Review : LEGO Star Wars 75324 Dark Trooper Attack

Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75324 Dark Trooper Attack, a small box of 166 pieces which will be available at the retail price of €29.99 from March 1, 2022. The set could only have been a simple Battle Pack too expensive but it cleverly emancipates itself from its obvious function of providing minifigs of the same faction by offering a very relative playability, we can't blame LEGO for emphasizing the fact that this product is also a " building toy".

With 166 pieces on the counter, the proposed construction is necessarily basic, even if the use of large elements gives it a little volume. This is to reproduce the scene of the arrival of Luke Skywalker aboard Moff Gideon's cruiser in the last episode of the second season of the series The Mandalorian. The scene had its small effect on the screen, LEGO could not miss the commercial potential of even a symbolic reproduction of the thing.

The playset offers a little fun with a rotating elevator shaft, a rotating platform that can be manipulated from the side of the construction and a support on a slide that allows Luke to push back a Dark Trooper using the Force. Why not, we'll play for three minutes, and we'll have to take the time to understand how Luke can take the elevator with his saber deployed in his hand like in the series: just orient the accessory upwards, a space has been planned. The level of integration of the wheel placed on the elevator is debatable, it can be removed if you do not want to keep the playset side of the product.

The ghost therefore faces three Dark Troopers who furnish the piece of corridor nicely dressed with about fifteen very faithful stickers without which the scene would be a little pale. One sticker for eleven pieces to assemble is still a lot. The droids are ten in number on the screen, you will need several boxes to obtain a less symbolic reproduction. Everything can end its career wisely on the corner of a shelf, unless you rely on this box to recover the three Dark Troopers it contains and install them in the cruiser of the set 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser (159.99 €) which provides only one copy.

The three Dark Troopers delivered here are identical to that of the set 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser and that makes sense. The sellers of the secondary market have also reacted quickly as soon as this product was announced by lowering the price charged so far for this very successful minifigure. LEGO corrects the shot here by delivering us black blasters more aptly than the gray version provided in the other set. You will have the choice to display these minifigs with or without their shoulder pads, the pad printing of the torso is almost identical to that of the accessory which covers part of it.

The Luke Skywalker minifig is new from shoulders to toes: the figure's torso and legs are flanked by new pad printing and the character's head is the one used on several occasions since 2015. The angular black hood is not not new, it is that of Ap'lek (Knights of Ren) in 2019, Palpatine (2020), Garindan (2020) or even Bone Spirit from the Monkie Kid range in 2021. The minifig is successful, difficult to make a relatively sober outfit sexier. Some might find the hook on the bottom of Luke Skywalker's torso a little too big, but it's along with the belt buckle the only significant detail in a torso that's just a few gray lines.

In short, we have here a nice little interactive derivative of the series The Mandalorian which allows both to enjoy a scene that will be remembered and a trio of Dark Troopers. What more ? Grogu hiding somewhere? A lower public price for this Battle Pack luxury? A sale in batches of two copies to obtain a more faithful scene? We could always find ways to improve this product or compensate for its high price, but this set is far from embodying the worst of what LEGO offers us in the Star Wars range. I say yes.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at March 2, 2022 next at 23pm.

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