Whether you’re blasting around the Outer Rim, traversing the Unknown Regions or flying casually through Hutt Space, the galaxy-spanning adventures of Star Wars are unsurprisingly filled with ships. Many of those ships have inspired countless LEGO recreations of varying scales. As part of the 25th Anniversary of the LEGO® Star Wars theme, three iconic crafts from a galaxy far, far away have been shrunken down into microscale replicas. Kicking off the Spring LEGO Star Wars set reviews is a look at the latest LEGO version of Han and Chewie’s iconic ship, the Millennium Falcon.
Product Details
Set Name: Millennium Falcon | Set Number: 75375 | Pieces: 921 | Theme: Star Wars
RRP: £74.99/$84.99/84.99€ | Number of Bags: Bags x 11 | Instructions: Paper booklet + Builder App | Stickers: N/A | Characters: N/A | Insiders QR: Yes
Availability: LEGO Stores, LEGO Online & General Retail from March 1st
Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the third Star Wars, Return of the Jedi and one of several LEGO Star Wars sets released in 2023 to mark the milestone was a microscale Executor Super Star Destroyer. Oddly, despite featuring a 40th-anniversary brick, the set was more aligned to Empire Strikes Back. One thing I mentioned in my review of that set was the hope it would lead to similar scale sets of other Star Wars ships. As impressive as the UCS sets are, their heft makes them both highly detailed and tricky to find space for. So when the first of the 25th Anniversary sets were revealed, I was pleased to see more ships transformed into easy-to-display microscale sets. The biggest of the three new microscale sets is based on the iconic Corellian light freighter piloted by Han Solo and his best buddy Chewbacca.
Over the 25 years of LEGO Star Wars sets, there have been over 20 different versions of the Falcon. This set is the first time the ship has appeared in this scale. You begin by constructing the middle section of the Falcon, which results in a sort of T-shape core. As you build, you’ll notice a few seemingly random stacks of studs. But these are fun nods to moments which take place on board the ship. The instructions offer a little insight into the moments they represent, but as was the case with a similar feature in the microscale SSD set they are a great little Easter Egg for fans. They soon become hidden as the outer skin of the ship is added.
This core section recreates the Falcon’s circular corridor, gunner turret and the cockpit modular which is found on the right-hand side of the ship. This is built as a separate section and simply added by a Technic axel. This does leave a slight gap but as it’s on the underside of the ship, it’s hardly noticeable. The core section also acts as an anchor point upon which the outer parts of the ship are added. These connect to the centre point of the ship but are also sandwiched together where they clip together, helping to achieve the iconic appearance of the famous ship. As with many other Star Wars ships, the mass of the grey surface area is given texture by the ‘greebling’ of elements. These include different shades of grey and a few dark red pieces, plus a couple of 2×2 printed round tiles. These help to give the ship an extra level of detail
Partway through the build of the ship you construct the black display stand. This is built in such a way as to allow the ship to set at a slight angle. There’s no clever means of marrying to the ship and stand, it merely sits over the 2×2 stark of the stand and is pushed into place. Adding the ship to the stand at this stage of the build helps as you add the various plate sections mentioned above. Similar to other displayable sets, a printed 4×4 plate is added to the front of the stand. This features the LEGO Star Wars logo and ship name. But there’s an extra 25th Anniversary brick. This can be displayed separately or you can remove one of the 2×1 grille tiles and add the brick to the stand, although it becomes a little lost under the shadow of the Falcon.
In reviews for similar displayable sets such as the helmets, I’ve suggested it would have been nice to have a minifigure included. However, I don’t have a similar opinion here. The star of the set is the ship but should you wish to add your own minifigures then the two studs on either side of the stand are the perfect place to mount them. The 25th Anniversary Millennium Falcon will be available alongside microscale versions of the Invisible Hand and the Tantive IV ships. Plus two playsets featuring special 25th Anniversary minifigures.
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