LEGO Art

The Sith

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

4.1/5

Set 31200 · 2020

Pieces3,406

Minifigsn/a

Year2020

Set number31200

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The verdict

If your mate wants a piece of Star Wars wall art and finds repetitive builds relaxing rather than boring, this one's a genuinely nice pick.

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. It's not a traditional build, so anyone chasing clever techniques or minifigs should look elsewhere. For a chill weekend project that ends with something cool on the wall, it delivers.

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

The full review

What it is

So here's the deal with the LEGO® Art Star Wars The Sith set. It's a wall-mounted mosaic that 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 your mate loves Star Wars and the idea of a slow, low-stress building session sounds appealing rather than tedious, this is right up their street. It's less a model and more a giant relaxing puzzle you get to keep on the wall.

The catch

Now the honest bits. This isn't a normal LEGO build, so anyone expecting fun techniques, moving parts, or minifigs is going to 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 studs 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

Who should grab it? Star Wars fans who find repetitive building meditative rather than mind-numbing, and anyone who wants affordable adult LEGO wall art with real presence. At its 119.99 dollar 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. Who should skip it? Builders who want engineering, playability, or figures, and anyone who gets 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 set 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 a 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 big flat background zones. Most folks knock it out over a couple of relaxing 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, which is 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 fantastic 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.