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I also quite like the last Luke's landspeeder, but many people seemed to think otherwise.
In any event, there must be some truth to your assessment that the sets don't appear to offer 'the Lego experience' because the Galaxy Squad sets are still sitting on shelves in droves at TRU, long after their contemporaries have been snapped up.
Alternatively, the GS mech is one of my favorite sets ever.
Actually the main reason I bought it was to motorize it like this guy did:
I haven't gotten around to doing it yet though. I did motorize the Galatic Titan, but it had a hard time going anywhere on carpet.
The first set that came to mind was the exact one the OP had mentioned. Silver Mine Shootout.
I never did understand why this set did not do better. It looks amazing, and it has so much playability to it.
I think sometimes Friends as a theme gets looked over by both AFOLs and parents because of the minidolls and colors.
I think sometimes the smaller sets get looked over. The current seasonal Valentine set has been one of my favorite builds in a long time. The size compared to the detailing in it was quite wonderful.
To name an under-rated set from an under-rated theme: #70312 Lance's Mecha-Horse. I love mechas in general and a mecha horse just felt like the distillation of the Nexo Knights concept, so it was my first buy from that theme, and I loved that it transformed. I think the relative lack of articulation on the horse is a disappointment to a lot of people, and I certainly would've liked a fully articulated horse (maybe something for me to experiment with on a larger scale), but I found it an extremely fun set to build, with great parts.
Now, perhaps I'm biased since it was the first new set I'd gotten since 2006 or so; maybe the building techniques in it are bog standard for its era. But even so, the overall design is excellent. I put it together several times, just because I liked how it went together. And it looks great, obviously.
Personally I think the Lone Ranger theme is a candidate for most underrated sets. I own most of it and still like them after all those years!
The LTR Stagecoach and Teepee are okay. I like the cavalry soldiers, but the soliders are the only things I would buy from the line. The train looked too kiddie.
I try not to collect that many City sets cuz I need to limit my collection to some extent, but I really liked the Toys R Us truck. I have two and wish I kept the other two I sold. I also think the Tow Truck #60056 and Grand Prix Truck #60025 were really underrated. I had a Grand Prix Truck that I sold, but I bought one from someone on Bricklink immediately to replace it. I still made $25 on the deal. I had a Grand Prix Truck that looked exactly like it from when I was a kid maybe 18 years ago. I can't find it in the Brickset database.
Furthermore, if you take the easily-removable Airjitzu fliers and launchers out of the equation, the set is actually not a bad companion piece to Temple of Airjitzu. The main build shares both its color palette and its traditional appearance (without obvious sci-fi or fantasy elements) with the temple. Compared to the over-the-top fantasy weapons of the smaller Airjitzu flier sets, this set's weapons are pretty modest and realistic. The two possessed ninja student statues can flip their heads around to become plain old statues, complementing Yang's statue in the Temple set. And speaking of Yang, this set includes his ghost, one of the conspicuous omissions from the Temple itself.
Finally, the set has two exclusive and extremely well-designed ninja minifigures: Airjitzu Lloyd and Airjitzu Nya. The original wave of Airjitzu fliers had brilliantly designed new elemental energy forms for the ninja — but only for Kai, Zane, Cole, and Jay. This set rounds out the team, and with her dynamic color scheme, shiny gold eyes, and metallic blue water patterns, Airjitzu Nya might be my favorite of the bunch. From my frame of mind, I had basically given up on seeing Airjitzu forms for these two when there was no new wave of Airjitzu fliers announced in 2016, so to get both of them in one set a full year later was a real treat.