Star Wars

Jabba's Sail Barge

The Khetanna in brick form, gorgeous to build but heavy on the wallet.

3.4/5

Set 75397 · 2024

Pieces3,946

Minifigs11

Year2024

Set number75397

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The verdict

If you love Return of the Jedi and want the definitive Sail Barge on your shelf, this delivers a genuinely fun build and one of the better minifig line-ups in a UCS box.

The catch is the price: 500 dollars for under 4,000 pieces stings, and the folded sails plus some color-match gripes take a bit of shine off. Grab it if the Tatooine desert cruiser has always been on your wishlist and you can stomach the cost, or wait for a discount. It is great, just not 500 dollars of obviously great.

Best for: Return of the Jedi fans who want the definitive display Sail Barge

The full review

What it is

So you have been eyeing Jabba's Sail Barge, the desert cruiser also known as the Khetanna, the one from the big Sarlacc showdown in Return of the Jedi. This is the 2024 Ultimate Collector Series take on it, and it is easily the biggest and most detailed Sail Barge LEGO® has ever made. At 3,942 pieces it stretches over 30 inches long, and it nails the distinctive curved hull and that big sail rig that makes the ship instantly recognizable. LEGO has done this vessel a few times before (2006 and 2013), and this is the version built for grown-up fans who want the whole thing on display with the crew aboard. As a set to look at and fiddle with, it is genuinely lovely.

The catch

Here is the honest bit though, and it is a big one: the price. This launched at 500 dollars US (429.99 pounds), which makes it one of the most expensive UCS sets ever, and yet the piece count is well under 4,000. For context, plenty of cheaper UCS sets pack in more bricks, so you are partly paying for size and licence rather than raw part value. On top of that, the reviewers who built it flagged a few annoyances: the textile sails come folded and are fiddly to get looking right, there are some parts errors, and a few bricks and stickers do not color-match as cleanly as you would hope at this price. None of it ruins the model, but at 500 dollars you notice every rough edge.

Who it's for

So who should grab it? If you are a Return of the Jedi diehard, if the Sarlacc pit scene lives rent free in your head, and the Sail Barge has sat on your grail list for years, this is the one to get and you will love having it. The interior details reward you for looking closely, and the crew roster is a real highlight. If you are more of a casual builder or you flinch at the number on the box, wait for a discount or a sale, because it has already dipped in value on the aftermarket and the price is the only thing really holding it back. Fair to say it is a great set that just asks a lot for the privilege.

The parts story

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

The build runs across 35 numbered bags split into 32 stages, and most people finish in six to nine hours. It is an interior-first kind of build, which keeps things interesting: you work through the hull, then a prison cell up in the forward section that lifts right out so you can pose a minifigure inside, an armoury stocked with spears, vibro-axes and blasters, and movable side panels plus two removable sections that let you peek into the guts of the ship. Builders describe it as a genuine joy from start to finish, with the shaping of that curved hull being the standout stretch. The fabric sails are the one fiddly chapter, thick material that looks great once wrangled but arrives stubbornly folded.

On the parts front, there is a nice haul for MOC builders. Those thick textile sails get singled out as brilliant raw material for things like dragon wings, and you get medium nougat lamp-posts and a batch of the relatively new 1x2x2 bracket used for the rear panelling and interior columns. Figure fans get 11 characters: Bib Fortuna, Princess Leia, C-3PO, Max Rebo, Kithaba, Vizam, Wooof, a Gamorrean Guard, R2-D2, plus the big Jabba and little Salacious Crumb. Kithaba, Wooof and Vizam are brand new, and eight of the figures are exclusive to this box. Max Rebo reuses his 2013 mold and Jabba is the familiar sculpt with fresh printing, so it is more about rare characters than brand new molds. The part-count value is the sore spot: under 4,000 elements for 500 dollars is why folks call it pricey.

Fun facts

01The real ship is called the Khetanna, an Ubrikkian Industries luxury sail barge Jabba modified, and it appears in Return of the Jedi as the site of Luke's daring escape over the Sarlacc pit.
02LEGO has now made the Sail Barge in 2006, 2013 and this 2024 UCS version, and at over 30 inches long this one is by far the largest.
03Max Rebo made his LEGO debut in the 825-piece 2013 set (75020) and now fetches serious money on the aftermarket, and here he uses that same mold.
04Eight of the 11 minifigures are exclusive to this set, with Kithaba, Wooof and Vizam appearing in LEGO form for the very first time.