Which LEGO Star Wars era has the best minifigure representation?

Across nine movies and three trilogies, LEGO Star Wars has had a great many minifigures but one trilogy depicts more characters than the rest.

To celebrate 25 years of LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars minifigures, we're analysing the character coverage in the prequel, original and sequel trilogies to see exactly how the design team have been allocating minifigures, and to see just how many specific characters have been missed in each trilogy.

This data only includes characters listed on the Star Wars Databank, and we're only covering the movies from all three trilogies to keep this list under control. We're counting characters, specific droids and categories of droids for this list since some droids are quite the character and are treated as minifigures officially. Droids that are big enough to be sizable builds are exempt since they are brick-built figures and not the size of minifigures.

LEGO Star Wars character coverage across all three trilogies

It shouldn't be surprising to see that the original trilogy has covered the most characters and droids, but it's interesting to see just how close the prequel trilogy is behind the first three films. This might be because the prequel trilogy has many more characters to cover overall and the LEGO Star Wars team isn't even halfway to depicting everyone at the time of writing.

For the original trilogy, the vast number of models has helped in the efforts to cover more characters than any other trilogy and specific sets including the retiring 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina have played a crucial role too, offering the only minifigures of certain characters.

Also falling behind, but with many more characters to cover overall is the sequel trilogy and given how uncommon sets based on the last three films chronologically have become in recent years, it's not too surprising to see the focus is on the prequel and original trilogies. It has just 50 characters covered compared to the 65 and 68 of the other trilogies.

Overall, it shouldn't come as a shock to see the original trilogy in the lead based on the ratio of characters covered, but it's not quite as simple as being the LEGO Star Wars team's preference over the prequels and sequels. That might be the case for the latter, but the prequel trilogy isn't far behind and has a much larger cast of specific characters to cover than the original trilogy.

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