Name: BB-8
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 75187-1
Rating: 91 (10 reviews)

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We calculate the average rating when we've found two or more scored reviews. This set is good compared to all other sets. Read more about the ratings distribution chart here.

Recommendations

Recomended 57%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2017 is 0.11. PPP for this set is 0.09, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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Average PPM for System in 2017 is 16.03. PPM for this set is 104.29, which is worse.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

From Bricks To Bothans Recommendation: yes 5 / 5 → 100 / 100

LEGO Recommendation: meh 4.86 / 5 → 97 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.8 / 5 → 96 / 100

Brick Fanatics Recommendation: yes 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

Blocks Magazine Recommendation: yes 89 / 100 → 89 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 → 86 / 100

Vaderfan2187's Blog Recommendation: meh 3.9 / 5 → 78 / 100

Unscored reviews

Brickset News

The Brothers Brick

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Set information

Set ID: 75187-1
Name: BB-8
Parts: 1106
Minifigs: 1

Retail price (USD):
Original: 99.99
Inflation adjusted: 104.29

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.09
Inflation adjusted: 0.09

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 99.99
Inflation adjusted: 104.29

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From Bricks To Bothans

Recommendation: yes 5 / 5 by Ace Kim

75187 BB-8 won Construction Toy of the Year from this year's Toy Fair awards. It is well deserved and like I said earlier in the post, it belong on the desk of every Star Wars fan, young and old. It looks accurate but there's more to this model than just good looks. If you're exploring how to build geometric shapes out of LEGO, BB-8 would make a great case study into spheres. Even the two play features can teach a few things on moving parts within a model.

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LEGO

Recommendation: meh 4.86 / 5 from 106 reviews

My husband bought this beautiful little BB-8 for me for Christmas this year and let me say, it was a wonderful build. So much more fun than I anticipated. I expected it to be repetitive, it was not in any way. The gears you create to control the movement of his head are brilliant. This set won't let you down. It's also very heavy and durable. There are a lot of pieces holding him together.

This score from LEGO is an aggregate of 106 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.8 / 5 from 225 reviews

Customer Video Review Length:: 3:06 Mins This is a great lego set with nice internal gears for movement that any Star Wars fan will love. It took my 10 year old son about 8 hours to assemble it and he only needed my help for 2 pages and that was minor stuff. It's a collector's item set so it includes a nice display stand and a minifig of BB8. Please view the video (that he made himself) showing the features of this Lego set and will show you the scale of the set.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 225 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brick Fanatics

Recommendation: yes 4.6 / 5 by Graham

Perhaps the reason 75187 BB-8 is such an enjoyable experience, both as a build and as a completed model, is that character sculptures come along so rarely in the LEGO Star Wars theme. If the execution is as perfect as it is in this case every time, then it really is worth the wait. If you buy only one LEGO set from the Star Wars: The Last Jedi range, then buy this one – BB-8 stole the show in The Force Awakens, and now the plucky droid does the same in the LEGO Star Wars 2017 line-up.

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Blocks Magazine

Recommendation: yes 89 / 100

75187 BB-8 was reviewed in issue 38 of Blocks Magazine.

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 from 8 reviews

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Vaderfan2187's Blog

Recommendation: meh 3.9 / 5 by Vaderfan2187

So… quite a cool set! I think the features all work pretty well and the model looks quite nice!

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Brickset News

by CapnRex101

This is a truly fantastic set. The spherical shape has been rendered very effectively and I love the detailed tool bay discs, each of which features a unique design, just as in the movie. The model looks magnificent on display, particularly since the black stand presents an attractive contrast with the bright white and orange of BB-8, although I think it is equally impressive when standing alone without additional support.

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The Brothers Brick

by Andrew

Despite its fairly small size, LEGO BB-8 is full of personality. The “thumbs up" feature is pretty cool, and his wobbly head is downright charming. At $100 for about 1,100 pieces (plus a minifig you probably already have a handful of from other The Force Awakens sets), this really isn't a great parts pack.

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