Random set of the day: Rebel Trooper Battle Pack
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8083 Rebel Trooper Battle Pack, released during 2010. It's one of 32 Star Wars sets produced that year. It contains 79 pieces and 4 minifigs, and its retail price was US$11.99/£9.99.
It's owned by 24,336 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 $21.20, or eBay.
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Odd inclusion of a pilot, don't you think?
Anyway, I would love to see a remake of this set, to go up against 75320, which itself was a remake.
This could be possible, seeing as 75372 exists.
I got the instructions for this in a bulk lot, but no pieces.
I’ve kept finding this set in second-hand bundles for many years, always with every figure removed except the very out-of-place pilot Zev Senesca. I’ve got like five of the guy but none of the actual troopers
Also rather funny editing error in this photo where the brick beneath the seat has been unintentionally cropped out, making it appear to float
Dammit, why couldn’t 40557 been like this?
Is that a speeder or a turret?
@Miyakan said:
"Is that a speeder or a turret?"
Yes
@Miyakan said:
"Is that a speeder or a turret?"
It’s an ice cutter actually. It’s only briefly seen in Empire, but did appear in some promotional photos.
Also, this was my first LEGO Star Wars set, and although I don’t really collect the theme now, it’s still got a bit of sentimental value.
I always thought the hover tank thing looked like a big weird shoe, but looking at it again it looks vaguely like the basic layout of an AAT with blockier proportions. Strange. I'm assuming it's an original craft like a good number of battle pack vehicles were in the day, but feel free to correct me if this is based on something that showed up in Empire at War or some other lesser-known PC game.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Odd inclusion of a pilot, don't you think?"
"Remind me again why I have to walk?"
"Pilots fly. This is a ground vehicle."
@Miyakan said:
"Is that a speeder or a turret?"
Rebel Zamboni
For those interested, here's the extremely brief biography of the vehicle included in this set: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Laser-ice_cutter
@unclghost said:
"For those interested, here's the extremely brief biography of the vehicle included in this set: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Laser-ice_cutter"
Great. So they're all set if the Empire starts recruiting snowmen.
@Monopoly said:
"I’ve kept finding this set in second-hand bundles for many years, always with every figure removed except the very out-of-place pilot Zev Senesca. I’ve got like five of the guy but none of the actual troopers
Also rather funny editing error in this photo where the brick beneath the seat has been unintentionally cropped out, making it appear to float"
I mean, the troopers were supposed to be covering the pilots and other evacuees as they escaped, so Zev’s presence isn’t entirely without reason?
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Is that a speeder or a turret?"
It’s an ice cutter actually. It’s only briefly seen in Empire, but did appear in some promotional photos.
Also, this was my first LEGO Star Wars set, and although I don’t really collect the theme now, it’s still got a bit of sentimental value."
The moment I finally spotted a Laser Ice Cutter in the background of The Empire Strikes Back during the Battle of Hoth was fun. It is a blink and you miss it vehicle! https://youtu.be/pa3vDAB47f4?si=5H16N129wAxDc63E
Empire has a few hidden vehicles though, the Starspeeder 3000 from the Disney rides was added to Cloud City in the 1990's Special Edition, making it like the Laser Ice Cutter another white slab hidden in the film.
There are pilots in the escape scene of Hoth. I don’t understand the confusion here of a pilot being included in a set about the escape from Hoth.
I'm not into army building, maybe that's the reason it looks like a bland set to me.
Umm...why is the PILOT not FLYING the turret-speeder...thing? I mean, wouldn't he be more qualified?
I should have this somewhere
@AverageChimaEnjoyer said:
"Dammit, why couldn’t 40557 been like this?"
Greedflation.
This set is 14 years old. Yet, the build and minifig quality are up to par or better than what SW Lego produces today.
In case you were wondering, yes, that is John Ratzenberger's character.
https://brickset.com/minifigs/sw0258/hoth-officer
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bren_Derlin
It's not stated outright, it is more or less a generic print for the face and torso, even Brickset just has him as a Hoth Officer, but this is Star Wars, if you've got sweet facial hair, you have power, whether LEGO says so or not.
IT'S THE DEATH ZAMBONI!
I want those prices come back again!!!
Even if it is for a machine that barely appears and possibly doesn’t look like that, this is a neat little mini-tank that looks good and is a fun addition to troops in between infantry and bigger walkers
I have the Snowtrooper counterpart to this one and that AT-AT. Later ones might be more detailed, but this is my kind of Hoth. Never got this one, sadly.
That this is actually a canon vehicle is one of my favourite bits of Lego Star Wars trivia
@MandalorianCandidate said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Is that a speeder or a turret?"
Rebel Zamboni"
I was searching for that word. I knew it began with a Z and was about to resort to Google.
Now might be a good opportunity to look back at an article published in 2021, showing that a surprising number of Battle Pack vehicles are based on something, even if that something is fairly obscure, as in the case of the cannon sled: https://brickset.com/article/65338
I found some of these minifigures - but not the rest of the set - in the lot I got for its partially-complete 5988 a couple of years ago now: the pilot and one of the troopers were complete, while the other trooper was missing his backpack and head, but had the officer's head instead.
Wasn't the only SW battle pack that had made its way partially into that lot; it also included all the droids (minus one set of legs) from 8015, although again none of the model itself. Plus two each of close-to-complete 7667 and 7668. All cool finds, but none of them were ones that I had interest in keeping, so they were some of the ones I sold on eBay to help make back the cost of the lot ^^
@CapnRex101 said:
"Now might be a good opportunity to look back at an article published in 2021, showing that a surprising number of Battle Pack vehicles are based on something, even if that something is fairly obscure, as in the case of the cannon sled: https://brickset.com/article/65338 "
A canon cannon sled!
@MCLegoboy said:
"In case you were wondering, yes, that is John Ratzenberger's character.
https://brickset.com/minifigs/sw0258/hoth-officer
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bren_Derlin
It's not stated outright, it is more or less a generic print for the face and torso, even Brickset just has him as a Hoth Officer, but this is Star Wars, if you've got sweet facial hair, you have power, whether LEGO says so or not."
I was wondering about that. Now I am wondering how many minifigures he has. There’s this one, Ham from Toy Story, Mac from cars (does that count as a minifigure?), and the Underminer. Any others?
@Librarian1976: If you look at the entry for 8486 , Lightning McQueen is the only minifigure listed.
@Zrath said:
"IT'S THE DEATH ZAMBONI!"
Deadpool would be jealous.
I always loved the inclusion of this obscure background vehicle!
One of my first few Star Wars sets. I got this at barbed and noble back in the day and I always thought it was a weird but cool build. I liked the really large brick in a relatively small build and I liked the crate underneath the turret and that it could be removed
This was the only battle pack I ever had multiples of, and I also had the Wampa cave set, so I wound up with more Zev Senescas than anyone could conceivably need. At least if they'd given this pilot a different helmet, even just the blue starbird, he could have been Zev's missing gunner.
Why does the seat appear to be attached to the rest of the build only by the gunners backside?
@AndyB1 said:
"Why does the seat appear to be attached to the rest of the build only by the gunners backside?"
The editing software had gone a bit overboard with deleting the background, I'll bet!