One of my birthday presents was the Resistant A-Wing Starfighter Lego set. This sleek vehicle was featured in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and the set was another clever little build.
The A-Wing has a nifty cockpit section, retractable landing gears, and wing-tip cannons, but the spring-loaded shooters are the highlight of this starfighter. The configuration includes a square button that is built in as the activator for the shooter, which we haven't encountered on any other sets.
This 269-piece set also included two very unique minifigures. Snap Wexley (played in the movie by Greg Grunberg, a classic "oh, that guy" actor perhaps best known as being Matt Parkman in "Heroes" and a childhood friend of J.J. Abrams) is the pilot, and his minifigure has a stubble and an artsy battle helmet. Lieutenant Connix (perhaps best known for her irresistible Princess-Leia-on-Endor-ish hairstyle) is the other minifigure, and the actress who portrayed her, Billy Lourd, is Carrie Fisher's daughter.
Seemingly minutes after completing the build, Wexley had already taken a dive off the second floor into the hedges below, necessitating a rescue. The ensuing Rebel rescue mission to extricate him from Planet Bush was what passes for highlight-of-the-day-type-shite these days.
The A-Wing is a suitable set to profile on this May the Fourth, and -- along with the AT-ST walker and the Y-Wing -- will figure in many Lego battles today and beyond ...
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