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Major DEALS on major appliances SAVE UP TO 40% on select office furniture BABY EVENT ON NOWSAVE BIG on baby gear from brands you trustAll DealsGaming & Toys Toys & Hobbies LEGO Star Wars TIE Striker 1 week 4 days ago Until 1:49 am ET (or 100% claimed), Amazon offers the LEGO Star Wars TIE Striker, model no. 75154, for $48.60 with free shipping. (Non-members can spend $35 or more to qualify for free shipping; otherwise, shipping costs $6.80.) That's $5 under our January mention and the lowest total price we've seen. (It's the best deal today by $1.) It includes an Imperial Shoretrooper, TIE pilot, Imperial ground crew, and a Rebel Trooper in an Endor outfit. Never Miss Another Deal Get the latest deals delivered straight to your inbox Rumor: LEGO Star Wars Episode VIII Toy Line Features TIE Bombers. Did the lack of diversity between Resistance and First Order starfighter types in The Force Awakens bug you as much as they bugged us?
Well apparently, the people at Lucasfilm got the memo, and soon the First Order TIE bombers will soon make their way to the big screen in Episode VIII! Come the next “Force Friday” event, you’ll be able to pick up LEGO sets that update the design first seen in The Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars Episode VIII will be a great mix of the old and the new. This reflects in the few character designs we’ve seen. It should be no surprise then, that an old Imperial vessel is getting updated for use by the First Order. That’s right: There will be a TIE Bomber in Episode VIII. This information comes in the form of a leaked Lego set announcement (via StarWarsAwakens.nl). Seeing as the source has been right about Lego before with this winter’s sets, I see no reason to doubt it. Next Force Friday, you will be able to find First Order TIE Bombers at your local Lego supplier. Force Friday Lego sets aren’t always a guarantee for a major role in the film… But the vehicle will no doubt at least be clearly visible at some point.
That last point is especially prescient, considering that the Rogue One merchandise line made a big deal out of the TIE striker, though it was only seen for a few seconds in the movie itself. Still, knowing that we’ll be seeing more ships in battle – even if they’re technically new-old ships – already gets us a little more excited about Episode VIII. Are there any recognizable ship designs that you’d like to see get sleeker updates in Episode VIII, or would you prefer that we get some new starfighters? Let us know in the comments below. Click HERE to check out and comment on this topic in our forum The Cantina Powered by WordPress | Designed by: seo services | Thanks to seo company, web designer and internet marketing companyOne of the new vehicles in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and released as a LEGO Star Wars set is 75154 TIE Striker, which includes 543 pieces with 4 minifigs for $69.99. With Rogue One in theaters for more than two weeks now, our review will reference spoilers.
If you haven’t seen it yet, do so — the movie is excellent — and then come back and read our full review of the LEGO set. The instruction booklet is 108 pages long, with 174 steps. The build itself comes in five numbered bags, and the large central pod is built from the parts in the first two bags, with the minifigures spread out in several bags. There’s also a sticker sheet used for detailing on the wing cross braces and curved hull slopes, but the model would look fine without them. The first bag includes the TIE pilot and the Imperial ground crew minifigs. The pod has some significant studs-out construction to hold the curved outer hull, including some clever uses of headlight bricks turned sideways. The hull also integrates a Technic hinge mechanism for angling the wings. The third and fourth bags build the left and right wings, which are large and flat, and thus built mostly made of overlapping plates in black over a multi-colored core. (The shore trooper and Rebel trooper appear in the third bag.)
The surface of each wing includes lots of tiles and partially tiled plates, such as a 10×10 wedge plate with no studs in the center. The wings attach to the Technic lift arms on either side of the pod. Although the wings are large and identical (mirrored left and right, obviously), the wings don’t feel particularly repetitive to build, since the plates are fairly large and the build goes quickly. The fifth and final bag completes the top and rear of the TIE Striker, along with some minor details on the underside (structural components of the lift arms and spring-loaded missile shooters). Sturdy, and swooshable against Rebel ground troops huddled on the beaches of Scarif, the TIE/sk x1 experimental air superiority fighter is a great-looking vehicle. It’s large, too, at nearly 17 inches in length (43 cm). The wings swing up and down on Technic lift arms without being floppy, and of course the cockpit opens and closes both from the front windscreen and a top hatch.
The TIE/sk has a rear compartment, which according to the Rogue One Visual Guide supports a second crew position in a bomber role. However, the rear compartment in the LEGO set is incredibly cramped thanks to the Technic mechanism for the wings, and only has room for a weapons rack. If the designers were going to sacrifice the second crew seat for the Technic mechanism anyway, it would have been nice to have a slightly more complex mechanism that raises and lowers the wings together with a knob on the back or something. As it is, the wings move independently, and although they’re not floppy, it’s primarily gravity that holds them in the down position, with nothing more than some short struts to hold them up. With the wings lowered, turning the fighter upside down forces gravity to “raise” the wings, though they do remain locked up once the craft is righted. Since the TIE Striker only appears during the Battle of Scarif (and only briefly), the designer’s minifig selection was fairly circumscribed.
The set includes a TIE pilot, of course, along with a shore trooper and an Imperial ground crew minifig (though not Jyn Erso in disguise — we have to wait for her in the 75171 Battle of Scarif playset in the 2017 wave of Rogue One sets). The TIE fighter pilot is a minor update of the pilot minifig in the UCS TIE Fighter, with the new helmet mold and silver streaks printed on the front. The Imperial shore trooper uses the same helmet mold as the tank driver/commander minifigs in 75152 Imperial Assault Hovertank, with a different design printed on tan rather than white. This also appears to be a unique officer minifig, with sand blue markings, compared to the plainer tan versions in the Battle of Scarif set. The Imperial ground crew minifig has directional batons for waving in cargo shuttles on landing pads. The ground crew minifig has a new helmet mold that seems halfway between the designs of Death Star gunners (with a full face visor and jutting “chin”) and Death Star troopers (with a patch of round divets on the forehead).
The solitary Rebel trooper uses a combination of parts unique to this set, but none of the designs are new. He has a reversible head with an alternate expression, and a printed back. The minifig selection is what you’d expect, though this is currently the only set in which you can get the shore trooper and ground crew minifigs. The TIE Striker plays a surprisingly minimal and decidedly inconclusive role in the Battle of Scarif. Sure, it’s a new TIE variant, which it seems every Star Wars movie is required to have, but it’s only on screen for a few moments in Rogue One and doesn’t do more than blast a couple of ill-fated X-wings — it certainly doesn’t leave the impression of “Oh, that’s something special!” that Darth Vader’s TIE Advanced does in A New Hope. This is a solid, well-designed model, though certainly not perfect — particularly the absence of either a rear crew seat or a better wing actuator mechanism. With minimal play features and a limited role in the movie (and no LEGO X-wings from Rogue One to fly against), it’s not as likely to be interesting to your average 9-year-old — though it’s relevant to note that the movie is rated PG-13 and is truly an adult-oriented Star Wars movie.