![]() It’s a niche category, for sure, but one that 75342 Republic Fighter Tank is likely to top. The build’s over almost as quickly as you start, but for a vehicle that we were shocked to see get even a second set in 2017, it still feels fresh the third time around.īy the time December 2022 rolls around, and we’re thinking about how to celebrate the year just gone (in LEGO), remind us to put together a list on ‘the most random and unexpected minifigure line-ups’. They’ll never see it coming.ĭeploying the tank’s crew isn’t a terribly straightforward sequence then, but the wheels carefully and subtly built into its base – they could easily have been eyesores – allow the tank to ‘hover’ across any surface you choose, and between its copious slopes and slightly-less-copious stickers it absolutely looks the part. The set otherwise does a pretty good job of capturing the general shape of its source material, even if it does take a mostly toyetic approach to it: while one of the three Clone Troopers can sit in the main hatch, another hides strangely behind the nose, and the third (whichever one draws the short straw, presumably) just gets to lie down in the back, ready to worm his way out into battle. Less detailed are the blank white slopes, a point of contention in initial reactions to 75342 Republic Fighter Tank among the community, but in practice they’re mostly hidden by the rotating side cannons anyway. And it takes a novel (if slightly simplistic) approach to achieving that size, sealing – although not entirely, for there is a frustrating gap – a pair of huge slope pieces with a reversed, opaque and stickered X-wing fighter cockpit, which is a surprisingly good fit for the tank’s weirdly-shaped ‘nose’ section.Īligning the decals along it also isn’t quite as tricky as you might imagine (their white background helps), and they do a lot of heavy lifting in communicating detail not afforded by the single-piece solution. That means it’s taller and beefier than the 2017 version, 75182 Republic Fighter Tank, though not quite as overwhelmingly massive as 2008’s 7679 Republic Fighter Tank (to some relief). You know, just in case this source material wasn’t niche enough for you. And by and large, that makes it not too big, not too small, but basically just right – at least as an adaptation of the TX-130 as seen in EA’s original Battlefront games from the early ‘00s, rather than the more modern version from the late ‘10s. The LEGO Group’s third take on a vehicle we’ve only ever seen in video games – we’re as surprised as you – also represents its third different scale, sitting somewhere in the middle of the last two. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.Set theme: LEGO Star Wars Set name: 75342 Republic Fighter Tank Release: April 26, 2022 Follow the instructions for disabling the ad blocker on the site you’re viewing. ![]() ![]() You may have more than one ad-blocker installed. You’ll usually find this icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen.
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