There's always that moment in Star Wars when someone whispers, “This isn't how it was supposed to be.” The new trailer for LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past takes that line and detonates it into absurdity. Heroes are villains, villains are heroes, and somewhere in the middle, a blocky Chewbacca towers like a kaiju made of nostalgia and plastic. It's not subtle. It's not meant to be. It's LEGO, which means it leans hard into chaos—gleefully.
Streaming September 19, 2025 on Disney+, this animated sequel from creators Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (the duo behind Pokémon: Detective Pikachu and TMNT: Mutant Mayhem) returns us to the alternate-dimension sandbox introduced in last year's Rebuild the Galaxy. Only this time, the stakes feel weirder, bigger, stranger. Sig Greebling (voiced by Gaten Matarazzo) and Darth Dev (Tony Revolori) have to fuse “Force Building” with “Sith Breaking” to combat Solitus, a new villain voiced with velvet menace by Dan Stevens.
And the cast list reads like a Star Wars fever dream: Ahmed Best resurrects Darth Jar Jar, Alan Tudyk slides in as K-2SO, Bobby Moynihan brings back Jedi Bob (yes, Jedi Bob), and then there are the cameos—Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Billy Dee Williams as Lando. Even Ahsoka Tano shows up in BrickHeadz form, voiced by Ashley Eckstein. Oh, and Jaxxon, the green space rabbit from the 1970s Marvel comics? Ben Schwartz. Because why not.
The trailer itself is an overload of color, slapstick, and inside jokes—a reminder that LEGO Star Wars doesn't care about canon in the same way live-action Star Wars does. It's parody, yes, but it's also affectionate parody. The animators at Atomic Cartoons clearly know the lore. Every gag doubles as a reference, every pratfall hides a wink. There's a sequence with a brick-built star destroyer collapsing like a Jenga tower, and it lands because the absurdity feels earned.
What I love (and hate, simultaneously) about this branch of the Star Wars universe is how it swings from inspired to grating in a single beat. Gorgeous. Grating. Gorgeous again. One minute, Darth Jar Jar cracks me up; the next, I'm groaning at yet another pratfall. But maybe that's the point—the LEGO stuff doesn't aspire to elegance. It's about putting your favorite toys back in the box and rebuilding them into something stupid, funny, and a little bit brilliant.
Behind the slapstick, there's craft. Hernandez and Samit are master remixers, threading nostalgia with anarchic comedy. The directing team led by Chris Buckley keeps the pace frantic but oddly precise—it feels like controlled chaos. And Disney knows exactly what it's doing slotting this in for mid-September, a sweet spot before the autumn prestige wave hits streaming.
For Star Wars die-hards, this won't scratch the itch for “serious” canon storytelling. For everyone else—especially those who grew up smashing LEGO X-Wings into LEGO TIE Fighters—it might just be the most honest Star Wars project of the year.
What Stands Out in the New Trailer
The release date is locked – Disney+ begins streaming Pieces of the Past on September 19, 2025. Mark it.
The voice cast is stacked – From Gaten Matarazzo to Mark Hamill, with oddballs like Ben Schwartz as Jaxxon, it's both nostalgic and absurd.
The villain feels fresh – Dan Stevens' Solitus isn't just a gag; his presence adds genuine menace to the brick-built madness.
LEGO anarchy, intact – Star destroyers crumbling, Jar Jar wielding Sith powers—this is LEGO's playful rejection of canon.
A cultural remix – It's not “serious” Star Wars, but it understands how much fun there is in breaking and rebuilding the galaxy.
