Star Wars

Wicket the Ewok

The furriest little face LEGO has ever tried to build, and honestly, they nailed the cute.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 75430 · 2025

Pieces1,010

Minifigs1

Year2025

Set number75430

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The verdict

This is the first buildable Ewok LEGO has ever made, and the sculpt is genuinely adorable, all soft brown fur and tiny curled toes.

The catch is the price. You're paying $130 for a rigid, display-only figure with one minifigure, and that stings once the box is empty. If you love Endor and want Wicket staring back at you from a shelf, you'll forgive it. If you build for clever mechanics, this one won't scratch that itch.

Best for: Return of the Jedi fans who want a shelf piece with a face

The full review

What it is

There's something disarming about seeing Wicket rebuilt in LEGO form for the very first time. He's the little scout from Return of the Jedi, the one who pokes Leia with a spear and then decides she's a friend, and now he stands about 23cm tall on your shelf with those enormous dark eyes and a hood pulled up over his ears. LEGO has done big buildable characters before, but never an Ewok, and the sculpt captures the soft, huggable shape of him better than blocky bricks have any right to. The colours do a lot of the work, a careful mix of brown, dark orange, dark tan and tan layered so the fur reads as fur and not as plastic. He comes with his little spear, a printed name plaque, and a tiny brick-built morsel of food, a nod to the meal Leia shares with him in the film.

The catch

Now for the part that keeps this set off the top shelf. The price. At $129.99 for 1,010 pieces you're paying roughly 13 cents a piece, and for a figure this size that math doesn't feel kind. Reviewers across the board flagged it, and it's the single loudest complaint you'll hear. The other honest caveat is that Wicket is a statue. His arms, legs and head are all fixed in position, so once he's assembled there's no posing, no personality shift, nothing to fiddle with. He's built to stand exactly one way and look cute doing it, which is lovely on a shelf and a little disappointing if you like a display piece you can tweak. And the single minifigure, while updated, is close enough to older Wickets that collectors won't chase this set for the figure alone.

Who it's for

So who's going to be glad they bought it? If you have a soft spot for Endor, if the Ewoks were your favourite part of Jedi as a kid, this is a warm, satisfying build that ends in a face you'll smile at every time you walk past. Grab it on a discount if you can, because it does turn up cheaper and the value gap closes fast when it does. If you build for mechanisms, moving parts and engineering puzzles, though, I'd point you elsewhere, because this is a sculpture and it never pretends otherwise. It won me over on charm, not on cleverness, and whether that's worth $130 to you comes down to how much you love the little guy.

The parts story

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

The build runs across 12 numbered bags and follows a sensible path, starting with a solid, studs-not-on-top core and then dressing it in plates of detail on the front, sides and back before the limbs and head go on. It's steady rather than tricky, with well-designed sub-assemblies for the legs that clip on as separate units. Most of the interest is in the texturing work, layering slopes and curves to fake the roundness of a furry body, and the head section at the end is the most rewarding stretch as the face finally comes together.

The workhorse piece here is the 2x2 rocky slope, used prolifically across the whole body to break up the surface and suggest matted fur. Pair that with curved bows and standard slopes and you get a figure that genuinely looks soft. The palette is the other star, that brown, dark orange, dark tan and tan blend that sells the Ewok look. The standout new element is the minifigure's hood, now dual-moulded in dark orange instead of printed, a real upgrade over past versions. The plaque uses a 6x12 plate rather than the usual UCS format, and at 1,010 pieces for $130 the part-count value is the sticking point, so this is a set you buy for the finished Wicket, not for a bargain parts haul.

Fun facts

01This is the first buildable LEGO Ewok ever made, arriving more than 40 years after Wicket first appeared in 1983's Return of the Jedi.
02Warwick Davis was cast as Wicket at just 11 years old after Kenny Baker, the original choice, fell ill, and George Lucas promoted him from background Ewok to the star scout.
03Davis based Wicket's head-tilting movements on his family dog, who cocked his head from side to side whenever he saw something strange.
04The set includes a tiny brick-built piece of food, a callback to the meal Princess Leia offers Wicket when they first meet in the forest.