



Why the LEGO Group waited so long to release a regular trooper, and even more so make regular troopers easy to get is a mystery – it certainly has seemed to be working for recently. The first set to include a regular Stormtrooper was a TIE Fighter, not released until 2001. This was later than multiple Royal Guards (2001), Clone Troopers (2002), Snowtroopers (2003), and amazingly even Gungan Soldiers (2000). The first set to include more than one regular Stormtrooper was 7264 Imperial Inspection – released 6 years after LEGO Star Wars was first released. Image courtesy of įurthermore, inclusion of regular Stormtroopers lagged behind almost every other type of Imperial Soldier back in the early years. I remember picking up a dozen of these sets for a pittance when my town’s local toy store went out of business. The first cheap set to include a regular Stormtrooper, 7201 Final Duel II, did not come out until 2002.

Today, LEGO sets reflect this fact with troopers being relatively easy to obtain and many sets containing multiple copies (or near copies) of a given type or even several different types. I cannot think of a single scene in any of the Star Wars films where there is only one of these guys aside from Rey’s exchange with Daniel Craig’s First Order Trooper in The Force Awakens. The defining characteristic of Stormtroopers, besides iconic white armor, is their numbers.
