The LEGO Star Wars Executor Super Star Destroyer, a scaled replica of Darth Vader’s flagship, is the longest build in the company’s history, measuring 53.5 inches – close to four-and-a-half feet in total. It displaces the LEGO Titanic from the top spot, which measured 53.1 inches. The difference between the two sets is .4 inches – a little over the width of a single, one-studded square tile.
Price: $799.99Pieces: 6,130Set #: 75457Release Date: October 1, 2026Dimensions: over 7.5 in. (20 cm) high, 53.5 in. (136 cm) long and 20 in. (50 cm) wide
It might be that the designers are bumping against the upper limit of how long a set can be while also remaining commercially viable. Since I built the Executor, it’s been sitting on the work desk in my house, and nothing else can fit on that desk at the same time. The first thing you’ll want to do, before you even think of buying this set, is make sure you have the room to display it. It is 7.5 inches high, 53.5 inches long, and 20 inches wide. To illustrate how big that is more subjectively: I could easily believe this build was a show display – the type of thing you might see at a LEGO convention or in a toy museum, under glass – rather than a set available for retail purchase, as this one is.
The LEGO Executor Super Star Destroyer comes in two separate boxes, spread out over 54 bags and four instruction booklets. The first thing you build is a tiny Imperial Star Destroyer Devastator. This is one of the first ships we see in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope when it’s chasing after the Tantive IV, during the scene where Leia escapes with the Death Star plans.
I actually built a 4,784-piece LEGO model of the Devastator back in 2019, which came with a tiny model of the Tantive IV to highlight its disparate size. So when this new set shows how the Executor dwarfs even the Devastator, and makes it look miniscule by comparison? It illustrates the massive scale these ships possess.
After building the micro-Devastator, you build a minifigure-scaled bridge of the Executor. It’s famous for being the location in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, where Darth Vader speaks to six bounty hunters – Boba Fett, Bossk, IG-88, 4-LOM, Zuckuss, and Dengar – and offers a bounty for the capture of the Millennium Falcon. He infamously fixes Fett with an intimidating stare: “I want them alive. NO DISINTEGRATIONS.”
This is the first time all six bounty hunters have been packaged in the same set. LEGO is more likely to be completionist with its giant sets (like Avengers Tower or The Goonies). It doesn’t justify the high prices, admittedly. But it’s still nice that LEGO treats its prestige sets like standalone purchases rather than parts of a “collect ’em all’ money scheme.
Next, you build the black stand. It is surprisingly durable; it will later be the only stable means by which you can move the model from one location to another. During the build itself, you use the black stand to turn the model upside down, to better access and construct the underbelly of the ship.
Finally, you begin building the Executor itself, starting with its foundational framework. But unlike other LEGO frameworks, which are expansive and airy to create the illusion of bulk, the LEGO Executor has a lean, compact build. A dense mass of multicolored Technic parts forms the model’s triangular silhouette.
The work goes slowly and meticulously. This is not a build you can speed through, and it is very easy to miss a step or forget to insert this eye into that rod, which will cause the final build to fall apart, literally. I had to backtrack a few times to make sure it all fit properly, knowing the stability of one element relied upon the underlying stability of another.
Anytime there’s an open hook or clamp, it means one of two things. Either you forgot to connect an element from the last bag, or there’s another element, which you’ll build several hours from now, that fits into it perfectly. As massive as it is, this set doesn’t have any stray bits for the hell of it. Every brick is functional.
The build repeats at times, but it doesn’t feel laborious. You’ll build one layering plate, and you’ll build its mirror counterpart an hour later. By that time, you’ve forgotten the process and it feels new again.
One important caution: Have steady hands, and do not, under any circumstances, drop a piece into the build itself. There’s nothing more painful than trying to fish out an errant brick, while you hear it rattling about. In the process of getting one piece, another piece falls off, or a structure collapses into itself. If you try and repair that, another piece falls off or a different structure collapses.
I speak from experience. I made one mistake, and in the process of undoing it, it cost me an hour to rebuild what I had broken. And at the end of it – after putting everything back to where it should have been – I still had four pieces left over, and I couldn’t figure where they went. I hope they’re not too important, because I’m not digging under the hood again to figure them out.
This model’s size is one thing, but its level of detail, painstakingly integrated into the build’s top side, is quite another. Star Wars creator George Lucas called it “greebles”—the application of disparate mechanical parts to an otherwise smooth surface to give it texture. Because the ship is gray and because the “greebling” overlaying it is also gray, it appears, from a distance, like a monochromatic monolith.
But move closer, and you gain an appreciation for its scale. Where did the crew members live and spend their leisure time? Where did they man the guns? Where did they navigate and initiate the thrusters? Did they commute from one end of the ship to the other, or did they simply inhabit one part of the ship for their entire service, never seeing the whole?
According to canon, the Executor was larger than Manhattan, and over 280,000 crew members worked and died on it. The width of several tiles represents the length of several city blocks. A single piece of greebling represents a machine bigger than a building. This is a floating city in the sky, and to build it is to feel and appreciate its weight. And after you’ve finished it? The build’s size and complexity render it contemplative. It somehow gets more interesting and engrossing, the more you look at it.
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LEGO Star Wars: Executor Super Star Destroyer, Set #75457, retails for $799.99, and it is composed of 6130 pieces. It is available for purchase now at LEGO.
