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
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