Star Wars

Grogu with Hover Pram

The most iconic 40 seconds in Star Wars, frozen in grey brick on your shelf.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 75403 · 2025

Pieces1,048

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number75403

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The verdict

This one is pure fan service, and I mean that as a compliment.

It takes the trench run, that final desperate stretch where Luke has to thread a two-meter shot, and turns it into a wall of texture with the X-wing banking away from Vader's TIE. If you love that scene and you want a display piece rather than a playset, you'll be grinning. If you were hoping for minifigures or a build with lots of clever engineering, I'd steer you somewhere else.

Best for: A New Hope diehards who want the trench on the shelf, not on the floor

The full review

What it is

There's a reason the Death Star trench run is the scene everyone quotes, and this LEGO® set knows it. The whole build points at one frozen instant: Luke's X-wing tipped up on its side, banking hard down the trench, with Darth Vader's TIE Advanced and two escort TIEs bearing down behind him. The ships sit on clear pillars so they genuinely look like they're mid-flight, dodging fire, seconds from that impossible shot. And the trench itself is the real star. It's a long slab of grey texture, all pipes and sensor arrays and little mechanical bits, the kind of surface detail that makes people lean in and say wait, is that from the movie. It absolutely is, right down to the printed quote plaque that finishes the whole thing off.

The catch

Now the parts that might give you pause. First, there are no minifigures here, none, and for a set this size that's a genuine sore spot. The fighters are small brick-built models, not cockpits you can seat a pilot in, so if minifigs are the reason you buy Star Wars sets, this isn't your set. Second, and I'll be straight with you, a lot of the build is the same move over and over. You assemble a small cluster of greebly bits, you clip it to the base, you do it again, and again. Fans of that texture-building rhythm find it weirdly relaxing. Anyone who lives for clever techniques and satisfying mechanisms will find long stretches of it monotonous. Third, this is a display model through and through. Once it's built, it goes on a shelf or a wall and it stays there. There's no swooshing, no opening panels, no playability to speak of.

Who it's for

So here's who I'd hand this to. If A New Hope is the film that made you love Star Wars, if you can hear the music the second you picture that trench, you'll love having this on the wall and you'll forgive the repetitive middle. It's a scene, captured, and it does that one job beautifully. If you want ships you can fly around the room, minifigures to pose, or a build full of surprises, skip it and put the money toward something like a proper X-wing instead. This is a love letter to a moment, and it works best for people who already adore that moment.

The parts story

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

Building this is really two experiences stitched together. The trench base is where most of your time goes, and it's a slow, meditative process of making dozens of tiny greeble clusters (bars with studs, ingot pieces, little grille and plate combos) and attaching them across the surface and up the back wall to build that dense mechanical look. There's a nice trick where the canyon wall uses square frame elements and inverted round pieces to fake continuous piping running through the structure. The ships are the palate cleanser. The X-wing is the highlight, with its wings clipped onto little bar connections so they hold that S-foils-open spread, and the TIEs come together fast and clean. It's not a technical build, but the finished texture is genuinely impressive up close.

On the pieces themselves, this is a grey-lover's haul. You get a big pile of light and dark bluish grey plates, tiles, and greeble parts, which is exactly the palette space builders raid for their own MOC hulls and starship surfaces. The value story is really about that: it's a mountain of small, useful, neutral parts plus printed elements instead of stickers, including the quote plaque, so nothing to line up or peel. There are no wild new molds stealing the show here. The appeal is the sheer volume of texture pieces and clear stands, and if you're the kind of person who builds your own ships, this set is a parts pack wearing a movie scene.

Fun facts

01In the film, the thermal exhaust port Luke has to hit is only two meters wide, which he shrugs off by comparing it to the womp rats he used to bullseye in his T-16 back on Tatooine.
02Gold Leader actually takes the first run at the trench and misses, his torpedoes only scorching the surface, which is what leaves the shot to Luke.
03LEGO's diorama-style sets skip sticker sheets on purpose, so the famous quote plaque and every marking here is a printed tile you'll never have to align.
04There are no minifigures by design: at this microscale the X-wing and TIEs are tiny brick-built models mounted on clear pillars to look frozen mid-dogfight.