Star Wars

The Dark Falcon

A jet-black Falcon and six gloriously weird minifigs from an upside-down galaxy.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 75389 · 2024

Pieces1,579

Minifigs6

Year2024

Set number75389

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The verdict

This is the LEGO® set for people who saw Darth Jar Jar and Jedi Vader and immediately needed them on a shelf.

It's the Millennium Falcon flipped into a villain, all black panels and a Death Star dish, and the six exclusive minifigs are the real reason to buy in. Just know the ship itself is a recolor of a shape you've built before, and $180 is a lot to ask for novelty. If the Rebuild the Galaxy special made you grin, you'll adore this. If you want a serious Falcon for a canon display, it isn't that.

Best for: fans who fell for the Rebuild the Galaxy special and want the weird exclusive minifigs

The full review

What it is

Star Wars did a wonderfully unhinged thing in 2024 with the Rebuild the Galaxy special, where a kid accidentally scrambles the whole universe, and this set is the trophy piece of that chaos. The Dark Falcon is the Millennium Falcon reimagined as a villain's ship, jet black from nose to mandibles, with a Death Star radar dish bolted on top like it wandered in from the wrong movie. The reason to want it isn't really the ship, honestly, it's the six exclusive minifigs riding inside. You get Jedi Vader (yes, a heroic Vader in cream robes), Darth Jar Jar on an actual throne, Darth Rey, a bounty hunter C-3PO in black, Darth Dev, and Beach Luke in shorts because why not. If those names made you laugh, this set already has you.

The catch

Here's the honest part I want you to hear before you spend the money. At 179.99 dollars for 1,579 pieces, you're paying a premium, and a chunk of what you're paying for is the joke rather than the engineering. The underlying build is a Millennium Falcon shape LEGO has done many times, just dressed in black, so if you were hoping for a fresh design puzzle you'll feel a little short-changed. Brickset's reviewer called it underwhelming for exactly this reason, that recoloring the ship is the least creative option on the table. It also doesn't play nicely on a display shelf with your regular Star Wars ships, because it's canon-adjacent at best. And the resale numbers back up the caution, with the set already down roughly 27 percent from its release price on the secondary market.

Who it's for

So who should grab it? If you watched Rebuild the Galaxy with a grin and you collect the odd, funny corners of Star Wars, this is an easy yes and you'll treasure the minifig lineup for years. Parents of kids who loved the special will get a swooshable ship with a genuinely fun interior full of flip-up panels and little scenes to play out. Who should skip it? Anyone chasing a definitive Millennium Falcon, anyone building a strict canon display, and anyone who winces at paying more for concept than for construction. It's a delightful oddity, not a centerpiece, and if you go in loving the joke you'll be very happy. The set is due to retire around the end of 2026, so if the weirdness is calling you, don't wait too long.

The parts story

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

The build runs across 17 numbered bags and a fairly thick manual, and it follows the classic Falcon rhythm. You start with a Technic frame that gives the saucer its strength, then work outward adding the interior rooms before the panels go on to hide them. The middle stretch is the fun part, because instead of a hollow shell you're dropping in a throne room, a command center, a hyperdrive nook, a little entertainment area and a jail cell, all tucked under flip-up hatches. The final act is all about cladding the top in those big black panels, which is satisfying in a tidy, methodical way even if it isn't a brain-teaser. It's a relaxing rather than demanding build, well paced, and a confident builder can knock it out in an afternoon.

On pieces, the headline is color. This is a black-heavy set, so it's a small treasure chest if you like stocking up on dark panels, curved slopes and greebling parts in black rather than the usual grays. The six minifigs are where the real collector value sits, since all of them are exclusive to this set and don't appear anywhere else, with Jedi Vader alone reckoned to carry over a quarter of the set's value. At 179.99 dollars for 1,579 parts you're around eleven cents a piece, which is on the expensive side for LEGO, and the value math only really works if those exclusive figs and the novelty mean something to you rather than raw part count.

Fun facts

01The Dark Falcon comes straight from the 2024 Disney+ special LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, where a boy named Sig accidentally reshuffles the entire galaxy and characters swap sides.
02That universe-swap is why you get a heroic Jedi Vader and a villainous Darth Rey, plus Jar Jar Binks reborn as a Sith lord sitting on his own throne inside the ship.
03All six minifigures in the set are exclusive to it, so the only way to own Jedi Vader or Darth Jar Jar in official LEGO form is through this box.
04The design gag is that the friendly Millennium Falcon is recolored villain-black and topped with a Death Star radar dish, mashing up the two most famous ships in Star Wars into one.