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The first chase in Star Wars The Tantive IV is the first ship the audience sees in Star Wars, and it is already running. A small Corellian corvette flees the massive Devastator above Tatooine, carrying Leia and the Death Star plans. The contrast between...

The Falcon from a darker timeline Rebuild the Galaxy takes familiar Star Wars designs and scrambles their identities. The Dark Falcon is one of the strongest results: the same saucer and off-centre cockpit, now covered in black armour, red accents and weapons that do...

Cad Bane's working starship The Justifier is not a hero ship. It is Cad Bane's transport in The Bad Batch, a long-nosed vessel with a forward cockpit and a hold built to keep a bounty secure. Its shape is practical, slightly ugly and entirely...

Rebuilt fighter The N-1 starfighter is the ship the Mandalorian rebuilds with Peli Motto in The Book of Boba Fett. It is a sleek, silver Naboo fighter with a long nose, a single seat and an astromech socket, and it replaces the Razor Crest...

A fighter with a new owner The N-1 starfighter becomes the Mandalorian's ship after the Razor Crest is destroyed, and it represents a new chapter for the character. The design is a Naboo fighter, sleek and fast, with a long nose and a single...

The creed behind the visor Mandalorian armour is rarely just armour. It carries family, rank, repair and belief, and Din Djarin's helmet is defined by a rule about when it can be removed. The smooth beskar shell and T-shaped visor do the work without...

The gunship returns The Razor Crest is the Mandalorian's ship in the first two seasons of the series, a working gunship with a cargo hold, a carbonite chamber and a cockpit for two. It is destroyed in the second season, which makes it a...

The gunship that became a home The Razor Crest is remembered less for its speed than for the life that happened inside it. It carried bounties, tools, spare parts and Grogu, and its cabin looked like a place where repairs were always half finished....

Imperial punishment, delivered slowly The TIE Bomber is not built for a fair fight. Its second pod is a magazine, and the ship exists to carry torpedoes and bombs toward fixed targets. In The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, it arrives...

A hybrid that should not work The TIE Fighter and X-Wing are built from opposite ideas, but they share a basic layout: a central cockpit, wings that carry the engines and a narrow forward profile. The Lego TIE Fighter & X-Wing Mash-up 75393 set...

The face behind the glass Behind the visor sits a narrow white glow, with a cooler point on the chest box and a faint rim of light on the nameplate. The ZENE Bricks TIE Fighter Pilot Helmet 75274 kit leaves the black shell almost untouched, so...

A slice of trench, three ships “Stay on target” is the line that defines the scene, and this LEGO Star Wars diorama is built around that narrow channel. The wall is the subject, not the ships, which is why the lighting is arranged along...

Forced perspective in a shoebox A dogfight is difficult to compress into a shelf model. The trench run depends on speed, distance and the sense that the wall is endless, and none of those things survive a simple row of tiny ships. The diorama...

The sound came before the shape The TIE fighter's scream was built by Ben Burtt from an elephant cry and a car tyre skidding on wet pavement. The sound is the first thing audiences remember, but the shape is just as distinctive: two hexagonal...

Sharper wings, colder light The TIE Interceptor is the Empire's attempt to make the standard TIE look even less forgiving. Its pointed wings and narrow cockpit turn the familiar ball into a blade, and the design appears in Return of the Jedi during the...

Minifigure as a monument The LEGO minifigure is a design so familiar that it has become a language of its own: a yellow head, a rectangular body, a pair of arms and a set of legs. This set takes that language and scales it...

Clone navy's first fighter The V-19 Torrent is one of the Republic's early Clone Wars starfighters. It has a long fuselage, a pair of forward wings and a set of vertical fins, and it is designed to be fast and cheap to produce. The...

A flight deck inside a warship The Venator is built around an open hangar. Fighters launch from the side of the ship, the bridge watches from above and the red stripes make the vessel immediately identifiable as Republic. It is a capital ship designed...

Red stripes over a working hangar The Venator's red markings are more than decoration. They identify the ship as a Republic vessel and separate it from the grey Imperial Star Destroyers that follow. On the Lego Venator Class Republic Attack Cruiser 75367, those stripes...

Republic carrier The Venator-class Attack Cruiser is the Republic's main capital ship in the Clone Wars. It carries fighters, troop transports and a full crew, and its open hangar is the place where the war is launched. The ship is a wedge like the...