LEGO Star Wars #75000 Clone Troopers vs. Droidekas Review

Theme: Star Wars

Name: Clone Troopers vs. Droidekas
S/N: #75000
Year: 2013
Pieces: 124
Minifig: 2
Price: RM69.90, USD12.99, GBP11.99

Box

It definitely has been a long time since I reviewed a set that is packed in a box as I previously focusing on the shared LEGO business with my friends. Cash flow is not that good, now that my cash flow is a little better, here goes the review. Here's the battle pack from Star Wars this year, and the Clone Sergeant and Trooper comes together with two brick-built Droidekas (that is why I put 2 minifigs). The front of the box shows us the name and the serial number of the set while the top side of the box shows us the Clone Sergeant in the one to one scale for you to estimate how big the set was. The back of the box shows us the two playability that the command platform has.

  

Content

LEGO has reduced the size of the box and the box contains two bags of bricks, and an instruction booklet. The set do comes with a good number of parts if were to compare to #75001 Republic Troopers vs. Sith Troopers.

 

Accessories

Here's a binocular and two blasters of the same size since there is only two Clone Troopers. There are some old school Jango Fett guns and binocular which both combines and become Droideka's weapon and since I considered them as part of the Droideka, they are not shown here.

Minifigs

Building clone armies not getting tough nowadays, we are only given one Clone Trooper and the set comes with a Clone Sergeant which too much do not seems useful. I wonder can we still call this a battle pack. I still prefer the old ways where the battle packs are separated by factions.

What can I said about the Clones. They shares the same face, or head, their torso are printed on both front and back. The front print on the torso differ from each other whereby the sergeant has his rank printed on the right of his chest, while the print on the back looks similar. They have different colour of visor and sometimes the print on their helmet are messy, a common incident for battle pack minifigs. Poor prints I would said.

  

The Droideka are put together by a number of bricks. They are not exactly ugly but is a little hard to get the stand right, since there are three legs that are needed to be adjust to balance them properly. Bad news here is that they cannot turn into a rolling ball, but you still can fold them., just that it will not appear in round shape. Maybe oval shape.

 

Command station

The command station is a little small and the space is very narrow. But it looks like a nice command station, not a disappointing, but definitely out of scale. By right they shoukd be bigger and are able to fit a few more Clone Trooper in it. Maybe is time to get the parts and expand it ourselves.

   

At first I thought that this command station only fits one Clone Trooper and it sits in the middle of the command station. I then felt strange, if that the Clone were to sit in the middle, the flick-fire missiles might just shot him. Finally I get them right after that, the two Clone are sharing the monitor, and are seated on both the side of the station. They fit in very well.

At the back of the station there is a hole at both the side that holds the blaster for this two poor Clones that have to fight against two Droidekas. No clippers were use this round.

There are door on both side of the station which you can fold it up and let it down. Due to the size of the station, the door are made from the flag parts. There are no extending platform for Master Yoda to walk to the command station too.

 

Now to the all time favorite or the super duper common playability, the flick-fire missile. This time the missile is hidden in the communication radar. However, the tail of the missiles mixed very well with the radar. Is has turned into the antennae of the radar. Just push the box like thing backward.

 

Now that the missile are revealed, you might want to adjust the radar a little bit to prevent it from hurting your finger or to make this missiles a useful one to defeat the Droideka.

 

Here's a picture of the two Clones:

Extra pieces

Due to a high number of small parts that comes in this set, we have a lot of parts leftover after the assembling process.

Completed model

Not really a Clone Trooper army building playset, I think army builder will have to source for the Clones elsewhere, otherwise, buying too many of this set for just the Clone Trooper is very deadly to your pocket. All on all I have a pleasant experience building this set and the command station are just great, although the size is a little small.

Playability: 4/10 Same old playability.
Building experience: 8/10 The end result seems fine to me and really helpful when you are about to expand it.
Parts: 8/10 Great small parts and good number of parts
Value for money: 6/10 The price has dropped and it really makes a difference.
Overall: 6/10 A nice set to own and not to be missed but not recommended to use it as army builder, unless you are building Droideka army.