Name: ARC-170 Starfighter
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8088-1
Rating: 79 (9 reviews)

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Recommendations

Recomended 57%

A review is considereded a recommendation when its score is above the reviewers median score or if it's explicitly said so in the review. Read more in our article about recommendations.

Price Per Part (PPP)

better

Average PPP for System in 2010 is 0.37. PPP for this set is 0.18, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

worse

Average PPM for System in 2010 is 14.83. PPM for this set is 17.59, which is worse.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

Eurobricks Recommendation: yes 9 / 10 → 90 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.2 / 5 → 84 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: yes 81 / 100 → 81 / 100

From Bricks To Bothans Recommendation: yes 8.1 / 10 → 81 / 100

Eurobricks Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: no 3.8 / 5 → 76 / 100

Brickpicker Recommendation: no 5.9 / 10 → 59 / 100

Unscored reviews

Eurobricks

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Set information

Set ID: 8088-1
Name: ARC-170 Starfighter
Parts: 396
Minifigs: 4

Retail price (USD):
Original: 59.99
Inflation adjusted: 70.33

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.15
Inflation adjusted: 0.18

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 15.00
Inflation adjusted: 17.59

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: yes 9 / 10 by Sisco

I.Love.This.Set. It is big, and has three brand new minifigures, and one rare one. The build is fun despite the technic (no offence to all you technic lovers), the features are nice, and the size is extra massive. If you have the cash, buy this set. It is a great set, you won't regret it.

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.2 / 5 from 39 reviews

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Lugnet

Recommendation: yes 81 / 100 from 7 reviews

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From Bricks To Bothans

Recommendation: yes 8.1 / 10 by Don

Retail price is $59.99 and for that you only get 396 parts. That's pretty steep at 15.15 cents per brick. I know that sets across the board have gone up but I still judge sets against the golder rule (10 cents per brick) so despite the cool figures and cool ship I'm simply not satisfied with the price point. Maybe if the canopies were printed I wouldn't complain so much. [...] All things considered, this is a great set. There's always room to improve on official designs and I'm sure I will always complain about the price of sets.

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 by starstreak

Overall I LOVE this set. I like most Star Wars Lego sets. It looks like what it's supposed to be, but what I don't like is when they previously released a set and they didn't improve on it by much. It is cleaner and more up to date, but as you read in the comparison of the old set, many things was done right the first time. Maybe if I can force myself to dismantle both sets, I'll make one set with the good of both sets.

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amazon.com

Recommendation: no 3.8 / 5 from 47 reviews

Great set! My 7 yr old and I had fun building this one figuring out the wing mechanisms. This set just feels like good bang for the buck. Lots of great pieces, set looks great and well designed. It is on scale with the x-wing, which gives it an even more "authentic" feel and scale when put next to the iconic X-Wing. My son definitely needed help with the wings as the tri-wing assembly does require some dexterity and attention to detail.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 47 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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