Set Review ➟ LEGO® 75300-Imperial TIE fighter
I've been wanting to build this set for a long time for several reasons. First of all because I'm sick of minifigures of this license, to learn how the TIE wings are covered in this way, it should not be difficult and it's always good to learn :D and also of course because in this set I saw that there is some reference in the exploded view that I don't have and I find it interesting like the 6326482. Here you can see the box of the set.
Obviously the scale is much smaller than it should be, but being an 8+ set it couldn't be much bigger, not only for the weight but also for the stability - think it's going to be flying for many many many hours of play! The contents are 3 bags and the construction manual - thank goodness there are no stickers!
We begin to shape the TIE fighter, in the manual it is indicated that with the first bag we will make the cockpit, in the second one a wing and as it is logical and in an identical way the other wing will finish with the third one. Let's get on with it. Here the pilot, it is always the first thing I like to assemble.
The cockpit has no technical highlights, a base on which we will put a structure based on bricks technic which provides length and robustness. A plus point is the ease of insertion and removal of the pilot as the cockpit has been designed so that both the roof and the glass front hatch can be folded down.
Let's see how well made the wing of bag 2 is. Here you can see the reference I mentioned at the beginning of the article and also the NI-L8 protocol droid.
The wing is a kind of plate where in its longest part there are some brackets where the light grey border will be placed to make it more aesthetic and firm. But what really caught my attention is how the 1x8 tiles are placed to make the typical braces on the wings of the TIE. These tricks are of excellent note.
And finally we finish off the aesthetic outer wing bead.
It is not difficult to imagine that the following bag is a copy of the previous one, so there is nothing more to say except that in this one we have to assemble the stormtrooper to finish off the set that you can see in the following image.
It's certainly a nice set in terms of scale, because if this aspect had been respected we would have been talking about a UCS and not a playable set. A totally recognisable and of course iconic set for the collection that will delight young and old alike. Do you choose the dark side or belong to the rebel mob? We are grateful to LEGO for providing the set for review in this article. However, LEGO neither endorses nor supports our opinions expressed in this article.
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