7695 Astro Fighter

[Manta]

Journal of Mars Mission Astro Recon Fighter:"We flew around for days, with no sign of other life. We hunted for days to find these rare power crystals. Eventually, we found them, but with a few aliens as well. We managed to take out a few, but my squadron was killed. I flew away, and am the only survivor of this attack."

7695 Astro Fighter Review

Box

This box is well designed, with a neat background, and a picture accurately describing this set, and showing all of it's main features. This box made me purchase this set, and I don't regret this purchase one bit!

Set Information

Name:MX-11 Astro Fighter

Set Number:7695

Year:2007

Theme:Mars Mission

Pieces:57

Minifigures:2

Price: $4.99 USD, $3.58 EUR, $2.85 GBP.

My Brickshelf (when moderated)

Bricklink Catalouge

The Set

I like this set, it comes with a nice astronaut with a cool torso, a golden visor, and an actual head! Lego could just as easily given him a black head, but they decided to give him a cool head under that visor. That is a great decision by Lego. The only problem I have with this set is the fact that it has a weird alien. It's arms don't even move, and it's horrible for playbillity.

Minifigures

Here you can see the cool astronaut, without his helmet, and the gummy bear like alien. The head of the astronaut is one of those heads Lego keeps recycling, but it's still nice that this astronaut has a face, unlike those stormtroopers. The torso is really useful if you want to make pilots for your army. Just change out the arms, legs, and head, and you have yourself a great pilot.

Instructions

The instructions feature the same art as the box, which is nice, because the box art is cool. The instructions are very clear on what you are supposed to do to build this set. The only thing they are missing is piece callouts, which isn't that bad in such a small set.

The Build

This set has a fairly easy build, it should take you about 7 minutes at most, I did it in about 5 minutes.

Parts

You can see a there is fairly decent selection of parts for this fighter. I like how they included the 2x4 plates with technic holes in them instead of regular 2x4s this set is a treasure trove of them. I also like the tail fin, and the wing pieces, they are very useful in creating your own fighters.

Interesting Parts

This set comes with a nice amount of 2x4s with technic holes, as mentioned earlier. It also comes with a nice cockpit in transparent orange, which is always nice. It also comes with 2 orange 1x4s, which I think are mildly rare, and orange is a cool lego color, so they deserve to be included. This set also comes with 1 power crystal that Mars Mission sets are fighting for. This set also comes with 2 black heads, and 2 transparent blue pieces. I think that this set has a lot of useful parts, and now we should see how they are used.

Lets Start Building!

We start with the base of the ship, which is very simple, but it works well for this ship.

Build it up

Now we add a few pieces, and the cockpit is starting to come together.

Add Glass

Now we attach the glass, which finishes the cockpit, now onto the wings.

Right Wing

Left Wing

The wings are well designed, but the tops could use a little bit of greebling. Like a round 2x2 plate, with a Mars Mission logo, that would work pretty well.

The Cannon

I think that this is a nice design for a cannon, and an inventive use for black minifigure heads.

Attach it

Now that the cannon is attached, this set looks ready to go slaughter some aliens. I would have liked both sides to have a cannon, but the set is still a nice set.

Conclusion

I think that the Astro Fighter is a great set, but has a few minor flaws, the biggest one the gummy bear alien.

Price:5/5, This set is a great for $5, it has 2 minifigures, and that makes it a great Mars Mission army builder.

Parts:4/5, I think this set has a great variety of parts, and it is worth buying if you need parts.

Build:3/5, The build is interesting, but it is a little bit boring, and a little repetitive.

Design:4/5, This set has a great design, with a nice color scheme. The only flaw is that it only has 1 cannon, not 2.

Minifigures:2/5, this set has a nice astronaut, but a poorly designed alien, which could've been made better, but isn't.

Overall:18/25

This set was a great set, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Oh Noes! He's going to crash!

Why doesn't that alien help? Oh ya, he's fighting the astronaut. I guess this is why drunk piloting is bad...

[xenologer]

well, i like this set.

Wish the lego store still had them on shelf, its a nice impulse to get when im bored

only prob is the minifig's head is so common...

In theory I'll use that windshielf for an open cockpit rover or something ground based....