LEGO Star Wars Magazine Issue 141: The Death Trooper That Leaves Its Battle Pack
Look at what this magazine has been giving away lately and a pattern turns up fast. Issue 137 had a Commando Droid. Issue 139 had a Galactic Marine. Issue 140 came with a 327th Star Corps Clone Trooper. Three army builders in a row — the kind of figure you buy in multiples because the whole point of them is the rank standing behind.
LEGO Star Wars magazine issue 141 breaks that run, and not in the way this line usually breaks it. The covermount gift is a Death Trooper — specifically the one wearing a zombie head, a print that until now has existed inside exactly one LEGO set. That is a different proposition from another trooper for the back row, and it's worth being precise about why.
A Head That Only Came in One Box
The gift catalogued for this issue is a five-piece paper bag holding a single minifigure, credited to LEGO designer Henrik Andersen. Five pieces is about as lean as this line gets — no vehicle, no display stand, no micro-build. You are being handed a minifigure and the bag it arrived in.
That works here entirely because of which minifigure it is. The zombie-head Death Trooper debuted in 75412 Death Trooper & Night Trooper Battle Pack in 2025, and that set has been the only route to it since. Under the helmet sits an undead trooper print rather than the usual blank or visored face — the reanimated look introduced alongside the Night Troopers in that same pack. It's the sort of variant that never turns up in a polybag or behind an advent calendar door, because it's tied to one narrow corner of the storyline.
Worth being clear about before anyone gets carried away: this is not a new print. It's the same figure from the battle pack, relocated into a paper bag. What changes is the packaging around it, not the figure inside.
The 75412 Puzzle This Quietly Completes
Here's the part most coverage skips over. Issue 133 of this magazine carried a Night Trooper — also drawn from 75412. With Issue 141 delivering the Death Trooper, two of that battle pack's minifigure roster have now been released individually through the UK newsstand.
For anyone who passed on 75412 at release, that's a genuinely useful development. Battle packs get bought for their figures far more often than their builds, and this one was no exception: the vehicle drew a lukewarm reception while the troopers did the heavy lifting. Being able to pick those troopers up one at a time, sealed and separately, is a route that simply didn't exist a year ago.
It also means the two issues now work as a pair. If Issue 133 is already in your run, 141 is the obvious companion, and the two read as a deliberate set on a shelf in a way that consecutive issues rarely do.
Under the Covermount
The rest of the book follows the format Immediate Media has run for years: comic strips, 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, that content is the product and the bag on the front is the hook. If you're buying as a collector, it's the other way round, and there's no sense pretending otherwise.
On timing: this issue is scheduled to reach the UK newsstand in the second half of September. That's worth checking rather than assuming — European editions of these magazines don't all ship on the same date, and an on-sale date quoted for one market frequently doesn't hold for another.
Is It Worth a Slot in the Run?
The honest answer depends on what's already on your shelf. If you own 75412, the figure here is a duplicate, and LEGO Star Wars magazine issue 141 is only worth picking up to complete a magazine run or to hold a sealed spare.
If you skipped the battle pack, this is one of the stronger issues the line has produced this year. Its appeal isn't scarcity — these magazines print in large numbers and nothing here is rare on release day. The appeal is access. They're UK newsstand exclusives from Immediate Media, they never appear on LEGO.com, and they aren't distributed at retail in the US, Canada or most of Europe. Once the next issue takes the shelf slot, the only remaining supply is whatever individual buyers set aside — and a set-exclusive figure thins out faster than a generic clone variant.
One practical note for later. Paper bags can be opened and flattened back down far more convincingly than foil packs can. If you end up chasing this as a back issue rather than catching it on the shelf, ask the seller for a photograph of the actual copy rather than a stock cover shot, and confirm the bag is still attached and unopened. It's a reasonable request, and a decent seller won't blink at it.
Browse our LEGO magazine range to see which issues we currently have in hand, explore the wider LEGO Star Wars collection if you're assembling an Imperial display, or read our background guide to the LEGO Star Wars Magazine for how the UK release schedule and covermount gifts actually work.