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Today I got the chance off picking up 75001, 75012, 75013 and I decided to try and do a little review off them.
First one I'll be reviewing is the 75001 Republic Troopers vs. Sith Troopers set.
Minifigs: 2 Republic Troopers, 2 Sith Troopers
Build: Small one person speeder vehicle
Price: € 14.99
Subtheme: The Old Republic
Pieces: Not Specified on the European box
Release: Winter 2013
Front of the box.
It's a little box (can be expected from an army builder
). It has the new green Yoda box layout like all the new winter sets have.
Back of the box.
Shows a little battle and flick fire ability of the speeder.
Side of the box.
Like all the boxes it shows how large the minifigures are in real life. This is one of the new minifigures in the box (the "NEW!" reminds us of that), althought it is not the only new one
.
Content off the box.
Construction manual, little plastic bag with little pieces, a medium one with the rest of the pieces and off course the dreaded sticker sheet (only two stickers).
Closer look at the sticker sheet.
Content from both plastic bags.
Really looking forward seeing the minifigures assembled!
I'll do the minifigures first (most people are looking forward to this, as do I
).Front view.
Here we have the two Republic Soldiers. They are really well detailed, nice torso and leg print, their helms look great too. They both look alike, no differences here.
Back view.
Beautiful (although simple) back printing. Their helmets are open on the backside, which is a bitt off a letdown, but the helmets do look great overall
.
Republic Soldiers without their helmets.
A surprise (for me) that they have different head printings, although no double faced heads (but not really necessary).
Only minifigures left are the Sith Troopers.
Front view.
The black one is not new, but now he has some nice legprinting we hoped for
.The red one is new. He looks great too and surprisingly he has a new helmet print
.
Sith Troopers without their helmets.
Even better, they both have different faces like the Republic Troopers
.
Back side.
Very nice printing on the back, even more detailed then the Republic Troopers.
Also a difference between the red and black one. Like the Republic Troopers no double sided face heads.
Close-up off their helmets (sorry for the bad picture).
Now on to the build itself.
A little brick build laser machine gun, simple but effective. Looks badass in the hands off a minifigure.
The speeder.
These are the pieces that remain after building the machine gun and minifigures.
Here I apllied the stickers. They do look great on it
.
This is how the finished speeder looks like.
I really like this speeder. It looks really good and it almost perfectly resembles the ingame version (except the colors).
Here we have the set in it's full glory
.
A picture from the spare parts.
Now I'll try to rate the set.
Playability: 9/10 - It is a fun little set, you have troops from both sides so you can do a little battle between them, the speeder has flick fire missiles for a bit of action.
Design: 9/10 - The design is pretty good, the machine gun looks nice and the speeder looks almost identical to his ingame counterpart.
Price: 7/10 - I find it a bit much for what it is, a € 12 price point would be better. But we do get some nice looking minifigures and a nice little speeder.
Minifigures: 9,5/10 - The minifigures are awesome. Not much we could do to make them look better imho, the only negative thing I can think about is the opening on the back of the Republic Trooper helmet.
Parts: 8/10 - We get some nice parts. Not much more I can say about that.
Overall: 42/50 - This is a nice set, its main value are the minifigures though.
I hoped you enjoyed my very first review!
Hopefully there are not too many pictures for reviewing a small set
