Finally picked up Buzz today, when I found him discounted at Argos. He's now standing proudly on my bookshelf where he's likely to stay.

Box/Instructions

A reasonably sized box, with a picture of Buzz from a very strategic angle... Inside are two numbered bags, an instruction booklet and a sheet with 5 stickers.

Parts

Buzz is made off an interesting bunch of parts. Obviously there's a lot of white and lime green, especially plates and slopes. There are also some black macaronis and a few dark purple plates. And of course a Buzz head and a nice clear round half-dome which would make a great windscreen. White Bionicle fists are the perfect size

Minifigures

For some reason there's a three-eyed alien in this set.

The build

The legs, the wings, part of the torso... there's a fair bit of SNOT building going on. The instructions are good but for young builders this could be challenging. The result is worth it though. There are a few printed parts and a few stickers. That may seem strange but the stickered parts have rarely (the 1x6 tiles) or never (the curved and sloped parts) been printed.

The completed model

When built there's no mistaking: this is Buzz Lightyear from Star Command. The legs are chunkier than they appear on the box picture, thanks to that clever camera angle. Compare him to a movie still and you'll find a number of inaccuracies but that's not the point; he just looks the part.

Playability is ok; the wings fold (rather than slide), the arms and legs move (shoulders and wrists, hips and ankles, no elbows and knees) and he's swooshable.

When the owner grows up this Buzz makes a nice static model on a book shelf; no need to ship him to the salvation army like Andy does in the movie.

Summary

Fun to build, fun to play, and good looking on a shelf. And if you do decide to take him apart you're left with a nice bunch of parts. The only problem is the original price of €23.

Whether you've seen Toy Story as a child or with your child, go and get yourself a Buzz!

Cool Buzz and cool Alien minifigure. Its areally cool set but the same as construct-a-Zurg, (7591), its just two expensive and its only got about 200 pieces and its not worth £20.00 (UK price); And really their just display models.

Thank you for reading!

Jacob Wilson.

I'm picky when it comes to action figures. All I want is good sculpting, multiple articulation, at least around 6 inches, and of quality material. For a Buzz Lightyear action figure, all of them at least fulfilled two of that criteria. Every figure I've bought has either been only half-good or disappointing, and only the really awesome ones were the expensive electronic, 12 inch models. When I heard that Lego has taken hold of the Toy Story license, I was ecstatic. Then I changed my pants after I saw the picture of the upcoming Construct A Buzz set.

The final product is...pretty accurate. He's got his slide-up helmet, an original head, fold-up wings in the back, and can do his heroic poses, but he can only do two of them. Namely his side-arms hero stance and his flying pose. He also has swivel hips, which make his initial poses slightly better. Other interesting pieces of note are some pre-labeled bricks, the new Bionicle hands, Ball/socket bricks and the ratchet joints. But he only gets a few joints as he can't stretch his arms, bend his knees or even do as much as his laser-point pose. And for the MSRP of $25, it's almost a rip-off. Also there are stickers, I hate stickers. Personally, I preferred to wait for an opportunity for Target, TRU or Walmart to slash at least $5 off to make it really worth it or at least have some BOGO sale of sorts. And they did. For me to pay full MSRP, they would need to throw in knees or elbows.

Overall, Lego kind of fails for the lack of additional joints, but redeems itself at just making a set for the Buzz Lightyear character. Personally, I also think that this beats every other Buzz Lightyear action figure ever made (at least until I see how well Revoltech's Buzz Lightyear stacks up). Even the ones with all that sound, signature features from the movie, and those buttons, they just can't top its full Lego brand customizeability. But only those with A LOT of Exo Force or Bionicle pieces to spare (or sets with similar pieces) would only be able to see, and possibly agree with, what I'm talking about.

Toy Story was never my pick for Theme of the Year, but I must admit that the quality of the sets produced for Buzz & Woody's adventures actually goes a long way to justifying LEGO's pricing policy on licensed themes. Most of the Toy Story sets look like real good value for money, but none more than the 7592.

Put simply, what you get here is much more than what you see. The sheer amount of lime and purple pieces contained herein makes the whole set worthy - not to mention the alien minifig. Oh yeah, and Buzz himself. But we'll come to that.

In terms of building experience, this one is, admittedly, none too breathtaking. You might even say it's a bit repetitive, but the progress is still enjoyable and those nifty bits and pieces included make sure that you don't start yawning while building Buzz's 'second' leg or arm. As to the finished model itself - yes indeed, poor ol' Buzz has been Barbie-d up a bit (what a waistline!), but at the end of the day it's still most definitely him, albeit in a shiny sleek (instantly recognisable) new LEGO package. And I must say, after having owned figures of Buzz, Woody and the lot back in the days, building this set really did come as a nice trip down memory lane.

All in all, even though all that lime and purple is heading straight to the parts bin, I must confess that I sat there for a while and wondered why they hadn't thought of having Buzz made out of LEGO in the first place. Sure looks right to me!

Oh, and if you're not sold on the 'lime & purple Buzziness' part, the alien minifig should still be enough of a reason to buy this one.

well my toy story legos were my first 2010 legos and i was excited to get him he was fun to build and would recomend it to people the building of it was very good you get a good veriety of pieces even some rare ones you better get it before its to late good family lego