#STAR WARS LEGO SHUTTLE FULL#
Which is to say the better part of a decade! That’s a much different story than the one we told earlier in the year, that had many fans considering the upcoming wave the worst we’ve seen from the theme.īefore we break down what to expect from each of the upcoming sets, here’s the full list of kits that 9to5Toys can confirm today. Each of the kits is delivering something that builders have been hoping for for as long as I have been writing about LEGO professionally. This year has already had some kits canceled, like the Jabba’s Throne Room diorama, and so it’s worth not getting lost in just how compelling these sets seem. Who knows what will happen as the year unfolds.īuilders have been asking for this kind of wave from LEGO Star Wars for ages. With all that being said, it’s best to retain some caution in fully believing that any of the sets will see the light of day. We at 9to5Toys have heard from likely the same source as that German site, with reports on what to expect from the LEGO Star Wars 2023 summer wave that’s in line with what others have been able to detail.
Other sites like the famous leakers over at PromoBricks were the ones to originally report the news back on April 1, and are doubling down that now that the holiday of trickery has come to an end. So until there are leaked minifigures, or some of these sets show up in stores, we’re going to be very skeptical. Today’s batch of news however can hardly be considered to fit into either category. I think that LEGO could easily have incorporated spring-loaded shooters into the wing’s bases where the actual blaster cannons are.Over the past few years, we’ve gotten pretty good at confirming which LEGO leaks are true and which are too good to be true. My only other complaint is the stud shooters, which the designers simply slapped on the sides of the cockpit. The pilot is new in this set.Īside from my earlier complaint about the wings, which is easily remedied, I actually think this is a pretty decent set, and similar to the latest X-wing and TIE Fighter we recently reviewed here on TBB, the proportions, and the finished details are quite accurate to the source material, and the price is fairly reasonable for a set with 660 pieces. This version of Luke has appeared in four other sets. The third minifig is the shuttle’s Imperial pilot. Luke comes with his calm Jedi-focused expression, as well as the one you see if you’re a Sith lord and you bring up his sister. Darth Vader comes with the now-standard 2 part helmet, to re-enact the scene when Luke lets his father see him with his own eyes if the set included a boarding ramp. The set includes 3 minifigs and a pair of wrist manacles to re-enact what could be the most awkward father-son ride in history. The mechanism includes a 1×2 rubber part that holds just enough tension to keep from slipping open while holding it, and I wiggled it a lot, but even when the model was finished, the connection held. Now we come to a surprising part of the model, which seems at first glance to be simply a Technic frame for the typically large dorsal fin to attach to, but turns out to be both a handle for picking up the finished shuttle and a mechanism to flip open the top gaining access to the passenger compartment. Also, the absence of even a single printed or stickered control panel makes one wonder if the pilot is force-sensitive, as there is no other way for him to actually pilot the shuttle. One other thing to note is that the way the top of the canopy attaches to the bottom leaves a very noticeable gap when viewed from the side. The canopy attaches at the front and tilts back to form the iconic angled cockpit. I guess Lord Vader will have to be more patient with him since there’s no co-pilot to take over after watching his boss get force-chocked for scratching the paint job. Next, we begin adding the lower portion of the cockpit, which unlike previous versions of the shuttle only seats a single minifig pilot.
There are 2 sturdy click hinges facing out on each side which will attach to the wings later. The model starts off with the main body of the shuttle and we get a few relatively new parts an upward bracket plate with two studs facing out, and some 1×1 Technic axle bricks which first appeared in the new 75300 Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing set.
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