this set is perfect 1 harbor and a little boat nice the big boat is like the bat hover craft exept this verison is city it will be good for a boat chase super driver but naa this verison is better than the bat hovercraft.

Okay, This time I'm going to do my review in sections:

Hover craft

Pros:

Nice Skirt
Great Boat launching system
Jewels!
Great steering system
Those awesome rubber wheels are under it.

Cons:

Why do they need Props and Turbines to run this thing?

Boat

Pros:

Launches out of dock great
Cool storage system

Cons:

Too small.
Only one mini-fig can fit.

Mini-figs:

Pros:

Cool Skar on guy's face
TRAIN DRIVER'S HAT!!!!!! YEA!!!!!!!
Nice beanie for other bad guy

Cons:

Needs to be 1 more minifig.

Dock:

Pros:

Launches well.
Rat/Cat thingy.
Gas Can

Cons:

How on earth can a hovercraft hide behind it?

Okay, Bye.

• I remeber building this set with my mom when I was 6 or something. It comes with a handful of good peices ,nice rubber hovercrft peices.

pros:

hovercraft

nice figs cool dock

good boat launching function in the dock

there is decals but the majority is printed

cons:

price is not the best

bad design on the hovercraft

overall it is a good set, just not perfect;)

The shed has big sliding doors, which I have rarely ever seen in any set. Not to crazy about the hovercraft although it is cool looking- don't know how useful it would be catching a jet ski. The hovercraft is large almost out of scale to most of my city vehicles,boats, etc. Due to its shelf space not one that I keep assembled. However the set does have some appeal, I am glad I do have it.

7045 Hovercraft Hideout
Okay here we go again..
Along with the WC rescue chopper the Hovercraft Hideout was also a set I wanted upon seeing a pic of it on the net, and just a week ago I picked one up at Big W for $46.90(aud)
When I opened this up much to my surprise that it had the old Grey's instead of the new Grey's, I thought this set came out at the same time as the other 2004 WC sets which are all in the new Grey?
Basically the set consists of the nicley built Hovercraft, one mini speed-boat thing, a small uninspiring little shed, two mini-figs and a rat.
Also note the all decals in this set are stickers except the large black curve slopes with the shark pattern on them.

Hovercraft, the good
This is obviously the highlight part of the set, to start off with it looks allot bigger on the box-art then it does in real-life.
Basically you slide the speedboat into the back and upon pushing a round thing behind the canopy the the speed-boat ejects out behind the craft.
Another neat touch is that when you turn one rear turbine the other turns in the same direction as well kudos to Lego for adding that feature.
Though I really don't like the two engines that stick out from the sides they would look more at home on an F-16 not a Hovercraft.
The mailboxes/safes are really good they have a black base and a light Grey door, you get a really cool little keypad sticker to put on each of them but the problem is that it takes multiple trys to get them on straight usually resulting in the accidental folding of one of the sticker corners.
BTW the safes contain two 100 dollar Mini-fig land bills (Man what a heist..) and three gems red blue and yellow in you were wondering.
The Air skirt is a unique part you get 5 rubber bumper parts which slide onto a special locking part.
The Hovercraft is great because it has a sleek and smart design that has only one or two small problems.

The Speed boat, the Bad
meeeeeee its a small feature of the set but I will review it anyway.
Nothing much to it it seats one fig and has a storage compartment under the hood where you can store the jewels, money or the Rat.
What really annoyed me about this boat is that it uses a piece that is just two 2x6 curved slop things stuck together to make one piece, why not just use two 2X6's instead of sticking them together grrrrrr..
There also another one underneath but inverted double grrr..

The Shed, the Ugly
Lego should really think about what they name their sets if this shed is the "hovercraft hideout" portion of the set how come the hovercraft has no possible way to hide in or behind it?
The shed contains a small launching pad for the speedboat like the Hovercraft did but this one dose'nt seem to work as well.
You also get some trans-muddy-yellow 1x2 tiles for the lights which is nice, and some more black round parts which are always good to have around.
Includes not many but a few large dark-grey bricks to construct the amazing 2 walls that only function to hold the roof up..
And on mine anyway the right window shutter stays such where as the left one flys open at the slightest bump.

Mini-figs
You get: The captain this guy reminds me of Captain Nemo from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (the book not the movie)
He wears a blue jumper with gold buttons and black pants he also wears a black train drivers hat (Yay!) , and his head looks like an evil version of Mac the commander from the Lego LOM series a couple years back.
The second guy is pretty plain, the head is a new goofy "sawdust for brains" looking criminal head he has a black tank-top and his pants are brown.
In some pictures the second Guy is shown with huge Tattoos on his arms, mine did not and I was disappointed because that was one of the reasons I bought this set.
And the first guy has a strange red line down the right side of his head not shown in catalogs

In conclusion I give this set a 9/10 because of its great pieces and study main model. :)