Star Wars

The Onyx Cinder

A scruffy pirate ship that swooshes hard and hides a fully furnished interior.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 75374 · 2024

Pieces1,325

Minifigs5

Year2024

Set number75374

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The verdict

This one won me over slowly, because the ship itself is a bit of an ugly duckling from the show and I wasn't sold at first.

Then I opened it up and found a real little home inside, a galley, a table with four seats, a fold-out bed, and I got it. The five kid-crew minifigs are all exclusive and genuinely charming, and it holds together rock solid when you fly it around the room. Wait for a discount and you'll be very happy.

Best for: Star Wars fans who love a chunky, play-first ship with a packed interior

The full review

The Onyx Cinder is the pirate ship at the heart of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the kids-on-an-adventure series, and this LEGO® set (1,325 pieces) is the big centerpiece version of it. I'll be honest, I didn't love the ship on screen. It's a lumpy, scuffed-up thing with none of the sleek lines you get from an X-wing or a Falcon. But that's the whole point of it, it's a beat-up old vessel that a bunch of kids stumble onto, and once you sit with it the character grows on you. The set nails that scrappy, lived-in feeling in a way I didn't expect going in.

What actually sold me was opening it up. So many playset ships give you a hollow shell, but this one has a proper interior. There's a cockpit up front for Jod, then a passenger area with a table and four seats, a little cooking nook, storage, and a fold-out bed. It genuinely feels like a place these kids could live, which is exactly the mood of the show. Bolt on the play features and you get rotating engines for landing or flight, two rotating turrets, a couple of stud shooters, and a grabbing claw underneath. It's built to be handled, and it holds up to real play.

Now for the honest bits, because there are a few. The turrets sit on turntables that spin around freely, so when you swoosh the ship they tend to drift and point every which way, which a lot of builders found distracting. The landing gear is fixed permanently down, and the cockpit isn't really scaled to fit a minifig comfortably. And at full price it asks a fair bit for what it is, especially with no villain figure in the box to give you a bad guy to fight. Community scores land around 4.1 out of 5, which feels right to me, a very good set with a couple of rough edges.

If you're a Star Wars fan who loves a chunky, play-forward ship with a real interior to poke around in, or you've got a young builder who adored Skeleton Crew, this is an easy yes. The five exclusive minifigs alone give it a lot of charm. If you're chasing sleek, screen-accurate elegance or clever engineering showpieces, it's not that kind of build, and you might find the ship a bit plain. It retired at the end of 2025, so it's off shelves now, but it turned up discounted often enough that patient shoppers did very well. Grab it under retail and you'll be glad you did.

The parts story

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

The build is straightforward rather than showy, and that's fine. You start with a rigid internal frame that gives the whole ship its swooshable backbone, then work outward capturing all those angled, panelled surfaces that make the hull look so weathered and irregular. Reviewers noted there aren't any jaw-dropping techniques here, but the designers did smart work fitting a genuinely roomy interior inside a shape that fights you the whole way. Sections open up for access, the engines are on rotating mounts, and the turrets sit on turntables. It's a relaxed, satisfying couple of hours that stays fun without ever getting fiddly or repetitive.

The real treasure is the minifigures, and all five are exclusive to this set. You get Jod with a vintage-style blaster, plus Wim, KB, Fern and Neel, each with a buildable little flashlight, and they carry a bunch of fresh prints you won't find elsewhere. Neel in particular, the blue long-nosed kid, uses distinctive dedicated parts for his face and trunk. Beyond the figures you get a healthy pile of dark and grey hull panels, wedge and slope pieces, and the turntable and rotating elements, all useful in a parts sense. At 1,325 pieces for the RRP the per-part value sits right in the normal Star Wars band, so the money's really going toward that exclusive crew and the finished play experience rather than a bargain brick count.

Fun facts

01The Onyx Cinder is the main pirate ship from Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the Amblin-flavored kids-on-an-adventure series set in the same era as The Mandalorian.
02Every one of the five minifigures is exclusive to this set, and their combined aftermarket value has been tracked at around 58 dollars, a big chunk of the box's worth.
03It had a short retail life, launching in August 2024 and retiring around December 2025, roughly a year and four months on shelves.
04The four kid characters each come with a buildable flashlight, a nod to the show's spooky, torch-lit exploring vibe.