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If you want to relive the assault on Hoth, this is a great set to add to your diorama!
The swamps of Naboo are home to many creatures. (Jar Jar and Qui Gon UNFORTUNATLY) This set comes with 2 STAPs, JJB, and the Jinnster. (Qui gon) The STAPs are the coolest part of the set! to give the illusion that they are flying the STAPs are mounted on tranparent energy beams. To make this set in a swamp setting, the designers added some vegetation in. Sometimes I remove the green whips (In this case VINES) from the tree’s and pretend that the Battle Droids have made Jar Jar and Qui Gon slaves and are making the eat the trees!!! Jar Jar Binks is a very fun dude because of his head. Here’s a recipe for fun:
JAR JAR: JEDI MASTER
1) Remove Jar Jar’s Gungan head from his body.
2) Remove Quigons head from his body.
3) Place Jar Jar’s head on Qui Gon’s body.
4) Place Qui Gon’s head on Jar Jar’s Body.
Voila! Now you have Jar Jar: Jedi master and Qui Gon of Ohto Gunga!!
Oh yeah, I’m doing a set review!
I don’t know of any store that markets it, other than this website, but if you see it, you might consider buying it.
Qui-Gon Jinn first realizes that Jar Jar Binks is going to be a handful when the gangly amphibian practically knocks the Jedi master into a swamp puddle during the Trade Federation attack on the planet Naboo. This 81-piece set from LEGO lets you build everything you need to reenact that scene from Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace. (And no doubt Qui-Gon would appreciate it if you could keep him a little drier this time.) The Naboo Swamp set comes with mini figures of both the Gungan and the Jedi (with lightsaber), plus two long-snouted battle droids; the remaining pieces let you put together swamp vegetation and a couple of swooping STAP hovercraft units for the pair of droids to fly on. Of course, as always, you can recombine these pieces anyway you’d like. Maybe it’s even time that Jar Jar got his own ship… –Paul Hughes
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The Home One, Mon Calimari Star Cruiser (Limited Edition) is a wonderfully designed set. Great A-Wing Fighter, Hanger Bay and Bridge with Tactical Room are all well designed and highly playable. I found it to be a fairly easy but enjoyable build. Overall nicely designed with some neat features.
A-WING FIGHTER – Well designed ship. I feel an improvement upon the previous version. Good color scheme with some rich/dark green pieces, cockpit opens/closes with hinge (interior cockpit has printed screen design ala’ Death Star trench run), 2 long flick-fire missiles, rear engines nicely designed and a neat feature…you can take out the red engine from the back middle section. It is held into position, left and right, by a very simple but effective hinge technique which closes and locks the engine into the vehicle. Once opened, the engine can easily slide out. Also the A-Wing has front retractable landing gear. And of course, the A-Wing comes with a neat pilot mini-fig with the classic Lego face and nice graphics for the torso and helmet (w/visor that can raise/lower).
HANGER BAY – Here in the Hanger Bay you have a large area to accomodate the A-Wing Fighter. There is a working crane accross the top of the Hanger which can slide left to right and uses a technique gear to raise and lower the ‘hook’. The ‘hook’ can attach to the removable engine to raise it out of the back of the A-Wing to be worked on by your Mon Calamari mechanic mini-fig (which comes with a wrench). This mini-fig has a great head sculpt(captures the Mon Calamiri race perfectly). The A-Wing can be mounted to a long working technique piece with which you can move/spin the A-Wing 360 degrees as well as forward and backward. If you notice underneath the A-Wing are 2, 2×2 grey plates mid section. This helps mount the vehicle to the working technique. I suggest trying similar sized craft with the 2×2 plate addition to add more playability. In the hanger are 2 hoses which can be used to add fuel/energy to your vehicles or engine. And also there are 2 compartments on the Hanger deck to hold tools, weapons, etc.
BRIDGE/TACTICAL ROOM – The Hanger Bay is attached with a technique pin to the Bridge and Tactical Room. The front/forward Bridge has the command chair for Admiral Ackbar (a wonderful well sculpted head and front/back graphics…best new mini-fig from Lego). The well designed chair has a tactical computer that can mount over Ackbar’s lap. The command chair is also mounted to a technique gear so you can move him forward and back as well as 360 degrees. Just so much fun to have him move, spin and survey the field of battle or turn to the back and get some coffee from his clear coffee cup (attached to the back rail). Left and right of the command chair are 2 other chairs with computer screens you can raise or lower to accomadate mini-figs. Below and back of the bridge is the Tactical Room. Wonderfully designed with a curved back section and 2 large holographic projectors pointing towards the center. In the center of the room is the holographic (trans orange)Death Star (I believe the pieces for this are Bionicle). There are also two platforms above (left and right), 2 exits with steps (left and right) plus 5 computers screens around the back curve section. You can put all your favorite characters here or the ones from this scene from Star Wars to review the weaknesses of the Death Star!
And before I forget we have some other great mini-figs…Mon Mothma with nice wig sculpt and white cape, General Lando Calrissian with blaster pistol and grey cape (awesome torso design) and General Madine mini-fig.
This is one highly playable set with working gears, crane, vehicle, removable engine, compartments, movable command chair, etc. Great play features for your kid or like me the young at heart AFoL.
The only ‘con’s’ I can give are this…first off, it’s extremely minor, is the name of this kit. They call it a Star Cruiser but why couldn’t the name be Home One Mon Calamari Bridge and Hanger Bay? Secondly, which is extremely major is the original price point on this. At 0 US dollars it’s way over the top. There aren’t really any truly unique parts(besides the new Mon Calamari heads) even though the design and playbility is spot on. To make this set justify the high price, Lego should’ve provided 2 to 3 more mini-figs (another Mon Calamari , maybe an X-Wing pilot or another A-Wing pilot) and perhaps some unique pieces, chrome pieces, printed tiles for the computers. Just something more to make you feel you got 0 worth.
Now I picked this up for US at Toys R Us and that to me is a fair market price. Now with all that in mind…this is one great play set! Nice features throughout with some nice unique mini-figs you enjoy immensely. I Highly Recommend it if you get it at the right price. A truly well designed and playful kit!
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