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LEGO Star Wars UCS Razor Crest (#75331) review
Please note that the following review is my personal point of view as an adult LEGO fan and builder. The LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series (UCS) Razor Crest (RAZ) is one sizable set featuring +6.000 LEGO elements and pieces, making RAZ amongst the Top 5 biggest Star Wars sets ever released. Dimensions of the final model are approx. 72cm long, 50cm wide, and 24cm tall. RAZ comes with 4 (Four) Minifigures; Grogu, Din Djarin (The Mandalorian), Kuiil on a buildable Blurrg and Mythrol. The age rating of RAZ is 18+ (Adults Welcome) and be aware that building RAZ requires patience and loads of ‘mirror/copying’. This doesn’t come as any surprise due to the nature of this model, and building RAZ is no dull task. Building process of RAZ is comparable to those of the Titanic and Apollo 13. The final model is thick, heavy and beautiful. What really stands out is the interior - it absolutely shines with features such as the detailed cockpit large enough for multiple Minifigures, a cargo bay including Boba Fett’s armor, Carbon Freezing Chamber and armory storage cabins. The claddings both in and outside RAZ are smooth and textured with surprisingly few visible LEGO studs. The main structure is LEGO Technic and well engineered, stiff and solid. However, details come with a price; the model is for display purposes only! Decor panel assemblies are extremely fragile and moving model becomes really annoying as panels fall off at the slightest touch. More bits and pieces then tend to fall off when you reattach panels. Not good enough, even considering the 18+ rating. You want to move and turn model around as it offers so much to display, but ends up in a static position due to its fragility. Overall, RAZ is beautiful and recommendable to LEGO Star Wars fans. It achieves a reasonable 4 (Four) star rating. The fragility of decor panels are flaws which shouldn’t occur on such model, but it is a stunning piece on display and surely won’t disappoint fans.
First UCS
I've enjoyed building LEGO my whole life, and have been an avid enjoyer of creating my own builds; moreso than sets. Recently however, I've been loving LEGO's recent builds- i.e. miniature Death Star diorama, Tranquil Garden, and Hokusai Great Wave. The attention to detail they've been able to put into these sets is what I really love about them. Death Star diorama's greebling (I think I got the term right?) techniques are some of the best I've seen from a LEGO set. After experiencing extreme satisfaction from these sets, I kept looking at the Ultimate Collector Series Razor Crest and thinking how cool it looked, but the $600 price tag always scared me away.
About 2 weeks ago, the set went on sale for $420 and I had to pull the trigger. After a pretty quick backorder turnaround time, it arrived. This set is enormous- the box weighed 20 pounds and the process of building it took up a lot of space.
This build is truly amazing. The dopamine hits I'd get when the angles snap together, or when I finished the turbines and put them onto the build for the first time, are amazing. There's so many significant steps to this set that it was never a dull moment. In totality it took me roughly 18 hours to finish the build, which is by far the longest it's ever taken me to build a set.
The intricacies of The Razor Crest are unmatched from any set I've seen; there are always little build details that provide some sort of function later on down the build. The different angles of the build that come together nearly seamless is amazing, too. I've never seen it done so well and effectively.
Some reviewers have complained about missing pieces or bags; I had zero issues with that. I sorted the bags numerically after opening each box and would empty each individual bag into a box when the instructions called for it. I saw one reviewer that claimed the instructions were messed up. No, they're not, I can assure you. You definitely must be an experienced builder to correctly place some segments together based on the instructions, but they aren't wrong.
If you've read all of this, you're probably thinking about getting this set. If you've got the money, it's worth getting it even if it's not on sale. You'll want plenty of space to properly display it, and kids should not play with it being that it's roughly 20 pounds.
About 2 weeks ago, the set went on sale for $420 and I had to pull the trigger. After a pretty quick backorder turnaround time, it arrived. This set is enormous- the box weighed 20 pounds and the process of building it took up a lot of space.
This build is truly amazing. The dopamine hits I'd get when the angles snap together, or when I finished the turbines and put them onto the build for the first time, are amazing. There's so many significant steps to this set that it was never a dull moment. In totality it took me roughly 18 hours to finish the build, which is by far the longest it's ever taken me to build a set.
The intricacies of The Razor Crest are unmatched from any set I've seen; there are always little build details that provide some sort of function later on down the build. The different angles of the build that come together nearly seamless is amazing, too. I've never seen it done so well and effectively.
Some reviewers have complained about missing pieces or bags; I had zero issues with that. I sorted the bags numerically after opening each box and would empty each individual bag into a box when the instructions called for it. I saw one reviewer that claimed the instructions were messed up. No, they're not, I can assure you. You definitely must be an experienced builder to correctly place some segments together based on the instructions, but they aren't wrong.
If you've read all of this, you're probably thinking about getting this set. If you've got the money, it's worth getting it even if it's not on sale. You'll want plenty of space to properly display it, and kids should not play with it being that it's roughly 20 pounds.
Amazing Kit
This is the second light kit that I've used from Light My Bricks, the first being the kit for Mando's N1. Upon opening the instructions I looked at the blueprint and immediately thought to myself, I have a bad feeling about this. I was ever so wrong.
The instructions were detailed, at no point did I feel things were intimidating or difficult and I really felt like I knew what I was doing was right the whole way through. The way the instructions were laid out they were thorough but not overwhelming.
As for the finished product, I cannot say enough how much I recommend this kit. The pictures don't do it justice, it really is striking in person. After spending all the time building the UCS Razor Crest, to add this 'little' upgrade to the build was the little bump that raised it over the edge to being one of the best display pieces. I am definitely hooked and this will not be the last kit I use from Light My Bricks, and moreover this install gave me the confidence to start detail planning some of the custom MOCs that I have done as well.
TLDR; Amazing kit and amazing upgrade to the UCS Razor Crest
The instructions were detailed, at no point did I feel things were intimidating or difficult and I really felt like I knew what I was doing was right the whole way through. The way the instructions were laid out they were thorough but not overwhelming.
As for the finished product, I cannot say enough how much I recommend this kit. The pictures don't do it justice, it really is striking in person. After spending all the time building the UCS Razor Crest, to add this 'little' upgrade to the build was the little bump that raised it over the edge to being one of the best display pieces. I am definitely hooked and this will not be the last kit I use from Light My Bricks, and moreover this install gave me the confidence to start detail planning some of the custom MOCs that I have done as well.
TLDR; Amazing kit and amazing upgrade to the UCS Razor Crest
The BEST Star Wars set currently in stores
As of the time of this review 1/19/2024, this is the best Star Wars set that is on the shelves, and that includes the future upcoming releases for late 2024. The build process is one of the most fun builds that I have ever done. The minfigure lineup is awesome as 3 out of 4 of them are exclusive to this set. What makes this build so great starts with the interior. What was lacking in the UCS Ventanator and the UCS Millenium Falcon is the extremeley lacking interiors. The Falcon has so much space, yet has such a small interior space. The Razor Crest utilizes the full interior space that you will come to find familiar in the show. The unboxing process is also probably the best Lego unboxing on the market with the artwork that is on the two interior boxes. This is a must have for any fan of the Mandalorian. I was blessed to get this as a Christmas gift as this was the set I was saving all my points for. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THIS SET RETIRES!
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