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.
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.
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