Star Wars

Battle of Felucia Separatist MTT

A gorgeous droid-launching tank held back by one steep price tag.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 75435 · 2025

Pieces976

Minifigs12

Year2025

Set number75435

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The verdict

The deployment rack is the whole reason to own this one, and it's honestly one of the best play features LEGO has put in a Star Wars vehicle.

Turn a single knob and six battle droids fold out on a synchronized rack, which never stops being satisfying. The catch is the price: 976 pieces for the cost of a much bigger set is a hard sell at full retail. Grab it on a discount and you'll adore it.

Best for: Clone Wars fans who want the droid-deploying MTT they've waited a decade for

The full review

What it is

If you grew up on the Clone Wars, the MTT is one of those shapes burned into your memory: the big rounded Separatist transport that rolls up and unloads a wall of battle droids. LEGO hasn't given us a proper MTT playset in over a decade, so the arrival of this LEGO® set is a genuine event for Separatist fans. And the headline feature does not disappoint. You turn one knob on the side and a whole rack of droids folds out through the front hatches, angling apart and lowering toward the ground in one smooth, synchronized motion. It's driven by Technic gears and chain, and it feels almost mechanical in the best way. Plenty of reviewers have called it one of the coolest mechanisms LEGO has ever built into a Star Wars vehicle, and once you've played with it a few times you'll understand why.

The catch

Here's where I have to be straight with you, though. The price is the elephant in the room. At 159.99 dollars for 976 pieces, this set is asking a lot, and the comparisons are not kind. The Imperial Star Destroyer sits at the same 160 dollar mark and gives you a dramatically bigger, more detailed model. The MTT, by contrast, measures just 30cm long, which is genuinely small once it's sitting on your shelf. The rear end is also left a little unfinished, with some tan pieces peeking through where the color scheme runs out, and Commander Bly's kama waistcape is a printed tile rather than a proper cloth piece, which is a small letdown on an otherwise excellent figure. None of this is a design failure. It's a value question, and at full retail the answer leans expensive.

Who it's for

So who walks away happy here? If you're a Clone Wars devotee who has wanted a real MTT for years, this delivers the fantasy completely, droid rack and all, and you'll forgive the price the first time you crank that knob. If you're a builder chasing maximum brick per dollar, wait for a discount, because this one drops in price fairly reliably and it becomes a much easier recommendation at 20 to 30 percent off. The Brickset community landed at a warm 4.2 out of 5, while Jay's Brick Blog gave it a more cautious 3 out of 5, and honestly the truth sits right between them. It's a lovely, clever model with a killer gimmick and a price that's the only thing stopping it from being an easy yes.

The parts story

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

The build runs across eight numbered bags and starts, as these vehicles do, with a Technic base that gives the MTT its strength and houses the deployment gearing. That mechanical heart is the interesting part: splat gears, chain links and Technic connections all tie together so that one knob drives the entire droid rack. It's a satisfying thing to assemble because you can see the engineering come to life as you go. The outer shell is more repetitive, with a lot of symmetrical panel work to get that smooth rounded hull, so there's a stretch in the middle where you're mirroring the same steps left and right. It's not the most surprising build, but the moving mechanism keeps it engaging in a way a plain vehicle wouldn't.

On the parts front, the recolors are the story. This is the first MTT cast in Separatist grey and dark blue rather than the old brown, so the large curved panels are useful in colors collectors will want. The Commando Droids get an updated look in gunmetal grey with brown printing, their first proper refresh since 2013, and Commander Bly arrives with a new printed pauldron and exclusive prints. Aayla Secura returns after being absent since 2017 with an improved torso and legs. Twelve minifigures in total, including the pilot and six standard battle droids for the rack. The part count value is where fans grumble, since 976 pieces at this price doesn't stack up against other sets, but the exclusive figures and fresh recolors soften that blow for anyone building a Clone Wars collection.

Fun facts

01This is the first proper MTT playset LEGO has released in over a decade, and the first ever done in Separatist grey and dark blue rather than the earlier brown color scheme.
02Commander Bly, Aayla Secura's clone commander at the Battle of Felucia, makes his minifigure debut here, complete with a new printed pauldron.
03Aayla Secura returns as a minifigure for the first time since 2017, with an updated torso and legs.
04The entire droid deployment rack, which folds six battle droids out through the front hatches in sync, is powered by a single hand-turned knob using Technic gears and chain.