At last, one of the bigger sets I have acquired in the Blitz, an X-Wing, specifically Poe's Halloween coloured X-Wing from The Force Awakens, not just a movie I love, but a vehicle I love, the X-Wing is cool, and, as it turns out, this one is cool too. Setting me back about £60 and taking a surprisingly short amount of time to build, 90 minutes, the set of course includes an X-Wing, as well as a mini vehicle and 4 mini figures, now let's go.
First up, the X-Wing itself, it looks really nice, the black and orange compliment each other really nicely, and the design is both pretty in keeping with the look from the film, and cool on it's own, with the technique used to build the nose a specific example of the interesting way this thing came together, the ship is thin and pretty light weight, for its medium size, coming mostly from its wing span and length, with that should come concerns about structure, but that isn't the case, I recently had to pull this thing apart to do some cleaning, and the wings put up a fight, it's an impressively ridged design for its shape, and it comes with some playability, of course. The X-Wing comes with a pilot, a pilot that can be sat in the cockpit with a hinged canopy and room for the minifig inside. That pilot happens to be Poe, so you also get a BB8, who is identical to the one that come with the Millennium Falcon, and he, as you can see, has a snug little spot above the canopy. The forward landing gear has 2 cogs, allowing it to be put on a flat surface for display. The wings have guns on them, represented both with idle rod pieces, and some smartly placed spring missiles, and on either side of the cockpit, the X-wing also has stud shooters. But the best feature is the one I left for last, it being and X-Wing after all, the S foils can be locked into attack position, how it does this is a mechanism I believe previous X-wings sets have also used, but this is my first, a piece on the top can be rotated, in turn rotating a mechanism inside which in turn rotates 2 pegs on either side, between the wings, this wedges the wings into their X formation, and they are held firm by rubber bands wrapped around the engines, which also hold the wings level when they are not in attack position. My explanation is more complicated than the mechanism inside, but I really like this mechanism, it's clever, and it makes for a very nice look in both modes.
Like I said previous though, this set comes with an additional vehicle, which I can only assume is a hanger assistance vehicle, and it is not even remotely as interesting as the X-Wing, a tiny little thing made mostly of yellow, and with room for 1 driver, as well as room for a mini figure or whatever you see fit that takes up a 2x2 space, as well as a chest on the back and side storage for spare missiles and random tools. I speak ill of it, but it is a cute little thing, just something that really isn't terribly interesting, a accessory the set didn't really need, but it does go quite well with the little ladder you get, which serves more of a purpose, and gives the assistance vehicle more of a purpose on it's own. Now, finally, onto the mini figures, and I'll start with the 2 I've already mentioned, Poe and BB8, Poe is a pretty cool figure, having a very nice, if standard, torso print, and a fitting head print, complete with a standard X-Wing helmet, only in Poe's unique colours. Something that does bug me about this mini figure is the lack of a hair piece, yes, the helmet is nice, but in all honesty I would at least like the idea of the figure also including a hair piece, should you/me want to display him with other mini figures, with a hair piece. The BB8 is the same as the one from the Falcon, which isn't exactly a problem, as it means he's every bit as adorable, and he's of equally high quality, with the same great head and ball prints. The other 2 mini figures are more generic, a generic X-Wing pilot and an alien, the X-Wing pilot is straight forward, with a standard torso print, and a generic head print and a pretty cool helmet too. The alien however, I am personally not as interested in this mini figure, like the Jawas and the guy from the Falcon I can only assume is Iko Uwais from The Raid, While the figures themselves aren't bad, they're just not all that interesting, and are more likely to randomly populate my Lego ships display as apposed to being in a separate figure display, another troop in the army.
All in all though, this is a really great set, the star of the show is the brilliant X-Wing, with tons of playability and a nice design and look, and 2 really cool character mini figures, even if 1 of them isn't new, the accessories are far less cool in my opinion, but they don't really bring the set down in any way, the set would still be an absolute must buy with or without them, because from my perspective, this set is a must buy.
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