LEGO Star Wars Magazine Issue 125: The Ahsoka Bag That Changed Shape

Open the front cover on this one and the gift isn't a foil pack. It's a paper bag — and at the time, a newly redesigned landscape bag, wider than it was tall, a format Immediate Media rolled out across the LEGO line and has stuck with since. Inside: eight pieces and an Ahsoka Tano minifigure, catalogued by LEGO as set 472518.

That figure is the reason collectors still hunt this issue down more than a year after it left UK shelves, and it's the right place to start when you're weighing up LEGO Star Wars magazine issue 125 as a back issue rather than a new release.

The Ahsoka Figure, and Where Else She Lives

This isn't a bespoke magazine-only printing, and it's worth being straight about that. The same Ahsoka Tano minifigure had already appeared in 75362 Ahsoka Tano's T-6 Jedi Shuttle in 2023, and again in the 2024 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar, 75395.

What changes is the packaging around her. The T-6 Jedi Shuttle is a full display set that most people buy for the ship, not the pilot. The advent calendar is a seasonal item that vanished the moment December 2024 ended, and it hides her behind a numbered door alongside twenty-odd other things you may not want. The magazine bag is the only route that hands you Ahsoka on her own, in eight pieces, sealed, with nothing else attached.

For anyone rebuilding a crew of Jedi and ex-Jedi on a shelf, that difference is the whole argument. You aren't buying a rarer figure than the set version — you're buying the version that isn't bundled to anything.

Issue 125 at a Glance

• Issue: 125, published by Immediate Media for the UK newsstand
• On shelves: mid-July 2025, running as the August 2025 issue
• Covermount gift: LEGO 472518 Ahsoka Tano — 8 pieces, 1 minifigure, paper bag
• Packaging note: one of the landscape-format bags that replaced the older upright foil packs
• Current status: long off-shelf, and marked sold out at UK magazine specialists

Inside the Book: Two Comics and a Poster

Underneath the gift, this is a solid issue by the standards of the line. It carries two comic strips rather than one. The first goes back to the Clone Wars era, putting a young Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi aboard a Trade Federation droid ship that turns out to be a good deal less abandoned than advertised. The second is an Ahsoka story, tying the strip content to the covermount, with her up against rock monsters.

Around those sit the fixtures: a pull-out poster, puzzle and activity pages pitched at roughly the 6–11 bracket, and competition pages offering LEGO sets as prizes. If you're buying for a child rather than a display shelf, the two-comic structure is the part that actually earns its keep — a lot of issues in this run give you one strip and a lot of quiz pages.

How Hard Is This One to Find Now?

The scarcity story for this line is geographic more than it is numeric. These are UK newsstand exclusives from Immediate Media. They print in large quantities, so nothing here is rare on release day — but they never appear on LEGO.com, they aren't distributed at retail in the US, Canada or most of Europe, and once the next issue takes the shelf slot the only remaining supply is whatever individual buyers set aside.

Issue 125 has now had over a year of that attrition, and the UK magazine specialists that carried it list it as sold out. That puts it in the awkward middle band collectors know well: not a genuine chase piece, but no longer something you can simply order from a newsagent either. Sealed copies are the ones that thin out fastest, because the bag gets opened the day it's bought in almost every household it lands in.

Two Things to Check Before You Buy a Back Issue

First, sealed means sealed. A paper bag can be opened and pressed flat again far more convincingly than a foil pack can, so ask for a photograph of the actual copy rather than a stock cover shot. It's a reasonable request and a decent seller won't blink at it.

Second, decide which product you're actually after. A loose Ahsoka minifigure and a sealed copy of LEGO Star Wars magazine issue 125 are two different things being sold side by side. If you want the figure for a display, loose is fine and the printing is identical. If you're building a complete run of the magazine, only the intact issue counts — and the eight-piece bag means an opened copy can be short an accessory without looking any different in a listing photo.

Either way, this is one of the more sensible gaps to fill in a run, because the gift is a headline character rather than another variant trooper. It reads clearly on a shelf, and it's the kind of issue people ask about later.

Browse our LEGO magazine range to see which issues we currently have in hand, dig through the wider LEGO Star Wars collection if you're assembling a Clone Wars-era display, or read our background guide to the LEGO Star Wars Magazine for how the UK release schedule and covermount gifts work.