Star Wars

Mos Eisley Cantina

The wretched hive gets a play-first makeover, and it swings if you buy into the SMART Brick.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 75425 · 2026

Pieces666

Minifigs5

Year2026

Set number75425

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The verdict

This is the cantina I actually wanted to play with rather than dust.

It splits into four modules plus a Dewback, the play features are genuinely fun, and once you drop in a SMART Brick the couches fling figures and the band strikes up. I'll be straight with you though: the Brick is sold separately, the price runs high for the part count, and leaving Han out of a Mos Eisley set is a strange call. If you have kids or you love a set that does something, this is a joy. If you want the definitive display Cantina, the older 75290 still wears that crown.

Best for: Families and Star Wars fans who want play features, not another shelf piece

The full review

What it is

I have a real soft spot for the Mos Eisley Cantina, so when the 2026 SMART Play version landed I went in curious and a little protective. This is not trying to be the reverent display piece that the 2020 set was. It is a play machine. The brick-built cantina divides into four modules, there is a Dewback out front, and the whole thing comes in five numbered bags with five matching booklets so a couple of people can build sections side by side. That parallel-build idea is lovely for a family afternoon, and honestly it is the first thing that got me smiling before a single feature fired.

The catch

Here is where I have to be honest with you, because the value question is real. The set retails at 79.99 for 666 pieces, and the features that make the marketing look so exciting, the ejector couches that fling a minifigure across the room, the bar that makes a drink, the band that plays while a figure dances on stage, all of that reaches its full form only when you add a SMART Brick. The Brick is not in this box. You buy it separately as part of the wider SMART Play system, the tiny sensor-packed brick that shakes awake, glows white, and reacts to tags and figures around it. The play functions still work as clever mechanical gags on their own, which I appreciate, but you can feel that the set was designed with that extra purchase in mind. The Dewback also let me down. It is a wobbly, awkward little build that does not do the creature justice, and reviewers across the board flagged it.

Who it's for

So who walks away happy here. If there are kids in your life, or you are simply someone who likes a set that performs rather than poses, this is one of the more entertaining Star Wars boxes in ages, and reviewers have called it the best non-Master-Build Cantina play set yet. The band members Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes are a delight, and a Sandtrooper, SMART Obi-Wan and SMART Greedo round out five figures. If you are a purist chasing the definitive Cantina to display, or you resent paying for features that need a separate gadget to shine, this is not your set and that is completely fair. Go in knowing what SMART Play is, and it delivers exactly what it promises.

The parts story

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

The build itself is breezy and well paced, which suits the whole play-first idea. Five bags, five booklets, four cantina sections plus the Dewback, and none of it asks much of you technically. That is by design here, since SMART Play leans on intuitive assembly rather than the fiddly, instruction-heavy engineering of a display model. It makes a great group build, and the modular seams mean you can pop sections apart to reach into the interior mid-play, which is the kind of thoughtful touch that pays off with real hands actually using the thing.

On the parts front the headline is not a fancy new mould but the tech-ready design: the red-bordered SMART Tags scattered through the model, and the two SMART minifigures, Obi-Wan and Greedo, that carry embedded code so a SMART Brick recognises exactly who is standing where. Beyond that you get a satisfying spread of tan and sand-coloured plates for that sun-baked Tatooine look, printed band instruments for Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, and the usual cantina clutter of goblets and detail pieces. For pure part-count value it is not the set to buy, but for feeding a play-focused build it hits the right notes.

Fun facts

01This is one of the launch sets for LEGO's brand-new SMART Play system, revealed at CES and released on 1 March 2026, built around a SMART Brick that hides an accelerometer, microphones, an LED array and a mini speaker inside a chip smaller than a single stud.
02The set splits into four cantina modules plus a Dewback and ships with five numbered bags and five separate instruction booklets, so several people can build different sections at the same time.
03Add a SMART Brick and the play features come alive: ejector couches fling minifigures, the bar serves a drink, and the band plays on stage while a figure dances.
04The band figures are Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, the Bith house band, yet the five-figure lineup pointedly leaves out Han Solo, a choice reviewers kept scratching their heads over.