Review: 75414 The Force Burner Snowspeeder™ from LEGO® Star Wars™

Flaming hot-rods! Today we're looking at a souped-up LEGO® Star Wars™ T-47 snowspeeder with flames painted up the sides.

Season 2 of LEGO® Star Wars™: Rebuild the Galaxy begins on 19 September 2025, subtitled Pieces of the Past. How the Force Burner Snowspeeder™ fits into the narrative remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: The LEGO Group have definitely turned up the heat on its design, with a sizzling colour palette.

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75414 The Force Burner Snowspeeder

• Release date: 1 August 2025; pre-order now available in Europe
• Pieces: 349

Price and link to pre-order or buy:

• US$ 54.99 on LEGO.com US
• CA$ 64.99 on LEGO.com Canada
• GB£ 44.99 on LEGO.com UK; pre-order now available
• AU$ 79.99 on LEGO.com Australia
• NZ$ 89.99 on LEGO.com New Zealand
• DE€49,99 on LEGO.com Deutschland; pre-order now available
• NL€49,99 on LEGO.com Nederland; pre-order now available
• FR€49,99 on LEGO.com France; pre-order now available
• PLN 219.99 on LEGO.com Polska; pre-order now available
• NOK 699,90 on LEGO.com Norge; pre-order now available
• DKK 449.95 on LEGO.com Danmark; pre-order now available

Other countries click here

 

New mould

The hot new element in this set is pretty conspicuous and for many, like myself, I imagine it will be the reason that caution is thrown to the fire, together with the money we (probably don't) have to burn! It's a low stakes gamble, but I'm betting the core of those people will be Blacktron I fans.

• 1x Canopy 4x10x2 with Window Frames in Trans-Yellow and Black (6576282 | 111983)

I'm pleased to see the continued commitment from The LEGO Group to delivering screens such as this in a separate bag to prevent scratching.

This great new canopy is a 2-stage injection, or over-moulded element. That means one of the colours was moulded first and then the other was moulded over top of that. The necessary mould tools to produce this kind of part are expensive, in part because the tolerances necessary to avoid unsightly flashing (plastic that seeps into a part line) are very tight, particularly where fine detail is kept flush, as it is here.

The standard attachment for canopies such as this – a 2 module-wide 3.18mm bar – is present at the base of the rear edge. There are also 4 studs in a 2x2 configuration on the 2x6 top of the canopy.

All 4 sides are sloped: the back and sides are all 65° and so follow the same geometry as found in slopes 60481, 3678, 78886 and the inverted 30373 (above right). 

The front features an angle of just under 36°; the slope is 3 modules long, and 2 bricks high minus the standard 2mm 'lip' at the base.

It's an unusual looking element when compared to other similar canopies. Previously, when creating window frames on a canopy it was done by printing the part, as can be seen with the many variants of the X-wing canopy (21849, 35328 – shown above right in its unprinted form).

Where over-moulding is concerned, I can only recall one part in recent years that tried to achieve similar results in a canopy element; the LEGO® NINJAGO® Windscreen with Pearl Gold Frame Mold (69564), shown here in opaque black (6392007), but transparent variants are available in trans-brown (6322113) and trans-light blue (6320795).

Recoloured & returning pieces

• 1x Bar 4L (Lightsaber Blade / Wand) in Trans-Orange (6551972 | 30374) is the first new transparent colour for this mould since trans-clear in 2021.
• 2x Slope 33° 3 x 3 Double Convex in Yellow (6569573 | 3675) has not been seen in sets since 1980, and only 8 were ever available in the classic set 7740 Inter-City Passenger Train – is this some kind of record, a resurrection of phoenix-like proportions?

Rare parts

• 2x Slope 18° 2 x 1 x 2/3 in Dark Brown (6509391 | 5404) only in 10335 The Endurance

In 2 other sets:

• 3x Plate Special 1 x 3 Rounded with 3 Open Studs in Dark Blue (6490777 | 77850)
• 2x Tail 8 x 1 with Stepped Fin in Black (6438920 | 23930)

In 3 other sets:

• 2x Road Sign Clip-on 2.2 x 2.667 Triangular with Open O Clip in Black (6491608 | 65676)
• 1x Tile 1 x 2 with Stud Notch Right in Yellow (6510151 | 5092)
• 1x Hinge Plate 2 x 2 Locking with 1 Finger on Top in Dark Bluish Gray (6490596 | 53968)

Minifigures

The set comes with 3 minifigures, each with differently coloured lightsabers. Their newly printed elements are as follows.

Sig Greebling

• 1x Minifig Head with print in Nougat (6541166)
• 1x Torso with print in Reddish Brown (6551602)
• 1x Legs with print in Reddish Brown (6541168)

Darth Dev

• 1x Minifig Head with print in Nougat (6541169)
• 1x Torso with print in Black (6551847)
• 1x Legs with print in Pearl Titanium (6541171)

Solitus

• 1x Minifig Head with print in Sand Green (6541172)
• 1x Torso with print in Pearl Titanium (6551969)
• 1x Legs with print in Pearl Titanium (6541174)

Sticker sheet

One sheet of flaming stickers! 

The build

The box contains 4 paper-based bags and the separate individual bag for the screen, and the instructions and the sticker sheet left loose.

The construction method is one of sub-assemblies. 

Darth Dev gets a little speeder bike in the first bag, while the process of building the snowspeeder begins with Sig and his rather lovely orange lightsaber in bag 2. 

These guys, you know, I thought they might help with the construction, but they just hung around holding their lightsabers. I guess we all know guys like that who just don't work? What did work however was the 6x8 trap door frame (92107), here creating a simple but firm and effective framework for that speeder to attach to.

Dev's speeder clips onto a 3.18mm bar in the trap door frame. This is positioned to create the rear gunner's seat. The opening of the canopy seems pretty accurate to the onscreen version of the T-47 in The Empire Strikes Back.

Without its wings, I think the snowspeeder looks a little like a James Bond submersible called Sharkhunter II that appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Bag 3 contains the first wing, and this is where the red in the colour scheme really adds some zing in the looks of this hotrod. It's a classic combination of course, but particularly effective with the two yellows and the orange tones in the LEGO palette. It's a shame that no reddish-orange was included for an even sleeker tonal gradient.

Attachment is via 2 LEGO® Mixels ball joints. 

The 2 sections fit together very neatly and the connection fixes the wing at this angle. It is relatively firm with very little wobble.

Bag 4 starts out with a Stap hoverbike for Solitus. His pair of nunchuck purple lightsabers are super cool.

With the exception of 2 elements, the second wing is a mirror build.

The completed LEGO T-47 airspeeder captures the shape of the original Star Wars vehicle far better than any of the previous versions,  in my opinion, and that is no doubt down to the new canopy.

The actual snowspeeder has a tricky interface of 5 triangles at the front of the ship that hasn't quite been translated to LEGO form with the accuracy some might have hoped for, given the excellent canopy. I think, despite the achievements of many fan-built MOCs that do indeed seem to capture those difficult forms, that this is a pretty decent representation of the T-47.

I am hopeful that we will see an updated original trilogy snowspeeder using this new screen. It has been a long while since the Rebels' vehicle of choice on Hoth was sent out on a sortie mission to find Luke and Han or to fire tow cables around AT-AT legs. 

I did not apply the stickers for this review because I already had plans for the elements (which I have put into action at the end of this article). 

Fully emblazoned with the fiery sticker designs, however, the snowspeeder looks really very striking in the official images.

Conclusion

Cost and value analysis

Initially I was so bedazzled by the new windscreen piece, I overlooked the price of the set: $54.99/ £44.99/ €49.99/ AU$79.99! Having shaken off my yellow-tinted specs and calmed down a bit, I've tried to look at the price a bit more dispassionately. 

The often erroneous results that price per part gives is probably still worth considering and with 349 parts, that works out to be 12.9p. This already seems slightly high if you still consider the 10p per part average to be a fair ready-reckoner. 

However, as has been discussed before, price per gram has been proven to be a fairer metric. Overall weight of the set is 476g, and so the price per gram is 9.45p.

I ran a query on Brickset for sets with a similar part count from 2025. I chose 4 of those sets that I felt were a reasonable comparison for content, in one way or another:

Set 76315 on LEGO.com
Set 76311 on LEGO.com
Set 42662 on LEGO.com
Set 60443 on LEGO.com

• LEGO® Marvel 76315 Iron Man's Laboratory: Hall of Armor with 384 parts, 407g, $54.99 / £49.99/ €54.99: 12.3p per gram
• LEGO Marvel 76311 Miles Morales vs. the Spot with 375 parts, 583g, $49.99 / £44.99/ €49.99: 7.7p per gram
• LEGO® Friends 42662 Hair Salon and Accessories Store with 347 parts, 536g, $44.99 / £39.99/ €44.99: 7.5p per gram
• LEGO® City 60443 F1 Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car with 332 parts, 566g, $29.99 / £24.99/ €29.99: 4.4p per gram

So this is relatively expensive, but LEGO sets across almost all themes feel expensive to me. Better value for the volume might be found in other sets, and certainly in that F1 set. 

The box is on the smallish side, certainly for the price, but it was fairly tightly packed with the contents. I think it is now fairly common for boxes to be smaller and I definitely support the effort The LEGO Group are making to stop shipping air around the world. That is another variable factor in terms of perceived value and needs to be considered as we judge the set by its box.

Verdict

This LEGO Star Wars set is quite good fun; it was really pleasing to build and it looks pretty fantastic.

This re-imagined T-47 is red-hot in looks. While the canopy represents a significant improvement on previous versions, the accuracy of the front angled scoop is still in question. I haven't investigated the techniques used in any of the MOCs that have solved that problem, so can't comment on whether I think there is scope to do better in an official model, with all the restrictions involved there.

I suspect the canopy will most likely be locked to the theme, so I doubt the Pick a Brick service will have this available to buy individually. The handful of recoloured and rare parts are too few to make a recommendation based on them alone, and although it's an attractive colour palette, it's not enough to qualify this as a parts pack either.

The 3 minifigures are all really nicely detailed, and feature all-new exclusive prints. I like them because they aren't repeats of Luke, Obi-Wan, C-3PO or R2D2 and I can see usage in these minifigure parts beyond the narrow Star Wars universe. I'm not sure they add the kind of value that rare or previously unfeatured/unseen legacy characters might add to a set like this though.

Objectively, I can't look past the price. Even allowing for how great it looks, the brilliant and no doubt expensive new canopy and the fun of it – I think the set needs to be at least 15% cheaper for what you get.

Blacktron Speeder MOC from set 75414

It was a relatively simple job to colour-swap the necessary parts to create a Blacktron version of the T-47. I only needed to make the tiniest adaptation to swap the 3x3 front slope for the stickered 4x2 from the gift with purchase 40580 Blacktron Cruiser.

Even with the yellow accents, my Blacktron modification has some stealthy qualities to it.

I like how this looks, and find myself wondering what the good guys' AT-AT might look like? It has to be noted that this is potentially a very dangerous thought. A Classic Space AT-AT at an appropriate scale is sure to be a beautiful but expensive thing...

...not to mention that I would need at least a couple of these Blacktron T-47 guys circling it!

 

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