Star Wars

Imperial Light Cruiser

A gorgeous grey wedge with a genuinely great crew, if you can stomach the price.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 75315 · 2021

Pieces1,336

Minifigs5

Year2021

Set number75315

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The verdict

This is the ship from that tense Mandalorian season two finale, and at 58cm long it edges out both the old Imperial Star Destroyer and the First Order one, which nobody expects from a set this size.

The crew is what carries it: exclusive Moff Gideon with his darksaber, a brand new Dark Trooper, Cara Dune, Fennec Shand, Mando, and of course Grogu. The build itself is a lot of repetitive plating and the interior is thin, so you're really paying for the shape and the figures. If you love the show and want that grey wedge on a shelf, it delivers, just go in knowing the price stung a lot of people.

Best for: Mandalorian fans who want the ship and that specific crew on display

The full review

The Imperial Light Cruiser is Moff Gideon's ship from the season two finale of The Mandalorian, the one that shows up right when everything is going wrong for our heroes. In the show it's an Arquitens-class command cruiser, and LEGO® set 75315 captures that distinctive shape really well: the long grey wedge, the sharp prow, the notch cut into the front. What surprises everyone is the scale. This thing is 58cm long, which actually makes it bigger than the old 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer and the 75190 First Order Star Destroyer. So even though 'light cruiser' sounds modest, it takes up serious shelf space and looks properly imposing once it's built.

The crew is where this set earns its keep. You get five minifigures plus Grogu: an exclusive Moff Gideon complete with his double-sided cape and darksaber, a Dark Trooper that was new for this release, Fennec Shand, Cara Dune, and the Mandalorian in his shiny beskar. Fennec and the Dark Trooper are the standouts, and Grogu is genuinely adorable with a unique rubbery head and printed eyes. It's a proper Mandalorian ensemble in one box.

Here's where it gets prickly, because this set got a real drubbing on price. At 159.99 dollars, reviewers across the board felt it asked too much for what's inside. A lot of the build is repetitive grey plating over a big hollow shell, so once you've done one section you've basically done them all. The interior is thin, there's a small cabin with a hologram table and some storage, but nothing that'll keep you playing for hours. Play features are light too: two rotating spring-loaded turrets, two tiny TIE fighters, and a launcher. Reviewers also kept pointing at the blue Technic pins peeking out inside the front notch, which is the kind of finish flub you notice once and can't unsee.

So who ends up happy with it? If you love the show and you want that exact grey wedge and that exact crew on display, you'll be glad you got it, especially now it's retired and the figures are the real draw. If you build for clever engineering or dense interiors, this one will leave you a bit cold, because it's more about the outline than the guts. It landed retired in late 2022 and sits a touch above its old retail on the secondary market, so if you spot it near the original price, that's a fair deal for the minifigure lineup alone.

The parts story

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

Building this one is a game of two halves. The early bags lay down a long, sturdy grey spine and the crew that lives on it, so bag one alone hands you Gideon and Mando while you're still setting the base. From there it's a lot of the same move: plate, greeble, plate again, working outward along that wedge shape. It's relaxing in a switch-your-brain-off way, but there's no denying the middle stretch gets repetitive, because so much of the hull is the same grey panelling repeated down the length. The bridge doubles as a hidden handle so you can swoosh it, and a hatch pops open for the little cabin with its hologram table and accessory storage. The final sections that shape the prow and the notch are the most satisfying part of the whole build.

On pieces, this is a set built from useful bread-and-butter grey rather than headline new moulds, which is actually great news if you're a parts hoarder. You get a serious haul of light and dark bluish grey slopes, plates and brackets, the kind of quietly valuable inventory that feeds MOCs for years. The real collectible value sits in the printed and exclusive elements: Moff Gideon's head and torso prints, the double-sided black-and-dark-red cape, and Grogu's one-off rubbery head mould with those printed eyes and long ears. At 1,336 pieces for its old 159.99 price the raw per-part value is poor, and that's the fair knock, but the figures and that grey parts stash soften the blow a lot.

Fun facts

01At 58cm long the model is actually bigger than the older 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer and 75190 First Order Star Destroyer, despite being called a 'light' cruiser.
02The ship is based on the Arquitens-class command cruiser, a Class 546 variant flown by Moff Gideon in the season two finale of The Mandalorian.
03The Dark Trooper debuted in this set in 2021 before turning up in the cheaper 75324 Dark Trooper Attack, so this was the first way to get one.
04Grogu uses the standard LEGO baby body but pairs it with a unique rubbery head mould, complete with big printed eyes and those long trailing ears.