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I'm looking forward to the mega battle pack and to seeing the Grogu Escape set personally, though my interest might come down to what clones are included. Still sounds like a decent low-ish price set.

December is here, which means Advent season! Is this year's Harry Potter Advent Calendar worth your money and/or time? Let's find out! SET INFORMATIONNumber: 76418Name: LEGO Harry Potter Advent CalendarTheme: Harry Potter / Wizarding WorldReleased: 2023Part Count: 227 + ~40 extrasMinifigures: 6Set Price (RRP): 37.99 EUR / 29.99 GBP / 59.99 AUD / 44.99 USD / 59.99 CADLinks: Brickset Bricklink Flickr set INTRODUCTIONI don't really understand LEGO's business model for advent calendars. Presumably the primary market for them uses them as intended: parents buy them to have ready for December 1st, and kids open the designated flap each day leading up to Christmas Eve. If that's the case, why does LEGO release these sets in September, and start discounting them in November, before the time they're most in demand? At the time of writing this review, this set is 30% off in Europe directly from LEGO, and sold out entirely in North America. Doesn't LEGO know that lots of people, including parents, aren't organised enough to buy these in advance? Wouldn't LEGO want to capitalize on that? Anyway... this is my second ever foray into LEGO's advent calendars, after last year's Marvel calendar, which I picked up on big discount because six Guardians in one cheap-ish set was too good to pass by. For this review, I'll try to get into the mindset of someone opening the gifts each day, as well as share my thoughts on the set as a whole, including for us adult fans. Let's see how it goes. Thank you to LEGO for providing this set at Eurobricks' request. BOXWhen preparing this review I noticed that the back of the box has a picture of itself, which struck me as amusing. Here it is. Anyone who has ever picked up an Advent Calendar will know how relatively light they feel for the size of the box; there aren't a lot of parts, and a lot of the parts are going to be rather small. It'd be redundant to show you the back of the box with the flap flipped down, given you just saw it on the back of the box, but here's a bird's eye view of the flap, which itself has a bird's eye view into four Hogsmeade shops. The completely non-LEGO art style feels jarring and I think I would've preferred LEGO-style images here. Without further ado, let's go through day by day. DAY 1We start off with the main man boy who lived himself, Mr. Potter. The students' outfits in this set all take inspiration from their getups when they visit Hogsmeade in Prisoner of Azkaban, as seen here. Harry's outfit has been faithfully recreated, though he could've done with a recolour of the other version of this hood that had hair attached, which sadly was only ever used twice and hasn't been seen since 2018. Harry is a fitting way to start the calendar anyway. DAY 2Next up we get a mundane little counter for Honeyduke's, though the Bertie Botts 1x1 brick is always welcome. DAY 3Honeydukes continues with this slightly more elaborate counter with a glass display built in and a 1x2 cheese slope to probably represent a till, though it's unprinted. Quite a few spares here as well. DAY 4Here we get a version of the Sirius Black wanted poster, with one of the set's obligatory exclusive prints. This calendar contains only two exclusive prints apart from Minifigures; 2022 had 3 (though one was the brick for the game spinner), 2021 had 6 (including its dish for its spinner), 2020 had only 1 (though exclusive printed bricks are used as the legs of three characters, so that could count as 4), and 2019 had 5. The number of exclusive printed parts is a bit proportionate to the number of exclusive printed minifigure parts, though not perfectly. The print and overall design of this stand, while simple, look good, It's a print with limited use, but good graphic design nonetheless. It's actually the third iteration of this poster, and second iteration of this exact stand, as pictured below with the much more elaborate one from Hogsmeade Village Visit. That one used the exact same graphic design of Sirius from the original version found in the 2018 Hogwarts Express, though the original had inaccurate text. This new one is the first to allude to the text that appears in the film underneath the moving image of Sirius, despite being smaller than the last one. DAY 5Only five days in and we get our second spiffy Minifigure in the form of Ron. Now, Ron's hat is inaccurate to the film, but from a purely LEGO perspective it's an awesome reappearance and recolour of the part developed for Ron's brothers in the second Harry Potter CMF series. DAY 6We now whip over to Zonko's Joke Shop for a stand that's perhaps even more boring than the first Honeyduke's stand, though involves slightly more building and has a ton of extra pieces. I was startled to see incredibly messy mould injection points on all of the clip pieces, so I took a picture, below. Have you seen parts recently with such messy-ness? This is nearly clone-brand level bad. DAY 7The next day continues with Zonko's. It was fun seeing a bunch of different colours of 1x2 plates in one bag, and the 1x1 cones are nice colours, though that's about all there is to say. DAY 8Here's the second and final exclusive print, this 1x4 tile printed to look like it's a wooden hand sign. Kinda useless, but kind of cool too. DAY 9Hermione rounds out the trio on day 9, not even halfway through the calendar, with another fantastic recoloured hair-hat combo and an exclusive torso (like Harry's and Ron's) that's generic enough to use outside of the Harry Potter setting. DAY 10A quick Bricklink search shows that there are a lot of ways to build small (blocky, awful) Christmas trees, but this set's designer decided not to reinvent the wheel and instead recycle the design from the 2019 and 2020 Harry Potter calendars. If you're onto a good thing I guess... It's certainly not very interesting, though the colours are better than the previous versions. DAY 11Speaking of not very interesting, this very basic mailbox, though everybody can use more owls. DAY 12Somewhat worse still is this fountain, which has nothing particularly Harry Potter-y about it and provides no interactivity with the minifigures. It's pure scene dressing. DAY 13I was quite surprised again when I opened Day 13, and saw the most desirable Minifigure in the set, the exclusive and first ever Aberforth Dumbledore. I would've bet a small amount of money that LEGO would save Aberforth for Day 24, given he's the coolest, newest thing in the set. This sent me down a Bricklink rabbit hole seeing what LEGO does in terms of Day 24 for the other themes. City has pretty consistently had Santa on Day 24, apart from a brief lapse in judgement in 2018 when they presented this abominable snowman build instead (serious what the heck is that). Star Wars consistently includes a cool holiday figure last, which is also a good choice. The other themes, though, have been mixed bags, which again is just weird. Why wouldn't they always want to go out with a bang in every calendar for every theme? As for Aberforth himself, he's pretty cool though not super detailed. The torso print immediately reminded me of this torso from Western, which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement because LEGO has levelled up their design work a lot since 1996. Obviously it is a bit better than that, but it's still simple. His face is very highly detailed though and I like the wry little smile. To be honest I felt unconvinced by this figure when I first saw images of it: the bright purple didn't remind me of Aberforth because, while he might technically wear purple, all the scenes Aberforth appears in are so dark and relatively washed out in that colour scheme Yates preferred for all of his Harry Potter films. The use of this particular hair and beard, which LEGO continues to use for Professor Dumbledore from films 1 and 2, also made this Aberforth look too much like his brother, though when paired with a Gambon Dumbledore there are enough differences to set them apart. Still, I think Aberforth needs something like the Hobbit film dwarf hair to really capture his wild, bushy look. DAY 14Fittingly, our journey through Hogsmeade now takes us to Aberforth's Hog's Head Inn, and this once again mundane table with a definitely-not-alcohol bottle. It's a trendy water bottle. For sure. DAY 15Next comes this cask of definitely-not-alcohol. People keep juice in casks right? RIGHT? As casks go, it's a good little build, but is this exciting for a kid? DAY 16We move back outside for this spindly lamp post, though at least this could double as some sort of weapon, what with the lightsaber hilts. DAY 17Now we get the only total repeat Minifigure of the set: Madam Rosmerta, the proprietor of the Three Broomsticks, who also appeared in Hogsmeade Village Visit. She's a decent figure though, and the set contains Three Broomsticks stuff, so her inclusion makes sense. DAY 18The "Three Broomsticks stuff" begins the next day with this terribly simple and dull table. "Look mummy, today I get to build a table with five parts! What a treat!" - said no kid ever. DAY 19Irksome mundanity is really setting in with this decent, but again unexciting, fire place. DAY 20At least day 20 bring two builds and something with which Minifigures can interact. Is this the start of a wreath-making workshop or just a large table decoration? DAY 21Like Ron's, Draco's exclusively recoloured headgear is inaccurate to his film costume, but I'm not bothered because it's a great colour scheme for the part and LEGO doesn't make anything like his film hat anyway. The jacket is also extremely reusable. This means that there are no minifigures left for Day 24 though... DAY 22Things should be ramping up towards Christmas, but instead we get probably the least exciting build so far: this basic bench. DAY 23One Christmas tree wasn't enough, so here's another one, now with extra cheese slopes. DAY 24 And rounding out this month of utilitarian builds comes this wet thud of a snowman with next to nothing special going for it. Nothing magical. No elevated design. The scarf is a jumper plate and a face is non-existent. Sigh... Here are all of the spare parts - I counted around 40! COMPLETE SET and CONCLUDING THOUGHTS Now, the whole concept (or perhaps conceit) of this set is that it gives you everything to play out Hogsmeade scenes by placing the builds in their respective sections of the box's flap, as shown below. The effect is kind of weird for my order-liking brain, since you're placing LEGO and making Minifigures walk on top of top-down non-LEGO-style designs, including things like tables and chairs. I think they should've gone with just the floor design of each store, and left any interior furnishings to the physical LEGO rather than the artwork. Kids probably won't mind it as much as I do, though I think I would've minded as a kid too. In any case, when all's said and done this is a cool thing, to have all the builds and Minifigures tie together into a complete scene. However, is an Advent Calendar about the journey or the destination? For us adults who like order, harmony, and cohesion, this set does a good job, but if it's supposed to feel like somewhat of a special gift every day for 24 days, it largely fails. The vast majority of days are mundane nothingness, all in service of creating the full scene at the end. While I don't personally care for micro models, if the point is to provide something somewhat cool every day, the Advent Calendars with micro models do a much better job of fulfilling that mission. People seemed to dislike last year's Harry Potter calendar, but a ton of those models look cute to me, and are each a whole recognisable little thing in a single day. The 2020 calendar did a decent job of mixing between stuff to build a Yule Ball scene and micro models on a Goblet of Fire theme. This one goes completely in the build-a-scene direction, and I'd thus be hard pressed to tell you any single day felt exciting or special besides the Minifigures and perhaps the Sirius Black sign, which would be a mighty slog for nearly a month. For AFOLs or general Harry Potter fans who aren't interest in the advent aspect, the value here is all in the Minifigures. Whether or not you're interested comes down to how much you like contemporary, everyday Minifigure parts. To my taste, I love what's on offer here with three recoloured headgear parts, four useful wintery torsos, and Aberforth to add to the Harry Potter collection. However, if you're purely a Harry Potter fan then Aberforth is really the only thing going for this lineup, since the kids' costumes, while exclusive, are inconsequential. SCORE How do I rate this set? 9 MINIFIGURES There's enough cool and exclusive stuff, including an exclusive character despite his flaws, for me to rate the Minifigures quite high. 5 PIECES I've got to give this a low 5/10 because, while there's never a satisfactory number of pieces in any Advent Calendar, these pieces are especially uninteresting apart from the couple of prints. 6 BUILD/DESIGN Unlike calendars with micro models, there are no NPUs to be found and nothing special or particularly charming about any design here. 2 EXPERIENCE Here I'm ranking what I feel like the experience would be to open a door everyday, which I think would be a rather abysmal slog. 7 PLAYBILITY End result playability would be fairly decent though if you like roleplay, since you get a complete and coherent set scene in which to enact play scenarios. 6 PRICE The price varies by region, being a better deal at full price in Europe than North America, though like I said up top, it's so easy to find these sets on discount. The price isn't "good", but for the minifigures alone it is ok on discount. 5.8 OVERALL - This might well be the lowest score I've ever given a set, but I think it's justified. The minifigures are really all this set has going for it. What do you think? Am I wildly off base? I'll also be back with a few crappy alt models that I tried to build out of the limited selection of parts, which I'll post in a comment in this topic.

You think that comment was an insult? I think the logo design is pretty uninspired (as does Lyichir it seems), but a general comment on the fact that people are focusing a lot on logo design is cool and fine.

Move on and drop it @danth. And before you ask why I'm singling you out (publicly, no less), Lyichir made a generic comment about the discussion, and you took that and made comments to and about Lyichir. Thanks.

Yes really. There was a bot. It posted a post that was clearly written by AI. People reported it. I deleted the account. On we go.

I already explained it in my post in this topic:

The bots. They're learning. Thanks to the people who reported. I've scrubbed said bot, so now this conversation no longer makes sense. Funny how easy it is to spot AI-written language though. Eventually it'll probably get seamless.

Don't forget the darkest of all, Nahdar Vebb, a minor who came in a set with his murderer! Good one LEGO!

I hope so, and that's a fair premise! I'd really love to see them introduce yet another owl in actual flight mode with its head facing forward and a clip for feet coming down to hold a letter. The current spread-wing one is just kind of goofy, being basically a perched owl with its wings out. I don't expect them to do that for this set though.

It's certainly possible, though looking all the way back to 2019 when CMF production shifted in part to Europe, the only animal-like part they've reused in the exact same colour was the stuffed rabbit. That doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but they've seemed pretty committed to changing the colour of animal moulds introduced in CMF in recent times. Prior to that the skunk and chihuahua did end up reappearing in sets, so anything is possible.

Perhaps we'll at least see the baby owl from the Marvel CMF in a new colour in the owlery? Surely that'd be a great, natural fit for the part.

Capes from the Disney Castle and Hocus Pocus set have shown up OOS. I wonder what other minifigure parts from those sets we might see. I'd like the light grey classic skellie heads from Hocus Pocus personally.

I guess I struck a nerve with that rhetorical question Though it's no surprise that people reading a topic about Adventurers in a fan forum would indeed like an adult-oriented Adventurers set. Still, I'd be surprised to see one any time soon. LEGO's classic Space, Castle and Pirates themes have broader appeal and extra decades of fans built up. I think sprinkling Adventurers nods around other sets is a clever strategy on LEGO's part.

Because it's really just a nostalgia thing anyway, and do people really want some big 18+ extra detailed Adventurers set, which is what it would be? Peppering these Minifigures around are really just glorified easter eggs, similar to the ones LEGO has put in Ninjago City and the Monkie Kid City of Lanterns set referencing older themes, in my opinion.

Oh I thought everyone already knew this from the get go that it wasn't fan speculation, given all of the LAN outlets immediately reported it along with the set reveal. I would've actually been more surprised if fans has come up with the connection themselves, because the figure is so not reminiscent of Gail/Pippin

Mateo's hair exists in black and is available on Pick a Brick. It comes in that set celebrating women's football/soccer. EDIT: sorry, I see that that was already stated. Maybe the Harry Potter team just didn't know about it in time, or something like that. It's great to get both hairpieces in black though, as you said. I'd still like to see the Mateo piece in plain reddish brown without the green print.

I'm not seeing it either. While Johnny was very Johnny and Dr Kilroy has the face and colours to match his Himalayas appearance, this figure doesn't match any Pippin Reed/Gail Storm attire. You could argue it's sort of trying for the Jungle appearance with green swapped for teal and red swapped for dark red, but in that appearance she didn't have the red neckerchief. I don't mind the use of the hat and I love getting that in a new colour combo, but they should've at least gone with standard green for the jacket. Plus if that figure is supposed to be Pippin, the guy in brown with the moustache might as well be Harry Cane.

Thanks for the review. To me this set doesn't have enough going for it apart from the otters, so I opted for the BaP otter option, spending just the couple of bucks and avoiding more parts that would've wound up in a (neglected) parts bin anyway. The seal set packs a lot more value with two different animal moulds and better minifigure parts, in my opinion.

Excellent review answering life's existential questions. I loved the detail you pointed out about the box saying that the models don't float and then showing the models floating on the back This set was an absolute no brainer for me, and I picked it up straight away from Kmart Australia who priced it at $10 AUD from the get go, around $6.50 USD. Two new seals, recoloured hairpiece and backpack plus cool Minifigure prints generally - it's a great package, never mind the rest of the parts! The one feature you didn't display though is that the baby and adult are designed so that the baby fits on the adult's back. It's a very good and important design feature.

I don't have the old version so I have no personal connection to it, but after watching MandR's comparison video I've got to say I feel your favourable opinion toward the old one might be a bit of nostalgia talking. The cockpit size is certainly better for play than on this one, though it could only technically seat 2 (not 4), but apart from that the proportions and exterior detail on the new one are way better. The old version's mid section was stubby and pretty much lacked detail altogether - which is totally fine, but the new one shows how far LEGO has come with some aspects of greebling and design in official sets. The old one also didn't have any pattern on the underside of the wings, just blocky red around the edge, which doesn't excuse the new one's lack of pattern, but doesn't elevate the old one by comparison either. Agreed. Even if the new one's cockpit feels like roughly the right size proportionally for the model, it's a big shame that you can't throw at least Ahsoka and Huyang in the ship together at all to go off adventuring. Thank you!

Same! What a good deal! The Yoshi set is quite good at $10 too, for those of us who don't yet have those Yoshis.

While in the context of how much we feel like LEGO should be charging some of these feel bad, in the context of how much people are charging on Bricklink, these Dreamzzz parts' prices look much more favourable. Take the Nightmare King for instance. Lowest BL price in the US is $17. On PaB all up he's about $6.30. Night Hunter's lowest US price on BL is $13, and roughly the same at Nightmare King on PaB. That's still not "good", but it's better than when viewed out of context.

Oof some of these prices are incredibly rough. Over $2 each for the cool swords!? And what's with Bo-Katan's hair being over $2 as well? I'm used to that meaning it's going to be a limited mould (like that Wonder Woman villain's hair in the WW84 set, which was quite expensive), but haven't we already seen the mould recoloured in upcoming Chinese Festival sets?

Fair. I suppose we have very different standards for something on display. Personally I've never been into the adult-oriented and very detailed sets, and I like to display playscale sets as long as they look decent. I currently have the Mandalorian Starfighter and Bad Batch Shuttle on display flying above stuff like the latest Fighter Tank (which I'll admit itself looks pretty bad, but covering it in clones hides it), if that says anything about my taste. To me, the T-6 is perfectly decent to put on my shelf as I'm not looking for something big or very greebly, though it is much more detailed than the previous version, for instance. My litmus test is really just "does it look cool", and for me, this satisfies that test.

Now that the dust and the hype have settled a bit on the Ahsoka show, is the current version of the T-6 shuttle worth picking up? Read on as I take a look, and compare it to the closest analogue I had on my shelf: 2021's 75316 Mandalorian Starfighter. SET INFORMATIONNumber: 75362Name: Ahsoka Tano's T-6 Jedi ShuttleTheme: Star WarsReleased: 2023Part Count: 601Minifigures: 4Set Price (RRP): 74.99 EUR / 64.99 GBP / 109.99 AUD / 79.99 USD / 99.99 CADLinks: Brickset Bricklink Flickr set INTRODUCTION Every year there are one or two Star Wars sets that really tickle my fancy. This year, it was this one; it's a cool ship in universe, I never had the original one, the details looked good and it finally has a new piece for Ahsoka's montrals after the pretty poor use of the Shaak Ti one. It's never good to set high expectations, but will the set live up to mine anyway? To give fair warning, I have watched the Ahsoka show, so I'll be referencing how the ship compares to its on-screen counterpart here and there, but I won't needlessly dive into spoilers. Thank you to LEGO for providing this set at Eurobricks' request. THE BUILDLast year I derided the Scythe for having a box that did a terrible job selling the set. There's no such issue here, with a front of box that pops, and a back that shows off all of the set's features (though Sabine is just kind of jumping into nowhere...typical Sabine). The model thankfully requires only four stickers, and the major decorated part, the cockpit, is printed - thank the maker! They have cruelly stickered that part too many times. You can view full bag contents pictures in the Flickr album for this review. Here I'll just point out a few things. The build launches right into the centre bulk of the ship, and interestingly includes two cool minifigures right in the first bag. I'll never understand why LEGO doesn't either parcel the figures out over the entire build, or else go back to throwing all of them in the first bag. Perhaps they want to let kids start roleplaying straight away? Bag 2 feels like a hallmark contemporary ship build: lots of SNOT, fiddly bits and sub-assemblies that don't yet look like anything. Bag 3 gives us our baddie and already completes the entire middle section, which now looks like something. Bag 4 delivers the final minifigure, and builds the first of the wings. The instructions have you put down the sticker on the 6x12 plate with reduced studs before adding the dark red parts overtop, but I thought that would be a pretty bad way to go given that the sticker is supposed to fill the gaps of the red diagonal red stripe created by the plates. I put down the plates first and used them as a guide for placing the sticker instead. Bag 5 feels like mirrored deja vu. And bag 6 caps things off with the smaller but no less important cockpit, which easily slots on, and could be pulled off again to use as an escape pod in an unofficial play feature. THE MINIFIGURESThere's no denying that the set packs a fantastic complement of figures: four named characters detailed from head quite literally to toe, with three new moulds to boot. At a glance, they look superb, though fear not: I will have nitpicks. Detail of course continues around the back. The orange print fidelity on Ahsoka looks fairly decent, if not a perfect match for the orange plastic. Huyang has a printed 1x1 on a neck bracket to weakly represent his back protrusion with extra arms. This doesn't have the effect of conveying his arms, and I've seen the arguments that he's both the wrong colour and could/should have been a multi-part moulded droid like 2-1B medical droids and commando droids. While the colour issue is undeniable, for playability and customising's sake I prefer him in this form as a minifigure. Unfortunately I do have three issues with the Ahsoka figure, who should've been perfect. For one, her main expression looks rather expressionless, which yes, arguably matches her demeanor for at least half of the series, but doesn't make for a compelling face nonetheless. Second, while printed arms are cool, the effect doesn't really work because of the resulting large amount of orange. Her arms are completely wrapped all the way up to above her biceps in this costume. They really needed to be dual moulded with dark blue lower arms and either grey upper arms and orange printing, or maybe orange upper arms and grey printing. Lacking that, entire grey or dark blue arms with the orange shoulders printed would have been more accurate. This print on orange arms just doesn't do it. Ahsoka's angry face also looks a bit strange, but I must say that Sabine is pretty perfect, especially her smiling face in the image above which excellently captures Natasha Liu Bordizzo's portrayal of Sabine. My final issue with Ahsoka is her new montral piece, which isn't as perfect as it could be. Back in 2008 LEGO created a perfect montral piece incorporating moulding and gapless printing that seamlessly replicated Ahsoka's look. Using the Shaak Ti piece with high up printing alluding to Ahsoka's Season 7 headband was a very weak effort, but even this new piece has gone the route of Scarlet Witch with a moulded area for printing that's noticeably larger than the actual print. If LEGO could get it right in 2008, they could create a piece with no noticeable white between the headband and her head, but here we are. Marrok the man of green mist-ery meanwhile has a pretty cool helmet for medieval figures. The figures come with an appropriate amount of accessories: lightsabers for Marrok and Ahsoka, a choice between a lightsaber and blasters for Sabine, and a wrench for Huyang. THE T-6 SHUTTLEThe completed shuttle looks pretty flash. The colour scheme works well, and the shaping and proportions all feel right. The rear engine section also looks quite good all around. Of course, the ship gets even more fun once picked up (stand not included), and that look from the back is just excellent. With big hands it's not easy finding a place to hold it that allows you to spin the wings around, though the build is sturdy enough to be gripped in the following position, which did leave just enough room for the wings to clear my hand. Spinning the wings around reveals the elephant in the room: the totally bare other side. It's an eyesore without a doubt, and one that LEGO sneakily hides in almost all official materials. The designers would have evidently run into trouble trying to fully mirror the dark red striping if they tried at all, given that plates don't exist to match the 90-degree triangular tiles used on the top. Nonetheless, the total blank grey slate does reek a bit of giving up. While that's significant, it really is the only flaw in the look of the model. SHUTTLE FEATURES & A NOTE ON SCALEI wouldn't be the first person to point out that the shuttle feels kind of... small. It's dense but looks and feels small in hand for a USD $80 set, and is of course also quite small next to minifigures compared to the source material. Those round stickers on the sides of the top fin for instance? Those represent doors to the interior. Good luck Sabine! Now, people don't usually level the same criticism at playscale ships like the Millennium Falcon or Ghost, which are also very undersized, but I suppose a key difference is that with those types of sets you can replicate most of the key scenes you'd want out of those ships. You can't put four or six figures in the Falcon cockpit, but you can put two. The interior isn't as large compared to figures as it would be if it was to scale, but you've still got the seating area and storage areas inside, and then some. We see a lot of scenes in the interior of the T-6 in the show, but on the model you can't even get a single minifigure inside the middle of the ship. The side flaps lift up just for some storage areas. The cockpit, meanwhile, has the scale of a starfighter cockpit, and disappointingly can't even fit Huyang, who often pilots the T-6 in the show. All that said, I'm not sure how much the scale bothers me personally. Yes, if LEGO had allocated this a roughly USD $150 spot, it could've been big enough to have some interior, which would've been great. As it is, it's a fantastic model to display that you can also shove a minifigure into to pilot and generally swoosh around, which might not be what you want if you're trying to re-enact all the types of scenes from the show, but does work as both a display piece and a toy. COMPARISON WITH 75316 MANDALORIAN STARFIGHTERWith only around 60 more parts though costing USD $20 more, Ahsoka's T-6 seems pretty comparable to another twisty-wing ship from recent memory: Bo-Katan's Mandalorian Starfighter. Though the T-6 is quite dense as I mentioned. 75316 is a fair bit longer than this set and slightly wider as well. The T-6 looks practically stubby by comparison. In fact, the Mandalorian Starfigher has arguably more shelf presence altogether, what with its larger overall profile and more striking colour scheme. That said, the T-6 still looks good from this view. CONCLUSION 75362 Ahsoka Tano's T-6 Jedi Shuttle packs a lovely, displayable model (bar the underside) and four highly detailed, though not perfect, exclusive minifigures. The ship does feel like it's on the small size for the price, though it would be fair to feel negatively about its size compared to the show as well, given it can't capture any interior at this scale. For me, it succeeds as a display model that can also be played with, and its scale makes it easy and fun to swoosh around, provided you find a good spot in which to grip it. All in all, how you'd feel about the set depends heavily on what you want out of it: a small-scale nearly exterior-only model of a T-6, or a set that captures all of the T-6's features from the Ahsoka show? From my perspective, appreciating it as the former, here are my ratings: SCOREHow do I rate this set? 8 MINIFIGURES The minifigure lineup is excellent overall, but the design flaws on Ahsoka bug me enough to bump it down a couple of points. 8 PIECES I didn't see anything particularly interesting, and the piece count feels slightly low for the price, though it's great the cockpit is printed. 9 Design The ship has a great design overall, though the bare back is a disappointment. 7 Playability It's hard to rate the playability, since it has all the external playability you'd want from a ship, but is sorely lacking interior playability. 7 Price It easily could and should have been at least USD $10 cheaper, as the price feels a tad high for the size of the model and number of parts. 7.8 OVERALL - Not a top score from me, though overall still quite a decent set. Was I too soft or too harsh? Let me know what you think.