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sith4ever99 · Joined: 27 Feb 2005

Hey there Lego fans! I've been a member for a long time but haven't posted in a couple years; just lurk around the forums every now and then. Well today I got back from college and went to a local Target to pick up some Christmas presents and wouldn't you know, most of the new sets were sitting right there on the shelf! I picked up the Republic Attack Shuttle as it looked interesting and included my favorite (non-light up) Jedi, Mace Windu.

Pics: (I'm by no means a photographer so most of these are horrible pics taken at night with bad lighting)
Box Front
Box Back
Top View
Interior
Finished Product

The set turned out to be a rather nice build. Like a lot of new sets, most of the shuttle is built around a Technic base that serves a duel purpose for the movable wings. The build went rather fast for me, however I've been an avid Lego fan for years and would give it an average build time rating compared to other sets. My favorite part of the set would have to be the bombs. Like I said, the set revolves around the Technic base and part of this is a bomb hold for 4 large bombs. Whats great about these bombs is that they are very secure; you have to turn a nob on either side of the shuttle to open each bomb bay giving the shuttle great swooshability. However, the top missile rack does move around a lot causing me to leave it off of my shuttle.

Ratings:

Parts: 9/10 - Lots of Technic pieces plus a ton of Republic maroons, whites, and grays.
Minifigs: 8/10 - Only 3 figures, but at least we get Mace Windu
Detail: 7/10 - No printed pieces or stickers and lack of a cargo bay interior leaves me wondering how this is a "shuttle".
Playability: 9/10 - A lot of weapons, yay, plus swooshable
Price to parts: 9/10 - Decent size vehicle for the price.
Availability: 6/10 - Should be in stores and online soon.
OVERALL RATING: 7/10 - Good design, should be fun to play with.

sith4ever99 · Joined: 27 Feb 2005

EDIT: oops double post Embarassed

RoflWafls · Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Location: Indy (Not that one >_<)

Is it just me, or does this ship look alot like the one in Imperial Inspection.........

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

It is the earlier, Republic version of the Imp. Shuttle, so that's assumedly intended.

This set looks OK, but the varying colours really annoy me.

And nice to at last see a review that has pictures.
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DestructiveZombie · Undead! Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Location: City of Evil, Canada

The main problem I have with this set is the terrible colour scheme. If it was just grey and dark red, or white and dark red, then it would look good. But no, they had to ruin it with annoying yellow everywhere.
Anyways, good review, I just wanted to rant abit about the colours Razz

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Morbie19 · Undead! Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Location: Virginia

I'd say the blame for that lays squarely on the original ship's design rather than the set, though...

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DestructiveZombie · Undead! Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Location: City of Evil, Canada

O I know it's not Lego's fault. I was just saying that the colour scheme is what I don't like about it Razz

Though at the same time, part of me wants it for the rest of the set. Confused

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SW Fan Goosi · Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Location: A galaxy far, far away

Now I can finally make a Mustafar scene with the Theta shuttle!
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Kaiba · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject:

Who Wouldn't? Razz

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General Veers · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

I'll probably pick this sucker up.
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lordvader208 · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Location: Los Angeles, California

thanks for the good review.

The more I look at this set, the more I like it and the less annoying the color scheme looks to me. I think the yellow would match more with white than with grey, so maybe that's why the colors look so strange. But I'm mostly interested in this ship for looks because I think it looks pretty neat.
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Darth Andrew · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Location: Indiana, U.S.A

Is it just me, or does Mace look like Obama, albeit pissed off? Comparison:

Mace

Obama

I think they sorta look alike, which would be good for an idea I'm throwing around.
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Battle Zombie Alita · Undead! Joined: 06 May 2005

Does the flick fire mechanism wok for anyone?
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CommanderJake · Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Location: England

Nom! mmmmmmm!

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