LEGO Star Wars Razor Crest comparison: 2020 vs. 2026

How does LEGO Star Wars’ new Razor Crest stack up next to the original playset from 2020? We’ve put them side by side to find out…

75447 The Razor Crest hits shelves on April 26, just in time for The Mandalorian & Grogu to debut in cinemas a month later, and brings Din Djarin’s original ship back to the LEGO Star Wars line-up just as the movie will return it to screens. This new (and perhaps improved) Razor Crest is a different beast to the original, however – something that’s reflected in a couple of different ways in its new LEGO iteration.

The first and most obvious point of comparison between 75447 The Razor Crest and its 2020 predecessor 75292 The Razor Crest, which was released a year or so after the original series of The Mandalorian debuted on Disney+, is in the raw numbers. Here’s how they differ…

LEGO Star Wars Razor Crest comparison: stats

In line with the general LEGO Star Wars design approach in recent years, 75447 The Razor Crest is smaller than its predecessor in every dimension, while also including 93 fewer pieces. When adjusted for inflation, however, the new set is technically cheaper, too – but of course that doesn’t tell the whole story, as purchasing power hasn’t kept up with inflation over the past six years.

In short… LEGO Star Wars has always been expensive, and 75447 The Razor Crest doesn’t do much to break that mould.

LEGO Star Wars Razor Crest comparison: design

The meat of this comparison is really in how the two different versions of the ship compare, because that’s where most of your money is going. From an aesthetic perspective the most obvious difference between these sets is the colour – they’re both predominantly grey (this is the LEGO Star Wars way), but in line with the Razor Crest as we see it in The Mandalorian & Grogu, the 2026 set has a splash of yellow to brighten up proceedings.

Then there’s the size, which feels more pronounced in person than the numbers in the table above can reasonably portray. The older Razor Crest is bigger and chunkier in every department, to the point that it feels like there are far more than just 100 pieces separating these two models. And the struggle with downsizing any LEGO Star Wars ship, as we’ve seen on a handful of occasions these past few years, is maintaining credible proportions.

Any adjustments here are even more obvious given the two sets share a cockpit piece, which typically determines the scale of any LEGO Star Wars vehicle, and it’s here where 75447 The Razor Crest wobbles slightly. The large sections on either side of the windshield on the original set are missing in the new version, which has the effect of accentuating the cockpit and making it look a tiny bit oversized by comparison.

Efforts to downsize elsewhere are more successful: the two huge engines either side are still interesting to build, perhaps more so than on the original model, and scale well to the ship’s hull. And while the downsizing is all too apparent when placed side by side with 75292 The Razor Crest, on its own the 2026 version doesn’t feel too small for its minifigures (in the same way that last year’s 75399 Rebel U-wing Starfighter did, for example).

LEGO Star Wars Razor Crest comparison: interior

One area in which you’ll really feel the downsizing between Razor Crests is the interior, which is inevitably a lot roomier in the original set. But beyond that there was just more going on in 2020: the O.G. R.C. has living quarters under the cockpit, a detachable escape pod on top and bounties frozen in carbonite, while the redux has an engine of sorts under the cockpit and… nothing else.

It’s worth acknowledging that the bounties and escape pod could be story-driven as much as anything else, and there just might not be as much going on inside Din Djarin’s new ride in The Mandalorian & Grogu as there was in the first couple of seasons of the show. But this isn’t the first time LEGO Star Wars has skimped on interior detail in recent memory – 75354 Coruscant Guard Gunship springs to mind as a good example of wasted interior space…

LEGO Star Wars Razor Crest comparison: minifigures

The two Razor Crests are pretty much a match in terms of minifigure count, with four standard characters and one tiny Grogu included in both versions. Even the makeup of those minifigures is like-for-like: Din Djarin, Grogu, an Imperial trooper and two named characters. There are a couple of points of distinction to separate them, however.

First up is that you’re getting four proper minifigures in 75447 The Razor Crest, while one of 75292 The Razor Crest’s characters is IG-11, a brick-built droid (the LEGO Group generally doesn’t count droids as minifigures). More pressingly, Zeb Orrelios is the first LEGO Star Wars character to include both dual-moulded arms and legs, which just about gives the 2026 set the edge in this department.

LEGO Star Wars Razor Crest comparison: verdict

In the great Razor Crest battle of 2026, which LEGO Star Wars set comes out on top? It’s almost annoying to say, but neither 75292 The Razor Crest or 75447 The Razor Crest is outright better than the other – they’re quite singular sets that pick their battles in different ways, while both remaining authentic to the source material.

The new version provides a new LEGO experience for anyone who built the original, and it’s just as good an entry point if you missed out on the 2020 set too. So, given 75447 The Razor Crest is going to be the easier one to pick up from April 26, it makes sense to gun for that one if you’re trying to choose between them.

75447 The Razor Crest launches at LEGO.com, in LEGO Stores and at all good retailers on April 26 for £139.99 / $149.99 / €149.99 and is available to pre-order now. Check out our full hands-on review of the new Mandalorian & Grogu LEGO Star Wars set here.

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