Review: LEGO Star Wars 75383 Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator

Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75383 Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator, a box of 640 pieces which will be available at the public price of €69.99 from May 1, 2024.

The most avid fans of the LEGO Star Wars range know that this is not the first time that LEGO has tried to reproduce the Scimitar, I have never really been convinced by the different interpretations marketed since 1999 and this one will probably not change my mind. However, the designer has tried here to integrate some welcome features as if to compensate a little for the relative sadness of the object with its slightly outdated look.

We can possibly console ourselves by considering that the homage to the 25th anniversary of the range is perfectly rendered here, this ship takes us back a few years with its approximate proportions and its super finish. microfighter. The assembly is quickly dispatched, and we benefit from the arrival of some rather interesting functions including the possibility of integrating Darth Maul at the controls of the ship on his somewhat simplistic speeder, of dropping a few DRK-1 probe droids through the hatch planned, deploy both landing gears and shoot anything that moves via both Spring-Shooters installed at the front.

It's a child's toy, so you can have fun with it. Long-time collectors who are still waiting for an acceptable version of the ship will have to be content with this interpretation while waiting for something better, it won't be this time unless we consider this attempt as on scale. Midi Scale and that we tinker with a support identical to the other vessels available in the Starship Collection in the same format launched this year.

Nothing is planned to put the ship in flight position, I tinkered with the support made up of transparent parts that you see in the photos below.

As for the provision of minifigs, it is correct but without ambition: Darth Maul is delivered without cape or hood while the character would have been more faithful to the outfit seen on the screen if he had been equipped with these clothing attributes , Anakin Skywalker and Qui-Gon Jinn are acceptable as is except for the beige color of the latter's legs which does not match the color of the torso and the new and exclusive minifig of Saw Gerrera is a little off topic in plus being delivered in a green color next to the plate. I understand the desire to include new characters in these boxes that are not necessarily linked to the theme of the product, but there was undoubtedly room for a little more consistency in the choice of associated figurines.

LEGO has, however, had plenty of time to refine this Saw Gerrera figurine; offering it in a more faithful color would have been appreciable despite the very advanced pad printing. We'll be content with that, this will surely be the one and only appearance of the character at LEGO for a good while even if I don't despair of seeing him reappear in a stamped set Rogue One A day. We know that LEGO has not finished spinning out the Star Wars universe, so there is hope.

We obtain in passing a base which allows us to present this collector figurine as it should be with a plaque stamped with an illustration celebrating the 25 years of the LEGO Star Wars range and a Plate provided which will allow this display to be connected to others of the same barrel delivered in other boxes. No stickers in this box, the pretty one Dish of the vessel is pad printed.

In short, this box will probably not make an impression and many will undoubtedly wait to find it at a more reasonable price than the €70 requested by LEGO to add the few figurines provided to their collections.

The 25th anniversary of the range undoubtedly deserved something more accomplished so that the celebration was notable, here we are faced with yet another attempt, neither totally failed nor really successful, to offer us this ship in a LEGO version. The model is however equipped with several functions which make it a real toy, that's already a given.

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