Review : LEGO Star Wars 75399 Rebel U-Wing Starfighter

Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75399 Rebel U-Wing Starfighter, a box of 594 pieces currently available on the official online store at the public price of €69,99 and already sold for 10 € less at Amazon.

This is not LEGO's first attempt to offer us an interpretation of this ship; the most assiduous fans will surely remember the set. 75155 Rebel U-Wing Fighter (659 pieces - €79,99) marketed between 2016 and 2018. The version available this year, directly inspired by the second season of the series Star Wars: Andor, is lowering its ambitions with a slightly more approximate look and an even more assumed vocation as a playset aimed at younger fans.

We can't really say that we have a convincing model in our hands; almost everything here is symbolic or summarized with a lot of aesthetic shortcuts. The fact remains that this ship is immediately recognizable, even if it notably ignores the sliding opening system for the cargo area, whereas the 2016 version offered this refinement. Here, we are content with two rather crude hatches that provide access to the interior space, which can't fit many people in anyway.

What about the reactors, symbolized here by an assembly of parts that struggles a little to embody the turbines seen on screen? It's basic but solid, and younger children will be able to have fun without breaking everything. The layout of the ship's cockpit is similar; Cassian Andor must be placed in a lying position, and he has no physical controls other than a few screens represented by a sticker.

We will remember the successful integration of the two Spring-Shooters which is activated by pressing on the front cover of the ship, it is ingenious and discreet enough not to disfigure the construction. The canopy is pad printed, a good point which saves us the headache of applying stickers almost impossible on the different panels of the object.

The number of stickers to be installed on the ship's fuselage is also limited, so we won't complain about that. A fun little detail is that there's a push button to slightly lift the canopy embedded between two flush sections of the fuselage whose angles don't allow for easy opening. This is a good idea so that younger children don't get too upset about this issue.

As for the four figurines provided, we get a very approximate version of Cassian Andor, I don't really find the features and hairstyle of Diego Luna there as well as a pretty minifig of Dedra Meero which is unfortunately a little spoiled by the white tint pad-printed on the black legs of the character and which therefore no longer matches the base color of the torso dyed in the mass.

We also get a generic ISB agent who is pretty convincing and K-2SO in an improved version that we will see again identically from August 1, 2025 in the LEGO Star Wars set 75434K-2SO. We will remember that Dedra Meero's hair and cap are molded together, it's a success.

We're not going to complain about the assortment of figurines included in this box, even if I think a second BSI agent would have been welcome for €70. We can, however, quibble about Dedra Meero's appearance, which is frankly ruined by the manufacturer's technical errors.

Offering this type of finish in 2025 when you boast of being the specialist and undisputed leader in the sector is an unforgivable faux pas, knowing that the official visuals of the product presented on the official website and on the packaging of the set are extensively retouched to hide this detail.

This box, which is aimed at younger audiences, will undoubtedly easily find its audience in the absence of a more detailed alternative of this ship, which is only the second version since the release of the set based on the film. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2016.

I don't know if LEGO has planned a version Ultimate Collector Series of the thing, even if the subject would deserve in my opinion a luxury treatment to finally offer us the detailed version that adult fans deserve. In the meantime, we will be content with this somewhat expensive proposition. Those who have the 2016 version can in my opinion largely skip it, unless the few minifigs provided justify the investment in their eyes.

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