Review: LEGO Star Wars 75270 Obi-Wan's Hut

Today we take a quick look at the LEGO Star Wars set 75270 Obi-Wan's Hut (200 pieces - 29.99 €), a small box that allows you to assemble Obi-Wan Kenobi's hut lost in the sandy desert of Tatooine.

At 30 € the box, you shouldn't expect a version Structure of the thing and it is not surprisingly a mini-hut that LEGO offers us here. We are far from the relatively spacious construction seen on the screen, but almost everything is there with quite extensive play possibilities as long as you like to "replay" more or less memorable scenes.

This hut can also serve as a starting point for a more fleshed out Mos Eisley diorama. By purchasing two boxes, you can eventually expand Obi-Wan Kenobi's hut, but it still lacks a moisture vaporizer around the building to really feel like LEGO has made an effort.

To obtain a sufficiently large mini-diorama, you will also have to buy the set 75271 Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder (236 coins 29.99 €) which allows to obtain a character present in the hut during the scenes concerned: C-3PO.

The interior of the cabin is not a layout model but it contains the essentials to install the minifigs and allow Obi-Wan Kenobi to remember that he has something lying in a chest to give away to Luke. The small central table on which R2-D2 displays Leia's hologram is there too.

I'm not sure Obi-Wan had an open-plan kitchen, although I understand the designer's intention to dispense with all of the overhanging construction that leads to the kitchen. and in the bathroom. Extending the walls to make it a rectangular house would have been interesting, but the public price of the set would then have been higher. The objective being to make us buy two boxes sold at a "reasonable" price to obtain a more complete one, the marketing department will have judged that the few dozen bricks necessary for the extension of the construction did not fit in the budget.

We are in the holiday season and I still want to be positive: even if the set is ultra-minimalist in form, in substance, it brings together a lot of "playability" elements that make it a rather full. My collector's soul is of course a little disappointed by this half micro-cabin.

On the minifig side, the endowment does not take the risk of really innovating and we see the version of Luke Skywalker whose outfit was in the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar in 2014 and in a few other boxes since. Luke's Head is also a recurring version of the range since 2015.

Obi-Wan Kenobi's torso is the one delivered in the set 75246 Death Star Cannon earlier this year. The character's head is far from unheard of, it has been scouring the range since 2014 and the set 75052 Mos Eisley Winery.

The Tusken Raider benefits from a head bearing a new reference but really similar to the one already seen since 2015. The torso is here still dressed with shoulder straps but no more crossing of the accessory as on the previous torsos. This will always be useful for varying appearances in a thematic diorama.

R2-D2 is here equipped with a dome whose pad printing has changed a little since the previous versions, the body of the droid remains the one usually delivered in the sets of the range since 2014. No more bubbles in the lightsabers, which are d 'elsewhere now more opaque than previous versions. We can not have everything.

The training droid (Marksman-H Training Remote) is unpublished and it is very well done. The pad printing of the accessory here delivered with a transparent support is really successful.

Finally, the monochrome hologram of Princess Leia is of course new, it is similar to that of Palpatine seen in several sets since the reference 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer released in 2014. The mold is convincing and we can easily guess the appearance of Leia who came to ask Obi-Wan for help. It is probably the fault of this new room that the cabin has a barbecue on the terrace.

In short, this is not the set of the year, the box is not filled with new or exclusive minifigs and it is only half of the content necessary for a convincing staging. The fact remains that there may be enough here to satisfy a Tatooine fan keen to add a construction and a few characters to their diorama. I say yes, but only when the set is around 20 € at Amazon.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at December 31, 2019 next at 23pm.

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