Star Wars

Ghost & Phantom II

The Rebels home ship done right this time, with a little shuttle that docks on the back.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 75357 · 2023

Pieces1,394

Minifigs5

Year2023

Set number75357

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The verdict

The Ghost was always going to win me over, and this version does it properly.

The colours finally match the show, the texture across the hull is lovely, and the Phantom II clipping onto the tail is the kind of detail that makes you grin. It's just priced a touch steep and the dorsal turret sits in the wrong spot, so you'll want to love the ship, not just tolerate it.

Best for: Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka fans who want the Ghost done justice

The full review

What it is

The Ghost is one of those ships that people who love Star Wars Rebels get genuinely soft about, and I'm one of them. It's the flying home base for Hera's little crew, a VCX-100 light freighter that carries the same lived-in charm as the Millennium Falcon, and this LEGO® set finally gives it the version it deserved all along. LEGO first tackled the Ghost back in 2014 during the Rebels run, but the colours were off and it never quite sang. This 2023 release fixes that. The greys sit exactly where they should, the hull has real texture instead of flat plates, and when it's finished on a shelf it reads as the actual ship rather than an approximation of it. The timing wasn't an accident either, since the Ghost had just flown back into live action in the Ahsoka series, so a whole new wave of people were suddenly asking where they could get one.

The catch

Here's the honest part on cost. At $159.99 for 1,394 pieces, this sits at just over eleven cents a piece, which is on the higher side for Star Wars, and a few reviewers pointed out you can find chunkier sets for similar money. You're paying partly for the exclusive minifigures and partly for the sheer surface area of a ship this wide. There are a couple of accuracy niggles too. The dorsal turret ends up positioned incorrectly compared to the source, and while most people won't clock it, the folks who care about screen accuracy absolutely will. The Phantom II, the little shuttle, is the softer half of the box as well. Its shape isn't as crisp as the Ghost's, and it feels more like a companion piece than a co-star. None of this ruins anything, but you should walk in knowing the Ghost is the reason to buy and the Phantom is the bonus.

Who it's for

If you grew up on Rebels or you came in fresh through Ahsoka, this one is an easy yes, and the community scores back that up with a warm reception rather than a rapturous one. It builds dense and satisfying, it plays well thanks to the opening hatches and the removable cockpit section, and it displays beautifully. It's also now retired, having left shelves at the end of 2025, so prices are only going to firm up from here if you've been circling it. Who should skip it? If you don't have any attachment to the show and you're purely chasing pieces-per-dollar value, there are better deals in the theme. But if the Ghost means something to you, the small premium buys you the definitive version, and I think that's worth it.

The parts story

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

The build splits neatly into the two ships, and the Ghost is where the hours go. You spend a lot of it constructing that broad, rounded hull, layering plates and slopes to get the smooth curved profile the ship is known for, and it's a genuinely absorbing process rather than a repetitive one. The cabin opens up on two hatches, the twin cockpit has a removable front section so you can reach the crew, and there's a detachable turret that pops off with a minifigure seat inside. Two lever-activated spring shooters are worked into the frame for play. The Phantom II is a much quicker sub-build that clips onto the rear of the Ghost, docking the way it does in the show, which is the single most satisfying click in the box.

On parts, the standouts are the minifigures. You get five, four of them exclusive, led by Hera Syndulla with dark brown printed arms, plus Lt. Beyta, Jacen Syndulla, and First Officer Hawkins. The real charmer is Chopper, C1-10P, built here with a white body and the shorter astromech legs and body that first appeared in the original 2014 Rebels wave rather than a standard R2 frame, so he's correctly stubby and grumpy-looking. Beyond the figures, the value story is more about surface than exotic elements. The hull uses a big spread of grey slopes and curved pieces that are gold for anyone building ships, so parts-monster collectors will find plenty worth harvesting even if there's no headline new mould stealing the show.

Fun facts

01The Ghost is a VCX-100 light freighter that first flew in Star Wars Rebels in 2014, then made a surprise jump into live action in the 2023 Ahsoka series, which is exactly why LEGO revisited it.
02This is the second LEGO take on the ship, and it corrects the off colours of the 2014 original by matching the show's greys far more closely.
03Chopper is built with the shorter astromech legs and body from the very first Rebels sets rather than a standard R2-style build, giving him his signature squat, cranky silhouette.
04The Phantom II docks onto the rear of the Ghost in the model just like the shuttle does on screen, echoing how the original 2014 Ghost and Phantom were sold as two separate sets that connected together.