Star Wars

TIE Fighter with Imperial Hangar Rack

A little TIE Fighter that only really makes sense once you know what it comes attached to.

Brick Rated Score

3.5/5

Set 40771 · 2025

Pieces236

Minifigs3

Year2025

Set number40771

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The verdict

This one caught me off guard, in a good way and a frustrating way at the same time.

It is a genuinely charming small TIE Fighter parked on its own launch rack, the kind of thing that would be a fun stocking-stuffer if you could just buy it. Instead it is a gift with purchase tied to the UCS Death Star, which means the build itself is lovely but the way you get it is the opposite of straightforward. I would grab it in a heartbeat if I were already committed to the big Death Star, and skip chasing it down otherwise.

Best for: Death Star 75419 buyers who want the matching hangar scene, not standalone TIE Fighter collectors

The full review

What it is

I like a good TIE Fighter, and this little rack-mounted version has real charm to it. It is not the classic hanging-TIE-Fighter design you have built a dozen times before. Here the ship sits nose-out on an actual Imperial hangar rack, like it just rolled off the line and is waiting for a pilot, and that small staging idea does a lot of work to make a compact model feel like a scene rather than just a ship on a stand.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the catch. This is not a set you can walk into a LEGO Store and buy off the shelf. It was a gift with qualifying purchases of the 75419 UCS Death Star through LEGO.com in late 2025, so the only way to get it new was to buy a genuinely enormous, expensive set alongside it. At roughly 11 by 9 by 8cm finished, it is also a fast build, closer to an afternoon distraction than a weekend project, and the 236 pieces cover the rack and three minifigures as much as the ship itself. Brickset members landed on a middling 3.2 out of 5, which tracks with what I felt building it, pleasant but not a showstopper.

Who it's for

Get this one if you already own or are buying the Death Star and want the hangar rack scene sitting next to it, or if you happen across it secondhand at a fair price and just want a fun small Star Wars build. Skip the hunt if you are after a serious standalone TIE Fighter with real engineering depth. There are meatier TIE Fighter sets out there that do not require a five-figure Death Star purchase to open up.

The parts story

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

Building this feels quick and light. The hangar rack goes together first as its own little structure, all girders and gantry details, before the TIE Fighter itself clicks on in a handful of steps. It is the kind of build you hand to a kid who wants to feel finished fast, or that you build yourself while half-watching something on TV, not a set that asks for concentration.

The three minifigures are where a chunk of the part count and the fun actually live, giving this more personality than the ship alone would carry. The wings and cockpit use standard TIE Fighter geometry rather than anything experimental, so do not expect new molds here, the appeal is in the hangar rack presentation and the fact that it ties directly into the Death Star's own hangar bay theming rather than in clever new pieces.

Fun facts

01This set was never sold on its own, it was a gift with qualifying purchases of the 75419 Death Star through LEGO.com in October and December 2025.
02It comes with three minifigures, including one unique to this set, more than you would expect from a promotional add-on this size.
03At roughly 11 by 9 by 8cm, it is designed to sit alongside the Death Star's hangar bay section as a matching display piece rather than stand on its own.