![]() ![]() The dual seating here is also removable, making it easier to insert your troops since there’s less access than at the rear. ![]() While at the front you’ll find a thermal detonator rack, crate and spanner. Other interior details include a rear gunner control panel, weapons rack, fire extinguisher and a mug for thirsty troopers at the back of the walker. It’s just a shame the 212th battalion doesn’t feature in any other current Lego Star Wars sets (at the time of writing) so you can fill up your AT-TE. All told there’s enough seating (excluding the cab) to accommodate seven Minifigures and there’s a little standing space too. The back, sides and top panels all fold up to reveal the most spacious and detailed Lego AT-TE interior ever. While the cab’s design hasn’t change much, the frontage is now almost completely stud free for a more pleasing aesthetic. The mass-driver cannon atop the vehicle is a longer, more accurate length and the older flick-fire projectiles have been replaced with stud shooters. Bottom joints have been made thicker with the addition of a cog piece and the feet boast a much more accurate representation than the unsightly domes on the 2013 model. The larger middle legs sit at a tighter and more accurate angle and the circular panel at the top joint of each leg has been redesigned for the better. In fact, the legs are where most of the exterior modifications have taken place. Small gaps are still present where the plates unfold to reveal the interior, but gapping holes either side of the middle legs have been obscured more thanks to larger circular panels covering the top joints. The exterior’s angular armored plating is still a fantastic representation, but additional relief has been added via various plates and there are fewer dark grey pieces creating an overall more uniformed look. Lego has clearly chosen to refine rather than rewrite the handbook, such is the accuracy of the 2013 model. And while that set is one of the best Lego Star Wars sets in existence, there’s no doubting this latest offering’s superiority when it comes to the walker itself. Diehard Star Wars fans will recognise the background on the box as Utapau, where Commander Cody is contacted by Palpatine and told to, “Execute Order 66.” The closest set for comparison is the 2013 AT-TE (75019) that’s modelled on the battle of Geonosis. This is Lego’s fifth AT-TE playset to date and fourth Clone Wars era incarnation of the vehicle – 2016’s Captain Rex’s AT-TE (75157) was a heavily modified rendition that appeared in the animated television show Star Wars Rebels. Cracking Minifigures but disappointing prints.The length and tapering of both the stickers and the bricks mean that even a slightly skewed application could result in noticeable misalignment (adult supervision advised). Particular care must be taken when applying a long tapered sticker to both the Left and Right Shell 3 x 10 pieces that sit on the AT-TE’s top, rear section. The penultimate stage of construction deals with the side armor and large, central legs before moving onto the final phase which encompasses the top-mounted mass-driver cannon and top armor plating. It would have been nice to see some of these turned out as printed pieces, but when you consider the five clone troopers there isn’t a shortage of printing. The final two stages are where you’ll add most of the set’s 11 stickers. ![]() As such, it might be easier to build each leg in turn and attach them at the same time. Lego’s instructions require you to build and attach each leg before moving onto the next and while this helps to prevent placing a leg in the wrong place, it means the walker is left lopsided as you attach a few additional details. The repetitive nature of the latter may lack enough excitement for children, but is obviously unavoidable. Behind the scenes īeach troopers were created only for the games in which they are featured and are intended as a simple joke rather than a canonical class of stormtroopers.The fourth stage tackles two troopers, the front-facing turrets and four of the six legs. ![]() īeach Troopers wore a standard-issue stormtrooper helmet and a speedo or a full bathing suit, as well as being armed with a blaster and ascension gun. Among the locales in which they were stationed were aboard the Devastator, aboard the Death Star near Detention Block AA-23, and Cloud City during the Occupation of Bespin. If an intruder or enemy were to come upon them, however, they would jump into action and engage the opposition. Beach troopers were often found lounging in baths and spas, seemingly off-duty. Galactic Empire Beach Troopers were a specialized branch of stormtroopers who wore a stripped down variant of the usual stormtrooper armor, which included the regular helmet and a swimsuit. ![]()
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