Review : LEGO Star Wars 77904 Nebulon-B Frigate

Today we are interested in the LEGO Star Wars set 77904 Nebulon-B Frigate, a box of 459 pieces which was only marketed across the Atlantic via the official online store and at Amazon. The set was sold at the public price of $ 39.99, since its sale it has been a hit with resellers on the secondary market where you currently have to spend a little more than € 70 excluding delivery costs to acquire a copy.

I ordered three copies from Amazon US as soon as the product went on sale, I repatriated the package via Shipito, I offered a copy, I keep one and I will therefore give you some impressions of this product at using the third copy received.

Putting aside the current price of the product in the aftermarket, I think this is a really nice set that deserved better than being an exclusive product at a canceled convention, San Diego Comic Con 2020. La The box still bears the mark of this exclusivity and LEGO has not bothered to modify the packaging of the product before ensuring its distribution through other channels.

The ultra-limited availability of this reproduction of the escort frigate Nebulon-B, which boils down to an exhibition product, only served to remind many fans that the ship had so far never had the right to a "general public" interpretation. Yet it would be difficult to imagine a version "System"of this vessel which would not be accompanied by a support to allow the frigate to stand upright and the scale of this small model is a compromise which seems to me acceptable.

The support provided here is sober enough not to spoil the setting and the ship, about thirty centimeters long, holds without tipping even by shifting it a few studs. The most observant will have noticed the micro-Millennium Falcon stowed under the central section separating the life modules from the engines of the vessel, the wink is appreciable.

The internal structure of the ship uses a few colored elements which bring some variety to the inventory and make it easier to locate during assembly. The exterior finish is mainly in two tones and it gives pride of place to what is called the "greebling", a technique which consists in creating surface details using various and varied elements.

Microphone, revolvers, roller blades, monochrome minifig heads, ski poles, binoculars, skeleton feet, everything goes and in my opinion it is very successful. The counterpart to this overbidding of small elements: a relative fragility of certain appendages which will tend to come off easily. This frigate being a pure exhibition product, it is ultimately not a problem and the central section is strong enough to allow the suspension of the model, I know that some love to hang their vessels from the ceiling with fishing line.

This frigate is not to the scale of any other ship available in the LEGO Star Wars range but it will easily find its place alongside some of your UCS sets (Ultimate Collector Series) thanks to the presence of the usual small black display. Too bad that LEGO did not crack a sticker with some characteristics of the ship, history of making a mini UCS (!).

In short, this pretty product could have joined the collection of any fan of the LEGO Star Wars range if its distribution had been more global, but unfortunately you have to agree to pay at least double its retail price to be able to exhibit it on a shelf alongside other vessels in the range.

With all of the expense of ordering from Amazon and reshipping through Shipito, the three copies I received ended up costing me as much as if I had ordered through the aftermarket, but I at least got the satisfaction to fend for myself without having to call a reseller and I do not regret this investment. It is you who see, depending on your desires and your means, if the purchase is justified at the current prices. on Bricklink ou on eBay.

If you are not interested in the box, you can easily reproduce this ship using the instructions in PDF format, the set does not contain any exclusive element apart from the sticker which pays homage to the 40th anniversary of theEpisode v.

Note: The set presented here, purchased by me, is put into play. Deadline fixed at 15th January 2021 next at 23pm. "The" I try, I participate "are automatically deleted, make an effort.

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