Brickset
Reinact the Boonta Eve Classic! — “The completed set is an accurate representation of the podrace, with each pod's size and colors differing correctly. All of the pod's (particularly Sebulba's) have hidden features and weapons to increase playability. I find it a bit hard to play with the set, only because of... More it's massive size. I would have liked to see a better method of holding the podracers together than what is seen in this set, but it isn't all that bad. Overall, one of my favorite Episode I sets, recreating an incredible scene in the movie.”
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Brickipedia
“In order to increase the structural stability of the Podracer models, their design incorporates brick-built, sand-coloured booms that connect the Pods to the transparent parts of the energy couplings. These booms are not part of the actual Podracer vehicles within the Star... More Wars universe; they are a feature of the toy put there to hold the pods together. The sand color was chosen as it would blend with the Boonta Eve Classic's desert course.”
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