LEGO Star Wars: Battle of Endor (Gift with Purchase)

2019 saw the 20th anniversary of LEGO's Star Wars line. To celebrate, TLG created a special "20th Anniversary" Star Warts line (reviewed Here, Here and Here). In addition to the standard retail sets, a handful of the sets in this line were created as polybags or as Gifts with Purchase (GWP) sets. I was fortunate enough to grab the Battle for Endor GWP back in October alongside  the new Resistance A-Wing and old BB-8 kits. 

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Part 1: Main Build

Let's start with the good items:

The entire model is constructed using studs-on-side techniques. Many of the bricks used to make up the forest floor have exposed studs to allow for the small AT-AT, 'Stud'-troopers and Han and Chewie builds to attach. The shield generator is a very nice build and is readily identifiable.

LEGO Star Wars Snowspeeder™ – 20th Anniversary Edition

Cross Posted to Brick Set
 
This is my third 20th anniversary Star Wars kit. I'm hoping to get the rest before they leave production. I'm also going to try a different format for this post, as well as the next ones.

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Part 1: Main Build
Let's start with main attraction, Luke's Snowspeeder! I've never owned a LEGO Snowspeeder before (although I came real close with the Sandspeeder) but I am really impressed with the details here. The kit feels adequately dense and stable in the hand. The built in play features are easily accessible but aren't easily triggered during handling. Highly swoosh-able! The greebling is decently built up and a plethora of stickers round out the fine details throughout (and through-in!) the craft.

LEGO Star Wars Clone Scout Walker

I've started to upgrade the filming space. Have a new birch table, new turntable, two new soft boxes and a new tripod solution. These changes were all driven by the fact that I was unable to fit the Walker into frame comfortably. I also had to abort a video on a gundam plastic model kit (gunpla) do to this issue as well. I've also been unhappy with the noise level on these videos (lots of film grain), so maybe these upgrades will also go some way to resolving that issue. Doubtful but we'll see.

On the kit; I feel pretty nostalgic when building this. I had the original 2005 version growing up and absolutely loved it. I'm a little sad the walker can't really even pretend to pose anymore and that the clone trooper molds have changed in my 11 years away. However the new kits quality is astounding. The overall mini-fig and build technique quality of every kit I've built so far is leaps and bounds ahead of what I was used to back in the mid-thousands. The new stud guns are also interesting...

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Scout Walker

Kashyyyk Trench

Spider Droid

Mini-Figs 

LEGO Star Wars Imperial Dropship

My first "new" LEGO Star Wars kit. I remember when the original version of this kit came out and I have to say I'm so much more impressed with the quality of mini-figs today! I especially love the Shadow Trooper. The drop-ship is pretty boring but it is essentially a vehicle (HA-HA!) for the four mini-fig battle pack so who really cares?

On the video: I sat down with my girlfriend found some more music so I won't have to just repeat the same audio clips. The bag spin-around has also been removed from the intro in a bid to shorten the length of my videos. However it feels as though the video is now *too* fast... If you agree let me know!

The pictures below are also now using my camera's flash!

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Isometric View

Shadow & Storm Trooper

20th Anniversary Han Solo