New Star Wars speeder - perfect for 28mm

[JollyBob]

Forced to go to Blackpool, I consoled myself with looking at the new Star Wars toys in the Disney Store while The Boy was stocking up on Cars characters. And I found this little beauty:



This is a First Order Snowspeeder, apparently.

For all it supposed to be the new slick modern face of the Empire, it has a real used look to it (a bit like the Mule from Serenity I think).

Pictured here with a (shamefully unpainted) Hasslefree mystic knight, it scales up almost perfectly with 28 - 32mm figures, probably would take a crew of four. It could stand a few mould lines scraped off, a little bit of fill here and there in the joins, and a few details picked out but other than that its pretty much good to go, and comes with its own flight stand. Nice chunky diecast piece it is too, so should stand up to typical gamer cackhandedness.

Oh, and did I mention the price?

£7.95


Yeah, you read that right. Less than eight quid.

Get in. 

[OSHIROmodels]

Shit me I'm getting some of those 

Good spot Rob 

cheers

James

[uti long smile]

I'll be having me some of those! Great find.

[Agis]

Great find, I will look for this beauty!

[eMills]

Awesome find! Don't suppose you have a picture of the packaging, do you? Would help a bit in locating it.

Thanks.

~Eric

[JollyBob]

I don't, I'm afraid, but all the new variously scaled spaceship models come in fairly plain red boxes with large clear Windows.
There's only three of them that I saw, and this is the only one that scales for 28mm, although there's a TIE fighter that might work for 15mm.

There is also Kylo Ren's shuttle, but I didn't get a good look at that as The Boy had found the talking Emperor Zurg that he's not supposed to see till Christmas so I had to go and distract him with other shineys.

[nic-e]

I picked up the jetbike from the trailer, the micro machines one, and its perfect for 15mm.

[Commander Vyper]

I wondered, well we wondered about the scale. I'm in!

[OSHIROmodels]

Forced to go to Blackpool,

Never mind, someone has to 

It is screaming out to have a canopy on it though 

cheers

James

[Lotan]

Found this on the disney store for those asking for the box for IDing!

[Elbows]

That looks good...and even more curious, does this mean there may be a line of 28mm scale-esque SW coming?  Could be very useful, even if just for kitbashes.  Hope the scales are all similar.

[eMills]

Found this on the disney store for those asking for the box for IDing!

Much obliged. 

~Eric

[tnjrp]

Certainly looks quite ubiquitous. I bet it's going be something like 30 euros in the local toy stores tho so I would have to buy even this online...

[Constable Bertrand]

My attention, you have it. 

Cheers
Matt

[eMills]

No Disney store near me, but these are $9.95 US from them online. Reasonable shipping too.

Anyone near a store that can check out the rest of the line for comparability? There are TIE fighters, X-Wings, a Y-Wing, Slave 1, AT-AT, the new Shuttle, and the new speeder bike in the line.

~Eric