Surprisingly, the Light side is much stronger with our favorite builders than the Dark. This is the only explanation I can find of why we already have the whole blue squadron of T-70 X-wing fighters (and not a single TIE fighter yet!). This time GHLego keeps David Hensel and Peter C. company in a cruel battle against the First Order.

I like how this fighter is not overloaded with sophisticated building techniques. GHLego managed to keep it simple and plain – in the finest sense of the word, of course. The dock representing a section of a hangar suits the fighter rather well. Both parts look quite robust and definitely make my want to spend an evening playing with this model recreating all the unbelievable twists and turns from the movie.

I obviously hadn’t seen the movie yet when I reviewed 75099 Rey’s Speeder on the day the set came out back in September, so I had no idea whether the LEGO set was in any way accurate. I was most suspicious of all the fun play features built into the set — the stud-flinger weapons, the opening doors, the inner compartment, and so on. Now that I’ve seen The Force Awakens twice (my inner Star Wars nerd having also reawakened), I wanted to mod the LEGO set to make it a bit more accurate to the movie.

To be honest, the stock LEGO set now feels a bit like an entry in our Pimp Rey’s Speeder contest — though I still love it. When I got home from the movie again yesterday, I pulled out my two copies of this lovely little set along with a few choice pieces from my existing collection and set to work to build a movie-accurate, unmpimped version of Rey’s speeder.

Rather than a LEGO creation built entirely from scratch like nearly all the models we feature here on TBB, this is a lot like the “kitbash” process plastic modelers use, so I thought my build process might be interesting enough to share. I’ll avoid plot spoilers, but in case I mess up, hit the jump for my full write-up.

Read all about the differences between the LEGO set and my kitbash