LEGO revealed the UCS Executor Super Star Destroyer (75457) on 26 August 2026: 6,130 pieces, $799.99, on sale 1 October. At about 13 cents per piece it is priced in line with the rest of the Ultimate Collector Series, and LEGO calls it the longest brick-built LEGO Star Wars model it has made.
What LEGO announced
Darth Vader's flagship returns as a 6,130-piece Ultimate Collector Series model. Built, it runs 136cm (53.5 inches) long, 50cm wide and 20cm (7.5 inches) high, and weighs over 5kg. LEGO lists it at $799.99, £649.99 and €749.99, releasing 1 October 2026 through LEGO.com and LEGO Stores.
Seven minifigures come in the box: Darth Vader and the six bounty hunters he summons in The Empire Strikes Back, which are Boba Fett, Dengar, Bossk, IG-88, 4-LOM and Zuckuss. They are not there for scale next to a 136cm ship. They belong to a separate minifigure-scale recreation of the bridge scene, which is the part of this set that does something the 2011 version did not.
The ship itself sits on a built-in stand, and LEGO has included a to-scale Star Destroyer alongside it to show how badly the Executor dwarfs one. There is a Millennium Falcon in there too, rendered as a printed 1x1 tile.
The price, measured against the original
This is a remake, so the useful comparison is the set it replaces. Brickset records the 2011 Super Star Destroyer (10221) as 3,152 pieces at a $399.99 RRP, retired on 31 December 2014.
Run the arithmetic on both and something interesting falls out. The 2011 set worked out to about 12.7 cents per piece. The 2026 set is about 13.1 cents. Fifteen years apart, after a decade of LEGO price rises, the per-piece rate has barely moved. You are paying roughly double, and getting roughly double the parts plus seven minifigures the original did not have.
That does not automatically make it good value, but it does answer the most common complaint aimed at a $799.99 price tag. By the standard LEGO has set on its own flagship models, this one is not an outlier.
Worth noting for anyone thinking about the long game: Brickset currently puts a new, sealed 10221 at around $1,286, against its $399.99 RRP. That is what happened to the last one after it retired. It is history, not a forecast, and the sample size is one. Anyone tracking what a shelf of retired UCS sets is actually worth can log it in Stud Vault rather than guessing from a single eBay listing.
What you cannot judge yet
No one outside LEGO has built this. Every hands-on question that usually decides whether a big UCS set is worth the money is still open: whether the 136cm hull holds its shape when you lift it, how much of the surface is repetitive greebling, whether the stand takes the weight over years, and how the bridge diorama reads next to the ship.
Those answers arrive when review copies go out closer to 1 October. Until then, the honest position is that the specs and the price are known and the build quality is not, so this page carries no worth-it score. Treat any confident verdict published this week, here or anywhere, as an opinion about a press release.
Who should be paying attention
If you missed 10221 and have wanted the Executor since, this is the first realistic chance in twelve years, and the price per piece is defensible. Pre-orders through the first ten days of October also carry a gift with purchase, the 40897 Darth Vader's Lightsaber, while stocks last.
If you are buying for resale, the 10221 pattern is tempting and worth treating carefully. That set retired into a market with no alternative. This one arrives new, will be produced in modern volumes, and will sit at retail for years before any retirement premium exists.
And if shelf space is the constraint, take the measurement seriously before anything else. 136cm is over four feet. That is longer than the UCS Millennium Falcon and awkward in a way a piece count does not communicate.
The verdict
Priced fairly, judged too early. At $799.99 for 6,130 pieces the Executor lands where a UCS flagship should, and it improves on the 2011 original in the ways that matter, with nearly double the parts and a bridge scene that gives the minifigures a reason to exist. Whether the model itself justifies four feet of shelf is a question for the first real reviews in October, not for reveal week.
