LEGO Star Wars 7662: Trade Federation MTT

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Fill out an Inventory Change Request ( ?) [ Show Inv Item IDs ] if you found an error in this inventory. As for "accountants had taken over Lego and people only care about making money instead of bringing joy and creativity to children", any company nowadays is about money. Like it or not that's the world we live in. LEGO can't make sets if they don't bring in the money to do so. Star Wars brings in the money, and quite a lot of it. Furthermore, the interior is very sparsely detailed. Later models have contained a smaller vehicle but this one is almost entirely empty and certain areas of the hull therefore feel flimsy. The minifigures are also relatively unappealing and the absence of any opposing forces is disappointing. The overall shape of the vehicle is reasonably faithful to the source material though and I quite like the idea of opening the model to create a static base. 7144 Slave I

Maybe if the FO AT-ST had at least improved on the design of the legs by making them posable it wouldn't be as bad. Unfortunately it doesn't do that though so it easily gets my vote. LEGO Star Wars will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary next year and most of the 643 sets released since 1999 have been excellent in my opinion, depicting numerous iconic vehicles, locations and characters. I agree with those who have suggested that early sets are beholden to different standards in relation to those released today and made certain to stress the limited availability of parts and colours during that period in the article, as well as the potential for limited source material being available.

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Say whatever you want, but calling licenced sets a bad thing just shows your ignorance of the wider market and how business works. Prices were not taken into consideration either as they vary a great deal between different countries and regions, although this may be a factor in choosing your least favourite Star Wars set. The "selling to parents" point definitely is important, but another reason people don't buy Castle and Space is because Lego doesn't sell them as they would "conflict" with licenses like SW, Harry Potter and LOTR. I'd love to see a well-built semi-realistic space theme (inspired by the type of illustrations you'd see in popular science mags) with sets based on locations in the solar system like the Moon, Mars, Venus, Titan and Europa. It would also be nice with a castle theme with a little more focus on "civilian" structures similar to Medieval Market and Mill Village Raid, too bad Lego has such a rigid attitude to religious buildings as a church really is the centerpiece of any medieval village.

It surprises me in how many cases do I actually fundamentally disagree with the choice you made for the worst set contenders. Actually, I agree just about the Assassins Droid BP, which is trully odd and then the new releases - Scavenger, Hoth and two TLJ sets.

After 2007, things are a little more difficult for me. I never had a real connection to the Clone Wars show (though I greatly enjoyed the initial shorts). Lego also begins adding in some other Star Wars properties that I have no connection to (such as Force Unleashed, Yoda Chronicles, Freemaker Adventures). In a few years, you get more and more exclusive sets and small polybag type sets, both of which can be difficult to obtain. There are a lot more sets I don't care about. Even some of the base movie sets are at times uninteresting. Just because I'm not interested, are they really that bad? Hard to say. The Ultimate Collector's Series represents the pinnacle of the LEGO Star Wars theme, usually valuing detail and authenticity over every other factor. 75098 Assault on Hoth was released in 2016 and does not adhere to those principles at all, instead containing an array of small models which would be far better suited to a standard retail set by the admission of the set designer in the instruction manual. These models are of mixed quality and combining them to form a focal point does little to improve the design.

T-16 Skyhopper - as featured in A New Hope. Err... really? It's not a bad model, but it's presence here perplexes me. At least I saw the Jakku Quadjumper in TFA. this could be literally anything else.had a bunch of small sets that were mostly pretty good. The worst to me, by far, is 4489: AT-AT. It makes me sad to say an AT-AT is the worst set of a year.