Star Wars

Imperial Armored Marauder

A boxy hovering tank that opens up like an advent calendar and rewards you for poking every panel.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 75311 · 2021

Pieces478

Minifigs4

Year2021

Set number75311

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The verdict

I went into this one expecting a chunky brown brick with guns bolted on, and instead I got a set that made me stop and open every single hatch twice.

This is the Trexler Marauder from The Mandalorian season two, the one Greef Karga and Cara Dune hijack to escape Nevarro, and the design team clearly had fun figuring out how to cram doors, a lookout hatch, ammo bins, and a rotating rear gunner turret into something that still reads as one solid vehicle. At under 500 pieces and a fair price when it was in stores, it earns its spot on a Star Wars shelf on build quality alone, and the exclusive Greef Karga and artillery stormtrooper figures make it worth chasing even now that it is gone from shelves. I would not call it a showpiece, but I would call it one of the more thoughtfully engineered mid-size vehicles LEGO Star Wars put out that year.

Best for: Mandalorian fans and anyone who loves opening every hatch on a model more than displaying it

The full review

What it is

I went into this one expecting a chunky brown brick with guns bolted on, and instead I got a set that made me stop and open every single hatch twice. This is the Trexler Marauder from The Mandalorian season two, the vehicle Greef Karga, Cara Dune, and the Mythrol commandeer to get off Nevarro, and the design team clearly had fun figuring out how to cram doors, a lookout hatch, ammo bins, and a rotating rear gunner turret into something that still reads as one solid vehicle. The hull is what got me. It looks like a simple armored box until you start popping panels and realize almost every surface hides something, two crew seats up front, a full gunner station in back, storage compartments along the sides.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the color scheme. The tan and brown palette is screen accurate and I respect that, but it does mean the finished model reads a little flat on a shelf next to brighter Star Wars sets. The stud shooters also feel tacked on for a vehicle that otherwise stays fairly faithful to its on-screen design, and if playability matters less to you than display value, you might wish LEGO had skipped them for cleaner lines. It is also fully retired now, so you will likely pay more than the original thirty nine dollars if you go looking for one.

Who it's for

Get this one if you are building out a Mandalorian collection or you just like vehicles that reward fidgeting, the opening mechanisms alone make it a satisfying build session. Skip it if you want a display piece with strong shelf presence from ten feet away, this is a set that looks better the closer you get to it and the more you interact with it.

The parts story

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

The build itself moves at a nice clip for a vehicle this size, LEGO reviewers clocked it around an hour to seventy minutes, and the sequence keeps introducing new little mechanisms rather than repeating the same panel construction over and over. You build the chassis first, then work outward adding hatches, and by the end you have a model with more functioning doors than sets twice its piece count.

The standout here is really the minifigure lineup rather than any single rare piece. Greef Karga arrives in his signature poncho printing and the artillery stormtrooper is the first version with a proper mortar gun and backpack, both exclusive to this set, which pushed BrickEconomy to value the four included figures at well over thirty dollars combined. The curved tile pieces used along the underside to suggest hovering rather than rolling are a nice small piece choice that quietly does a lot of the work selling the vehicle's identity.

Fun facts

01The set is based on the Trexler 906 Armored Marauder, the vehicle Greef Karga, Cara Dune, and the Mythrol steal to escape Nevarro in The Mandalorian season two.
02Greef Karga and the artillery stormtrooper with mortar gun are both exclusive to this set and do not appear in any other LEGO release.
03The set retired in December 2022 after roughly a year and four months on shelves, and its secondhand value has climbed above its original thirty nine dollar retail price.
04Rather than wheels, the model uses curved tiles along its underside to visually suggest the vehicle's hovering repulsorlift movement from the show.