LEGO Star Wars UCS The Mandalorian's N-1 Starfighter and Darksaber GWP revealed!

Is the windscreen on Mando's fighter actually smaller than the windscreen on the stock version, or does it just look that way?

I'm not sure that set will sell all that well, especially at this price. I was under the impression 75325 wasn't exactly a best-seller already.

@person_that_uses_brickset said:
"Is the Mandalorian Minifigure exclusive? He looks the same to me as the other Mandos. Ship looks good "

Looks like it's the same one from the speeder bike in January

This looks like a set that will do pretty well for LEGO. …$250 is fair for that display worthy ship. - good to see an easy winner.

I knew how ridiculous the price was going to be as soon as I noticed the silver elements out front lol

Another overpriced Star Wars set. Looks alright, but will definitely be waiting for a discount. There aren't many Star Wars sets I'm interested in this year, and I can easily live without the GWPs that they are showing here. If this is it for May the 4th, I'll be skipping it this year for the first time in a while. Will be saving my $$ for the next Bricklink designer series sets.

The price isn't great - and I'm saying that as someone who doesn't live outside of reality when it comes to Lego pricing.

The $230 price point would have been expensive for this, but felt fair compared to the last few years. The $250 price point is definitely a stretch.

That said, I really love the N-1 and don't have 10026, so I'll probably get this right away - even if I'd prefer it being an Episode I N-1. The Darksaber GWP admittedly sways the decision to get this right away - which I guess is kind of its purpose.

What did Mexico do? :-(
Or do they not get insiders there?

Based on the photos my first impression is that it's a nice $100 set. I suspect there is a bit more to it and it's worth $120 because SW sets lately have been priced around double the value they provide IMO.

I like it but not that much that I want to buy it. It was a shame they revealed it accidentally and, what is that price?

Cool set idea but would have been far more interesting if it was a Naboo N-1 in my opinion, it feels like there have been too many Mando N-1s over the past few years. I like the darksaber GWP but I don't know if it interests me enough to buy on its own or make the set any more worth it

I used to be a star wars fan, but the interest has faded. I keep meaning to watch Andor season 2 and I tried The Mandalorian, but it failed to grab me. I wish I could say it saved my wallet, but it hasn't, as every other is expensive as well.

It's an unusual elegant ship, but I'll pass.

Collecting Star Wars LEGO has become an unsustainable hobby for me, in fact it has been for a few years now. So I'm always happy to see an UCS set I absolutely do not like. Easy skip for me.

It’s a fantastic design and I’m sure a good model but it’s not iconic enough, for me, for UCS treatment yet.

That said, this and the Razorcrest are the best vehicles in the franchise since the original trilogy-they wouldn’t look out of place in A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

The price is too much though. £150 is more reasonable

I think more people would find it appealing if the price was lower and the Mando fig had side leg printing.

Good looking set, but it should be $50-75 cheaper I think.

I like this one as a massive fan of Mandalorian I'd buy it however I do have the slightly cheaper one lol and the Hasbro one

But well done Lego!

The positive thing, at least for fans of this set in Germany, is that this will be such a shelfwarmer here that the price will undoubtedly drop to well below 200 Euro. I would say 150 to 175 Euro seems realistic, going by previous recent examples.
At those prices the set will become mildly interesting, I guess.
Not for me, because I have zero interest in the ship to begin with, but maybe others will be happy.
As for the lightsabre hilt, looks nice enough, but again, nothing that I feel I need to own.

Apparently chrome coloring some bricks is worth a $70 price hike…

Honestly I hope this continues. LEGO will be better off as a brand creatively if it loses the licenses to Star Wars and Harry Potter

Does the canopy actually slide forward to open? One of the images seems to suggest that and if so, that's a really cool feature.

I've got mixed feelings on the ship because on the one hand I love the hot-rodded N1 purely for the aesthetic and lore implications, but on the other hand the Razor Crest was objectively more appropriate for Mando (not to mention *also* being one of my top favorite ship designs in the whole franchise).

This is a great execution of it either way, but $250 for 1809 pieces is a big yikes. That's not me just ragging on the Star Wars tax by the way - compare to last year's 75409, which was $300 for 2970 pieces in what was essentially the same market niche; or 75417, which was $200 for 1513 pieces (in a slightly different niche).

Nice to see they bothered to do at least *some* actualsilver parts, I'll maybe hope to see those on PaB if I want them though...

The Dark Saber isn't locked to the new set though, which mildly surprises me, so I might buy something from my Star Wars (will buy eventually) wish list to get the FOMO GWP.

@Jraptor said:
"Apparently chrome coloring some bricks is worth a $70 price hike… "
Don't get your hopes up.
It's drum-lacquered, not chrome.

Oh my freaking God, they are asking 3400,- Norwegian kroner for the N1! What are they smoking in Billund? Think I might have to give this hobby a rest until they come back to Earth with their pricing. Maybe I’ll try something more affordable in the meantime, like collecting watches(that last part was an attempt at sarcasm).

So it looks like Mando is technically an exclusive figure - there’s some weathering on one of the knee pads and a thigh plate which does make him different from the TM&G one

@M4TCHST1CK said:
" @person_that_uses_brickset said:
"Is the Mandalorian Minifigure exclusive? He looks the same to me as the other Mandos. Ship looks good "

Looks like it's the same one from the speeder bike in January "

The leg printing is new but also in the movie sets. It would only be exclusive if the torso has the whistling bird weapon on the arm. However, my gut tells me they used the movie torso even though it's not accurate to these seasons of the show.

There it is, I've been waiting for this ship to be given the UCS treatment! Guess I'll have to wait for some kind of sale, though...

$420 in Australia. Yeah, nah!!

Good looking set though, the shiny parts are well done.

I was kinda hoping there'd be an option to swap out Grogu's dome for R5-D4. Maybe something can be built aftermarket, but probably harder to do without a printed piece.

To preface this: I'm not that big of a fan of UCS sets, because there are way too many of them and they all take up way too much space! I do however like some of them a lot looks wise.
I honestly do not know who they are targeting especially at this price. The "minifig scale" one didn't sell well and honestly this is like the worst version of the N1 platform.
I guess maybe they went for this version to avoid producing a lot of chrome silver parts.

Had to do a double-take when I saw they were *actually* making silver pieces for the front of the ship; I thought at first the promo shots were making the model look shiny as per LEGO's usual deceptive marketing. But, is it properly drum-laquered silver or just Silver Metallic (idk if there's still a difference; there used to be)? Also why are there no images showing the front of the ship from a proper angle? All the lifestyle shots are so badly lit. Are they trying to hide how bad the silver looks, mixed with the grey?

Also, is it just me or is the cockpit too small? There's no way the ship is minifig-scale, but for some reason they made the cockpit (with new windscreen element, I think) and droid pit basically the right size for minifigs/Grogu. Maybe I'm misremembering the ship, but either both of those should be substantively bigger, or the fuselage itself is too wide.

Not even going to touch the price; this set is not for me. Still saving for 75192!

This is probably the best looking UCS set since the Razor Crest and the first one I'm considering buying in a very long time. However I'd only buy it for $200 max. Clearly Star Wars is seeing the worst inflation of any LEGO theme. It makes sense because presumably TLG understands that there's an army of dedicated adult fans that buy everything Star Wars even if they complain about the price.

Nah, I'll pass with these kind of prices. I've already checked out on the playsets and now I'll add the UCS ones to that list also. LEGO/Disney can keep them as far as I'm concerned. Star Wars as an IP is dead to me anyways since a couple of years. Never thought it would get to this point but here we are...

@RawBrick69 said:
"WHAT IS THAT PRICE???"

It's the one all of you can afford and will spend, so that Lego can curb global demand again, because it's still so high they can't keep up with production

Such a cool set, and a cool gwp. It's only 1800 pieces, I'm sure it won't be too much...

(Famous last words.)

@HOBBES said:
"I had high hopes for silver lacquered plates coming from this set. Unfortunately, and as usual for Lego so far, they seem to only do wedge plates and slopes in that colour - even the interesting cone parts are in light blueish grey. No useful parts for me in there. The set is nice; the price in Canada can not be justified (stickers) - I'll leave that to true fans.

The dark saber is also very nice but it seems to me that the pedestal should be more to the left - it feels unbalanced as it is (it is probably centered but there is definitely more weight to the left).

Probably a nice collector item but I have no interest in the metal card - very gimmicky(IMO). Why is it not available in Mexico??

1,100 kph max speed seems awfully slow for one of the fastest fighter in the galaxy."

1,100 kph is max atmospheric speed (which atmosphere, who knows...). In the vacuum of space, the modified N-1 'officially' has a 'sub-light' speed of "130 Mega light per hour" whatever that is... And obviously it can go very fast in hyperspace.

Star Wars is pretty horrible as far as sci-fi realism goes, but I think some of the X-wing books mention starfighters traveling at somewhat high percentage of the speed of light during combat maneuvers in space, I think really only limited by the amount of acceleration that would kill the pilot (which is managed somewhat by the inertial compensators).

I was looking forward to the May the 4th GWP announcement because so many of them are great and extremely up my street, but I’m not nearly a big enough Mandalorian lore fan to be super excited by this one, and the other hilts are largely unobtainium (set-specific GWPs are always a pain like that) which means it isn’t even likely to end up part of a hilt display. I suppose if I see it on the aftermarket at a very reasonable price I might – maybe – pick it up to go with my partner’s The Mandalorian collection. But I wanted to be excited and I’m just kind of “huh that seems well-designed I guess”.

And as far as UCS goes they’re all too big for my taste and this is no different. Give me playscale for fighters or midi for bigger ships over UCS any day.

The metal bits and bobs are nice and I never mind having them but they’re extremely optional and very much in nice bonus, take it or leave it territory.

I’m just not really feeling any of it, sigh. Not my favourite May the 4th. I’m sure it will suit some people down to the ground, though, and I’m happy for them.

Lmao Phantasy can make sets with more Laquered pieces for MUCH less xD

I don't normally care for larger than minifig scale UCS sets ( I like Slave 1 or Venator scaled). I don't particularly like BoBF or Mando S3. I know it's overpriced. But I can't explain it, I am really drawn to this!

@LEGOFanInPJ said:
"We've come a long way since 75098, haven't we? All the fun and value in mostly one contiguous unit. What's not fun is the price."

We've also come a long way since 10026.

@HOBBES said:"Probably a nice collector item but I have no interest in the metal card - very gimmicky(IMO). Why is it not available in Mexico??"

That's what I was wondering. Seems an odd exclusion.

@brick_beard said:"Star Wars is pretty horrible as far as sci-fi realism goes, but I think some of the X-wing books mention starfighters traveling at somewhat high percentage of the speed of light during combat maneuvers in space, I think really only limited by the amount of acceleration that would kill the pilot (which is managed somewhat by the inertial compensators)."

Yeah, hard sci-fi it ain't.

Silver drum-lacquered pieces?
Isn't that just... metallic silver?
Because I swear I've seen that shade of silver applied to pieces on old Racers sets like 8647...

Brave use of silver stickers on the curves.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @brick_beard said:"Star Wars is pretty horrible as far as sci-fi realism goes, but I think some of the X-wing books mention starfighters traveling at somewhat high percentage of the speed of light during combat maneuvers in space, I think really only limited by the amount of acceleration that would kill the pilot (which is managed somewhat by the inertial compensators)."

Yeah, hard sci-fi it ain't."

It doesn’t help that a lot of the early numbers came from West End Games. I can’t remember if they’re at fault for mixing up 4-LOM and Zuckuss, or if that’s all on Kenner, but WEG pinned the Executor at a mere tie times the length of an ISD. There’s a shot in Ep5 where an ISD flies in front of the Executor, and the most generous estimate you could possibly come up with from this is that the ISD is one ninth as long as the Executor, and that’s if their hulls were scraping together. Plus, they share a common bridge design, and it looks absolutely dinky on the SSD hull. I think it was only after Ep1 came out that someone finally fixed the official dimensions of the Executor.

@Alemas said:
"Silver drum-lacquered pieces?
Isn't that just... metallic silver?
Because I swear I've seen that shade of silver applied to pieces on old Racers sets like 8647..."

Drum-lacquering is the process, not the color. It is indeed what we call metallic-silver.

Who in the wide world of lego asked for this? I really want to see what goes on in these meetings that ultimately are responsible for new projects.

I'm sooo happy I don't care about star wars.
How any of you fans can talk yourselves into spending 250€ on a set that looks like 100€ max is and always will be a mystery to me...

Looks nice but will definitely wait for the inevitable sale.

I'll be buying it, at least the money saved on not going to watch this pointless movie at the cinema can be spent on the set.

A $250 UCS set shouldn't have stickers.
It SHOULD have 500-750 more pieces.
Where is R5-D4?

The ship and the Darksaber both look well-crafted, but I have no interest in either. I don't have any of the other sabers either, as they just didn't capture my attention. Really, I think the poor narrative quality of the recent slew of Disney+ SW content has lessened my excitement for the Mando-verse generally, and the high prices of the LEGO products don't help. ... I think that this will be the first May the 4th that I miss unless some REALLY good points promotions are announced.

Sorry TLG - what else you got?