The LEGO Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer, Set #75252, retails for $699.99. Where will you build it? You need a work surface for not only the model, but also for the instruction booklet and the pile of pieces And once it's complete, where will you display it? You'll want to put it somewhere where you can admire it, after the fact, and feel appropriately accomplished.

If you're going to buy this model, do some preliminary planning. One could imagine the thousands of crewmen, each of them devoted to a specific task, that make this monolithic, impenetrable machine run. The entire model looks busy in the best possible way. But the final effect is worth the hours of effort. It takes time to put these tiny pieces together-to integrate them into a cohesive whole. Look closer, and beyond the endless grey, you see a granular tangle of wires, mechanical parts, and laser cannons covering its surface. How does one take something outwardly simple and uniform, and make it visually interesting and convincing? The Star Destroyer's designers accomplished this with an incredible amount of surface detail.

Surprisingly, it contains no new, molded elements every piece in this build has been released in older LEGO builds, which takes more than a little ingenuity on the part of the designers.Ĭonsider that the entire body of the Star Destroyer is the same, grey hue. The instructions are contained in a giant, spiraled booklet, which makes them easier to read than most instructions-a good thing, since the build is highly involved. It comes in a massive box that would be difficult to squeeze into the back seat of a car. This Imperial Star Destroyer model is a scaled replica of the Devastator from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope it's the Imperial ship which chases after the Tantive IV in the film's opening. This model is something that has to be seen, up close and in-person, to fully appreciate - for both its three-dimensional scale and its surfeit of detail. The photos don't do it justice they shrink the spaceship down, by necessity, to the confines of a two-dimensional, rectangular frame. It is over three-and-a-half feet long (from fore to aft) and over two feet wide (from starboard to port). Mounted on its stand, it rests at nearly a foot-and-a-half tall. The LEGO Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer is gargantuan. We're reviewing it in anticipation of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, which debuts in theaters on December 20, 2019. LEGO released this set in September 2019.

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