Star Wars

Slave I - 20th Anniversary Edition

Boba Fett's ship at its cleverest, with a bounty hunter lineup you'll want on a shelf.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 75243 · 2019

Pieces1,007

Minifigs5

Year2019

Set number75243

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The verdict

This is the version of Boba Fett's ship where LEGO finally cracked the tricky bit, a cockpit seat that stays level while the whole hull pivots from landing to flight.

The build is short but genuinely satisfying, and the minifig lineup is the real draw, especially Zuckuss showing up in plastic for the very first time. It's on the small side for the money, so I'd wait for a discount if you can, but I've never regretted having this one around. If you love the Empire Strikes Back bounty hunters, this is the easy pick.

Best for: Empire Strikes Back fans who want the whole bounty hunter crew in one box

The full review

What it is

There have been five System-scale Slave I sets over the years, and this is the one where the design finally clicks. The headline is a self-leveling cockpit: as you rotate the wings to switch between landing and flight mode, Boba's chair quietly stays upright the whole time. It's the kind of mechanism you find yourself flipping back and forth just to watch it work. This LEGO® set was released in 2019 as part of the theme's 20th anniversary wave, and it earns that badge more than most. The hull uses a new sloped brick developed specifically for this model, and the whole silhouette reads as far more screen accurate than the versions that came before it.

The catch

The minifigures are where this set really wins you over. You get Boba Fett with a fresh dark green torso print, a sharp Han Solo, Princess Leia, Zuckuss, and 4-LOM, plus a little carbonite Han block for good measure. Zuckuss is the big deal here, because this is his first appearance ever as a minifig, and pairing him with 4-LOM finally completes the famous bounty hunter huddle from The Empire Strikes Back. Leia is the designated anniversary figure, so she comes on a black display stand with metallic silver print, and the stands click together with a 2x4 plate if you want to line the crew up in a row.

Who it's for

The size and value is where I'll be straight with you. At just over a thousand pieces for a $119.99 launch price, this is not a lot of set for the money, and plenty of builders said exactly that when it came out. The ship is compact, the build is quick, and there's no included stand for propping it upright in flight mode the way the old Ultimate Collector version had. If you build for the sheer number of hours at the table, this one goes by fast. If you love the ship, the anniversary crew, or you just want a Slave I that actually poses and plays the way it should, this is the one to get. It retired in December 2020 and now trades well above retail, so a sealed copy has quietly become a decent little pickup too. I'd grab it on a discount without a second thought.

The parts story

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

The build is on the shorter side, but it's paced nicely. You start with the core and the rotation mechanism, which is the clever heart of the whole thing, then wrap the angled hull panels around it. Because the cockpit has to stay level while everything else pivots, there's some satisfying gearing and geometry going on underneath that's more interesting than the piece count suggests. The wings, the self-leveling seat, and the retractable handle all come together in the back third, and the spring-loaded shooters fire from a trigger in the base. It never gets fiddly enough to frustrate, and the payoff when you first rotate those wings and watch Boba hold steady is genuinely fun.

The standout part is that new sloped brick made specifically for this model to nail the hull's profile, exactly the sort of mold LEGO fans notice and love. On the minifig side you're getting real value: the first-ever Zuckuss print and head, a new hair mold for Princess Leia (LEGO had to cut a fresh one because the original tooling was long gone), and Boba's updated dark green armor printing. Add the anniversary display stands with metallic silver branding and you've got a parts pack that punches above the raw count. It's not a set you buy for bulk bricks, it's one you buy for the specific, hard-to-find pieces and the crew that comes with them.

Fun facts

01This set marked Zuckuss's very first appearance as a LEGO minifigure, and paired with 4-LOM it finally completed the lineup of Empire Strikes Back bounty hunters in brick form.
02LEGO had to carve a brand-new hair mold for Princess Leia because the tooling for her original 1999 hairpiece had been destroyed.
03The hull uses a sloped brick designed specifically for this model, and the self-leveling cockpit keeps Boba upright while the wings rotate between landing and flight mode.
04Released in April 2019 at $119.99 and retired in December 2020, sealed copies now trade around $220, up roughly 83 percent from retail.