TLJ 3.75" Resistance A-Wing Fighter with Tallie

[Jeff]

Info update from Yakface.com:

E8 Aero 1 w/Aero 1 Pilot (A-Wing Fighter with Pilot?)*
DPCI: 087-06-8314
SKU: 910614519
UPC: 630509532834
MSRP: $29.99

*Pure educated guesses by Jayson/Yakface

[Jesse James]

I'm hoping for something pretty awesome here if the speculation is correct!  I don't have a Resistance fighter yet but would like to.

[Jeff]

I'm hoping for something pretty awesome here if the speculation is correct!

I wish I had your hope.  If it is indeed an A-Wing, my bar is set to "this is probably a Rebels A-Wing repack" or some similarly underscaled tiny A-Wing.  Especially if this is $30 and that Ski Speeder is $40.

[Nicklab]

I have some degree of hope for a new A-wing.  As far back as one of the set visits it was revealed that A-wings would be in the mix for this movie.  And they turned up again in the BTS video.  Hell, I'd be happy with a repaint of the 2008 Green Leader A-wing.

[Jayson]

Pics have leaked via social of the A-wing. It looks fantastic in my opinion. It includes a female pilot "Tallie". Doesn't look to have a removable helmet but it doesn't have a banana visor that plagued the TFA line.

[Darby]

Um, wow.     It looks great.  The visor doesn't seem too bad, but will need to get a closer look. Definitely picking this one up.

[Nicklab]

It looks pretty good so far.  It's definitely not the Rebels version.  And I love the McQuarrie inspired deco!

[Jeff]

I'm hoping for something pretty awesome

I have some degree of hope for a new A-wing

Glad you guys were right - that TLJ A-wing does look pretty nice so far.  Can't wait to see it up close!

Also glad to see the "Banana Visor" thing is apparently dead too.

[Nicklab]

Glad to see these pics.  The blasters alone look like a clear departure from the old A-wing mold that was originally in the POTF line and got reissued multiple times (POTF2, SAGA, etc).  I still want to see some better imagery, including the pilot.  Those will no doubt turn up in time.

[Darby]

Better pics are on Instagram of the pilot and the visor is transparent. Looks very good.

[Jesse James]

Yeah it's a completely new mold (very different from the original AWing, and much larger than the Rebels effort couple years back).  The pilot also looks like a superior effort to pilot figures from TFA.  Ship appears to have projectile feature designed into the lasers and possibly something underneath but no loose shots underneath that I've seen.  The box art implies something firing from the bottom though, yet the toy doesn't really show anything I can see.  Could just be something to do with the movie and nothing the toy has. 

Definitely a new model AWing though which is cool and even the pilot has a McQuarrie-esque look to her.

[Rob]

Where specifically are these photos?

[tmanthegreat]

Here's a YouTube video of someone that has the TLJ A-Wing...  While not as intricate as the old tooling, it looks FAR better than the Rebels A-Wing from last year, and even many of the  TFA vehicles...  Then again, I've long been a fan of the A-Wing going back to the old X-Wing games in the 1990s, so I have some bias 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89e2UdpF5s

[Scockery]

I used to enjoy destroying them in an Interceptor.

That youtube guy needs to dial back his music.

[tmanthegreat]

I picked up the new A-Wing this morning and just opened it.  Overall, I really like it!  The design is very much McQuarrie-inspired and looks almost exactly like his concept art for the A-Wing (so this may wind up being used as an R-22 Spearhead instead ).  Lengthwise, the ship is actually slightly longer than the vintage A-Wing tooling, although the new ship is much more slender top to bottom.  I suspect it is under-scaled compared to the "actual" ship in the films, but it still looks with figures standing next to it.  Canopy opens to reveal a reasonably-detailed cockpit, the nose landing gear is retractable, and the missile launching feature easily hidden as the guns.  The Tallie figure has a nice sculpt to it, but I am not a fan of the 5-POA figure style and non-removable helmets.  I also purchased the Paige figure this morning, which looks quite nice with removable helmet and oxygen mask, and am thinking about using that in the A-Wing instead of Tallie.  The TLJ A-Wing is superior to the Rebels one we got last year, but still falls short of the classic vintage tooling - nevertheless I am happy with it