LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand review

LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand will likely exist as an underrated gem of the theme, for having its brilliance buried behind something a bit boring.

Based on the Invisible Hand as featured in the opening sequence of Revenge of the Sith, LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand offers up a brand-new-for-the-theme set designed at a scale that keeps things cost-effective. What’s not to love? Well, for how the final model looks, 75377 Invisible Hand is surely facing an uphill battle to engage a wider LEGO Star Wars audience.

— LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand set details —

Theme: LEGO Star Wars Set name: 75377 Invisible Hand Release: March 1, 2024

Price: £46.99 / $49.99 / €52.99 Pieces: 557 Minifigures: 0

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— Where to buy LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand —

LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand releases on March 1 and will be available at LEGO.com and in LEGO Stores, as well as at select retailers.

— LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand build —

We’re going to be honest with you. We headed into building LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand fully prepared to be completely disengaged with the set, uninterested and struggling for the nicest way to say this is a boring LEGO Star Wars set, primarily based on how the finished set just doesn’t look that interesting. Long, grey, fish-like and relatively functionless, it does not have as many identifiable features or hold the same iconic status of many other ships from the Star Wars galaxy.

Yet for how intelligent the design to this model is, and for how compelling it makes building this set, we are fully on board with the potential of the midi-scale ship concept for LEGO Star Wars and hope for many more sets like this to come. It does help change our opinion on 75377 Invisible Hand too, even if that is to say that putting the set together is 100 times more fascinating than looking at it complete.

Novelty does sit in its favour, for here’s a completely-brand-new-for-LEGO-Star-Wars ship showing some love for the opening sequence to 2005’s Revenge of the Sith when Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s rescue of Chancellor Palpatine results in them crash-landing one half of the Invisible Hand back on Coruscant. The sheer fact we’ve never built this ship before out of LEGO, combined with the lower number of prequel trilogy and Clone Wars sets we see coming out of Billund, means that 75377 Invisible Hand already has one large and hungry audience to provide for.

But from the box art and official imagery it is fair to say that this is far from the most compelling LEGO Star Wars set releasing on March 1. Indeed, it’s not even the most interesting midi-scale ship releasing, thanks to the excellent 75375 Millennium Falcon. However, it’s still not one to be overlooked, thanks to an intricate and truly excellent design that demonstrates not only a sharp understanding of LEGO as a creative and mathematical medium, but how to make the very most of a limited piece count.

Coming in with only half as many parts to it as 75375 Millennium Falcon and still facing the same design challenges of building at midi-scale (where details can be lost in interpretation and dimensions easily warped by a misplaced plate or tile), 75377 Invisible Hand offers an absorbing and unexpected construction process. Some aspects to how it is put together can be worked out by looking at the images of the set, but there are plenty of surprises to enjoy and discover too, as well as a few lessons to learn on how some of these parts can interact with each other.

It’s a building experience that will certainly stick with you, and it’s one that’ll puzzle you for quite how the LEGO Star Wars team came up with it – honestly there are uses of some parts that surely took weeks of trial and error to discover, right? In any case, the biggest strength to 75377 Invisible Hand lies in just how fun it is to build. And it gets you to thinking that if this is the approach LEGO Star Wars takes with the design of these midi-scale ships then how amazing could a podracer or a Star Destroyer be?

Before we dream of what might be, though, we have to face facts around what currently is, and even if 75377 Invisible Hand is a delight and an education to put together, it’s still not the most interesting final model. And whilst it will definitely hold appeal for the prequel trilogy generation (thanks in part to some excellent accuracy), it will likewise fail to inspire others simply for what it is – which is no criticism of the set itself nor the scale that it is built in (and fully justifies), but rather the nature of the source material.

In short, whilst 75377 Invisible Hand is a great example of LEGO Star Wars design, and we are absolutely ready for prequel trilogy sets again, this doesn’t feel like the most inspired choice of ship to run with.

Aside from this, the only actual criticism of the model itself is perhaps in how the gimmick of the ship being able to break in half is not supported by the design of the display stand. The ability to angle and display the two halves to the ship ‘mid split’ would have made the final model that much more appealing and compelling to a wider LEGO Star Wars audience, even if it would have added a few pounds to the price. It’s a small criticism though on a set that otherwise delivers all that it needs to so as to fulfil its remit.

— LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand characters —

LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand does not include any minifigures, which feels like a misstep where a General Grievous sat on display with the model would have added some real extra value. Perhaps with an element of exclusivity too, such as a new cape, or a redesign that makes him taller.

— LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand price —

LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand comes in at £46.99 / $49.99 / €52.99 which places it at the cheaper end of the trio of midi-scale sets releasing on March 1. For how well it makes use of a much smaller piece count, though, it offers tremendous value, if this more niche ship appeals in the first place.

— LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand pictures —

— LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand pros and cons —

LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand takes something never before built in LEGO and offers up a remarkable and thorough model that is quite compelling to put together, even if that means it’s better designed and more smartly built than the source material otherwise warrants. Because that’s the point – one of the best LEGO Star Wars designs of the year stands to be buried beneath a set that some won’t even give the time of day, simply for how the source material that it is based on is relatively uninteresting. Great LEGO work on perhaps the wrong Star Wars ship.

75377 Invisible Hand pros	75377 Invisible Hand cons
This will teach you some new techniques	The finished model is still a bit boring
Building it is the best part	Display stand makes no allowances for the split function
It splits in two (don’t most LEGO sets break apart?)	You cannot tell how good this is to build

This set was provided for review by the LEGO Group.

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— Alternatives to LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand —

LEGO Star Wars 75377 Invisible Hand releases as part of a trio of midi-scale ships for the theme in March. If budget is no issue then either the more expensive 75376 Tantive IV or the most expensive 75375 Millennium Falcon will be more than justified additions to your new collection. The Falcon is the best of this trio and worth the step up in spend, if affordable.

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