Star Wars

Kessel Run Millennium Falcon

The younger, sleeker Falcon before Han banged it up, with the best crew LEGO's ever packed into one.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 75212 · 2018

Pieces1,414

Minifigs6

Year2018

Set number75212

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The verdict

This is the Falcon from Solo, back when she still had her nose cone and looked like an arrowhead instead of the dented workhorse you know.

What sold me is the crew: six figures, all exclusive to this set, including a young Han, Lando in that two-toned cape, and Qi'ra. The build itself won't push you, and at the 2018 price it wasn't the best value going. But you get a genuinely different Falcon and a lineup you can't find anywhere else, which counts for a lot now that it's retired.

Best for: Star Wars fans who want the sleek Solo-era Falcon and its exclusive crew

The full review

Here's the thing about this LEGO® set that grabbed me right away: it's not the Millennium Falcon you have a mental picture of. This is the Kessel Run version from Solo, the ship when Lando owned her, before Han flew her into a hundred scrapes and knocked the front clean off. She wears a smooth cargo pod between the mandibles that turns the whole prow into a pointed arrowhead, and honestly it makes the Falcon look fast in a way the battered original never does. It's a strange, lovely feeling to build a ship you know this well and have it come out looking brand new.

The crew is where this one really earns its keep. You get six figures and every single one is exclusive to the set. There's a young Han with a reversible head, Lando in a black cape lined with blue and finished with fringing, wearing that bright orange torso with the sash printed right down onto the legs. Qi'ra rounds out the leads, and Chewbacca got a completely new design here so his bandolier could strap over both shoulders. Add Quay Tolsite and a Kessel operations droid and you've got a lineup you simply can't build anywhere else. If you collect figures, this set is doing a lot of quiet work.

Now for the honest bits, because I always tell you the truth. The build is fun but it's easy. Most people knock it out in one relaxed afternoon, and if you live for engineering puzzles and clever techniques, this won't be the set that keeps you up past midnight. At its 2018 price of 170 dollars for 1,414 pieces, the value was a little soft, especially sitting next to other sets from the Solo lineup. And beyond that front pod, there aren't many new play features over the midi-scale Falcons that came before it. What you're really paying for is the size, the sturdiness, and that exclusive crew.

So who should grab this one? If you love Star Wars and you want a Falcon that looks different on the shelf, or you're chasing those six figures, this is an easy yes, and it's retired now so the price only goes one way. The finished ship is a good size, it holds together when kids swoosh it around the living room, and the interior is packed with the Dejarik table, a little bar, a bunk, and a buildable hyperdrive bay you can get at through opening hull plates. If you already own a bigger Falcon and you're only in it for a tough build, you can probably skip it without regret. But for everyone else, this is a warm, satisfying afternoon and a shelf piece with real personality.

The parts story

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

The build runs in a comfortable rhythm across its bags. You start with the round core and the interior, laying in the cargo couch, the Dejarik hologame table, the bar, the bunk, and a missile storage nook, then you cap it all with hull plates that swing open so nothing you built goes to waste. From there the outer hull and the rotating top and bottom laser turrets go on, each with a gunner seat, and the cockpit tube reaches out to the two-seat canopy that pops off. The last two bags are the ones that make this Falcon its own thing: the twin mandibles, and then the front pod that clicks between them to form that arrowhead nose. Pull the pod off and you're left with the familiar twin-prong shape, which is a genuinely clever two-in-one payoff.

On pieces, the wins are subtle but real. New 1x2 rounded plates finally fill that awkward gap between the windscreen and the corridor, so the canopy area looks cleaner than on older Falcons. The printed elements do heavy lifting too, from the Dejarik board to Lando's sash printing that carries onto his legs. At roughly 12 cents a piece the raw value never wowed anyone, and there's no big new mold to write home about, but the redesigned Chewbacca and the all-exclusive figure printing are the parts collectors actually chase. It's a set you buy for the characters and the silhouette, not the parts bin.

Fun facts

01This is the Falcon in its original streamlined form from Solo, complete with a front cargo pod that gives the ship an arrowhead prow, the section Han later loses to leave the familiar twin-mandible gap.
02The set made it canon that the Falcon's mandibles were built to cradle a cargo container, an idea that had floated around Star Wars lore for years but had never been official until Solo.
03Every one of the six figures is exclusive to this set, and Chewbacca received a brand-new design so his bandolier could cross over both shoulders instead of one.
04Released in April 2018 and retired by December 2019, sealed copies have since climbed well past the original 170 dollar price, roughly 80 percent up on the secondary market.