It's time to look at another one of the Rogue One Star Wars sets. I realize this one has been out since 7 February 2017, but I waited to pick it up from Amazon.com for 20% off. Why pay full price right?
So it's time to look at the Battle of Takodana... I mean the Battle of Scarif (#75171). Given the new Disney movie trend, it will be interesting to see if the Last Jedi movie has another battle scene set when it comes out too. To me, it seems like these sets are very similar. They both include doorways with moving parts, some hidden things, a few plants, and a few minifigures. Okay, rant over. Let's get into the review.
#75171 includes 419 pieces and 4 minifigures. Retail price in the US is $49.99 or $0.119 per piece which is somewhat standard for the Star Wars theme. I picked it up on Amazon.com for 20% off ($39.99 or $0.095 per piece). It will be interesting to see what this set does in terms of price after a while as the Battle of Takodana set made it to around 40% off on Amazon.com and at Walmart during it's span on the retail shelves.
Here is the box. Standard presentation on the front and back.
Contents are three numbered parts bags, an instruction booklet (badly folded), and a folded sticker sheet. Included with the parts is a brick separator in bag #1.
Bag 1 contains Cassian Andor and starts the main door at the landing pad on Scarif. For this review, I decided not to use the stickers in the event I choose to use the pieces for something else later on. As for the build itself, there are a number of play features included. The door can be moved to be opened or closed and that is the main part of this bag and can be seen in the pictures below. The build techniques are pretty simple so far and the pieces are pretty standard.
Bag 2 includes Jyn with hair and then her helmet so she can go into the Imperial facilities disguised as a member of the Imperial Ground Crew. Some play features on this one include two 2x2 stud boxes where you can press down some Technic pieces and it pops out the 4x6 light grey plate nearby (as seen on the box). Also, it has a slide out part where 2 additional blasters are stored as you can see in the second picture.
The third and final bag finishes up the build. It also includes 2 identical Scarif Storm Troopers. Before I move on, I think the marketing scheme Disney is using is to create new facilities for each movie so there can be a new set of Storm Troopers for them to market. Really? Why can't there just be one Storm Trooper everywhere. Why do they need a tan outfit for Scarif and then the greenish outfit for Endor, and it's okay to go to Tatooine in what I would refer to the standard Storm Trooper garb? So if you collect Storm Troopers, the Scarif version is only in this set so far so go out and buy it today!
As for the final build, besides expanding on the battle area, it also includes some foliage another orange storage container (as found in #75152 Imperial Assault Hovertank) with some Imperial binoculars (again, I'm sure there is a technical name that I am not aware of), and the large palm like tree and antenna topple over. Oh boy! Or maybe "Oh boy?"
Okay, bottom line, the set seems too much like #75139 (in my opinion). While there are some decent parts that you can use elsewhere, I'm not sure it is worth the price of the set to get these parts. The real reason to get this set are the minifigures (like most Star Wars sets). All 4 of these minifigs can only be found in this set. My advice is to grab it for 20% off on Amazon.com now or to wait until closer to Christmas time where Amazon may decide to increase the savings.
That was my unimpressed review, what are your thoughts. Let me know in the comments or you can email me.
