The Republic Striker-class Starfighter is one of the few current sets based on the Old Republic online video game. As such, it might be an obscure addition to the Star Wars sets for most people but it still has good appeal.

Pros

• Minifigures - I bought this set almost exclusively for the minifigures Jedi Grand Master Satele Shan, Republic trooper Jace Malcom, and the astromech droid T7-01. These are unique to the Striker and are very accurate when compared to the characters in the video game. The only reservation I had was that Malcom comes with black hair instead of a helmet.
• Great detail - The overall color scheme wasn't appealing to me at first, but the detailing makes the Striker look great. The red, white, and orange pieces on top of the base color create interesting patterns and add more to the building experience. The layout and controls in the cockpit are unique (at least from the sets I've built) and well done.
• Good play value - The Striker is more versatile than it initially appears. The wings and blaster cannons fold and unfold, minifigures fit easily inside of the cockpit, and there is a place for lightsaber storage on the hull behind the cockpit. The flick-missiles under each wing are also easy to use.

Cons

• A few shaky pieces - While the Striker is a sturdy ship overall, there are a few pieces that I think are too flimsy. The blaster cannons look great but sometimes lose pieces when moved too hastily, or bumped against a sturdier object. The two "fins" on the nose of the ship add interesting detail but can pop off pretty easily (they also pop back on easily). I also have concerns about the small pieces that lock the wings into position. So far they're very sturdy and I haven't had any issues with the wings popping out of place. Fortunately, if the durability decreases, the pieces are very common and easy to replace.
• Landing gear - Four pieces on the bottom of the ship serve as the "landing gear." Personally I think they're too short - the Striker sits flush to the ground - but a person doesn't need to worry about the pieces coming off.
• Price - I believe the Striker is probably overpriced by five to ten dollars. However, it is a very unique set and Star Wars Legos always run at a higher price than other themes.

Overall, I think the Striker-class Starfighter is a great Lego set. I bought it primarily for the minifigures and was greatly surprised by the ship itself. It's appealing enough to put on display and durable enough to play with. This would be a great addition to Star Wars and space-themed Lego fans.

David1971's review is spot on. I just picked this up at ASDA for £22 which is a saving of £17.99 which is no bad thing. I love the set it is small but perfect in every way. The minifigures are all new to this set and are great. Lego if you are listening can we please have stands for these models as we like to display them..

Matt.

Well I seem to be the first to post a regular Brickset review of this set! Although Huw has already posted an excellent photo review within the News category. He has described it all well, so I will just add a few personal reflections.

So ... it's a lovely set. Strange, perhaps, to get a Star Wars set without any of the regular recognisable Star Wars characters, but this is from Star Wars: The Old Republic, which (I gather from Wikipedia) is a massively multiplayer online game which has only really been going during 2012, so this is actually a quite timely bit of merchandise (from the, er, 35 year-old franchise).

I also learn that Star Wars: The Old Republic is set "more than 3,500 years before the events in the Star Wars films", which seems, ahem, surprising, because the technology looks like it comes from, say, 50 years before the events in the Star Wars films. (I've watched the trailers). It's bizarre that most of the Old Republic ships and technologies look pretty much like the ones in the films, if 3,500 years are meant to have passed. But I digress.

The *nice* thing about this ship -- yes, I'm back on the Lego set now, sorry -- is that it looks to me like a kinda 1930s style of spaceship, which is lovely. When it was first announced, I remember some people online saying it looked clunky and ugly, but I don't think that's true, it's very stylish, and in particular makes very good use of different coloured small plates and pieces to give it interesting detail -- rather than using stickers, of which there are none (hurray!). I love the pink engines at the back, and the moveable wings lock into position with a reassuring click.

The minifigs are very nice, especially the female pilot (Satele Shan, it says here) who looks suitably fiesty, and the 1930s R2 unit (as I would call it) is cute and amusing.

You can see how this style of spaceship predates the X-Wing, so that's clever (although as I say, it looks like it came a few decades earlier rather than a few millennia earlier, but never mind).

Overall, this is a really nice ship, and a great set, with a very pleasing swooshy design, good minifigs, and it really is great that it looks perfect without any stickers.

This is a cool set if you played the old republicon the cmputer, but the price is insane! $45 for only 376 pieces! The minifigures are very cool but not $45 cool. I would only recommend buying this set if you are a big fan of the old republic and have extra money lying around.

For me this set was an impulse purchase and I almost didn't even get it. A few months ago I had gotten the Sith Fury Interceptor because I thought it looked awesome and I wanted to know how the slanted wings were built. Then I realized, not being a ToR player, that this Striker ship was it's companion. My initial thoughts prior to purchasing it was "well it just looks like a red Z-95, I guess this is one way ToR is being tied, visually, to the technology present in the OT era".

Box/Instructions

Parts

Perhaps my favorite part of the build. There are many great parts, plates mostly, to add to your collection. If you're building a moc with red and dark red this is a great set to pick up.

Also there's no stickers to worry about. The two long dark red slope pieces have white printing on them. Typically I think printing on larger bricks reduce their usefulness for mocs. However, the printing on these two is generic enough that it would work for most star ship moc builds anyways.

Minifigures

The build

No complicated technic techniques, nor any significant snot sections make this a rather simple and easy build. The wings can be built simultaneously rather than one after the other if you want a very slight challenge. The cockpit is spacious and the flight stick design is quite clever. One thing I really like about this ship is how easy it is to customize a bit. You can change up the white tiles for different wing-stripe patterns. The bottom of the Striker ship is relatively flat unfortunately. But it's simple enough to add some 6-wide inverted slope pieces to add some shape to the bottom of the main hull.

Much like the current Tie-Fighter set, it comes with a droid. But the ship does not utilize a droid. Though, from reading about this ship online it apparently can be modified to take a droid. It's possible you could re-build the back section and make a droid socket for the little guy. I have no idea how faithful that would be to the design of the ship in the video game.

The completed model

Summary

If you like smaller Star Wars star ships you've got to pick this one up! It looks very distinctive, which is surprising considering how simple the design is. It is not a remake of an already popular ship. Perhaps it is some sort of predecessor to the Z-95 Headhunter. This is likely the only time they'll make this specific star ship(as well as the Sith Interceptor) so if you are on the fence then pick it up!