Friday, May 7, 2010

LEGO Star Wars #8091 Republic Swamp Speeder

Theme: Star Wars
Name: Republic Swamp Speeder
S/N: #8091
Year: 2010
Pieces: 176
Minifig: 5
Price: RM249.90, SGD85.90, USD29.99, GBP29.99

Box
The background of the box art sure looks good but there is a slight different in the swamp speeder and the actual model. At the side of the box are Barriss Offee minifig picture in actual scale for you to know the size. The back of the box shows the functions of the set with some other set advertisement. Please refer pictures , below:

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Content
From the box, we get three packs of bricks, an instruction booklet and a sticker sheet. Barriss Offee cape pack in a cardboard.

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To look at the instruction, please visit HERE.

Accessories
Here we have three short blaster or SE-14 Blaster Pistol and a blue lightsaber with metallic hilt.

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Minifigs
We have (shall I say) two new minifigs, which is Clone Trooper and Barriss Offee while the other three are two Battle Droid and Super Battle Droid.

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The Clone Trooper have new printed torso on the both side and sure looks better than the one in Clone Troopers Battle Pack (#7655). The new printed mouth on the helmet is a little let down as it is not well printed.

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Is a black stud under the helmet, means less printing for the LEGO Group which is a good news as they always messed up the printing.
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Swamp Speeder
There are good and bad in this Swamp Speeder although it does looks good in the design (well, a review is always bias as it base on personal thoughts =P).

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When the propeller turn the cannon turns too. Both turn in the same way. So, whenever they want to change to firing position of the blaster cannon, they have to move according to that position. (--")

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The blaster cannon at the front looks nice, however, why it is a flick-fire mechanism? This is the cons of this set.

Here's the mud shield, which is movable. It seems more like a protection for the pilot of this vehicle from attack.

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While here is where they seat and control the speeder, the middle one are button slope too, just that it is not printed but instead sticker.

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This is how it looks like under the swamp speeder. The cannon blaster and the propeller are connected with technic beam.
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Extra pieces
There is quite a number of spare pieces just in case you spoil one or lost one.

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Completed model
I like the Swamp Speeder itselt, but it will looks better if the blaster cannon are not flick-fire and no hidden wheel as the round 2x2 with rounded bottom can do the same effect of "hovering".

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Playability: 6/10 Not much function we get from this set.
Design: 8/10 Everything is good.
Price: 4/10 This set is way expensive over here.
Overall: 6/10 Nice swamp speeder, but need more clone trooper instead of droids.

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