The outcome seems to be that packaging design is aligned to the largely black backgrounds focusing on the model while retaining the Master Builder Series branding for location-based, minifig-focused, playset-style LEGO Star Wars sets. When LEGO announced its new product strategy for adult LEGO hobbyists a few months ago, it wasn’t clear how this would affect the branding for longstanding sub-themes like Ultimate Collector Series and the relatively new Master Builder Series launched with 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City exactly two years ago. Let’s strap a blaster to our hip, leave the droids to park the landspeeder, and step inside… The set retails from the LEGO Shop for US $349.99 | CAN $449.99 | UK £319.99 and is available to LEGO VIP Program members beginning on September 16, with general availability on October 1st. Does it live up to my nearly life-long expectations? How does it compare to previous incarnations of this iconic watering hole?ħ5290 Mos Eisley Cantina is built from 3,187 LEGO pieces, and the product description states that it includes 21 minifigures “plus” R2-D2 the droid (a point we’ll return to later in this review). But I am, because my favorite planet in the Star Wars universe is still Tatooine, and my favorite place on the planet is Chalmun’s Cantina. It’s rare that I acknowledge up front in a review how excited I was personally about a forthcoming LEGO set.
LEGO’s latest set in its Master Builder Series takes us deep into that “wretched hive of scum and villainy” with 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina. But the enormous universe that Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi lived in truly came alive only when they first stepped into the cantina in the Mos Eisley Spaceport - “This place can be a little rough,” Old Ben warned Luke. If you watched Star Wars beginning with Episode IV: A New Hope as many of us born in the decades before the Prequel Trilogy did, the first planet in a “Galaxy Far, Far Away” you ever saw on screen was Tatooine.
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