The LEGO® Star Wars™ 75440 AT-AT™ is firmly aimed at the adult market. It says so on the product page on the LEGO website, twice. At least. So if you're a child: don't get any ideas, this is for adults!
The Starship Collection brings together iconic vehicles from the Star Wars universe at a shelf-friendly scale, with prices that feel more attainable than those of the Ultimate Collector Series. Set 75440 AT-AT fits in with this range of ships in a packaging and overall dimensions sense, but is not explicitly labelled as part of the collection. It deviates from the established range in class of vehicle perhaps, but nevertheless feels like it is part of that product range, and LEGO has described this as "complimentary" to other mid-scale models.
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75440 AT-AT
- Release date: 1 January 2026
- Pieces: 525
Price:
- US$ 64.99 on LEGO.com US
- CA$ 84.99 on LEGO.com Canada
- GB£ 59.99 on LEGO.com UK
- AU$ 99.99 on LEGO.com Australia
- NZ$ 109.99 on LEGO.com New Zealand
- DE€ 64,99 on LEGO.com Deutschland
- NL€ 64,99 on LEGO.com Nederland
- FR€ 64,99 on LEGO.com France
- PLN 279.99 on LEGO.com Polska
- NOK 899,90 on LEGO.com Norge
- DKK 549.95 on LEGO.com Danmark
The Empire Strikes Back, for me, is the best of all the Star Wars films. It has some of my favourite scenes of the original trilogy in it, and some of my favourite vehicles too – the AT-AT being one of them. It’s a silly design, absurdly vulnerable and inherently unstable. Conceptually flawed, but I like it like that.
New elements
New prints
- 8x Tile Round 2 x 2 with AT-AT leg joint print in Light Bluish Gray (6581492)
- 1x Plate Special 4 x 4 with Studs on One Edge [Plain] with 'AT-AT™' print in Black (6594303)
Recolours
- 1x Plate Angled 2 x 2 with Step and Hole in Center in Light Bluish Gray (6588809 | 79846)
- 4x Tile Round 2 x 2 - Thin Lifting Ring in Dark Bluish Gray (6588810 | 2376)
From a parts perspective, there are just four items of note included: no new moulds and no further bonuses of rarity or re-introduction. I'm left hoping for some sort of leftover seasonal miracle in the build to elevate my somewhat disappointed initial impression based upon the parts alone.
Build
There are no stickers, which is a good way to start.
There are little Easter eggs in the build: what I assume is an Octan fuel cell and some Stormtroopers are housed in the main body, while an AT-AT driver and General Veers are featured in the head. I know these are included to bring an extra little sense of fun to the build, but I think that the repetition of this idea is beginning to lose me. Perhaps it is because these small parts seem unnecessary to me in a set aimed at adults, and I feel more inclined to believe that they've been added here to boost the overall parts count.
The internal construction creates the necessary structure to "hang" the bodywork panels, which come together to make convincing forms for the shape of the AT-AT. The accuracy is impressive at this scale. It's also pretty solid, and withstood some fairly robust handling.
I am conscious I'm being highly critical of this set, but for US$64.99/ £59.99/ 64.99€/ AU$99.99 for 525 pieces, I think rigorous evaluation is called for, even though it's a pleasingly accurate depiction.
The bent leg is great and a perfect use of the angled plate (79846) to create it. I would even have been pleased to see another version of the angled plate set at a different number of degrees. However, I know there would be difficulty in producing that, owing to the need to keep things within the LEGO® System.
The snowspeeder is well done at this size. I also appreciate the neat use of the curved bar piece that not only holds the snowspeeder and allows a small amount of posing, but also adds the impression of motion by creating artificial "jet trail". It cheats the eye in an effective way.
For me, irrespective of being an adult, I prefer a model that can be played with. Maybe introducing a new element to allow better articulation – akin to the LEGO Technic rotation joints, or a click version of the original turntable (3679 & 3680) – would have satisfied me?
There is a little side-to-side motion possible with the head too; possibly not as wide the range of motion of the models featured in the film but given the rest of the limitations at this scale, I'm grateful for the extra poseability, however small it may be.
The argument against greater articulation is stability, and what has been achieved here is admirable. It's sturdy and even when the AT-AT is removed from the stand, it is still relatively stable.
I really wish I could be happier with this set. It’s not that I don’t like it as a model, or that I didn't enjoy the brief process of putting it together; it’s just that price feels too high for what little there is included in the set.
I don't know why it seems so high relative to other sets? Some more analysis is in order!
Relative value
Let's examine the set firstly on a purely commodity basis, judged by weight and piece count.
This £59.99 set weighs 578g and is therefore 10.37p per gram. This is significantly higher than the 8.8p that I noted in my recent review of 75441 Venator-Class Attack Cruiser™, which is disappointing!
If you want to cross reference that with the average price per part, it does fare better at 11.4p, but consider this: the average weight per part is 1.1 grams. Is it fair to deduce that it will likely have a higher percentage of smaller parts? The inventory appears to confirm this hypothesis, and in my opinion it is made worse by those instances of unnecessary additions of 1x1 round plates representing characters.
Secondly, it’s almost entirely made up from readily available parts that could be easily sourced.
While this is a bonus for those happy to build the set without the exclusive prints, it does suggest the set is overpriced. You may judge this differently, but I feel that if I can buy the parts on BrickLink for about the same price as the set, then the price of the set is too high. I say that because BrickLink stores need to satisfy their running costs and fees and still find profit (and yes, I'm also aware that most BrickLink stores don't make much profit, for what it's worth).
At the time of writing, I would have been able to source all the parts excluding the small number of new parts listed above from four stores for just under £46. Even allowing for postage, I could equal the retail cost of the set. Also, I’d be surprised if most committed LEGO Star Wars fans who regularly MOC their own creations didn't have 70% of these parts available in their parts collections already.
Thirdly, a comparable product.
Just before Halloween last year, 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT Walker was released, to much seasonal applause (Toby's review of the LEGO Gingerbread AT-AT is worth a read). At £54.99 and a weight of 716g it comes in at 7.68p per gram. So at face value, the gingerbread version is £5 cheaper and about 25% better price per gram. At 697 pieces, it contains 170 more parts too, including a unique gingerbread Darth Vader minifigure (SW1483).
Of course, a gingerbread AT-AT might not be everyone's cup of pumpkin spiced winter warmer but I feel that the comparisons can’t be ignored, particularly if we assume that as a seasonal item its production run will likely be much shorter and therefore have less opportunity to cover its development costs.
Finally, what might you be able to get for your £60 if buying a different model?
Brickset's fabulous Query Builder allows you to mine their database for answers to this sort of thing. I ran a couple of queries to find other ways to spend your cash and, depending on your priorities, you might find the results enlightening.
These queries return very similar results, but I wanted to make a distinction with the quantity of parts at the same price as well as current and upcoming sets at a roughly similar cost.
You may very well be hell-bent on throwing your money at this AT-AT set anyway, but hopefully it will be clear that better value for money is available within the range, should you want it.
Verdict
Set 75440 immediately captures the iconic look of the AT-AT and, at this scale, it’s reasonably accurate too. Some could find more things to nit-pick about, like the shaping of the command viewport on the head or the exact shaping of the lower legs, but could any other combination of LEGO parts be used to represent those forms more closely without other compromises? As a midi-scale display interpretation of the AT-AT, it's pretty cool.The build was enjoyable enough; nothing really innovative or complicated among the ways these 525 elements are put together, but it was diverting for an hour or so. However, I would expect and want to be entertained for a little longer for the investment.
I question the assertion that this is for adults; neither the size or the challenge of the build qualify it in my view. I'm taking exception here because a label on a box shouldn't dictate whether I feel comfortable buying a toy. I don't need corporate approval to buy a product. I don't want to pay an "adult tax" either.
I love the iconic AT-AT and this version is a heck of a lot cheaper than the UCS version was (I can't believe that it has been retired for over a year now). There hasn't been a minifigure scale option since set 75288 in 2020, so perhaps this smaller-scale version represents something new in the way of four-legged sci-fi war machine depiction. The gingerbread incarnation wasn’t for me and so I was delighted at the prospect of a new AT-AT in my preferred battle-ready grey.
I was pleased with the finished model but felt it lacked something more to play with. The inclusion of part of the rebel base in the background might have worked or a simple snowscape even, maybe with a smaller AT-AT in the background, a felled beast? But that would not fit with other models in the Starship Collection sub-theme, and possibly retread old ground covered by the 2019 gift with purchase 40333 Battle of Hoth, so perhaps my idea of including additional pieces for creating alternate poses?
The new elements included in the set are, for the most part, a little unremarkable. Aside from the nice prints on the eight round tiles, it's slim-pickings. The angle plate 79846 in light bluish grey is welcome, but probably doesn't qualify for much more excitement than a party popper emoji.
I can see great sci-fi greebling or decoration uses for the tiles, and despite my pithy comment above, I have to admit that the angle plate 79846 is a nice recolour for those of us who still like all their parts to appear in light bluish grey for our spaceship building. I do feel disappointed that only one of them is available in the set. Obviously, I want more of them for making mechs and other robot-y things!
There is a good selection of commodity parts included, but those might only cost you two-thirds of the price if purchased on BrickLink. On that basis, if the set was two-thirds of its current retail price, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as a stompingly good parts pack. My overall view would be different too.
Even accounting for my soft spot for the ludicrousness of the AT-AT and how much I think fans will like this as a display piece, I'm not convinced that there's a reason to recommend it, beyond it being a cheaper and smaller (space saving!) alternative to previous iterations of the AT-AT of course. I find myself wanting more from a LEGO Star Wars set to justify what feels like a price that's as ludicrous as a four-legged battle tank.
As a display model it’s fine, but I want more than just a display model. The ability to articulate the legs could satisfy some of this I think. I continue to believe that LEGO should always be a toy first. If we eventually leave the toy on display that's fine, but if there really isn't anything to play with beforehand, I feel a little cheated. Even when the set is aimed at adults!
Even if we were to replace the parts given over to the stand to something of a more Hoth-scenic nature, I doubt that would solve the real issue here: artificially inflated prices. I could be persuaded otherwise if similar products in the range did not achieve greater things at lower prices.
At time of writing this in early January, on LEGO.com, set 75440 AT-AT is sold out in the UK. Of course it will come back in stock in due course, perhaps as you read this, but what this does tell me is that people have liked it and a lot of people have bought it over the past week or so.
So perhaps I am wrong about all this, perhaps the price doesn't matter, perhaps I am out of touch with what fans of LEGO Star Wars want.
Perhaps I'm not the kind of adult that The LEGO Group is marketing to?
AT-SC mod
Given my highly critical experience of the set, I wanted to create some joy with it!
I criticised the stability of AT-AT 's design, and it was a relatively easy job to swap out the legs for wheels. I'm sure there are more appropriate wheels for the Star Wars universe but these ones, which I had to hand from a recent LEGO® Speed Champions set, seemed to do the job I wanted. Does that make this an AT-SC or a Wackyatat?
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What to get get for £60: 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT Walker;)
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