Star Wars

The Justifier

A gorgeous Cad Bane figure riding shotgun on a strangely pricey ship.

Brick Rated Score

3.4/5

Set 75323 · 2022

Pieces1,023

Minifigs4

Year2022

Set number75323

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The verdict

I'll be straight with you, this one lives or dies on Cad Bane, and he is genuinely one of the best minifigures LEGO put out that year.

The ship itself is fine, big and swooshable with a fun folding engine, but it's light on detail and the original $169.99 price made a lot of us wince. If you love The Bad Batch and want that definitive Cad Bane, you'll be happy. If you're buying by the pound, you'll feel the sting.

Best for: Bad Batch fans who mainly want the definitive Cad Bane figure

The full review

What it is

The Justifier is Cad Bane's starship from The Bad Batch, and honestly the whole LEGO® set exists so you can own the best version of Cad Bane ever made in plastic. He got a completely fresh treatment here, new prints on head, torso and legs, plus new molds for his wide-brimmed hat and the breathing tubes that snake up his cheeks. That gunmetal head on the yellow eyes is the kind of thing that makes you hold the figure up to the light for a second. The ship around him is a chunky, slightly menacing wedge that swooshes beautifully and has a properly fun trick up its sleeve, which I'll get to.

The catch

Now the part that stops this from being an easy recommendation. This set launched at a jaw-dropping $169.99 for just over a thousand pieces, and you can feel where the money didn't go. Big flat studded panels, exposed colorful Technic axles peeking through the interior, a large unfinished gap around the rear cargo area, and a few color-mismatched stickers on the cockpit slopes. The interior is cramped, one wing hangs on a single-stud joint that feels flimsy, and The Justifier isn't exactly an iconic hero ship, so you're paying flagship money for a supporting character's ride. Reviewers landed around 3 out of 5 for good reason, and the common refrain was that thirty dollars cheaper would have changed the whole conversation.

Who it's for

So here's how I'd sort it out. If you're a Bad Batch person, or a Clone Wars person who has wanted a proper Cad Bane forever, grab it and enjoy the figures, because you genuinely cannot get this Cad Bane anywhere else. The engine gimmick and the swooshability make it a fun display piece too. But if you build for value, clever engineering, or dense detail, this one will frustrate you, and there are better Star Wars sets at this size for less. It's retired now, so prices have actually softened below retail on the aftermarket, which quietly makes it a much more sensible buy today than it was on launch day.

The parts story

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

The build moves fast, which is both a compliment and a warning. Across six numbered bags you're placing large panels and long Technic sections, so a set this size comes together in an evening without much head-scratching. The engine pod is the highlight, using a neat trick where 2x2 triangle tiles are wedged between studs to fake a grilled vent texture, and rotating that pod drives a Technic linkage that pops out the landing skids. It's completely unnecessary in engineering terms and completely delightful in practice. The cockpit is brick-built with printed consoles and little clips to hang Cad Bane's blasters, which is a nice touch.

On pieces, the real treasure is in the minifigures rather than the bulk bricks. Cad Bane brings brand new hat and breathing-apparatus molds and the tubes are now a slimmer silver piece that looks far less clunky than his old Clone Wars version. Omega uses a recolored blonde wig with a double-sided head, Fennec Shand debuts with both hair and helmet options and heavy printing, and Todo 360 is a single printed mold with an anti-stud so he can clip onto surfaces. The plain elements are mostly large dark-red and grey panels, so the part-count value story is genuinely weak here. You're paying for four excellent figures and one clever function, not for a deep parts haul.

Fun facts

01The Justifier is Cad Bane's personal starship, and it first showed up on screen in The Bad Batch before this set brought it to brick form.
02This is the definitive LEGO Cad Bane, with the silver breathing tubes deliberately redesigned to be slimmer and less clunky than his older Clone Wars minifigure.
03The set launched in August 2022 at $169.99 and retired in December 2023, and it was widely flagged as one of the most overpriced Star Wars sets of its year.
04Fennec Shand makes her first appearance in this set with both a hair piece and a helmet option, so you can display her either way.