A reasonable model of a boring vehicle.

  • Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder

    <h1>Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder</h1><div class='tags floatleft'><a href='/sets/75271-1/Luke-Skywalker-s-Landspeeder'>75271-1</a> <a href='/sets/theme-Star-Wars'>Star Wars</a> <a class='subtheme' href='/sets/subtheme-Episode-IV'>Episode IV</a> <a class='year' href='/sets/theme-Star-Wars/year-2020'>2020</a> </div><div class='floatright'>©2020 LEGO Group</div>

    Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder

    ©2020 LEGO Group
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    A reasonable model of a boring vehicle.

    Written by (AFOL) in United States,

    The coolest point about the landspeeder in the movie is that it's Luke's first beater car and he has a bunch of adventures driving it, and he sells it to get off that old rock and of course it FLOATS IN THE AIR!

    But all this is hard to capture in a static model. There are no moving wings, no turrets, so it's hard to fault LEGO for a perfectly respectable, affordable, landspeeder model. I feel bad giving it a middling review because it's a middling vehicle to start with. But there you have it.

    Everything we see in the movie is captured here, which is to say, not much. There's even a little trunk in the back where Luke can store his binocs, which is a nice touch.

    I did get annoyed somewhere in the middle of the (fairly short) build, where a lot of detail went into the nose of the speeder, but was then covered up by the top plates.

    Suggestions for improvements:

    Perhaps they could have made an attempt at some transparent legs to make it look like it's floating?

    Perhaps they could have imagined up something in the nose of the vehicle - an engine or generator or something, and we could have had a landspeeder whose engine hood opens up?

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