kidcharm

Beautiful work! This is the best 'studded' model I've seen. ...Great job!

Great Review! Thanks for highlighting the price being a problem. ...It's a real shame. Some of the elements are larger, but they're not big enough to warrant that sort of cost increase.

Why $400 and not $300? ...The price on this set is just silly for what you get. ...Come to think of it, $300 would probably be too much given the lack of figures or real features. Size alone isn't a feature worth $100+. ...And whoever suggested that there should have been a full assortment of the bounty hunters was spot on! That would bring up the value. As is, this set is a shameful dud.

I gave this set a '4' but think it could have easily been a '5' with the inclusion of a few animals like a dog or a few birds or owls. ...although it does come across as a full and beautiful vision as it is.

Great work! ... It's amazing how much you could accomplish with that little motor. It really hung in there with the bridge being deployed!

I can't believe my eyes! This thing looks great! ...and the price seems reasonable for the amount of pieces! Beautiful set. ...I wondered if there could ever be something to top the barracuda and this looks to be a big, sexy 'YES'. Way to go Lego! ...Please make more! I'll be spreading this around the office today.

...I love this theme and really hate to think that it would take a license being applied to it for success-sake, but it's the best move for LEGO. ...I'll still buy them. Hopefully when the pirates make their return, they'll leave the decals and crazy high prices (600pieces=$100) on the ocean floor.

Hopefully, those aren't all stickers... I love the Alien head, and the pictured set looks fun too. Thanks for the pics.

Great review! ...Man, that beard is really making the rounds.

great review and really attractive set. ...I like the est number being on the side of the dozer. Convenient!

Pretty Good! ...Where's the preview section for future pirate sets? I really love the pirates theme! Hurry the new stuff along! :pir_laugh2:

Wow... the return of nice printed slopes. That's cool! ...It's still too expensive for the piece count, amount of stickers, and general size of the set, but it's cool to see TLG starting to get a bit more on track. 'On Track' being a return to beautiful, printed bricks. If all of the stickered bricks were printed instead, I would consider this a 'must have' purchase at $40. It would be a beautiful set and the cost would be justified in my mind.

Why did this one get made? ...Talk about filler. When are we going to get a Cantina set, with Greedo and a bar you can build?

Sure, you may get a non light-up mace... But he still has those over-the-top big eyes on his little brown head. And when did Mace start having what appears to be puffy cheeks? ...Is this Windu chewing bubble-gum? I'd say this is another average set... The Gunship (7676) and AT-TE Walker (7675) are hard sets to follow. They were really good, bulky sets, even if a pinch over-priced. With the Attack Shuttle, the incorporation of a gun mech is nice but not enough. Thanks for the review! You're a model citizen within the Lego community.

Just an average set, but nice to have available. I saw some at one of the TRUs, here in Cincinnati. Thanks for the review!

Great Review! ...I didn't know that the arms of the little rock guys could work for the mini figs! That Rocks! (Har Har Har! ;) ) Seriously, I think that's a fun feature that I hope TLG continues to explore. Additionally I think the set in general is pretty cute. Nice, clean, and well rounded looks and sounds to be a nice entry into this theme.

Great Review! Pros: Lego is starting to do some more Hot Rod inspired models! I hope they get far more fancy, and flashy. ...I also love these affordable, cute sets. Con: Steering on the cover yet no steering on the product!? What is TLG thinking? Is that even legal here in the states? ...that's false advertising.

These strange looking ships just don't do it for me. ...where is another Greedo fig?

Thanks for this info. I really find the production side of this stuff amazing.

Great Review! I love those trusses, and you look to get a decent amount with the set. Sticks are always a yuck! ...and i'm curious to try out those long gray axles that connect the lifting arm to the back of the crane. All in all, an attractive set.

"This is something that consistently annoys me when I open new sets these days and has really diminished the fun of building new sets for me. Some of these pieces look just like megabloks, and when I first got some in a BL order in early 2007, I thought they were in fact a clone brand that was copying the Lego logo." ...I get the 'Mega Bloks' feel from newer bricks too, but I had no idea TLG swapped ABS in the past few years! It kind of feels like a lighter, less rugged plastic.

You're right. ...I didn't say anything about it on the survey, but just in the past 24 hours I've seen how bad it is. Yesterday I received pieces to complete a 4up 2x4 red lego brick. All the pieces were listed as 'new' and indeed they looked new, but after I combined all the parts, it was very apparent that there was differing in saturation on my 1x16 reds and my 1x6 pieces. This sucks when you're try to make large scale objects and want to illusion of everything being one large piece.

Completed it!... Eurobricks was my top site pick! I also mentioned, we need to lose the stickers.

Thanks Brickster. Sorry about that. I hate to complain about price, but it just seems like it's so much, so fast. As long as they don't keep chucking stickers at us I can live with how things seem expensive for a bit... Stickers are terrible, and ruin bricks. Anyhow, these pirate sets are beautiful and I (for one) want them all, but fear it's not going to be practical in the future if the trend of climbing prices with less plastic continues.

your right, It's just a more expensive toy, made in 'mexico'. Nice point, genius.