Review: LEGO Star Wars 75262 Imperial Dropship (20th Anniversary)

On the way today for a quick tour of the LEGO Star Wars set 75262 Imperial Dropship (125 pieces - 19.99 €), a box which is part of the lot "20th birthday"from the LEGO Star Wars range and which, beyond paying tribute to the creativity of the manufacturer, is above all designed to satisfy the appetite of Army builders, those fans who only live to accumulate as many Stormtroopers as possible.

Those who fell into the LEGO Star Wars range a few years ago inevitably remember the set. 7667 Imperial Dropship from 2008. This new box is presented as a "revisited" version of this set that many fans at the time bought by handles.

The Imperial Dropship, like many craft or mini-ships seen in the Battle Packs of the LEGO Star Wars range, does not exist. In any case, not in the Star Wars universe. It's a creation of the LEGO designers who are forced to add something to build in these little boxes stamped "construction toy"whose primary function is above all to allow fans to build up an army of generic minifigs.

The machine delivered here is as basic as that of 2008, not enough to cry genius. We will retain the detachable part that is used to ... drop soldiers somewhere. The funny detail: the possibility of storing the blasters in the supports provided on the sides of the machine during the transport phase.

Too bad that the classic blasters of the 7667 set are here replaced by the coarse and cumbersome machine launchers, even if the latter help to give a certain playability to this type of set.

In short, we can not really say that the construction delivered in this box is a tribute to the legendary creativity of designers and we should rather see here a nod to all those who have one day spent all of their money on pocket in multiple copies of set 7767.

For the rest, this small box allows above all to get a pretty Shadow Trooper almost entirely new if we forget the usual Clone Trooper head delivered here in four copies.

The three supplied Stormtroopers are all equipped with legs and torsos already seen in many boxes and the new bi-injection helmet also delivered in the sets 75229 Death Star Escape et 75235 X-Wing Starfighter Trench Run.

The role of the off-topic collector minifig is attributed here to Han Solo in the outfit seen in the 7190 Millennium Falcon set released in 2000. Legs identical to the original minifigure, hair a little lighter, even smirk, everything is there up to the torso with a slightly pale pad printing. It's ugly, but it's vintage.

As for the other collector characters of this wave of 20th anniversary sets, the back of the character is stamped with the (very) large logo of the operation. By dint of seeing the backs of the different collector minifigs in this wave of sets, I tell myself that a smaller logo would have been sufficient. There was no need to write so big knowing that the support provided is also flanked by a huge logo.

Difficult to put away the set 75262 Imperial Dropship in the category "Battle Pack for Army Builders"due to the presence of Han Solo in the box. You will always get as many Shadow Troopers as there are copies of Han Solo upon arrival. At $ 19.99 a box, you'll have to think twice before investing.

If LEGO had really wanted to invite fans of this type of box to the party, it was enough to leave the price of the set at the usual price of a Battle Pack and make us believe that Han Solo's collector's minifig is in fact offered. But that was probably too much to ask.

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