This is set 75283. It comes with 286 pieces and has four minifigures.

Minifigures

This set comes with four minifigs. They are two AAT battle droids, Ahsoka Tano, and Ahsoka's 332nd trooper.

AAT battle droid

This set comes with two AAT battle droid but the box of the se says that one of them is an AAT battle droid and the other one is a regular battle droid. I think that is there to show that one of them is supposed to drive the AAT.

The battle droid's head has some sand green printing at the back and some regular green at the front. He has a sand green battle droid body. The rest of the parts of the driver are the same as a plain battle droid.

Ahsoka

Ahsoka has the same hair piece as Shaak Ti. It has different printing than Shaak Ti, with some dark blue stripe printing.

Her head is orange which is a little too bright for the color of her skin. She has blue eyes which are not in the older clone wars style. She has white markings on her face that are accurate to the show. She has two expressions on her face. One is slightly happy and the other one is slightly angry.

Her body has printing that looks like Mandalorian bodies with the same hexagon shape in the middle. Below that there is a silver belt print. The back of her body has the back of her belt and some gold markings that mach the hexagon on the front.

Her legs are in light gray with a dark blue hip piece. It has some gold and silver stripe printing on a dark blue background. Her hip piece continues the belt print on the body.

332nd trooper

The 332nd trooper's helmet has orange printing and stripes that look similar to Ahsoka. The helmet has gray printing on the cheeks of the helmet.

His head is the new nougat color for the clone trooper heads.

He has the same body print as the 501st troopers with the blue stripe that is on the front of the body. Below that there is some belt details. On the back of the body there is a lot of detail that I don't know the names of.

The legs are the same as the 501st trooper with blue knee pads and a white hip piece instead of what most of the black hip piece that most of the other clones had before this year. This trooper even has some feet printing which is rare.

Build

This set only comes with one build and it is the AAT. This set would be better if it had a side build of some kind.

The first thing you probably notice is when you look at the set is the cannon, so I will start there. The cannon is too big. It should come to about half of the length it is. The space that the AAT battle droid goes into is too big also. You can open the hatch up and place the battle droid inside but you have to put his head down to fit him in. Next to that there are two antennae. One of them is taller than the other. The cannon on the front can move up and down and the whole top can move 360 degrees around.

The middle of the front has another hatch that you can open up. Inside there are two control panel prints that are both different. You can put a battle droid in there and close it.

The sides of the AAT are the same but in reverse. The sides have a cannon that can move up and down. It is not accurate to the real thing because the taller gun should be on the top but the lego one has the longer one on the bottom.

On the front bottom there are two big quarter round circle pieces that are not the same as the ones from the Diner set. The ones from the Diner set are much smaller than the ones in this set and the ones in this set have studs on the top. Behind that there are the only stickers on this set and it is the Separatist logo.

The back of the AAT is not detailed at all. I don't own the older AAT but I know that the other one has better detail on the back.

My opinions

In my opinion this is a good set. It could use another 332nd trooper and it could use a side build. The big cannon should be shorter and the two guns on the side should be flipped. Other than that this is a good set and I would recommend it to anyone who likes the clone wars.

First of all, I think this is pretty good. The cannon is a bit long, but aside from that I think it's far superior to previous versions of this tank both in terms of shape and parts usage (these two things are not mutually exclusive in this case). Lots of curved pieces and the missile firing system is cleverly disguised, though I do find the exhaust hinges to be a bit loose.

The minifigures are definitely the main draw here. Ahsoka and the clone are excellent (the new clone head is absolutely amazing, and I didn't even hate the "angry clone" they used previously). This could probably have done with an additional clone or two for the price, especially when the 501st set costs $10 less and contains four figures and two droids, but since the vehicle alone was of interest to me I wasn't particularly put off by the cost. I do like the green battle droids as well.

Overall, it's pretty solid. I can see why just the one clone, and this set being its only appearance, is frustrating to some collectors but since this era is not my preferred choice for army building it's not a huge deal for me. Just a great figure that I'm glad to have in my collection, even if it's just the one for now.

The AAT is arguably the most iconic CIS vehicle from the clone wars TV show and absolutely deserved an updated set.

Flaws:

• The AAT design is flawed. The turret is undeniably too large. It simply is not correct. Some minor adjustments can be made to the actual barrel to make it more accurate, but the actual sitting area of the turret is still going to be strangely large.
  
• The markings are incorrect, there is blue in parts that should be grey and grey in parts that should be blue.
  
• The side cannons are upside down (easily fixed)

Positives:

• A CIS vehicle in modern lego Star Wars is always a win, they are criminally underrepresented.
  
• With minor adjustments the set does look good, it doesn't stand up to intense scrutiny, but it captures the idea of the AAT well for it's size, and it scales well with other vehicles one might see alongside it, either as friend or foe.
  
• The 332nd Trooper is great.
  
• The Ahsoka is good.

The Weird:

• The 332nd never fought droids, so why this strange pairing?
  
• The AAT doesn't need 2 pilots. Another better figure could have taken one of their places, ideally a second 332nd Trooper. He's weird on his own.
  
• Ahsoka's head piece is way too large, it should be barely hitting her shoulders but is actually at her waist height.
  
• No seriously, why is the AAT so wrong in ways it didn't need to be? Turn the side guns up the right way and do some minor adjustments, and you have a pretty good AAT. So why didn't lego notice that? It's just strange.
  

Two sets were released for the final season of the Clone Wars and this is the one I was most excited about as it features Ahsoka alongside one of her troopers. I typically never buy a set solely for the minifigures, but this was one I would have made an exception for had it not been for the price. This set has just one more brick than 75280, and has two less minifigures, yet it cost $10 more! Now it does have larger bricks, but certainly not $10 larger, and I really would have loved more of Ahsoka's troopers, one just isn't enough. Luckily it went on sale for Black Friday so I picked one up.

But that is not why I call the set a missed opportunity, the real issue with this set is it completely ignored the storyline and had so much more potential. Ahsoka reunited with members of the 501st to aid Bo-Katan during the Seige of Mandalore. A battle between Mandalore and Darth Maul. There were no separatists involved, and certainly no battle droids or AAT's. Imagine if alongside Ahsoka and her trooper, you also got Bo-Katan, Maul, and a Mandalorian loyal to Maul! Now that would have been an epic set. The build could have been location based as opposed to vehicle based, and we would have had a Lego Mandalore, or at least a part of it, not to mention the coolest collection of minifigures from the galaxy far, far away. Even better, it would have tied in perfectly with the Mandalorian series, although I admit Lego had no way of knowing what would have happened over the first 5 episodes of season 2 at the time.

So definitely an opportunity missed, but still a decent Lego set. So on with the review.

Minifigures

Ahsoka of course is the star of the show and she does not disappoint. She has longer lekku on this minifigure than on other Clone Wars variants, putting this set more in line with Rebels. I feel this was a strange choice as she is still very young at this time, but perhaps the shorter ones would have seemed too short. Her live action appearance features shorter lekku out of necessity, so it is kind of nice we get these longer ones as we may not see them again. The other issue is she features dual blue lightsabers, and while the dual sabers are accurate, they should have been white as this is when Anakin gave her the white lightsabers.

Her clone trooper has the same torso and legs as the other new 501st troopers, but has the helmet featuring Ahsoka's face. It is a very clean design, very unlike the crude paintings the clones put together on a moments notice. In a galaxy where these helmets are always flawless, I really wish that Lego would have emphasized the flaws in the paint jobs, it would have made a very unique trooper just that much more unique.

Beyond that you get two battle droids that actually have some colors to them, but at the end of the day are still just battle droids.

The Build

Overall it was an easy but enjoyable build. It's a smaller model so I didn't expect too much, but it was fun and relaxing. The build was rather predictable and of course was also symmetrical. Like 75280, it features some bricks reminiscent of Classic Space, namely the long antenna and the short adjustable antenna, combined with a blue and gray color scheme, except it uses a navy blue instead of a regular blue.

The Model

This is my second AAT as I have the original one from 2000, 7155. It's rather amazing how different these are and obviously Lego is capable of producing much sleeker designs these days. The color schemes are completely different and the original set is much larger in size. I think this set could have benefited from being slightly larger, but that isn't a huge deal. The real issue is the two sets look absurd side-by-side, but this new set does look better. It accomplished the gap in the front at the bottom with design instead of the original model's print. I also think that individual components of it are much better scaled. It also relies more on appropriate brick selection to give it detail, where the original relies mainly on printing. This set is definitely the better of the two, but the different color schemes obviously dictate which set should be used where.

Overall

While I have many problems with what this set could have been, as well as some inaccuracies, what this set is is a nice solid set with two very cool minifigures. I enjoyed it much more than 75280 as it is a single larger build as opposed to two smaller builds. Still, I probably wouldn't ever have bought it if it weren't for the minifigures and I absolutely do not recommend this set at full price. At a discount at least you won't feel like your being robbed. If it's on sale for significantly less, I paid $32, and you really want the minifigures then do it, otherwise save your money for something better.

Despite me liking the vehicle, colour variant and the set much more than it deserves since it plays all my notes right, I will do my best to remain as objective as possible while giving you a review of this new and confusing AAT.

PRICE

Yeah, as much as I try to defend each Lego set pricing and I find great many sets reasonably priced, this one just does not work. Demanding $40 for a 286 pieces set of this size and minifig arsenal is wee bit malapert. The finished build just does not feel right with this price tag. Some recent sets around this price provide much better value such as 75254 which is $10 more but has nearly double the piece count and same amount of minifgs while keeping every single one of them unique until this day. Furthermore, with exception to the Ahsoka's head mold there are no unusual and difficult molds in the set.

Either include one more 332nd Clone Trooper and few more Battle or Super Battle Droids, or lower the price. Another feasible solution would be to add one or two more regular Battle Droids piloting a Separatist STAPs. For some reason Lego just stopped using any price indivisible by 10 (except for Battle Packs) when $35 would be little more reasonable here while $30 I would consider optimal.

MINIFIGS

There is this little problem with the box of the set or rather the set itself. The box shows in the bottom right corner the minifig selection for this set while calling one Droid a Battle Droid and the other AAT Driver Battle Droid while both are the same AAT Drivers. Perhaps originally the set was supposed to contain both variants but since Lego has shown an incredible laziness in this wave they decided to use just one and forgot to put back the names on the box. Or they just made an honest mistake.

• Ahsoka. Clearly a highlight of the set and a reason why so many people buy it. The whole body shows a nice continuous print from the torso to the knees which lines up perfectly in the waist area. There is a decent print on the back and no arm printing. The head has two emotions one of which is a slight smirk and the other is probably supposed to look angrily but seems more worried instead. The detailing is great anyway. As for the head mold, it is made out of a rubber and is very well shaped. There are few drawbacks though. The colour at the tips of the tentacles gets blistered rather easily. Furthermore, this is not a correct size for the mold as this is an adult Ahsoka head mold which she is not yet by the end of the season 7 of the Clone Wars this minifig is based on. The mold gets attached to the head rather well and is difficult to remove which I find to be a great positive. You need to pull to the side in order to remove it without tearing the head from the torso. Our Order 66 survivor comes with two blue lightsabers of the same size which again is not completely accurate as if I am not mistaken she wields one regular and one shorter blade in the show. I do not mind this too much, but since the set is pretty expensive Lego could have gone the extra mile to mold a shorter blue blade.
• Ahsoka's 332nd Clone Trooper. If you are the owner of the 75280 set this trooper does not hold too many surprises for you except for the helmet, as the body is identical to the regular 501st Legion Clone Trooper. In case you do not, then the body is probably the most detailed Clone Trooper print yet with some signature blue marks on the torso and the legs. The back has a pretty detailed print too, this time without any blue. The orange is the most prominent characteristic of the helmet in which the upper colouring is mimicking the marks on Ahsoka's face. The cheek light grey shadow is still present and in the contrast of the orange does not look as natural as with the blue-white helmet of the regular 501st Trooper. The last noteworthy change here is the new head and more accurate skin tone. No more angry clone face. And there is also toe printing! Ahsoka's Clone Trooper is armed with a regular sized blaster.
• AAT Driver Battle Droid. A regular Battle Droid with sand green torso and more sand and regular green printing on the head. This time the blaster is in gun-metal grey. I must say I do not like the combination of the blue AAT and a green Droid, but I know this is actually accurate and my distaste is purely subjective. I am glad Lego chose to go with more accurate approach at least in this case.

Overall a great minifig selection but considering the price, there should be more. It looks pretty dumb to have a $30 set in the same wave with two more minifigs.

BUILD

The building process was a lot of fun and since there is some usage of somewhat larger pieces it made me think for a moment that the price might be justified. There are some interesting building techniques and basically nothing feels redundant or boring. I would consider this to be one of the more enjoyable building times.

There are no unique parts as far as I am aware but the triangular grey parts creating the walls of the frontal cockpit are unique in this colour.

The finished model is very sturdy and nothing falls apart even when harshly played with. The blue colour feels extremely calming and the AAT is very nice to look at. As for the detailing, there are two stickers used with the Separatist insignia. Control panels inside the vehicle are printed and the rest is done by traditional and modern building techniques.

The head of the tank can rotate 360 degrees and the canon attached to it can do a 90 degree lift upside. The hatch can be opened and one Battle Droid can be hidden beneath in a sitting position with the option of fully closing said hatch still on the table. In case the Droid rises their head or is in a standing position, the hatch can no longer be fully closed. Side canons will rotate as much as you want until they hit the body, but they can rotate backwards without problems. The engines at the back of the neck area are attached to the body only at the bottom and their upper part can be rotated slightly backwards as well, but will not do so on themselves.

The frontal cockpit can fit one Battle Droid comfortably in a sitting position. Furthermore, it contains few control panels for the detailing purposes. There are two leavers at each side to make the spring-loaded shooters hidden at the front of the vehicle shoot. A pretty well incorporated feature if you ask me.

As for the downsides of the set, the canon gets a lot of hate for its length which is objectively inaccurate but I do not mind too much. What looks stupid even to me is the head housing the canon. It is just too large for the body and the shape just does not feel right as it is just too wide for my liking. What struck me first as down right ugly was the face of the vehicle. The circular shape gets interrupted right in the middle and the whole front just looks so wide and not too deep. I got used to both of these factors but those are still characteristics I needed to get used to.

In case you do not mind the beauty factors this can be a pretty decent display set.

PLAYABILITY

I think this a perfect set playability-wise. The vehicle has two spring-loaded shooters, can be moved around with ease and has movable and openable parts. It includes all the minifigs needed to fully man the vehicle and has a good and strong opposition. It is safe to say that kids or anyone who buys the set with intend to play with it will get a kick out of it. In this category I see absolutely no flaw with this set.

CONCLUSION

At the end of they day I would recommend purchasing this set. Maybe I would wait for some discount but it is not like you are getting ripped off here, the price is just pretty steep. The value mostly lies in the minifigs and the playability. The build is very well-made except for the inaccuracies and the wideness of some parts which is again completely subjective. There is a reason why it is sold out everywhere but that might be just the Ahsoka factor and not the build itself.

A decent set with a bad price and some design problems.