Hello everyone! Today I have a LEGO Star Wars review: 75177 First Order Heavy Scout Walker! This set retails for £49.99 (UK), $49.99 (U.S.), $99.99 (Aus), and $119.99 (NZ). I was not very positive in my pre-review of the set but had high hopes for the main play features. Does it hold up?

The set comes with four minifigures.

The first is the best minifigure in the set, General Hux. He is mostly unchanged from his appearance in 75104, but now has Obi-Wan’s hair from 75135 instead of a hat. I am pleased to see him in a cheaper set as not everyone can afford Kylo Ren’s Shuttle. That said, I think his hat would’ve been more interesting as headgear than his hair.

Next we have a First Order Crew. He serves as the walker driver in this set, but is a pretty boring figure.

The third figure is a Flametrooper. This figure looks cool, but already appears in a cheaper battle pack so his inclusion here is not extraordinary or anything. He has the usual brick-built backpack and the flamethrower (which does have the flame built on at the end in this set).

Finally, we have a Resistance Trooper. I’m happy to see more generic female troops in Star Wars sets but unfortunately her head has already been used on a previous Resistance Trooper (which I believe is the only other female Resistance Trooper in LEGO). This would’ve been a good opportunity to release a new generic female head for LEGO, thus it is a pity the opportunity was missed. She has the usual Resistance Trooper helmet but strangely the chin-guard has been omitted which looks strange in my opinion. Her torso and leg prints are new and I like them. She is armed with a gunmetal grey blaster. These four figures aren’t great, honestly. Hux is good but the rest just aren’t very appealing. On to the build! The only build in the set is an AT-ST-esque Scout Walker. However, the latest LEGO AT-ST, despite being cheaper, dwarfs this model quite a bit!

The eight legs are made of Technic beams which don’t look very pretty. The core of the set is pretty much mostly Technic, with System parts added later. The reason for the Technic legs is that they are there for the main play feature. Rolling the set along will make the legs move up and down, mimicking a walking action. LEGO designers are usually fantastic with their play features so I had high hopes for this feature, however I have been completely let down. The way the legs “walk” looks incredibly fake and jerky, with a quick jerk up and then falls immediately back down. It looks pretty bad. Furthermore, the cheater wheels and Technic beams used to trigger this function are incredibly, incredibly exposed and look dreadful! The legs also like to return to a flat, boxy form (with all of them lined up) when not in use, which looks boring and ugly. The cockpit has an opening lid with space for two figures inside. It is incredibly, incredibly cramp, but I like that you can fit two people inside. There are SNOT bricks used on the side but those are strangely bright red when something like light grey would’ve sufficed. The cockpit itself is mounted at a downward angle but sadly cannot angle up/down or swivel to the side. There is one spring-loaded shooter on either side but these are terribly integrated, with no effort at all made to conceal them. This has to be one of the worst uses of spring-loaded shooters to date. Fortunately, they can swivel up and down by themselves which helps with aiming. On the back there is some greebling along with clips. You can use the clips to store the extra spring-loaded shot but I think this looks absolutely terrible. I appreciate the attempt at greebling but I find the black stands out in a bad way and looks out-of-place.

All in all, this is an unimpressive model. The minifigures, apart from Hux, are not good. The build looks pretty bad with the boxy, Technic legs and the exposed spring-loaded shooters. Playability is hurt by the lousy walking feature and the fact that the head cannot swivel. The price is also bad because the model is very small for the price point it commands, especially in Australia and New Zealand.

Hux is probably the only good thing about this set, but you can get him on Bricklink/eBay.

Builds: 2/5

Minifigures: 3/5

Playability: 2.5/5

Price: 2/5

Personal Rating: 1.5/5

TOTAL: 2.2/5

Thanks for reading! What do you think? Let me know in a comment below 🙂

VaderFan2187 out! 😀