The debut of the Night Buzzard in The Rise of Skywalker, on the desert planet of Pasaana where the Knights of Ren accompanied the head of their cult enclave in pursuit of the last Jedi – Rey – didn’t elicit much excitement from the Star Wars fan base.
It’s ultra-brief (and somewhat Slave I-like) appearance while tracking The Bestoon Legacy, and belching out a trail of smokey space exhaust, to Kijimi really made fans take notice.
This converted dungeon ship acted as the home, and main transport, of the Knights of Ren. With its crudely modified engines that spewed noxious smoke, its intimidating angles, black-steeled hull and heavy weaponry it served the Knights well until they met their demise at the hands of Ben Solo during the Battle of Exegol.
75284 Knights of Ren Transport Ship
Fans can relive epic Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker action scenes with this Knights of Ren Transport Ship (75284) LEGO® building set. Hidden ‘skis’ underneath this Star Wars™ villains’ starship replicate the hover effect, and it has 2 opening cockpits for the Knights of Ren, a compartment for a captured LEGO minifigure and 2 spring-loaded shooters to inspire creative play.
Knights of Ren vs. Rey
Brilliant for solo or group play, this spacecraft building kit comes with 3 LEGO Star Wars minifigures – Rey and 2 Knights of Ren – for role-play battles. It combines brilliantly with other LEGO Star Wars construction playsets for even more creative fun and it makes an eye-catching display piece in any room between playtime missions.Great gifts!
The LEGO Group has been recreating iconic starships, vehicles, locations and characters from the legendary Star Wars universe since 1999. LEGO Star Wars is now its most successful theme with top birthday, holiday and surprise gifts for kids and adults.
- Recreate battles from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with this awesome Knights of Ren Transport Ship (75284) LEGO® building toy for kids.
- This spacecraft building kit includes 3 LEGO® Star Wars™ minifigures – 2 Knights of Ren with new-for-August-2020 helmets and lots of weapons, and Rey with a Lightsaber – to role-play stories solo or with friends.
- The space vehicle building toy has ‘skis’ underneath for a hover effect, opening LEGO® minifigure cockpits for each of the Knights, a compartment to keep Rey captive, and 2 spring-loaded shooters for fun battles.
- This 595-piece set offers a fun, creative and rewarding building challenge for boys and girls aged 9+ and makes a super holiday gift, birthday present or special surprise for kids and any Star Wars™ enthusiast.
- This Star Wars™ spacecraft construction toy measures over 3.5” (8cm) high, 11.5” (29cm) long and 6.5” (17cm) wide. Fans can also fly it in the LEGO® Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga video game.
- No batteries are needed for this fun space vehicle building toy – it’s constructed purely from LEGO® bricks and powered by kids’ creativity for unlimited Star Wars™ role-play adventures.
- Buying this cool Star Wars™ villains’ vehicle for a big Star Wars fan who is a LEGO® beginner? Don’t worry. It comes with easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions so they can build with Jedi-like confidence.
- LEGO® Star Wars™ building kits are fantastic for kids (and adult fans) to recreate scenes from the saga, play out their own creative stories or just build and display the collectible construction models.
- No need to use the Force to connect or pull apart LEGO® building bricks! Ever since 1958, they have met the highest industry standards to ensure they fit together with ease.
- LEGO® bricks and pieces are tested to the max so you can be sure that this Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker set meets the highest quality and safety standards on planet Earth – and in galaxies far, far away!
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Detailing on this set is far above what would be expected for a set with a larger piece count, and the designer does a great job of recreating the brutal hull and its haphazard plating – especially the front grille which is particularly effective.
The lack of a cockpit is made up for by two gunner’s hatches, and the inclusion of a jail cell is a great reminder of the Night Buzzard’s original purpose.
Those fans who remember the Moldy Crow, Kyle Katarn’s spaceship in the Dark Forces/Jedi Knights video game series, will take joy from the canted angles of the engines while those who have been following the Knights of Ren’s metamorphosis as minifigures will be pleased that Cardo and Kuruk have been realized, and that the knight order is now complete*.
Also included in the set is a Rey minifigure, whom Kylo Ren had dispatched his Knights to capture, armed with Luke’s old lightsaber and two face prints.
One notable feature about this LEGO set is that its official name – Night Buzzard – was not included in any packaging or the set’s description. The obvious assumption would be that it fell foul of a trademark application, like The Razor Crest/The Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Transport did. However a search of numerous trademark registration services doesn’t reveal anything untoward, so the likeliest expectation is that LEGO designed the set’s graphics and produced their written material before Lucasfilm gave the ship its name, first mentioned in the first issue of Marvel’s The Rise of Kylo Ren comic and exposed in The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary (DK, Dec 2020).
Why, though, hasn’t the set’s name been updated is a question we’re likely never to get an answer to.
If there is any feedback that the Star Wars team at LEGO should take note of, it’s that this set is about 1/3rd too small. It’s understandable that this set – being the first of a vehicle that had screen time that can be counted in seconds instead of minutes – was going to be an exploratory one. Hopefully, the Knights of Ren’s scurrilous activities will be further explored by Disney, through Marvel and Del Rey, in the coming years and that by the time a re-issue can be justified (typically 4 to 5 years) the Knights will have enough of a following to warrant a larger version of the Night Buzzard.
Buy this set now – at LEGO.com, Walmart, Amazon.com, Entertainment Earth and Target now – for $69.99 (MSRP).
*This is in contrast to the 19-year wait that fans had to put up with to complete The Empire Strikes Back bounty hunter minifigure lineup that started with 7144 Slave I (2000) and ended with 75243 Slave I – 20th Anniversary Edition (2019).
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