Trade Federation AAT

The reviewer emphasizes these pieces repeatedly: 'these two printed quarter dishes right there hold up perfectly. And this part has been out of production for a long time.' He considers them the defining aesthetic feature of the set and notes prints are superior to stickers: 'Okay, so just our three printed parts are adding so much detail' and compares favorably to the 2009 version where 'The missile tubes were stickers...obviously prints are miles better.'

'Another interesting thing, uh, these transparent neon orange cone pieces for our blasters. Another one that really hasn't been used in a long time...they use these these cones instead of studs just for a short time on these blasters, but they're pretty weird.'

'Another kind of fun fact, you'll see the little antenna piece there in tan. I think this is one of the only sets that ever appeared in' and later 'I'm going to have to harvest from the rear' when they ran out, suggesting it's a rare printed or specialized piece.

'Very standard part. Everybody's seen this before. Nothing too crazy except look at that. It's totally hollow on the inside. No tube in the middle to grip studs. So, the only grip on this is the exterior part. Very strange part.'

The reviewer notes the gray plate 'overhangs just a little too much' and 'I wish they had cut that one stud short,' suggesting the design relies on specific piece choices.

The reviewer discusses the cost-saving decision: 'what I heard...back in the day during the early years of Lego Star Wars...Lego was very close to bankruptcy. And what I heard about the story of these blue parts is they used blue parts on the inside of models where they couldn't really be seen because the blue pigment in the ABS plastic was cheaper than other pigments.' This directly affects the set's appearance from the back.