LEGO Star Wars 75453 Offworld Sandcrawler and Mudhorn revealed!

This feels... unfortunate? I wonder if a Blurg(?) and Mudhorn set with similar figures (dropping one or two jawas) would sell better, because while I can see this being appealing, a memorable scenario for sure, I also don't really know how many people would spend this much money on what I would consider a minor variant? I might be grossly underestimating the popularity of grey sandcrawlers though.

What is the issue with the shoulder armor color?

looks decent, but how does this have so much more pieces than 75220?

Sandcrawlers are a design challenge I don’t think Lego has ever properly solved. You’re essentially building a big brown (or grey) box with slightly underwhelming interior detail.

They never mentioned at all the name of the planet did they?

@Mister_Jonny said:
"Sandcrawlers are a design challenge I don’t think Lego has ever properly solved. You’re essentially building a big brown (or grey) box with slightly underwhelming interior detail."

10144 is still my favorite version, as it has a center section that can be removed and played with.

This is the Way

I built my own M:Tron version of a Sandcrawler, so I likely don't need another one. But the figure line-up looks great!

Overall the set looks fun and I'd be interested at that price point if I didn't have a different version already. Same with the AT-AT. Too many samesies with SW unfortunately. Sometimes they improve upon the design don't get me wrong, but other times it is just extra money going to the almost same thing.

@Veotax said:
" @Denmark_Dragon said:
"Where is Boba Fett's reclaimed armor? I don't see it included anywhere?"

Wrong Sand Crawler, it wasn't on this one. Hell, this one is on an entirely different planet"

@me oops i see what you mean

@mkrey said:
" @Mister_Jonny said:
"Sandcrawlers are a design challenge I don’t think Lego has ever properly solved. You’re essentially building a big brown (or grey) box with slightly underwhelming interior detail."

10144 is still my favorite version, as it has a center section that can be removed and played with.
"

Yeah, that’s a good example; it does suffer from the blockiness of the era, but it’s a good design choice.

“We will require the Egg. You will bring us the Egg.”

I really like this set. I’m also glad that they’re revisiting something from the first season, as opposed to just making another set from the new movie.

The muddy Mando is a really cool figure, and I’m liking those Offworld Jawas. Glad there’s one in this year’s Advent Calendar.

Huh, I thought May the 4th was three weeks ago...?

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"Huh, I thought May the 4th was three weeks ago...?"

Closer to 4 weeks

SOOOOOOGAAAAAA!!!!

The Sandcrawler chase is probably the best scene with the best soundtrack from the whole show; it's only downhill from there (only the second episode, I know).

But, really, "Offworld" Sandcrawler? What does that even mean? They're clearly on a world, and every world in Star Wars is off-world if "world" is Earth. Surely they could've called it "The Arvala Sandcrawler" and it would've been fine. That could even help inform people that the first two episodes of The Mandalorian did not, in fact, take place on Tatooine, despite the similarities.

Anyways, looks ok, still overpriced for the shrunken scale (as usual), and they've now managed to make it so that one of the few Star Wars vehicles that wasn't grey... is. How wonderful.

@BLProductions said:

"But, really, "Offworld" Sandcrawler? What does that even mean? They're clearly on a world, and every world in Star Wars is off-world if "world" is Earth. Surely they could've called it "The Arvala Sandcrawler" and it would've been fine. That could even help inform people that the first two episodes of The Mandalorian did not, in fact, take place on Tatooine, despite the similarities.
"

I was confused by "Offworld" as well. I don't know what that means in the context of Star Wars. Unless they're suggesting that Jawas are native to Tatooine, and since this scene takes place on a different planet, these Jawas are living "off-world." Seems like "Mudhorn Battle" or something like that would have been a more colorful and exciting name.

I like that... rhinoceros? Rhinosaurus? Kodo. I like the Kodo.

Lego could look a the Star Wars universe and find that there is much more color than grey. I am so tired of the color scheme. That is one of the reasons I stopped collecting SW all together.

I quite like the Grey Version and the Minifigs too well done Lego!
The At-At walker is cool too

I cannot recall that the Sandcrawler was grey in the Mando series.
I still can't figure out what I will do...

Enough with the SW sets.

The Blandalorian and Boredgu strike again.

It seems, this time, they've drained the iconic earthy and patchwork Sandcrawler of all life and reduced it to a gray sludgy mess. Clearly only a mastermind such as Dave "Trapper Wolf Is My Original OC Plz No Steal" Filoni could envision such spectacular design decisions.

This isn't the way.

Thanks for saving me money, LEGO, I'm not about to mortgage my remaining kidney for anything less than Minas Tirith.

Yes, Lego i am interested.

If I had the space, I'd get this. The only set with a Jawa I have is 75198, and I'd love to have a Kuiil.

@Murdoch17 said:
"Looks like 1x2x1 panels in trans yellow are back... that's the first time they've been available since 1987. They look to be used on the front-facing windscreen of the sandcrawler."

Big news for Classic Space and/or Blacktron MOCers.

@iwybs said:"Nice to get Kuiil in a set that costs $200 instead of $650. Now can we get him in a set that costs $65 instead of $200?"

How about $30?

@PlayfulBucket050 said:"I get they are trying to play off the movie, but holy crap I don't know if I've ever seen Lego so focused on one particular subsection of SW before. "

The Episode I sets had to share space with the OT sets, but I don't remember a whole lot of other stuff coming out along side the Episodes II and III waves.

"One of these days we will get a Old Republic movie and then I'll go broke."

That would leave me lamenting the fact that I couldn't buy a new house to display it all in. I mean, I bought all of the TOR sets. I loved KotOR and TOR.

@BLProductions said:"But, really, "Offworld" Sandcrawler? What does that even mean? They're clearly on a world, and every world in Star Wars is off-world if "world" is Earth. Surely they could've called it "The Arvala Sandcrawler" and it would've been fine. That could even help inform people that the first two episodes of The Mandalorian did not, in fact, take place on Tatooine, despite the similarities. "

Can't disagree with you there, although @RogueWhistler may have a point about licensing. I mean, licensing is what gave us the clunky title of "The Time Machine from Back to the Future,"

@Mirakle said:
"I cannot recall that the Sandcrawler was grey in the Mando series.
I still can't figure out what I will do..."

It’s supposed to be the brown paint scraped off showing bare metal underneath

@TheOtherMike said:
" @iwybs said:"Nice to get Kuiil in a set that costs $200 instead of $650. Now can we get him in a set that costs $65 instead of $200?"

How about $30?"

Patience, my friend. We LSW fans can't have nice minifigs in pocket-money playsets until they've trickled down through all the other price tiers first. At this rate we'll get a $65 set with Kuiil in 2030 and we'll finally get a $20 set with Kuill in 2034.

@Sethro3 said:
" @itsatrap327 said:
""Why are you gray?"

In all seriousness tho, so glad we're getting off-world jawas in a neat playset"

OMG you can't just ask why someone is gray!!"

SW Lego will make a person gray.

@xoddam said:
"I like the set overall, but if I'm nitpicking, that's a poor attempt at Grogu's hover pram"

That's a mudhorn water trough.

@Lodestone said:
"The exclusive mando poop figure "

Sooga!!!

Oops, wrong poop.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @BrewNomad said:
"What is the issue with the shoulder armor color? "

The Mandalorian receives his silver beskar right pauldron before departing for Arvala-7 in the series, but the minifigure has his original durasteel pauldron on the right shoulder."

And.... you expected it to be any different when the LAN perennially fails to hold them to account??!!

Let's see an 'exclusive' LAN interview where all the easy mistakes are laid bare and the interviewer asks for justification.

Looking at the Jawa with the ion blaster (or whatever the canon name for that weapon is), been a long time since a SW character held one of those as a weapon, hasn't it?

This set looks excellent and will probably be the first Sandcrawler I pick up! A few more Jawa minifigures would've been nice and $200 is a bit of a rough price - $160 or even $180 would've been better...

But that Mando minifigure is absolutely GLORIOUS!!! I love getting minifigure variants and the Mandalorian desperately needed one since he hasn't had a costume change across 3 Disney+ seasons and a movie. His minifigure is executed really well, it's UCS-level quality in a play set (admittedly a very expensive one, but I'm still so impressed with the figure).

@GoldenNinja3000 said:
"This set looks excellent and will probably be the first Sandcrawler I pick up! A few more Jawa minifigures would've been nice and $200 is a bit of a rough price - $160 or even $180 would've been better...

But that Mando minifigure is absolutely GLORIOUS!!! I love getting minifigure variants and the Mandalorian desperately needed one since he hasn't had a costume change across 3 Disney+ seasons and a movie. His minifigure is executed really well, it's UCS-level quality in a play set (admittedly a very expensive one, but I'm still so impressed with the figure). "

Three jawas is okay- the 2018 Sandcrawler only had two.
Plus there's one in this year's Advent Calendar.

In one of the lifestyle photos, it looks like the kid has dropped the model.

Overpriced once again, but this one is actually a fun playset

I’m not too happy with Lego skipping on new animal molds in SW for some time now. Old ones are extinct (Kaadu, Wampa, Tauntaun , Dewback, Rancor) and new ones are cheaply brick-built.

@yamaki said:
"I’m not too happy with Lego skipping on new animal molds in SW for some time now. Old ones are extinct (Kaadu, Wampa, Tauntaun , Dewback, Rancor) and new ones are cheaply brick-built. "

That's a very good point.

@namekuji said:
"In one of the lifestyle photos, it looks like the kid has dropped the model."

At least he didn't hit his tablet with it.

@yamaki "I’m not too happy with Lego skipping on new animal molds in SW for some time now. Old ones are extinct (Kaadu, Wampa, Tauntaun , Dewback, Rancor) and new ones are cheaply brick-built. "

People are complaining about the price as it is, but sure, let's throw some new molds that will most likely be single-use in there. Besides, some people prefer large animals to be brick-built.

My only complaint about this set is that they name Grogu as "Grogu." If this is from Season One, Grogu's name wouldn't have been revealed. Why not call him "The Child"?

@Jeruvius said:
"Enough with the SW sets."

agreed! Star Wars needs to go! I even say Disney needs to go! Because it isnt getting better anytime soon... more likely the opposite!

I don't pay much attention to Star Wars but my sister just pointed out to me that that new mini-boulder piece from City and Friends shows up here in reddish brown! One step closer to Pohatu cosplayer... or Rock Raiders revival. :D

@Crux said:" @joshnike said:
"My only complaint about this set is that they name Grogu as "Grogu." If this is from Season One, Grogu's name wouldn't have been revealed. Why not call him "The Child"?"

He goes by "Grogu, Formerly Known As 'The Child'" these days."

The Grogu formerly known as Child.

the mudhorn was like 3-times in the show...