The Lego Star Wars UCS Jango Fett’s Starship is a dream set for brick-building bounty hunters, but it’s definitely not for padawans

Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship might not be as familiar to the masses as the X-Wing, TIE Fighter or Millennium Falcon, but among Star Wars fans, the bounty hunting vessel that spanned both the original and prequel trilogies is just as iconic. And yet, up until 2025, the ship’s striking-blue Attack of the Clones guise had only ever featured as a mainline set way back in 2002.

Lego was much more dedicated to delivering the vessel under the proprietorship of fan-favorite, Boba Fett, going so far as to release the UCS Slave I (75060) back in 2015. This representation of the starship as it appeared in The Empire Strikes Back has become a coveted UCS classic and one of the best Lego sets ever released. So much so, I found it hard to believe that the formula could be improved upon.

Still, as a self-confessed Fett superfan, I jumped at the chance to add Jango’s infamous ship to my personal collection. If you haven’t built a UCS set before, the Ultimate Collector Series is Lego Star Wars’ premium range, boasting its largest and most prototypically accurate sets. As such, I won’t hold back my judgment. After all, Lego has set the bar exceedingly high.

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Lego UCS Jango Fett’s Starship (75409) Features

• 2,970 pieces
• 18+ age rating
• One exclusive minifigure

The Lego Star Wars UCS Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship (75409) retails for $299.99 / £259.99, which sits at the lower end of the price-per-piece average. Compare this set to, say, the UCS Lego Star Wars AT-ST Walker (75417) at £179.99 / $199.99, for roughly half the number of pieces, and it’s not a bad price for a Lego set in 2026.

It’s also worth remembering that Lego sets get discounted more frequently nowadays, and indeed, I picked this set up for a healthy discount, making it extremely good value. I’m a big fan of these mid-range UCS sets, because they’re big enough to be a real show-stopping centerpiece, while avoiding the extremely expensive price tags of giants such as the UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) and UCS Jabba’s Sail Barge (75397).

Lego Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship (75409) build

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• 10-hour build
• A challenge to put together
• 25 stickers

If you’ve built the original UCS Slave I (75060) then Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship (75409) will feel somewhat familiar, but maybe not quite as familiar as you’d expect. While the protruding central structures are similar in concept, this latest incarnation’s ovular rear is much more accurate, and to achieve this almost perfect curvature, the designers have taken a noticeably different route.

What I can’t get my head around is that despite this set being roughly the same size as its predecessor, its piece count is increased by nearly 50%. That’s 2,970 pieces spread across 23 paper-bagged sections as opposed to just 1,996 pieces. When you pick this thing up, you suddenly realize where those extra pieces have gone – it’s heavy.

Unlike the UCS X-Wing Starfighter (75355), which is largely dominated by its gangly S-foils and the UCS AT-ST Walker (75417) with its large, hollow interior, Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship is dense. The hull is built by layer upon layer of Lego bricks and Technic pieces and don’t you know it when you attempt to pick this hefty lump of a set up.

Not to take anything away from Lego’s incredible designers here, but usually, when you build a Lego set, you at least know where it’s going. Most pieces slowly reveal the bigger picture, like a comic-book artist’s sketch. But building this UCS set is a little like watching Bob Ross splotch seemingly random blobs of paint all over the canvas, before the picture reveals itself later down the line.

I spent a good portion of this build marvelling as abstract collections of pieces slowly revealed themselves, which built anticipation, but would certainly struggle to hold the attention of Lego padawans. Speaking of, this set certainly earns its 18+ moniker. I’ve built a lot of Lego sets in my time, and this sits right up there with the UCS Republic Gunship (75309) as one of the hardest I’ve built.

The odd, questionable instructions diagram doesn’t help, but this is an advanced build nonetheless. It relies on a lot of Technic pieces to achieve some very tricky angles, as well as to securely hold sections together. As any Lego fan will know, Technic pieces don’t always play ball, so be prepared for a little trial and error when trying to get multiple axles to clip into place.

The often abstract nature of this build makes it easy to miss pieces, too. On several occasions, I had to backtrack because I ended up with a piece that was simply too large to be a spare at the end of a bag (one was buried very deep!). And yet, this is the kind of challenge you want with a UCS build. I was a model maker in a past life and Lego is never that challenging (I wouldn’t want it to be), but this set is utterly deserving of its UCS moniker, and I had a blast putting it together.

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As far as fun build techniques go, this set makes great use of clips to subtly change a section’s orientation so you can get the perfect angle. There are a few creative instances where studs don’t actually connect and a piece is slotted into a position where it’s secured but not physically bound.

A lovely example of the designers’ ingenuity is two light green, triangular plates on either side of the ship’s entry ramp. You wouldn’t know it, but this crazy angle is achieved by pressing each plate onto a rod connected to a ball joint, which you can then angle into the desired position.

The entry ramp itself deserves a mention, too. Press it down, and the entrance to the ship is automatically raised, thanks to a hidden mechanism built using various Technic beams and pins. It’s a simple mechanism, but it works beautifully and is a step up from the hinged flap on the previous incarnation.

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What I don’t enjoy when building a Lego set is stickers. I know they’re a necessary evil, but when it comes to the Ultimate Collector Series, I feel very strongly that stickers should be kept to a minimum and we should be treated to more printed pieces. There are very few printed pieces in this set. In fact, beyond the two minifigures and the plaque, I think that’s about it.

I can understand that exterior stickers are necessary to replicate the paint job – take care when applying two very long stickers, either side of the canopy – but I’m not impressed that all of the cockpit panels are stickers. I also really dislike having to add minuscule stickers to two-studded tiles. These are arguably the most challenging to apply neatly, and when the Lego Ideas Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (21360) gets five exquisitely printed golden tickets, I can’t understand why this set can’t get three printed Aurebesh tiles.

But the most egregious sticker faux pas regard that huge (and admittedly delightful) cockpit canopy and the seismic charge on the ship's rear. I thought cockpit canopy stickers were a remnant of the dark times. The UCS X-Wing has a printed canopy, the UCS Razor Crest (75331) has a printed canopy, heck, even the Dark Falcon (75389) playset has a one-off, gorgeous red-and-black printed canopy.

So you can imagine my surprise when I was faced with two (albeit small) stickers to place on the huge centrepiece cockpit canopy of Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship. And guess what? I was so focused on getting them lined up perfectly, I put them in the wrong place! Thankfully, I was able to carefully peel them both off and reposition them, but if I hadn’t been able to, it would have ruined this glorious-looking ship.

As for the seismic charge, it’s barely two inches long, and it features five stickers. Four of these stickers wrap around the pair of 2x2 domes. I applied them all on my first attempt (they weren’t stuck down and then reapplied), but a week later, I spun the ship around and found that each end of all four stickers had lifted. This simply isn’t good enough for an Ultimate Collector Series set.

Lego UCS Jango Fett’s Starship (75409) design

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• Incredible accuracy
• Slide-out interior
• Premium Jango Fett Minifigure

This set looks fantastic. Despite the UCS Slave I being over a decade old, I really didn’t think that Boba Fett’s iconic ship needed to be revisited any time soon due to its incredible accuracy. The Attack of the Clones variant clearly gave Lego an excuse to return to the bounty hunters’ modded Firespray under Jango’s ownership and now that I’ve built it, it’s a definite step up.

The original UCS Slave I still looks incredible, but it’s not nearly as refined. I can liken it to already impressive last-gen graphics that have just been treated to a modern remaster. It’s only when you go back to the original that you realise how much has been improved.

The OG ship was always a bit of an outlier in regards to other Original Trilogy vehicles such as the X-Wing, AT-AT and Star Destroyer. Get past the battered paint job and you’re left with a sleek and curvaceous vehicle that’s more in line with prequel designs such as the Republic Gunship and Naboo Starfighter than the lived-in rust buckets of Star Wars' ‘70s and ‘80s roots.

This isn’t an angular AT-AT, it’s a very difficult ship to replicate in Lego form, and the designers have gone beyond what I thought possible. Gaps are minimal and curves are accurate, surely it can’t get any better than this? Even the rear of this ship is a real treat, showcasing just how well Lego has nailed the ovular shape.

The ship is full of lovely details, too. I particularly like the stabilizer fins on either side of the ship. Not only do they look fantastic, but they freely rotate depending on whether the ship is displayed upright or landed. The twin blaster canons at the base of the ship can be rotated by hand and share a fixed axle, so they spin in unison.

The back of the ship is almost as detailed as the front, with particular care and attention paid to the sublight engines, which feature a fluorescent-yellow coloring that really pops. An often overlooked touch is the transparent 1x1 square panels and 1x1 circular tiles that are evenly spread across 11 places on the ship’s rear. These subtly raise the ship when it’s in a landed position to give the impression that it’s hovering slightly, as per the movies.

The seismic charge can be hidden behind a pair of panels or the panels can be moved aside to reveal the weapon. Unfortunately, you have to physically move the panels by pulling them off and reattaching them. It’s easy to remove them when the hatch is open, but when it’s closed, you really need to pull down the flap beneath the hatch to prise off the doors.

I can’t imagine it would have been too hard to introduce a sliding door mechanism here, and indeed, there are mods out there that do just that. The charge itself is fiddly to remove, and if you’re not careful, it will fall into the belly of the ship. I can only assume that’s why Lego included the aforementioned flap, since you can open that up and tip the ship to retrieve a lost charge.

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While I love building UCS sets, I’m a sucker for a good playset, and what I really like about Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship is that it has the rare distinction of being a UCS set that’s roughly minifigure scale. This means that both Jango and Boba fit neatly into the cockpit, and what a fantastic little cockpit it is. And while I stand by wanting more printed pieces, I do like the sticker that contains a yellow outline of the ship, this is actually seen off to Jango’s right in the movie, although I kind of wish the other sticker featured Obi-Wan’s Jedi starfighter, as per the movie, too.

You can fit three minifigures in the main bridge and below, there’s passenger seating for two more. A lovely touch is that the bridge slides out so you can easily add/remove figures. This does mean that it doesn’t rotate, like the Boba Fett UCS set, so that the cockpit is properly orientated depending on whether the ship is displayed on its stand or lying flat. But I think both the easier access and the passenger seating are a fair tradeoff.

You also gain access to a hidden back panel when the cockpit is removed, which features a small bacta tank and storage for Jango’s pistols and jetpack. There’s no official storage for the helmet, but I’ve found that you can slide it neatly onto the back of one of the seats and it’ll stay put.

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I was initially concerned about how stable the ship would feel on the comparatively small stand, given its hefty weight. However, the stand does seem to be plenty sturdy. You do have to be careful when handling the ship itself, as there’s really no obvious way to grip it. I generally hold the protruding body of the ship while supporting the rear with my other hand.

When it comes to attaching the stand, there are two not-so-obvious gaps on the rear of the ship, where the stand slots in. I find it’s best to bring the stand to the ship (as opposed to the other way around). Once slotted in place, you can carefully rest both the ship and the stand on a flat surface.

As for the stability of the ship itself, I think it’s fine. I have seen complaints online of bits falling off, but I really haven’t experienced that. Despite the minifigure scale, it’s important to remember that this is first and foremost a set for display. It’s not built to be flown around the room like a playset.

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You won’t find me complaining about the number of minifigures included in this UCS set. Jango and Boba are all we needed and they’re both here. But when it comes to quality, it’s a tale of two halves. I firmly believe that UCS sets should include definitive versions of each minifigure and while Jango is the best version of the Mandalorian yet, Boba is a downgrade in quality from the minifigure that was included in 2017’s Jedi Starfighter with Hyperdrive (75191).

Lego has never gotten the color of Boba or Jango’s purple-hued fabrics quite right, but the lighter sleeves on this latest incarnation of young Boba simply don’t look as good as the previous generation’s darker sleeves. I also preferred the predecessor’s mischievous face print, but perhaps the most egregious change is the young clone’s hairpiece. The 2017 figure’s medium-length middle parting was spot on, but for some reason, Lego has swapped this out for a messy side-swept fringe that makes Boba look more like the sixth member of My Chemical Romance than a Mandalorian clone…

Thankfully, Jango is everything you could ask for from a modern Lego Star Wars minifigure. He’s essentially the same excellent figure that featured in the Jango Fett’s Starship (75433) playset, but with one key difference: printed arms. If you know anything about Star Wars minifigures, you’ll know that the Fetts have a bit of history when it comes to printed arms, *ahem* Cloud City (10123), and already this minifigure is fetching a pretty price online.

You get exquisite printing throughout, face (front and back), torso (front and back), hips, legs and feet are all printed, and the helmet is beautiful. My only real critique comes from the Obi-Wan Kenobi minifigure in Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Jedi Starfighter (75333). Kenobi’s face print features the headset that he wears in the cockpit, and it really would have been the icing on the cake if Lego had treated Jango in a similar fashion.

Should you buy the Lego UCS Jango Fett’s Starship (75409)?

I was ready to award this set five stars, something it deserves on so many levels. But I cannot get away from the fact that awkward sticker placements, a below-par Boba Fett minifigure, and the occasionally frustrating instructional diagram prevent a perfect score. And I don’t Force push that half a star away lightly. I’m always more critical of Ultimate Collector Series sets because of the investment in time and money, and also the incredibly high bar that Lego has set for itself.

Despite all that, this is still one of the most impressive UCS sets Lego has ever released. The UCS Slave I (75060) was supposed to be as good as it gets and it boggles my mind that Lego’s designers were able to go one better. Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship is a marvel of modern building techniques and is one of the most advanced models Billund has ever produced.

Other plus points include a sublime Jango Fett minifigure, a relatively reasonable price point, and a stunning little interior. Prequel-era UCS sets don’t come along often. If you’re a fan of Attack of the Clones, Jango or the prequels in general, this is one set you don’t want to miss. Jango might have been just a simple man, trying to make his way in the universe, but his starship is as complicated as it gets (in Lego form at least...).

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How I tested the Lego Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship (75409)

I built the Lego Star Wars UCS Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship (75409) in multiple sittings over the course of a week. I then displayed it in my study before photographing it – this gave me a chance to move the set around to test its stability and play features.

I’ve been a hardcore Star Wars fan since the late ‘90s, and have been collecting Lego since the beginning of the decade. From Pirates to Bionicle and beyond, you can rest assured that I’ve got the brick-building experience and Jedi training to critique Lego’s latest.

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