Star Wars helped keep LEGO as a whole alive, so even if you don't like it you should have some respect for it as without it there would be pretty much zero chance of you getting "classic" themes again, or any theme at all. It was a pretty awful ship design to start with, but the LEGO rendition managed to make it even more boxy and ugly. Brickchap: You forget though that Lego is a business, and it has to make sets that sell to make money. There have been so, so many Star Wars sets that even the ones that fall short of the others are eminently avoidable.

In addition, the figures lack detail when compared with similar characters such as IG-88 from 10221 Super Star Destroyer which was released just a couple of years after this set.So especially for a set like Luke’s Landspeeder where the occupants’ torsos and heads stick out of the vehicle, a larger scale LOOKS more accurate to the on-screen version than the scale of a set like the UCS Millennium Falcon where the occupants are fully enclosed. So, when you get down to the length of a football field, you’re largely talking about unmanned aircraft, or at max maybe one small helicopter. Based on height, cars scaled to a minifig end up looking like the polybag Elva that can’t even fit a whole minifig. Cloud City gets a bit trickier, since it’s depicting a small portion of the whole, but presented in a way that also represents the whole (same for the two Death Star playsets). In 1849, the SMS Vulcano became the first “balloon carrier”, when it was used to launch bombs carried by hot air balloons against Venice.

A better idea would have been to vote on the worst set of each year - then if the infiltrator is still at the bottom that’s fine.Looked thru all the Star Wars sets in the database and have to say 7159 Star Wars Bucket is pretty uninspired / poorly executed even for an early set. Having said all that, I think everyone's impression of this set is affected by the exceptional quality of 7662 Trade Federation MTT and it might be received slightly more favourably were it not for the inevitable comparisons with its predecessor.