Phantom II
Yesterday was a cleaning evening - another second hand ebay set arrived which needed to be cleaned and inventoried. As usual, it was missing some pieces - in this case 7 black 4x10 bricks (can you guess what the set is?) and as it was clearly a rebuild, some of the pieces were in pretty poor condition. It was actually interesting to see no less than 3 moulds for the standard 2x4 brick, some of which must have been 40 years old as they're certainly not recent ones. Today was mostly therefore a bricklink day, buying the missing pieces. However, I've found some time to build up a new set that has been on the shelf for some time - the 2017 Phantom ( 75170 ). I have to say that I was confused by this set as it looks nothing like the 2014 Phantom ( 75048 ) that I built up a couple of weeks back. And a google search suggests that the 2014 version is much more accurate to the source material! It's unusual for Lego to release an updated set which ...