Star Wars

Spider Tank

A wonderfully creepy little walker with a Bo-Katan that steals the whole show.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 75361 · 2023

Pieces526

Minifigs3

Year2023

Set number75361

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The verdict

The Spider Tank from Mandalorian Season 3 is one of those sets I liked more than I expected to, mostly because the leg mechanism is genuinely clever for the size.

It's small though, and at fifty dollars a lot of people felt the price outran the box. If you collect Star Wars minifigures the new Bo-Katan alone almost justifies it, but if you want a big shelf centerpiece you'll want to look elsewhere.

Best for: Mandalorian fans who care most about that new Bo-Katan Kryze figure

The full review

What it is

This is the six-legged walker Din Djarin and Bo-Katan run into down in the Mines of Mandalore, and it captures that skittering, slightly horrible energy really well. The legs are what got me. They don't use normal joints. Instead each one is sprung and bumps up against rubber Technic beams so the whole thing settles over whatever you stand it on, which means it actually poses like a living creature rather than a stiff toy. There's an opening cockpit, grabbing claws on ball joints, and a hatch that lifts to reveal two stud shooters. For 526 pieces it does a lot, and the finished model has a real presence on a desk even if it isn't large.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about the price, because almost every reviewer landed in the same place. At the fifty dollar mark this felt like about ten dollars too much, and in some regions the markup was worse. The model is compact, roughly 20cm across, and the grey color scheme is on the drab side, so it doesn't give you that big satisfying footprint some sets at this price do. The bigger sting for a lot of fans was the missing pilot. In the show a cyborg creature commands the tank, there's clearly room for a figure in the cockpit, and LEGO just left it out. One more character would have made the whole package feel complete instead of slightly hollow.

Who it's for

So it comes down to what you want from it. If you're building out a Mandalorian minifigure collection, the new Bo-Katan is legitimately one of the nicest figures of the year and this was the set to get her in, which makes the price much easier to swallow. If you love a fiddly, mechanical build with genuine articulation, you'll enjoy the couple of hours this takes. The people who should skip it are display builders who want scale and drama for their money, and anyone buying mainly for Din and Grogu, since both show up in cheaper starfighter sets. It's a good set held back by a price that asked a little too much.

The parts story

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

Building it is more absorbing than the small box implies. A big chunk of the time goes into the leg assemblies, which are little Technic sub-builds repeated around the body, and the sprung rubber-beam trick is the part that makes you smile once you first set the finished tank down and watch it self-level. The core is a fairly dense mechanical cluster of small parts, so it never turns into mindless repetition the way some vehicles do.

The headline element is the redesigned Darksaber, which is a real upgrade on the older version and a draw all on its own. Bo-Katan Kryze carries the parts value here with brand-new helmet, torso, arm, leg and double-sided head printing plus her own hairpiece, and she's exclusive to this set. Din Djarin gets an updated helmet, and Grogu is along for the ride. It isn't a set stuffed with rare recolors, but the articulated leg elements and those two standout printed pieces give it more character than the raw part count would tell you.

Fun facts

01The set is based on the six-legged walker from The Mandalorian Season 3, encountered in the Mines of Mandalore.
02It launched in 2023 with a US$49.99 RRP and retired around December 2024 after roughly a year and nine months on shelves.
03The cyborg creature that actually pilots the Spider Tank on screen was left out of the set, a choice many reviewers flagged given the empty cockpit.
04Bo-Katan Kryze is the only one of the three minifigures exclusive to this set, with all-new printing across nearly every element.