[Review] 75089 Geonosis Troopers

[duboismerci]

Hello again everyone!

Continuing to review the sets I bought during the May the Fourth sale. This is my last review of the 2015 winter wave as I don't have the other sets that still need a review and I don't plan buying them. They are:

75081 T-16 Skyhopper

75084: Wookiee Gunship

75086: Battle Droid Troop Carrier

75087: Anakin's Custom Jedi Starfighter

75090: Ezra's Speeder Bike

If anyone could review these. Thanks!

So now on to the review

This is my third review : 75089 Geonosis Troopers

Name: Geonosis Troopers

Theme: Star Wars / Expended universe / The Clone Wars

Year: 2015

Pieces: 105

Minifigures: 4

Price: USA 12.99$, ENG 11.99£, CAN 15.99$, EUR 16.99€

Ressources: Brickset

Lego store description

Support the Galactic Republic with the Geonosis Troopers™ battle pack!

Support the clone army at the Battle of Geonosis with the LEGO® Star Wars™ Geonosis Troopers™ battle pack! Mount the Clone Troopers on the walker and lay down covering fire for the Airborne Clone Troopers with the never-before-seen rapid shooter! Attach stud blasters to the walker for even more firepower! Inspired by the Clone Wars universe, this cool battle pack includes 4 minifigures with weapons: 2 Geonosis Clone Troopers and 2 Geonosis Airborne Clone Troopers.

• Includes 4 minifigures with weapons: 2 Geonosis Clone Troopers and 2 Geonosis Airborne Clone Troopers
  
• Features a walker with a never-before-seen rapid shooter
  
• Weapons include 4 stud blasters
  
• Spare ammunition also included
  
• Turn the gear to unleash a hail of studs!
  
• Fire the stud blasters
  
• Inspired by The Clone Wars universe
  
• Expand your LEGO® Star Wars collection with this great battle pack
  
• Walker measures over 5” (15cm) high, 2” (7cm) long and 1” (5cm) wide
  

The front of the box with the new 2015 art: A stormtrooper helmet tagged with a rebel alliance crest. Your standard box art for 2015.

On the back of the box, we see the play features and the number os stud shooter and the number of spare studs. Also shown is the clone troopers and the walker's features.

In the box, the pieces come in 2 bags and with the instruction booklet.

The instruction booklet with the same image as the box on the cover.

The back with the win minifigure.

Spare parts: mainly spare studs. It's a battlepack!

The completed model. The walker with the new stud "gatlin" gun ready to fire!

Side view 1

Side view 2

Top view

Back view

With the legs posed like it's recommended in the manual

The walker as 3 features: movable legs, the "gatlin gun" and the opening cockpit.

Here is the cockpit opened and closed.

Closed

The walker is unstable if both legs aren't placed the same way

And now what you were all waiting for: The Minifigures!

We get 4 of them; 2 Geonosis airborne troopers and 2 Geonosis troopers.

The battlepacks comes with 2 different heads: the standard clone trooper face and another one with a different facial expression.

The Geonosis trooper compared to the to the Kashyyyk trooper and Utapau trooper. We can see that the camo pattern is different then the Kashyyyk trooper. It has the same back printing as the one from the Utapau BP.

Back view

The airborne trooper compared to the Utapau BP one.

Back view

Rating

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These three points are not included in final score.

Price: 6/10 – 105 pieces for 12.99$ is above the 10 cents per piece ration. Also like other battlepacks with the gatlin gun, 20 of those piece are studs for the guns and the canon. Still we get 4 amazing minifigures and a small vehicule.

Parts: 7.5/10 – Many of the pieces are studs but we get a nice assortement of pieces in geonosian tan that could be usefull for any desert moc. You love or you don't the new gatlin gun.

Build 7/10 – The build takes around 10 minutes. No special technic are involved in the build. Battlepacks are about minifigures and not the building experience, so no surprise here

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Design 5/10 – This walker is not based on any source material but we have seen enough walkers that we know how it should look or not look like. From the front and from the side the model does look good but looks bad from behind because of a complete lack of detail. There is only so much you can do with 50-60 pieces. You can fit 2 minifigures and their guns on the walker. The legs are movable, the cockpit can be opened and closed and the gatlin gun does shoot fast and far. Still it's a little hard to place the legs in display mode. (refer to image legs posed like it's recommended in the manual) If both legs aren't place the same way, the walker will be very unstable or it will fall. Besides, the walker can't stand on 1 leg and thus it limits the different poses it can take. It's an average build. Nothing amazing. Still it might bring some memories to some of the first walker of the very first battlepack released: the clone walkers BP.

Minifigures: 10/10 – The minifigures are outstanding. The camo printing on both troopers is very detailled and beautifull. Printed legs, and backprint on all 4 minifigures. The airborne trooper helmet is also very well made and looks just like the source material. Troopers from a new clone legion is always welcome for MOCs and dioramas. Also we get 2 different faces wich is good for an all clone battlepack.

Playability: 6/10 – Not much play features except for the gatlin canon and the opening cockpit. It's hard to set the legs in display mode and both legs must be placed the same way if not the model will be unstable or it won't even stand. The movable legs can't really considered a play feature in this case. Still the shooter is fun to use and so are the minifigure's guns. This is a one faction battlepacks. It's meant to be played with other sets so you can have targets to shoot at!

OVERALL 7/10 – A good battlepack. The minifigure are definitively the highlight of the set as you would expect. Adding a new clone legion to your collection is always nice even tho some would have prefered a more "famous" legion like the Galactic Marines or the 501^th. Seeing another variant of the airborne trooper is also very nice because the mold for the helmet is amazing. The vehicule included could have been better. In the end this is an above average battlepack with outsanding minifigures that carry a rather average walker.

Thoughts and critiques welcomes!

Also if there is any grammar mistake burning your eyes, please PM me and I will edit.

Thanks for reading!

[Jay_Em]

Surprised that so many of the 2015 sets don't have reviews. I remember a few years ago pictorial reviews on EB were all the rage. Maybe YouTube reviews have replaced them?

This is a good detailed review though. I'm not a clone trooper person myself, but if I was I'd love this battle pack. Lego have really gone all out on the variants lately.

[Lobot]

Another great review duboismerci, thanks! I've added the poll as requested

[samurai-turtle]

I might get this set if I can find a good deal on it. It is just another "walker" to me.

[duboismerci]

Surprised that so many of the 2015 sets don't have reviews. I remember a few years ago pictorial reviews on EB were all the rage. Maybe YouTube reviews have replaced them?

This is a good detailed review though. I'm not a clone trooper person myself, but if I was I'd love this battle pack. Lego have really gone all out on the variants lately.

They do take a lot to time but are fun to make. I personally don't like youtube review but that is my opinion.

And yes we are lucky that Lego did such a good job on the last BPs.

Another great review duboismerci, thanks! I've added the poll as requested

Thanks again Lobot!

I might get this set if I can find a good deal on it. It is just another "walker" to me.

Yeah the minifigs are great but the walker not so much.

[Dragonlego27]

I'll probably purchase this set, if I have the money after TFA, instead of the Utupau Troopers BP. I believe the build in this set is better (although it is my private belief that that doesn't take a lot) and prefer the camouflage pattern to the slightly garish orange of the other battlepack.

I'll probably purchase this set, if I have the money after TFA, instead of the Utupau Troopers BP. I believe the build in this set is better (although it is my private belief that that doesn't take a lot) and prefer the camouflage pattern to the slightly garish orange of the other battlepack.

[Flieger]

Thanks for the review!

I must say I am not very happy with the set: finally we get camouflaged Geonosis-Troopers and it is not them:

I don't get it! They have the mould and digital camouflage is easy to print. (I realize they reused the Kashyyyk-trooper printing pattern one of the minifigs, but they made a new one for the airborne troopers).

Why not give us canonic Geonosis-troopers?