LEGO Star Wars will celebrate 50 years of the saga with a new range of sets, headlined by the nostalgic 75467 A New Hope Poster.
To mark 50 years since Star Wars first arrived in cinemas, the LEGO Group will launch 75467 A New Hope Poster on January 1, 2027. It uses 3,209 pieces and is priced at £269.99 / $299.99 / €299.99.
The set builds a detailed version of the Star Wars: A New Hope Style A theatrical poster by Tom Jung that promoted the film in 1977, when its title was simply ‘Star Wars’.
It is one of eleven sets in 2027 that will include an exclusive poster tile, depicting a piece of Star Wars artwork stylised in a LEGO way. 75467 includes the Style C poster by Tom Chantrell and bricks to build a small display stand for it.
75467 A New Hope Poster uses gradients to make the sand dunes of Tatooine flow into the galaxy beyond, with Darth Vader rising behind Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. The image is surrounded by a slim white frame.
American artist Tom Jung was commissioned to create the Style A poster. It features a muscular Luke Skywalker heroically holding his lightsaber in the air with Princess Leia standing by his side with her blaster in hand. Darth Vader looms menacingly in the background as X-wing starfighters swoop towards the Death Star. The original painting did not feature C-3PO and R2-D2 – they were added later by illustrator Nick Cardy just before the post went to press.
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“This one was quite a challenge to design,” says Senior Model Designer Peter Carmichael. “It’s one of the most colourful LEGO Star Wars models we’ve ever made.”
It was a particularly challenging project for Peter: ” I’m very colour blind, so this was a daunting task to overcome. But that’s where our LEGO colour palette, which is all numbered, comes into play. We printed out a scaled version of this poster to the size we wanted the model to be. I took a marker and went around our team asking, ‘what colour is that?’, and we were writing colour numbers all over the poster. So that really helped in making those colour choices.” Using the information from his colleagues, the designer could then get to work crafting the brick-built art model.
“The lettering was the hardest part,” he tells Blocks. “I started with the lettering because I knew if we didn’t get that perfect, none of it would look right. Although we had some discussions about printing the logo, we really wanted to try our best at building it.
“I printed it out on a piece of paper and stuck that on my desk. Then I was placing elements on top, trying to match things. Once I had the right angles and shapes, I started working on how to make that into a structure. Some of the angles on the bottom letters don’t match the ones above and that’s because of the effect of the letters moving away from you.
“I’m really proud of the line between the two rows of text. It’s only one plate thick and that was achieved by creating the entire top section of the text on a sliding plate that you attach when constructing the frame. Typically with these art sets, we build out the entire frame first and then add the artwork. But this was a blend, where we wanted to build the artwork at the same time as the frame.”
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This simple white edging around 75467 A New Hope Poster is almost identical to the actual poster’s white border. “The frame is a lot thinner and smaller than what you see on other LEGO Art models,” adds Peter. “That’s because we wanted to pour all of the elements into the artwork. We needed more pieces for these beautiful gradients, both at the bottom around the text and at the top for the galaxy, as they’re built sideways. We tried layering tiles on top of each other but that didn’t work, so building sideways was the only way to achieve this colour variation to be closer to the original poster.”
Tom Jung used acrylics and airbrushes to make the colours effortlessly fade into one another. “In the original poster, Vader is almost disappearing into space in the background. It’s like a haze,” explains Peter, referring to the blending. “To capture that was very difficult, we had to represent that in the best way we could. There are a lot of intricate shapes and shadowing to be able to replicate the original artwork.”
Some of these shapes needed some clever parts usage and Peter is very excited for fans to build 75467 Star Wars: A New Hope Poster to find them all. But he eagerly wants to point out his favourites. “There are the NINJAGO scythe elements for the tiny X-wings. These elements were used in the very first concept all the way to the very end. It’s rare but it’s proof that this piece was the perfect choice for the starfighter at this scale.”
It is a complete new approach for the LEGO Star Wars theme. “We tried to follow the story of A New Hope during the build experience. So you start with the opening logo crawl and then the introduction of the main characters, then up to Darth Vader to introduce the villain – and the whole experience wraps up with the Death Star battle at the end.”
LEGO 75467 A New Hope Poster is one of seven new sets that have been announced. It will launch alongside 75466 Darth Vader 2-in-1 Wall Art, 75470 Mustafar Duel, 75478 Rebel Y-wing Starfighter, 75480 Duel on Bespin, 75482 Up-Scaled Luke Skywalker Minifigure and 75495 Stormtrooper (Concept Art) Helmet.
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