I am honestly blown away by the fact that this has never ever been done by Lego as an actual set. We did occasional get a Tatooine set now and then. Usually Mos Eisley cantinas and the most of them were pretty, well underwhelming. So this is an OG set. Sounds funny when you think about it. In 2020 we get an OG set for the original trilogy.

Lego has a long history of making underwhelming Lego Star Wars buildings sets. And honestly I cannot blame them in the most of those cases. Translating an actual structure into a Lego set is a pretty challenging objective. There is so much you have to leave out due to budget and building restrictions. But in some cases they could have tried little harder and I feel like this is the case.

The set is supposed to be paired with 75271 I feel like. But that does not make too much sense since the speeder is actually bigger than the hut. But they still do come together pretty nicely and even though you get two Skywalkers that way, I would still recommend getting both of these sets unless you are happy with whatever previous iteration of the Landspeeder you already own.

PRICE

I do not think this to be a nicely priced set. 30$ for 200 pieces is not the best deal and one can only wonder where do they get the audacity to release such bargains as 75272.

But bear with me here. In this case the pricing is not as blatantly trying to ruin your day as in the previously mentioned case. The hut actually comes with a bunch of nice pieces and the detailing is really gorgeous. But I will get to that later.

So is the set worth its price? Well, yes but actually no. If you get it on a discount go for it! It is still a decent set. If this is a must-have set for you, do not let 30$ stand in your way. I think 25$ would be a better deal and even then it could use one more minifig. I think that a solution should be addressed at the point where the issue is mentioned. So given that we keep the price I think the set should have one more Tusken raider and be slightly bigger or just be little more than slightly bigger. Perhaps 2 studs in each dimension excluding the height would help. But then the placement of the sphere piece would come off as awkward. To solve that I would make the hut 4 studs wider towards one side only. Then it would look more like the real thing and the price would not be brought up as much.

MINIFIGS

• Obi-wan. There is not too much going on with this guy here. He has some really pretty torso and back print. No legs or arms print whatsoever and has one very well-done face print. There is no alternative face in here. The hair piece is not the same hair piece used for a really long time by Lego now as the box art might mislead you. It is similar but it has some shaping done. Ben comes with a lightsaber here.
• Luke Skywalker. The same minifig as in 75271. This is arguably the best Tatooine Luke we have right now. The print is clean and neat. There is no arm printing but that is not necessary I feel like and the hair piece does look somewhat realistic. The colour is too bright, but if you can get over that I think you will be happy with this minifig. Also, Luke comes with two facial expressions and a lightsaber here.
• RD-D2. A classic R2 with a good enough print.
• Tusken Raider. A highlight of this set for me. The guy has a state of the art head mold with spikes, goggles and a detailed mouth. The troublemaker of the set has a nice print on the torso, the back and the legs. I belive this is a reused print from earlier sets but it holds on perfectly. The raider also comes with a gaffi stick.

BUILD

As I have already mentioned the set could use a little higher piece count. But from now on I will review just what has been given to us.

The hut comes with a stellar level of detailing. When you open the thing up, and yes it can be closed and it works perfectly fine in a closed position, you are greeted by an extremely well-done detailing. There is a whole kitchen on the back side with a pot with a stew and a burner underneath of it. In front of the kitchen part is a living room of sorts with three seats and a little table with the legendary blue milk. There is a whole lot of other stuff but you can see that for yourself. What I would love to pin point is the training droid. It is not the part of the scene but it makes for an excellent inclusion. And then there is a new mold for the Leia hologram which looks perfectly recognizable.

If this sounds like that is a lot of stuff for such a small building. That is the point of my criticism. The building just screams in a dire need of more room. There is a whole box meant for the lightsabers and/or the training droid and it is placed in the entrance door of the whole hut.

The building experience is fun as you take a nostalgia trip and see this lovable building raise up. I recommend you playing some original Star Wars movie music while building this one. If you love the original trilogy you will have a blast.

BTW the half-sphere is pretty rad. Haha.

PLAYABILITY

There is basically none in here. Thankfully there are no stud shooters and unnecessary rocket launchers crammed into the build. But you can reenact this scene which is pretty cool. I would think of this as more of a display set but you can play with it too. There are just no play features.

CONCLUSION

I would not call this set overpriced as its amount of detail and special pieces kind of make up for that. But I would still say this needs to be a little bigger even if it meant the price going a little up. The minifigs are nice and when you close the hut it looks clean and ready to be displayed as a small cute build on a shelf.

In the end I would recommend buying this set even for the retail price.