Lego Review: Lego 9495 Gold Leader Y-Wing fighter

This is one of the latest additions to my growing Star Wars Lego Fleet. The Lego 9495 Gold Leader Y-Wing Fighter. Let's not waste a parsec, onwards!

Box and Contents

Y-Wing Box

A Mid sized box with the usual attractive design and colours. Nice but not as exciting. This has not so much to do with any flaws of this set as it is to do with the fact that after building the Lego Millennium Falcon previously, the itch is there to try more challenging Lego sets. Arrrgghhh... the perils of Lego building haha :)

Clockwise From top Left to Right: Instruction Manual, Sticker sheet, Parts Pack 1, Parts Pack 3 and Parts Pack 2

Emptying the box, you would get the usual suspects, the instruction manual, a sticker sheet and 3 packs of parts.

Minifigs

Left to Right : Princess Leia, Gold Leader, R5-D8

The set comes with 3 minifigs, namely Princess Leia, Gold Leader and an R5-F7 droid (another variant of R2D2). Gold Leader and R5-F7 are dubbed as new which I take to mean this is the first time they are releasing these figures or these are new versions of older figures. I find the Princess Leia minifig a bit more unique compared to those in the other sets as it comes with a Long Hair Piece flowing to the back and she also has 2 faces: A happier face as shown above and more serious face as shown below 

The Princess has 2 faces!

Assembling

Always start with the spine

It starts with the spine as shown above and you continue building upon this foundation

Now with more definition

As it gets more defined, the overall shape starts to resemble a "Y".

End of Part 1: Starting to look like "Y"

That's the end of Part 1 of the building process. The next part is defining the "head" or front of the ship. The foundation for the front as below:

It does look like a raft

Build upon it and attach it to the main body as built in Part 1

Joined to Main Body

Below is what you get when you refine the cockpit, add the blaster cannons on top of the cockpit hatch and add the 2 jets at the side

Almost there!

Adding the final touches to the jets and Voila ! the Complete Y-Wing as shown below.

"It's a Wrap!"

Here's a ground level view:

The R5-F7 also fits in sideways i.e. similar to how R2D2 fits into the 9493 X-wing

Armed Parking Lady making him pay the fine

To give a comparison of scale, when compared to the other vehicles in the fleet:

It's about as long as the 9493 X-wing.

Also added 2 simple videos on how the weapons (missiles and bombs) are used:

Missiles:

Bombs:

Final Thoughts

Overall, a straight forward build that took me about an hour and a half. Decent level of detail for the size. This set is a Toys R US (TRU) exclusive.

Available at Toys R US outlets.