This is another of those sets which is actually better in real life than it looks on the box. It's hard to do good photos of 3D Lego models I suppose, so it's not their fault.

But the pictures I'd seen of this set made it look slightly disappointing - the 'snow cave' in particular just looked like a few bricks thrown together. But it's actually pretty good, quite spiky and icy and quite nicely done.

The Luke Skywalker in Hoth outdoor gear (rather than snowspeeder pilot gear) is very nice, and the Wampa - with very finely calibrated ability to hold a minifig aloft in his left hand - is great of course. You can imagine they went through a number of sculpture versions before they arrived at this - it's more cartoonish than terrifying, but I think that works well. It's kinda 'fun' without looking stupid. Plus you get the pilot Zev Senesca, and the humorous touch of the Wampa's previous victim in skeleton form.

The snowspeeder seemed, I think, very different from the last time I built a Lego snowspeeder which, I suppose, must have been set #7130 in 1999, twelve years ago! This one is done well, with room for two minifigs (although their seats are have no grip and nothing to hold them in place, so they slip around and look a bit silly - especially as they have to have their arms raised in the air!) - and grappling hook.

Overall this is a good playset, and an excellent addition to the other Hoth sets ... lots of scope for quite complex snowy battles and scenarios these days!