Hey everyone! As promised, I will now be sharing my thoughts on the 2018 Star Wars sets. These were revealed a while ago and I’ll be expressing my opinions on them!

75193 Millennium Falcon Microfighter I love how 75192 and 75193 are both Millennium Falcons. Any way, this is a microfighter Falcon, which I believe makes the Falcon the first ship to have more than one Microfighter made of it. It’s been updated from the 2014 model, and now has the sequel trilogy radar dish. A pair of stud shooters represent the quad cannons, unlike the 2014 variant’s flick-fire missiles. 2×2 round tiles with hole are used for the side docking rings, which works nicely but still is slightly plain. Chewbacca is now the minifigure included and he has the older bowcaster along with a seat in the cockpit which elevates him far more than Han in the 2014 model. Not a bad set overall if you missed out on the 2014 one or just want Chewie.

75194 First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter Microfighter This set is the companion microfighter to Chewie’s Falcon. It represents the First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter, and appropriately has the red stripe running down one side. There’s also a cool new printed 4×4 radar dish representing the cockpit. I like the inclusion of the little antenna next to the cockpit, an accurate detail also present on its big brother. The wings themselves are nothing special but work fine. There is a First Order TIE Fighter Pilot included, but I wish his helmet had the red stripes denoting Special Forces, which would match with the TIE. The only First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter Pilot we have so far is in 75179, so I wish one was present here too.

75195 Ski Speeder vs First Order Walker Microfighter Dual Pack It looks like LEGO is now making microfighter dual packs! I wonder what their price will be, but it’ll probably be a nice bridge of price points in between the Battle Packs and $25 USD sets. The set includes a micro Crait Skimmer and a micro AT-M6. The Crait Skimmer has a grey and blue color scheme, recalling that of the Resistance Bomber. It looks reasonable, and has a pair of stud shooters as its guns. The AT-M6 appropriately resembles 75075 AT-AT, but with some changes. Noteworthy are the far bigger front legs and the “beard” on the cockpit. There are stud shooters on either side of the body.

The minifigures in this set are good too. The Resistance Pilot has a great new hair/headset combo that is exclusive. I’m also pleased to see the First Order Walker Driver from 75189 included here. Pretty good dual pack in my opinion.

75196 A-wing vs. TIE Silencer Microfighter Dual Pack This set basically confirms we’ll be seeing blue A-wings in The Last Jedi. It also interestingly has two named characters – a Resistance pilot named Tallie and, of course, Kylo Ren. Tallie herself looks pretty good, though I wish the helmet was dual-molded with a built-in visor. Kylo is like the one from 75179, but unfortunately he has no cape which does hurt his look quite a bit. Honestly, the builds themselves kind of suck. The A-wing is super super wide, almost as wide as a regular A-wing at the nose! The flick fire missiles and the flaps at the back don’t look good either. Kylo Ren’s TIE Silencer also looks pretty poor. The cockpit looks quite bad, and there’s a big bunch of bricks underneath. The wings themselves also look quite weird. On the whole, the Silencer looks more like a Vulture Droid than Kylo’s actual TIE. Not a good set in my opinion but doubtless many will buy it for Kylo.

75197 First Order Specialist Battle Pack This, in my opinion, is a pretty good battle pack. There are two First Order Executioner Stormtroopers, one First Order Gunner, and one First Order Shuttle Pilot. The Executioner Stormtroopers look pretty good, and they have staffs and stud shooters. However, they are kind of ruined by the lack of dual-molded arms, which would’ve been far more accurate to the source material. The Shuttle Pilot is the same as 75190, but it’s good to get his helmet in a cheap set. The Gunner is whatever. The build is a cannon. It’s pretty similar to the one from 75088, and that was the first set that I thought of when I saw this. The legs are poseable and LEGO uses a bunch of the new 1×2 slope elements in this set. There’s a seat with a small shield and a poseable cannon that has a spring-loaded shooter.

A good set that I’ll definitely pick up.

75198 Tatooine Battle Pack We’ve seen this before, so nothing too surprising. It has a Tusken, two Jawas, and an Astromech. The Tusken is unchanged from its previous sets (including 75173) and looks pretty alright. The Jawas themselves look unchanged too, and have a very, very appropriate use of stud shooters! Good job LEGO on this one. The astromech itself is kind of meh, as it has R2’s body with a red astromech head. This is accurate to an actual astromech in A New Hope but honestly it’s kind of lazy. The built itself is a little vehicle for the Jawas. It has a nice tan crane that uses tan colored pins, but those do not look out-of-place. The little tap element at the end can be used to pick up the astromech, but it still looks kind of weird. There are a couple of stud shooters, while Technic beams are used pretty cleverly as treads. The crane can be rotated at its base, and a Jawa can sit in the cockpit.

Not a bad set for Tatooine likers.

75199 General Grievous Combat Speeder This is a pretty cool set. Grievous and Mace Windu are included, which means that there are five lightsabers in a small set (two blue, two green, and two purple!) Grievous seems unchanged from 75040, but is still a nice figure for those who missed out on him, while Mace is a figure that I have to pick up since I don’t have him yet. He looks pretty good but I wish he had side leg printing as that would’ve improved him greatly. The Combat Speeder is dark blue and light grey. It is based on the Clone Wars and is oversized, but I think it’s alright and fits the price point (which is $25 I’m pretty sure). Grievous stands behind the main central flap, and there’s a nice large engine behind him. There are also two spring-loaded shooters behind.

This set is all about the minifigures (and in that aspect is pretty good), but the Combat Speeder itself is not bad.

75200 Ahch-To Island Training Oh my goodness, this set is awesome. This set is based on Ahch-To, and actually has a few scenes from the trailer. There is the rock that Rey swings her lightsaber next to in the trailers, but it is shown cracked open and there is a blue crystal inside! Could this be a spoiler? We’ll find out in December!

The other build is a hut on Ahch-To. It’s grey and round-ish, and has quite a few stickers representing stone details. I like the brown cloth in front of the entranceway – it really does look pretty good! The hut doesn’t look like it has much interior space but I’m still interested to see what’s inside. There’s a campfire outside (for Rey to say “I need someone to show me my place in all this” and “Kylo failed you… I won’t”) and quite a few of the new macaroni tiles are used in this set. There are three figures included (or two and a half) – Rey, Luke, and a Porg. Luke is completely brand new and is a highly anticipated minifigure. I think LEGO did him pretty well, and I like his dark tan hair. His face could use a little work, but he’s still pretty good on the whole. Rey has new torso and leg printing, but she uses her old head/hair. She comes with a lightsaber and her staff. The final figure is a porg. It’s changed slightly from 75192, but still looks very similar.

I tend to prefer ships over playsets, but I’ll definitely pick this up for the fabulous figures. It seems to be a $25 set since 1) it’s the same box size/shape as 75199 (which is a $25 set) and 2) the site where the images came from listed this as the same price as 75199.

75202 Defense of Crait Honestly, I’m surprised the Crait Skimmer wasn’t one of the sets released in the initial wave, with the striking look of the squadron speeding towards the First Order Walkers with red dirt flying behind in the first trailer. Well, it’s finally here! It has five minifigures – Captain Poe Dameron, Admiral Ematt, a Resistance Trooper, and two First Order Snowtroopers. Poe himself is similar to the 75189 variant but instead has the hair/headset combo from the microfighter dual pack molded with black hair for him. It looks pretty good and I hope someday Finn and Rose will get the same treatment. Admiral Ematt is an interesting figure – he’s actually originally from the Rebellion, but went on to become a major in the Resistance. He looks reasonable on the whole and has a blaster and an electrobinoculars. The Resistance Trooper looks like the one from 75177, but with a chin guard instead. I can’t quite see his/her face though. Finally, it appears the First Order Snowtroopers are unchanged from 75100, but their appearance in this set seems to suggest that the troopers seen from above at the start of the second TLJ trailer are indeed Snowtroopers! Hooray for using these troops more! Booo for using Snowtroopers in a bad guy walker assault on a hidden base on a white planet. The Crait Skimmer itself looks pretty good. I like the use of the printed Speed Champions canopy as the windscreen, while the dark red and dark tan highlights work with the otherwise grey color scheme. It has a seat for Poe and two spring-loaded shooters on the cannon on the other side. There’s also a stabilizer at the bottom which I believe can be folded away but can be folded down in play to shoot red dirt everywhere.

While the Skimmer is good, the terrain builds, in my opinion, are unsatisfactory. The section of “trench” is far too tiny to symbolise a trench. There are some stickered white slopes depicting the topsoil above a dark red base, but the lack of parts used in layering result in a poor final look. There’s a very short stud shooter cannon that can be operated by a figure, but I’d rather have traded away the stud shooter in favor of a longer brick-built cannon. Mounted on a hinge is another part of the terrain with a rotating cannon. It has a brick-built cannon, a spring-loaded shooter, and what is presumably a satellite dish. It looks okay but feels too low to the ground in my opinion.

The other terrain build represents this turret. I like the orange highlights, and there are probably a couple of spaces inside to put minifigures, but what happened to the most important part – the guns? It looks pretty dumb without the guns and serves as more of a lookout tower – lame.

All in all, I may or may not get this set, since the Skimmer is cool but the terrain builds are disappointing. I’m thinking this may be £79.99 (UK)/$79.99 (U.S.)/$119.99 (Aus)/$149.99 (NZ), which seems like an okay price but 75155 and 75179 are better at that price point. Mr. LegoFan123 pointed out that this set would go well with the AT-M6 set, and, while true, the Skimmer is definitely very out-of-proportion when compared to the Heavy Assault Walker At least you can still use the trench.

75533 Boba Fett CCBS Figure & 75534 Darth Vader CCBS Figure

These two look pretty good. I’ll definitely get Vader as I missed out on the 2015 one. Interestingly, Boba Fett’s box art shows him flying out of the Sarlacc pit?! Vader’s removable helmet looks interesting and I like the details like the chain and double cape.

And that, friends, is my look at the 2018 LEGO Star Wars sets revealed so far! Thanks for looking, and I hope you’ve learned some of the hidden details from this post 🙂

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VaderFan2187 out! 😀