LEGO Star Wars 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor review

There’s no denying that LEGO Star Wars 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor is pretty expensive, but there’s also no denying just how good it is.

Taking a familiar and often-visited ship from Star Wars and looking to modernise and improve upon it all the while hitting all those expectations around accuracy and authenticity is one of the recurring challenges that the LEGO Star Wars team faces, and is very much what was on the table heading into creating 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor.

Pleasingly – and by this stage rather predictably – they have proven more than up for the challenge, delivering an excellent LEGO version of the Jedi Interceptor that feels fresh and like a total upgrade. Shame about the price, but still…

Release: January 1, 2025 Price: £39.99 / $44.99 / €44.99 Pieces: 290 Minifigures: 2 LEGO: Order now

An old friend with a new look

75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor is exactly as you’d expect and hope a LEGO Star Wars set for 2025 named 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor would be. It’s relatively easy to put together without being simplistic or dull, and it improves upon areas of design compared with previous Interceptors, adding details and new configurations for building what may otherwise feel familiar.

Importantly too, it isn’t following the trend of other LEGO Star Wars vehicles by shrinking down in size. In fact, thanks to that bulkier backend to the cockpit, a meatier central fuselage and thicker wings the ship actually feels bigger than its predecessors. So we can save that discussion for our review of 75402 ARC-170 Starfighter…

The colour palette and visual design is spot on, based on Ahsoka’s Interceptor as seen in the opening of Season 5 Episode 17 of The Clone Wars, ‘Sabotage’, where she flies to the aid of her master Anakin Skywalker after his yellow Interceptor is overrun with buzz droids. It’s only a small scene but highly memorable and kicks off one of the most significant storylines for both Ahsoka and Anakin.

It’s not the first dark red Interceptor we’ve had, but it’s the first belonging to Ahsoka, matches 75354 Coruscant Guard Gunship from the same Clone Wars storyline quite nicely, and – discounting the more unusually-designed 75360 Yoda’s Jedi Interceptor from 2023 – is the first Revenge of the Sith-era design Interceptor we’ve had for five years, following 75281 Anakin's Jedi Interceptor.

That set is relevant to mention beyond facts because it’s the clearest marker for what half a decade of design learning and new parts availability can do, even for what is a relatively small ship like this.

Sticky situation

75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor benefits greatly from that fancy new cockpit piece complete with high-quality print all around it (the white print is much stronger than in, for example, 76908 Lamborghini Countach). The improved build around the cockpit and how it opens and closes also really levels up the feeling of value around that printed part for how it modernises a mechanism that the previous Interceptors had.

Less so, though, does the set – or your fingers – benefit from the stickers. They are inevitable but, in the case of those for the winglets, super tricky for being such an unusual shape and size. Get any one of eight wrong and it stands to chance you’ll ruin your brand new LEGO set.

Stickers are, as we say and accept now, inevitable, particularly when it comes to specialist areas of design that printed parts would not be feasible to expect instead. That being said, it always stings a little when the most complicated aspect to a LEGO set is sticker-related and not LEGO-related. Complicated LEGO building offers a challenge to be proud of working through – complicated stickers are just a relief to get out of the way. And if you get a complicated build wrong you can always undo it where you can’t when you get a sticker wrong.

Moan about the stickers to one side (but you’ll moan too when you are putting this together), Jedi Interceptors are always some of the most fun and interesting small LEGO Star Wars ships to build and, pleasingly, 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor is no different. From building the cockpit area with aforementioned new piece and opening mechanism through to putting together each wing and attaching them at those angles, it’s a familiar feeling with the addition of all those little upgrades a new version should deliver.

And the minifigures likewise offer us some familiar faces we all no doubt have at least one of in our collections by now, but in very nice upgraded designs. Ahsoka benefits greatly from printed mid-size legs, and Anakin’s dark brown base to his entire outfit gives what is otherwise an overworked minifigure a bit of new life. And whilst droids aren’t always the most interesting characters, R7-A7 is looking particularly smart in print and design, thanks to a fine print and clever colour choices.

Self-Sabotage

As we say, Jedi Interceptors have been some of the most consistently fun and interesting LEGO Star Wars sets to build over the years and 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor very much delivers that same wholly accessible and enjoyable experience. Older builders will be left with nostalgia for the earlier models in this line, whilst younger builders will be hooked for life.

Stickers aside, the set delivers everything that has been great about LEGO Jedi Interceptors of the past with all the new details and upgrades you would expect (there is an air of luxury to this set’s finish), alongside a very desirable and high-quality line-up of included characters. Again, apart from the stickers, which are a bit naff to do, what’s not to love here? (Absent landing gear to one side…)

The price. The price is what’s not to love. This is not a fair price to pay – LEGO Star Wars sets should always be good, they almost always are too, but they need to remain affordable to LEGO fans, not just older collectors, which is otherwise where prices such as £39.99 / $44.99 / €44.99 for 290 pieces and three characters is pushing things.

Our honest opinion: The price once again tests us all, but we’re all going to fail anyway and still buy this, because it is truly an excellent and fun LEGO Star Wars set, taking a well-worn concept from the theme and elevating it to a level of LEGO luxury.

This set was provided for review by the LEGO Group.

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