LEGO Star Wars Escape Pod vs. Dewback Microfighters 75228 Collectible Droid Building Set

Overall opinion of the set: On hearing about this set it was instantly a must buy; finally a systems brick built Dewback! It's a delightful little build with many options for posing, and is actually a better scale for the sandtrooper minifigure than either of the previous two moulded Dewback's included in the various Mos Eisley Cantina sets of the past. I must admit this is my first micro fighter purchase as I'm not such a fan of the distorted scale of the sets- but I do appreciate the appeal of ‘swooshability' of such small sets for younger children. As much as I love the Dewback, the droid escape pod did little to change my opinion on this, so I can't see myself becoming invested in the series. Who should buy this set? I ultimately imagine this set will be purchased by two groups of people: children who are the ideal age to be entertained by the micro fighter series, and people like myself who simply can't resist the Dewback! How are the minifigures? Well to start, to my knowledge this is the first time that there have been 3 minifigures in a microfighter set, so already this set can't really be criticised in the minifigure department regardless of how the figures turn out! The Sandtrooper with the controversial new ‘large' stormtrooper helmet in my personal opinion works very very well, and my only wish would be that I could obtain more of them, perhaps in a battle pack of some kind! Otherwise, C3PO is a great figure if you don't already have him, and R2-D2 gets an appropriate inclusion too, but feels pretty worthless as I think my number of R2's is pretty solidly into the teens at this point... after 20 years of Star Wars LEGO sets, perhaps it's finally time for a redesign of that classic astromech design...? Pro's: -Brick Built Dewback -Lovely new Sandtrooper design -Three minifigures in a microfighter set Con's: -Yet another droid escape shuttle! -Yet another R2-D2 and C3PO! -Only one Dewback! Personally I pretty desperately want a second Dewback and Sandtrooper, so it's a shame I can't purchase one without also obtaining an unusual R2-D2 and C3PO army (though that's not likely to stop me!)

The 2019 LEGO Star Wars Micofighters are out and I have to say this set is outstanding! The set "Escape Pod vs. Dewback Microfighters #75228, 177 pieces. Comes with a all new Sandtrooper with re-molded helmet, C-3PO, R2-D2, Escape Pod and Dewback. The build is straight forward and fun. I really enjoyed the Dewback build in this set, the feel and design works perfect in the Microfighters scale. However I feel the Escape Pod is a just a little to compact for C-3PO and R2-D2. But I understand the over all theme of the Micofighters series so in the end I'm ok with this. With lots of little extras in the set I would recommend pick one up, or like me I got two just for the Dewbacks and new Sandtrooper. Happy building to everyone