Review : LEGO Star Wars 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT

Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT, a box of 697 pieces which will be available from October 1, 2025 at the public price of €59,99.

Even if many fans remain skeptical about this conversion of a well-known Star Wars machine, which is being given a very festive makeover for the occasion, the proposal will at least have the merit of existing. The idea isn't bad, with a fun adaptation, albeit a bit overloaded in places, and the whole thing may eventually appear a bit messy visually to some.

The gingerbread look is also a little spoiled by the presence of gray pieces on the inside of the legs, it almost looks like the AT-AT is covered in a brown layer more than it is really gingerbread. The overall readability is a little affected by the presence of decorative colored elements, but that is also the point of this type of exercise.

The construction does not deprive itself of access to the internal spaces of the machine with two movable side panels and the possibility of installing the provided minifig in the control station. The four legs are articulated and they allow some less static poses than on the official visuals, we can try to give an effect of movement to the machine. The cabin of the machine is fixed, it cannot be rotated or tilted.

This fun AT-AT, however, is not the version Midi Scale that one could hope for and the finish remains, no doubt a little deliberately while waiting for another more serious proposal, generally very crude. This product is clearly more of an elaborate joke than a successful stylistic exercise in a format that has been very popular since the marketing of several ships at this scale.

Those who receive this joke as it should be will not be disappointed, the others will have to be patient while waiting for the set 75440 Hoth AT-AT (525 pieces - €59,99) apparently planned for January 2026. The lucky ones who own a copy of the LEGO Star Wars set 4002019 Christmas X-Wing (1038 pieces) offered to the group's employees in 2019 will find an equally festive companion here.

Let's not lie to ourselves and pretend that this is of real interest, many people will only buy this box for the Darth Vader minifigure that is new in this form. This figurine seems very successful to me with a pretty pad printing that is very appropriate and totally in line with the other more classic gingerbread figurines already on the market.

LEGO, in my opinion, missed a clear opportunity to provide us with a rigid plastic cape that would have been perfect to stick to the subject matter and give substance to the accessory. The piece of fabric that we will have to make do with benefits from a print in the theme but it is still as cheap when we know that LEGO is now capable of offering much better.

This festive-looking AT-AT will obviously easily find its place in a staging based on gingerbread structures, for example with the sets 40809 Festive Gingerbread House, 10267 Winter Village Gingerbread House, 40337 Mini Gingerbread House or, 40139 Gingerbread HouseOutside of the holiday season, this product will have difficulty fitting into a serious diorama; it will have to be put away and brought out again each year.

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