It was the Star Wars set, with a C-3PO chasing a mouse droid across the room in front of a Christmas tree, that had been the calendar to stop me in my tracks in Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue flagship store. I had to look at it for a few moments to realize what I was seeing.

At first I thought it was a hint of acknowledgement by Disney of the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, which George Lucas had attempted to bury and conceal from existence like a body in a mobster’s backyard.

Unfortunately it has nothing to do with the Holiday Special. Too bad. Who wouldn’t have liked to see a blocky, little Luke Skywalker with disco hair? Although LEGO hair already kind of looks like disco hair.

LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2025 (opens in a new window)

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