New Star Wars Series Just Name-Dropped an Iconic Legends Character — Is a Canon Debut Finally Coming?

Disney Plus just dropped episode 2 of Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, titled 'Pieces of the Past,' and it sneaks in a name that will make every Legends-era reader sit up straight. Also, the episode does something wild you basically won’t see anywhere else in Star Wars.

Yep, that sounded like a Mara Jade nod

There’s a moment where Yesi calls out for backup: "Watto? Hux? Mara?" If you’re wondering why she’d be ringing up Watto and General Hux in the same breath, don’t overthink it. Rebuild the Galaxy is a deliberately scrambled-universe mashup, so weird crossovers are the point.

But the interesting part is 'Mara.' That almost certainly points to Mara Jade, one of the biggest names from the old Expanded Universe — rebranded as 'Legends' after Disney bought Lucasfilm and reset canon. Inside baseball, yes, but here’s why that name drop matters:

• In Legends, Mara Jade started as an Imperial operative and later switched sides.
• She married Luke Skywalker and they had a son named Ben.
• All of that is non-canon now. The sequel trilogy never mentions her, and the version of Luke we see training Grogu in The Book of Boba Fett leans hard into the Jedi no-attachments thing, which makes 'Luke’s wife' a tough fit as-is.
• Could she show up in canon someday? Sure — but she’d almost certainly come with a different backstory.

Before you get too excited: she does not appear in Pieces of the Past. It’s a name drop, not a stealth cameo.

The real curveball: a Skywalker family reunion

The episode pulls off something Star Wars canon has basically never done — it puts the Skywalkers in the same room, across eras, thanks to Lego’s anything-goes remixing. We’re talking Anakin, Luke, Padme, and Leia actually interacting as a family unit. That’s a unicorn.

"This may be the only opportunity to ever see the Skywalker family unit, to get all four of them interacting with each other," writer and executive producer Benji Samit said. "It felt like something that maybe we could be the only ones to show that to the fans and to ourselves."

That’s the kind of playful what-if you can only get away with in Lego Star Wars, and the show leans into it.

Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past is streaming now on Disney Plus.