The Mandalorian LEGO MOC, 2020-2025
The speeder appeared in The Mandalorian Chapter 9 and I published a first version days after it aired. That was 2020. This is the third iteration, and the one I’m most satisfied with.
What makes this build interesting is what happens when a designer working alone, with no budget constraints or retail considerations, tackles the same subject as LEGO’s official design team years later. LEGO has minifig requirements, price point targets, parts availability decisions made at scale, and a set size that has to work as a product. My only constraint was proportional accuracy to the screen. Those are genuinely different problems, and they produce genuinely different results. LEGO eventually released their version. Looking at both is a useful window into how constraints shape design.
The speeder itself is a kitbash in the Star Wars tradition: a Radon-Ulzer 620C podracer engine mounted asymmetrically on a stabilizing frame, with a seat bolted on the other side. That asymmetry is the whole character of the vehicle. Getting it to read right in LEGO meant finding parts that captured the elongated turbine and the distinctive yellow air scoops. The air scoops in this build are hinge plates from the original 1999 Anakin’s Podracer set, which I had purchased for my son at the time. That felt like the right way to build this particular speeder.
The seat fits a minifig with jetpack. There’s a spot for Boba’s helmet and a clip for Cobb’s rifle.
Full design history across all three versions is on the instructions page.
Year built: 2020 (v1), 2021 (v2), 2025 (v3)
Pieces: 101
Size: 3″ x 6″ x 2.2″
