Star Wars

Yavin 4 Rebel Base

Twelve gorgeous figures wrapped around a base that never quite fills up.

Brick Rated Score

3.6/5

Set 75365 · 2023

Pieces1,067

Minifigs12

Year2023

Set number75365

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The verdict

This one is a figure pack in disguise, and honestly that's fine by me.

You get twelve minifigs including Luke, Han, Leia, Chewie and the medal-ceremony crew, and they carry the whole thing. The base itself is handsome outside and hollow inside, so how you feel about it comes down to whether you are here for the display or the play. For the roster alone, I say yes.

Best for: Star Wars collectors chasing the medal ceremony and a dozen figures

The full review

What it is

The Yavin 4 Rebel Base is the LEGO® set that finally gives you the ending of A New Hope in brick form, that hangar where the Rebels hand out medals after the Death Star goes up. It arrived in June 2023 with 1,067 pieces and a jaw-dropping twelve minifigures, which is the real headline here. You get Luke Skywalker and Han Solo both wearing their ceremony medals as separate printed pieces, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO with fresh arm printing, R2-D2, General Dodonna, a Rebel Fleet Trooper, a Rebel Crew figure, and two pilots that fans had been begging for. Red Leader Garven Dreis shows up in his yellow helmet, and Gold Leader Jon Vander gets a white helmet with olive detailing. There's even R2-BHD, the little orange-and-white astromech from Rogue One. That roster is genuinely lovely, and it's the reason people keep this set.

The catch

Here's where I have to be straight with you. The base around all those figures is the weak part. The outside looks the part, all sandy walls and that big central doorway, but open it up and there's a lot of air in there. Several rooms feel unfinished, and instead of built-up detail or printed panels you get stickers doing the heavy lifting, which always stings on a set at this price. And the price is the other sore spot. Roughly 170 dollars for just over a thousand pieces made a lot of reviewers wince, with one outlet handing it the lowest score they'd ever given purely on value grounds. The build is easy going too, honestly simple enough that a younger fan can handle most of it, which is either a plus or a letdown depending on what you wanted from it.

Who it's for

So who actually walks away happy here? If you're a Star Wars minifig collector, this is close to essential, because assembling that dozen from other sets would cost you far more and Garven Dreis basically lives here. If you love the original trilogy and want that medal moment on your shelf, the exterior displays nicely and the little Y-wing is a real delight parked out front. If you're chasing a meaty, clever, detailed playset with rich interiors, though, this isn't it, and you'll feel the empty rooms every time you look inside. The set retired in December 2024, so it's secondary market only now, and prices have hovered around retail rather than climbing. My take: buy it for the figures and the finale, go in knowing the base is more backdrop than playground, and you'll get along with it just fine.

The parts story

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

The build breaks down cleanly across eleven numbered bags. Bags one and two give you the Y-wing Starfighter and the boarding stairs, bags three and four handle the left wing of the base, five and six build the central entrance, seven and eight mirror the right side, and nine through eleven finish with the ceremonial chamber and the lookout post. Because it splits so neatly, it's a great one to build in a group with the multiple instruction booklets. The techniques stay gentle throughout, mostly walls, doorframes and repeated sections, so it moves fast and never really tests you. That pace is lovely for a relaxed afternoon and a little thin if you were hoping for engineering to chew on.

On the pieces front, the standouts are small but nice. The Y-wing cockpit borrows a Speed Champions windshield, which is a clever bit of parts reuse at this scale, and there are new fern plant elements in both standard and lime green that landscapers and MOC builders will happily raid. The minifigs are the real parts value: twelve figures with seven exclusive, C-3PO's new arm printing, dual-sided heads with chinstrap detail on the pilots, and those separately printed medals of bravery with a spare included. At roughly 1,067 pieces the raw part-count value is only okay for the money, and that's the honest knock, but weigh the twelve figures into the math and the set makes a lot more sense as a bag of desirable minifigs with a display piece attached.

Fun facts

01The set recreates the medal ceremony that closes A New Hope, and both Luke and Han come with their bravery medals as separate printed tiles, with a spare third medal tucked in the box.
02Red Leader Garven Dreis had been a long-requested figure for years, and this set finally delivered him in his signature yellow pilot helmet.
03Among the twelve figures is R2-BHD, the orange astromech first seen in Rogue One, a fun deep-cut nod for fans who noticed him.
04Released in June 2023, the set retired in December 2024 after about eighteen months on shelves, a fairly short run for a large Star Wars set.