Thursday, February 05, 2009
Best Star Wars Lego set... ever.
So, my friend Jenn asked me and another NELUGger Dave to give our evaluation of the best Star Wars Lego set ever. Not sure why she asked, but it lead to me making my top ten list. Here it is:
In your opinion, what's the best Lego Star Wars set they made, ever? If you can't decide on one, top 5 will do :) Show your work.
Ok, well, I haven't built them all, so I can't really say. (I own nearly all of them, but many languish waiting for build space.)
I guess I can try to answer.
If I were to make a top 5, it would look like this:
10188 Death Star - too fantastically and masterfully packed with cool figs and scenes to NOT be #1
7130 Snowspeeder - awesome representation, cool build, cheap set. Gateway drug
7150 Tie Fighter & Y-Wing - lots of pieces, great way to play with an iconic scene
8002 Destroyer Droid (yes, really) - awesome function. I was blown away when I built it
7676 Republic Attack Gunship - really cool, strong, and swishable
The next five would be:
4502 X-wing Fighter - great X-wing build, plus play bonus with Yoda
10030 Imperial Star Destroyer - Fun to build. Totally HUGE
7283 Ultimate Space Battle - Just fun to play with
10179 UCS Millenium Falcon - Valerie would be disappointed that $500 only gets you 9th on the list.
7161 Gungan Sub - this set, while reviled by SW fans, felt so much like a classic space build that I fell in love
I didn't really evaluate the 2009 sets, but then again, I suppose I did when I said I am not collecting ALL Lego Star Wars sets anymore. The 1999-2000 line remains my favorite because they did Star Wars in such cool Lego simplicity. I own ever SW set through 2008 (except a few at the end of '08 when it really became tiresome).
Now, I wonder what Dave is going to say...
