How LEGO could deliver the perfect Star Wars battle pack in 2024

Building on fresh rumours of next year’s range, here are the ingredients the LEGO Group needs to finetune its battle pack recipe – and serve up the perfect LEGO Star Wars set in 2024.

We’re barely into August, but already the LEGO Star Wars community is hungry for whatever morsels of information might be coming our way on next year’s line-up. Among those are the tantalisingly-titled 75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack (as listed at brickmerge.de), which sounds like fertile ground for the LEGO Group to go above and beyond previous battle packs – including all those currently on shelves.

That’s partly because it will reportedly enjoy an inflated budget of €29.99 (versus €20.99 for the just-released 75359 332nd Ahsoka’s Clone Trooper Battle Pack), but also because the name itself suggests we’re about to see a surplus of characters that have been sorely underrepresented on shelves over the past few years. With all that in mind, let’s dive into the ingredients required for the perfect LEGO Star Wars battle pack…

A new legion of Clone Troopers

The LEGO Star Wars community asked for Clone Troopers, and the LEGO Group has delivered. You might even say it’s overdelivered: we’ve got clones coming out of our ears at this point, from the 501st and 332nd to the 212th, 187th and – as of next month – the Coruscant Guard. But thanks to the foresight of savvy merchandisers at Lucasfilm in the mid-‘00s, there are still plenty of legions for the LEGO Group to conquer.

This summer’s 75359 332nd Ahsoka’s Clone Trooper Battle Pack revisits soldiers first seen in 2020, which is fine – they’ve never been so easily amassable – but not necessarily fresh. To become the perfect battle pack, 75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack will need to go one step further and either introduce a new legion, or bring back one we haven’t seen since the heady days of 2005.

Plain Phase II Clone Troopers would absolutely do – they’ve only appeared in 2014’s 75028 Clone Turbo Tank and 75056 Star Wars Advent Calendar, and now cost upwards of £21 new on the aftermarket – but the LEGO Group could also go specific with legions like the 327th Star Corps, 91st Recon, 442nd Siege Battalion or (whisper it) Galactic Marines. To underline the basic point, though: we need something different.

More droids than clones

Whichever Clone Trooper legion the LEGO Group selects, the fundamental principle of this battle pack should be that the Republic’s soldiers are outnumbered. If you’ve picked up any or all of the Clone Trooper-focused sets over the past few years, you won’t have what anyone would call a fair fight on your hands, because the Separatist army has been woefully neglected by the LEGO Star Wars team.

An easy way to remedy that is by giving us more droids than clones in 75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack, allowing us to quickly amass large numbers of Battle Droids and Super Battle Droids (more on those in a sec) to bulk out our Separatist armies. Rumours from Promobricks suggest that the set could include up to 10 minifigures, so four or even three Clone Troopers would honestly be plenty, while six or seven droids would be ideal.

Redesigned B2 Super Battle Droids

We haven’t seen a Super Battle Droid in sets since 2015, and if you have any in your collection, you probably know why: they weren’t exactly the sturdiest minifigures around. Rumour has it that the long-forgotten droids will indeed be making a comeback in 75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack, however – and if so, we’re likely to see them retooled and redesigned for the occasion.

To make the most of that new mould, we’ll hopefully also see a decent quantity of Super Battle Droids. Three B2s, four B1s and three Clone Troopers would suit us just fine.

Brick-built droids

The crux of any good battle pack obviously lies in its minifigures rather than its model (which is usually there just to offer some semblance of a building experience), but the LEGO Group has the chance here to really offer something unique. Rather than a speeder bike, STAP or some entirely made-up vehicle, the LEGO Star Wars team could use the pieces in 75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack to bring us brick-built droids.

We’re talking Droidekas, Crab Droids or even Spider Droids (but preferably not, given we’ve already got one in 75337 AT-TE Walker), giving us an army builder in the purest sense of the word. It would turn 75372 Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack into an entirely character-driven set – in a sense – so it would be surprising, but would also make this an all-timer as far as LEGO Star Wars battle packs are concerned.

If the LEGO Group has had the good sense to assemble anything along the lines of these ingredients to cook up its latest battle pack, the LEGO Star Wars community should be very satisfied come January. That’s if these rumours pan out at all, of course – there’s still every chance they could be off the mark. We won’t know until the LEGO Group unveils its January 2024 range.

Click here for the latest update on the LEGO Star Wars 2024 rumours, or check out the full rundown of reported sets below.

LEGO Star Wars 2024 set rumours

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