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40288-1 BB-8

40288-1

BB-8

BB-8 is LEGO set 40288-1. It has a score of 85. This is average compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 1 reviews, based on 3 scored reviews and 8 reviews total. It is ranked in the top 26.7% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2018, and it is categorised in Star Wars.

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Average rating

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Recommendations

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

From Bricks To Bothans Recommendation: yes 5 / 5 → 100 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: no 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 3.7 / 5 → 74 / 100

Unscored reviews

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Just2Good

JANGBRiCKS

The Brothers Brick

The Brick Fan

Set information

Set ID: 40288-1
Name: BB-8
Parts: 48

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From Bricks To Bothans

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Recommendation: yes 5 / 5 by Ace Kim

The one irksome side effect of having an inverted 4×4 radar dish on the bottom is that the stud makes balancing a tricky affair. BB-8 will have a tendency to lean on one side. And because of the curvature and the top-heaviness of the model, BB-8 will tip over easily. But despite that, it's a nice little model. The proportions are a tad off, but considering the similar buildable R2-D2 from last year also has weird proportions. So when they are next to each other, they look just right. And also considering LEGO minifigs have odd proportions when you compare them to regular people, these buildable droids could not be more LEGO-like. There's a certain charm to them that's cartoony and playful.

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amazon.com

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Recommendation: no 4 / 5 from 10 reviews

If you like BB8, you'll like it! Anything you don't enjoy about this is probably a "first-world" problem or over-critique. You can find the size pretty easily by looking at youtube videos of it in someone's hands. I think it's neat how his head can bobble back and forth a bit, and he's pretty sturdy.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 10 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.
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Recommendation: meh 3.7 / 5 from 2 reviews

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by CapnRex101

BB-8 is one of my favourite characters from the Sequel Trilogy and this is a superb rendition of the Astromech droid. His body looks tremendous when compared with the films, featuring detailed printed designs on every surface as well as a surprisingly accurate spherical shape. The shape does result in a stability issue but that is easily rectified with the addition of a single 2x2 round tile to the base.

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Just2Good

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JANGBRiCKS

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by Jang

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The Brothers Brick

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by Andrew

At minimum, a better display solution should have been included in the set. But despite the poor display potential and play value because of these problems, each of these issues is easily solved with pieces that most builders will have readily accessible in their collections.

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The Brick Fan

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by Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Overall, the LEGO Star Wars BB-8 (40288) polybag is a decent one that fits nicely to last year's build. I also understand that some fans prefer the exclusive minifigures much more than the builds. The scale of BB-8 looks great especially when it sits next to R2-D2.

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