LEGO Star Wars 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet review
The sequel trilogy makes a return to LEGO Star Wars with a strong statement in the form of 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet.
The LEGO Star Wars Helmet Collection continues forward for a sixth year with the launch of two long-awaited additions to the line-up in the form of 75408 Jango Fett Helmet and 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet.
Where 75408 Jango Fett Helmet returns us to the prequel trilogy with a significant update on one of the very first helmet sets, 75277 Boba Fett Helmet, 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet offers our first helmet to come from the sequel trilogy, and the one that was top of most fans’ lists.
75415 Kylo Ren Helmet
Release: May 1, 2025
Retiring: December 31, 2026
Price: £59.99 / $69.99 / €69.99
Pieces: 529
Minifigures: 0
75415 Kylo Ren Helmet certainly feels a long time coming, in part because of this six-year break from the sequel trilogy that the LEGO Group has taken, and in part because as one of the most recent, iconic helmets we have seen from a galaxy far, far away, it has been one of the most expected and awaited additions to the Helmet Collection since that began in 2020.
In any case, the long wait looks to have generally benefited 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet. We may have been pulled into a more thorough comparison with 75277 Boba Fett Helmet for our review of 75408 Jango Fett Helmet, but a lot of the modern techniques we see in Jango’s helmet design that were just not there for Boba’s helmet are prevalent too in 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet, albeit in more subtle ways.
Those techniques – aided too by some newer pieces added to the LEGO catalogue – go a long way to achieving a very credible rendition of Kylo’s headgear as we saw it in The Force Awakens. From the distinctive silver markings around the eyebrows and cheeks to the pronounced area around the mouthpiece, 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet captures a lot of the important and more obvious details to the mask that we would hope to see. Better still, every decoration you see in these images is printed – there’s not a sticker in sight.
These front-of-face areas also frame that uniquely-shaped visor – smoothy rounded, specifically contoured around the eyes and deep set within the silver markings, this is a key part to the helmet’s – (and character’s) – expression, and it is caught excellently. You can almost hear his voice when you look at that face.
Whilst the top and upper-parts to the back and sides of the helmet are simpler, plate-based constructions, the subtle lift in angle around the bottom edge is very cleverly conceived with hinges, and contributes far more than you may first realise to the end result, which is a wholly accurate and authentic LEGO version of the sequel trilogy’s most iconic helmet.
Is there room for improvement anywhere? There is perhaps curiosity around seeing the many studs across the top and sides of the helmet smoothed out with tiles rather than plates – the pieces to do so certainly exist and it could likely have pulled the model even closer to the realism that the likes of 75305 Scout Trooper Helmet and 75351 Princess Leia (Boushh) Helmet achieved.
That being said, 75305 still included a number of visible studs that did not detract from the effect, whilst two of the very best helmets – 75328 The Mandalorian Helmet and this year’s 75408 Jango Fett Helmet – have the same studded dome effect as 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet. In the darker colour the studs do seem more greatly accentuated, though, and that’s really what gets us thinking.
That aside, 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet is wholly enjoyable and relatively interesting to put together, producing an end result more than worthy of a popular character from the most recent trilogy of Star Wars films and serving a reminder that, almost 10 years on, The Force Awakens in particular remains a positive ground from which to mine LEGO Star Wars sets.
Our honest opinion: Authentic, detailed and long-awaited, 75415 Kylo Ren Helmet looks as sleek and menacing as you would hope it could.
This LEGO set was provided by the LEGO Group for review purposes.
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