Asuka

Thank you very much for this excellent review, Dark Wanderer! A really exciting and marvelous set this is, simply the best (IMHO) Agents set we got till now. The including of some civilians (and what beautiful ones too) allows to go for a much more valuable play scenario and is something that most AFOLs´re longing for since a long time. The retro Sci-Fi look of that mecha with its superb extremities and this brilliant egg-shaped transparent dome´s fantastic, the included humor (toast - grille - flambe)´s splendid and the playability with this neat lil´escape vehicle and that decoupling feature of the upper part looks also very, very fine! The agent´s crafts look sleek and pretty nice too, and the winch feature of the little buggy adds a lot to the overall already very high playability. Probably one of the very best 'action theme' orientated LEGO sets ever. A comprehensive and really smart design and a tremendous work for sure, well done TLC! He he... I always take that plastic toothpick from mine for that task...

Hello and welcome to the technologically well advanced side of the brick. Your site looks very good!

Hello and welcome to the more abiding side of the brick.

Perhaps then this topic should get pinned...

A rockin´Happy Birthday on!

Thanks for this fine review, Blakbird. A very interesting set indeed in a marvelous design and with some really good functionality. The alternative model looks great and gripping too! Ah... a very smart part design, well done TLC.

Oh no... quite the contrary... do the worst you can! Seriously, I really need to stop spending that much money on LEGO. Congrats!

Congrats! What a fantastic and very interesting job... bricks on!

A fantastic work, they all look very good indeed but my favorites´re simply your really cool Andorians...

A very good title nevertheless and a very promising and exciting new story too. The new characters´re very neat and the thrill´s alright... clown pirates... *shivers*

I just try to live in peace with the feminine aspect of my personality... Paradisa was a theme that seems to be pretty attractive to at least many AFOLs too, and I would for sure like a return or implementation of its amenities into some future City sets... if this would be fetching for the kids too I don´t know. Hmm... what I really would like to see (completely non-pc), if I´m allowed to dream, is some very cool and even action packed new theme with many strong female characters... stray cats from hell, defending earth against an invasion of some slimy alien scum... yeah! But maybe I simply like the good old trash movies of the seventies and eighties too much...

That´s an interesting topic but it´s a little hard for me to argue because my point of view is for sure pretty different to that of a younger girl... I guess. The example you linked to, 7586 Sunshine Home, seems to be a very nice kind of doll house, with many very interesting parts, but it looks like it´s aimed at a younger audience (6 - 10 years according to the box art?) and I don´t like these play figures that much. However, the construction value of that set (and other Belville products) as a whole looks not very favorable to me... maybe my imagination´s too limited, but it seems not so easy to make some alternative models or to MOD the main one... there´re a little too less useable basic bricks coming with these grrrl sets. TLC deployed some odd 'ready to play (almost) right out of the box' marketing strategy over the last years, a rather unfortunate attitude for a construction toys company, and although this stance became milder now it looks still like they except gals not to show much interest in some rather straight building... Like I said in another thread, there´re, in System, simply too less prominent MF heroine characters to attract the girls. I mean, how many female police officers do we get compared to their male counterparts? One in twenty, forty or even hundred? That seems really not much to me, but on the other hand I don´t know if simply increasing the number of female MF characters within the existing line-up would help that much too, because I have to say that even I already got pretty tired of all these perpetual conflict based play scenarios... is there really no room left for a more open ended and exploration centered play experience in these times? I don´t know much what girls want from LEGO, but obviously there´s not much there for them right now... but it shouldn´t be impossible for a big company like LEGO to simply ask them. To bring down the interests of both genders to a common denominator seems to be the crux and that matter´s perhaps not so very easy to resolve indeed.

A very beautiful and smart work indeed, especially the design of the front section´s simply sweet!

A very fine and lovely work nevertheless!

A very good work, detailed, charming and simply lovely. Looks like something straight out of a classic police movie.

Thanks for these interesting pics, efekozik. I really like these new sets, they look pretty cool and well designed. To me that base looks very detailed, playable and, hmm... even realistic somehow... and these masts seems to work really well... One of the most charming (and fitting) LEGO theme bases in recent years, IMHO...

Thanks for that fine and funny review, CopMike. A very interesting set with some nice and pretty cool features and smart design ideas. I really like the A-wing engine and the spinning gimmick - well done, TLC!

A very interesting and neat design, fresh, original... and even sexy. Cool work!

A very impressive work! The Hobgoblins look sleek and fast like spacefighters should look, that Survey Craft looks fat and chunky and simply wonderful and reminds me a little of a Raptor from Battlestar Galactica, the Sky Lark looks just cool and very powerful and the rovers´re excellent and very neat too.

What an epic story this became, with so many fascinating characters and incredible impressive dioramas and so many very original scenarios! This last outpost´s wonderfully detailed and very charming (as charming as an isolated refuge in a pretty desperate wilderness can be) and a more than worthy ending to your fantastic post apocalyptic mutant-heavy fairy tale. Hmm... Wayne Manor... sounds very promising I would say!

Marvelous and very charismatic indeed!

A great and very distinct looking starship and the ramp works out really fine too. The bike´s also pretty cool!

I know the one you mean I think... beautiful torso design. What I said... When I look at all the many boxes in the LEGO aisle, there´s simply not much there in terms of female MF characters to attract some girls. And never was. Token women and some inevitable license characters, at best. Interesting (and promising?) enough, the new Pirate line seems at least to come with one rather strong female character... maybe there´s some hope...

If I would be a young girl ( ) ... what female MF characters would be there for me to identify myself with? More now than just one or two years before, yeah, but... nothing too exciting either. No female cop or fire fighter, no ma´am on a mission to Mars if I remember right, a Castle (and Ork) queen consort but sadly no Jeanne d’Arc for sure, one Agent in distress and one villain sidekick and I think one hidden female spacecop perhaps in the Galactic Enforcer set too, but no prominent PowerMiner gal that I know and no Batgirl to see neither far nor wide... Of course I could MOD such characters, but that´s not the point... there´re simply too less interesting and strong heroine characters in LEGO sets 'straight out of the box', and if one lone cowgirl still appears, from time to time, it´s a rather rare and most of the time pretty random looking kind of guest appearance... Hmm... guess I´ll stick to my Barbie then. Ahem. If i would be a young girl that is... of course.

A nice and solid looking design, although I´m not sure about the color scheme... I guess I simply associate yellow a little too much with construction vehicles and submarines...