Star Wars

TIE Fighter & X-Wing Mash-up

Two iconic starfighters blended into one, with wings you can swap on a whim.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 75393 · 2024

Pieces1,063

Minifigs4

Year2024

Set number75393

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The verdict

This one is pure playground energy, and I mean that as a compliment.

You get a TIE-wing and an X-fighter from the Rebuild the Galaxy special, and the whole trick is that the wings pop off and swap between hulls, so you can rebuild them back into a proper classic TIE and X-wing whenever you fancy. It's genuinely clever and a lot of fun to fiddle with. Just know going in that the minifig lineup is thin for the money, so you're paying for the gimmick and the parts, not a display centerpiece.

Best for: Star Wars fans who love a build with a play trick and a bin of useful parts

The full review

If you watched the Rebuild the Galaxy special on Disney+, you already get the joke of this LEGO® set. Sig Greebling accidentally scrambles the whole Star Wars universe, and out of that chaos come these gorgeous frankenstein starfighters with the wrong wings bolted onto the wrong hulls. The set gives you two of them: a TIE-wing (X-wing hull, TIE panels) and an X-fighter (TIE ball cockpit, X-wing wings). At 1,063 pieces it lands in that comfortable middle weight where you get a real evening of building without clearing your whole weekend.

Here's the part that genuinely won me over. The wings aren't glued to one configuration. Every wing pops off using a Technic pin, then locks in with a cross-axle, and LEGO's designers reportedly worked out at least ten different ways you could recombine them. So you build the two mash-ups, then when you get bored you can strip them back into a normal TIE fighter and a normal X-wing. That's effectively four ships from one box, and the whole idea came from an old fan trend in the community, which is a lovely bit of LEGO listening to its own people.

The price does need a straight answer, though. At $109.99 with only four minifigs, this set has taken some fair criticism, and I won't pretend otherwise. Back in 2021 you could get standalone TIE and X-wing sets that together handed you seven figures for less money. Here you get a Rebel Pilot, a TIE Pilot, Yesi Scala with her gaffi stick, and Sig Greebling himself, plus the L3-G0 droid figure. L3-G0 is the standout, a proper quirky little character you won't find elsewhere, but the roster overall is lean. There's also no Jedi Bob, which disappointed a chunk of fans who came in hoping for him.

The real question is who this suits. If you love a set that does something, that transforms and reconfigures and invites you to keep tinkering, this is a joy and I'd say go for it. Kids especially will adore the swap-the-wings play. If you're a display-shelf purist who wants screen-accurate ships and a heavy minifig haul for your money, you'll probably feel the price pinch and should wait for a discount. For everyone in between, it's a very good, very playful set with a genuinely smart engineering hook.

The parts story

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

The build breaks into two starfighters, and they're satisfyingly different from each other. The TIE-wing gives you that chunky X-wing style fuselage but with the flat TIE solar panels clicking on, while the X-fighter is built around the round TIE cockpit ball with four X-wing wings splayed off it. Both have opening cockpits and two spring-loaded shooters each, so there's some Technic framework under the plates to hold the mechanisms and the wing joints. The pacing is brisk and the wing-locking system is the clever centerpiece, using a Technic pin for the pop-on and a cross-axle to secure it. Nothing here is brutally hard, which suits the 9 and up age mark, but the reconfiguration logic gives it more brain than a straight one-and-done build.

On parts value you're looking at roughly 10 cents a piece at RRP, which is right in the normal band for licensed Star Wars, not a bargain but not a rip. The real haul is grey and dark-grey system parts, wing panels, Technic pins and axles, and a big pile of greebly detail bits that are gold for anyone who kitbashes their own ships. The printed slopes and cockpit pieces are nice, and the L3-G0 figure is the collectible you'll actually want to keep. If you're a parts buyer building a swappable-wing MOC of your own, this box is a tidy little donor.

Fun facts

01The whole set exists because of LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, the 2024 Disney+ special where mechanic Sig Greebling accidentally scrambles the entire Star Wars universe into mash-up form.
02LEGO says the interchangeable-wing idea traces back to an actual fan trend in the community from a few years earlier, which the designers had quietly wanted to make official for a while.
03The designers built in at least ten different ways to recombine the wings, so you can rebuild the two mash-ups back into a classic TIE fighter and a standard X-wing.
04The L3-G0 droid figure is one of the most sought-after parts of the set, more of a draw for many buyers than the human minifigures.