AT-TE (sand) blues
I'm going to start with an admission and a grumble... because I was away at the weekend playing Lego with my 7-yr old niece for the first time since August last year, I didn't log on to the Lego website until lunchtime on Saturday. By which time, the Tatooine homestead freebie was already out of stock! WTF...
OK, so I was slow off the mark but surely Lego should make sure they have enough to last more than 10% of the way through their promotion period. 10%!!! Anyway, I've got my R2 order in (already despatched) and have reluctantly stumped up for the homestead on Ebay.
Back home now and today's build was the last of the AT-TEs - the 2003 version (4482). This was another Ebay purchase but came in pretty good condition and was nearly correct/complete. It's also full of some pretty interesting bricks - no less than 11 of them go for more than £5 each on Bricklink and the estimated "new" cost of a rebuild is a whopping £742. A surprising amount of sand blue too. Makes my purchase a bargain.
The build took me about an hour - not too complicated but I had sorted the pieces well. Nothing too unusual about it. Here's the finished article:
So, how does it compare to the other versions? Obviously, you have to bear in mind that this is from 2003 and on that basis, it's a great set for its time. It actually stands up really well to the 2008 version (7675) that I built a few weeks back.
They are pretty much exactly the same length but th newer sets are slightly taller. The other big improvement on the more recent sets is to include a dish to cap off each foot - they do look a bit odd on this set. However, in all other respects, it's pretty hard to call the original all that inferior. I couldn't get the 2013 version down from the shelf easily for a comparison but I equally don't think it's a serious step up. I'm therefore going to call it for the original version.
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