Seven Sites Every Serious LEGO Star Wars Collector Should Know
The internet is full of LEGO content. Most of it is noise. These seven are signal.
A collector’s guide to the databases, forums, and accounts that are actually worth your time — with honest notes on where each one falls short.
I found most of these by accident over 25 years of collecting. A few of them I found embarrassingly late. If this list saves someone else the time, it was worth writing.
The Databases
1. BrickLink — bricklink.com
The backbone of everything. BrickLink is simultaneously a parts marketplace, a set catalog, a price guide, and the closest thing the LEGO collector community has to a stock exchange. If you want to buy parts, source a rare set, check what something sold for last month, or look up every variant of a specific minifigure ever produced, BrickLink is where you start.
The interface has not been meaningfully redesigned since roughly 2003 and it shows. New users find it genuinely confusing. Push through it — the data underneath is unmatched. The sold listings in particular are invaluable: actual transaction prices, not asking prices, going back years. For serious collecting, that distinction matters enormously.
BrickLink also hosts the XML parts list format used in the Builds section of this site. The BrickLink XML upload guide walks through the process if you have never done it.
2. Brickset — brickset.com
If BrickLink is the marketplace, Brickset is the encyclopedia. Every LEGO set ever officially released, with release dates, piece counts, retail prices, images, and community reviews. The coverage of older sets — including 1999 Star Wars releases — is genuinely impressive and has been maintained and corrected by a dedicated community for decades.
Brickset’s set categorization is the closest thing to an authoritative reference for questions like “is this set UCS or not?” — though as the BringMeSolo Complete UCS List documents, even Brickset has gaps and inconsistencies that require cross-referencing against primary sources. Use it as a starting point, not a final word.
The personal collection tracking features are also useful if you want to log what you own, what you want, and what you have built.
3. BrickEconomy — brickeconomy.com
BrickEconomy does one thing better than anyone else: it tracks LEGO set values over time and presents the data in a way that is actually readable. Price history charts, retirement analysis, growth rates, comparisons against retail — all of it cleanly organized and easy to navigate.
Where BrickLink gives you raw sold listing data that requires work to interpret, BrickEconomy aggregates and visualizes it. For understanding whether a set has appreciated, plateaued, or dropped — and when — BrickEconomy is the faster answer. Coverage of promotional and event exclusives is spottier than its retail set coverage, but it is improving.
4. Minifigs.nl — minifigs.nl
Minifigs.nl is a labour of love. As far as anyone can tell, the entire thing is hand-coded HTML — no database behind it, just one person’s meticulous cataloging of LEGO minifigures and their variants, maintained over years. It does not look like much. That is not the point.
What Minifigs.nl has that BrickLink does not is depth on variants — subtle differences between minifigure printings, color variations, production changes, and details that matter to a serious collector trying to identify exactly which version of a figure they are looking at. For minifigure-focused collecting, particularly on older Star Wars figures, it fills gaps that the bigger databases leave open. The fact that one person built and maintains it makes it all the more worth supporting by actually using it.
The Forums
5. Rebelscum — rebelscum.com
Rebelscum is old. That is exactly why it is valuable. The forums contain documentation of LEGO Star Wars promotional items going back to 1999 — first-hand accounts, photos, and discussions from collectors who were there at the time. For items released before 2005 or so, Rebelscum forum threads are sometimes the only documentation that exists anywhere. The site is not pretty and the search is not great, but if you are trying to track down original information about an early promotional item, digging through the Rebelscum archives is often worth the effort.
6. Eurobricks — eurobricks.com
Eurobricks is the more active of the two major LEGO forums and skews toward serious collectors and builders. The Star Wars subforum has substantive discussion on new releases, set quality, minifigure accuracy, and collecting strategy — the kind of conversation that goes deeper than the typical social media take. Worth bookmarking for anything where you want a thoughtful collector’s perspective rather than a first-reaction review.
The Collector to Follow
7. MandR — @mandrproductions on Instagram / YouTube
MandR owns one of the three brick-built NY I ♥ Yoda statues — the Grand Prize from the 2013 LEGO Club Magazine contest — and in 2022 he published a YouTube video documenting it. That video is the only documentation of the statue that exists publicly anywhere. It is the sole reference used to reverse-engineer the BringMeSolo replica build. That is the kind of collector MandR is: someone who owns things that most people have never heard of and occasionally lets the world see them.
His Instagram and YouTube are worth following for anyone serious about the rarer end of the LEGO Star Wars collecting spectrum. He does not post constantly. When he does, it is usually worth paying attention.
Honorable Mentions
Four more worth knowing, each with a reason they did not make the main list.
eBay (ebay.com) — where rare items actually change hands, and sold listings are the most honest real-world value reference available. Earns honorable mention rather than a top-seven slot because the noise level is high, fakes exist for high-value items, and navigating it well requires experience. Once you know what you are doing, it is indispensable.
Reddit (r/legostarwars) — large, active, and genuinely useful for community discussion, collection photos, and deals. r/legomarket is also worth knowing for peer-to-peer buying and selling. Lower signal-to-noise ratio than the forums, which is why it sits here rather than above.
CloudCityBobaFett (@cloudcitybobafett on Instagram) — a Fett specialist with a collection that includes items most collectors will never see in person. Every photo is from his own collection. Where MandR documents, CloudCityBobaFett displays — here is what the Chrome Gold C-3PO actually looks like in someone’s hands. Worth following if the rarer end of the spectrum interests you. Sits in the honorable mentions because Instagram is Instagram, and not everyone is on it.
Rebrickable (rebrickable.com) — the go-to for MOC building, with a community database of instructions and a parts inventory tool that tells you which builds you can already make from sets you own. Useful if MOC building is your thing. The MOCs on this site are here because they document items so rare that most collectors will never own the originals — not because MOC building is the point of the collection. Your priorities may differ.
The internet moves. Links break, sites change, accounts go quiet. If something here is out of date, leave a comment and we will update it. Last reviewed: June 2026.
