LEGO Star Wars 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship review
LEGO Star Wars 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship takes a familiar, well-built ship from a galaxy far, far away and makes it even better.
LEGO Star Wars is years deep into not only these Ultimate Collectors Series sets, but also its exploration of all things to do with Jango and Boba Fett’s iconic ship from a galaxy far, far away. It means that with the release of 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship not only is this not even the first UCS Slave I – sorry, Starship – that we’ve had, but it follows a long, long line of previous versions each more detailed, interesting or at least innovative than the last.
The LEGO Star Wars design team are so well versed in exactly how to recreate every little angle and feature to this most unique vehicle – and in ways each time that continue to marvel – that LEGO fans go into 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship with not only the highest of expectations for more of the same, but also wondering where at all possible they have found a way to raise the ceiling once more. LEGO Star Wars perfected the Slave I years back, so how exactly do you perfect…perfect?
75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship
Release: May 1, 2025
Retiring: December 31, 2026
Price: £259.99 / $299.99 / €299.99
Pieces: 2,970
Minifigures: 2
Start by changing the colour and the subject, for starters. For all the Slave Is – sorry, Starships – we’ve had in 26 years of LEGO Star Wars history, 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship is remarkably just the second minifigure/UCS-scale rendition we have had based on the original bounty hunter’s ship as it appeared in Attack of the Clones, with the first dating back to the year that film came out, 2002. Those of you old enough to remember will know those were different times for LEGO as a whole, and 7153 Jango Fett’s Slave I was one of several that sat on shelves, reduced, for months long after the film left cinemas.
Things are very different now and nostalgia for the prequel trilogy is in full swing and this return to Jango’s version of the ship is very much welcome and feels fully appropriate for the number of Boba Fett Slave Is and Starships we’ve had in between.
As an Ultimate Collector Series build, 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship is as thorough and as specific as you would expect. Every sub-section of every corner, edge or angle inside or out is intricate to put together and – as if the result of an extra level of consideration in the design process – is incredibly effective in creating every authentic detail you would hope to see in a model this big.
A larger portion to the ship than you may initially expect does of course benefit from modern piece selection, particularly when placed in comparison to 2015’s UCS 75060 Slave I. This is most notably so around the lower domed section of the ship, which at every scale LEGO has built this set in usually represents the biggest design challenge, for how the curvature runs in two separate directions – around the entirety of base of the ship, horizontally, and then from every point upwards to the body of the ship vertically.
Whilst the 2015 UCS Slave I introduced ideas and techniques to ably capture the particular shell-like shape of the Slave I’s lower portion in perhaps the most effective way so far, it is only in seeing how much of a step-up this modern version for Jango takes that we can appreciate the difference 10 years of further design experience and parts selection can make. Between those two things you can absolutely see where 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship’s much larger piece-count goes, and you can appreciate how not a single piece is wasted in some creative and quite thorough techniques. In ways, particularly for how some of the parts sit out of sight,
There are number of new Speed Champions-borne curved wedges and slopes at play here, but also a number of mini-builds and intricate details very much the result of a LEGO Star Wars design team working in perfect tune.
To that end, there are even parts to this set – and in particular that lower section – that you spend a good while putting together and that involve some quite particular, smart techniques to achieve that are then sat almost entirely out of sight. They may prove unnecessary to the observer, but to you putting it all together they are the details that add to the all-round, polished look of the model, offer up that higher level building experience that make such UCS sets a unique delight, and serve as something between an imagined crucial mechanism to the inner workings of the Slave I that you are helping to ensure is placed just so, and just another nice little secret between you and the LEGO Star Wars designers.
Beyond the colour scheme revisiting Jango’s version for the first time in over two decades, it is definitely in this lower portion to the model that 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship really differentiates itself from any previous LEGO Slave I. As we say, that is for how fluid the final result is in appearance, but it also for how fluid it is in functionality. This is because built into the perfectly-rounded-out base is an incredibly smooth play feature where pushing down on the central part of the ramp to allow walkway access to the interior automatically opens the door inside.
It’s an effortless play feature that is very satisfying to action and also true to form, very nicely reflecting what we glimpse on screen in Attack of the Clones when Jango and Boba are loading Slave I on Kamino just as Obi-Wan Kenobi comes out on to the landing platform and draws his lightsaber ready for combat.
Whilst the cockpit exterior and long body and tail of the ship come in very similar to recent LEGO versions of Boba’s Slave I and effectively more closely mimic what we got in the 2015 UCS Slave I, the interior of the cockpit also marks a substantial upgrade in detail and use of space. 75060 Slave I from 2015 offered a UCS interior based around the gyroscopic feature to the cabin that allowed pilot and occupants to swivel and remain upright regardless of the orientation of the ship – so in landing mode the seats were upright, and as the ship moved into flight mode and adjusted 90 degree upright, the seats moved to remain upright. This was achieved in 75060 Slave I by linking the internal movement to the movement of wings on the outside.
But, with 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship the designers have instead opted for a fixed position cockpit, effectively locked into flight mode orientation. This has given a lot more space for the interior to be built out, from details in and around the pilot seat – including various stickered dashboards – to a second deck of seating built beneath too. The pilot section is removable too for separate display, with space for Jango and Boba to sit in. For the quality of how the entire interior comes together we can absolutely understand and appreciate the creative direction taken here, just as we can’t quite see a solution that could offer such explorative detail alongside including an internal mechanism to keep the orientation of the seating upright between landing and flight mode. Maybe that’s what the next UCS Slave I in 2035 can aim to do…
In all, putting together 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship is involved and time-consuming, and the sort of build to do over more than one sitting. After the first three or four sets of numbered bags the shape of the ship begins to come together pretty quickly, as does its impressive size. The colour scheme kicks in pretty soon too as you build out the curved edges to the lower section early on, before soon after that you are already putting together the framework for the upper level cockpit and long, thin tail. The amount of detail built into the model at every stage feels like a notable step up from previous UCS sets and adds to the all-round, deep dive into Slave I that is on offer here.
The display stand 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship comes with feels like a bonus but is much-needed to offer a dynamic angle of pose for the final model to sit in and really show things off. The minifigures are secondary to the LEGO experience in such sets, but Jango Fett is excellently captured in the best way so far, benefitting from a switch to a pearl dark grey torso, and printed arms that far better capture the amount of shiny armour he is dressed in. The new helmet design is subtle but more screen-accurate, whilst the new rangefinder attachment is a slight improvement but not worth getting as excited about as you may otherwise think – it still sits a bit silly and is coloured in a lighter shade of grey that isn’t for better.
Young Boba Fett needed dual-moulded legs but these weren’t possible for budget reasons, and arguably will never look right without a dedicated hairpiece. But is it worth taking away from a LEGO set like 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship to achieve that, or upping the price by another £20? In our opinion, the set is the star of the show, then Jango, then Boba, and if we have to have a compromise somewhere to keep the price competitive, then it should be as it is here, in the supporting cast where the impact is felt least.
75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship is a worthy addition to the UCS collection and a fresh take in colourscheme and design for a ship you may have thought you had already had enough of by this stage. This set is proof, though, that you haven’t. Very much one to save up for and pick up for the collection, like any simple man looking to make their way in the universe.
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Our honest opinion: LEGO Star Wars 75409 Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship offers the most authentic, best LEGO Slave I yet, just as we had hoped.
