This was a really exciting set because after almost 10 years of LEGO Star Wars, we were finally getting figures of some of the first characters seen ever in Star Wars, which were of course, Rebel Troops in their vests and long white helmets. I find it to be a clever solution to use the helmet visor to fill in the black part of the helmet, even if it's not 100% accurate in shape to the black section in the movies because it allows for some customization. You could throw in any translucent color you wanted, maybe the brown one used for the Hoth Rebel from the 1999 Snowspeeder, a metallic gold one from Mars Mission, you could make a whole new ranking system for your Rebels. LEGO was pretty smart when designing the Rebel helmet.

I loved this set when I was a kid! May have been my first BP

I love their ultra-serious faces. They’re like the Citizen Brick neutral face

One of the best Battle Packs of all time!
(Ah the days when these were just $10)

I built a revamp of this set about a year ago: https://www.flickr.com/photos/armoredbricks/50085688772/in/dateposted-public/

This might’ve been my first LEGO Star Wars set, I don’t remember ever having it in one piece if I’m going to be honest. The Rebel Troopers and how many you get are cool, though, especially since you get so many of them in this while they’re very difficult to find otherwise. I’d prefer a helmet with the black thing printed on since they’d probably be able to make the shape even more accurate if they did that but overall I’d say these are pretty solid figures. Save for the black dot eyes with no irises, I think they fixed those in other themes by this point.

I regret only getting one of these. I'd like a bigger Rebel army.

Maybe it's just the nostalgia talking, but this was one of my favorite battle packs of all time. The build of the speeder was so unique, and the rotating cannon was the cherry on top for playability.

I was never sure if this thing was ever a part of either canon, so if there's any Star Wars aficionados out there, is it? And if so, do it's manufactures have anything to do with the people who built those defense Speeders in Theed Palace on Naboo?

Ah, the days when BP had figures armed with blasters and not oversized hairdryers that launch units of construction...

@legoguy said:
"Ah, the days when BP had figures armed with blasters and not oversized hairdryers that launch units of construction..."

For a second I forget stud guns existed, and was thinking of the old megaphone guns they gave everyone (and still Battle Droids for the first Droid Battle Pack)

I didn't see Star Wars until I was well into LEGO, so I had a bunch of City and Creator sets but always flipped through Star Wars in my catalogues. Once I did finally watch the OT, it took another year or so before it worked it's way into my LEGO budget and this set was waiting for me when that time rolled around. Like a few others have already said, it was my first proper Star Wars set.
So as not to let the Rebels become bored and directionless in life, I also bought the companion 7667 Imp battle pack, and thus my SW collecting days were begun.

A cool little speeder but I generally ignore the suggestion to put a figure seated in the turret. They seem a bit exposed and unbalanced up there, it works far better as unmanned

Four identical figures?

With normal weaponry?

You CAN do it, LEGO!

$10 for all THAT? Mama like.

One of the greatest. Only problem was that the helmets come off the heads way too easily. Throw these troopers in a bin and their helmets pretty much instantly separate themselves from the heads. Gotta find them again whenever I want to pull the rebels out.

@GSR_MataNui said:
"Maybe it's just the nostalgia talking, but this was one of my favorite battle packs of all time. The build of the speeder was so unique, and the rotating cannon was the cherry on top for playability.

I was never sure if this thing was ever a part of either canon, so if there's any Star Wars aficionados out there, is it? And if so, do it's manufactures have anything to do with the people who built those defense Speeders in Theed Palace on Naboo?"

This (along with the corresponding stormtrooper pack 7667) was never part of either the Legends or Canon continuity, but rather an original Lego creation. This places it, along with all the lego original star wars stuff under the Infinities continuity, which contains all the official but non-canonical star wars media.

Without exaggeration, this set is my favourite LEGO set of all time.

When it was released, My Dad and I went around all the local stores but they were sold out. It took us a few weeks to find it and to this day he remembers how elated I was as a kid, jumping in triumph. We built it together at home and those Rebel Troopers were involved in so many battles. The speeder was cool too with the detachable swivel cannon.

That’s what LEGO is about to me, the memories as well as the playability!

I was so delighted by this set. I’d started coming out of my dark ages about five or six years earlier, and by this time I was deeply back into the bricks I’d first loved when I was a kid in the ‘70s but had dropped as a teen in the ‘80s, but my funds were limited and I despaired at the prospect of affording all the copies I wanted of this - I knew I’d want a slew of Rebel troops. I wound up getting twelve copies of this set, most of which are still sealed (for years I’ve been accruing sets more quickly than building them, as I work on a LEGO room so I can finally assemble and display stuff, sort parts, etc.), but I’ve loved building a portion of this Rebel army. I look forward to eventually using them all for a Yavin IV awards ceremony.

This set is one I often think about as a counterexample whenever I see people allege that the licensed themes are inherently always overpriced. I always think about how this set and its Imperial complement were out at the same time as 8401 City Minifigure Collection (released a year later, but both sets lasted a while and their periods of availability overlapped), which is honestly still a really nice set and a bit of a godsend for City fans at the time, but this set and that one both offer four Minifigures, and this has by far the more substantial build, with more pieces. That one does offer more diversity amongst its figures, of course, and one more decorated element than this thanks to the tile on the boom box, but this has four copies of a new mold, and the identical figures are ones one would want multiples of (though admittedly some ethnic and gender diversity would be nice, even though as-is the set perfectly represents the white dudes seen in these uniforms in the original movie). I always looked at the two sets and felt the Star Wars theme was offering a bit more for ten bucks than the City one was at the time (and that City set was still quite a nice set for the money; I got a couple copies of that, too, but I got six times as many of this, mainly because it was *the* way to get lots of Rebel troops).

The vehicle gave me (still gives me, I should say) a great nostalgic recollection of Kenner’s similar filling out of the SW universe with vehicles that were just “offscreen”. The “mini-rig” vehicles they produced for the original SW action figure toy line were delightful things a kid could easily think of as canon even though they weren’t really so, and this one is like those but even better, both for having a design that's more of its own thing than most of those were while still looking unmistakably “Star Wars-y”, and also for accommodating more figures than those typically did.