Super Heroes Marvel

The New Guardians' Ship

Two glowing rings, a teal and magenta color hit, and one gorgeous shelf ship.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 76255 · 2023

Pieces1,109

Minifigs5

Year2023

Set number76255

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The verdict

This is the set that made me rethink what a Guardians ship could look like, because those two octagonal rings and that teal-and-magenta palette are unlike anything Marvel LEGO® had done before.

It's a lovely thing to display and the build teaches you some clever curve-faking tricks. The minifigs are where my heart sank a little, since four of the five share the same body, but Adam Warlock nearly makes up for it. If you love the ship from the film, you'll be happy you own it.

Best for: Marvel display builders who fell for the Bowie's shape and colors

The full review

What it is

The New Guardians' Ship is the LEGO® version of the Bowie, the team's new craft from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and the first time I saw it built I understood why people kept posting photos of it. Marvel spaceships in LEGO form tend to be gray wedges and pointy noses, and then this one shows up with two big glowing octagonal rings flanking a central cockpit, painted in teal, magenta, and trans-pink. It reads as playful and strange in the best way. This is a set you buy with your eyes first, and honestly that's a perfectly good reason to buy a set. It comes in at 1,109 pieces and packs five minifigures, so there's a proper afternoon of building here, not a quick snack.

The catch

Now for the parts I'd want you to know before you commit. The ship is almost perfectly symmetrical, which looks beautiful finished but means you build one ring, then turn around and build the identical ring again, and by the second one the surprise is gone. Reviewers were pretty united on that point, and the word repetitive came up a lot. The bigger disappointment for me is the minifigures. You get Star-Lord, Drax, Mantis, Nebula, and Adam Warlock, and four of those five share the very same torso and leg print with no arm printing, so the crew looks a bit like they all raided the same closet. Gamora isn't included at all, which feels odd for the team ship. And at roughly 100 dollars the price per piece is fine rather than a steal, so you're partly paying for that unusual silhouette. If you came looking for play features you should know it's light on those too, with no stud shooters and a shape that isn't the easiest to swoosh around a living room.

Who it's for

So who ends up loving this set. If you're a Marvel fan who wants the Bowie on a shelf and you fell for those colors the way I did, grab it without much hesitation, because the finished model really does earn its space and the build hands you some genuinely useful curve-and-angle techniques along the way. If you're mostly a minifigure collector, temper your expectations, because outside of Adam Warlock this lineup won't thrill you. And if you build for clever, varied engineering above all, the double-the-same-ring structure might test your patience before the end. For everyone else, this is a very good set with a couple of honest flaws, and one of the most distinctive Marvel ships LEGO has made.

The parts story

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

The build opens with two small triangular auxiliary craft that clip onto the sides of the cockpit, quick and a touch fragile, then moves into the heart of it: the two octagonal rings. These are the whole reason to build this set. You make the rings from bent plates to force the angles, then line the interiors with sloped grille pieces so your eye reads them as smooth circles rather than eight flat walls. It's a satisfying bit of LEGO trickery. A display stand goes in around the two-thirds mark, which is smart, because it steadies the model while you fit the second ring. The catch is that the second ring is the first ring all over again, so the last stretch is more assembly than discovery.

On pieces, the color story is the headline. Five engine pods use trans-pink, there's a large trans-red canopy over the cockpit, and the teal and magenta plates carry most of the detail through brick color rather than stickers, which I always appreciate. Reviewers noted the sticker count is refreshingly low for a set this size. The minifigure Adam Warlock is the real collectible pull here, his first appearance in LEGO form, and the trans-pink and trans-red elements are handy parts to have in a collection. At 1,109 pieces for around 100 dollars the value lands as reasonable rather than exciting, and you're paying a little extra for that one-of-a-kind shape.

Fun facts

01In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 the team's ship is nicknamed the Bowie, but LEGO gave the set the more generic name The New Guardians' Ship.
02This set includes the first-ever LEGO minifigure of Adam Warlock, who made his MCU debut in the same film.
03The set had a short life, arriving in early 2023 and retiring by December 2023, only about ten months on shelves.
04Despite being the team's ship, the set skips Gamora entirely, and four of its five minifigures share the identical torso and leg print.