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Set Number: 7930 Set Name: Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship Sub Theme: Clone Wars Parts: 389 Figs: Sugi, Aurra Sing, Embo and IG-86 Assassin Droid Bounty Hunter Release: January 2011 (official) December 2010 (real) S@H-link flickr set Shop@Home Description: Official Commercial: The Box: The front of the box features the classic info - a little sparse in this non-US version, the gunship in action, the figs included and a small picture of the gunship with it's wings turned in landing position. The rear is a pleasing vue of all the playfeatures on the gunship. - How you twist and turn everything that can do so. At first I was amazed by the many opening and closing possibilities, but rest assured that it's no Transformer at all The contents of the box: Polybags: We get 3 polybags - one for the cockpit and figs, one for the wings and one for the engines. Neatly sorted in 3 numbered bags - it's really important no to make the build to difficult for those 8-14 year old kids (And yes, I built them by the numbers) The Instructions: We get one instruction booklet. With easy to follow pics, showing which individual bricks from your numbered polybag you are to use at each building step. How easy can they actually make this for us? All I need now is for TLG to include a small package of instant coffee and I'll be set for a smooth ride. They're kind enough to show us which polybags are used for each part of the set. As you can see we get a fairly easy build out of this one. Easy steps with only a few parts added every time. I wonder what's Darth Vader doing in a Clone Wars instructions? Still looks cool though. In the back of the instructions we get a set overview, showing us the figs and how to use the playfeatures of the set. The Stickers: A stickersheet - "Oh noooes!" Yeah, we've got to live with another one. I'll try to scan it when I get back to work early January. (I'll do that to the stickers from the other sets as well). The Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship Cockpit Print: 'Nice playing with ya' This picture is from the booklet that comes with the Complete Clone Wars Season 2 DVD Box. And it looks a little cleaner than the picture I initially took of the stickersheet/TLG's version. Which is is - the sticker is gibberish while this version can easily be translated. (Thanks Brickdoctor for the help ) The Box: The box holds the utterly important Jedi Holocron. And the text says "LOCK" - that's a good thing. Luckily it doesn't say "UNLOCKED" - now those pesky bounty hunters wont get the holocron afterall. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=W1duS6DaUJw The Extras: Not much - some technic rabble, a round trans clear plate and a couple of cheese slopes. Guess it didn't take much to equal the weight for the packing machine. The Wing Mechanism: A very nice feature and well hidden within the design. I think I'll let the instruction scans speak for themselves. The Figs: AURRA SING Aurra Sing - again a picture from the small DVD booklet. I think TLG nailed it pretty well. A nice fig that looks just like I'd imagined she would in LEGO. SUGI A little meh! Not much to look at or out of the ordinary. Probably the most boring new fig in this set. EMBO Again a pretty good depiction of Embo as he should look in LEGO. IG-86 Same old boring droid. But I guess that a redesign would be equally boring or odd? The Build: Not much to talk about. As mentioned earlier it's a fairly easy build with small steps. Bag One: The first polybag holds the parts for the cockpit. A nice dark green thing that has most of the playfeatures integrated. We got sliding doors, a rear hatch that opens to the barred window and a roof that opens so they can get in. I used the best playtester at hand. My daughter and she had serios trouble with the sliding doors. They just come of to easily... I tried to show her how "easy" it was and they kept coming off for me too. Poor design - "Bad TLG Bad Dog!!" Bag Two: The second polybag allows the construction of the wings. An interesting build as it mostly concerns the mechanism that brings the engines in "flight" or "landing" position. Plus the slider also conceals the "Jedi Holocron" from the commercial and Clone Wars Episode 17. Bag Three: The last and final polybag has the parts for the engines. They're beautiful and very shiny A simple 1x2 brick with technic axle hole is all that connects them to the gunship. That certainly has some play value if one was to blow off an engine like the commercial shows the T6 doing. All 3 bags in one shot: With a swift connection of the engines to the wing and the wing to the cockpit, you've got an awesome Bounty Hunter Gunship at your disposal. Now it's time to whoop some of that "goody little choo choo" republic behinds The Complete Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship: Isn't it a thing of beauty? I really like the yellow and dark green colour scheme. Plus the overall design of it is sleek and pretty good. Engines "up". It looks good, but I'm a little disappointed. The up position has trouble "locking" and I had to add a small plate to keep the engines from going back to "landing position". It's the slider and the friction that's the issue. But I guess it's not that important to the playability or swooshability of this gunship. JCC1004 was kind enough to do a few pics from the new LEGO Club magazine for me. They show Aurra Sing snatching the Jedi Holocron. Now I might be a total ignorant when it comes to Clone Wars. But what's Aurra doing with the Jedi Holocron? And why is she in the Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship with IG-86? In Episode 17, it's only Embo and Sugi. Am I missing something? I really must watch those first seasons soon All in all this is a great set. I like the design and to me it looks like they've nailed not only the figs, but the entire set pretty well. It all looks like I would have hoped it to when comparing to the Clone Wars. A full from me.

I wonder what this not-public gallery has to do with 2011 Pictures and Rumors? If you're sharing pics of the 2011 set 7915 Imperial V-Wing, then I think we'se seen everything already. Either in reviews or through lego.com's cache of files for shop.lego.com

Wow, that's really looking good so far I love the studdy look of the cockpit. Can't wait to see where this will take us and you. Keep at it.

Great review Brickdoctor. Flickr'ed and blogged It would be soo much easier if you had a flickr account No matter though - great review on a great set which sadly is a little overpriced. Love the last picture

Yeah the price is a little too much. Just like the limited sets we've seen in 2010 - I wonder why they do that?

Indeed we do and I've just blogged Brickdoctor's SPF

And now it's time to back off the availability discussion.

There, I've made a topic for you. Nice work. These 1:1 lightsabre MOCs are a nice twist to the usual vehicles and dioramas. Thanks for sharing your work and welcome back to the world of LEGO.

No doubt I'll have a zillion questions I want those links you've got at the top. Better drag you and some shipyardigans into this initial phase

Indeed, but since the Star Wars License is to "blame", then I think we should have a dual topic here on the same matter. Plus I reckon that more than a few LEGO Star Wars fans are keen on knowing this as this is a great way to gather licensed minifigs. Not that I'd seen that other topic

Wondered why they glued the magnets? Wonder if you can dissolve the glue? Then read this great article on the TheBrickBlogger Just don't ever use Nail Polish Remover

The award thing sounds interesting, but right now we're busy with setting up the blog and it's features. I'm flippin' between flickr, twitter, facebook and wordpress trying to get everything set up decently. And one thing's for sure - I'm no good at tech stuff The blog is new - it launched on January 1st 2011 - so if you haven't seen it before that - well then that's why. Wether or not it becomes the portal for the Star Wars Forum I don't know at this point. Do we want contributors? Perhaps in time - but not now. It all depends on how many views it gets and how useful it is. It uses a different code than these boards and it's annoying to work 2 different codes all the time. At least it seems like it uses a different code - see what I mean about "no good at tech stuff"? I'll try to blog as much as possible there. In a little while I'll make an "announcement" of the official blog opening. EurobricksStarWarsForum.com

Slow down guys - you're turning this into a chat. Adding 6 pages of chit chat on the minis will only make this topic harder to follow for everyone else.

I personally use a toothbrush for dedusting It's effective and really good at working those studs. Don't worry about tiling - it requires loads of tiles and is very expensive. I spend a lot of bucks tiling the YavinIV Diorama that I did for LEGOworld. If you want to raise the level of your MOCs, then you need to straighten out the colour scheme. Mixed colours look "childish" and can be really distracting. Keep at it

You think?! To me it looks like you used that one and didn't even take the time to clean it up decently. The yellow is showing in the S-logo.

Hilarious Skafte I took the liberty of bloggin' it here in "our" new blog Eurobricks Star Wars Forum Blog

What'd you expect from MINI sized sets?

30052 MINI AAT 30053 MINI Star Destroyer Thanks to nrg for finding the instructions Check them out in the Star Wars Forum and join the discussion.

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