Make lasers blast and X-Wings whoosh with LEGO's amazing Star Wars sets

Wouldn't it be brilliant if your LEGO sets could deliver the thrum of a lightsaber, the whoosh of a TIE Fighter or the Imperial March of Darth Vader, reacting in real time as they're moved and played with? The new SMART Play Star Wars Redwood sets do exactly that. They're the most exciting innovation in LEGO since the minifigure was invented – and that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Whether it's Darth Vader's TIE Fighter, Luke Skywalker's Red Five X-Wing, the Death Star Throne Room or the Millennium Falcon, every SMART Play set is brilliant for curious and creative kids.

Why LEGO's SMART Bricks are brilliant

SMART Play combines the simplicity and joy of LEGO with cutting-edge tech so that when you play with it, it plays back. The SMART Brick is a 2x4 LEGO brick that's packed with enough tech to send a rocket to the moon, including responsive lights, a colour-recognising scanner to sense its surroundings, a sound synthesizer that can play almost anything and an accelerometer too, so it can detect when it's being twisted, turned or tapped during play.

That enables SMART Play sets to do some really fun and creative things. For example, the SMART Brick can detect SMART Minifigures and tell the difference between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, enabling it to react with appropriate sounds, moods and reactions. And SMART Tags tell the SMART Brick what it should become during play sessions.

The SMART Play system shows what's possible when clever tech meets the limitless creativity of a child's imagination, responding to how you play with it, twist it, turn it... you name it!

Our favourite SMART Play Star Wars Sets

There are lots of SMART Play Star Wars Redwood sets, and they all include the SMART Play System: the SMART Brick and charger, LEGO Smart Minifigures and SMART Tags to enable responsive play, dynamic sound and lighting and much more.

Take the Luke Skywalker Red Five X-Wing, for example. Its engines roar and change as the X-Wing is flown, and you can activate laser shooting sounds with the X-Wing and Imperial Turret. You can monitor communications in the command centre, bring SMART Luke Skywalker and SMART Princess Leia to life, and repair it with the Transporter.

If you or your kids are drawn to the Dark Side you'll love the Darth Vader TIE Fighter with its signature engine roar, whooshing turns and lazer zaps. And you can bring Vader and Luke together in the SMART Play Throne Room Duel, which enables you to create a lightsaber battle and escape in an A-Wing spaceship. And like all SMART Play sets you can add more SMART Play characters and vehicles to expand your universe even further.

These are the droids you're looking for

There are lots of other iconic vehicles, characters and scenes in the SMART Play Star Wars series. You can recreate Luke's Landspeeder from Episode IV: A New Hope complete with SMART Minifigures of Luke, a Jawa and a Gonk droid. You can fly the Millennium Falcon and engage hyperdrive in the company of Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO and Luke, all of whom are SMART Minifigures. And you can even recreate the Mos Eisley Cantina scene with ejector sofas to send Minifigures flying and a cast of characters including SMART Obi-Wan Kenobi and SMART Greedo too.

Whether you're hanging out with Han Solo or duelling with Darth Vader, every set comes with your very own Yoda in the shape of the LEGO Builder app. It's an interactive and easy-to-use app that gives you easy-to-follow digital instructions that make building each vehicle or scene incredibly straightforward and satisfying.

Perfect play for creative kids

The SMART Play Star Wars sets are fantastic fun for even very young children, with some sets suitable for children as young a six. The more advanced sets are ideal for ages eight or nine and up, and of course all the sets are great fun for older children and adult collectors too.

The Force is strong in these sets, and there's no better place to buy them than John Lewis thanks to its legendary customer service: it's out of this world.

Click here to discover the amazing SMART Play Star Wars Redwood range at John Lewis.