LEGO Star Wars 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram review

LEGO Star Wars 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram is the latest version of a buildable, completely cute Grogu, this time with an unnecessarily massive side build.

If only Moff Gideon and the remnants of the Empire had shown a little more patience, because by the time LEGO Star Wars 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram releases at the start of 2025 there will have been Grogus aplenty for all. You get a Baby Yoda, you get a Baby Yoda, and so on. 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram marks the 13th different LEGO Star Wars set to feature the little green fella in one form or another, and – including BrickHeadz – the third different buildable version of the character too. We seemingly can’t get enough of Grogu based on what the LEGO Group is delivering here.

To put that in perspective, that is the same number of years it took LEGO Star Wars to release as many sets featuring Luke Skywalker, whilst the likes of Darth Vader (seven years), Obi-Wan Kenobi (eight years) and Chewbacca (11 years) all needed longer to reach as many appearances in sets. Kylo Ren, who for some is just as adorable, is even yet to feature in as many as 13 LEGO Star Wars sets. On the other side of the coin, BB-8 reached 13 appearances in three years…

Release: January 1, 2025 Price: £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 Pieces: 1,048 Minifigures: 1 LEGO: Order now

Lil’ Grogu

It may surprise you to learn, though, that the buildable Grogu you may be thinking of – 75318 The Child – will have released five years ago by the time LEGO Star Wars 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram hits shelves. Beyond making us all realise we’re much older than we otherwise thought, the point to referencing that set is that… it’s the point of reference. That’s the temptation at least, to compare a quite remarkable and wholly authentic big build of Grogu (from five years ago) with this present-day reinterpretation.

Reinterpretation is the important word here because clearly there is no comparison between the two. The original had a very similar piece count but it was solely put into building Grogu, much to that set’s benefit. Meanwhile, 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram – as the name suggests – uses that almost-identical piece count to build the baby, his pram and a couple of little collectibles too. Taking parts out of the build for the titular character and putting them into these other items naturally reduces the capacity of the design possible here and as a result, the Baby Yoda we have is smaller and simpler.

Not a baby

Simple doesn’t mean boring to build, nor any less cute to look at when finished. As far as putting together Grogu goes with LEGO Star Wars 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram, it’s genuinely a build that finds an intriguing middle ground between the studs-not-on-top approach of 75318 The Child, and the inner bricks-on-top approach and feel of an oversized BrickHeadz character. Size-wise too this model comes right in between those two examples. 

There are Technic axles and beams inside the little guy too, mind, which give him a nice range of movement in his arms, whilst a ball joint offers the same thing for his head. The build level is mid-range in difficulty too – not too challenging but with enough in there to maintain your interest, particularly for how quickly he starts to take shape. That is also indirectly a nod to how smart the parts usage is here, for how quickly you recognise the different things you are putting together – that’s the top of his robes, those are his little legs and feet – in far fewer pieces than this set’s bigger brother had, and still we can see and accept the same character coming to life again.

Once you place on the panels that make up the front and back of Grogu’s body you can also see where bigger, fewer bricks manage to do the same job with equal effect. Going smaller with a 2025 LEGO Star Wars set isn’t always about cutting corners or compromising on what matters most to it. Indeed, there’s no compromise to be felt as you move on to building Grogu’s head, with clever parts usage the name of the game thanks to some novel ideas used to capture the particular contours and cute expressions of the little Force-sensitive one. Some of those ideas are practical so as to help other pieces, others are creative so as to add to the overall aesthetic, and they are each a delight to experience as you progress through the build. 

It all comes together to create a little LEGO version of Grogu that is as cute as the real thing. His expression is brilliantly captured in what feels like not enough bricks, the ability to pose his ears downwards (but not up) gives you some wiggle room to change his move, and you can also angle his head to face forwards or upwards and turn 360 degrees around. The Technic details on the inside offer a little surprise too, with gears to turn on the back of the model to allow you to move either arm up or down.

In all, this is a delightful and totally cute LEGO Grogu build that once again captures the essence of the character cleverly, doubly so in fact for doing so with far fewer pieces than the last version.

75403 Grogu with Hover Pram Frog

And Grogu is only half the set for 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram. Which is good for what you end up with, bad for the quality and interest of the second 50% of the build – we can’t lie, the LEGO experience does significantly nosedive after Grogu because there’s no dressing up that can make building a big egg-shaped pram feel like much else. Honestly, if the set was just a £30 buildable Grogu then we wouldn’t complain if it meant avoiding building the upside-down hat for an hour.

It’s smartly designed and for those wanting that more complete set-up for their buildable Grogu it ticks enough boxes. However, where a smaller Grogu maintains enough toyetic charm and loveable cuteness to work very well here, the pram doesn’t do the same – we can’t completely put our finger on why, but it almost feels like it doesn’t match in scale or in build style. Grogu stands up in it and – ironically for a smaller buildable version – is clearly too big for it. Alongside this, where the character is more cartoonish in appearance, the pram feels more authentic to what we saw on screen with a lot more detail, technical structure and shaping built into it. For better or worse, between size and style the combination of Baby Yoda in pram doesn’t completely work.

Ultimately, there will be a portion of younger or less patient LEGO Star Wars fans building this set who finish the first few bags that put Grogu and his frog together and leave it at that, whilst the rest who build the full set will not get a proportionate amount more fun or interest in what’s left.  

75403 Grogu with Hover Pram could have been just 75403 Grogu with Frog and it would have come in at half the budget, felt wildly expensive for the piece count (at a guess, about a third of the 1,048 pieces here go into the little green guy) and it still would have been hugely popular. Essentially, the pram is one of the biggest side builds we’ve ever seen in a LEGO set and, as a result, pushes the set into a price bracket it didn’t need to hit to give us all what we’ve wanted since the last such set: a cute buildable Grogu.

Our honest opinion: LEGO Star Wars has placed this in the wrong price bracket and created an almost unnecessary side build of a pram when just a little buildable Grogu would have been fine. But you look into those big black eyes and tell the little guy that £90 is too much to rescue him from the shop.

This set was provided for review by the LEGO Group.

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