It’s a solid piece that’s part of the mold with much more detail. Outside of the cockpit, the battery compartment lid is no longer glued in place. Lastly the targeting computer is present and extends from the back of the cockpit just as in the movie. The flight console is removable to assist with seating the pilot (still takes some effort) and feature the flight stick. The seat has paint apps and is surrounded by sculpted hoses. The new cockpit feels like a functional cockpit. On the gen one X-Wing, you basically had a plastic seat with no flight controls. In addition to the subtle added and sharper mold details, there are functional updates. The only pieces that seem to be reused without any changes are the engine portion of the wings. This “same but also new” pattern applies to the wings which have sharper and added details. The dimensions are the same, but all of the sculpted details are different and sharper. I believe Hasbro has a process where they cast from an original mold and then make updates as we have seen with many of the vintage molds that are used for modern vehicles. So much of the detailing is new that you want to say this is “all new”, but the dimensions are so exact to the first generation (both exactly 17 7/8” long) that it can’t be new from the ground up. The fuselage has many subtle and significant differences. The sculpt is somewhere between retool and “all new”. This alone marks a significant upgrade, but pale in comparison to the upgrades to the sculpt itself. In comparison to my Red 2, they are also much sharper and precise along the borders. Most of the paint apps on this X-Wing are distressed giving the toy a genuine Star Wars “used” universe look. Usually you sacrifice one in order to get the other. The paint apps on the new version are both more numerous and more detailed. The upgrades between the fist gen and second gen can be summed up in one word: significant. The aforementioned Death Star Trench Run Red 5 was the first of the second gen X-Wings and this Red 3 X-Wing is the second. Other released first gen Red Squadron X-Wings include Red Leader’s X-Wing and Luke’s Red 5 (multiple releases). That was the first generation of the larger scaled X-Wings based on the Power F/X X-Wing. The only other such X-Wing I own is the Target Exclusive Wedge Antilles’ X-Wing Starfighter set from 2009’s Legacy Collection. This X-Wing is painted with the Red 3 call-sign on the wings designating Biggs Darklighter’s X-Wing from the Battle of Yavin.Īll of the larger scaled X-Wings are retools of the 1998 Power F/X X-Wing. Based on the pictures taken by my “co-worker”, this appears to be a repaint of that X-Wing. Because I tired of accumulating things I decidedly did not want just to get one item I did want, I do not own the Red 5 X-wing released in 2011’s Death Star Trench Run set. I don’t get thrilled writing reviews for what are essentially repaints because I don’t think there’s a lot new I could tell you.
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