Hi everyone! Today I have another LEGO Star Wars review: 75172 Y-wing Starfighter! This 691-piece set retails for £64.99 (UK), $59.99 (U.S.), $109.99 (Aus), and $129.99 (NZ). It comes with 5 minifigures.

The first one is this Y-wing Pilot. He is the same minifigure as the one from 75155 Rebel U-wing Fighter so he must be used to piloting different vehicles. Anyway, he comes with his detailed flight suit along with his cool printed helmet. He has a smiley/scared expression on his face with a printed visor – however I find this technique outdated and I wish LEGO would do a new rebel pilot helmet mold: one with a dual-molded visor, thus allowing you to use any minifigure head underneath. Oh well, for now, we have to be content. He has a small blaster pistol.

Second we have a kind of throwaway inclusion, a Stormtrooper. His inclusion here is rather strange as no stormtrooper shows up in a rebel hangar in Rogue One and he as a lone trooper provides no menace at all 😂 However, you can never have too many stormtroopers, so I’m still fine with him appearing here. He has the standard E-11 Blastech.

Here we have Admiral Raddus, the new Mon Calamari in Rogue One who I actually quite liked. He reuses Admiral Ackbar’s head mold but that is not entirely appropriate as I believe the head shapes of Raddus and Ackbar are different. I like his utilitarian outfit as well as the inclusion of a blaster pistol.

The final two figures are Moroff and a Rebel Astromech. Moroff is one of Saw Gerrera’s goons, appearing in two blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scenes. He has a brand new dual-molded mold for his head and front section of torso. He has a large brick-built backpack along with furry printing all over. His four-barrel gun is represented by a nozzle stuck into an axle pin. Clever.

The Rebel Astromech, whom Brickset claims is R3-S1, is not bad. I always like new LEGO astromechs so…

I like his dark grey body and the translucent dome with orange printing. Quite a neat figure. On to the build! The main build is of course the Y-wing Starfighter, but like 75175 A-wing Starfighter and 75102 Poe’s X-wing Starfighter, it comes with a small maintenance speeder, frequently seen in Rebel bases. The maintenance speeder, like most maintenance speeders in the Rebellion, is bright yellow. It has a crane at the front with a detachable section on the rear. This section holds extra missiles and bombs for the Y-wing. While this is not a bad build it feels rather like filler. There’s also no designated minifigure to use this – perhaps the stormtrooper could’ve been replaced by a rebel technician. As for the Y-wing build itself, it looks very good. Clever Technic hinges and skeleton arms are used to form the gentle curve in the cockpit sides, while there is lots of greebling for the rest of the body to show the exposed details. I like the use of brown, grey, and white bars, which presumably represent pipes. Clips, droid bodies, and grey ingot pieces all help to add to the messy, ragtag look. The engines have stickers on them but otherwise look quite nice, and the technique of using Technic axles for the nacelles is retained.

The cockpit uses the same old canopy. However, it has a new sand blue print and is built up with sand blue and translucent brown pieces behind it. It opens (though you have to swivel the cannons aside) and you can put the pilot inside. Behind the cockpit is the astromech socket which cleverly reuses the LEGO City car chassis element to fit the astromech in low enough but without adding significant bulk. There are two spring-loaded shooters beneath the cockpit. They aren’t integrated very well but are okay I guess. In between them is a small landing leg (there are three of those on this model). The cannon on top is attached via a Technic pin so can swivel (but with friction). From this back view, you can see more of the greebling as well as a suspicious-looking slot at the top. There are some nice mechanical details on the back as well, but wait! the black gear actually activates a play feature! You can slot bombs through the gap at the top and turn the knob. What happens? Bombs away! The bombs come falling through the hole in the bottom. This is pretty fun and accurate to one scene in Rogue One where the X-wings and Y-wings bomb the place. The mechanism works through simple revolving gears inside which move the bombs around until they face downwards, then gravity takes over. Pretty fun. And that is it for the Y-wing! I intended to review this earlier but unfortunately encountered some delays. Sorry! ☺️

Overall, definitely a solid set. The build itself looks great and is very accurate. Like 70612, the box art makes the front section look oversized, but the proportions in real life (and on the back) are better. The playability works well. I think there isn’t actually a whole lot but I find the amount and quality appropriate for the size of this set. 5 minifigures is quite nice (especially when a $149.99 USD set only has 5 too) but while Raddus is a cool new figure, it isn’t the most extraordinary minifigure selection (it’s still not bad though). I’d say the price is also pretty darn good, considering its good size. It is a little strange, however, that the UK price is higher than the U.S. one.

Builds: 4.5/5

Minifigures: 3.5/5

Playability: 4/5

Price: 4.5/5

Personal Rating: 4.5/5

TOTAL: 4.2/5

Thank you for reading 🙂 Let me know what you think in a comment below! See you all in the next post!

VaderFan2187 out! 😀