Rebel Battlepack Review

[ZoL]

Okay, so here goes...

Name: Rebel Speeder

Price: US $9.99

peices: 82

Mini-figs: 4

Mini-figs Okay, I just love these, they are detailed and I think the visor is actually a nice touch. They have great new faces and the "uniform" is just like the movies! Now with these new figs you can make a recreation of the Tantive IV boarding without custom helmits or firefighter helmits. Sadly, the picture in the cataloge pic is bad and only shows one angle

Build Okay, it's an extremly easy build that takes about 5 minutes. It's simple and by the book, with up to 5 peices per step. Urg no more to say about this...

The speeder Not a calling point to the set, for a good reason. It is boring and not "swoshable. It does look like something tht might have been used by the rebels at some point, and does include a 4x4 circle peice. Over all though not a good speeder in it's self.

Scoring

Design: 2/10

peices: 1/10

price: 6/10

Figs: 10/10

idea: 8/10

total: 27/50, good

Conclusion Well, I got this for the people, in which it is a good set. Most of the of the other parts are lacking, but you should buy atleast one for the people if you can afford it and any other sets you want. Sarry for no pics, I might soon have some.

Edited February 21, 2008 by Lord_Sylp

[Shadows]

WRONG! (I love how I come in reviews for this set and tell people that they're opinion is wrong) ;-)

The speeder is great! GREAT! It is most certainly swooshable and even you admit it looks like something the Rebels might have used, so how can that be wrong??? X-D

Plus, as most agree, the figures rock. *y*

On your "out of 50" scoring system (???), I'd give it a 42/50.

To get a 50/50, they would have needed to give us at least one different face and not used stickers.

So go take another look at it and embrace the speeder! :-D

[hollisbrick]

WRONG! (I love how I come in reviews for this set and tell people that they're opinion is wrong) ;-)

The speeder is great! GREAT! It is most certainly swooshable and even you admit it looks like something the Rebels might have used, so how can that be wrong??? X-D

Plus, as most agree, the figures rock. *y*

On your "out of 50" scoring system (???), I'd give it a 42/50.

To get a 50/50, they would have needed to give us at least one different face and not used stickers.

So go take another look at it and embrace the speeder! :-D

I definately agree, i personelly *wub* the speeder!!! very simple but it works!!!! anyway thanks for the reveiw

imbrace the speeder on X-D *y*

[meschepers]

I think the battle pack is superb. I actually like the simplicity of the speeder. My one wish is maybe have a different torso for one of the troopers so there could be a definite leader. I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.

[THE-FORCE]

I find this battlepack the best SW battlepack made!

I got 3 speeders.(So that means I own 12 rebels)

Edited February 3, 2008 by THE-FORCE

[Lt. Veers]

WRONG! (I love how I come in reviews for this set and tell people that they're opinion is wrong) ;-)

The speeder is great! GREAT! It is most certainly swooshable and even you admit it looks like something the Rebels might have used, so how can that be wrong??? X-D

Plus, as most agree, the figures rock. *y*

On your "out of 50" scoring system (???), I'd give it a 42/50.

To get a 50/50, they would have needed to give us at least one different face and not used stickers.

So go take another look at it and embrace the speeder! :-D

I totally agree!

[Hewman]

Lord_Sylp

I have to disagree with you on a number of points. I found the speeder, well constructed, stylish and definitely swooshable, for the bonus part of what amounts to a minifig set, it's pretty nice. even the stickers that came with it look pretty good although applying the smaller ones is a little awkward, I guess I need little kid hands.

I thought there was a good range of pieces and it definitely looks like a complete set unlike the stormies' ship that looks a little unfinished.

They're some pretty harsh calls on design, pieces and price.

[ZoL]

Okay, sorry about my opinion on the speeder. Another thing I should clear up- My "out of fifty" scoring systom is I have five catagories:

Design: Out of ten

Peices: Out of ten

Price: Out of ten

Figs: Out of ten

Idea: Out of ten

Total: Out of fifty (Not an average)

I'm also a perfectionist, and score lower then many say should, so a 50/50 would have to be perfect, a 40/50 would have to be near perfact and a 30 out of 50 would have to be really good. So a 27 out of 50 would be good. To be bad would be a 10 out of 50 or lower.

[trooperdavinfelth]

OK, I totally agree with IS in his first post. Now let me get this straight: You rate the price 6 of 10 in this set, but in the Imperial dropship, you rate it 8 of 10. In this set, you get four brand new figs and a swooshable speeder for 9.99. In the dropship, you get three old stormtroopers with slightly new helmets and a shadow trooper, in addition to a not-so-great, in your opinion, dropship. IMO, there are plenty of nice pieces in this set, especially the streamlined ones in the front of the speeder, on top of a windshield! Not to mention a sweet little turret on the back. Now a 2 of 10 for the design is just wrong. Just wrong. Yeah yeah, perfectionist perfectionist... But at least it holds four minifigures in a realistic way! The Imperial Landing Craft couldn't even hold those four stormtroopers comfortably which is why my brother modded it to hold at least seven seated and one standing. That meant removing the guns(duh). Now the ILC deserved at least a 3 of 10 for design. I mean, at least it held the two guns and had a neat mechanism for opening and closing the wings(several new parts). But back to the speeder: It's not swooshable on a carpet or on slates, but on hardwood flooring, just grab the turret tower and swoosh away! Plus, if you're into picking it up and swooshing it through the air, you can hold it by the turret as well! ;-) I'd rate this set as IS did; a 42/50.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading your reviews! Harsh reviews ON! :-P

[SWMAN]

I disagree again. I think this set is really cool. It is simple, easy, but yet cool. Rebels don't have many ground units, so this one is really nice and you can build your armies with this. Also, what are the qualifications for pieces. You gave it a one. You can't expect sets to have all really cool pieces. A simple set will have simple pieces. I think the price is amazing. For only ten dollars, you get 4 BRAND NEW figures that aren't in any other set. Lego could have charged a ton for this set and gotten away with murder, but they priced it very fairly. I also don't understand how the design can be a 2 and the idea an 8. I believe that the design was really good for a simple set that Lego released to really give us some cool figs. I think this set is really sweet. Also, how is 54% good. You should probably stop basing your 50/50 on the set being perfect. No set is every going to be perfect. You can't expect Lego to release a perfect set. How is 60% good and 80% really good. I think you need to lower your standards.

[voxel]

Hi!

Scoring

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price: 6/10

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Make that 2/10 (at 13.99 EURO) :-X

[trooperdavinfelth]

Hi!

Make that 2/10 (at 13.99 EURO) :-X

Hey, don't go about giving him any bad ideas... :-P

[tedbeard]

Sorry but I agree with Lord Sylp. I found the speeder incredibly lame and clearly only included to get around the "no army packs" rule that some people have speculated exists in the SW license deal. No such vehicle appeared in the movies and no particular design skill was applied to this simple model.

I built it and the only "swoosh" I could imagine was as the Rebel Alliance Bobsled Team headed down the track. :-D

But in the end that's OK because we are all just buying it for the four troopers anyway and the bobsled speeder parts are OK - so long as you don't use the stickers.

[trooperdavinfelth]

Sorry but I agree with Lord Sylp. I found the speeder incredibly lame and clearly only included to get around the "no army packs" rule that some people have speculated exists in the SW license deal. No such vehicle appeared in the movies and no particular design skill was applied to this simple model.

I built it and the only "swoosh" I could imagine was as the Rebel Alliance Bobsled Team headed down the track. :-D

But in the end that's OK because we are all just buying it for the four troopers anyway and the bobsled speeder parts are OK - so long as you don't use the stickers.

Well, I won't argue with you, but I'll just say I found your explanation of why you don't like it incredibly dissatisfying(I do, however, agree with your point regarding the Alliance Bobsled Team X-D ). For pete's sake, can we leave this 'it wasn't in the movies' argument alone? It's not an argument; did you complain when you never saw the droid carrier in the droid battle pack in the movies? The same for the turret and the speeder bike in the clone battle pack? There are HUNDREDS of battles that happened across the galaxy during the Galactic Civil War, and this COULD have been used in one of them. And th...

Oh wait, I said I wouldn't argue with you, didn't I? Nvm. Just try and elaborate on your points, please! :-)

[tedbeard]

...can we leave this 'it wasn't in the movies' argument alone? It's not an argument; did you complain when you never saw the droid carrier in the droid battle pack in the movies? The same for the turret and the speeder bike in the clone battle pack?

[snip]

Just try and elaborate on your points, please! :-)

OK, I will. :-)

Actually yes, if anyone asked I would have made similar comments about the other "filler" vehicles in the other battle packs.

My point is not that they should not produce models of vehicles not included in canon but rather that since it was neither particularly interesting as a stand-alone nor is it reproducing something people would have seen/wanted it was simply a way to add some parts.

I would love some innovative small vehicles to be included with the battle packs but these are not innovative. I know there are limitations on the designers but if my 10-year old kid could have designed it I feel a little bit ripped-off in the aesthetic sense. Designers should be able to do better.

If I knew how the LEGO design parameters were set I would suggest we run a challenge to see who could design a better small vehicle/diorama for these sets. Since we don't know the "value" of each element in the LEGO design system we might specify rules like: must use the same or fewer number of parts; all the parts must fit into the box when disassembled.

Sorry to wander a bit off topic there.

Edited February 22, 2008 by tedbeard