LEGO Star Wars 75355 X-wing Starfighter visual tour and gallery

Climb into the cockpit, deploy the S-foils and get into attack position with our visual guide to the newly-revealed LEGO Star Wars 75355 X-wing Starfighter.

Flying on to shelves for this year’s May the 4th event, the next LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series set is the third to recreate Luke Skywalker’s iconic starfighter (following 2000’s 7191 X-wing Fighter and 2013’s 10240 X-wing Starfighter). You can see how it stacks up next to both those models in our visual walkthrough of the 1,949-piece set, along with a closer look at its minifigures, details and more.

Scroll down for everything you need to know about 75355 X-wing Starfighter. It will be available to purchase from May 1 (for VIP members, or May 4 for everyone else) for £209.99 / $239.99 / €239.99.

LEGO Star Wars 75355 X-wing Starfighter build

You never quite know what you’re going to get from a LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series build. Will it be a complex Technic model in disguise like 75308 R2-D2, a nostalgic exercise in brick-stacking like 75341 Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder, or a mix of the two as per 75309 Republic Gunship? From what we know of the X-wing and the images included in the press release for 75355 X-wing Starfighter, the safe money is on the latter.

The ship’s four wings, for example, are going to need strong support to prevent sagging, which looks to come through the use of Technic beams. At the same time, the wings themselves appear to be a careful assembly of plates, which replicate the particular dark red patterning of Luke’s starfighter. In short: expect plenty of variety in putting together 75355 X-wing Starfighter.

LEGO Star Wars UCS X-wings through the years

The X-wing Starfighter now bookends the LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series (at least until the next set comes along), as both the first and latest entry in the display-oriented subtheme. The original set was 7191 X-wing Fighter, released in 2000 alongside 7181 TIE Interceptor, and was revolutionary at the time – but by today’s standards looks just a little primitive. The second iteration of the starfighter at UCS scale came in 2013, in 10240 Red Five’s X-wing Starfighter, and represented a substantial upgrade.

75355 X-wing Starfighter diverges from both those sets pretty substantially in aesthetics, tweaking the ship’s proportions (with good reason, as we’ll come to see) – but the essence of the X-wing remains. The box art of the new set is a nice nod to the original UCS X-wing, too, recreating roughly the same pose and with a slightly-starry background to boot.

LEGO Star Wars 75355 X-wing Starfighter comparison

While the proportions of 75355 X-wing Starfighter might look a little off at first glance, with the engines much larger than in previous LEGO UCS X-wings above, a quick look at the source material suggests it’s actually the most accurate recreation of the ship to date: it’s the others that were wrong. The classic Star Wars vehicle’s circular engines either side of the cockpit really are that chunky.

This set still looks to be lacking in a couple of places – the sloping of the hull between cockpit and nose, for example – but otherwise appears to be almost spot on to the X-wing as we saw it in A New Hope all those years ago.

LEGO Star Wars 75355 X-wing Starfighter minifigures

75355 X-wing Starfighter takes its cues from 75341 Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder by including an incredibly-detailed variant of a minifigure we’ve seen countless times before. Where last year’s May the 4th release finally gave C-3PO a dual-moulded silver (or grey) leg, this year’s set gives us a Luke Skywalker pilot minifigure with printed arms and dual-moulded legs.

It won’t necessarily be reason alone to buy 75355 X-wing Starfighter on release day, but it’s a nice bonus for anyone taking the plunge. Based on comments from the LEGO Star Wars team last year, we can also expect this mega-detailed version of Luke to stay exclusive to this set. The X-wing also includes R2-D2, who isn’t what you’d call the rarest LEGO Star Wars character around… 

LEGO Star Wars 75355 X-wing Starfighter details

A set like this doesn’t necessarily open itself up to much in the way of detail – at least in the same way as larger UCS sets like 75331 The Razor Crest, or Master Builder Series sets like 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina – but there are still fun touches to spot across the ship. For instance, the laser cannons make clever use of minifigure flippers, while stickers create the most detailed X-wing cockpit interior we’ve seen so far.

One place you won’t find a sticker, though, is on the info plaque for 75355 X-wing Starfighter: that’s printed for the first time in a LEGO Star Wars set. The ‘dimple’ in the centre of the large 8×16 tile is mysteriously not so pronounced in its close-up image, but you can still see it in the other photo above, so that issue remains – even if the LEGO Group has tried to almost literally gloss over it…

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