Random set of the day: Clone Turbo Tank
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 75028 Clone Turbo Tank, released during 2014. It's one of 45 Star Wars sets produced that year. It contains 96 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$9.99/£8.99.
It's owned by 12,400 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 $47.80, or eBay.
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Just in time for the new one!
This is one of my favorite Microfighters; it's third for me right behind 75032 and 75030.
I have the entire first series; such a great lineup.
Better than the latest Turbo Tank!
But seriously, this little guy is awesome, Microfighters are a ton of fun, and this is a great first set of the line.
Very topical...
Interesting that this set managed to include the the side missle launchers, yet the new one didn't.
And thus my streak of owning all Microfighters to be chosen for RSotD ends. I had the first three (in order of appearance here, 75030, 75033, and 75072) but to my regret, I never picked this one up.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Interesting that this set managed to include the the side missle launchers, yet the new one didn't."
And the cannons on the front
@TheOtherMike said:
"And thus my streak of owning all Microfighters to be chosen for RSotD ends. I had the first three (in order of appearance here, 75030, 75033, and 75072) but to my regret, I never picked this one up."
Mine is still going. And will continue for as long as the series and I do. I have all the microfighters and I'm currently working on making alternate versions of all of them in different themes. This particular one I made based on 7985
Yo I actually have this set. The only sw set with the plain p2 clone trooper for ten years, which is why I was thrilled when the super battle pack came out in 2024 and I bought six of them.
Aside from the minifigure this is arguably the best Lego microfighter of all time.
Pretty good value on this one, unlike the new one.
@Miyakan said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"And thus my streak of owning all Microfighters to be chosen for RSotD ends. I had the first three (in order of appearance here, 75030, 75033, and 75072) but to my regret, I never picked this one up."
Mine is still going. And will continue for as long as the series and I do. I have all the microfighters and I'm currently working on making alternate versions of all of them in different themes. This particular one I made based on 7985"
Different themes?
Much better than the latest one! :)
And here is the pleb turbo tank, at which we look down our noses and bite our thumbs toward.
- the LEGO group, probably
I don’t even remember this one. I love the microfighters and though I don’t have tons of them, I like to keep tabs on the series. I picked up a few of the Rex Y-Wings and a ton of micro Slaves-1.
But I’m just drawing a blank here.
does this one fall apart when you look at it?
Probably the most bought microfighter of all time. Such a great one too, I regret not getting it. Great build as well.
I was late to collecting the Microfighers. I really wanted to get this one, but it seems to be the most popular (which makes it very difficult to find on the second-hand market, and the ones that exist are eye-wateringly expensive).
I still can’t believe this is the only set we saw the vanilla Phase II Clone Trooper in this style. Great microfighter as well.
I don't like when things are out of scale. I disassembled every micro fighters that came as a gift. This one though, it will work fine as a all terrain rover itself. Good one.
@Huwbot throwing shade at how small the new one is?
@SearchlightRG said:
" @Miyakan said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"And thus my streak of owning all Microfighters to be chosen for RSotD ends. I had the first three (in order of appearance here, 75030, 75033, and 75072) but to my regret, I never picked this one up."
Mine is still going. And will continue for as long as the series and I do. I have all the microfighters and I'm currently working on making alternate versions of all of them in different themes. This particular one I made based on 7985"
Different themes?"
I follow the instructions but change the colours to match a theme other than star wars.
For this one I made it white and tan with some Gold accents so it looks like the colouring of the city of Atlantis set.
I did 75391 in the colours of M-tron, and have done over half of the different microfighters.
@Miyakan said:
" @SearchlightRG said:
" @Miyakan said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"And thus my streak of owning all Microfighters to be chosen for RSotD ends. I had the first three (in order of appearance here, 75030, 75033, and 75072) but to my regret, I never picked this one up."
Mine is still going. And will continue for as long as the series and I do. I have all the microfighters and I'm currently working on making alternate versions of all of them in different themes. This particular one I made based on 7985"
Different themes?"
I follow the instructions but change the colours to match a theme other than star wars.
For this one I made it white and tan with some Gold accents so it looks like the colouring of the city of Atlantis set.
I did 75391 in the colours of M-tron, and have done over half of the different microfighters."
Oh, I thought you meant you made them into mini versions of other sets. And I'm extremely jealous of you for having them all; the only one I neither have nor want is 75295. I already had two MF Mfs, I didn't feel the need to buy a third. although if they did one based on the original, as depicted by 75212, my mind would change.
See, this is how you do small properly!
This is one of two sets to feature the "vanilla" clone trooper, actually! 75056 Advent Calendar has one wearing a Santa hat, but it also includes a helmet, so you get a whole clone trooper.
@Zordboy said:
"I was late to collecting the Microfighers. I really wanted to get this one, but it seems to be the most popular (which makes it very difficult to find on the second-hand market, and the ones that exist are eye-wateringly expensive). "
This is because of:
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"I still can’t believe this is the only set we saw the vanilla Phase II Clone Trooper in this style. Great microfighter as well."
Except that @J0rgen is correct that the plain clone was also in the advent calendar.
Nevertheless, it was the cheapest way to get a plain Phase II 'shiny' up until the introduction of 75372, and they're still the only sets with plain clones without helmet holes (which is very important to some people).
I love how the wheels on this one might proportionally be the most accurate of ALL turbo tank versions because they're actually wide and beefy.
All in all a great microfighter.
I was worried this was a leak of the 2028 minifig scale Turbo Tank. $350 USD.
I think this is what the kids these days refer to as "totez adorbz, home-dawg".
@Brainslugged said:
"I was worried this was a leak of the 2028 minifig scale Turbo Tank. $350 USD."
It's a prototype; I bet market research will deem it "too complicated for the target audience".
Wow this one looks bigger than the recent $160 abomination.
I can’t wait for the next playscale turbo tank to be the size of this one!
WHAT A DAMN COINCIDENCE…
I don’t really care, but it seems like @huwbot is just trying to poke Star Wars fans in the eye by picking this set so soon after the new set that people are complaining about was reviewed. ;-)
Are we already getting some leaks of the new Star Wars summer wave sets for 2040?
@TuxDoesLegoStuff said:
"Are we already getting some leaks of the new Star Wars summer wave sets for 2040?"
By then, SW sets will be infinitely small and infinitely expensive. Lego will make only one set. We will all have to share it. It will cost the sum of Earth's entire economic output, and we will only think we can almost see it when observed in an election microscope.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @TuxDoesLegoStuff said:
"Are we already getting some leaks of the new Star Wars summer wave sets for 2040?"
By then, SW sets will be infinitely small and infinitely expensive. Lego will make only one set. We will all have to share it. It will cost the sum of Earth's entire economic output, and we will only think we can almost see it when observed in an election microscope. "
Hey, as long as I don’t have to pay an ongoing subscription…