LEGO Star Wars Battle Pack: Inferno Sqaud

Another day another battle pack!

Side note: When I was younger I actually hated these type of mini-fig vehicle products. Mini-figs were lovely but I wanted bricks more! I definitely appreciate the quality of mini-fig packs now though, especially considering the tremendous increase in quality of them over 15 years. (I should go rescue some of my old kits that survived and see if I can't so a comparison...)

Overall I like this set more than the Praetorian Guards Battle Pack. There's a large amount of bias coloring that opinion since I played Battle Front 2 and really liked the campaign there and I am...not all that fond of the Sequel Trilogy.

Anyway, down to specifics. Two of the Troopers stud guns are actually 'brick built' and I found that really nice. (Really only the sniper rifle is but the shotgun/rocket launcher is different enough to count!) Three of the troopers body prints are similar to the Shadow Troopers print but have some more straps and belts layered on top. The feet are different and look more appropriately 'soft' to match Inferno Squads Spec-Ops status. Iden Versio has some more color pops on her armor and is rocking an awesome bun! Dio (her probe droid) is missing from this set so I might might make something to represent the droid.

I actually don't care too much for the helmets. They capture the likeness of Inferno Squad's odd helmet pretty well and the decals are really good. I think the majority of my distaste comes from the back of the helmet. You can see the back/bottom of the head of the troopers peeking out underneath!

The included vehicle is a LEGO invention but is really fun to play with. Very swoosh-able!

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Mini-figs:

Generic Trooper

(Kinda looks like me actually...)

Iden Versio

Shotgunner/Rocketeer

Sniper

Team Shot!

Vehicle:

LEGO Star Wars Battle Pack: Praetorian Guard

Took a break from posting. Again nobody but me and Google's Spider's read this so ya know "Tree falls in a forest" and what not. But I come back with a vengeance. The next kit in my cross hairs really riled me up!

I bought the Last Jedi Battle pack of three of Snoke's Guards and one First Order (FO) Trooper. Battle Packs seem to be basically vehicles to put min-figs in consumers hand at a *cheap* price, I really don't like this kit. It has a high price-per-piece for the volume of stuff and the I find the chosen mini-figs disappointing.

I've never had a FO Trooper  I was very excited to get this set just for him. I was very shocked to find that the helmet quality for the FO trooper was much lower than that on the Imperial Storm troopers I had in the Imperial Dropship.You can see the troopers fleshy skin peeking out from underneath his helmet! The new troopers made me pine for my old troopers who had solid black heads but at least you can't see their heads peeking out from a head-on view...

The biggest disappoint for me are the guards. They just seem very red and the helmet sculpting disappear into that bright crimson. At least their heads are solid red! Very nostalgic for me! The included scenery build is pretty much just there. The spinning platters are okay and the training droid is very cool to me. But there's a lack of places to display figures on outside of the spinning platters meant for training duels.Doing a quick spot check looks like most battle packs come with some kinda of vehicle and not mini-fig mountable scenery... So I'll let that issue slide I guess, since a Praetorian-cycle would have been a...more interesting (wrong) decision.

In contrast, I do like some aspects of this battle pack. The printing on the figures, the included melee weapons are interesting, the red and gunmetal grey light saber hilts are *very* cool and again that training droid.

That's all I got to say about that. If you have a different thoughts let me know!

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Mini-Figs:

First Order Trooper

Praetorian Guards

Training Droid

Scenery Build