[REVIEW] 75346 Pirate Snub Fighter

[MKJoshA]

INTRODUCTION
The Mandalorian Season 3 has finished and Lego has started releasing sets based on its content. I ordered this on May 1st during Lego's May the 4th promo period. I got it today, 10 days later. Not too bad for shipping times. And let's be honest, if you were going to get this during May the 4th as like me then you had already made up your mind .

So for the rest of you who were still wondering if this set was worth picking up let me share my thoughts. And let me add, I'm in the middle of moving/unpacking so I don't have my Lego or photo area set up yet. So this review is taken on a standard IKEA desk against a pleasant eggshell white painted wall

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SET INFORMATION
Number: 75346
Title: Pirate Snub Fighter
Theme: Star Wars
Released: 2023
Part Count: 282
Box Dimensions: 26.2 x 19.1 x 6.1 cm
Weight: 2304 gram
Set Price (RRP): £29.99 / $34.99 / 34.99€  
Price per Part: 10.5p / 12.3c / 12.3c
Links: Brickset, Bricklink

THE BOX
The front of the box shows the Snub Fighter in an asteroid field.

The back shows the ship landed on Nevarro.

CONTENTS OF THE BOX
Inside are 2 numbered bags and a small sticker sheet.

I chose to apply all stickers but those on the cockpit canopy.

THE BUILD

The build is very standard. A lot of laying plates. An expected amount of SNOT. Nothing fancy.

As I was building what's probably meant to be fuel tanks I was struck (not for the first time) by the jarring change from round bricks to the SNOT brackets. With all of the new molds Lego has been making every year I won't be surprised if the make a bracket with rounded edges soon.

And the completed build gives you the grey snub fighter and two minifigures. It's a sleek little fighter that looks good from every angle. The only minor exception is when looking at it straight on.

Here you can see the gap between the hinged tile and the roof slope. But it's not a huge gap and you can pretend it's part of the greebling.

Speaking of greebling, behind the cockpit the set designer added some nice bits. Though I was disappointed that it was the exact same pattern on both the right and left sides. Greebling should have some variety to it.

There are two storage compartments hidden in the ship. The first is in front of the control computer.

And the second is behind the pilot.

The cockpit canopy is a new color, trans-black. And it looks so good!

Here it is compared with some actual black parts. This would make for great tinted windows in City vehicles. And overall it just looks very menacing.

The figures include a Nikto pilot for the Snub Fighter and Vane, also a Nikto. The pilot is wearing a beehive pattern on a gun-metal torso and Chima-orange pants. His helmet is pearl gold and looks great.

Vane is wearing an outfit that could work for a regular pirate and suits him well. However I wish the head-piece for Vane had a more accurate color match-up between his skin tone and the printed skin on top. Seems like another one of those areas Lego is willing to say "good enough" on. But it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to find what you needed to print on top of the black to get it to match.

Both figs use the exact same head. I like that they have ridges printed on the back. But I wish they would have given us two different expressions on the front of the faces.

OVERALL

At $35 for only 282 pieces and two minifgures this set feels overpriced. It's a solid build, a sleek fighter, and the figs have nice prints. But it feels like a $25 set, $30 if I'm being generous. I highly recommend the set if you can find it on sale.

SCORE
How do I rate this set?

DESIGN 7
BUILDING EXPERIENCE 5
FEATURES 5
PLAYABILITY 9
PARTS 8
VALUE FOR MONEY 4

FINAL SCORE: 6

[omegabadbatch]

I will choose yoda starfighter instead of that

[Kit Figsto]

I have to say, I saw this set in person in a store last week and was a little bit tempted, but for $35 it's just too much (especially when I can get the Indy Fighter Plane set with another vehicle and another minifigure for the exact same price).  The ship looks great, and the pilot figure especially looks outstanding, but the price is just a hangup.  I think a $30 price point and including another figure (S3 Greef Karga would make sense, since there's really no other set that he'd come in for S3 unless we get Mando's hut next year) would've made this a lot more attractive to me.

Maybe on clearance I'll grab it.

Nice review!

[Big_Daddy]

I'm kind of coming around to the design of this starfighter in-universe. I like that this Lego version has little storage compartments, they deserve some bonus nostalgia points for that. But the main problem is the cockpit canopy. I think it's too big scale-wise, and for it to have a Star Wars feel I think it would have helped greatly if they printed the canopy along the edges. Now it just looks like a fun random space themed Lego set. The figs are nice though, I don't mind them having the same face print.

[danimarroquin]

Yeah 35 dollars for it is too steep !!! Probably wait for a sale on this set 

[Yperio_Bricks]

I'm tempted to buy the set. It's a nice little fighter. I really like the minifigures and that Vane doubles as a regular pirate makes them even more interesting for me I guess once i'll find it in the wild with some discound i can not withstand to buy it