[75134] Review: Galactic Empire Battle Pack

[duboismerci]

Hello fellow Star Wars fans.

I had a long week and I needed to change my mind. FedEx came just in time with my free shipping double VIP order. Nothing better than a Lego box to clear your mind. Battle pack aren't long to build so I thought I would review the set to make the fun last longer!

So without further introduction, my fifth review: Galactic Empire Battle Pack!

Name: Galactic Empire Battle Pack

Theme: Star Wars / Battlefront

Year: 2016

Pieces: 109

Minifigures: 4

Price: USA 12.99$, ENG 11.99£, CAN 15.99$, EUR 16.99€

Ressources: Brickset

Lego store description

Launch an Imperial attack from the battle station!

The rebels have been spotted in the distance. Jump onto the control center to pinpoint their location, load the dual shooter, arm the blasters and fire! With your help, the Imperial Troopers will send those rebels running for cover!

-Includes 4 minifigures: 2 Imperial Stormtroopers, an Imperial Shock Trooper and an Imperial Technician

-Features a control console, dual stud blaster station and a detachable spring-loaded shooter.

-Detach the spring-loaded shooter to expand the battle play.

-Includes 4 stud blasters and extra ammo.

-Accessory elements include 2 jetpacks and 3 Imperial Trooper helmets.

-Recreate endless LEGO® Star Wars battle adventures.

-Makes a great addition to any LEGO® Star Wars collection.

-Measures over 1” (4cm) high, 3” (10cm) wide and 2” (7cm) deep.

The box has the 2016 episode VII art: Kylo Ren.

On the back we see the play features like the detachable gun that can be used as a turret. Also the accesories that are included.

Inside the box there is 2 numbered bags and the instruction booklet which as the same image as the box. Like always.

The back with the win minifigure.

Spare parts. Mainly studs (its a BP) and a missile.

The completed model: It's supposed to be a gun platform. It is not based on anything seen in any movie/videogame.

Front view

Side view

Back view

The canon can be detached and serve as a machine gun emplacement. The control section looks better by itself. You could attach 1 gun on each side if you have more than 1 set.

You can sit a minifigure on the lowest seat but not on the second one. I don't know why they would put the red piece there because it forces your the second minifigure to be standing.

Now to the minifigures or the reason you buy Battle Packs

We get 4 like always. Two jetpack trooper, one technician and one shocktrooper. The jetpack trooper are the regular stormtrooper but with added battle damge. The shocktrooper are never seen before. They are based on the new Battlefront game from what I heard. They were also in the Force Unleashed video game and had a speacial shield ability. They were pretty cool. The technicians is the same print as the Imperial Star Destroyer but with a slightly different face and newly colored hat in black.

Back view

I added some comparison pictures

From left to right

The jumptrooper, the regular stormtrooper, the rebel one and the 1999 version.

A shocktrooper, a jumptrooper, a rebels stormtrooper and a regular stormtrooper.

back printing

The imperial technician with the one from the ISD and the ISD microfighter.

back printing

Rating

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These three points are not included in final score.

Price: 6/10 – We know the drill by now. Around 10-15$ (depending on country) for 4 minifigures, a small build and around 100 pieces. Most are studs or really small. But these are all about the minifigures. We get 3 variants all new and with great printing but a small and not iconic at all vehicule. Price is OK for what you get.

Parts: 6/10 – No really interesting parts except the jetpacks which are exclusive to that set in that colour. At least there are very few technic pieces so you get mostly bricks.

Build 4/10 – Battle pack are not about build but this one was really boring. The vehicule is very small and uninteresting. Plus not knowing what it is makes it a forgetable build. It will take between 5-10 minutes to build.

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Design 3,5/10 – This vehicule is not inspired by any source material. This is one reason I gave it such a low score. Not because I only want canon material but because the designer had free game to build whatever they wanted with a Star Wars feel and they came up with this little kind of command platform/artilerry gun which is not really detailed and feels incomplete. It gets some points because of the play features like the detachable gun and the missile function but that only offer so much. A speeder or any other kind of vehicule that could have fought with the speeder bike of the Rebel Alliance BP would have been better. Also this doesn't give any display value.

Minifigures: 8/10 – We get 4 minifigures and 3 variations. They all have the same angry clone face except the technician who has a different face print with a microphone.

The jumptrooper are inspired by the battlefront video game (like this whole BP). They have the normal stormtrooper printing (not Rebels) but with added damage print. They look good but it might feel a little too much specialy the big crack on the helmet. Some will love them so will hate them. The damaged trooper can represent experience troopers or if you will 'crack' troopers. (Pun intended) All the added print limits the army bulding potential of this set unless you want to amass a Lightning division who all have a lightning bolt crack on their helmet.

The shocktrooper is a nice variant. You can use the as the Emperors guards or some specialist units. They have just enough red to look different but not to much to look like some clone trooper from a clone legion. My point is they still look like stormtrooper. They are canon because of battlefront but it's easy to imagine that the Empire had more than one variant of trooper.

The technician is the same as the ISD one. His new hat is probably what many will go after. Still, it might be more accurate but for kids who don't spot those kinds of details in the movie, it may look a little weird for them to have an all grey trooper with a black hat. (Fashion alert LOL)

Overall, the selection of trooper variations is great. You get 2 assault troopers (jetpacks), one specialist trooper (shocktrooper) and a support soldier (technician).

Playability: 8/10 – This set is one faction only. You need some alliance troopers (I'am talking about you Alliance Battle Pack) for the complete playability experience. Still, by itself the sets still brings some fun features. The stud shooters are always fun to shoot and so is the springshooter. The trooper with jetpacks are also fun to play with because every kid dreames at least once to own a jetpack. Also the turrets rotates and you can remove the cnnon and use it as a turret leaving you with a small command center and a gun platform.

OVERALL 6,5/10 – This is an average BP because of a lackluster vehicule. But the minifigure are amazing. It all depends if you like the damaged stormtrooper and if you don't mind adding a diffrent kind of stormtrooper to your army. The things is, a low quality build and some unique (too unique?) minifigures diminushes the army building potential of this pack. But since we mostly get them for figures, I see this pack going in many peoples collection.

Please comment and share your thoughts about this set and the review in the comments.

Thanks for reading!

[Darth Wayne]

This particular Shocktrooper is based on the game, but then i think we HAVE seen Shocktroopers before in sets, right?

[Lobot]

Great review, duboismerci

Not a set for me, but it will make a good army builder for anyone that wants to add to their Imperial forces. I agree with you about the build though, the emplacement is very lacklustre even for a Battle pack! As requested, I've added the poll for you

[Junior Shark]

Thanks for the review! It's a little late though- I've already bought four of the things!

[duboismerci]

This particular Shocktrooper is based on the game, but then i think we HAVE seen Shocktroopers before in sets, right?

Yes but they were phase 2 clones. The first phase 2 clones looked a lot like the stormtrooper. I quickly looked it up and I haven't found any stormtrooper that had any kind of red markings.

Great review, duboismerci

Not a set for me, but it will make a good army builder for anyone that wants to add to their Imperial forces. I agree with you about the build though, the emplacement is very lacklustre even for a Battle pack! As requested, I've added the poll for you

Thank you for your words and taking time to add the poll.

Thanks for the review! It's a little late though- I've already bought four of the things!

I planned on buying more than 1 but I couldn't find any reviews so I only got one....for now

[BrickJagger]

I actually like the emplacement here, it's always nice when Lego makes their own, non-canon stuff for the battle packs.

[Sion]

It would have been nice if there was one undamaged stormtrooper as opposed to two battle damaged ones. Overall though a good BP but I prefer the rebel BP.

[Forresto]

I got six already I figure Rogue One will give us plenty of sets to get classic stormtroopers so i'm okay with the battle damage, as long as the fall sets don't feature yet another redesign.

I expected to hate the shock trooper but I actually love them as a commando unit or elite guard just below the Emperor's bodyguard.

[Junior Shark]

I expected to hate the shock trooper but I actually love them as a commando unit or elite guard just below the Emperor's bodyguard.

Have you see this?: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29748559@N02/24602315402/in/dateposted/

[Im a brickmaster.]

Nice review, I just got the Rebel pack today actually! I'll at least get two of the Empire packs and MAYBE one more Allience pack, the build for the this, as you pointed out, is basically useless. We have gotten a lot of little emplacements over the years though, so one ain't going to hurt in my opioin

[duboismerci]

I actually like the emplacement here, it's always nice when Lego makes their own, non-canon stuff for the battle packs.

I also like when they make made up vehicule like last year shadow trooper and senate commando builds. But this one is uninspired and boring IMHO.

It would have been nice if there was one undamaged stormtrooper as opposed to two battle damaged ones. Overall though a good BP but I prefer the rebel BP.

I ewould have liked a non damaged trooper. But I think 4 variant in a BP is too much. Three is good, two is perfect for me.

I got six already I figure Rogue One will give us plenty of sets to get classic stormtroopers so i'm okay with the battle damage, as long as the fall sets don't feature yet another redesign.

I expected to hate the shock trooper but I actually love them as a commando unit or elite guard just below the Emperor's bodyguard.

They do fit nicely with the emperor bodyguard.

Have you see this?: https://www.flickr.c.../in/dateposted/

That is really cool. Did you make this?

Nice review, I just got the Rebel pack today actually! I'll at least get two of the Empire packs and MAYBE one more Allience pack, the build for the this, as you pointed out, is basically useless. We have gotten a lot of little emplacements over the years though, so one ain't going to hurt in my opioin

I like the speeder but dislike the trooper in the alliance BP. It's the other way around for the empire BP. Oh well, I guess one can never be pleased.

[Junior Shark]

Did you make this?

I wish! That was made by Renegade Clone, who posts his awesome work here on Eurobricks as well:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=119078#entry2423679

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=60496

[jhaelego]

This is slightly off topic, but how did you add a poll?

[Junior Shark]

This is slightly off topic, but how did you add a poll?

Ask over in the Forum help thread:http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=96103&st=0

[CollectIt]

Cool, thanks for sharing

[duboismerci]

This is slightly off topic, but how did you add a poll?

You need 500 post or PM a Moderator and ask him nicely to add one.

Cool, thanks for sharing

Welcome. Glad you enjoyed it!

[SuperSith]

Cool review! I really like the shocktrooper, but that's because I'm a big fan of red.

[Lord-Vorahk]

I got this set recently, it's pretty good, but I do think the jetpacks are a bit naff. Not sure why they didn't use the jet trooper/Mando ones.

[Junior Shark]

I got this set recently, it's pretty good, but I do think the jetpacks are a bit naff. Not sure why they didn't use the jet trooper/Mando ones.

Because they're based on the Battlefront jetpacks, which are pretty different from the classic Fett-style ones:

[Sucram]

I'm much more fond of the rebel pack than this one, the vehicle is, while not great, far better than the thing in this set, and the troopers are way more generic in the rebel one than in this one, and they have better detailing.