Hello everyone! Today I have my first LEGO Star Wars: The Last Jedi set review (I apologize for the delay): 75176 Resistance Transport Pod! I already did a pre-review of the set but let’s jump in to take a closer look! This is a 294-piece set which retails for $29.99 (U.S.), £39.99 (UK), $59.99 (Aus), and $69.99 (NZ). As the cheapest The Last Jedi set, is it any good?

The three minifigures included in the set are (from L to R): Rose, Finn, and BB-8.

Rose has a brand new hairpiece. It looks like Black Widow’s from the front but has a down-turned ponytail at the back. I like her dark tan Resistance uniform and she has two expressions: normal and angry. She has a small black blaster pistol.

Finn is back and this TLJ version of him is currently exclusive to this set. He has a joyful expression and a scared one. He wears the same jacket from The Force Awakens bt with a white undershirt, and his pants are now grey and with printing! Finn has a silver blaster. Fun fact: On the back of Finn’s jacket is a stich where Kylo sliced Finn on Starkiller Base!

BB-8 is the last figure and, while not exclusive, is the cheapest way to get him. This 2-piece droid is rather cute but I wish the anti-stud on the bottom was less prominent.

Overall, this selection of minifigures is good. Very good. I like how it has two new ones and the third one was only previously available in more expensive sets. None of them feel superfluous.

On to the build! The Resistance Transport Pod bears a strong resemblance to the cockpit of the Resistance Troop Transporter, but it is a fair bit bigger and looks more colorful. There are quite a lot of stickers, most notably on the cockpit which uses 8 stickers alone! Those were very hard to line up and I am disappointed that element was not printed. The Resistance Transport Pod’s cockpit lifts off and has seating for two inside. The controls are represented by a bucket handle, similar to 75182. Behind the second seat is a hollow space which presumably represents a corridor to the rear section. To the right of the cockpit is a detachable lid with space to store extra studs for the stud shooter.

There is a cannon on the side which has the aforementioned stud shooter. Turning the engine behind has a geared mechanism which turns the cannon. While I like this remotely activated feature, it can feel a bit wobbly and I find the cannon looks pretty ugly. Underneath the cannon is a small 3×3 Technic disk. Turning this will fire off two well-hidden spring-loaded shooters one at a time. These are brilliantly incorporated and do not compromise the look of the pod at all in my opinion. The back section is removable and has space for BB-8 to stand inside on a 2×2 jumper plate. It’s connected to the main cockpit. The engine itself uses gunmetal grey macaroni tubes as well as four trans blue minifigure heads. It looks pretty good. There’se also another detachable panel where Rose is. There there is space to clip some sort of weapon as well as store two thermal detonators.

All in all, I like this set. The minifigures are all good, and the build is great as well. Almost every inch of space in the pod is put to good use.

However, the price is a killer. This set costs the same as 70911 Water Strider which is absolutely outrageous. It’s not as small as I expected but it’s still very very small for the price. That said, it is roughly the same size as 75170 The Phantom II which is definitely bigger than I anticipated, and thus I say $24.99 (U.S.), £19.99 (UK), $39.99 (Aus), and $49.99 (NZ) would’ve been a good price for it. The piece count (294) is okay but you know I’m not a fan of price-to-part ratio and I feel the model is too unsubstantial to be worth it. Otherwise, this would be a great set. Sigh.

Builds: 4.5/5

Minifigures: 4.5/5

Playability: 4.5/5

Price: 1.5/5

Personal Rating: 4/5

TOTAL: 3.8/5

Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think of this set in a comment below! Do you feel it’s too overpriced? Be sure to comment and I’ll try my best to answer 🙂

VaderFan2187 out! 😀