Review: LEGO 41627 Luke & Yoda, 41628 Leia and 41629 Boba Fett

We continue to tour the LEGO BrickHeadz novelties for this fall with three boxes featuring characters from the Star Wars universe: 41627 Luke Skywalker & Yoda (€ 15.99), 41628 Princess Leia (9.99 €) and 41629 Boba Fett (9.99 €).

I'm doing all of this to you as a group, these figures don't call for tons of reviews and it seems by some rumors that the days of the BrickHeadz line are numbered now.

If these rumors are confirmed, these products will soon be a bad memory for some when others will regret not being able to add a few more to their already well stocked shelves.

But we're not there yet and you can now add these new characters from the Star Wars universe to your collections.

In my eyes, it's Yoda who wins in this series of four characters with a minimalist but successful portrayal of the character.

The designers' choice to leave the model usually used for the majority of figurines is both logical and welcome. The morphology of the character made it necessary to reinvent a figurine that pays homage to him. It is done, and it is successful.

All of Yoda's characteristic attributes are there, from the ears to the hood of her outfit, including her white hair and a pretty and discreet pad printing on the front. This minifigure is a beautiful demonstration of the possibilities offered by the LEGO system, without overbidding or exaggeration.

Luke Skywalker is a bit too monochrome for my taste, with his Bespin outfit in the same Dark Tan colourway as his hair, all struggling to contrast with the Tan of the face and hands.

A good point, the character's elf ears are buried in the nicely textured hair, but the fact remains that the figure is far too generic to be convincing for me. Without his lightsaber handle, Luke might as well be Zac Efron or Diego (Dora's cousin).

LEGO provides a second lightsaber handle with the blue blade in the box. It's always taken.

A very unpleasant detail that I note on the copy I have: The significant difference between the pad printing of the parts allowing to reproduce the torso of the character (see photo at the top of the article). At the risk of repeating myself, it's LEGO's job to produce toys, print parts and do it correctly, even on a product under € 10, so there is no reason to be indulgent on this point.

About Leia, here in version Episode IV, why not. The buttons and the hood are there, the outfit is simple but consistent. the pad printing on the belt is a bit coarse, but seen from a distance, it works. I like the look of the sleeves of the tunic, with the puffiness that gives them volume, that's well seen.

Regarding the hair, we may regret the absence of the parting placed in the middle of the head and the forehead a little too open, especially when the figurine is seen from the front.

Boba Fett is here in version Episode VI, and it's a bit too busy for my taste. The figurine is crumbling under the colorful pieces and I find that a little too complex even if I understand that it was a question here of reproducing the character in his outfit seen on the screen.

We lose a little the contours of the usual BrickHeadz format with all these growths representing with more or less efficiency the different attributes of the characters and weighing down their silhouette.

The good thing about this Boba Fett figure is that it offers some new construction techniques in this range at the head and helmet level.

Finally, I would say that these four minifigures pretty much summarize all the complexity of the LEGO BrickHeadz concept, with its qualities, its faults, its possibilities and its limits depending on the starting subject.

As usual, it is you who see according to your affinities with this range which at least has the merit of leaving (practically) no one indifferent. For my part, I will be tempted by the set 41627 Luke Skywalker & Yoda (15.99 €), only for the Yoda figurine.

Note: The sets presented here are as usual put into play (only one winner for the lot). To participate in the raffle, simply post a comment on this article before October 15 at 23:59 p.m.. You have every right to disagree with me, this is not eliminatory.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.