LEGO Star Wars Hoth Wampa Set (8089)
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Product Description
Pieces: 297
Escape from the wampa ice creature with Luke Skywalker!
While on scouting duty on Hoth, Luke Skywalker is savagely attacked and captured by a ferocious wampa ice creature. Can he use the Force to recover his lightsaber before the wampa gets him? Or will pilot Zev Zenesca save him using the snowspeeder?
- Includes 3 minifigures: wampa ice creature, Luke Skywalker and Zev Zenesca
- Features wampa cave and snowspeeder
- Wampa cave features lightsaber catapult function and skeleton
- Snowspeeder includes opening cockpit and realistic tow cable with string and hook
- Combine with other Hoth sets from LEGO Star Wars including Echo Base 7749, Rebel Trooper Battle Pack 8083, and Snowtrooper Battle Pack 8084
- Wampa cave measures 7? (18cm) long and 4? (10cm) wide
- Snowspeeder measures 7? (18cm) long
Details
- Set includes 1 new wampa ice creature figure, 1 Luke Skywalker minifigure in Hoth winter gear and 1 Zev Senesca minifigure in snowspeeder uniform
- Wampa cave features lightsaber catapult function and skeleton
- Snowspeeder features opening cockpit and tow cable with string and hook
- Wampa cave measures 7? (18 cm) long and 4" (10 cm) wide and snow speeder measures 7" (18 cm) long
- 297 LEGO pieces
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Rating
I recently rediscovered Legos and I have so much fun building with them. I also love Star Wars, so this is double fun for me. It’s so neat how they figure out how to make these pieces the right size and shape so that they all fit together into a very convincing structure! This particular set was really neat because it comes with a scene AND a starship (an A-wing, to be precise). I love it when the Lego sets include multiple structures to build. I haven’t yet taken it apart to rebuild; I’m just having fun displaying it and moving the little Star Wars Lego figures around.
Rating
The Hoth Wampa Cave is a wondeful playset and a great addition to Echo Base (7749), Rebel Trooper Battle Pack (8083) and Snowtrooper Battle Pack (8084). Your kid (7 yrs. on up) will have loads of fun and little trouble building the Wampa Cave with Luke dangling above in the rafters awaiting his fate from the Wampa himself…right after he finishes his turkey leg of course…while Zev swooshes around in his nicely designed Snowspeeder desparately looking for Luke.
PRO’s…
- Well designed Snowspeeder. It’s quite similar to previous Snowspeeder models but if you’ve never gotten one it’s a must get set. Nice shape and fairly sturdy. Top view looks great (note: I believe the rear gun is different than previous sets).
- Cockpit Opens closes in two parts. Front, longer end opens for pilot, then back section (attached to front canopy) tilts open for rear gunner/navigator.
- Rear toe cable/grappling hook on a wench.
- 2 front cannons and one rear laser/grappling gun.
- Cockpit interior has a sticker panel showing a silohette of an AT-AT.
- Left and right rear wing flaps open to reveal electronic/interior engine details (stickered).
- Wampa Cave is nicely designed with front large cave opening(simply designed) to fit the Wampa itself. Also to the left of the front we have a small, dark gray rock formation (small BURP)
- Interior of cave has stalactites (where you’d attach Luke to, or any unlucky tresspasser).
- Taun Taun skeletal remains.
- A launcher for Luke’s lightsaber mimicing his telekinetic force powers from the movie. Neat feature where you put in the lightsaber (blade first) into a technique 2×1 brick and tilt up, then snap down (quickly but not too hard) and it’ll shoot out the saber towards Luke up above (make sure saber is put in ALL the way to the hilt and tilt the mechanism up before snapping down to work properly. Also hold the Cave firmly when doing this).
MINI-FIGs…
- The Wampa is the star fig. for this set. Nicely designed all around with movable horns (which look like the Taun Taun tusks), movable arms and nice, sharp graphic detail for the fur. Left hand can hold a mini-fig and right hand can hold the turkey leg and the Skeleton figure. Hoth Luke Skywalker is a new mini-fig. New head and new Hoth torso print (front/back) but goggles and hat are the same as the Rebel Troopers from set 8083. Zev Senesca is the same X-Wing pilot w/helmet from set 8083. The Skeleton is the familiar fantasy era skeleton (happy faced).
CON’s…
- Sparse interior cockpit details for Snowspeeder.
- Cockpit canopy can come off from time to time when opening/closing.
- Stickered details. Wish it was printed tiles.
- Wampa Cave details a bit too simple but effective though.
- Wampa figure’s legs not poseable. Also wished head would tilt/turn or better his hips.
- Snowspeeder needed to be a bit bigger model. Nicely designed but a bit small.
- Rear gun of Snowspeeder is only a horn piece. Needed a better design.
- Taun Taun should’ve been added to this set while the Snowspeeder should’ve been with the Echo Base set.
- No hand held blaster weapons.
Overall a really fun playset. I highly recommend this for your kid even though it’s about $5-$10 dollars too much, it has 2 unique figures, a cool lightsaber play function and a nice Snowspeeder along with the Cave make it high on playability.
Rating
The build is the same as the last set (Echo Base), sturdy and fun. My 7-year-old put it together pretty easily, with a little help. The cave is OK, but a bit of a pain to snap together with the roof. Luke in snow gear, Zev, a skeleton and the Wampa round out a pretty fun little set.
Hopefully this starts a trend of Lego releasing decent sets in enough numbers that collectors can’t gouge families anymore (*cough* CLOUD CITY *cough*).
Boba Fett’s Slave 1 is next on the list (A cool new Boba minfig with cape, a new Han in Carbonite and Bossk!).
Have fun!