Set review: 75409 Jango Fett's Firespray-Class Starship from LEGO® Star Wars™

Today we complete our analysis of LEGO® Star Wars™ 75409 Jango Fett's Firespray-Class Starship. In part 1 we examined set 75409's new moulds and recoloured pieces. In this article we'll be exploring the set's build techniques and minifigures, before concluding with a look at the impressive completed model and play features.

"Hang on son, we'll move into the asteroid field. And we'll have a couple of surprises for him"

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75409 Jango Fett's Firespray-Class Starship

• Release date: 1 May 2025 for LEGO Insiders; 4 May for all
• Pieces: 2970

Price: 

• US$ 299.99 on LEGO.com US
• CA$ 379.99 on LEGO.com Canada
• GB£ 259.99 on LEGO.com UK
• AU$ 499.99 on LEGO.com Australia
• NZ$ 529.99 on LEGO.com New Zealand
• DE€ 299,99 on LEGO.com Deutschland
• NL€ 299,99 on LEGO.com Nederland
• FR€ 299,99 on LEGO.com France
• PLN 1299.99 on LEGO.com Polska
• NOK 3699,90 on LEGO.com Norge
• DKK 2349.95 on LEGO.com Danmark

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Minifigures

Two minifigures are included. Naturally, it's the infamous bounty hunter father-and-son duo:

Jango is composed of several new and exclusive elements:

• Helmet in Flat Silver with updated prints (6536070)
• Head in Nougat with double sided face print (6536071)
• Decorated torso in Pearl Titanium with printed Sand blue arms (6554376)
• Decorated legs in Sand Blue with printed toes (6536078)
• Plus the new range finder element (7218) we discussed in the last article.

Boba, being younger, has less going on:

• Head in Nougat with double sided face print (6536079) 
• Decorated torso in Bright Light Blue with Sand blue arms (6554435)

It's a pity dual-moulded legs weren't used to depict his shiny dark blue boots but otherwise, he's a respectable looking figure with a colour scheme that compliments Jango's sand blue base colour.  

The build

I can't recall ever being so engaged while building a set's core frame.

From start to finish it juggles bracket pieces, SNOT construction and the LEGO® Technic System, all the while leaving various connectors exposed – tantalising hints of what's to come.

Some of those mysteries get solved as work on the colourful outer shell begins. Sometimes it's built up brick by brick, but often in satisfying clumps, like the construction below left.

This particular section uses a skeleton arm (93609) and a 1x1 round plate with horizontal underside bar (79194) to position a 1x3 curved slope – a clever yet fragile technique, so I was pleasantly surprised to see it used.

Another neat trick (above right) is revealed after the sub-assembly is attached and a light bluish grey 1x6 brick is placed nearby. Technically, its corner should clash with the dark blue area, but because the underside of 1x4x1⅔ curved slopes (3573) are hollow, the brick fits. Ingenious! 

The entire shell is a joy to build. Clip connectors and bar handles, added hundreds of instruction steps apart, suddenly make sense as sub-assemblies snap into place. Thanks to the ship's greebly underside, most of the engineering that went into it remains visible even when the model is complete. 

To better appreciate the masterclass of geometry that forms the curved edge, here's a streamlined version in rainbow colours. Note the pleasing convergence of cheese slopes on the left-hand side forming reflected triangles, as well as the 1x4 plate (top centre) that barely misses the studs on the 1x2 plate beneath it.

Even the component right-angled triangles are impressive to look at. I believe the two shown on the left are somehow Pythagorean triples – but they are rather complex ones to measure – while the one on the right is 'simply' a reflected triangle trick.

All this geometry is a big step up from the previous Ultimate Collector Series (UCS) version which, despite also using curved slopes and SNOT, stayed almost entirely on-grid. Although, in fairness there is a 10-year age gap between them – think of all the new parts we've had since then (or simply check our archive and save yourself the trouble)!

Back to the actual build, the pace picks up as the distinctive 'shoulders' and 'snoot' start to emerge. LEGO Technic bricks and pins form the angled structural core of the nose and provide pivot points for one of the play features; more on that later. 

The remainder of the build is less eventful, but still peppered with satisfying sub-assemblies and details, culminating with:

"Seismic charges! Stand by."

With 5 tricky-to-align stickers, the seismic charge unfortunately isn't quite the triumphant finishing touch the instructions present it as. 

Some of the other stickers are a little irksome too, like the sliver of sand green interrupting both the dark blue and yellow sections on the shell. Also note the cockpit outline which will have gaps no matter how you choose to place those stickers. 

Aside from the seismic charge though, my sticker-related complaints are all minor. The colour match from print to plastic is generally good and the number, size and dependence on them is fairly conservative for a set this big too.

The Aurebesh translates as: 

• "OOVO 4" (sticker 5) – The name of the prison moon the Firespray craft were designed to guard in-universe. 
• "No Step" (18) – These are placed above a couple of blaster cannons, a rare example of health and safety regulations in the Star Wars universe. 

The completed model

When assembled and mounted on its display stand, 75409 Jango Fett's Firespray-Class Starship is an impressive sight and a welcome splash of colour to the UCS line-up. The stand hooks onto the model lower down the fuselage than expected – all the better for admiring the craft's greebly underside.

Seeing the seismic charge nestled among the greebles instantly triggers a mental replay of its on-screen deployment – the memory of the tedious stickers almost forgotten. 

Note the newly recoloured LEGO Technic mudguards (2459) cupping the lower engines. It's an element choice I imagine fellow contributor Kevin J. Walter will get a kick out of, having used a similar technique on his custom Slave 1 made in collaboration with Marshal Banana. 

As the ship rotates to landed position, the stabiliser fins remain level - a feature common to most previous LEGO incarnations. Being a variable-geometry craft, it's hard to find an unfriendly camera angle. The biggest gaps are scarcely a plate wide, and most surfaces are fully or partially smoothed over.

That nice shaping doesn't lend itself to swooshing, but that's more a symptom of the in-universe design than fault of the set. Fortunately, the durable outer shell means it's safe to handle without worrying about breakage.

While it's grounded, let's take a look at the features: 

Press down on the boarding ramp to open the hatch, then push the hatch closed to raise the ramp. It’s a wonderfully satisfying action that uses just a few parts, though I suspect a lot of design work went into making it so smooth.

Due to some essential structural framework within, the door doesn't lead directly to any useable interior space – to access that, you have to detach the massive canopy:

There's no fancy rotating feature inside, which might disappoint some, but the static 5-chair configuration spread across 2 levels is faithful to how the interior looks in the movie. The pilot's station slides out for easier access – its control panels are all stickers but there is a nice brick-built targeting scope to Jango's left.

With the flight deck removed, a small storage area is revealed with spots for Jango's blaster pistols and jetpack. Unless I missed it, there is no intended spot for his helmet which is a bit of a miss since he pilots the ship unmasked.

Here's a demonstration of all the major features in one video - hopefully it conveys how tempting it is to just open and close that hatch on repeat.

Conclusion

It's great! – that was my placeholder text while formatting this review and to be honest, it remains pretty accurate. 

It's one of the few Star Wars vehicles that lends itself to being a minifigure scale UCS set. Unlike the upscaled starfighters or the downsized capital ships, the focus here is on details and accuracy rather than overcoming engineering challenges like making heavy wings move, or preventing large sections drooping.

Is it worth the US$299.99/ £259.99/ 299.99€/ AU$499.99 price tag? Since I received my copy for free, only you can decide that but hopefully this review has made the agony of choice easier to bear. At the very least, it's worth taking a look at the instructions and logging a few of those amazing techniques for future use.

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