Lego 9493 X-Wing

Prologue

This is truly an iconic starfighter together with the TIE fighter. 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. I mean come on, this one has 4! There is only a cockpit and a droid bay on this starfighter. Of course some would not complain since the minifigures are usually very detailed and well done though somehow one cannot shake the feeling that they are throwing them in to simply jack up the price of a set.

The Complete Build

The build was not tedious and repetitive although both sets of the wings need to be build in mirror image of themselves. Here is a 3/4 view of it in the attack mode. Had to perch it on a box to show it in this mode.

Here is a frontal view of the set. The overall design is quite good considering that Lego bricks are generally quite angular whereas the X-Wing Starfighter has some subtle angle here and there. I do love how the engines and lasers look. The front of the starfighter is not too badly recreated in this set as well.

Here is a close up of the inner wing and cockpit. The mechanism to open apart the wings is not too noticeable except it is rather colourful.

The mechanism used to close the wings are by means of 2 sets of rubber bands. That kind of spoils the overall profile of the X-Wing but I guess for such a small set, there is no better way to do it effectively. The X-piece is turned in order to open up the wings.

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.

Final Thoughts

This set was bought when Bricksworld had their annual 20% discount on sets together with the Lego 9492 TIE Fighter. It is a fun set to own and certainly a person would want to hold it in attack mode and swoosh it around. So the question then comes, is it worth buying? I have looked around the internet on the reviews for the 2 other revisions and I must say this is really a significant improvement over them. Even if you own the previous 2 versions, I think if budget allows, it is justifiable get this set together with the TIE Fighters to do aerial combat with each other. The colour scheme in this set are more representative of the X-Wings, it is the core of the Star Wars franchise and most of all, it looks quite good on its own as a display set as well. I leave this review with more pictures of the whole set in swoosh poses no less.