Star Wars LEGO 7957 Sith Nightspeeder Review

Star Wars LEGO 7957 Sith Nightspeeder Review. I saw this LEGO set in the local stores, for a while now but never really liked the looks of it, I am not keen on Clone Wars sets. But seeing it was a Star Wars LEGO set we thought we had better go and buy it.

The main reason, I guess, for buying it would be the three Star Wars minifigures included. It has an Asajj Ventress minifig which has a different body and printed legs than the one from the 7676 Republic Gunship set. The second minifig is Savage Opress, which is a Star Wars LEGO minifig with horns on its head, like Darth Maul. The third minifig is a slightly different Anakin Skywalker that has a better body pattern. All three minifigures are only available in this set and I must mention that the backs are printed as well (fairly rare for minifigures).

The vehicle is also very nice but I haven’t a clue what the real one from the show looks like as I haven’t seen one on an episode. It is a combination of a engine base that two speeder attach to one side, I am not sure if I like it or not but at least it is different. Building the set is very simple and fun and one big surprise was they had some printed bricks – at last, some real printed brick and not stickers. Unfortunately not all were printed and some still needed stickers – gee for the price they could all be printed.
Looking at the price of this set, way too expensive for a small set of only 213 pieces. I think this set is really just for the die-hard fans as it is over-priced for what you get.

Here are the Star Wars LEGO 7957 Sith Nightspeeder.

Toys Lego Star Wars For Kids

The story begun in 1932 in a little town in Denmark called Billund! There, a carpenter named Ole Kirk Kristiansen started a small business making wooden toys and other similar things. In 1934 that Kristiansen came up with the name Lego for his toys, inspired by the Danish expression "leg godt," that means "play well" and the Latin word Lego which means "I put together." Business for Ole Kirk was good, but on 1942 something terrible happened! The plant burned down and he had to build it again from scratch! Not only did he manage that, but on 1944 Ole also bought an injection molding machine to make plastic toys which was the first step in the creation of the world famous Lego toys.

 

Lego Star Wars the game loved by children all over the world has a fascinating history! It all started with the world famous plastic Lego bricks that can be used to build anything a child could ever dream of! In fact, Lego has been around for so long that anyone under the age of 60 has most likely played with these amazing toys.

Lego toys of today are very different to those our parents or even we played with as kids! Our kids now can visit Lego theme parks, watch Lego themed movies, or even play video games based on Lego toys! One of those games is Lego Star Wars which is based on one of Lego's most popular and successful product lines.

The first video game was released back in 2005 and was based on the newer Star Wars movies known among fans as the prequel trilogy! The game even managed to get released a month ahead of the last movie of this trilogy, Revenge Of The Sith.

The first Lego bricks were made by Kristiansen back in 1949 and were called the Automatic Binding Bricks and were only sold in Denmark! They were small plastic bricks with eight or four studs on their top side. Demand for these toy was so great though that by 1950 half of Kristiansen's business came from them! From then on, the name Lego was adopted and these amazing toys were made available all over the world.

A sequel called, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy was released on late 2006 and a year later both the games were released together on the same disc under the name Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Video games based on the Star Wars tend to be mediocre, but these are some of the best reviewed and most loved by Star Wars fans all over the world! These video games are non violent and therefore ideal for younger kids and the best way for the Lego legacy to remain relative today.

The first video game was released back in 2005 and was based on the newer Star Wars movies known among fans as the prequel trilogy! The game even managed to get released a month ahead of the last movie of this trilogy, Revenge Of The Sith.

Lego Star Wars was developed by LucasArts and Eidos Interactive for pretty much every console on the market, including the PS 2, the Microsoft Xbox, and PC. It was even ported on Mac computers in August 2005.

Upon its release, Lego Star Wars received the Kidsworld.com Game of the Year award! In May 2005, it was the best selling game in the UK and it lost this post to the official Revenge Of The Sith video game.

Star Wars Lego 8092 Lukes Speeder Review

Anyway back with the review of the Star Wars Lego 8092 Luke’s Landspeeder kit. Inside the smallish box are three plastic bags of bricks, two loose tubes and an instruction booklet. I notice no sticker sheets – excellent, I wish Lego would stop the stickers and print the bricks instead. It says there are 163 pieces and I ended up with six spare.

Star Wars Lego 8092 has six minifigures – well five normal ones and a little droid. This kit has the newer Star Wars minifigure faces. Lego, in their wisdom, has tried to add more expression the the minifig faces by adding a small white dot to their eyes. I don’t like it as it isn’t like the other minifigs and makes a little like anime style (the new Yoda is a good example).

Luke Skywalker and Old Ben Kenobi minifigures look much the same as other versions but have slight changes. The minifigs have more detail printed on them. Luke has slightly changed body that has a new design printed with a larger belt, his pants a little different as well. Luke also has long blonde hair compared to the older kit – doesn’t look bad at all. Ben looks to have more creases in his Jedi robes and has a belt. These two minifigures come with blue lightsabers.

C-3P0 and R2-D2 are in this set. The C-3P0 minifigure looks the same to me, no much if anything has changed. R2-D2 hasthe whole head printed and looks the part, it’s a pity the body has only the front part printed.

This kit come with one Imperial Sandtrooper. This is different to Stormtroopers by having a black cloth shoulder pauldron and a re-breather. This is only available in this set.

The other minifigure is just a few bricks put together to make a little sentry droid. Nice with the Sandtrooper but not a biggy.

Doing a search on minifigures the Luke, Ben and Sandtrooper are not available in any other set and the C-3P0 and R2-D2 are only available in large expensive sets, so that is pretty good I think.

Now onto the Landspeeder. This looks much better than the 1999 version of the Landspeeder . It is still the same colour scheme as the old model but has much more detail and is bigger. The flexible plastic pipe at the front of the craft, the curved windscreen, the opening boot are great. The boot fits the lightsabers but you have to pull them apart. The cockpit has room for Luke and Ben and at side of the centre engine is enough space to put the C-3P0 and R2-D2 Lego minifigures. The landspeeder has pieces on the bottom so it looks a bit like it’s floating (plus can be pushed around easier). The speeder is about 15cm long and 5cm wide.

All in all a great set except for the rip-off price from Lego. But of course now it is an older set the set is getting up in price because it is rare and people are hunting for it.

Lego Star Wars 6210 Jabba’s Sail Barge Collectable Review

The Lego Star Wars 6210 Jabba’s Sail Barge is a set based from the Return of the Jedi movie. The Khetanna was the large sail barge owned by crime baddie Jabba the Hutt.

We bought this set a while back, I think about 2007, at a department store and what a great set it is. This was a set that my young son instantly fell in love with and so did I – straight away I thought of the great scene in the movie where Jabba the Hutt gave the orders to have Luke Skywalker thrown into the Pit of Carkoon. Apart from the great Sail Barge it has a very good Desert Skiff vehicle and a cool Sarlac Pit to complete the look plus a large number of Lego (Star Wars) minifigures.

The set has 781 pieces and a great lot of 8 Lego (Star Wars) minifigures. I will start with the minifigures – you get Jabba the Hut, R2-D2 as a butler, the classic Boba Fett (no arm or leg printing like the Cloud City version), Han Solo, Princess Leia in the metal bikini (she has a stud on the back to attach the chain that Jabba has to stop her escaping from him), a typical Gamorrean Guard, Lando Calrissian wearing his undercover guard outfit and Luke Skywalker as a Jedi all in black.

One thing you will notice with (Lego Star Wars 6210) Jabba’s Sail Barge is that there is a lot of brown Lego (Star Wars) bricks (I remember calling them blocks when I was young) but that doesn’t detract from the look, it makes it more realistic to the Star Wars movie, it is meant to be timber remember. It is a big Lego set without the big price tag of some of the larger sets. You can also make two other models with the parts – turns it into more of movie scene.

The Desert Skiff is simple to build looks good with the plank out ready for prisoners to be dropped into the Sarlac. You have a good number of minifigs needed to make some good fun acting out scenes from the Return of the Jedi movie.

The Sarlac Pit does look pretty good although, maybe, a little bigger. The mouth does look a bit like the mouth of the Sarlac, full of teeth and designed so a minifig can fit in. Maybe a couple of its tentacles would have been nice.

This Star Wars Lego 6210 Jabba’s Sail Barge set is fun to play with but you do need to be careful with the sails – they come off just a bit too easy. The windows open up to give you little peeks inside just like in the movie but the big door sides that open are great letting you see and play with all the bits inside the Star Wars Jabbas Sail Barge. There is plenty of space inside to have Jabba and Leia Lego minifigures along with other bits and pieces like the spider and guns and a cool R2D2 minifig running around serving drinks.

Lego Star Wars Freeco Speeder 8085 review

The Star Wars Lego Freeco Speeder 8085 is a set that comes straight from the Star Wars Clone Wars animated show. On the show it is also called the CK-6 Swoop and were the speeders used by the Republic on ice planets.

Anyway that’s enough about the background of the speeder , what about the Lego Star Wars  set itself. Well the set has 177 pieces and the design isn’t too bad for a smaller Lego set, the Star Wars minifigures are good as well. The Lego speeder is very easy to build and holds together very well so kids can play with it without the thing falling apart. The kit has a small sticker sheet for a few of the blocks to make it a Lego Clone Wars Speeder, this is one thing I don’t like – I have mentioned it before that I want printed bricks and to be honest it would not increase the sale price at all (it would only add cents to the manufacture price).

Now the two Star Wars Lego minifigures.

The Thi-Sen minifigure (Thi-Sen is the Chieftan of the Orto Plutonian tribe of Talz) has light grey body and legs with a dark grey hands, spines, cape as well as his face. His head, face, cape, and spines is all one piece just like how the Chewbacca minifig is, with a large molded head that goes down over the torso. He has just one extra, a spear. This Lego Star Wars  Freeco Speeder set is the only set this minifigure comes in.

The Anakin Skywalker minifigure is wearing snow fatigues - a dark royal blue parka that has a fur-edged hood. Anakin has white hands and light grey legs. This mini-figure has a double-sided head; one side has a face with goggles and a cover over his nose and mouth, the other side seems to be the standard Anakin face. He come with a blue lightsaber (it looks to be a different shade of blue compared to others) with a light grey hilt. Behind the cockpit plastic dome you can store Anakins light saber. The parka print is different than the print on the Han Solo one, it has a little more detail in it and has the Rebel symbol on the coat and hood.

Overall not a bad little set. Easy to build and the Lego  Star Wars minifigures are good. A couple of negatives are the stickers and the price, a little too dear for the size of the set (especially in Australia). My son give it a thumbs up.

Lego Star War review - 10215 Obi-Wans Jedi Starfighter collectable

Lego (Star War ) seems to be really good at surprising all it's fans. So when the Lego group announced that they were going to release a new range of Star Wars Lego sets, these fans straight away started wondering what they could actually be. They did not need to wait for very long though. The set for Star Wars Lego that was to be released around the end of 2010 (actually, it's just released in Australia) is going to be the Ultimate Collector Series version of Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter - called, naturally, 10215 Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter.

This ship is the one that was in the Attack Of The Clones movie and is a really smooth looking red and white starship. It is a ship that Jedi Knights have, super sleek and fast and officially known as a Delta-7 Aether-sprite class light interceptor. Although Jedi Knights only do peaceful missions, Obi-Wan found this starship to be very useful when he was pursuing Jango Fett with it's twin-barrelled cannon lasers. In the movie the starfighter used an external hyperdrive ring that was around the ship so it could travel in hyperspace, and although the smaller Lego (Star War ) Obi-Wan Starship sets had this ring the UCS set does not; its omission is one thing Lego could have improved on this model.

The set only has 676 Lego(Star War ) pieces, a lot but not many compared to other USC Lego sets such as the Imperial Shuttle - that has a huge 2500 pieces in the kit. It is a real big model, size wise. It measures 23 cm high (on the included stand), 47 cm long and 22 cm wide and it's retail price is around $** which I think is a bit much seeing it hasn't a lot of bricks nor Star Wars Lego minifigures - you could argue that the ship isn't minifig scale so should have a minifigure - but one would be nice.. The ship is really easy to build, nothing special of complicated during the build at all.This lego model has a really detailed cockpit and interior and outside has a droid minifigure - a R4-P17 - that rotates in the wing. This minifig will be quite a collectors item as it is bigger and looks different to other droids that are available in other sets.

As with all other USC models this one also comes with a plaque and a display stand to show the ship off properly - the ship can turn around 360 degress so you can pose it just how you like.. My major gripe would be the price point that this set is sold for. I know it is a USC kit but it is too dear, my opinion is wait to get it on sale before rushing out to buy it.

And just in case you need them, here are the complete building instructions for the Lego (Star War ) 10215 Obi-Wans Jedi Starfighter .

Lego Star Wars New Releases For Late 2010

The previous 2010 Lego (Star Wars) releases have featured an interesting combination of sets targeting a wide variety of age groups, as well as caring for fans of the saga era. Minifigures have brought nice redesigns, cool new characters but also kept some old favorite ones. The three sets featured in this article are likely to keep the same balanced combination among all these factors, ensuring more success between the (Lego) Star Wars franchise and the toy company.

Star Wars and Lego are a successful partnership that brought the toy company back to life. Either when they announce new sets or when they discontinue old ones, toy stores and the market for used goods are shaken by a wave of consumers interested in buying Star Wars Lego collectables sets. 2010 has already seen those trends as Lego announced a couple of sets featuring the two movie trilogies, and also the TV series Star Wars Clone Wars. Later this year, Lego will start selling new sets to finish 2010 off with a golden plate. Here they are:

Imperial Star Destroyer (Set #8099)

In terms of size, you can compare this set with 2009's Millennium Falcon (Set #7778). This set was very tiny for Lego (Star Wars) minifigures, and at the same time too big to be classified as a mini set, thus being named a Midi scale. If you are a true fan, you must remember the three previous releases of the Imperial Star Destroyer: 2002's Ultimate Collector version, 2004's mini version and 2006's minifigure scale model. This 423-piece set will hit the stores with a $39.99 suggested price tag. Young hands can hold it without any problems because this is a small and sturdy model. As a suggestion, this new Imperial Star Destroyer would make a great companion for the Millennium Falcon previously cited. But I must say I don't like this size set at all I want something minifigure scale and way too expensive.

At-At (Set #8129)

This is another fan favourite; the third Lego (Star Wars) minifigure scale release, in fact. This will be set once again in the planet Hoth, which was featured on The Empire Strikes Back film. This version features a lot of figures: Han Solo, pilot Luke Skywalker (as a pilot), C3PO, an AT-AT Driver, a Roth rebel, two Snowtroopers, and General Veers.

Imperial Shuttle, Ultimate Collector Series (Set #10212)

Some fans were hoping that the previous set was going to be set in Endor. If you are one of those, you will soon forget about that once you see how stylish this new set is. It has 2500+ pieces and an amazing list of minifigures: Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, a shuttle pilot, a stormtrooper and an Imperial Officer. From a first glance this is an impressive Lego (Star Wars) set, where fans are likely to buy it out of passion, and forget about the price tag. The previous UCS Millenium Falcon had already combined minifigures with a UCS set, so this will likely hit the same buttons and be a sales success. A little expensive because I feel the minifigs aren't up to scratch.