The 75345 501st Clone Troopers Battle Pack retired in June 2026, and here’s the strange part: you can buy it new and sealed today for less than LEGO charged for it. So is a $20 battle pack worth stacking for the long haul, or is it dead money in a small box? Here’s the reseller math.
What you’re actually buying
A 119-piece set built around an AV-7 Anti-Vehicle Cannon, and four minifigures: a 501st Officer, a 501st Clone Specialist, and two 501st Heavy Troopers. Two of those figures are exclusive to this set. That matters more than the build does, and I’ll get to why.
It released in January 2023 at $19.99 and stayed on shelves for 41 months before retiring in June 2026. Long production run, which is the first thing that tempers the hype.
The number that surprises people
New-and-sealed copies are valued right around $20 right now, basically flat to retail. Used ones run about $17. But scroll the actual listings and plenty of sealed copies are sitting at $15 to $16, roughly 25% under RRP.
That’s not a broken market. That’s what a battle pack looks like in the first months after retirement: everyone who over-bought is offloading at once, and supply floods faster than demand catches up. The dip is temporary, but it’s real, and it’s a buying window if you’re patient.
The Reseller’s Take
Battle packs are a long game, not a flip. Look at where the old ones landed:
- 7655 Clone Troopers Battle Pack (2007): $9.99 retail, now around $143. Up roughly 1,330%.
- 8014 Clone Walker Battle Pack (2009): $11.99 retail, now around $140. Up roughly 1,070%.
- 9488 Elite Clone Trooper Battle Pack (2012): $12.99 retail, now around $140. Up roughly 980%.
Those are extraordinary returns, but notice the timeline: 12 to 18 years. The value in every one of them is the minifigures. On the 75345, the four figures already account for about 71% of the set’s worth. Troop-building demand for the 501st, the single most popular clone legion, is what carries these over time.
The honest brake on the excitement: BrickEconomy pegs this set’s near-term appreciation at under 3% a year, lower than most Clone Wars sets, with a five-year projection of roughly $22 to $23. Nobody’s retiring on that. The real money is a decade out, if the pattern holds, and patterns are not guarantees.
My call: HOLD, and buy the dip if you have the storage. At $15 to $16 sealed, you’re buying below retail a set that historically only goes one direction over a long enough window. Grab two or three, put them somewhere dry, and forget about them. This is a set-and-forget hold, not a set you list next year.
Skip it if you need the money working sooner, or if you don’t have the patience to sit on a $20 box for the better part of a decade.
Invest score: 6.5/10. Cheap entry, popular subject, proven long-term battle-pack pattern, dragged down by a modest near-term forecast and a long road.
Bottom line
The 75345 won’t make you money fast, and anyone telling you a $20 battle pack is a quick flip hasn’t run the numbers. But it’s cheap, it’s currently under retail, and it’s the most collectible clone legion there is. If you buy LEGO to hold, this is a low-risk brick to stack. If you buy to flip, look elsewhere.
Prices and resale figures from public sources (LEGO, BrickEconomy) as of mid-2026. Projections are estimates based on historical trends, not guarantees.