Ezra's Speeder Bike (Lego 75090)

1,004 part selections over 6 days and I'm now ready to build 6 more sets.  The 10179 Falcon will be built towards the end of the week but I'm going to do a few smaller sets first.  First out of the blocks is Ezra's speeder bike (75090) which I bought some years ago mainly to get hold of an Ezra minifig.  

This set is from the expanded universe and therefore is one I'm less familiar with the background.  My main experience is Angry Birds Star Wars II which has a memorable Sabine Wren "bird".  A bit of background reading tells me that Ezra's surname is Bridger and he was an early figure in the rebellion, working alongside Captain Rex in the Clone Wars and a grapple with Grand Admiral Thrawn (now I did read the original Thrawn books back in the 1990s).

Back to the Lego set... It took me a bit of effort to work out which of the two versions I had bought!  Rebrickable has two versions which differ in the arms of the speeder bikes.  I'd logged myself as owning the "redesigned" version but definitely had the four extending arms from the original version which is what I've therefore built.  It wasn't helped by the fact that I picked up most of the parts for a second pair of bikes in a job lot at some stage, which I think is the redesigned version!

So, confusion over, I duly dashed off the build while dinner was cooking.  It's nice to do a quick build sometimes and this one was refreshingly simple.  The bikes are well-designed and have plenty of detail.  Several play features which is nice on something of this size.  My only complaint is that the basic design of the two bikes is identical, with only colour switches to differentiate them.  It would have been nice to have a few more differences. 


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