This set, which has already been talked about a lot (a little too much perhaps), has a major advantage that should alone justify buying this box: The possibility of connecting the Rancor's lair to Jabba's from set 9516 Jabba's Palace.
BrickieB, yet again, managed to get hold of set 75005 Rancor Pit in Belgium and reveals the supposed interconnection possibilities offered by LEGO in a mini-review on Eurobricks.
LEGO indicates on the back of the box that the two sets are intended to be grouped. The solution indicated by the manufacturer is to detach the side tower of Jabba's Palace and place it next to the two remaining elements assembled together.
It's a moderately satisfactory compromise, but it adds real play value to the whole thing. The only downside is that you have to spend over €200 at LEGO to get this result. A little less if you look elsewhere online.
Fortunately, the minifigs are there to reassure me. They are superb and the Rancor is really imposing, evidenced by this photo of BrickieB on which he poses next to Jabba.
In any case, this set will saturate my shelves, even if I think that the interconnection with the set 9516 could have been a little more worked, by proposing for example an additional floor to be inserted under the tower of the palace.
On the playability side, it's different. The palace trap mechanism will take advantage of the presence of the Rancor Pit and will allow a few poor creatures to be thrown into it, including poor Oola ...
