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Captain Fordo · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Location: In your worst Nighmares...

So why am I reviewing a 6 year old set? Funny story actually. We are doing some cleaning before we leave for the beach so we don't come home to a messy house, and my mom told me to take a box of my little bro's toys up to the attic. When I got to the attic, I saw a box wrapped in christmas paper! Obviously curious about it, I took it downstairs and showed my parents. They said to open it...so I did. Inside was 4482 Shocked

. My mom said she must have forgotten to take it out of the attic when christmas came around. I was exstatic considering I missed out on this set when it was in production (I did get the RGS though Razz

), and it is so hard to find nowadays! Anyways, on to the review:

Parts: For what was previously a 70$ set, there aren't many parts. Only 646. Of course, today if you get this set, you aren't getting it for spare parts Laughing

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Minifigs: Wonderful. Four, highly sought-after, Phase I clone troopers. Again, wonderful.

Detail: The detail on the actual vehicle is a bit dissapointing. It has all it needs but it seems like TLG did just what they needed to get by with this guy. It looks especially fat when you look at it from above. I mean it's a tank...it's suppose to be bulky. But this one kinda looks like he needs to cut back on the twinkies. The speeder is cool, and it's a nice little addition to the set.

Playability: The playability value is good, however, the side plating tends to fall off more than it should.

Price to Parts: Like I said, don't buy this set for parts (WHY would you?).

Availability: Good luck finding one Wink

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Build: The legs were a little repetative, and it took me around two hours to build.

Parts: 6/10
Minifigs: 10/10
Detail: 7/10
Playability: 8/10
Price to parts: 4/10
Availability: 1/10
OVERALL RATING: 8.5/10

I'm going to give it an 8.5/10...though it would be around a 7/10 for the vehicle itself, four P1 Clones...wonderful.
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Lego Apple · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject:

Holy cow! Do you know how much those things go for nowadays? Shocked

What an incredible stroke of luck!

Nice solid review as well! This just makes me envy you more! Great Job- Apple, over and out.

Oh and Merry Christmas, Captain. Smile

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Zombie Fetty · Undead! Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Location: I'm really not sure

Try to sound any less upper class - Your mum just forgot about about a $100+ set?!
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Kaiba · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:17 am Post subject:

great idea! I'm going to do that! *put a set up in the attic* if my child likes Lego. Great review there! and..... I wish I was you. Razz

hmm I wonder if my cousin ever got the RGS and At-TE? Twisted Evil

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ImpairedZombie · Undead! Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Location: Arizona

You should've sold it since it was MISB and just bought a used one on ebay and save like $100. Wink

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zombieboy · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject:

you are so lucky! one time i had the ultimate prank pulled on me. i was at a garage sale, and i saw the AT-TE, old one, MISB (or it looked like that) for $5.00, well i bought it, got home, opened it, and all that was in it was a small zip-lock bag with 5 4x6 plates, 1 2x2x3 slope, and 5 technic pins. i got ripped off!

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zombieboy · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

i know, i picked it up, bought it quickly, then got home. and opened it. i should have checked it first, it just was sealed with scotch tape, though.

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KungZombie · ZOMGpire! Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Location: Tucson, Arizona

Fetty, it might also just show a particularly spacey parent, or one who did their shopping well ahead of time. I know my mom used to pick up future gifts way in advance of birthdays or holidays for me and my sister, if we expressed an interest in something cool at the toy store or whatever. It's entirely possible that Fordo's mom bought the set in like August, wrapped it so Fordo wouldn't know what it was if he found it, and then forgot she'd done it by the holiday.

One doesn't have to be rich to be forgetful, and it's not like Fordo said "gosh, she just lost track of it in the pile of my hundreds of dollars of other presents."
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Darth Gundam · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject:

Fetty I agree with Kungfused, I mean I forget about $50 dollar sets myself, it's just a matter of having other things to do at the time.
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Zombie Fetty · Undead! Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Location: I'm really not sure

It was an off the cuff comment a year ago. I didn't expect it to come back and haunt me.
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