Boba Fett's Throne Room
A small palace that happens to be one of the best minifigure bundles Star Wars has quietly shipped.
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Verdict
This is a set you buy for the people who live inside it, and the people are wonderful.
Seven figures, five of them exclusive, and some are genuinely obscure characters I never expected to own in plastic. The palace itself is charming but modest, and at 100 dollars for 732 pieces you are paying a fig tax you should go in expecting. If you love the cantina-and-throne-room corner of Star Wars, this is a keeper. If you want a big architectural centerpiece, look elsewhere.
Best forStar Wars minifigure collectors chasing obscure Tatooine characters
The build and parts
What it is
The first thing that hit me opening this box was the little parade of minifigures, because this is one of those sets where the build is almost the supporting act. You get Boba Fett with a removable helmet and posable rangefinder, Fennec Shand with two faces and a swappable hairpiece, a lovely new Bib Fortuna with properly wormy head tails, and then a whole rogues gallery of aliens: a Quarren, a Weequay guard, a Gamorrean guard, and a Theelin Dancer lifted from the shadows behind Bib. Five of the seven are exclusive to this set. As someone who gets a genuine thrill from owning weird background characters, I grinned the whole way through bagging them up. The palace opens on a hinge to reveal the throne room, a little barbecue nook and a kitchen, and it is packed with the kind of fiddly details that reward a slow build.
The catch
I will be straight with you about the money, because it is the thing every builder brought up. At 100 dollars for 732 pieces, this is not a good value set on a pure parts basis, and you feel it. LEGO spent the budget on the figures and their new molds, and the architecture paid the price. The structure cannot fold flat on itself, so it sits either open or in a U shape, and the tower ends up looking a bit stubby, especially if you remember how tall and full the roof was on the old 2012 Jabba's Palace. The eject-a-Bib throne is a fun gag, though in practice he tends to shoot out to one side rather than politely forward. None of this ruins the set. It just means you should walk in knowing you are buying a character collection with a nice diorama attached, not a grand centerpiece.
Who it's for
So who is this for. If you love The Book of Boba Fett, or you are the kind of collector who lights up at a Quarren with a new head mold, this is an easy yes and the figure lineup alone justifies it. It also displays beautifully and plays even better, which makes it a lovely one for a kid who wants to stage the throne room scene. Skip it if you are hunting for a big, brick-heavy build to anchor a shelf, or if paying a premium for the figures rubs you the wrong way. Now that it has retired, prices have started drifting up, so if the roster speaks to you I would grab it sooner rather than later.
The parts story
What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.
The build itself is quick and pleasant rather than challenging, which suits a set this size. You spend most of your time on the palace shell and its play functions, the hidden compartment under the throne, the tilting steps, the gate, so there is a nice rhythm of little mechanisms rather than long stretches of repetition. It is the sort of afternoon build you can do with a coffee and a show on, and the constant stream of new figures keeps it from ever feeling like a chore.
The real parts story lives in the minifigures. The Quarren arrives with a brand new head mold, and the Theelin Dancer and Weequay guard get fresh head and torso designs, with the Theelin's print running all the way down to little cloven hooves. Purists will note the Theelin's gray-on-white deco does not match her dark movie bodysuit, and the pink hair reads brighter than the crimson on screen, but the printing is crisp. Watch for the four throne stickers too, decorative Rancor heads on the armrests and Ur-Kittat script across the back that actually transliterates to Boba Fett. Small touches like that are why I forgive the thin piece count.
Fun facts
- 01Five of the seven minifigures are exclusive to this set, including the new-for-2022 Bib Fortuna who only appeared in a single scene before Boba executed him.
- 02The Ur-Kittat lettering on the back of the throne is not just decoration, it spells out 'Boba Fett' when transliterated.
- 03The set released on March 1, 2022 and retired in November 2023 at its original 99.99 dollar price.
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