LEGO Star Wars #7957 Sith Nightspeeder Review

Theme: Star Wars
Name: Sith Nightspeeder
S/N: #7957
Year: 2011
Pieces: 213
Minifig: 3
Price: RM169.90, SGD59.90, USD24.99, GBP25.99

Box

The crushed box of mine got the standard information needed like serial number, box art and even picture of minifigs and their name printed at the front of box. The top side of the box shows Savage Opress in his actual scale while the back of the box shows the playability if the vehicle together with pictures of other set fro advertisement purpose.

Content

Everytime I open the box, I hope that my instruction book and sticker sheet are not damaged and I'm lucky again this time. As usual, the bricks are nicely packed in separate bags according to their sizes and we have three of them.

To view the instruction of this set, please click HERE.

Accessories

The set comes with four lightsaber but to my surprise Asajj Ventress lightsaber is still the same old gray color while others are in silver metallic now. Probably the mold do not allow different material.

Minifigs

Savage Opress is the new minifig here and it do have a nicely printed torso on both side. The other two minifig are not that new, but they both of them have new outfit, which both side of their torso were printed and is a cheap set to obtain Asajj Ventress.

Sith Nightspeeder

The good news here is that there are some printed parts, although there are still a number of parts that needs to stick with the stickers given to make it looks nice. I do hate the looks of it, but once you put the bricks together, you starting to feel that is not bad after all. The only way to attach your minifigs to the vehicle is to let them hold on the handle bar, as you cant attach them on the seat.

There is not much playability in this speeder other than flick and push-fire missile, and not to forget, detaching the two pod from the main speeder. So, the first thing is on the detachable pod. Each pod have a rod on the right, and it is attach to a technic pin right beside the missile and it really holds.

Below are two pictures for fun shot and viewing purpose, since I'm just displaying them to snap pictures only, I do not attach their hand on the handle and they can sit pretty well on it.

Moving to other playability and the most common one up to date, the flick-fire missile, which you can get them on the right of each pod. The two with red bud are for flick while the one on the very right is for you to push and fire.

For the one on the very right, there is a cone shape button for you to push at the back of it and it will fire the missile for you. The pictures on left shows before and the right, after, pushing the button at the back.

Extra pieces

We get an additional Asajj Ventress's lightsaber hilt and other small parts that can goes missing easily.

Completed model

For those that looking for playability, this is not the set for you. However, for those that looking for parts and minifigs, you can grab one of this as it has some printed parts and some a few useful parts here. Of course, the new and cool Savage Opress too.

Playability: 4/10 Detachable pod, flick-fire, flick-fire again and push-fire missile.
Building experience: 5/10 A little bored as there are repeated building process.
Parts:5/10 Printed pieces and the modified pieces.
Value for money: 3/10 This set is pricey over here too.
Overall: 4/10 Get this set during sales as it has quite a number of parts, otherwise get Savage Opress separately if you are a minifigs collector.