Review: LEGO Star Wars 75242 Black Ace TIE Interceptor

Today we take a little detour to the animated series Star Wars: Resistance with the LEGO Star Wars set 75242 Black Ace TIE Interceptor (396 pieces - 49.99 €) which allows to obtain the modified TIE fighter of Griff Halloran with its owner accompanied here by Poe Dameron and BB-8.

We could make it very short on this type of sets: Do you like the Star Wars Resistance animated series? Buy it. Don't you even know what I'm talking about? Save your money. Here.

Beyond this conclusion, which would be more than enough, we can always try to take a closer look to see what this box based on an animated Star Wars series really has to offer and it turns out that this set has some arguments capable of seducing the most assiduous of collectors.

Star Wars Resistance is Star Wars meeting Wipeout with spaceships whose design will bring back memories to anyone who has spent hours racing on the most unlikely tracks. It is also in my opinion a simple series of "recruiting" without real stakes intended for the youngest fans. The series focuses on the period leading up to The Force Awakens with a (very) light tone, ship races, omnipresent and a little heavy humor, ship races, etc ...

The set does its job by making it possible to obtain one of the ships of the series which lends itself rather well to an adaptation to the LEGO sauce. Nothing to say about the resemblance between the ship seen on the screen and its brick-based equivalent. It is faithful, the proportions are respected, the construction is solid and a young fan of the series will find his account.

The Black Ace is equipped with Spring-Shooters at the end of the wings, it has a stowage space at the rear to store the additional green missile supplied and a cockpit in which Griff Halloran can fit without problem, even and especially with his helmet on his head. The contract is fulfilled.

The ship is easy to handle without breaking everything and the two very thin fins placed at the front which I thought very fragile are securely attached to the cabin. the finish is very correct even if the side arches here vaguely reproduced with mobile white bars seem a little too basic for a product sold for 50 €. A few stickers to stick, nothing dramatic even if these stickers often age very badly in the hands of young, very active fans ...

On the minifig side, LEGO delivers a Griff Halloran whose outfit is rather faithful to that of the character and even provides hair to be able to use the minifigure in all possible contexts. The pad printing of the helmet is very successful and apart from the bluish tint used by LEGO for the painting with the skull motif, it is similar to the accessory used by the character in the series.

The detail that spoils the minifigure a bit: the absence of the character's tattoos on the arms of the figurine.

In the box, we also get a minifig of Poe Dameron for the moment exclusive to this box with a torso and a pair of new legs. The character's torso is really very successful with a nice pad printing on a white base and an orange area whose color is perfectly in line with the hips and legs of the character.

The three-day beard was not necessarily necessary here but we will do with it. By adding this minifig in the box, LEGO makes sure not to forget to flirt with collectors without relying only on young fans of the animated series to sell this box ...

BB-8 is also present in this set and we can even say that this version of the droid is exclusive to this box. The character is anyway unanimous with all generations of fans and it is delivered here with an upper cup whose pad printing has slightly evolved since the first versions of the character.

You will understand, this box is especially intended for fans of the animated series Star Wars Resistance who will undoubtedly find something to have fun there. For the others, the unprecedented version of Poe Dameron who, unlike Griff Halloran is a major character in the Star Wars cinematic universe, will perhaps convince them to spend € 49.99 (or less) in this set.

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