LEGO Star Wars YAVIN 4 REBEL BASE COMPARISON! (2008 vs 2023)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- LEGO Star Wars once CANCELLED a LEGO Yavin 4 Rebel base set around 2008, come Summer 2023 we finally have an official set! The 75365 Yavin IV Rebel Base has is more different than similar to the prototype. I take a deep dive into how Yavin IV changed from the included Rebel Y-Wing/X-Wing, the Rebel lookout tower, hangar, ceremony room from A New Hope, and more!
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We were absolutely robbed of a $300 MBS version of this. Honestly would have been happy with just a nice $40 celebration room too
With a set like yavin I think mbs fits it the best
@@nutfw3209 Exactly. Instead we got a dumbed down 4+ set. It just doesn’t work at this price. Too much for the casual builder and not enough for the ultimate collector
Straight up robbed. 😢
@@legohio What up meme god?
Yeah, having his cool but let’s hope the 2024 rumor of Geonosis is a MBS with all the monsters
The 4+ UCS Set
Except it’s not ucs or master builder it’s just a set 🤯
*The 4+ Set
"No no, he's got a point"
😂
Ye
Would love to see a custom MOC mashup of the two sets where you combine the best featues of both for a super set
Your video of the Yavin 4 base prototype remains one of my favourites, it was a high-effort, very interesting insight on a rather unknown Lego Star Wars fact.
Since I wasn't that interested in this 2023 playset, this comparison is all I could've asked for, showing tons of details and how the theme as a whole has evolved since 15 years ago. It's exactly the sort of unique content that I'm subscribed for!
When you make the video of combining multiple YAVIN’s together, it’ll look awesome
100% mandr please do it
@@DamianDillard10I think he is
Agreed!
That’s a great idea!
@@grenem2369 I know right, thanks :)
Im so happy you did this. It feels like a difference between night and day. My only question is what happened to the Lego talent from 15 years ago and why are the quality of sets declining?
this is the most delusional opinion I've ever seen. the talent at lego only has ever been improving and really the only issues were seeing now with lego star wars is shrinkflation and weird inconsistencies that don't make the set bad as a whole, but just aren't the greatest. the old one is literally a moc, and an ugly one at that. never would lego release a set like that and if they did release a yavin 4 in 2008 it definitely would not have looked like the prototype at all. the new yavin 4 is clearly inspired by the old one, and is the best yavin 4 we could've gotten. i assure you if this set released in 2008 it would NOT have looked this good.
@@Lukedubwhy are you defending a soulless company again?
@@cheeseronian13q soulless? If it was soulless we would not be getting any new ideas.
@@Lukedub shrinkflation? No that's not what Is going on. Products aren't "shrinking" they're just becoming More expensive.
@@M4teo. not really because we've seen a decline of size with sets that are repeating
I just love the look of a massive hanger with an x wing in it
The size of the actual base itself in the prototype build is great though! Love the briefing room in particular compared to the new one.
The thing i like about the prototype model is the layout of the set but the excecution of the new set is just amazing
while the 2023 version is the more visually pleasing (except the 4+ tree) the prototype does look better with size and play value, especially with the overall shape of the prototype yavin
These comparison videos are always great to watch, but this 1 feels extra cool since you included your prototype! Keep up the good work Ryan
personally prefer the prototype. Even though its incomplete and all it feels way more like what i would want out of the Yavin 4 set than what we got.
Hi 😊great vid mandr I loved the “ throw the cart In there” and he literally threw it 😂
This comparison vid is a great idea.
In defense of the proto type set it is kind of a place holder for a completed set. I just had way more hype and hope that a fleshed out set would have been more substantial than a 4+ set.
I think it would be super cool if the new set’s walls in the ceremony room could fold down to make it longer and more spacious
I'm late just picked it up but it's exactly what I was thinking!
I think the 2008 set wins for me. Since LEGO has access to the pieces through production, I think the suggested retail price would need to be $275.00! So many times I go to build a LEGO MOC or to complete one, I end up giving up, because, I'm shoveling out an awful lot of money for not just parts but also shipping. Although I appreciate the new set's compactedness and details. Would you ever consider trying to combine two of the 2023 sets on a large baseplate?😂
If the prototype would've become an official set, I am sure it would be amazing, without breaking parts, and also you would be able to put a minifigure in the X-Wing
This was an interesting episode. Thanks for trying something different and for making the investment on the prototype build. It’s a good illustration why prototypes are conceived to begin with and how they morph into production. It’s possible that prototype was sitting around the Lego studio for much longer than a year, based on the size and the rather unwieldy build of the X-Wing. The process of bringing any product to market is lengthy and complex, although 15 years seems abnormally long. It makes me wonder if Lego holds customer clinics to better determine set popularity. In the auto business, customer clinics are keystone programs in the lead-up to a new vehicle introduction. And many things can change following a clinic, especially one in which the vehicle is not well received. Thanks for the great content, Ryan. It’s appreciated.
Comparing the value here isn't fair, as it would have cost Lego far less to produce the 2008 model, while you had to pay inflated prices due to part rarity. Lego, however, would artificially inflate the price and the community would blame the baseplate.
Great video mandr. Keep up the good work
Let’s gooooooo. Been waiting for this comparison 🔥
same
This is one of the coolest comparisons you’ve done.
Ive been addicted to your videos lately, another banger this was, I might be in love 😳
Honestly, I really like the Yavin 4 base. Sure, it’s 8+, but it has good minifigures, some pretty good builds and if you have the Boarding The Tantive set, you can make a small rebel army.
just adding a baseplate for the 2023 set would absolutely make it better 10 times
The price comparison is not really fair, considering you had to reproduce the model using 3rd party re-sellers for parts, that obviously sold them with a profit to you.
I could easily see the old one being sold for the same price as the new one, if lego would still be creating baseplates and such.
Yea i dont know the markup or ratio that is official set, to price of its parts on the market, but it should exist, since if not why buy official sets.
Also in regards to the flaws of the set, well it was a prototype, the X-wing would have been reworked and made sturdier and with the watchtower could have just added one of those thin line pieces in the middle to attach it better.
I mean that's probably why the model was always a prototype, if the X-wing just broke apart like that there's no way kids could play with it.
I’d love to see you buy 2 or three of the new Yavin sets and mash them together like you did with the Endor chase and trench run
If the newer one had the older version’s ceremony room, i think the newer one would’ve been a 10
God I love it when Ryan uploads a new video
😅 Yes sir
I'll wait for the Diorama set of the ceremonial presentation.
Just have a feeling it's coming.
honestly if you made a few mods to the prototype set then it would end up being a thousand times better than the 2023 set.
The prototype is already much, much, much better than the set. We wanted a cool rebel base play set with many figures, play features, details, a lot of space that is usable.
What we got was a 4+ set with practically no play features besides some stud shooters, almost no details, and it's way too small.
First ever Lego Yavin 4 Rebel Base and they fucked it up big time.
Can't wait for a Jedi Temple that is even worse and even more overpriced with obviously less figures. What a time to be alive.
@@RamielDerLinkeomg people are overhating on the new yavin 4 set, only thing "4+" is the tree and if you take it out it looks really cool from the outside for display and i think its a pretty perfect size for a playset, because playsets are mainly ment for kids (Does not mean adults can not buy and enjoy them!!!!!) and really its rare for kids to save enough money for a more expensive/bigger set more than 200$ and rare for parents/relatives to buy something as big for them as gifts
@@mightygamerlord nah the entire thing looks like shit tbh. The interior has nothing to offer, the base has no side walls and the building techniques are as simple as it gets.
The 4+ tree makes this an outstanding set!😊
When the leaks happened I was really hoping for more fleet troopers. I was also super excited but I feel like it’s super undersized. Going to wait for this to go on discount.
they should've made a gift with purchase for this where you get another set of celebration room where you get a few rebel troopers,leia, r2, c3po, han solo, and luke and have it be much more detailed.
In the visual dictionary page 91 on the right of Yavin 4 it states that "An unreleased sketch model of the Rebel Base on Yavin 4. Designers in the LEGO Star Wars team make many product suggestions and keep all Thier sketch models,even when,as in this case with this one, there are no plans to issue them as sets
4:30 how did bro leave that in? 💀
W video big fan mandr
Challenge, combine 2 of the 2023 Yavin 4 sets together to make a complete base
Prototype vs Junior Set
Cool comparison
You really got to make a documentary of Legos history, or even lego star wars history, as a whole or by set or minifig history, also comparing to now. I know you can make a long banger of a documentary about all of this stuff! You could make a great one if u put your mind to it
8:36 yes but the old one has the high ground 😂
The moc that you build is very cool, I just suggest, you can combine those two and make a giant yavin 4 base, that would look good , again, it's just a suggestion
I low-key prefer the original prototype 😅
The X-Wing looks great
I knew this was gonna happen, let’s go!!!
Comparing these isnt fair, becase the prototype is A PROTOTYPE. Also Prize would been way cheaper, becase lego produces pieces
You should buy 2 and put them back to back to create a full version of the new Yavin 4.
Not that you'll probably read this, but have you ever used your Yavin 4 base but swap everything over for the Rogue one Yavin 4 scene. So many lego figures appear in that scene, nearly all troopers, main characters plus all the extra droids, chopper, r3 m2, c3po red arm. Senator Organa, Raddus, Mon mothma, even Wedge is there somewhere as you hear his voice in it. I'm slowly doing one.
I love the new Rebel hero Luke I've always wanted to use that outfit in a stop-motion but the problem was I always wanted him without The Medallion and couldn't do that with the original minifigure but now I can
An exclusive and unique comparison! I love to watch your creative ideais for videos!
Good comparison
6:10 I just now noticed that round table is a Dish 8 x 8 Inverted (Radar) with a Dish 4 x 4 Inverted (Radar) dish on top
I think it's possible for lego to make the ceremony hall a bit longer on the official set
Like always excellent video you did there, Ryan. I love watching your reviews. Also, that is a really cool looking prototype. Mock up that you did. I was wondering despite the problems with the x wing. Could you possibly make available a parts list and tutorial video for that model? I think it looks cool and it's own right.😎👍
Think during his original vid on the yavin protoype he was inside that lego set design program and planned the set out, so he might still have a file of that somewhere.
But yea adding that to the community would be nice.
When I was younger I wanted massive grand sets but now I actually prefer smaller scale. My favorite biggest set is the Cantina because it’s like my “hub” just like in the games and then I like the newer smaller ships along with it like Boba Fett’s Starship
I feel like the that could have used a base plate and could have expanded the ceremony room a bit
I think i might buy the set when its on clearance and heavily mod it
"You can put your hand anywhere" -Ryan Me: That's What She Said
Man, I know people prefer the detailed prints of newer figs, but the old figs without the twinkles in their eyes look so cute and innocent
The simplicity of the older prints also had a charm to them that I personally preferred
there was at least more room for imagination with less detailed prints
Awesome 👍
You should buy more of the new Yavin set and make a bigger one like the Death Star trench run
Remember it’s cannon that the rebel trooper shits over the side of the nest
I'd love to see someone take 3-4 of the 2023 version and make a "UCS" Yavin IV. It's a nice set but it's too small in my opinion
Soul vs Soulless
you said wedge antilles, thats captain raymus antilles from the tantive IV, hes my favorite character so I just wanted to clear that up
0:35 the prototype was made in 2007.
The old one you did is better . But new got good things too and now we can buy something about Yavin 4 .
It would have been so much better if they just recycled one of the trees from the speeder bike chase
I would combine both sets if i were you to get the best of each down side
I was literally thinking of this last night lol
The official set looks cool, but no way. I’m not paying 170 for that.
The new set is nice, but still lacking quite a bit.. would have liked to see more included at a slightly higher price.
do keep in mind that a lot of pieces in the prototype set are retired making it more expensive than it should have been.
honestly i just want the minifigs! they looks so nice and my rebel army collection is lacking!
Ryan you should buy several of these and combine them
when will the ghost review come???
Will there be more captain rex sets
Will you drop instructions for the prototype
No wonder the yavin 4 stayed as a prototype until now
Ask mandrproductions: do you think Lego will make a new v-wing
we need a play scalled y wing, b wing and maybe an a wing.
when do we get to see the review on the HUGE crane that just came out?
I still don’t get, why they give a guy in a tower, a spear 😂
Great comparison however, a lot the parts you bought for the prototype are retired and definitely would have been a lot cheaper back in the day plus you are comparing something incomplete like lego would never have let something like the x-wing in that sort of shape make it to the final product. I did enjoy this and hope you get to similar videos like this.
So glad they gave Luke a better hair piece. Them trying to give him straight long hair was a travesty
I think its good we at least got a fighter that can actually fit a pilot, but I think at this price-range we should get a proper minifig-sclae fighter.
Given, it is better, I expected a micro-fighter based on the rumors. What would you call this?
This is not a normal minifig-scale fighter but its not a microfighter eaither. midi-scale fighter?
Hoth?
9:58
It probably wouldnt of been that expensive. theres a difference from buying used parts off multiple sets than having produced parts all for 1. still an interesting vid though!
You should review more LEGO books also.
i might get this set only for the figures
This sort of highlights the loss of volume that comes with getting rid of baseplates and large panel pieces for playset style builds.
Make a mega version of the new yavin base
Hey why don't you take two sets and make a big base like you have done before with other sets. I do love the comparison thanks so much for putting in the work and my vote would be for the new set because of the y-wing.
P.S. every double build you have done thus far has Rocked!!!
I like the prototype more and i still gonna buy the new one just for the figures
Now combine them and make a good Yavin
Love the prototype
nice vids
do an alternate build with four of the new one