Aarrrgh! This was back when I was convinced that non-minifig sets weren't for me. Then, when I changed my mind, I still neglected to get this.

I suppose I'll have to knuckle-under tothe secondary market and get this. Of course, Lego will immediately remake it as soon as I do. :(

I like the UCS series but I can only manage a couple due to their size. They are beautiful to display but takes up so much space.

This set started my descent into spending way too much on UCS-tier sets... I would never have bought it at the time for $200, but Lego was selling it for $100 on May 4th in 2013. Honestly in hindsight it seems worth $200 at the time, pretty nice set in spite of a few weak areas.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I've never liked the look of the B-wing, but it's lazer beam on the other hand..."

dry

Great build but quite fragile. It always breaks when I pick it up

I recal seeing this for the first time in Hamley's, London. What a huge box! There was 0% chance I would have gone for it, but it was strangely memorable. Back then there weren't entire toy shop sections with those dreary black boxes we have now.

Between Bobs Fett and the B-Wing Star Wars does have a habit of producing things that are very popular despite having little screentime

I built mine in the last six months, and one of the gold telescope “blasters” under the cockpit shattered. Bricklink indicates it is pearl gold, but the ones I have definitely don’t match. Any suggestions? There don’t seem to be ANY sets that had chrome gold, but that’s what it looks like

I made that set by ordering parts and the sticker sheet from bricklink 3-4 years ago. It reduced the cost by a lot, but it's not 100% accurate as I needed to swap some parts. Mine does not have the 1 x 4 x 1 1/3 dark gray slope, for example, because it's ridiculously expensive (new ones go for an average of $33 on Bricklink...)

I like it, although it is a little flimsy. The canon at the bottom is held in place only with studs, and I'm surprised that made it through LEGO's quality control team.

@SearchlightRG said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"It's about time that we get another minifig-scale version of one of these.

@MCLegoboy : The B-wing did get some time in the spotlight in Season 2 of Rebels, and it was pretty awesome.

@WolfpackBricksStudios : I'd love to see that too! Wings of the Master was only the second episode I ever saw of Star Wars: Rebels (after the pilot episode), and Quarrie instantly became one of my favorite minor Star Wars characters. I still remember seeing his minifigure included in 75186 for the first time (awesome set, btw, as it's one that I own). I was so excited that he was going to be in The Freemaker Adventures!
"

Alas for Rebels; so many Season 2 and onwards concepts left untouched by Lego. The prototype “Blade-wing” would have made an awesome set."

I would sooooo love a mining guild TIE fighter - obvs in the better scale of the Solo TIE and Mando Interceptor

@BabuBrick said:
" @darkstonegrey said:
"This one got the chrome protocol droid TC-14 as GWP: 5000063-1 "

That's not how I got 5000063-1 . My sister and I each got one for free for participating in a costume contest as part of Star Wars Days at LEGOLAND. I didn't realize how big of a deal it was at the time."

It wasn’t…at the time. It wasn’t restricted to this set, the way the mini lightsaber hilts have been for specific UCS/MBS sets. TC-14 just required hitting a target spend on any SW product, which is how I ended up nabbing three of them (my usual, when they did SW polyfig GWPs). But it’s _chrome_, and the only non-keychain part they still chrome is The One Ring. Being silver chrome, it might even be possible to fake a chrome C-3PO, for those who can’t afford a real one.

@Rogue10:
Chrome-gold looks like a mirror. Metallic-gold looks like it’s painted, with a satin finish. Both of these colors are likely molded in tan as the base color (or light-grey/light-bley for their silver equivalent). Pearl-gold is molded, and frequently has visible swirls and luster. Pearl-light-gold is the same thing, but PG is darker than tan and PLG is lighter. Flat-gold is also molded, but with more muted swirls, and doesn’t really exhibit any luster.

@PurpleDave said:
"On that subject, one of my friends in college absolutely favored the A-Wing, but I thought it was the worst of the bunch. ."

I LOVED flying the A-Wing, and hated fighting against them. Just too fast.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @BabuBrick said:"It's about time that we get another minifig-scale version of one of these."

Couldn't agree more, especially since I only have the first one. I still kick myself for never picking up 6208 or 75050."

I also missed 75050, and it's become one of my biggest LEGO regrets.

@PurpleDave said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @darkstonegrey said:
"This one got the chrome protocol droid TC-14 as GWP: 5000063-1 "

That's not how I got 5000063-1 . My sister and I each got one for free for participating in a costume contest as part of Star Wars Days at LEGOLAND. I didn't realize how big of a deal it was at the time."

It wasn’t…at the time. It wasn’t restricted to this set, the way the mini lightsaber hilts have been for specific UCS/MBS sets. TC-14 just required hitting a target spend on any SW product, which is how I ended up nabbing three of them (my usual, when they did SW polyfig GWPs)."

I know that now; if I had known that at the time, I would've been even more excited to know that I got a really cool SW polybag without having to spend $200+ that I didn't have on LSW sets to get it, lol.

@BabuBrick said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @BabuBrick said:"It's about time that we get another minifig-scale version of one of these."

Couldn't agree more, especially since I only have the first one. I still kick myself for never picking up 6208 or 75050 ."

I also missed 75050 , and it's become one of my biggest LEGO regrets."

This is also one I made by using my own parts and others bought on Bricklink. i also modified it quite a bit and I really like it.

@eiffel006 said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @BabuBrick said:"It's about time that we get another minifig-scale version of one of these."

Couldn't agree more, especially since I only have the first one. I still kick myself for never picking up 6208 or 75050 ."

I also missed 75050 , and it's become one of my biggest LEGO regrets."

This is also one I made by using my own parts and others bought on Bricklink. i also modified it quite a bit and I really like it."

Good to know. Thx :)

@TheOtherMike:
I remember trying to validate that with other kids from the neighborhood, and deciding that, if oriented with the cockpit at the bottom, and the wings folded flat, it could pass for a “b”. By the same logic, it could also be called a q-Wing, p-Wing, or d-Wing.

@starkllr said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"On that subject, one of my friends in college absolutely favored the A-Wing, but I thought it was the worst of the bunch. ."

I LOVED flying the A-Wing, and hated fighting against them. Just too fast."

That’s what made them so easy to shoot down, though. They only get to point their guns at you for a brief period of time before having to bank away, or fly past you. In order to get lined up to fire again, they have to loop around, during which time they tend to present their dorsal surface, which makes a very large target. If the pilot is relying more on sheer speed, and less on evasive flying, it’s stupid simple to lead them with your target reticle, and quad-linked X-Wing cannons maximize your chance of tagging it with a lot of damage. They can’t take more than a couple hits before they’re in trouble. I mean, they’re more durable than TIE Interceptors (in an X-Wing or Y-Wing, I could take out TIE Fighters or TIE Interceptors by ramming them through the cockpit and only losing my forward shields for a bit…which probably was not intended by the game designers).

@StyleCounselor said:
"Aarrrgh! This was back when I was convinced that non-minifig sets weren't for me. Then, when I changed my mind, I still neglected to get this.

I suppose I'll have to knuckle-under tothe secondary market and get this. Of course, Lego will immediately remake it as soon as I do. :("

This set will forever live rent free in my head. It's one of my favorite ships from one of my favorite IPs from my favorite hobby AND was 50% off.....I hemmed and I hawed....and hemmed and hawed....and walked away from it. I just didn't (and don't) do Non-Minifig scale for Star Wars. I had to draw the line somewhere. Since then, I don't think I've ever seen anything even close to this type discount on a prime set from LEGO, Closest I got was the Black Friday voucher for the castle.

@R1_Drift said:
"shouldve been a ucs clone trooper battle pack with 300 minifigs and no builds. this is what we as fans want and demand from lego, and its a travesty they dont have the courage to do it. it would make so much money!!!!!!!!11!!"

You nailed it.

Honestly, I'm surprised Lego hasn't made a Star Wars CMF series yet. Star Wars belongs to Disney now, and they've made CMF series of other Disney IP in the past.

@BrickAnomie said:
" @R1_Drift said:
"shouldve been a ucs clone trooper battle pack with 300 minifigs and no builds. this is what we as fans want and demand from lego, and its a travesty they dont have the courage to do it. it would make so much money!!!!!!!!11!!"

You nailed it.

Honestly, I'm surprised Lego hasn't made a Star Wars CMF series yet. Star Wars belongs to Disney now, and they've made CMF series of other Disney IP in the past."

AFAIK Hasbro won't allow a LEGO Star Wars CMF. Hasbro apparently has a monopoly on the solo figures / action figure market for SW due to absorbing Kenner and it's old contracts.

B-wings are my favorite Rebel ship and I have this set. It is one of my favorites. I got it right after coming out of my dark ages in 2016.

@Murdoch17 said:
" @BrickAnomie said:
" @R1_Drift said:
"shouldve been a ucs clone trooper battle pack with 300 minifigs and no builds. this is what we as fans want and demand from lego, and its a travesty they dont have the courage to do it. it would make so much money!!!!!!!!11!!"

You nailed it.

Honestly, I'm surprised Lego hasn't made a Star Wars CMF series yet. Star Wars belongs to Disney now, and they've made CMF series of other Disney IP in the past."

AFAIK Hasbro won't allow a LEGO Star Wars CMF. Hasbro apparently has a monopoly on the solo figures / action figure market for SW due to absorbing Kenner and it's old contracts."

A Star Wars CMF would go so hard. I can't tell you how much I'd want a Skywalker Saga series; I'd probably buy all of them.

@Murdoch17 said:
"AFAIK Hasbro won't allow a LEGO Star Wars CMF. Hasbro apparently has a monopoly on the solo figures / action figure market for SW due to absorbing Kenner and it's old contracts."

This seems to be more urban legend than fact. Nobody has been able to point to any proof that it’s true, and the existence of the minifig 3-packs and magnet minifigs suggests otherwise. What we did see, though, was a sea change in the way minifigs are selected. Rather than giving you the umpteenth bazillionth Luke in every set, they clearly now understand that minifigs sell sets.

And I can’t say for certain, but I feel like this was conclusively refuted in the last year or two ( @CapnRex101?), but let’s look at it from the other side for once. We know they did minifig 3-packs, and while they fetch a lot today, they weren’t super popular at the time. For one thing, they were exclusive to direct sales at a time when that typically involved putting a check or money order in a stamped envelope and waiting to see if they processed your order or not. It also didn’t help that none of the SW characters involved, and even just a few of the specific minifigs, were actually exclusive to these 3-packs. One of the minifigs that wasn’t available elsewhere was just the Emperor with the wrong color hands. Hand swaps may not be acceptable in TLG’s book, but it’s pretty simple for AFOLs to manage, so you don’t even need that 3-pack to incorporate that Emperor into your collection. They also did minifig magnets, but most people turned their noses up at vendors who sold them as loose minifigs when they had magnets glued inside of the legs. From TLG’s side of things, those were a liability because there was always a risk of the magnets breaking loose and getting swallowed. One magnet is probably fine, but two or more can cause an obstructed bowel that hospitalizes or even kills a kid. So the minifig packs could have been dropped because they just didn’t sell at the time, and the original magnet minifigs could have been revamped for safety reasons.

Then they introduced the magnet bricks. I remember trying to open one without destroying it. I could remove the screws, but the back actually snaps into the brick in a way that I couldn’t even get a purchase on it to attempt to pop it loose. When I mentioned this to a LEGO employee at Brickworld Chicago, she seemed positively giddy about this, so that supports the idea that the original magnet figs were seen as a lawsuit waiting to happen. And the second iteration of magnet figs were just like regular minifigs, which gets closer to Hasbro’s turf, not further away. And it also got the attention of many AFOLs who then saw the magnet packs as a potential source of cheap unadulterated minifigs. This probably impacted sales of sets when a minifig was only available in one large, expensive set…and a cheap magnet pack. So the third wave of minifig magnets could have been meant to prevent the magnet packs from cannibalizing set sales. And of course, once they glued the minifigs to the bricks, they weren’t very desirable at all, at which point the line could die from poor sales.

It’s worth noting that SW isn’t the only theme that lacks minifig packs. When’s the last time we saw a small minifig pack like they used to do for Space or Castle? How about polybag minifigs outside of CMFs and magazine promos? Nobody has a Ninjago action figure license, but Ninjago doesn’t even get battlepacks like SW does. If it’s all Hasbro’s fault, it should only impact the SW theme.

@KyloBen1012 said:
" @SearchlightRG said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"It's about time that we get another minifig-scale version of one of these.

@MCLegoboy : The B-wing did get some time in the spotlight in Season 2 of Rebels, and it was pretty awesome.

@WolfpackBricksStudios : I'd love to see that too! Wings of the Master was only the second episode I ever saw of Star Wars: Rebels (after the pilot episode), and Quarrie instantly became one of my favorite minor Star Wars characters. I still remember seeing his minifigure included in 75186 for the first time (awesome set, btw, as it's one that I own). I was so excited that he was going to be in The Freemaker Adventures!
"

Alas for Rebels; so many Season 2 and onwards concepts left untouched by Lego. The prototype “Blade-wing” would have made an awesome set."

I would sooooo love a mining guild TIE fighter - obvs in the better scale of the Solo TIE and Mando Interceptor "

That would have been a good one. I would have liked to see the Nightbrother-Maul’s Gauntlet fighter-myself.

And don’t even get me started on figures.