Star Wars

AT-TE Walker

The best AT-TE LEGO has made yet, and the minifigures alone nearly justify it.

Brick Rated Score

4.3/5

Set 75337 · 2022

Pieces1,082

Minifigs8

Year2022

Set number75337

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The verdict

This one won me over fast.

It's the six-legged clone-carrier from the Utapau battle done properly at last, with real interior space, a rotating cannon, and a minifigure lineup that clone collectors have been begging for. It runs a little pricey for its actual size and the legs won't hold a dramatic pose, but as a display piece with genuine play built in, it's hard to fault. If you love the 212th, grab it before it's gone.

Best for: Clone Wars and 212th Battalion fans who want the definitive AT-TE

The full review

What it is

There's something about a six-legged walker that a two-legged one just can't touch, and this LEGO® set finally gives the AT-TE the treatment it deserves. It's the armored clone transport from the Battle of Utapau, all 43 centimeters of it, and the first thing that struck me was how solid it feels in the hand. LEGO has been making AT-TEs since 2005, and every version before this one had that boxy, gap-toothed look where you could see straight through the shell. This time the designers leaned on modern angled paneling, and the body actually reads as armor plating rather than a stack of bricks. There's a Technic carrying handle tucked into the top so you can lift the whole thing without it sagging, which tells you the engineering underneath is doing its job.

The catch

Now for the honest bits, because there are a few. The price is the one that gets brought up most, and fairly so. At 139.99 dollars for 1,082 pieces you're paying a touch over the odds for the size you get, and if you're used to LEGO's more generous piece-per-dollar sets, this one asks you to value the minifigures and the play features to make the math feel right. The legs are the other real letdown. They're beautifully built, but the joints have no friction at all, so the walker stands flat and stable and refuses to strike any kind of mid-stride action pose. You'll also notice a gap or two around the center leg where the interior peeks through. And while the figure selection is a highlight, purists will grumble that there's no Obi-Wan, and that the buildable Dwarf Spider Droid is really a Geonosis creature that has no business at Utapau.

Who it's for

Here's where I land. If you're a Clone Wars person, and especially if the 212th Battalion in their orange-marked armor is your corner of the fandom, this is an easy yes. The eight minifigures carry enormous weight here. You get the long-awaited Phase II Commander Cody with lovely torso and leg printing, three 212th clone troopers, a clone gunner, and three battle droids, with three of those figures found nowhere else. Collectors have paid nearly the price of the set just for the figures on the secondary market, which tells you something. If you're chasing pure part-count value or you want a poseable action model your kids can march across the floor, temper your expectations a little. But as a display centerpiece with a proper openable interior and a cannon that actually rotates and lifts, it's one of the most satisfying midsize Star Wars sets of its year. It's retiring in 2026, so if it's been sitting on your list, don't dawdle.

The parts story

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

The build breaks across five bags for the walker itself, plus a quick opening bag that's just the Dwarf Spider Droid to warm you up. The real construction is a study in layers. You build a sturdy Technic-ish frame first, then hang the two troop cabins and the belly off it, and the whole midsection comes together faster than you'd expect for something this size. The legs are repetitive, six of them built in near-identical pairs, so settle in for a stretch of muscle memory there. The payoff sections are the head and the cannon. The sliding cockpit that pops forward to seat a pilot is a genuinely clever little mechanism, and the 360-degree turret with its lowering barrel is the moment the model stops feeling like assembly and starts feeling like a machine.

On pieces, this isn't a set stuffed with brand-new molds, so temper that expectation, but the color work is where it earns its keep. There's a lot of light bluish gray and dark tan paneling doing the heavy lifting on that armored shell, and clone fans will care most about the printed elements. Commander Cody's Phase II helmet and his torso and leg printing are the standouts, and having three exclusive figures means those prints don't turn up anywhere else. At roughly 13 cents a piece the raw value is only okay, but a big slice of what you're paying for lives in those eight figures and the printed detail rather than in sheer brick count, which is the honest way to read this one.

Fun facts

01The AT-TE first rumbled onto screen at the Battle of Geonosis in Attack of the Clones in 2002, and this set recreates its later Utapau outing with the orange-marked 212th Battalion.
02LEGO has been producing AT-TE walkers since 2005, and reviewers widely call this 2022 version the best of the lot thanks to modern angled paneling that finally hides the old see-through gaps.
03This set gave us the very first Phase II Commander Cody minifigure, a variant clone collectors had wanted for years, and three of its eight figures appear in no other set.
04The finished walker stretches about 43 centimeters long and seats up to eight minifigures inside its two openable troop cabins, with a hidden Technic handle so you can lift the whole thing cleanly.