LEGO Star Wars 75430 Wicket the Ewok review

LEGO Star Wars 75430 Wicket the Ewok offers a unique but imperfect take on the cutest character from Return of the Jedi.

Ah, what to make of this set? 75430 Wicket the Ewok ticks a lot of the right boxes to appeal to many LEGO Star Wars fans, but something doesn’t quite come together to impress as we’d hope.

75430 Wicket the Ewok

Release: Aug 1, 2025

Retiring: Dec 31, 2026

Price: £109.99 / $129.99 / €119.99

Pieces: 1,010

Minifigures: 1

The LEGO Star Wars theme has doubled down in recent months on larger buildable characters and following on from the likes of Chewbacca, Grogu (more than once) and a plethora of droids, we have 75430 Wicket the Ewok, a brick-based version of everyone’s favourite native from the forest moon of Endor.

Wicket is cute, curious and one of Return of the Jedi’s most memorable and – judging by the number of toys released every year – popular characters. And on from a successful run of such cute characters from a galaxy far, far away being converted into LEGO bricks, he is a natural choice for the LEGO Star Wars team to tackle for this August 2025 wave of sets.

As a build, if you have put together any of the other recent buildable characters then you will know what to expect here – a steady, solid core covered with plates of detail on the front, sides and back, with a mixture of fixed and jointed limbs and head attached. Except, sadly for Wicket, each arm and leg are in fixed position, as is his head. Alongside 75371 Chewbacca, 75430 Wicket the Ewok is rigid, immovable, locked in as a display-only LEGO Star Wars set.

For the most part that is okay, because the build is credible in many ways in capturing the details and appearance of the character – the fur effect is nicely realised across his body, whilst his toes and fingers are the cutest for how they are recreated in LEGO form. Likewise, the overall he wears is excellently detailed and designed so as to contrast with the fur underneath and appear to sit on top of it as a thinner layer. How it is shaped around his head is really smart too.

Wicket’s ears are very detailed and surprisingly technical in design, but come together very nicely. Yet for everything that works to a level we are happy to say is authentic, the face is where the model falls apart, and looks more LEGO than it does Wicket.

Translating anything furry with human characteristics into brick form is one of the hardest things, and proportionally at least 75340 does everything right – there is skilled LEGO design here and this is where it shows. But, in part for building at the scale we are working to here, and in part for how complex and particular Wicket’s face actually is, capturing enough detail to wholly reflect the character and expression of the little guy in LEGO form is just not quite possible. There aren’t enough bricks to build out those characteristics and that expression of his and surround it all with enough fur.

75430 Wicket the Ewok isn’t a write-off by any means, and represents a LEGO-ised version of the character quite nicely, in a way that he does take on a unique identity and begin to grow on you. Yet for the price, and for where a lot of the other buildable characters do go, there is a clear lack of connection between source material and LEGO set that disrupts the all-round experience here.

It’s the same as for 75371 Chewbacca – furry, humanoid characters represent a different sort of challenge, requiring more detail or realism than this scale of LEGO building allows for. They stand out in the buildable character collection.

We don’t dislike 75430 Wicket the Ewok, but it is a buildable character that asks a little extra of you before you come around to loving him, particularly (and stop us if you’ve heard this before about the August 2025 sets) at that price.

Our honest opinion: There’s plenty to enjoy and 75430 Wicket the Ewok ticks a lot of boxes, but this is still another buildable character struggling for enough bricks to bring out just the right level of detail.

This LEGO set was provided by the LEGO Group for review purposes.

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