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AT-AT

The definitive Imperial walker, if you've got the shelf, the patience, and the budget.

4.4/5

Set 75313 · 2021

Pieces6,785

Minifigs9

Year2021

Set number75313

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The verdict

This is the AT-AT to end all AT-ATs, and if you're a serious Star Wars collector with the display space, it earns the money.

Everyone else should think hard. It's retired now and selling well above its original price on the secondary market, the four near-identical legs are a bit of a slog to build, and it takes over a shelf the way a fridge takes over a kitchen. Grab it if a two-foot-tall Hoth centerpiece is your dream display piece. Skip it if you'd rather have three or four great sets for the same spend.

Best for: Adult Star Wars collectors who want one massive centerpiece display model

The full review

What it is

This is the Ultimate Collector Series AT-AT, and at 6,785 pieces it's one of the biggest LEGO® Star Wars sets ever made, second only to the later Death Star. The finished walker stands about 62cm tall and stretches 69cm long, which means it towers over the older 4483 and 75288 AT-ATs and probably over your coffee table too. Reviewers consistently rank it as the best version of the Imperial walker the company has produced, with proportions and surface detail that finally look right from every angle. It isn't just a shell either. The body opens up to reveal a two-deck interior with room for 40 snowtroopers, a ladder between decks, rack space for two speeder bikes, and an E-Web heavy blaster. The 9 minifigures include General Veers, Luke Skywalker with his grappling hook, a snowtrooper commander, four snowtroopers, and two AT-AT drivers, three of which you can't get anywhere else.

The catch

Now the honest bit, because a good mate tells you the downsides too. Four legs means building nearly the same complex assembly four times, and Brickset's reviewer flatly said the leg duplication isn't a fun or engaging part of the build, even while loving the result. The gray-on-gray palette doesn't help across a session this long. Then there's the well-documented design flaw. A section of the legs locks a pin, bush, axle and connector together inside a new Technic frame so those parts basically can't come apart again, and the four axles joining the body to the legs are notorious for only coming loose if you literally shake the model. For a set at this price, reviewers rightly grumbled the engineering and instructions didn't feel fully vetted. Speaking of price, it launched around $799.99 to $849.99, drew sharp criticism as one of the priciest sets going, and since retiring in December 2024 sealed copies now trade well over a grand.

Who it's for

So who's it for? If you're an adult Star Wars fan who watched the Hoth battle on repeat and you want one showstopper on display, this is the set, full stop. The community backs that up with a 4.4 out of 5 on Brickset from hundreds of votes, and the leg-posing mechanism (a hidden Technic rod you nudge with a little tool) is genuinely satisfying once it's standing. But if you build for the joy of the build itself, the repetitive legs will wear on you, and if you're price sensitive, the post-retirement markup makes an already expensive set hard to justify. The smaller 75288 AT-AT gives you the same silhouette for a fraction of the cost and space. This one is for the collector who's already decided, and for that person it absolutely delivers. Just give it a permanent home and pose it gently.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this thing is a proper long-haul project, roughly 15 hours split across four numbered inner boxes, and LEGO clearly wanted the experience to feel special from the moment you open it. A single image is printed across all four boxes and each one is diagrammed with the AT-AT section inside, which is a lovely touch that's been missing from a lot of UCS sets. You start deep in Technic territory building the internal skeleton and the leg frames, which is where all the engineering cleverness (and those infamous locked-in parts) lives. From there it becomes a rewarding mix of Technic structure and System detailing as you plate over the body in gray, build out the two interior decks, and finally cap it off with the nicely shaped head and cockpit. It's one of the more interesting and challenging builds out there, right up until you're doing the fourth identical leg.

For the parts nerds, there's a decent haul here. The build leans on a new Technic flip-flop liftarm with opposing pin holes that only arrived in 2021, and this set delivers 16 of the 11-stud version in light gray when it had previously only existed in black. The large Technic turntable shows up eight times with its geared top recolored to dark gray, breaking a long-standing color lock, and the big wheel that debuted in the 42110 Land Rover Defender turns up in a fresh color too. Add in the sheer volume of gray Technic frames, panels and slopes and it's a strong bulk parts source for MOC builders. On a pure part-count basis, 6,785 pieces for the launch price works out to a very reasonable price per part for a licensed UCS set, which softens that scary sticker number just a little.

Fun facts

01At 6,785 pieces it's the second-largest LEGO Star Wars set ever, trailing only the 9,023-piece Death Star (75419) released later.
02The main body has interior room for 40 snowtroopers across two decks, so you can recreate a fully manned Hoth assault.
033 of the 9 minifigures, including the snowtrooper commander, are exclusive to this set and appear nowhere else.
04The legs are posed using a hidden Technic axle rod you adjust with a separate tool, and the manual actually shows the wrong poses to avoid so you don't stress the bricks.