Random set of the day: Corporate Alliance Tank Droid
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7748 Corporate Alliance Tank Droid, released during 2009. It's one of 36 Star Wars sets produced that year. It contains 216 pieces and 4 minifigs, and its retail price was US$24.99/£24.99.
It's owned by 12,588 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $130.90, or eBay.
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THEY FLY NOW! Because this is the first time we got a dedicated Jetpack piece in Star Wars. It's not something molded to a helmet like Boba and Jango Fett used to have, or a combination of preexisting parts like the one from the Turbo Tank in 2005, this was a dedicated Jetpack piece, and we're still using it to this day. Love it.
Dang $130! That's crazy!
Jetpack!
It was very tedious snaping together the 56 parts for the tread, though it had to be done! IMO it was a good priced set for the day.
@BrickClones said:
"Dang $130! That's crazy! "
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
I was able to buy this set without the minifigures for $25. Missed out on the jet troopers, but it was a cheap way to add vehicles to my Separatist army (especially nowadays since Lego makes separatist sets like every 5 years).
today they would charge $39.99 and call it a battle pack.
@MCLegoboy said:
"THEY FLY NOW! Because this is the first time we got a dedicated Jetpack piece in Star Wars. It's not something molded to a helmet like Boba and Jango Fett used to have, or a combination of preexisting parts like the one from the Turbo Tank in 2005, this was a dedicated Jetpack piece, and we're still using it to this day. Love it."
John Boyega: THEY'VE BEEN USING THEM SINCE THE CLONE WARS!!!
Such a cool set. One of the best Star Wars playsets. It so needs another remake.
What happened to the RMotD? Anyway, I have both this one and 75015. I don't have 7258. Not that I particularly want it, but I do wonder what was with the colors on the tank droid in that one.
@WolfpackBricks63 said:
" @BrickClones said:
"Dang $130! That's crazy! "
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy."
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play mmakes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play ma es Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
(I hadn't realized before going to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadnessMantra that there were spelling errors, as I haven't seen the movie, but once I saw them, I had to replicate them.)
I love giant vehicles that are also sentient! DROID ARMY DROID ARMY
Did the tank shoot the RMotD?
No random minifig?
@SearchlightRG said:
"Did the tank shoot the RMotD?"
Didn't need to; it just ran over it.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @SearchlightRG said:
"Did the tank shoot the RMotD?"
Didn't need to; it just ran over it."
It would have been
https://brickset.com/minifigs/scaFemY05/scala-doll-female-young-(marie)
but Huwbot censored himself this time in order to prevent another fun comment section.
So...how does this thing actually steer, with only one drive tread?
I realise this thing is an incredibly deadly murder machine…but goddamn it’s little eyes and antenna up there on its head make it look so adorable
Another set I parted out in my foolishness
@WolfpackBricks63 said:
" @BrickClones said:
"Dang $130! That's crazy! "
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy."
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
@PurpleDave said: "how does this thing actually steer, with only one drive tread?"
According to the pictures on https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/NR-N99_Persuader-class_droid_enforcer it has threads under the sidepods too, I presume these are used for steering.
Re yesterday's discussion of wedge plates:
Yes, like you say, I did mean having small notched and large notchless ones *if* they're the same angle (which isn't always obvious from the size - like how the 3x8 is a double 2x4, while the pointy 2x4 is the same angle as the 2x2 and so on).
I guess Huwbot deemed today's RMotD NSFB?
We (or at least I) miss you, phase 1 clone troopers (RIP)
@BrickClones said:
"Dang $130! That's crazy! "
It isn't that crazy. Sealed sets would have had to have been stored for 15 years and so not so common to find now. And with more collectors than supply, prices will be high.
@BrickClones said:
"Dang $130! That's crazy! "
Considering Star Wars and the year of production, I don't see anything strange in this, but considering that 7678 from a similar time, which is a slightly larger and more interesting set, costs the same, I think it should be a bit cheaper.
@PurpleDave said:
"So...how does this thing actually steer, with only one drive tread?"
The force works in mysterious ways*.
*mostly plot armour
It's weird and ugly, and I kind of like it. It looks like a battle-snail to me.
I do worry about the fiddly bits at the top, making up the... lasers? Headlights? Eyestalks? Whatever. The bits comprised of, among other things, notoriously floppy minifigure neck-brackets, pneumatic T-pieces and droid-arms. That all looks unsettlingly fragile.
@Brickalili said:
"I realise this thing is an incredibly deadly murder machine…but goddamn it’s little eyes and antenna up there on its head make it look so adorable "
So…Painbot from Teen Titans Go!?
“All I know is pain.”
Okay but are they really Phase 1 jet troopers if they don't have the Battlefront 1 green markings on their armour? Looks to me like two regular clones just stole these jetpacks from the guy in 75000...
(Don't tell me that Battlefront was wrong, it was the first place I ever encountered Jet Troopers and they quickly became my preferred class to play, so it's canon *to me*...! xD)
@TheOtherMike said:
"I have both this one and 75015. I don't have 7258. Not that I particularly want it, but I do wonder what was with the colors on the tank droid in that one."
Huh... you know, I had not even realised that the one in 7258 was supposed to be the same kind of droid. But I would guess that the colours are possibly just a remnant of the time when Star Wars sets felt free to get a bit more creative with colour (another example would be the classic blue-accented TIE fighters) rather than making quite everything grey that canonically would have been. I feel like they'd mostly stopped doing that by 2005, but this may be one example that still slipped through.
Could it also have been a result of the set being based off concept art for RotS that was made before they'd locked down the final colours of the design, perhaps? I know there have been other cases where the first wave of sets released to coincide with a movie can be rather inaccurate compared to what appears onscreen due to the designers not having had the final product available to reference.
This has a little catapult to launch the troopers. It's fun I guess.
@jkb said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"So...how does this thing actually steer, with only one drive tread?"
The force works in mysterious ways*.
*mostly plot armour"
And as plot hole spackle.
@axeleng said:
" @PurpleDave said: "how does this thing actually steer, with only one drive tread?"
According to the pictures on https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/NR-N99_Persuader-class_droid_enforcer it has threads under the sidepods too, I presume these are used for steering."
I guess so? I'm not sure treads work that way, though. If you run the pods in reverse of each other, it's just going to drag that main tread sideways.
"Re yesterday's discussion of wedge plates:
Yes, like you say, I did mean having small notched and large notchless ones *if* they're the same angle (which isn't always obvious from the size - like how the 3x8 is a double 2x4, while the pointy 2x4 is the same angle as the 2x2 and so on)."
It's not always obvious from the dimensions, but I never have any trouble figuring out the next size up. In the case of the two examples you listed, it's 3x8 vs 4x8.
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