I like this original a lot more compared to 75091 : Flash Speeder , which was also crazy overpriced €45 vs $30 back in 2015.

This set looks great, been wanting it since a kid, before my time though...

For anyone's information, the cannon atop that turret is surprisingly powerful. One blast took out an entire AAT, which is a heavily armored tank. Not bad for a speeder!

I always like this set. The update in 2015, while it looks good, is drastically oversized. A new version at a $25 price point with an officer and a couple of battle droids would be excellent.

This set looked clunky ieven back in the day. Also green is bot my color. 7110 was a much simpler (didn't even have controls) but better looking set.

Brilliant little set; lots of figures could sit/stand on it.

@TheOtherMike said:
"Another one I'd like them to update. I always loved the fact that one of the back-of-the-box alt builds was a frog."

Why is there no pic of that on Brickset :(

Thanks for posting, that is not what I expected but everything I hoped for.

@lost_scotsman said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Another one I'd like them to update. I always loved the fact that one of the back-of-the-box alt builds was a frog."

Why is there no pic of that on Brickset :(
"

It's at the end of the instructions.

Also, I love the oddness of this set. There's two green 1x1 tiles with an exclusive print. Why? Who knows.
And the side pods make use of SNOT in the year 2000. Nice!

Cute. I remember seeing this turn up in the classic LEGO Star Wars games.

@Rob42 said:
" @MCLegoboy
@ArmoredBricks

A Gian speeder takes out the AAT in the film, rather than a Flash: Three guns on the front, recessed engines at the back. It's usually portrayed in purple, though the one in that scene is more a metallic green-blue.
The first Lego Star Wars game used a Flash speeder though, probably because this set already existed.

As to why Lego made the Flash speeder into a set (twice) and never the Gian, I don't know. Maybe the shape and bright green colour seem more appealing."

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I got the last one of these lingering on the shelves at my local TRU in 2002 or 2003, and wish I’d been able to get more. If only I’d come out of my dark ages a little earlier…

Love the minifig in this set! He's been on my bookshelf for years! Great looking brown cap and uniform... and brown gloves!!! How many minifigs have brown gloves??!! Can't be that many! The Speeder is a solid build and has a nice zoom-zoom quality to it, though if I remember correctly, the gun on top tends to swing about wildly!

Ah, the good Flash Speeder! (Well, I have both and the other one is good, but this one beats it out in all nostalgic categories and is a bit smaller.)

It's a sign of the asymmetry of the early years of Star Wars that we got this blink-and-you-missed-it vehicle before we got a Princess Leia and long, long before we got Padmé in any non-Tatooine outfit. If it hadn't been for this LEGO set, I wouldn't have realised it was in the movie, and I was a twelve-year-old who loved the Phanton Menace.

As parts go, the 1x1 printed tiles have been mentioned, and I always also think of that green slope/engine hood piece, and of old brown chairs. Despite being green, I tend to think old brown in general here, just between the chairs and the fig, whose old brown hat is both unique and ubiquitiously nice.

EDIT: Also, if memory serves, the first of the various Star Wars figs who would have the classic smiley face.

@TheOtherMike said:
"I always loved the fact that one of the back-of-the-box alt builds was a frog."

I have this set but I don’t keep the boxes. I wish there was a picture of the rear box here on Brickset.

@Formendacil said:
"It's a sign of the asymmetry of the early years of Star Wars that we got this blink-and-you-missed-it vehicle before we got a Princess Leia and long, long before we got Padmé in any non-Tatooine outfit. "

Those early years were kind of crazy for which characters were or were not included, but it makes sense. Though the minifigures included with a set get so much of the attention, LEGO is still first and foremost a building toy, and perhaps even more so then - the choice of what to produce as a set might be determined partly based on what characters could be included, but also what would just make a cool toy of a vehicle or location (as well as what sort of prominence it has in the source material, what kind of building experience it might offer, etc.). This particular set is all about the cool vehicle (and certainly not about being front-and-center in the film, or about Random Naboo Person being the most sought-after minifigure). It’s why we got characters like Biggs Darklighter and Dak Ralter right off the bat in the very first wave of sets when lots of more important characters had to wait a while.

@melvlee:
First use was 2000 between this minifig and Chewbacca. 2001 got the Nesquik bunny, 2002 had two Ewoks, and it ended with Lando from SW and Dr. Kilroy from the Himalayan run of Orient Expedition in 2003. 2004 saw the first minifigs with reddish-brown hands.

@Formendacil:
For about the first decade of SW sets, they were firmly in the delusion that kids wanted the same minifigs in every set. Luke, prequel Obi-Wan and Anakin, and Harry Potter were just ridiculously common. Females were present, but often relegated to expensive sets (it took several years before you could get Leia in a set that cost less than $50). Around 2009, they finally wised up to the fact that minifigs sell sets, and they’ve tried to make sure they release a new minifig in almost every set they produce now. As for the classic smiley, that would be Dak Ralter from 7130 in the first wave of OT sets the year before, but based on Bricklink’s numbering, this guy was possibly second.

@jkb said:
"Flash! Aaah-haaaah...! Oops, wrong franchise...

@Alpunt0 It's not just a frog, it's a giant, rideable frog! Creativity doesn't have to stop at the thematical border, you know..."

Yes, Flash has certainly gone quite mad, I hear.

"Damn shame to throw away a perfectly good white boy like that." Better off Dead

@graymattr: Not on brickset, but Back of the Box Builds has pictures:

https://www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/set-7124/

@PurpleDave said:
" @Formendacil:
For about the first decade of SW sets, they were firmly in the delusion that kids wanted the same minifigs in every set. Luke, prequel Obi-Wan and Anakin, and Harry Potter were just ridiculously common. Females were present, but often relegated to expensive sets (it took several years before you could get Leia in a set that cost less than $50). "

Almost, though not quite; 4480 Jabba’s Palace included Leia in the slave girl bikini garb, and that set was released in January 2003 for a US MSRP of $29.99.

But that’s certainly an exception, and the overwhelming majority of sets that included Leia for the first decade of the theme listed for about a hundred bucks or more. Heck, even today she’s a character who still shows up mostly in large, expensive sets, an occasional midrange X-Wing notwithstanding.

An awesome set with massive play value (remember that ...?) A speeder, all one colour (and green Lego didn't exist when I were a lad) with a rotating laser cannon. Great fun.
No wonder he's smiling ....

@StyleCounselor said:
" @jkb said:
"Flash! Aaah-haaaah...! Oops, wrong franchise...

@Alpunt0 It's not just a frog, it's a giant, rideable frog! Creativity doesn't have to stop at the thematical border, you know..."

Yes, Flash has certainly gone quite mad, I hear.

"Damn shame to throw away a perfectly good white boy like that." Better off Dead"

Different times. Strange times,

@Blondie_wan Carrie Fisher didn't like the outfit. Today's kids cringe about the outfit. BUT! I claim that Leia never succumbed to the role Jabba had in mind for her, and stayed the strong character that she always has been! That's true strength, and it's unbreakable, no matter what gender, skin color, species or handicap.

@PurpleDave said:
"As for the classic smiley, that would be Dak Ralter from 7130 in the first wave of OT sets the year before, but based on Bricklink’s numbering, this guy was possibly second."

Dak!

I daresay I forgot him because that's the one '99 Original Trilogy set I didn't have! And because Dak is a named character and I was thinking of the unnamed characters: this Naboo guard, the Final Duel Imperial Officer, the Imperial Shuttle pilot...