Star Wars

Millennium Falcon

The best midi-scale Falcon LEGO has ever made, gaps finally solved.

Brick Rated Score

4.3/5

Set 75257 · 2019

Pieces1,328

Minifigs7

Year2019

Set number75257

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The verdict

This is the Falcon most people actually have room for, and it's the one where LEGO finally figured out the roof.

After decades of that classic ship being riddled with holes across the top hull, the designers used big wedge plates and fewer hinges to close nearly all of them, and it genuinely looks like the ship now. It's not the giant UCS monster, and it doesn't pretend to be, but for a playable, displayable Corellian freighter that won't eat your whole shelf, it's hard to beat.

Best for: Star Wars fans who want a proper Falcon without the UCS price or footprint

The full review

There's a moment when you fit the last of the top panels onto this thing and the roof just closes, clean, no gaps, and if you've built any of the older Falcons you'll feel it in your chest a little. That classic saucer shape has been a headache for LEGO designers since the early 2000s, because a round ship made of straight bricks always ended up looking like it had the measles across the top. The 75257 Millennium Falcon is the LEGO® set where they finally cracked it. Instead of a hundred small tiles fighting each other, the designers split the upper hull into five bigger wedge-plate sections that swing open on a smaller number of hinges, and the result is a top surface that actually reads as smooth, curved hull the way it does on screen.

It's a midi-scale Falcon, roughly 44cm long, which is the sweet spot a lot of people actually want. Big enough to feel substantial and have a real interior, small enough to sit on a normal shelf without dominating the room. You get seven figures in the box, and it's a fun lineup: Lando Calrissian back in his old cape and collar, Chewbacca with lovely dark tan fur, Finn, C-3PO, R2-D2, the little droid D-O, and Boolio, who's exclusive to this set and has one of the nicer alien head prints of the year with dual-moulded horns and those big orange-highlighted eyes.

I'll be straight with you about the money. The original price hovered around 170 dollars for 1,328 pieces, and that's not a bargain-bin number, so this was always more about the subject than the parts-per-dollar math. The underside is a touch plain if you're the sort who flips models over to inspect the plumbing, and being a Rise of Skywalker release, a couple of the figures lean niche if your heart lives firmly in the original trilogy. None of that changes the core truth: pop the roof panels off and the interior is genuinely good, with the Dejarik holochess table, crew bunks, and the smuggling compartment all in there to play with.

If you want a Falcon you can display and still swoosh around the living room, and you don't have UCS money or UCS shelf space, this is the one to get. Reviewers widely call it the best non-UCS Falcon LEGO has released, and I'm not going to argue. Skip it only if you specifically wanted the massive 7,541-piece 75192 for the wall, or if you're an original-trilogy die-hard who can't warm to the sequel-era figures. For everyone else, it's a lovely, honest version of the most famous hunk of junk in the galaxy.

The parts story

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

The build breaks into satisfying stages. You start with a sturdy Technic-reinforced frame that gives the ship its bones and stops the finished model from feeling flimsy, then work outward laying down the round hull and those famous forward mandibles. The integration between the mandibles and the circular body is genuinely clever this time, they sit at a truer angle than older versions and the cockpit is pushed further back to match the source ship. The last bags are where the magic happens, building up the five big top panels that hinge open, and that section alone is the biggest leap over every previous Falcon at this scale going back twenty years.

There aren't wild new molds here, this is a smart-parts build rather than a fancy-parts one, and that's the value story: a lot of the money is in the wedge plates and hinge assemblies that do the real work of making the hull curve and close cleanly. Boolio's head is the standout printed piece, olive with dual-moulded flame-yellowish-orange horns, and Chewbacca's dark tan fur mold and old Lando's cape are the collectible figure elements people chase. At around 13 cents a piece it was never the cheapest set per brick, but you're paying for engineering and figures rather than raw part count, and the engineering is where this one earns its keep.

Fun facts

01The Falcon is a Corellian YT-1300 light freighter, and Han Solo's have about making the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs measures distance rather than time because he flew a shorter, more dangerous route near the Maw.
02This 2019 version is actually shorter than the 2015 model (44cm versus 47cm) yet looks more screen-accurate, thanks to the pulled-back cockpit and corrected mandible angle.
03The five hinged wedge-plate panels on the roof finally solved a gap problem that had plagued LEGO's midi-scale Falcons since the 4504 set back in 2004.
04If you want the giant version instead, the UCS 75192 Falcon packs 7,541 pieces and stretches nearly three feet long, making it one of the largest LEGO sets ever produced.