As part of the upcoming 50th anniversary celebrations of the first Star Wars movie, LEGO® will be releasing set 75467 A New Hope Movie Poster on the first day of 2027. Senior Product Designer Peter Carmichael gave a fantastic presentation about it at Fan Creator Summit 2026 in Billund, Denmark explaining the processes behind the creation of this rather extraordinary brick-built version of the 1977 poster artwork by Tom Jung.
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75467 A New Hope Movie Poster
- Release date: 1 January 2026
- Pieces: 3209
- Ages: 18+
- Price: US$299.99/ £269.99/ 299,99€/ AU$449.99/ Other countries click here
New elements
Printed pieces
The set comes with a commemorative movie tile, shown above left, featuring the secondary 1977 poster artwork in LEGO style. It is printed on the new-for-2026 Tile 6 x 8 (6320).
These poster tiles will be scattered throughout other sets too: also revealed today are a Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back™ poster tile coming in 75466 Darth Vader™ 2 in 1 Wall Art, and a Rogue One: A Star Wars Story™ poster from 75495 Stormtrooper™ (Concept Art) Helmet. All in all there will be 11 of these poster tiles in the 2027 LEGO Star Wars sets.
Also newly printed is this Tile Round 3 x 3 (67095) of the Superlaser of the Death Star. It includes a black crescent shadow, which is a cool effect that helps the model a lot, but severely limits its potential use in MOCs.
Recolours
We haven't spotted many pieces coming in new colours, perhaps you can help us in the comments!
Video: the designer reveals the set
Here's an 8 minute video of the set's lead designer, Senior Product Designer Peter Carmichael explaining the set's development, or if you prefer you can read a transcript below. The footage has been edited down from his original 10 minute presentation, and reordered for clarity.
Transcript
This transcript has been further edited down, for readability.
Peter Carmichael:
The first set we're going to be showing today, as you can tell, is not really a spaceship, but this is 75467 A Star Wars™ Movie Poster.
This one was quite a challenge to design. We had a lot of crazy shapes, and I'm pretty sure it is one of the most colourful LEGO® Star Wars™models ever. It's probably the most. All the crazy complex shapes and shadowing just really nail the original artwork from the first Star Wars movie.
This also comes with a little poster of the secondary artwork for A New Hope. This is going to be part of a series that is launching, where we will have 11 total posters coming out in the 2027 year, so we can't reveal them all to you today. But, there are going to be lots that you'll see eventually.
It is it's very thin, which is cool too. The back is not quite as pretty, but it's still nice. One thing I'm really, really proud of that I think was a big challenge: it's the line right between the two lines of text. So it's only one plate thick.
The lettering was actually the hardest part. I started with that because I knew that if we didn't nail that, none of it would really look right. So what I did was we kind of determined a the minimum size that we could pull it off with brick-built. We had a very early discussion. Do we want to just print the logo on there? And we're like, "no, let's, let's try our best to brick-build it". So we kind of landed on 32 modules wide. I printed it out at scale on a piece of printer paper and stuck it on my desk, and I just was placing elements over the top. Once I had the right angles and shapes, then I figured out how can I build that into a structure?
One really interesting thing we figured out is that it's not just flat lettering that's like bent inwards. They're actually turned backwards as if the text is crawling away from you. So you can see that some of the angles; the bottom letters don't exactly match with the ones on the top. And that's because of that effect with the two levels of rotation, those angles.
We have a very wide amount of elements when it comes to our slopes and our bowed elements. So essentially what I did was I just had all the different elements I could have in front of me and I was placing them on. And when I would start to get something that I thought was in the right direction, then I would translate it into our digital design program. Then I kind of figured out a good blend between going back to write on this piece of paper on my desk, and then going into the computer and figuring out, can I actually make these shapes integrate in a good way into the frame of the model? Because the text is actually built studs facing up, studs facing sideways. That was achieved by creating this entire top section of the text on a sliding, uh, kind of plate that you bring in while you're constructing the frame. So typically with a lot of the LEGO® Art sets that we've done in the past, we'll make the entire frame and build out the artwork on top of it. But this was kind of a blend between a new style where we wanted to build the artwork while you're building the frame.
I'd say it's one of the most collaborative projects that I've been a part of on LEGO Star Wars, just because it was such a task that we hadn't really tackled before. We obviously have a lot of amazing experience with LEGO Art and big art pieces in the building. So we utilised all of that, like a wealth of knowledge from all the different teams in the building to really make this one shine.
The frame, as you can see, is a lot thinner and smaller than what you'd see on other art sets that we have released at LEGO. A lot of that boiled down to: we wanted to put all the elements into the artwork, and one of the really challenging parts of this model was that we had these awesome gradients going both in the bottom surrounding the text and the top section, and we found that when we just did them with a tiled-off look, it wasn't really capturing that nice gradient. And we wanted to build them sideways so we could have a lot more colour variation going up. And we felt that it captured the look of the original artwork a lot closer.
Another really cool thing that we tried to achieve was kind of following the story of the first Star Wars movie in the build experience. So we start with the opening logo crawl and the text where you see the title of the movie. We go to the introduction of the main characters. Then we go up to Darth Vader where you're introduced to the villain, and then the whole experience wraps up with the Death Star battle at the end.
A few cool part usages that I really want to call out. We're using the LEGO® NINJAGO® scythe element in titanium ink for the micro X-wings. It is the perfect piece. There was no other option. So with most of the models that we create, we always have what we call a sketch model, which is just an early concept version. And that X-Wing, that element was used for the X-Wing all the way to the very first concept. So that's, that's actually kind of rare. Sometimes when you see a small detail, make it all the way from the first concept to the final product. So that was just proof that it was the perfect choice and we weren't going to mess with it.
What we did change throughout the time was the colour. We started thinking, "oh, should we do dark grey?" But then we landed on titanium because in the artwork, they're all kind of in the shadow, and we didn't want them to pop out too much against the backdrop.
Well, we've got a katana going for a slight shadow to kind of give that spherical look on the Death Star, and we also have the Darksaber blades in white for kind of that lens flare off the center of Luke's lightsaber.
I'm very colorblind. So this was quite a daunting task to overcome. But that's where our LEGO® color system, that is all numbered, comes into play. We printed out a scale version of this poster in the size that we wanted the model to be and I just took a marker and I went around to all the different people on our team and I said, "hey, what colour is that? What color is this?" We were writing numbers all over it, and that really helps with this.
Texture and depth played a lot into getting all the shapes. Essentially the way it all came around was: just sitting on my desk and placing elements on top of each other, trying to nail specific shapes first and then secondary. I worked on how to get the depth going, so a lot of the angles of Vader's helmet, they disappear into really sharp little lines. We just had to, over and over, place elements on top of each other, trying to figure out kind of the right way to capture the highlights.
I'm sure most of you are familiar with the original artwork, but if you're not, Vader is kind of disappearing into space. It almost looks like a haze, kind of like a Milky Way galaxy that's in the silhouette of his helmet. To capture that was very difficult with LEGO bricks. So it was a challenge. ButI think we got a pretty good representation of it.
There are sections that have two wall hangers, where a lot of our artwork pieces have one. We did that because it is not symmetrical and we didn't want to put one in the center and have it off-center.
Price in all countries
- Australia 449.99 AUD
- Austria 299.99 EUR
- Belgium 299.99 EUR
- Brazil 2499.99 BRL
- Canada 399.99 CAD
- China 2299 CNY
- Croatia 309.99 EUR
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I think those 6x4 wedge plates you highlight look blue violet, not medium lavender.
ReplyDeleteAlso, just watched the video and the designer revealing he was color blind was fascinating. It's very reassuring that even a visual impairment like that can be accommodated for and overcome by working collaboratively with other designers.
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