I've just bought the Striking Venom!

[sam89]

I popped into the LEGO Shop at Bluewater (UK) today and they had the Striking Venom! They didn't have any other Mid-2006 sets, not even the other Exo-Force sets. I should have a review up by Monday.

[Zane]

:ohmy: Right, I will use this information combined with the avaliability of other sets to assume the new sets will be avaliable by my birthday!!

Oh, yeah, you couldn't give us a couple of teaser pics of the beauty, could you?

[sam89]

Well I could take pics of the box (Front, back and under the flap at the front).

[Zane]

YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH!!! Ehem.

And that'd probably mean the people at BZP would believe you, cuz a lot of members think people who don't post much are liars. Which is often the case...

[sam89]

I've taken the pics, they should be uploaded in 5-10 minutes.

[sam89]

OK, here are the box pics:

Front

Back

Flap opened

[Zane]

Veery nice. Thanks for the pics. Y'think it'll be avaliable widely by the end of June?

[sam89]

Well I reckon it'll be on S@H by then, but I'm not sure about retail.

[Deinonychus]

Sweet! Can't wait to see this sucker in all it's glory!

I like the little alt-model robot artillery battery on the back there...hopefully I won't be tempted to get two sets just to keep each model built up :-P

[sam89]

Looking through the instructions, this set looks pretty awesome. The middle section (especially underneath it) is a lot more complicated than it appears.

Also, interestingly, Meca One isn't in the instruction booklet, even thugh he comes with the set. The instructions just show another bronze coloured robot.

[Jipay]

sweeeettt ! Any idea on when you'll build this beauty ?

[sam89]

I should have it done by Monday.

[Jipay]

Monday ? Can't wait !

[xwingyoda]

Great find Sam, you lucky bas... :-P

I can't wait for your review mate !!! This set looks really amazing compared to Wave 1 of Exo ;-)

On a side note, tks for posting it in a separate thread ;-) (so we can have the review on the first post hehe, and so we could move this one to the bstf) !!

Build and Review On !!

*yoda*

[JoshW]

Now that is pretty sweet. I have most of the Exo-Force sets so far, and I am definitely going to get this one.

Thanks for the pics!

Josh

[JoeMI6]

That looks pretty nice, I can't wait for the review. I wonder whether it'll be as fragile as it looks...

[natelite]

wow this is interesting. the back of the box showed sentai fortress, hero tank as available sets. okay, you already know that... so what's so interesting about that? you asked.

well, this means the highly anticipated white lightning vs bridge walker is probably going to be a special edition again. recall that supernova is a special edition set which does not appear in any of the boxes' art. either that or set 7713 will not be released this year. *wacko*

[Zane]

We already know it's a special edition.

[UltraPrime]

How much was it?

[sam89]

It cost

[Zane]

When you do the review, could you do a comparison between it and another mech for scale? Or maybe just a 30cm ruler'd do, lol. Oh, and also width ways as well...

[sam89]

Ok, I'll compare it against one of the mechs ;-)

[Zane]

Hehe, many thanks! :$

I'm just about decided on this thing. I think I'll get it - love the way the 'body' rotates.

[sam89]

I think I'll get it - love the way the 'body' rotates.

It's only the guns on top, the silver robot and the disk shooter that rotate, not the whole body.

And here's something that's likely to disappoint a few people: Meca One doesn't come with legs. His body clips straight into the cockpit. This would be fair enough, if the back of the box didn't show him with legs . . .

[Zane]

:ohmy: That is not good. Not good at all. Urgh...looks like I'll still be using a Sentry pilot as Meca One, then. Lame.