lord, follow the color map, and end up with a framed piece you can actually hang. If you love Star Wars and the idea of a slow, low-stress building session sounds appealing rather than tedious, this is right up your street. It's less a model and more a giant relaxing puzzle you get to keep on the wall, and I mean that fondly.

The catch

Now the honest bits. This isn't a normal LEGO build, so if you're expecting fun techniques, moving parts, or minifigs, you'll be let down. It's placing hundreds of tiny 1x1 round plates onto a baseplate, one at a time, and the big single-color background areas can get genuinely repetitive. There's also the catch that you can only display one face at a time. Want the full 48x144-stud Darth Vader mosaic that combines all three designs? You'll need three copies, and at the original price that added up quickly. Up close it just looks like a field of colored dots too, so it really only sings from across the room.

Who it's for

Star Wars fans who find repetitive building meditative rather than mind-numbing are the sweet spot, along with anyone who wants affordable adult LEGO wall art with real presence. At its $119.99 RRP it was decent value for the size, and it has since retired (August 2020 to December 2021), so prices on the secondary market have crept up. If you want engineering, playability, or figures, this isn't your set, and neither is it if you get bored placing the same red stud fifty times in a row. But if the idea of an evening spent quietly filling in Darth Maul's face while a designer commentary plays in your ears sounds lovely, this is a really easy recommend.

The parts story

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

Building The Sith feels more like Perler beads or paint-by-numbers than a traditional set, and that's the whole point. You lay out nine baseplate tiles, snap them together with connectors and a brick-built frame, then work through the printed color map placing 1x1 round plates section by section. It's soothing and a little fiddly with all those small studs, and the pacing swings between satisfying detail work on the faces and slower slogs through the big flat background zones. Most people knock it out over a couple of relaxed sessions, ideally with the free QR-code soundtrack running in the background.

The star of the parts list is sheer volume: roughly 3,400 pieces, the vast majority being 1x1 round plates across a 12-color palette including black, titanium metallic, dark and medium stone gray, white, bright red, dark red, orange, purple, plus three colors that were new or freshly expanded here (sand blue, bright yellow, and dark brown). If you're a mosaic maker or MOC builder, that's a huge, cheap stockpile of round plates in useful shades, and it's a big part of the value story. Just don't expect exotic molds or printed pieces. This is a bulk-parts set at heart, and a really good one if round plates are your thing.

Fun facts

01One box hides three portraits (Darth Maul, Kylo Ren, and Darth Vader), but buying three copies lets you combine them into one giant 48x144 stud Darth Vader mosaic.
02The instruction booklet has a QR code linking to a roughly one-hour-forty-minute soundtrack with interviews from the set's designers and the creators behind the three Sith.
03It launched in August 2020 as part of the very first wave of the LEGO Art theme and was retired by the end of December 2021.
04The set is deliberately built to be viewed from a distance, since up close it just looks like a grid of colored round plates before the face resolves.