Star Wars

Princess Leia (Boushh) Helmet

The one helmet in the collection that isn't black, white, or gray, and it's all the better for it.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 75351 · 2023

Pieces670

Minifigsn/a

Year2023

Set number75351

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The verdict

After a shelf full of Imperial helmets in the usual monochrome, this reddish-brown bounty hunter disguise was such a relief to build.

The mask Leia wears to sneak into Jabba's palace has always been one of the strangest, most striking designs in the original trilogy, and LEGO captured the layered, mixed-material look surprisingly well. It's not perfect (that band across the middle is a touch too wide), but if you want one helmet that actually stands out on the display line, this is it. Best suited to a Return of the Jedi fan who's tired of white plastic.

Best for: Original-trilogy fans who want a helmet with real character and color on the shelf

The full review

What it is

The Boushh helmet was always going to be the odd one out, and I mean that as the highest compliment. When Leia straps this thing on to bluff her way into Jabba's palace with a captured Chewbacca, she's wearing one of the most alien, cobbled-together masks in all of Star Wars, part insectoid, part scavenged armor, all menace. Setting it next to the tidy stormtrooper and TIE pilot helmets in LEGO's collection, it looks like it wandered in from a different galaxy, and that's exactly why I loved building it. The reddish-brown shell, the light-nougat cheeks, the little pops of dark gray detail, it's the first helmet in this range that made me stop and actually admire the color work.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about where it stumbles. The band that runs across the middle of the face, between the visor and the projecting lower jaw, is built a bit too wide, and once you notice it you can't unsee it. The proportions of the real mask are narrower there, and LEGO's version ends up looking slightly more squished than it should. It's the kind of thing that won't bother a casual fan and will quietly nag at a stickler. The other honest note is value. Seventy dollars for 670 pieces isn't outrageous for this display line, but you're paying for the shape and the license as much as the brick count, and a few of the other helmets give you more plastic for your money.

Who it's for

So who should track one down now that it's retired? If Return of the Jedi is your film, or you just want a display helmet with actual personality instead of another visor in grayscale, this is a joy and worth the hunt. The build has genuinely clever moments, the hinged jaw and the layered contours especially, and the finished piece photographs beautifully because of all that warm brown. If you're purely chasing engineering fireworks or the best possible parts-per-dollar, though, you might find it a touch pricey for what it is, and the fixed display format means there's no play value once it's done. For the right fan, none of that matters. For the value hunter, it's worth a pause.

The parts story

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

Building this one is a lot more engaging than the parade of Imperial helmets that came before it. Because the Boushh mask has so many distinct planes and materials, the instructions keep handing you neat little problems to solve: the lower jaw connects on a hinge so it can sit at a more natural downward angle, the visor is a carefully shaped curve, and there's a satisfying section where the whole face comes together and suddenly reads as Boushh. It never feels like you're just stacking bricks toward a shape. The reveal of how the contours are faked in brick is the best part of the two-ish hours it takes.

For parts people, the real draw is the spread of curved slopes in reddish brown and light nougat, colors that are genuinely handy and not always easy to source in bulk. There's a good scattering of dark gray detail elements too, and cleverly, 1x2 and 1x4 masonry (profile) bricks are worked into the back to form subtle ridges without a single sticker doing the heavy lifting. The printed nameplate is a nice touch, keeping the display plaque crisp. It's not a set stuffed with brand-new molds, but as a warm-toned parts pack with an unusual palette, it earns its keep on a MOC builder's shelf.

Fun facts

01The set launched in early 2023 as part of LEGO's celebration of 40 years of Return of the Jedi, the film where Leia wears the Boushh disguise.
02It's the only helmet in LEGO's buildable collection that ditches the usual black, white, and gray for a reddish-brown and light-nougat scheme.
03In the film, Boushh is a Ubese bounty hunter whose identity Leia borrows to smuggle herself into Jabba's palace and free a carbonite-frozen Han Solo.
04The set retired at the end of 2024 and has generally climbed above its 69.99 dollar retail price on the secondary market since.