Probably as a result of the ship and the figure being designed months apart, there isn’t a way to place Baby Yoda on the dashboard or in any other way in the cockpit resembling how he, uh, copilots with Mando on the show. It’s highly probable that LEGO did have access to the Razor Crest design in advance, but likely had no awareness of the Child until all the other toy manufacturers (and the rest of us) did. While it does attach securely over the cockpit itself, the canopy is easily removable to allow access inside, where two minifigs can sit one behind the other. The cockpit canopy is an entirely new piece, printed with a design that will work nicely in custom creations like historical bombers. Like the ship in the show, the LEGO Razor Crest features a blunt nose with a cockpit on an upper deck. Despite that very short lead time, the LEGO Star Wars design team has succeeded in creating a reasonably accurate version of the Razor Crest in brick form.
Given all that, it’s quite amazing that LEGO had a production design of Razor Crest in place within just a handful of months, in time for us to see both Razor Crest and the BrickHeadz pair in person at Toy Fair in February. Disney and Lucasfilm managed to pull off an entertainment industry miracle with The Mandalorian, revealing virtually nothing about the show until after the first episode (and its shock ending that revealed “Baby Yoda”) had dropped on Disney+ on November 12, 2019.
LEGO has shared publicly that it can take the company two to three years to develop a new set from concept to boxed product on store shelves - we’ve seen this quite obviously with the particularly long development cycle for the new LEGO Ideas Sesame Street set. Like nearly all other moderately large LEGO Star Wars vehicles, the core of the ship consists of standard plates and bricks reinforced with Technic bricks and beams. It also becomes immediately evident that we’re not going to see new, unique versions of the carbonite blocks in which prisoners like Han Solo are frozen - Mando’s frozen prisoners appear as stickers on tall bricks.ĭespite being a bit of a chunky vessel that looks more like the size of a starfighter than a cargo ship at first glance, the Razor Crest at any semblance of minifig-scale necessitates a substantial number of bricks for a substantial build - in this case, from over a thousand pieces. The designs add a variety of technical details to large panels, slopes, and so on. Ultimately, the large sticker sheet wasn’t actually damaged.
Unfortunately, despite being in their own sleeve, both the instruction booklet and sticker sheet were curled up inside the box, causing them to come out bent. The trans-clear printed canopy piece is loose in the box, although the lack of other loose bricks means it’s unlikely to get scratched up in transit. The parts for the set come in six groups of numbered bags.
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