Droid Gunship

"A beautifully engineered build with strong screen accuracy and satisfying play features, the Droid Gunship earns its Recommended BrickScore of 77.0, though critics were honest that the $49.99 price asked too much for incremental improvements over its 2014 predecessor. Owners rate it 4.77 out of 5 overall, but even they flagged value for money as the weak point."

Expert reviewers are split on the 75233 Droid Gunship: Five Lonely Clones called it a "near perfect" build with superb proportions and an intimidating design, while Brickset found it only incrementally better than the 2014 predecessor at a price point they considered too high for the improvements delivered. Owner sentiment tilts strongly positive at 4.77 out of 5 across 879 ratings, though LEGO.com buyers rated it notably lower at 3.76, and LEGO's own value-for-money signal of just 3.2 out of 5 echoes the critics' pricing concerns. The BrickScore of 77.0 captures this honest split between an excellent build execution and a value proposition that left many underwhelmed at $49.99 retail.

Where they split: Five Lonely Clones scored the set 95 and called it "near perfect," while Brickset scored it 65 and explicitly stated it "does not seem considerably better than 75042 Droid Gunship from 2014." The core disagreement is whether the design improvements justify the price and the remake's existence so soon after the prior version.