LEGO Star Wars Resistance Major Vonreg’s TIE Fighter 75240 Building Kit (496 Pieces)

Fun set! The colors and pattern design make this one really stick out.

good but colors were strong

Great gift for my 23 year old LEGO lover! Proudly put on display.

Soo this is a pretty addition to my Resistance v. First Order collection. I love the TIE Interceptor since the original Battlefront II on PSP. This is an ever better version than the original! Its like a mix between Vaders TIE Advanced with the wide body, wide arm-to-wing connection, and back half of the wings with the TIE Interceptors front half of the wings. That glam red is sooo much more attractive than the typical primary black and secondary grey. I also like how this, like the other recent TIEs, integrate the projectiles; it is discrete, actually part of the authentic look, and doesnt set off easily, unlike the X-Wings super-sensitive projectiles. The built of this TIE is solid, more so than the original First Order Tie thanks to that Technic internal structure. Unfortunately, that build also makes the wings a bit wobbly, but it is worth the exchange. I can swish this without worry. The minifigs included are of great value. Every minifigures comes with a non-projectile blaster (except the astromech), and each one is unique. I prefer that over the First Order Tie that, while comes with good army-building mini figures, has those officers and engineers which arent unique or intimidating. Im biased, though. Id want an army of Special Forces and Praetorian Guards for my Resistance army to fight a valiant but loosing battle against. Now the cons. This should have came with a dock to set the TIE in. The TIE tends to fall forward in non-flat surfaces, like carpet. In general, this TIE doesnt set as well as the X-Wings do. It would only take a handful of Technic pieces to hold the wings up. Then there is the original price. Wow, so not worth it. It is the most appealing set I have seen in a while, but in spite of that I would never purchase this at full price. I got it on the cheap, with a grand total of $41. I wouldnt spend more than $45 on it. The piece/$ ratio is terrible, as has been the trend over the years. I cant in good conscience suggest getting this at full price, even though it is my favorite Star Wars set.

This was my first time building a lego set in years! And what a blast it was! Looks amazing!!

One huge recommendation is to completely follow the instruction. The reason being there are a few mechanisms that I am definitely not used to. There is a switch that you can move in the back to fire the laser out. It is safe enough that moving the lego set left and right it will not tiger it. It does shoot with some good force so keep away from eyes. Building this was a bit of a challenge but not too much where you would rage quit or get frustrated. The pieces are held together pretty well and it has enough support to not fall apart from the sheer weight. There are 4 nice lego figures that come with the set. I do not know two of them but there is the pilot (which does not actually have a face under the helmet), leia, a droid that is wearing what i can tell to be a rebel helmet and another rebel I have never heard of. They all come with the same blaster for the characters to hold (minus the droid) there is a random bottom piece for the droid that does not really do anything for the droid. It doesnt give it extra ability to pose. This tie fighter definitely is very unique in the red color. I grew up with star wars and most of the time i just saw it as gray. This one is pretty unique and building it was very fun. It is quite large so be aware it may take up a good amount of space. I just put this on my desk. Overall this is a great addition to the star wars collection or it is a great toy to play with.

Durable and well manufactured. Definitely not a cheap piece of equipment. Works as intended.

this is the most perfect lego I have gotten on order so far but wish the price would come down and be some where around the price of lego sets when I was a younger person

Fun to make

Are an amazing thing when 1. you enjoy escaping from the real world and just build things 2 its Star Wars! 3 may have flown this exact same thing in Star Wars Galaxies. Yup. just enjoy the assembly.