LEGO Star Wars Y-Wing Fighter

Product Description

This all-new model of the classic Star Wars vehicle is packed with incredible movie-accurate details.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17651 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LEGO
• Model: 4498195
• Released on: 2007-01-02
• Dimensions: 17.00" h x 11.50" w x 2.40" l, 1.55 pounds

Features

• Includes Rebel pilot and astromech droid minifigures.
• All-new model features incredible, realistic details!

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome!
By H. Snyder
I'm 10 years old. Legos are very fun to me. This product was very fun to build. Some parts were tricky, but I figured them out. After I built it, it came apart a little as I was playing with it, but I put it back together. Try not to play with it too much. The fun is more in building it, not in playing with it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
The Rodney Dangerfield of Lego Star Wars
By William H. Thomas
The poor Y wing gets no respect.

First, the name "Y Wing" is synonymous with Bantha Fodder thanks to it's less than stellar showing in the Battle of Yavin.

Second, Gold Leader is one of the more annoying characters in his short but "explosive" career in episode 4. First he just exudes confidence when he asks "what good are snub fighters against that thing". And then his last great act is to panic under fire and be told by Gold 5 to "stay on target" right before he explodes.

Finally, the initial model in this series had to "share a box" with Darth Vader's Tie Figher because it didn't rate it's own set. What chance did it have compared to the first commercially available Darth Vader Minifig? Thankfully Lego has since rectified that injustice

It's a shame really. The Y wing deserves better, and so does this set.

This set is amazingly accurate. The greebling on detail on the back is very close to photos and blueprints of the new model. The front cannons are now accurately represented, and the engines are the closest that Lego has gotten to being "spot on".

This new generation of Star Wars Lego vehicles are nothing short of amazing. (9492 - Tie Fighter, 9493 - X Wing, and 9495 - Y Wing). These models have close to Ultimate Collectors Series accuracy at a fraction of the size and cost.

The new Tie Fighter is the clearly the most improved, and garners a lot of the praise for it's new look. The X-Wing, finally sports accurate Wing cannons and an improved S-Foil activation mechanism. Which leaves the lowly Y-Wing.

While people are buying up its sleeker brother, Lego enthusiasts should also consider picking up 9495 as well. In many ways it just as impressive as the X Wing. The detail of the model is very good. The flick missles are better implemented on this model than the Tie Fighter. The bomb door function is also very simple but rather clever.

If there are any weakness to this model, it's got to be in the "landing gear", such as it is. Where the X-Wing has a pretty ingenious retractable nose gear, the Y Wing "gear" simply consists of a 2x3 angle brick and 1x2 plate. It's effective, but not sexy.

Also there are the "identical" stickers that are to be applied to opposite engine pods. This means that the sitckers have to be installed backwards, so the pattern on them is inconsistent. It's a backward step from the detailed engines in the previous version. That being said, Gone are the "half" golf ball domes that have appeared on all the Y-Wings to date and the exhaust ports are much improved, so the engines look quite good despite the stickers of death.

The Ion Cannons and nose cannons are much improved both in scale and appearance. The new turrent assembly is also less susceptible to flopping around during swooshing.

This model has much more body detail than either the X Wing or Tie Figher. Lego put a lot of pieces to good use to provide the body texturing that the more "pedestrian" Y-Wing has over it's sleeker sexier brother.

Make no mistake, it's doubtful the Y wing will ever be first the on your "must buy" list. But don't disregard the model either. It's a fine set on it's own and worthy of purchase.

I thoroughly enjoyed this build. If there is any justice left for the Y-Wing, this one will become hard to find and have the best valuation of the three in a couple of years.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Ready for the Battle of Yavin
By R. Ferguson
This set is the latest in Lego's interpretation of the Star Wars Y-Wing. Earlier sets included #7150 (1999; re-released as #7152 and #7222), #10134 (2004; the Ultimate Collectors Series (UCS) version), #7658 (2007), and #8037 (2009; Anakin and Ahsoka's craft). Set #9495, released in January of 2012, is from the Battle of Yavin scene from Star Wars Episode IV.

Set #9495 represents an evolution of the earlier #7658, and it takes some design cues from the UCS version. Whether it is better than #7658 may well come down to personal taste, but I like this latest version best. I don't like the increased use of stickers with the latest wave of Star Wars sets, but the detailing on the fuselage of the Y-Wing is reminiscent of the UCS version. The set comes with a pilot (Dutch Vander), R5-F7 droid, and Princess Leia in ceremonial cape. The droid uses a new and welcome conical head. Like #7658, this craft has flick-fire missiles buried in the struts. And there are bombs that you load into the top and release by opening a bay door on the bottom.

I think this set has good playability. In terms of staging scenes from Star Wars, it is likely that you would want to start out with an X-wing (#9493) and Tie Fighter (9492) before purchasing this Y-wing. It does not have as much going on as the X-wing (which has folding S-Foils and retractable nose gear) but the intricate structure of the Y-wing's engines make it an elegant design. And between the Tie Fighter and the Y-wing, I think the Y-wing is more fun, but then you're left without a bad guy.

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