LEGO Star Wars GHOST Comparison! (75053 vs 75357 | 2014 vs 2023)

In 2014 LEGO Star Wars released a Ghost playset for Star Wars Rebels and now in 2023 there's a new LEGO Star Wars Ghost playset for Star Wars Ahsoka! The new LEGO Ghost & Phantom II is superior to the 2014 Ghost in many ways... except the Minifigures.

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0:00 Intro
0:30 Minifigures
1:43 Play Features
5:50 Design/Display
9:33 Value for Money
11:19 Opinion/Final Score

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[fritz]

The 2014 ghost was such a classic, and the new 2023 ghost is truly a worthy successor. Perhaps in the next few years we'll receive a UCS version of the ghost!

[Ruune__]

The 2014 Ghost really feels ahead of it’s time. It still holds up surprisingly well for a 9 year old set. Especially with the figures

[ehclan]

Rare time the footprint of a lego Star Wars set hasn’t been downsized in a remake

[Goldfyre]

It's nice for a set remake to feel like a complete upgrade to the former version. Also so glad that the scale is the same as the previous model.

[McFrozenNuggets]

I'm just so glad that we're finally getting some new attention to the characters from *_Star Wars Rebels_* now in live action.

[cholla]

I like how the new Ghost has a Phantom that looks good next to the Ghost, the old Phantom 2 set was way to big when put next to the Ghost, and when connected to the back it looked very awkward.

[chrism]

I bought the Ghost in 2014 (black hair Kanan version) and looking at the 2023 version, Wow! What an improvement, especially the interior space. Has me really considering selling off the old one

[potatodoggo]

Hi MANDR! I see a huge upgrade from 2014-2023! I say it’s absolutely worth to buy the new Ghost. The build is just a ball out of the park, while the minifigure selection of the 2014 takes the cake for me.

[CabbageFace_]

Crazy to think that ghost is 9 years old, it’s very well designed for the time

[crystalcove]

Just got my Ghost set and today, and after finishing the build, it is one of my favorite Star Wars playscale sets as far as exterior design goes. It just looks absolutely gorgeous, and I think the designers really knocked it out of the park here.

My only major gripe about the set is that I really think the cockpit piece should've been printed (I'm not a fan of how many stickers are here, but I can deal with all of them except for the cockpit sticker). Basically every other issue I have is purely due to the small scale of the set and therefore can't be helped, such as the inaccurate boarding ramps being a compromise for the one that should be in the front of the ship, or the fact that the Phantom II is laughably tiny (although I still think it looks superb for the scale). Additionally, the docking bay for the Phantom II looks pretty bad when the shuttle is removed, but being as that I wouldn't display the Ghost without the Phantom attached, I'm more-or-less okay with it (plus, in the 2014 version, even though you had a nice looking docking bay, it looked weird to NOT have the Phantom attached... but it perhaps looked even worse WITH it attached due to how disproportionately scaled both Phantoms are compared to the rest of the set).

At the end of the day, despite how much I love the new Ghost, I still think its slightly overpriced. Having just a couple printed pieces (*especially* the Ghost cockpit) as well as maybe another figure or two could have gone a long way towards making it really feel like a $160 set. Still, I definitely don't regret picking it up!

[kendallfleet]

Ryan, I just got the 2020 Droid Tank for my Birthday today, and I personally love it, I don’t think the barrel is to bad looking I’m o.k. With it! And it’s just a sweet build in my perspective point of view!😁😁

[iToaky]

who else wants a ucs ghost coming with a lager phantom and all of the rebels crew

[Captain-Bricks]

It’s always nice to finish editing and then see that MandR posted a new video

[scarifrogue]

Hey MANDR what ever happened to the building Hoth series, it only had 2 episodes and no finale?

[VETERAN_FOXBAT]

+ of the Play space: you can open air roleplay while you are building a model, i always do this, so i have more time to experience some features.

[viperson]

The new Ghost is a very good improvement. The only thing I will modify however is to have a 360 degree turret other then that it’s rly good out of box.

[NegTharayas]

Price per piece is janky as you say, you really should do price per weight! How much plastic are we getting?

[legoforestmen]

12:06 Perfect! 90's Logan is my favorite part of this review! 😄

[stanleydodds]

I feel like the minifigure difference is a bit of a nitpick, if we are going by what figures make sense in the set, and whether we are getting more or less than the "common sense" selection of characters.

In rebels, an obvious selection of characters would be the ghost crew; spectres 1 through 6. However, 6 characters may be unrealistic (although I don't think it's too unrealistic), and the bigger reason that this only has 3 of the 6 is that the other characters come in other sets released at the same time, notably the phantom. But anyway, let's say it comes with 3 figures that should definitely be in the set.

In Ahsoka (and in the rebels epilogue) there are exactly 3 characters living on the ghost: Hera, Chopper, and Jacen. So the obvious selection of characters for the set would be these 3 characters, and that is exactly what we get. On top of that we get a couple of new republic officers; not totally relevant to the ghost, but in my opinion this is a better choice than the single stormtrooper in the rebels set. A mon cala figure especially is at least interesting regardless of whether you care about the character itself.

So personally, I'd say that either there's almost nothing in it (they both come with 3 of the relevant figures), OR you give the edge to the new set, because it has the complete collection of relevant figures for the time period, plus it has more additional figures, plus those figures are more interesting.

[JSTRonline]

One of the best things I love about the new Ghost is the entire cockpit area. They made the area more curved, so to me, it looks more aeronautical so it actually looks more like a B-17 bomber cockpit that it was always meant to evoke. I just picked this up for May 4th sale, can't wait to build it and get a stand for it!