They should sit one behind the other. It should have big thin wheels and a chain. Would be super-cute.

I remember thinking this was a great deal when I was younger (mostly for the minifigs), and I think I still stand by that. The build is just alright, but it feels like the minifig selection was very good for the price.

Loved this set! Cool minifigs and some nice, general usage printed bricks.

I was very proud of my alternate build, where I stacked the normal and inverted 3x1 slopes in a way that made a segmented scorpion tail/gun attachment for a speeder bike.

Eyes still look wierd to me.

I recently watched the show and now I finally understand what the sets depicted. This was definitely only there to give us a Savage Opress fig and a newer Ventress fig, and I now understand why. This specifically depicts the zabrak's debut arc.

@MeisterDad said:
"I think that speeder got about ten seconds of screen time, but man it must have been a popular set because I’ve gotten it in at least 5 bulk bins."

In my country, I see those printed pieces in almost every lego bin on sale! I have too many of those pieces even tho I never bought this set, they are not very useful prints tbh.

Ah yes, as the proud owner of this set I think it manages to be ugly on every level. Ugly speeder, ugly minifigs. But then, where else are you going to get old Yellow-tats there?

As for Asajj Ventress, the one from 75087 Anakin's Custom Jedi Starfighter is better. But then, everything about that set is superior in every way. That one is utterly glorious.

@thor96 said:
" @MeisterDad said:
"I think that speeder got about ten seconds of screen time, but man it must have been a popular set because I’ve gotten it in at least 5 bulk bins."

In my country, I see those printed pieces in almost every lego bin on sale! I have too many of those pieces even tho I never bought this set, they are not very useful prints tbh."

They're currently adorning the engine blocks of a custom 7753 Pirate Tank I pieced together, as the actual required pieces are surprisingly hard to get. It's about as good a use as I can think of.

I liked it. Provided a contrast to the usual SW aesthetic. The two speeders can separate and attack on their own. It had some good printed pieces and figs.

I have grown used to the CW faces, but the criticism is justified. They do look a bit stretched (like Huw's AI generator).

Never even liked the source material. Ventress and Opress are the reasons to buy.

I suspect I have actually seen the episode this appears in. Just because I have seen a lot of (earlier) episodes. I remember the characters, can't say the same about the speeder.
But who builds a vehicle that is three times as wide as it is long? For most situations this appears rather very impractical...

The start of every great fight began with something as trivial as 3 mini-figs and only 2 speeders.

Feral would have been a better inclusion than Anakin, but I understand that Feral's death in the scene this recreates is quite brutal.
Also I'm pretty sure Asajj doesn't wear that outfit while riding the speeder.

One of my first Star Wars sets. Kind of underrated in my opinion, despite the vehicle's obscurity. Kind of wishing we can get another Savage Opress.

@kfr: There's at least one reason to make a vehicle wider than it is long; if you don't have repulsorlift technology, it's hard to make a flying vehicle without wings. At least if you're making a fixed-wing aircraft; those are generally wider than they are long, although there are exceptions.

@jkb said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Star Wars has a lot of speeders and this is…certainly one of them. Just looks so lopsided, big engine block on one side with basically two sidecars. Could you really not have put it in the middle, with a seat either side?"

No. In Star Wars, you usually have asymmetry for the sake of asymmetry."

Well no wonder everyone in that galaxy swung fascist so easily then; they must have been craving a little order and sense

I looked at the image again and realized Anakin is included. What is he doing here? I'm pretty sure Anakin didn't do anything in the specific arc this appears in.
If you want conflict in a box you might as well add Dooku instead!

I bought the Savage Opress minfig the other day at a Bricks and Minifigs. Bought it for $30, seemed a good deal since it is going for around that currently on Bricklink.

Brickset began to disturb me on a regular basis once I learned all the Random Set of the Day selections are at least ten years old, no matter how recent I think of them as being. Today is one of those times.

@Miyakan:
Consider what he named his groupies…

@kfr:
*cough 7683 cough*

@Brickalili:
I mean, you’re talking about the same IP that gave us the B-Wing.

@TheOtherMike:
I suspect that, if you checked a random selection of dimensions, you’d find that most airplanes are longer than they are wide. There might not be much difference for base models of passenger jets, but certainly modern fighter jets, biplanes, and triplanes are fairly narrow compared to their length.

@Blondie_Wan:
They make up for it by skewing towards brand new elements for RPotD.

@jkb said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Star Wars has a lot of speeders and this is…certainly one of them. Just looks so lopsided, big engine block on one side with basically two sidecars. Could you really not have put it in the middle, with a seat either side?"

No. In Star Wars, you usually have asymmetry for the sake of asymmetry."
Because we all remember how asymmetrical the X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Y-Wing, Sandcrawler, and AT-AT are. :)

@PurpleDave
I mean in its “upright” position the B-Wing is symmetrical, it’s just it’s designed to rotate which kinda makes sense in a 3D space battle. Just doesn’t look like a B which is where the whole name falls down :D

@Trigger_:
Vader’s TIE Advanced, TIE Interceptor, Imperial Shuttle, Snowspeeder, Star Destroyer, Super Star Destroyer, Twin Pod Cloud Car, Corellian Corvette, A-Wing, Jabba’s sail barge, Jabba’s skiffs, most landspeeders, Luke’s landspeeder (if he ever fixed it up),,,

@Brickalili:
The B-Wing actually makes zero sense in space combat. Babylon 5 nailed it like no other sci-fi film or TV show before it. Constant thrust = constant acceleration. Newtonian physics allows you to turn around without changing your direction of travel. Maneuvering thrusters mounted far from the COG maximize their effectiveness. _Weapons_ mounted close to the pilot’s POV make it easier to aim. Not having guns mounted on a giant rotating wing means you have one less thing to distract you during combat.

Let's talk about 7680 The Twilight. That thing has one massive engine on the left side, two itty-bitty engines on the right of the fuselage, then the wing to the right of them! The Twilight would spin worse than the Q-wing fighter (as seen in Robot Chicken Star Wars).

I actually found this set and another (the other cost about $60 on Ebay) on nextdoor for about 30 dollars. I ended up selling them for around 150 dollars.

@PurpleDave
You say that like any of the Star Wars ships make sense for space combat, instead of being designed to fulfil everyone's dogfighting fantasies

@Brickalili said:
" @PurpleDave
You say that like any of the Star Wars ships make sense for space combat, instead of being designed to fulfil everyone's dogfighting fantasies"

agreed!

…Honestly, I always thought Savage’s name was the cleverest thing about him. He’s literally the “hey, you know that antagonist you (supposedly) killed in the first movie? They had a sibling” trope. And he pretty much existed for the sole purpose of revealing that his sibling was in fact not dead and bringing them back into the main action.

@Ridgehart the axe was Savage’s original weapon. He used it in a battle where he killed a Jedi and their Padawan, which is presumably how he got the crystals for the double-bladed lightsaber he used from them on.

@PurpleDave: Really, it depends on how the wings are designed. Delta-wing aircraft and triplanes put their wing area elsewhere than out to the sides. Non delta-winged monoplanes and biplanes tend to be quite wide.

@Brickalili: My understanding is that "B-Wing" is a hold over from when it and the A-Wing were named "A Fighter" and "B Fighter" during production; the A-Wing just ended up looking like a letter A, but the B-Wing only looks like a lowercase B if you look at with the cockpit below the wing and the wings folded, and sorta squint. One in-universe explanation I've heard is that the B-Wing was named so because it was supposed to counter the threat of the Nebulon-B frigate, which was, after all, originally an Imperial craft before the Rebels got their hands on some.

@TheOtherMike: I read somewhere that the B in B-wing is because with the wings extended, the whole thing looks like a knife or sword, with the main wing being the blade, the shorter wings the hilt, the cockpit as pommel. B for blade.
I don't know, I think someone just made that up to fit. I wish I could remember where I read that.

@TheOtherMike
Yeah I’d heard that, with numerous attempts to justify it in universe after that. Think the one they’ve gone with is the explanation from Rebels, that it’s short for “Blade Wing”

Sometimes I regret that I missed out on The Clone Wars as a show almost entirely because I hated the Clone Wars prints on the LEGO of that era (and, you know, working a lot and being poor), but then there's sets like this and my thought is more... "eh, well, yeah... no."

Is there a connection in me only watching The Clone Wars after the CW-styled faceprints had been phased out? Almost certainly not... but it's a bit suspicious.

@560heliport and @Brickalili: Yeah, I sort of neglected the "Blade-wing" explanation, didn't I? And I'd forgotten that Rebels used it!

@TheOtherMike said:
" @560heliport and @Brickalili: Yeah, I sort of neglected the "Blade-wing" explanation, didn't I? And I'd forgotten that Rebels used it!"

One more Rebels concept that missed getting a set, though luckily we got the designer in a The Freemaker Adventures set.

@jkb said:
"Never even liked the source material. Ventress and Opress are the reasons to buy."

It's treason, then.