Lego 9492 TIE Fighter

Prologue

This is truly an iconic starfighter together with the X-Wing Starfighter. Below is a cover art of the set. Like most Lego Star Wars sets, it features minifigures galore that are stuffed in sometimes with no reason at all. There is only a cockpit for the TIE Fighter but we get 4 minifigures as well like the X-Wing. 

The Complete Build

The build was not tedious and repetitive, the whole fighter consists both sets of the wings and the centre piece with the cockpit. Here is the full frontal view of the set.

Here it is with the cockpit raised where a cramp cockpit houses the TIE pilot. The fighter console is sadly not realistic at all and just consists of a red translucent flat grille tile. The top printed piece is a nice addition to an other wise quite featureless TIE Fighter.

The rear looks slightly funny, like a bee's bum but I think we can let that one get away. Maybe they could have used a dome piece instead.

Here is a side shot of the TIE Fighter. The wing panels look quite awesome.

 



Finally here is a scan of one of the last few pages of the instruction manual showing notable features of this set. Which is not too much I am afraid. It is the TIE Fighter after all. Just 2 wing panels jammed into the cockpit sides flown with an expendable TIE pilot.

Final Thoughts

This set was bought when Bricksworld had their annual 20% discount on sets together with the Lego 9493 X-Wing Starfighter. It is not as exciting a set as the Lego 9493 X-Wing Starfighter. So the question then comes, is it worth buying? I have looked around the internet on the reviews for the other revisions and I must say this is really a significant improvement over them. The only weakness of this set is that at a certain angle there is a gap between grey and the black edge of the wing panel. I think if budget allows, get this to complement the 9493 X-Wing. The colour scheme in this set are more representative of the TIE Fighter as well, instead of the black and blue of the previous version. I leave this review with a 3/4 view picture of the whole set.