75401: Ahsoka's Jedi Interceptor
- Size
- 19 cm x 17 cm x 6 cm
7 ½" x 6 ¾" x 2 ⅜" - Designer
- Daniel Lehmann
- Launch/exit
- 1 Jan 2025 - {t.b.a}
- Bricklist notes
- This is my first officially released LEGO set: Ahsoka's Jedi Interceptor as seen in Clone Wars Season 5, Episode 17, “Sabotage”.
This set was designed to fit with the scale of our existing Jedi Interceptors. I was given a concept model built by one of our fellow designers, but I started my design process by going back to study our most recent Interceptor – Anakin’s 75281 from 2020, and worked my way up from there.
The brief was to design Ahsoka’s Interceptor at the same scale, and to use the brand new cockpit element.
I really wanted to do justice to the reference, so I studied it in each shot and did my best to capture the form while also making the build as sturdy and “swooshable” as possible, locking everything down to keep it nice and strong.
I think my favourite part of the design process was working out the brick-built pattern on the wings. Of course, this meant a lot of iterations and I’m sure I ended up with about a dozen versions of the model in various states of completion while working out how to balance the colour scheme, the shaping and proportions, and the strength of the build to end up with a result that did all of those things well. Of course, changing one of these has a knock-on effect on the others, which requires more tweaks and checks to make sure everything still works.
I would like to thank my teammates in the LEGO Star Wars and broader LEGO design team for their work and support during this design process: my awesome mentor César Soares, our talented graphic designers, element designers, building instructions designers, box art designers, and many more!
