LEGO Star Wars Betrayal at Cloud City review! 75222 

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13:38 100% PURE TODD HOWARD

That mini Slave I is actually the most impressive part of the whole set to me. I actually want LEGO to release it on it's own, or at the very least a very similar version. The fact that the designer was able to capture all the essential details, including the moving flight stabilizers and still managed to make it be able to carry not only a Boba Fett figure but also carbonite frozen Han as well. I aspire to be that good! 😁 Great review as always Jang!

I would definitely buy the cloud car if it was a set by itself.

I wish they would make a UCS AT-ST.

Boba's Figure Design is already Amazing, but I think they should work on his Jetpack next. Like if you Agree.

Landos cape is sweet. These minfigs will be very collectable in 10 years

Stormtroopers not shooting straight is simply rebel propaganda.

I remember when I first saw this set. I couldn't understand WHY they made it. I still don't. It's just so meh... It's big and impressive (I guess...) but... why? I love star wars but never have I wanted a play with a set in cloud city. Are kids really getting this to play with? I feel like everyone who's buying this is past the point of playing with it. So... why? I'm genuinely curious if there are any kids out there who play with this thing though.

IMO, this entire set should have been sold in individual "rooms", or sections which could snap together and connect to make the final product we see here. That's the impression it gives me. What do you guys think of that idea?

As a teenager, there are three things I want in a Lego set, first and foremost is a fun build, second is the play value, even though most people my age wouldn't, I still like to be 8 again and play with the Lego, and finally I'd like it to look good/alright on display, it doesn't have to look amazing, just not bad.

The incredible design of the vehicles in this set makes me wish LEGO would do a whole range of these scaled down Star Wars vehicles. I think they would fly off the shelves.

Jangbricks is like the bob Ross of Lego/bricks

Yet there is no Bespin Ice Cream man... *Reeeeeee*

They should have included the guy with the ice cream maker.

I wish LEGO would sell stand-alone, mid-tier ships like that Slave I. Something between minifig scaled ships and microfighters.

I built this with my 4 year old who latched onto Star Wars after going to Disney World. He loves it and plays with it every day, more than he plays with any other set I ever got him. If you have a kid who loves Star Wars, this has to be one of the best sets in existence. Think about it: Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, R2D2, C3P0 Vader, Lando, a variety of storm troopers and imperial figures, Boba Fett and the carbonite, (which is VERY memorable for kids), the personnel, and two ships. What's the amount of money you spend to get all of that amount of stuff in smaller sets? Look at the $130 Vader set...just getting Vader and 3 imperial troops is a better value? That's the reality with LEGO, you know? It does cost a lot of money compared to just buying toys. Fact is, you're going to spend a lot of money to get every major character in a modern look. And if you spend the bare minimum to get them, do you really get more play value from it? Let's think about this: $25 for the Vader Transformation set. $20 for the Dewback with R2D2, C3PO and a storm trooper. $10 for a microfighter with Chewie. $30 for Luke, Leia and a Storm Trooper in Death Star Escape. $130 for the only other set on sale that has Boba Fett and Slave-1 with a modern Han Solo... but maybe you don't care about Slave-1 (my kid DOES) so you could get Han in the Mos Eisley set for $40 and get Greedo instead of Boba Fett. Now I guess you need to spend like $20 to get one of those sets with additional troopers, like the Drop Ship set, to get more miscellaneous figures to have adventures with. Now how do you get Lando? $40 Snow Speeder set? But that's an old style Lando, not the modern look. In any case. Let's say you did all this and now you have a similar collection of minifigs to the $350 Cloud City set. What did that cost, minimum? $25 + 20 + 10 + 30 + 40 + 20 + 40 = $185 minimum! And that's without Boba Fett. Look at the stuff you'd have, too. Vader's Transformation platform, an escape pod, a dewback, a tiny Millenium Falcon, a tiny Mos Eisley, a tiny drop ship (or whatever came with your troopers), and a snow speeder. No, sir, you do not get a good variety of stuff to have a sensible Star Wars adventure with all those dinky sets, it'd just be random tiny things that don't go together. $350 for a substantial cohesive set with meaningful minfigs that cover virtually all the major characters is better for me. I know that many parents don't care to think about the economics of it, but it's better to plop down $350 on a massive set and get everything at once than spend $20-40 over and over again for small uninteresting builds.

Your white table makes it look like the set is floating above an abyss

Wow I must've really fallen off the map, seeing this video in my recommendation was the first time I saw this set. I had heard the rumors but didn't know that it was actually released

Would love to get some of these mini- sized vehicles on their own to actually get some of the stuff I'd otherwise be priced out of

25:50 insert the red arm meme but gold

Honestly, it's a mediocre set, the only thing I really love is that beautiful Slave 1 build. In my opinion, they should have made separate sets for the more important scenes (Dining room, Luke vs Darth Vader duel, that Slave 1, etc...) and put some exposed pins in each so after you buy them, you can connect them.

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It comes to something when THIS isn’t classed as a UCS set, but Assault on Hoth is.

As always a good review and good points. I think you're right to say that it's not worth the money for the play features you get. It seems to not be able to make up its mind detailed or play oriented. To me, this would have been better sold as 3 or 4 smaller, better value sets.

As a 17 year old myself, i don't mind the look of this set. I just love that you get so many varied characters and so many areas to display those minifigures. It may be a bit tough to display but i'm still gonna pick it up at some point anyway.

Sadly it doesn't have the Ice cream guy. I would definitely buy just the Slave I for like 20/30 bucks. Since they changed the hair. They need a new Carbonite piece.

I'm pleased that the UCS Boba Fett is still an exclusive figure. I also feel that you gave a fair assessment of the set too.

a Jedi temple in this style would be awesome

Wonderful set for minifigures.

From what I see, the biggest flaw is the price, I can't imagine a kid picking this over a game system or something. They should release that slave 1 and cloud car as a $30 set. This would make a great medical center in your cyber punk city.

I reckon they shoulda split the rooms up into several smaller sets that act as 'modular' scene pieces that can build up a large set piece like the one there, whilst maintaining play features and also allowing MOC builders to make their own large cloud city build easily

I generally like the set but would like to suggest some improvements; 1. Remove the landing pad; it looks awkward wedged in to the overall circular shape of the set. 2. Use the landing pad's quadrant to make a bigger Vader vs Luke area, with another balcony and "object throwing" room. 3. Next to the carbon freezing chamber add the iconic "hexagon" corridor. 4. Add some antenae to the bottom so Luke can hold on after escaping from Vader.

I could buy 23 battle packs with $350. I think kids will much rather prefer a 92 man army with a bunch of pieces to build whatever they want with.

Jang this comments kind of unrelated but your voice is really relaxing.

I just want the tiny Slave I it's cute.

I'm not entirely sure why collectors were so die hard for this set to return anyway. Sure, the original had some exclusive figures, but what else? Was it not designed to be a toy for children back in 2003? I believe the designers did the best they could've. People also forget there's not a whole lot with the source itself, being Cloud City, besides the carbon chamber and the duel. The remainder are loose rooms and hallways, making it harder to work as a toy product. Maybe the 2003 version worked for kids because it focused on the carbon chamber and the duel instead of every little room and detail. I'm interested into hearing your thoughts! :)

I honestly really like this set! Mostly because Cloud City is one of my favorite areas in Star Wars. I like the interior and would definitely have fun recreating the movie scenes.

The 2018 holiday LEGO catalog shows this as a UCS set

I think a duel molded leg for 3po isn’t going to look as good as people think because it’s very subtle in the movies and if they used the silver color they are using would look really weird because of how shiny it is.

I have been looking forward to this...

I really like this set. It's a little rough around the edges (no pun) but once you get in there it becomes more screen distinct

Would like to see it compared to the Deathstar

Amazing and immense set. I wish the prices for these big LEGO sets was more palatable. Spending over $300 on sets like this is just a no go, even for franchises I have more of an affinity for. Thanks for showing all the nooks and crannies!

I feel that we honestly needed it, we haven’t gotten a cloud city set in years

That "secret trap door" is where luke would hold onto after fighting vader until the falcon picks him up

I gonna have to buy those midi-ish vhecles off of brick link I love them!!

I wish that Slave I end up as a set...

I think it should be priced as a $200.00 play set or make the carbonite room and the "I am your father" scene spaces separate $20-$30 sets.

the best things about it are the bits that aren't attached to the main structure, the 2 vehicles and the carbon freezing chamber. still, while it's not great, that still looks ok overall, and an improvement over assault on hoth. also it may be designed for kids, but when I read the review on brickset, I discovered it's full of small details that only big fans will notice, personally, I remember some key scenes, like the dining room, the duel or the freezing chamber, but the rest I don't remember that well, so there's at least half of the set that doesn't mean much to me.

I would prefer that LEGO made a series of small, separate sets to represent different parts of Cloud City.

Personally, I think they should have just focused on the carbon freezing chamber and the weather vane. All these tiny rooms that serve no purpose to collectors or children really is a waste. I think most children would have more fun in the carbon freeze chamber pretending to freeze different figures. Also you could have Luke fight Vader.

shame they didn't update the carbonite block to match the new Han solo fig

Finally a reviewer who recognises that this is MADE FOR KIDS! And LEGO is A TOY!

Interesting new look for Lego Star Wars. For the past couple years it seemed that they were shooting for larger and more realistic ships. Now in 2018-2019 they are aiming for a more play set oriented look. You can see it here, how the Slave 1 is smaller than the ones seen in the past, but I like this. Although I haven't touched Legos in some years now, it reminds me of how the sets were in my childhood (late 90s and early 2000s).

Lego NEEDS to start putting print on the back of R2 torso. If they can do dual molding legs surely they can put print on the back of a droid body.

350 $ is the Betrayal at Cloud City :D

I might actually save up to get this.

Good review! I am looking at this set, and thought it would work better as 4 or 5 partial sets. Three main sets: the dining room with some general 'nice' spaces added, a 'black set' for robot disassembly and interrogation, and the first Fight & Freezing room. Three rather large sets that could be connected in different ways (circular, line up etc). And one or two 'external' sets; the final battle scene and the landing zone, possible with the (indeed very nice) vehicles. Not bigger than this, just 4 separate sets, each about 80 dollars...

The Cloud Car is my favorite part of the build, it looks like it almost glows! Very pretty build

As a kid I was always building starship and space station interiors with LEGO (mostly inspired by Star Trek though) and this set looks like an advanced version of the stuff I used to build myself. I would have LOVED to get my hands my hands on it if this set had come out in the nineties (it captures the atmosphere of Cloud City very well I think, and in my head I’m already thinking of how I could transform it into a Starfleet set, where to place the bridge, engineering, sickbay and a transporter room). Great work from the design team imo, and as always a very good and thorough review from Jang. 👌🏼

It's certainly not bad... I feel like it would have worked and looked better though if they wouldn't have tried so hard to commit to Cloud city's circular shape and would have stuck to more conventional square shapes, maybe with a quarter of it really being the actual circular shape with also the walls and ceiling curving in.

Why don’t people like the whiter face for Darth Vader its much more accurate to when his face is revealed in return of the jedi

They could made a landing path for the ucs Slave 1, and the parts that invested in the tiny one use them to improve the cloud city.

You all best bet that I'm watching all 42 minutes of this.

I love the scaling of the Slave I ... looks fun and swhooshable..., more staer wars fighters and such should be made in a similar scale

There may be enough of a market to justify its existence, but I feel had they split them apart into smaller sets you'd have a lot more interest

I agree with your assessment of this set (great and honest in-depth-review of you - as always). Some nice work done by a designer tasked with an impossible job - but I don't see the target group for this. It isn't adult collectors or TFOLS and most kids either won't know the 40 year old movie or won't have the money or space to put this. Heck, I have a quite large house and would not know where to put this! What I do like (and what I hope will be a trend for LEGO in the future) are the MIDI-scale vehicle builds (I whish those were also sold seperately). The current Sandcrawler is another example of this trend. I think it is nice (and propably wise from an economic standpoint) of LEGO to make these affordable versions of bigger sets now and then.

I wish lego would make an accurate boba fett jetpack.

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It would be cool if they sold each quadrant separately for 1/4 of the price of the full thing. Maybe make it more accessible for everyone.

Is it bad that my favorite part of the set is the microscale Cloud City on the very top middle of the set. It looks really nice.

Great review again Jang! I think they could’ve given a second set of those Han duel milder legs for the Han in cuffs, after all he only took off his jacket, then the Leila hair and another Ugnaught, the. Minifigs would be perfect. Other than that a midi scale Falcon would complete this set. Still going to get it myself 🙂

Best reviewer ever

That C-3PO part is interesting; can't wait to get mine in the mail from Lego S&H to see if mine has those two differing colors. Great review as always, Jang!

So many tiny details that were barely even glimpsed in the film but I can't help to think of as "hey! That was in the Lego video game"

I’m a teen, and I’d happily display this, I’d be proud to own this. To me, the Cloud car should of been separate set

No Jang, I think Leia should have used the Phantom Menace Padme hair which the original Cloud City Leia had. That would have been a better choice than the one they keep using for Leia

A playset without play features... Oh excuse me, I forgot the sliding doors

Worth the price for that glorious Lando alone

I think they should turn the slave 1 and cloudcar into individual sets. They could add a small cloud city build for the cloud car, or a part of Jabba’s place for the slave-1. I would definitely buy them if they were priced right, maybe $30 each.

Since battlefront is going to have the clone wars added to it, maybe lego should make a Kamino set. I think it would be very cool and I think Lego could really capture the cloning facility.

Great review. Love the channel!

I remember the original Cloud Car kit being red and brown, so seeing the design back made me happy, but I wish it was put out as a separate kit. Even after this review I'm still on the fence as I quite like seeing kits of locations from Star Wars, but at the same time I barely have the space for my Gunpla and ever growing lego collection.

I like the long one because you explain your thoughts

I’m genuinely happy with this set, I used my first paycheque on this set. Thinking I’d regret it but shockingly I like to a lot. ( great mini fig choice )

I don't thing kids today are interested in cloud city (they may notice freezing chamber), but only old people (who where kids "far far ago") are. So the core problem of this release of CC is, it could not decided for its audience. Unshaped to please everybody.

This costs about 500k in Chilean pesos while the Death Star is 83k. The Death Star is the same wide and has more levels, same amount of figures and more detail, doesn't include the cloud car but there's Vader advanced TIE.

The only thing about the slave one is that the character boba fett is facing the wrong way

Awesome Bespin Guard and Cloud Car mini-figs! 👍

That Slave I is adorable! I think that could have been a nice 30-35 dollar set on its own.

2:20 The review on Brickset suggests that this is a place to plug in a couple of blasters for storage.

I‘m 19 and as a collector I love it. Mainly though because I finally wanted a Cloud City in my collection

They should make a UCS cloud car. change my mind.

This set is so great. Amazing review Jang great detail. Keep up the awesome work.

I love this set! It has more of a Star Wars "house" feel than some other sets and I really like that!

Very nice set I will try to buy it

9:08 would be interesting if they are planning on a second set for another level like what they did with jaba's palace years ago (unlikely but just a thought)

Ok, for me, I never had too much love for ep V, for my own personal reasons, so even if I was the target market for this, and I had the money and space, I'd have passed. I do agree with Jang's overall thoughts on the set, it's too big for being a kid's playset, and not geared towards collectors, so this set will probably be an orphan, very few people really enjoying it. My biggest excitement for the set is honestly the Slave I, I have always wanted lego to come out with "midi" scale sets, the minifig scale ones are too large and expensive for a college student like myself, and their minifig stuck on a chibi sets are not my flavor at all. I would love to see a whole range of ships set in roughly the same scale as the slave I, without the effort to cram a minifig into it, just give us the ships, without them costing so much that smaller collectors like myself are out of budget.

I really want this cloud city I'm a kid and I really like the large sets like this one and the UCS hoth though I had the old hoth from 2011 and an AT AT to go with it.