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LEGO Star Wars 7662: Trade Federation MTT

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I guess it's lacklustre for those who already have parts of it or who wished for something more worthy of the 'UCS' title. thing that is somehow supposed to be Aldar Beedo) and the podracers themselves are absolute jokes compared to the other podracer sets that came out around that time (7131, 7171 and 7186). It's a GREAT set to build with 6 people at the same time-- a rare thing for LEGO sets, even if everyone has their own instructions on their tablets/laptops. EU: 4184340 Availability Retail Notes Set contains additional parts to build a Y-wing Fighter when also using additional parts from sets 4488, 4489 and 4490.

What really kills it for me is how this ship is Lego's OWN design, so they can't excuse themselves with the original being hard to transfer to brick form. However ULD is kind of supposed to look like that, being set on a collapsing station, while there were ways they could have fixed the FOATST (as the article itself states, why is there no removable head? The odd colors might result from the effort of breaking the uniform surface up and making it more easily buildable, which was a thing back then even more than today (At least today designers don't sacrifice looks for the ease of build so significantly) and/or a tendency to show some battle worn surface. Unfortunately, 75098 Assault on Hoth is packed with ugly functions, many of which do not work properly or feel very rudimentary. As for the mediocre AT-ST, I'm considering picking one if it goes on sale to customize it into a proper walker.

Maybe they could use 75311 as a test, see how popular it is and release more ground based vehicles as well. I think it would have been more interesting to highlight a subset of ships, like the ones that were the closest to actual mini figure scale.

Firstly, the designer probably only had access to limited material from which to take inspiration as the set was created while the film was in production. It wasn’t the same then as it is now, with every set that’s released scrutinised to make sure it’s completely realistic to the ‘source material’. I say Star Scavenger without a doubt, but I think everything else really isn’t too terrible (it could also just be that the quality of Star Wars sets is just generally high, tho).There are sixteen regular Battle Droids included, which gives the eight-droid racks just enough room to hold them all. I feel I have to give the first few entries a pass, since they came from the earliest days of Star Wars. They float on repulsorlift boosters, hovering just above the ground, and though they are not very well armed in point of guns, they use battering rams, according to Wikipedia, which are presumably another function of the Battle Droid rack on the front.

The head isn't that movable, you can see the wheels and its main feature of the moving legs are poorly done.These functions are a little more effective but neither is very interesting which is not satisfactory for a set designed purely for play.

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