LEGO Star Wars #8089 Hoth Wampa Cave Review

Theme: Star Wars
Name: Hoth Wampa Cave
S/N: #8089
Year: 2010
Pieces: 297
Minifig: 4
Price: RM379.90, SGD109.90, USD39.99, GBP35.99

Box

The front box art shows Luke was held captured by the Wampa and Zev Zenesca is piloting the snowspeeder to the rescue (I suppose) in which it never happen in the movie at all. The minifigs included in this set is also shown at the front box art together with their name. The top side of the box shows the actual minifigures scale while the back shows the playability of the set together with advertisement for other set.

Content

Inside this dark blue and black box are three numbered packet of bricks, a separately packed wampa minifigs, a sticker sheet and an instruction book.

If you plan to see the content of the instruction book, please click HERE.

Accessories

There is very few accessories included as this set only include a drumstick for the Wampa and a lightsaber for Luke to defend himself.

Minifigs

It is very clear about the intention of purchasing this set, which is for the new Wampa minifigs. So we have here Wampa, Luke Skywalker, Zev Zenesca and a skeleton. Luke and Zev have both side of their torso printed.

That poor dude that has turn into skeleton sure is happy for being able to be the food for the Wampa. The Wampa are able to carry a minifig by it's hand.

Snowspeeder

TLG sure release a lot of Snowspeeder in a lot of different version. I'm lazy to find back how many snowspeeder they have release but I think there are at least four including this one.

I do like the way the design their wing and the cannon. It looks very good. While at the back there is this pieces that can be open up to view some details, however, we need to put sticker. In my case, I did not apply the sticker, so is just a blank tile.

The windscreen can be open up in two different ways, which is fully open the whole windscreen or just open the front half. But in my opinion, is easier for us to open the whole windscreen.

The cockpit is somehow place with tile and the minifigs cannot be attach in the cockpit and it is quite small. Maybe it is easier for use to close the windscreen with the minifigs sitting on tile as they can adjust by themselves.

Wampa Cave

Guess this set is supposedly market the Wampa and its cave. However, the cave is a little bit let down which I will explain later.

Now back to the topic of the let down I told you before. First the popping lightsaber when we hit on the plaform. Well, it fails most of the time, means Luke is so dead for not be able to grab his lightsaber on time. The nicely made bone decor do get in the way sometimes.

Now to the entrance of the cave. It design is a failure too since the entrance of the cave that is is too small for the Wampa to go through. Its a Wampa cave which a Wampa cannot get into. Luke should be safe and sound inside there. Furthermore, the Wampa cannot even attach itself to the base plate at the entrance despite I've pose it sideways. Thanks to the tiles.

Finally to hang Luke upside down. This one works very well and it a simple mechanism. Luke seems to be enjoying it too with his smilie face.

Here's about everything with the minifigs display together with the cave.

Extra pieces

Pictures below shows some of the extra parts left.

Completed model

Is quite hard to display this set and it look messy to display them like this. Without a bigger baseplate to add some decoration, this set looks awful. But for those rebel army builder that need a lot of snowspeeder, well you can get this one. But I think most people get this set for the Wampa minifigs.

Playability: 6/10 TLG do try their best to add playability although it turn out quite a disaster.
Design: 6/10 I do like the Snowspeeder, but not the cave.
Price:2/10 The price ridiculously expensive over here for a set with that few part.
Overall: 4/10 Get the set to gain more Snowspeeder and of course the new Wampa.