Random set of the day: General Grievous' Starfighter
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Today's random set is 8095 General Grievous' Starfighter, released during 2010. It's one of 30 Star Wars sets produced that year. It contains 454 pieces and 3 minifigs, and its retail price was US$49.99/£45.99.
It's owned by 10,635 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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I’m still not sure why I bought this. I already had the first one, and it would be years before I watched the Clown Wars with my kids and learned who the Mon Cal is.
Must’ve been on sale because that was a lot for a set to me at the time.
So, does this mean General Grievous Minifigures don't jack up the price?
The tan Grievous is amazing. Sad that his joints were so weak. They broke so quickly.
I think I may have only bought this for Grievous and Nahdar Vebb, and well, I don't do anything with either of them because Nahdar's dead and Grievous is too fragile to mess with. Makes for a fun little display showing 2005-07 Grievous clash sabers with the redesign, but other than that, I even kind of think the original ship is better. It may not be as accurate, but there's something about it that feels better, like the original Jedi Star Fighters from 2002 to 2011. Saesee Tiin's starfighter started a trend that I am just not a fan of, even if it is technically more accurate to the ship design. EV-A4-D is fun though. Such a sassy droid, and this set is based off one of the best episodes in Season 1 of Clone Wars, Lair of Grievous.
Cooler than the new one which has distracting gold flowers and replaced the hidden flick missiles with compartments. Though this one committed the heinous crime of putting a transparent orange cone on a tan lightsaber blade to make a detachable missile underneath, which is an illegal technique because the transparent and solid colored bricks chemically bond together and are inseparable.
LEGO has a funny history with General Grievous's Starfighter.
Not many people know this, but his Starfighter in The Clone Wars looks quite different then it does in Revenge of the Sith. (As do a lot of vehicles in TCW, such as the AAT) And strangely this model looks more like the film version. While the most recent model looks more like the TCW version.
I believe I have every copy of the Soulless One, but aside from the first minifig version and a microscale version, I don’t know how many I’ve built.
Loved the hidden missiles on this set. One of my favourite features in any Lego set! The rubber stopper in the cockpit was also a nice touch.
The Lego Star Wars Character Encyclopedia (At least the first two editions, I don't have the third) claims that some copies of this set didn't include the sticker for the droid's face and lists a stickerless version as an official variant. Does anyone know if this is true, or did the author just come to a weird conclusion based on BrickLink listing stickered and non-stickered variants?
The real ones know it as the Spineless One
@MCLegoboy said:
"I think I may have only bought this for Grievous and Nahdar Vebb, and well, I don't do anything with either of them because Nahdar's dead and Grievous is too fragile to mess with. Makes for a fun little display showing 2005-07 Grievous clash sabers with the redesign, but other than that, I even kind of think the original ship is better. It may not be as accurate, but there's something about it that feels better, like the original Jedi Star Fighters from 2002 to 2011. Saesee Tiin's starfighter started a trend that I am just not a fan of, even if it is technically more accurate to the ship design. EV-A4-D is fun though. Such a sassy droid, and this set is based off one of the best episodes in Season 1 of Clone Wars, Lair of Grievous."
Poor Fried Calamari!
I loved the parts of the episode that showed the gradual transition of Greivous to cyborg. Clone Wars was great.
@Norikins : No, transparent elements bond to each other. That's why Lego's never made a completely trans-colored minifig. If trans colors bonded to opaque colors, they'd never be able to use trans colors. Little surprised @PurpleDave didn't point that out.
Althoguh they look nice in the movies, I couldn't get into the Lego versions of the prequal vehicles. Maybe because they had too much curves and that didn't translate well to Lego. I liked the chair design in this set though. It may come in handy if I build a barber shop.
@Norikins:
@TheOtherMike:
You both got it wrong. Transparent parts, until recently, were made of polycarbonate. Fitting a bar through a hollow stud did not form a chemical bond because PC doesn’t react with itself. The only “bond” it forms with itself, in this case, is a friction bond. The parts fit so tight that it was nearly (but not completely) impossible to separate them, and doing so carried significant risk of breaking one or both parts. PC just doesn’t have the elastic qualities of ABS, and the geometry of those two parts didn’t allow enough flex. Compare this to attaching a modern trans round plate to any trans stud, and the internal geometry of the anti-stud on the round plate only allows contact at the cardinal points, while the rest of the sidewall allows enough flex that the parts can be easily separated, and without risk of scalloping the base of the plate (as happened all the time in the late 70’s due to the use of acrylic for trans colors).
Now, I know they changed the material for some 4L bars, and I can’t remember which ones were changed to what material, but supposedly this problem went away (at least for a time). With the shift to new trans plastic, I don’t know where things stand now.
A General Grievous set? Well hello there!
I also have all the iterations of this ship. This one is the best I've encountered (I haven't yet built 75286). The previous one, 7656, is a real part shedder. If you give it a swoosh with a Magna Guard escort 7673, then parts will flow off like a Lego comet.
Also, 7656 can only fit jazz hands skeleton Grievous. Not the newer, far better versions.
@Brickalili said:
"A General Grievous set? Well hello there!"
"GENERAL KENOBI!"
I missed one day of RSotD yesterday and it was one of my most desired sets during my childhood. Eh, figures.
I've loved Lego Star Wars ever since 1999, but I never bought any version of this ship or any other set with Grievous. He's a really annoying villain who is comically evil and (as Mace Windu rightly said and @BulbaNerd4000 also implied) a coward. Just consider how many encounters with him ended with him making a run for it... Oh well, at least he more or less died doing what he loved.
Anyway, to conclude this little rant, the character has no appeal to me and by extention, so have his vehicles.
In the alternative photos there is a picture of General Grievous sitting on his chair which must have taken a lot of patience as nothing to hold him still and prevent him falling off.
For those with the set do you have to squash him up to fit inside his Starfigher as there does not seem to be a lot of room?
@BigDaddy89 said:
"I've loved Lego Star Wars ever since 1999, but I never bought any version of this ship or any other set with Grievous. He's a really annoying villain who is comically evil and (as Mace Windu rightly said and @BulbaNerd4000 also implied) a coward. Just consider how many encounters with him ended with him making a run for it... Oh well, at least he more or less died doing what he loved.
Anyway, to conclude this little rant, the character has no appeal to me and by extention, so have his vehicles. "
You should give him a chance - in LEGO Star Wars - The (new) Yoda Chronicles
@NotProfessorWhymzi:
I’m assuming you’re not factoring in even a single Disney Wars sequel trilogy character. Or counting Grievous’ significantly expanded storyline in the animated series. He may be a coward, but he’s very dangerous when he can turn the odds in his favor.
@PurpleDave said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi:
I’m assuming you’re not factoring in even a single Disney Wars sequel trilogy character. Or counting Grievous’ significantly expanded storyline in the animated series. He may be a coward, but he’s very dangerous when he can turn the odds in his favor."
i wouldn't call any of the sequel trilogy characters overrated
Another RSOTD that I have. I liked this one, it was the first time I had seen a General Grevious and I thought the Clone Wars episode this was based on was really good.
As a child I would have been all over Star Wars Lego but just about all the sets from this theme we have are from bags bought in second-hand shops, my first big find was 6205 V-Wing Fighter, 6206 TIE Interceptor and 7259 ARC-170 Fighter, the second one was 7914 Mandalorian Battle Pack, 7929 The Battle of Naboo, 8084 Snowtrooper Battle Pack, 7913 Clone Trooper Battle Pack, 8085 Freeco Speeder, 8083 Rebel Trooper Battle Pack, 8096 Emperor Palpatine's Shuttle and then this one, quite an eclectic collection. This starfighter is rather hefty although not as bulky as 7259, which seems like the most logical opponent out of those sets I mentioned. While the latter set has all printed pieces, this set has stickers so that feels like taking a step back and at first glance it appears to be like this for all sets, printed in 2005-2006 and stickered in 2010? Luckily I haven't got an issue with General Grievous' joints (yet)?
Tan Grivous ,I miss him.
wow they just decide to give general ackbar a lightsaber
I remember the FIRST General Grievous-the one who could take on multiple Jedi and/or clones all by himself. Then RotS came along and ruined him, and that was the version we’ve been stuck with ever since.
@leetshoe said:
"wow they just decide to give general ackbar a lightsaber"
1. Admiral Ackbar
2. It's not even Ackbar
Ah Grievous. I love that character. He and Ahsoka were imo the best characters from the Clone Wars series
Something definitely was wrong with Lego back then, compared to today
Nahdar Vebb is included, but not in his outfit from when he fought Spock and the Vogons on Mustafar?
I love how everyone mostly avoids talking about the new version's... issues.
For the first time, when looking at the set picture, I noticed the rear of the starfighter looks like the head of a battle droid.
@BulbaNerd4000 said:
" @leetshoe said:
"wow they just decide to give general ackbar a lightsaber"
1. Admiral Ackbar
2. It's not even Ackbar"
this is from the PREQUEL. he wasn't admiral ackbar yet
I remember finding this overpriced at 60 euro back then. But then came the last one from a few years ago... Although this one was from 2010 and was in 2010 money too. So I'm not sure which price was worse (the prices listed for old sets sometimes seem to differ from what I remember for in the Netherlands btw).
Starfighters are just expensive for what you get I guess. I must say that I missed the old Grievous with this one when it came out. It's too different with the different body shape and arms attached to arms. More accurate, but not as classic and cape-compatible. Not to mention cartoonier, like all TCW figs at the time. Although it has grown on me since the white version came out . Now this tan one has a stage between itself and the original in terms of design!
@Binnekamp:
You probably did have different prices than what’s listed. I’ve often seen complaints that BeNeLux got hit with €10 higher prices (before they switched to uniform EU and pricing in the last year or two), and Brickset shows the “standard” Euro pricing, in addition to USD and UK pound.
@jkb said:
"You should give him a chance - in LEGO Star Wars - The (new) Yoda Chronicles"
Never watched that but might be fun, let's see if I can find it somewhere...
@Eightcoins8 you went back to Star Wars for the last reference; that’s only three fandoms aggravated.
@leetshoe CAPTAIN Ackbar was not still not a Jedi.
@BigDaddy89:
There was a 3-parter (LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles) that aired on Cartoon Network after Disney had swallowed Lucasfilm, but before they started breaking any outstanding contracts with non-Disney networks. Then there was a 4-parter (LEGO Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles) that they aired on Disney XD. These were preceded by The Padawan Menace and The Empire Strikes Out. I know TPM, TESO, and the first two eps of TYC have all been released on home video, but the third episode probably never will be (unless it slipped my notice). And TNYC is all on one home video release. For that final TYC ep, unless Cartoon Network has it available for free streaming, or it’s on YouTube, it’s probably paywalled on Disney’s streaming service (which I recently read is losing an increasing amount of money, as new subscriptions have kinda stalled out short of what they need for their production budget on new shows).
@SearchlightRG said:
" @Eightcoins8 you went back to Star Wars for the last reference; that’s only three fandoms aggravated.
@leetshoe CAPTAIN Ackbar was not still not a Jedi."
Yep. It's Captain Ackbar, CW, Season 4. Ep. 1, Water War.
Nadar Vebb was briefly a Jedi in CW, Season 1, Ep. 10, Lair of Grievous.
@NotProfessorWhymzi:
Bane only beat Batman by breaking out every inmate in Arkham Asylum and waiting for an exhausted Batman to come home from recapturing every escaped criminal. Batman probably doesn’t have a contingency plan to take down Superman that doesn’t involve kryptonite. When you don’t stand a chance in a fair, head-to-head fight, you make do with whatever you’ve got to work with. In the case of a Jedi, if you take one on you better be a Sith (or equivalent) or have some dirty cheating scheme up your sleeves if you intend to come out victorious.
@SearchlightRG said:
" @Eightcoins8 you went back to Star Wars for the last reference; that’s only three fandoms aggravated.
@leetshoe CAPTAIN Ackbar was not still not a Jedi."
exactly. he's not a jedi. but Lego gave him a lightsaber here? big mistake by them
I remember getting this set at the Downtown Disney LEGO Store (along with 8097) back in summer 2010. I was so hyped for this set (I remember my friend showing me leaked preliminary images back in summer 2010). I missed out on the 2007 starfighter (and was in desperate need of a Grievous figure), so this set is my "definitive version". The set is great - super sturdy (great for "swooshing", solid figures (including a revolutionary Grievous design), and I love the chair side-build and fold-out missiles.