REVIEW: 8085 Freeco Speeder

[lightningtiger]

Finshed building it just now - AWESOME set and it's the Talz king thats the best part. So much like the one in that episode which I have seen four times already.

The speeder is also a good build, I guess the slids are on backwards at the rear as they are only for resting on as this uses repulsorlifts to take off and land (VTOL).

[Strand]

It's a pretty interesting build with nice minifigs but I'm still a bit miffed that for some reason the Lego version of this is greatly up-sized. Like the Batman Tumbler which turned from a large car in movie into something the size of a house which has wheels taller than Batman, the Freeco speeder went from a slightly larger BARC/speeder bike with a dome into something the size of a small starfighter (V wing, A wing). It's just one of those things you have to see in person. I was shocked that they priced the set at $50 AUD retail for what I thought was a slightly pimped out speeder bike, only to be surprised at how large it ended up. It makes the cost/brick a bit more reasonable but just don't expect accurate scale.

[def]

It's a pretty interesting build with nice minifigs but I'm still a bit miffed that for some reason the Lego version of this is greatly up-sized. Like the Batman Tumbler which turned from a large car in movie into something the size of a house which has wheels taller than Batman, the Freeco speeder went from a slightly larger BARC/speeder bike with a dome into something the size of a small starfighter (V wing, A wing).

I know what you mean. Usually Star Wars ships are undersized compared to mini-figs, but this seems to be about 50% bigger than it should be. I think the reason was for stability. I tried MOC'ing one way back when, and had a lot of trouble keeping it together at two bricks wide in the nose. And of course, mine wasn't as detailed as the Lego version. So I think there was a give and take between realistic construction and accuracy.