Mos eisley cantina1/28/2024 ![]() One of the most interesting connections in the whole set occurs on the repulserlift tail fan assembly, which attaches to the body with 1×2 rounded plates on “nipple” pieces. Nevertheless, the first two bags provide the parts for the V-35 Courier landspeeder, kicking off the set’s build process in high style, full of sideways connections. The latest Mos Eisley Cantina is no exception, following the pattern established by sets like the UCS Death Star (released in 2016 prior to the new MBS branding) and Cloud City. Instead, playset-oriented LEGO sets like those in the Master Builder Series emphasize background details, functional play features, ancillary vehicles, and a host of minifigs. LEGO Star Wars sets based on locations are not always known for their innovative building techniques, leaving the complex inner Technic frames, inverted sub-assemblies, and strange new connections for starfighters and other vehicles. There’s a cool new Imperial crate, which is the 2x2x1 box brick in light grey printed on all 4 sides with the Imperial insignia and Aurabesh lettering that spells out CARGO. Similarly, other than the minifigures and dewback, there are no new prints, with one notable exception. Obviously you’ll get a huge amount of tan and dark tan, along with some white for the two speeders, but it’s pretty much all stuff that’s already available. In contrast to the heavily front-loaded instruction booklets for previous UCS and MBS sets, brief information about the LEGO Star Wars design team is followed quickly by the instructions themselves, with full-page layouts introducing vehicles and characters interspersed throughout the booklet instead.īeyond the minifigures, there’s not much in the way of new parts in the set. It’s clear that many of the stickers on the sheet are for the spherical Ubrikkian 9000 Z001 landspeeder. Unlike the very similar sticker sheet in our copy of 75205 Mos Eisley Cantina back in 2018 (which was folded and wrinkled in the smaller set), the instruction booklet wrapper keeps these stickers nice and smooth. The instruction booklet ships inside a wrapper with the sticker sheet, while the loose dewback body and an unnumbered bag for larger pieces are all included in the inner box. There are 18 groups of bags for a total of 27 bags. Inside the main box, an inner box includes the first nine groups of bags for the build, consistent with the logical packaging we noticed for the first time in 71374 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) (excluding earlier LEGO Technic sets). The outcome seems to be that packaging design is aligned to the largely black backgrounds focusing on the model while retaining the Master Builder Series branding for location-based, minifig-focused, playset-style LEGO Star Wars sets. When LEGO announced its new product strategy for adult LEGO hobbyists a few months ago, it wasn’t clear how this would affect the branding for longstanding sub-themes like Ultimate Collector Series and the relatively new Master Builder Series launched with 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City exactly two years ago. Let’s strap a blaster to our hip, leave the droids to park the landspeeder, and step inside… The set retails from the LEGO Shop for US $349.99 | CAN $449.99 | UK £319.99 and is available to LEGO VIP Program members beginning on September 16, with general availability on October 1st. Does it live up to my nearly life-long expectations? How does it compare to previous incarnations of this iconic watering hole?ħ5290 Mos Eisley Cantina is built from 3,187 LEGO pieces, and the product description states that it includes 21 minifigures “plus” R2-D2 the droid (a point we’ll return to later in this review). But I am, because my favorite planet in the Star Wars universe is still Tatooine, and my favorite place on the planet is Chalmun’s Cantina. It’s rare that I acknowledge up front in a review how excited I was personally about a forthcoming LEGO set. ![]() LEGO’s latest set in its Master Builder Series takes us deep into that “wretched hive of scum and villainy” with 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina. ![]() But the enormous universe that Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi lived in truly came alive only when they first stepped into the cantina in the Mos Eisley Spaceport - “This place can be a little rough,” Old Ben warned Luke. If you watched Star Wars beginning with Episode IV: A New Hope as many of us born in the decades before the Prequel Trilogy did, the first planet in a “Galaxy Far, Far Away” you ever saw on screen was Tatooine.
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