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The Milano Spaceship

The biggest, best Milano yet, and a proper display centerpiece for Guardians fans.

4.6/5

Set 76286 · 2024

Pieces2,091

Minifigs4

Year2024

Set number76286

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The verdict

If your mate loves Guardians of the Galaxy and wants one showpiece on the shelf, this is the easy yes.

At 2,091 pieces it recreates that swooping orange and blue ship with almost all brick-built detail, and it looks the part at 64cm wide. The only real gripe is the minifig lineup feels a bit thin for the money. Grab it as a display piece, not as a minifig haul.

Best for: Guardians of the Galaxy fans who want one big display ship

The full review

What it is

This is LEGO's big 2024 take on the Milano, the Guardians of the Galaxy ship, and it's easily the best version they've ever done. Earlier Milanos were fun but small (the 2017 one was only 460 pieces), so jumping to 2,091 pieces changes the whole game. You get that unmistakable fish-shaped hull with the long orange nose, the blue tail, six wings and four rear boosters, and the clever bit is that almost all of it is built from actual bricks rather than hidden under giant printed panels. At 64cm across it's a genuine centerpiece, the kind of thing that anchors a shelf and makes people ask about it.

The catch

Now the honest part. At around 179.99 US dollars or 159.99 pounds it isn't cheap, though reviewers across the board call it fair value for the size and the parts you get. The bigger sticking point is the minifig selection. You get Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax and Rocket plus a little Baby Groot figure, and that's your lot. For a ship this size and this price, a lot of fans wished Yondu or Kraglin had been thrown in to round out the crew. There are a couple of engineering niggles too: the finished ship is nose-heavy, the lower winglets don't clip in as solidly as you'd like, and the wings don't swing as freely as they do on the smaller Milanos. None of that ruins it, but you'll notice it when you're moving the thing around.

Who it's for

So who's this for? If your mate is a Guardians fan who wants one impressive ship to display and enjoy building over a weekend, this is a very easy recommendation. The build is smart, the interior detailing (right down to Quill's tape deck) is a lovely touch, and it holds together well enough for regular handling. Who should skip it? Anyone chasing minifigs, since four for this price is lean, and anyone short on shelf space, because 64cm is a lot of ship to home. One more thing worth knowing: its retail run was scheduled to end around late 2025, so it's effectively retired now and prices will only climb. If it's on your mate's list, sooner beats later.

The parts story

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

The build breaks down into satisfying chunks. You start with the internal frame and the three interior areas (the flight deck with room for three minifigs, a communal space with weapon storage, and the rest area), then wrap the whole thing in that curved orange and blue bodywork. The shaping is where the real craft lives: heaps of wedge plates and sloped wedges layered up to get those smooth compound curves without resorting to big printed shells. It's a proper technique showcase rather than a repetitive slog, though building two nearly-identical wing assemblies does get a touch samey. The top section lifts cleanly off for interior access, which is a big step up from older Milanos where getting inside was fiddly.

On the parts front, the headline is a brand-new windscreen: a Windscreen 6 x 11 x 2 Curved with a printed cockpit detail in trans-light blue, closely related to the new-for-2024 6 x 8 curved windscreen. Beyond that you get a very healthy pile of light bluish grey wedge plates (6x2, 4x2) and 2x2 sloped pointed wedges, all handy, reusable shaping parts for your own builds. The minifigs bring exclusive prints too: new suit prints for Star-Lord and Gamora plus a new Gamora face, and Baby Groot moves to a dark tan color that matches the films far better than the old reddish brown. For 2,091 pieces at this price, the part-count value stacks up well.

Fun facts

01This 2024 model is by far the largest Milano LEGO has released, dwarfing the 2017 set (76081) which had just 460 pieces.
02At roughly 64cm wide the finished ship is bigger across than most coffee tables are deep, and it recreates the movie vessel's gentle curves almost entirely in brick.
03Baby Groot appears here in a new dark tan color, a more screen-accurate shade than the reddish brown LEGO used on earlier Groot pieces.
04The interior includes Peter Quill's tape deck, a nod to the Awesome Mix cassette that's basically a character in its own right across the films.