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LEGO Star Wars
Animated Universe

Darth Jar Jar. Jedi Vader. A galaxy rebuilt one brick at a time. Explore the animated specials, shows and short adventures that turn Star Wars history into inventive comedy.

2011–202614 major productionsTV + Disney+ animation

Your viewing route

Not sure where to begin?

You can start almost anywhere. These three choices fit different interests and lead to actual show entries below.

2024–2026 / The new generation

Three stories that rebuild the rules

A connected alternate-universe saga and a fresh Mandalorian comedy. Start with the 2024 Rebuild the Galaxy before its 2025 sequel.

LEGO Star Wars The Mandalorian promotional artwork showing Mandalorians in flightLATEST SPECIAL

2026 Streaming special

LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Mando and Grogu arrive for an assignment and discover a surprise party instead. Peli Motto, Migs Mayfeld, Bo-Katan and other familiar faces take turns retelling the adventures of the first three live-action seasons, while trouble develops outside the gathering.

What to expect

The competing storytellers are the point: the same adventures change depending on who remembers them. Expect Mandalorian action, exaggerated character portrayals and a story about how a clan preserves its history.

Pieces of the Past promotional art with Sig, Jaxxon and brick-built giant ChewbaccaSEQUEL

2025 Four-part sequel

Rebuild the Galaxy: Pieces of the Past

Sig Greebling's altered galaxy is still in danger. Sig, Darth Dev and their allies confront Solitus, a new threat connected to Jedi Bob's past, as reality continues to shift around them. The sequel builds directly on the first Rebuild the Galaxy story.

What to expect

Watch the way unusual character combinations become more than sight gags. The conflict is about who gets to decide what the galaxy should look like and whether one version of the past should control everyone else's future.

Rebuild the Galaxy promotional poster with Jedi and Sith minifigures on opposing sidesBEST STARTING POINT

2024 Four-part animated adventure

LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy

Ordinary nerf-herder Sig Greebling finds the Cornerstone in a hidden Jedi temple and unintentionally rearranges the Star Wars galaxy. Jedi Bob becomes an unlikely guide through a world of Rebel TIE-wings, Imperial X-fighters, Jedi Vader and Darth Jar Jar.

What to expect

A strong entry point for viewers who like alternate histories and familiar characters in unfamiliar roles. The brick-based changes are central to the plot rather than background visual jokes.

2011–2022 / Original screen archive

Explore every earlier production

Eleven illustrated entries, arranged by release year. Each explains the story, what sets it apart and where to find authoritative production information.

Showing 11 earlier productions. The three newest titles are featured above.

The Padawan Menace poster with Yoda, young characters and LEGO Star Wars action01

2011 Television special

The Padawan Menace

A school excursion goes badly when a boy named Ian joins Yoda's mission to recover stolen Republic plans. C-3PO tries to keep a group of young Padawans under control while the adventure bounces from Coruscant to Hoth and Tatooine.

Why watch it

The early LEGO screen formula: fast slapstick, characters from incompatible eras and jokes about Star Wars itself. A good place to see how the television specials began.

The Empire Strikes Out poster with LEGO Star Wars heroes and Sith villains02

2012 Television special

The Empire Strikes Out

After the destruction of the first Death Star, Luke has to deal with sudden celebrity while the Empire attempts to recover from defeat. Darth Vader faces competition for the Emperor's approval, including from Darth Maul.

Why watch it

The comedy depends on recognizable rivalries and inflated reputations. Its best jokes turn the Empire's rigid command hierarchy into petty workplace politics.

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2013 Animated television specials

The Yoda Chronicles

Yoda and the Jedi confront a Sith plot centered on Jek-14, an unusually powerful clone. The story moves through the Clone Wars setting while introducing new LEGO-specific characters and deliberately playful technology.

Why watch it

Jek-14 is an unusually interesting invention for the format. His origins bring cloning, military power and training into a story that otherwise takes very little seriously.

The New Yoda Chronicles poster with Luke, Vader and Yoda04

2014 Five television specials

The New Yoda Chronicles

The story shifts toward the original-trilogy era as Luke needs additional guidance. Yoda, Obi-Wan, Vader and the Rebels pursue Jedi holocrons across episodes including Escape from the Jedi Temple, Race for the Holocrons and Clash of the Skywalkers.

Why watch it

Start with the first Yoda Chronicles before this continuation. The holocrons provide a useful thread through otherwise broad era-hopping comedy.

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2015 Five-part mini-series

LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales

C-3PO retells major events in the Star Wars saga to friends after Endor, then sets out to find the missing R2-D2. His version of history becomes an excuse to revisit well-known films from the perspective of someone who was rarely in control.

Why watch it

Pay attention to what C-3PO chooses to emphasize. The narrator's anxieties and misunderstandings shape the history being told.

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2016 Five animated shorts

The Resistance Rises

Short adventures follow Poe, Finn, Rey, Han, Maz and other characters around the events leading into The Force Awakens. These are small incidents rather than one continuous season-long adventure.

Why watch it

Ideal for a short session. The format gives secondary encounters and comic misunderstandings room that the film's main story could not provide.

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2016–2017 Two-season television series

The Freemaker Adventures

Siblings Rowan, Kordi and Zander Freemaker make a living salvaging and rebuilding starships alongside battle droid R0-GR. Rowan's growing Force abilities pull the family into a conflict that reaches far beyond their repair business.

Why watch it

The strongest choice for viewers who want an original LEGO story rather than a movie parody. Salvage, family work, debt and apprenticeship give the series a distinctive social setting.

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2018 Mini-series and shorts

LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars

Characters from several eras intersect in linked adventures that revisit the Freemakers, the Rebellion and the Resistance. Its stories connect old and new Star Wars figures through families, friendships and continuing conflicts.

Why watch it

Better after The Freemaker Adventures, because the returning characters carry additional meaning. Short episodes make it easy to sample.

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2020 Disney+ special

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

During preparations for Life Day, Rey discovers a way to travel through moments in Star Wars history. Her encounters with familiar heroes and villains run alongside celebrations taking place among her friends.

Why watch it

An accessible introduction to the modern Disney+ LEGO specials. It treats the saga as a collection of shared memories and Life Day as a living family ritual.

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2021 Disney+ special

LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales

After a crash landing on Mustafar, Poe Dameron and BB-8 visit the former castle of Darth Vader, where Vaneé recounts a series of ominous stories. Each tale twists a familiar moment into a horror parody.

Why watch it

The clearest Halloween pick in the archive. Its nested stories show how legends change when a narrator is trying to frighten an audience.

Summer Vacation official parody poster with Rey, Finn and Chewbacca sunbathing11

2022 Disney+ special

LEGO Star Wars: Summer Vacation

Finn plans a trip aboard the Halcyon starcruiser but discovers that a perfect group vacation is difficult to organize. Encounters with Force ghosts provide stories of friendship, work and memorable holidays across the saga.

Why watch it

The lightest of the Disney+ specials. It includes musical comedy, references to Galaxy's Edge and surprisingly specific jokes about Star Wars tourism.

The continuity question

Is LEGO Star Wars canon?

These productions are creative retellings and alternate adventures. They are not reliable accounts of the events in the main Star Wars canon or the separate Legends continuity. LEGO stories mix characters from different periods, change established history and sometimes make rebuilding reality itself part of the plot.

That is exactly what makes them worth archiving. The stories reveal what an audience recognizes about characters even after their allegiances and circumstances change. Droid Tales turns the saga into a narrator's memory. The Freemaker Adventures builds a story around salvage and family labor. Rebuild the Galaxy asks what a familiar world becomes when its history is rearranged.

For official character biographies, films and timelines, use the primary IDS character archive and timeline. For the live-action story that inspired the 2026 special, visit The Mandalorian hub.

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Source notes and image credits

Production information is grounded in official Lucasfilm and StarWars.com coverage. Promotional artwork is credited to its respective rights holders, including Lucasfilm and The LEGO Group. Some archival cover art is displayed via third-party poster and catalog image services. Image placement here is for identification and commentary.

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