Star Wars Advent Calendar - Day 11
Posted by CapnRex101,
Two disappointing targets succeeded the E-web cannon. I hope the second stud-shooting model which appeared yesterday avoids that treatment on day eleven.
Fingers crossed for something more exciting...
X-wing Starfighters have appeared in several Star Wars Advent Calendars, featuring consistent building techniques since 2011. Various recognisable details are present here, including the engines, laser cannons, cockpit and requisite Astromech droid. The proportions also appear accurate and I like the adjustable S-foils, even though they cannot close completely.
However, this model closely resembles the example from 75279 Star Wars Advent Calendar, released last year. The existing design was impressive and introducing very few changes is therefore understandable, although such frequent repetition is perhaps disappointing when alternative options were available to choose from.
Overall - 4.0 - I like this X-wing Starfighter, although similar designs have appeared regularly, unfortunately.
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Ah yes, same old X-Wing again.
I agree it could have been less repetitive, but I really like the model and I’m not sure what could have been changed for the better!
Also, does anyone know if LEGO plans to announce more sets being released on January 1? Isn’t it rather late for sets to still be announced?
@Collector_Nonas said:
"Also, does anyone know if LEGO plans to announce more sets being released on January 1? Isn’t it rather late for sets to still be announced?"
Quite a few themes have unrevealed sets for March, like most 3-in-1, some City Space, and some more Ninjago
It's really hard to tell in the instructions, but I'm pretty sure you assembled this wrong.
The back of the headlight piece goes against the engine section. It makes it so that there isn't a gap between the panels at the bottom, but imitates the little bit of 'belly' that the X-Wing has.
instructions also have the lightsaber-guns swapped for some reason. cross-end towards the wing for the top wings, and pointing outwards for the bottom wings. odd but there ya go, weirdness for a weird advent calendar
One X-Wing? Great, we're saved...
My brother and I are opening the 2011 Star Wars calendar and we got almost the exact same build a couple of days ago, in addition to last year’s, which we’d already got.
Is this the Luke’s Landspeeder for X-wings?
Odd as it sounds, this is the fourth X-Wing, and the fourth design for an X-Wing they’ve done for the Advent Calendars. 2011 used a Travis brick with tiles on the side. 2019’s Halloween-Wing had a 1x2 tile on the belly. 2020 had a 1x1x2/3 double slope for the nose cone. What makes it seem so bad is that the fundamental design hasn’t changed, it’s been in over 1/3 of these calendars so far, and they’ve used essentially the same build for TRU events and polybag minis.
Nose cone variation is an odd change from last year’s, that one containing a more desirable part than the cheese wedge, aside from also just being a more accurate design.
Generally speaking I’d love it if they took at least a year off repeated subjects/builds before recycling them. There’s much more that could be done!
Look, why complain about an X-Wing? More X-Wings means a bigger Battle of Yavin recreation.
@denn:
It may have been a legitimate mistake, but in the original movie at least, upper right and lower left cannons had matching trim, and upper left and lower right cannons had a different trim. One of the more noticeable differences is that only two of the cannons had a thick cord wrapped in a spiral around part of the cannon shaft. Maybe this was an attempt to echo that mismatched look?
I found this one to be disappointingly fragile, personally. Looks good, but even handling it for a short while made me glad to put it down.
Can we all agree... the Star Wars Calendar is the absolute worst of the bunch. Has been for a few years now sadly.
@fulcrumbop said:
"One X-Wing? Great, we're saved..."
Depends whos flying it.....
in the instructions the two lightsaber hilts from the top wings are place in a different direction than the two in the lower wings
A couple thoughts after reading the comments. I agree it's a little delicate for sure, but the nature of a small detailed set at that size I'd say, but could be a little tricky for little ones.
The thought of them repeating X-Wings as builds doesn't bother me. Sure I've gotten multiple calendars personally, but what if it's your only advent calendar, then you'd probably appreciate the mini X-Wing. Maybe they could mix up the coloring now that we've gotten more X-Wings in universe like Poe's orange one or the blue one.
But I'm pretty happy with it as an option. With the extras, it was 35 pieces in the bag...a cool little build of an iconic Star Wars vehicle.
So no complaints from me as 1/24th of this year's Advent calendar.
What I would like to see from Stars Wars is possible another exclusive minifig or two instead of existing ones that are already in several sets. I also got the Marvel and think they did better on that front this year than Star Wars. That said, I'm stoked for the two exclusive figs in the Star Wars calendar.
Lovely little build. One of my 383901: MINI HANDLE has really bad clutch though, making it difficult for that wing to stay in closed position. I tried swapping it to the other side which worked a little better.
Everyone seems to be complaining about "another X-wing", and yet these same people absolutely love "army builder" minifigs. I dont know about about you but I sure appreciate an entire fleet of x-wings and tie fighters, as this is the way it really is in SW movies. I also like the fact that EVERY ONE of tehm is built differently, even if the differences are just slight.