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Thank you Dunjohn for sharing this review with us. This is one of the interesting aerial set which I am actually intending to pick up to illustrate the aerial battle between those small alien spacecrafts. In fact, I am much fond of the helicopter design than the rest due to its sleek design and weapons armaments.

Thank you Phes! To convince you is not an easy feat, so I am really happy to know that the review helped you a little in your decision making.

Brilliant review. Thank you Pandora. I will love to pick this Dacta set too as this is the very first time that we have got it in medieval style. Apart from the costly price, I think there is a certain value based on the parts assortment given. I really like the fact that there are 2 mermaids, and some wide range of medieval and pirates characters. Pretty interesting, if you ask me.

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I will move this over to Pirates MOCs forum. Topic moved. WhiteFang

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Welcome White Cat. We are very pleased to have you here as part of our community. I enjoyed visiting Vietnam very much. Which part are you from? Do enjoy your stay with us. No worries on your English, it definitely make sense to me.

I supposed it does not only happens to this set. This design was also "recycle" for other promotional polybag sets too. Are you referring to this? I don't have any information on this too. It was until recently since I dabble with this polybag. I am quite certain the distribution was not worldwide but it could likely be event specific. Too bad, during this period, I was trying to climb out of mine dark age.

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These are some nice new weapons releases and I very much prefer the tactical sword. It looks great. Thank you for your sharing on this latest update.

Happy Birthday Siegfried! May you have a fun and enjoyable day ahead of you! You worked hard for it! Now go get yourself a chill beer.

Thank you Dunjohn. Exo-Force wasn't the theme that pulled me out of my dark age but interestingly, Exo Force sets were one of my first few new sets that begin to melt my dark age. This was my only Exo-Force polybag sets and personally I prefer this kind of glider looking design than some other mini models. I can believe that Hikaru must have harness some sort of gravational energy that enable to lift it up easily? That sounds crazy. I am not sure how it actually works but I think it is due to the low parts that utimately forced the designer to innovate in this manner.

Hello everyone, I will be bringing everyone a brand new polybag review which was actually released back in 2006. It was quite a surprise to see myself reviewing the LEGO Exo-Force theme. Although this polybag doesn't seems to be widely available but this is a definitely a great way to get yourself introduce into this manga-mecha theme that will excite those robots builders. Please note that the actual name for the LEGO 5966 polybag is not available. Brickset has briefly named it as "White Good Guy" while Bricklink listed it as "Glider". For my review, I will prefer to name it as Hikaru's Training Glider. This name is not an actual representation of the actual naming convention. Name: 5966 Hikaru's Training Glider (no actual LEGO set title is found) Theme: LEGO System / Exo-Force Year: 2006 Pieces: 22 Minifigs: 1 minifigure Price: USD N.A, GBP 1.49, SGD N.A Resources: Brickset, BrickLink An original polybag image of the 5966 Hikaru's Training Glider Back view of the original polybag image of the 5966 Hikaru's Training Glider Do you want to have a piece of me? First of all, I am extremely fortunate to be given a chance to own this hard to find polybags set from the LEGO Exo-Force theme. As far as I know, most of the Exo-Force polybags including this one are considered quite hard to find and it can be a little tricky to attempt to complete them all. In my case, the biggest motivation for me to acquire this polybag is definitely because of the main lead, Hikaru. I will touch on that under the "Minifigure" portion in this review. Instruction Manual Short manga introduction of Hikaru Seeing this small manga introduction of Hikaru coming into action certainly brings back memories when we first introduced to this unexpected theme. In fact, using manga drawings illustration to build them as LEGO sets was the first in this unique line. If you could remember, these manga drawings are actually part of the comics which are released by chapters following closely on this settings. The LEGO building content and instruction manual There are not much content in there. I couldn't expect much since there are 22 parts in this polybag but because of its low parts count, it still amazes me. Meet the dualism expression of the Exo-Pilot, Hikaru Here you are, let's meet the pilot, Hikaru who is the man controlling the 7700 Stealth Hunter. Fortunately, Hikaru is available in this low cost polybag and he is indeed my favourite character in the Exo Force series. I am very fond of white and seeing him in this outfit does reminds me that he is like the White Ninja equivalent. Hikaru comes with an unique facial dual expression that illustrates his normal cool mood and his battle mode expression where he reveals his hunger and excitement for battle against his enemies. Most of the time, we don't get big round eyed expressions for our minifigures and these are some exceptions. If you have also noticed, Hikaru's hairpiece is very special too. It is made up of a special rubbery material that allows certain amount of compression. You can't find this hairpiece elsewhere and it is only meant for the Hikaru minifigure. Time to form up the mechanical legs As you can see, Hikaru is getting ready to be assembled together with the mechanical legs to prepare for his wing combat training. Do note that the legs can only be adjusted sideways and cannot be moved forward or backward. Aerial weapons wings Hikaru's main aerial weapon wings consist of a laser gun and missile launcher that will inflict substantial amount of damage to its enemies. Ready to form up and move out There you go, Hikaru is now ready to form up and move out to meet his enemies. Personally, I felt this glider can be used for 2 different objectives. It can be used as flight combat training for Hikaru to train up to get himself ready and familiar with such aerial combat robot of a smaller scale before embarking to the full pledge machine known as Stealth Hunter. Alternatively, this can also be used as a small defence mecha solder to serve as aerial support to deal with those robot minions in battles. I am sure it will look fantastic with a couple bunch of similar robots size to form them up in squadron level. Different posing angles for Hikaru's Training Glider Do you think they look nicely with one another? Fighting along side by side with both "Grand Titan" and "Stealth Hunter" In my own Exo-Force collection, the 7700 Stealth Hunter and the 7701 Grand Titan are my only existing pieces in the first generation. I never had the chance to continue to own the rest of the Exo-Force collection. Despite of that, I am extremely pleased to have these 2 main highlights to be part of my display collection. Can the Training Glider be part of the Stealth Hunter prototype development? To conclude, the Hikaru's Training Glider is a decent looking simple piece of robotic machinery that are used to perform aerial support combat along the aerial robots. I like the fact that it comes with Hikaru and it is quite affordable to buy this polybag just to get more of him. In the Exo-Force theme, each minifigure comes with their own individual personality and there are no generic pilots to pilot them. So in this case, you can't expect to use the same Hikaru to pilot a squadron, some amount of customisation must be carried out. The tricky part will be toggling the facial and hair pieces around, as there are quite a limited amount of parts to choose from. Nevertheless, I am still very pleased to have a chance to add this into my collection. Summary review Playability: 8/10 (Despite of the low parts count, I find the glider to be very appealing.) Design: 7/10 (Simple illustrated aerial glider design of a mecha robot but there are room for improvements.) Price: 8/10 (Pretty affordable even in the secondary market.) Overall: 7.7/10 (You should grab this polybag if you have the chance to do so.) I gave it a "4" based on my Review Score Card. What about yours? I hope every one of you enjoyed reading this simple review of mine. Comments and Criticisms are strongly welcomed. Pictures can be found in My Flickr and My Brickshelf (When moderated)

Then I will be glad to move this incredible looking creation to our Sci-fi forum. Topic moved.

Oh my gosh! Nice review. Thank you so much for sharing this review with us. It's truly amazing to see this review in clear perspective. I must admit that those delicious printed parts are very tempting indeed. Furthermore, most of the original Disney Cars main characters are in this set too.

Thanks everyone for your comments. Thank you for sharing. Not sure yet, but I am intending to complete the entire series. Thank you Zorbas. I am so glad to know that you are actually starting to try out the POTC theme a try. I am sure you will definitely enjoy it very much.

These recent submissions are just creative and nicely presented. Thank you all for continuing to share the love for the LEGO Collectable Minifigures.

Rufus, this is excellent work. Thank you so much for taking your time and effort to make this MOC index possible! It is truly professional and well presented.

Wow. That's the first reaction that came into my mind when I saw this creation. A real fierce looking dragon warrior. Just checking, is this considered a mecha creation that revolves in sci-fi universe???

Yes! I am very excited and pleased to equip it with him. I also have a soft spot for chrome stuff too, especially when those chromes are of such high quality. Thank you Omi. Thank you for the information between v2 and v3. I wonder if v1 includes the rapier and dadao. It will be very much to see chromed for these blades.

Thank you guys for your kind comments! Glad you have enjoyed reading it. Me too! I am also wants to find out what did the rest gotten. Not sure why, but I noted that there is quite a high amount of people who don't really like the transparent pieces. I wonder why. For myself, I think it is not too bad.

As long the image is hosted inside Photobucket and able to deeplink in here, it is fine. A digital camera quality photo is very much appreciated. I am not recommending any sub-standard image capturing device and it is not encouraged to do so.

Nice review too! I am looking forward to pick this up to compliment into my POTC collection. It does make a fine piece of ornament at mine office desk.