LEGO Star Wars Magazine Issue 131: Jango Fett's Starfighter and a Wildcard Second Gift
Thirty-eight pieces is not many. It is roughly the size of a small polybag, the sort of thing you build in four minutes and then spend twenty deciding where to put. But the covermount gift attached to this issue is a microscale Jango Fett's Starfighter — the Firespray-class patrol craft that Jango flies out of Kamino in Attack of the Clones, and the same silhouette his son would later make famous — and at that scale, the design choices matter more than the piece count suggests.
The Firespray is an awkward ship to shrink. It sits upright when landed and flat when flying, which means any small-scale version has to pick a pose and commit. The magazine build commits to flight mode, which is the right call — it reads as the ship instantly, and it displays alongside the other microscale craft the line has produced without looking out of proportion.
Issue 131 at a Glance
- Line: LEGO Star Wars magazine, published by Immediate Media
- UK on-sale date: 8 January 2026
- Main gift: Jango Fett's Starfighter, a 38-piece microscale build
- Second gift: a bonus previously released LEGO set, included alongside the main build
- Comic strips: Dark Squadron and Slide and Capture
- Also inside: pull-out posters, puzzle and activity pages, and competitions to win LEGO sets
The Second Gift Nobody Can Predict
This is the part that makes LEGO Star Wars magazine issue 131 genuinely unusual, and it is the part most listings gloss over.
Issue 131 is one of the line's periodic double-gift releases: alongside the Starfighter build, copies shipped with an additional previously released LEGO set. The catch is that the extra was not standardised across the print run. Buyers reported receiving different bonus items — one UK reader found a Luke Skywalker in Hoth fatigues in their copy. Two people can buy the same issue off the same shelf and end up with different contents.
For a collector, that is either a nice surprise or a real annoyance depending on why you are buying. If you are chasing a specific figure, you cannot assume this issue will deliver it. If you are buying blind and enjoy the lottery, it is one of the more interesting issues in the run.
Why Retailer Listings Disagree About What's Inside
Search for this issue and you will find it described two different ways. Some retail listings advertise a "limited edition Jango Fett minifigure." Coverage from LEGO and Star Wars news outlets describes the gift as the 38-piece Starfighter plus a bonus set. Both descriptions are attached to the same issue number.
The likeliest explanation is that the double-gift packaging made the issue hard to summarise in a single product title, and listings simply led with the character name. It is worth knowing about before you order, because it is exactly the kind of ambiguity that produces a disappointed buyer.
The practical fix is simple: ask the seller for a photo of the actual sealed copy rather than a stock image, and confirm in writing what is attached to the front. On a double-gift issue that question is not pedantic — it is the whole difference between the two things you might be paying for.
Comics, Posters and the Rest of the Book
Under the covermounts, this is a solid standard issue. Dark Squadron and Slide and Capture carry the comic pages, and around them sit the usual furniture the Immediate Media titles are built on: posters worth keeping if you have wall space, puzzles and activities pitched at roughly the 6–11 bracket, and competition pages offering LEGO sets as prizes.
If you are buying for a child, that content is the product and the bricks are the bonus. If you are buying as a collector, it is the reverse, and there is no point pretending otherwise. Being honest about which buyer you are makes the decision much easier.
Rarity, Honestly Assessed
These magazines print in large numbers, so no issue in the line is truly scarce in the way a limited convention exclusive is. What makes them hard to find later is geography and time, not print run. They are UK newsstand exclusives from Immediate Media, they never appear on LEGO.com, and they are not distributed at retail in the US, Canada or most of Europe. Once the next issue displaces one on the shelf, the only remaining supply is whatever individual buyers happened to keep.
Issue 131 has an extra wrinkle on top of that. Because the bonus item varied, a sealed copy is not a known quantity — which means sealed examples hold their appeal a little better than usual, and opened copies need a clear inventory of what came out of them before you buy.
Tracking Down a Copy
Three things worth checking on any listing for this one: that both gifts are still attached and unopened, that the seller can confirm which bonus set is included if the copy has been opened, and that the images are of the actual item. The wildcard element makes all three more important here than on a standard single-gift issue.
If you are building a run of the line, LEGO Star Wars magazine issue 131 earns a slot on the strength of the Firespray build alone — small microscale ships age well on a shelf, and this is one of the better-judged ones. The mystery second gift is a bonus, not the reason to buy.
You can browse our current LEGO magazine range to see which issues we have in hand, explore the wider LEGO Star Wars collection if you are building a display around the Fetts, or read our background guide to the LEGO Star Wars Magazine for how the UK release schedule and covermount gifts actually work.