Better late than never, right? We’ve done reviews on almost all of the sets in LEGO’s Star Wars summer range. But astute readers may have noticed one set missing, one that’s caused quite the stir in the community: 75413 Republic Juggernaut. It has 813 pieces, and includes 8 minifigures, including the long-awaited Galactic Marines and Commander Bacara. But it’s had something of a frosty reception so far, largely down to its price of US $159.99 | CAN $199.99 | UK £139.99. So, finally, let’s take a look at it ourselves, and crunch some numbers to see if said reception is justified!
LEGO Star Wars 75413 Republic Juggernaut | 2025 Pieces | Available Now | US $159.99 | CAN $199.99 | UK £139.99>
The box and build
Both the clone turbo tank (as it’s been otherwise known as) and Ki-Adi Mundi’s clone legion featured briefly but memorably in Revenge of the Sith, albeit never together. Therefore the box art doesn’t represent any particular moment from the movies.
Among the paper bags, we also count the instruction booklet and a sticker sheet.
The construction of the Juggernaut starts off in fairly recognisable fashion. Technic bricks underneath provide some structure, with plates on top to mount everything else.
Unlike previous iterations though (of which there have been two), the interior structure is made up of systems bricks, with no Technic frame this time. The panels on the exterior are largely held in by Technic pin joints.
Underneath, a series of Technic beams and rubber bushes give the Juggernaut some working suspension, or a facsimile thereof.
The wheels, for the first time in a turbo tank, are brick-built. Each one takes up 13 pieces, so of the 813 pieces in this kit, 130 alone go to the 10 wheels. They look pretty good, but they’re quite boring to build!
The roof and some small attachments at the top are the last things to be made, and before you know it, the whole thing is finished.
The minifigures
Clone fans have been spoiled in recent times, with a lot of highly-requested legions appearing in minifigure form. Marshal Commander Bacara’s 21st Nova Corps, better known as the Galactic Marines, is one such legion. Of course, Ki-Adi Mundi stands by their side.
The troopers look really good, although some of the details are not perfect; the printing on the front of the legs isn’t really enough to replicate their long overcoats, for instance. The helmet is excellent, although you can’t turn their heads, which always irks me with this style of headgear. Marshal Commander Bacara can turn his head, but his helmet doesn’t look as good compared to his on-screen counterpart. He’s missing a pauldron too. Come on, LEGO, you literally just made the perfect element for it in the 327th Battle Pack!
Oh, and there are three battle droids too. Nothing to note, other than that they are somewhat outnumbered!
That is, until Order 66 gets called. Shame, as the Ki-Adi Mundi figure is pretty nice, even if it hasn’t been updated much since his last appearance in 2018. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I guess.
The finished model
Although its appearances are by now relatively numerous, it’s easy to forget how an HAVw A6 Juggernaut (to give it its full title) should look. So here’s a reminder:
Image courtesy of Wookieepedia
And here’s our LEGO model. It’s not a bad representation, but it’s missing a lot below the waist, to the point of looking unfinished. The parts-intensive wheels look fine, but in my view, are not a substantial upgrade on the single part used in the last iteration of this tank back in 2016.
I’m never sure which end of this is the front. I do like the trans-blue windows, even if you can’t see right through them. The shaping of the armour is pretty decent.
The under-inflated scale of this tank becomes obvious when minifigures are positioned around the outside. The crow’s nest especially looks rather ridiculous. That trooper at the top is rather exposed! Still, there’s some good play value here, if nothing else.
Open it up, and we get some good access to the interior, thanks to the lack of a Technic structure. Several reviewers have noted a loss of stability as a result (notably David Hall of Solid Brix Studios), but I have to be honest, I didn’t find the model to be especially weak. Then again, I’m not especially heavy-handed, and I only really grabbed the model from where the body is at its widest.
The silver lining to all that missing bodywork on the bottom is that the tank can be steered very easily.
The suspension can easily handle a few droids under it too.
Despite all this, I’m really not getting the impression this is a $160 set – one that was reinforced when I got my other large grey Star Wars clone tank out. The AT-TE is three years old, but still available, and is $140 for 1,082 pieces. So $20 less, but with almost 200 more parts.
In truth, the size difference is not as big as I was expecting, but you do still notice the difference in piece counts. Space inside is more or less comparable, although easier to get to on the Juggernaut.
And that feels like a nice segue into a quick bit of number-crunching…
How expensive are Star Wars sets, anyway?
Before we dive into the conclusion, let’s do some basic analysis on the value of Star Wars sets. We’ll use price per piece for this; a metric that has its flaws, but is easy to work out. We’ll go into more detail on price per piece and its alternatives in a separate article (keep an eye out for that one coming soon!).
Anyway, for now, here’s how the price and piece counts correlate for a selection of themes from 2015 to 2024 (three licensed including Star Wars, and three non-licensed). Plotting the piece count against the price in this way allows us to apply some elementary school maths, and work out the average PPP ratios in this timeframe: it’s simply the gradient of the extrapolated line of best fit.
The graph already gives a good idea of where the themes stand, but here’s how the averages shake out. Harry Potter, despite being a licensed theme (and having only re-entered LEGO’s portfolio in 2018) has quite a good ratio of 8.46 c/piece. Marvel is only six-hundredths of a cent away from the ‘golden ratio’ of 10c/piece. At the other end of the scale, City is surprisingly high – and that’s with the exclusion of the train sets, with their moulded track elements that skew the ratios. With them, it’s even worse.
| Theme | Price per piece (c/piece) |
| Ninjago | 6.84 |
| Harry Potter | 8.46 |
| Creator | 9.07 |
| Marvel | 10.06 |
| City | 11.45 |
| Star Wars | 11.63 |
And although rudimentary, we can nevertheless confirm the suspicion that Star Wars is an expensive theme. Filtering further to focus on ‘system scale’ sets, we expose one of the price per piece metric’s failings: of the 12 highest presented here, no fewer than 9 are minifigure-focussed sets with fewer than 200 pieces. But even then, the Juggernaut ranks poorly – it’s the fourth-highest PPP ratio of any system set from the last decade, and the highest non-figure focussed set. It has more pieces in its wheels alone than many of the other sets on the list!
| Set Number | Set Name | Year | Pieces | US PPP (c/piece) |
| 40557 | Defense of Hoth | 2022 | 64 | 23.4 |
| 40558 | Clone Trooper Command Station | 2022 | 66 | 22.7 |
| 75324 | Dark Trooper Attack | 2022 | 166 | 21.1 |
| 75413 | Republic Juggernaut | 2025 | 813 | 19.7 |
| 75412 | Death Trooper and Night Trooper Battle Pack | 2025 | 119 | 19.3 |
| 75199 | General Grievous’ Combat Speeder | 2018 | 157 | 19.1 |
| 75320 | Snowtrooper Battle Pack | 2022 | 105 | 19.0 |
| 75359 | 332nd Ahsoka’s Clone Trooper Battle Pack | 2023 | 108 | 18.5 |
| 75373 | Ambush on Mandalore Battle Pack | 2024 | 109 | 18.3 |
| 75363 | The Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter Microfighter | 2023 | 88 | 18.2 |
| 75406 | Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle | 2025 | 386 | 18.1 |
| 75272 | Sith TIE Fighter | 2020 | 470 | 17.0 |
What’s also worthy of note is that, with a couple of exceptions, most of the sets on this list are from just the last three years. A worrying trend? That, we will delve into in a further article. For now, let’s wrap up on the Juggernaut – and say a special thank you to Brickset, whose invaluable cache of LEGO data allows us to conduct analyses like the one above!
Conclusion and recommendation
In case it’s not obvious by now (or you scrolled straight to the conclusion), this set is egregiously overpriced. At absolute minimum, there should be $60 taken off that RRP. That would at least bring it within spitting distance of the theme’s average PPP ratio, high though it is. And that reflects the conclusion we’ve had on so many of the Star Wars sets that have come through our reviewing department lately: very few feel like they’ve been fair value for money, let alone good. Sometimes they’re off by ten bucks, sometimes more, like here. To be frank, this is a rip-off.
Why? Well, we can only speculate. Have the licensing fees increased? Are the more detailed minifigures to blame? Or is it simply calculated greed? Whatever it is, in this case, you should vote with your wallet: do not buy this set. And if you must have it, don’t settle for anything more than 100 bucks.
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Above header has a typo 2025 pieces (year?) as opposed to 813 pieces. Another reason for the increase is the tariffs applied to the US pricing. Being Canadian I track CDN vs USD and historically it is close to the exchange rate…not so anymore. That ratio has decreased as the US prices have increased. Which will also throw off the price per piece reference as the US prices are now adjusted.