Set #7656 General Grievous' Starfighter: This is one of few Starfighter sized ships which I own in LEGO form and I must say this one is quite impressive.

When I first picked up this set I was feeling very pleased with myself because it gave me two things, my first LEGO Grievous Mini-Figure and another impressively scaled Starfighter to do battle against my TIE. Once I got it home and started building it I was not dissapointed.

Grievous' Starfighter uses a lot of interesting pieces to give the impression of Grievous' Starfighter in LEGO form. The way to open and close the cockpit is particularily ingenious and a far cry better than if they'd just told you to pop it on and off every time you wanted to insert Grievous into the pilots station. The laser cannons are rotatable allowing for various positions of aiming. And the rear assembly looks nice too. I would have to say that it takes roughly fifteen - twenty-five minutes to build up the bulk of the ship.

Grievous comes with five accessories. Four lightsabers and one blaster. And the Mini-Figure looks rather nice too. The only real problem is that LEGO stopped giving us the Chromed Lightsaber hilt piece, so when he's fighting my older Anakin and Obi-Wan Mini-Figures, or Luke, he looks like he got his Lightsabers not from conquered Jedi, but Jedis-R-Us Surplus store or something. Still it is rather impressive.

Overall I was very impressed by everything about this unique and excellent looking Starfighter, there is even a small storage rack for your lightsabers when not in use. There is really nothing to improve upon in this set, unless you're looking for a cape for Grievous, but even then since this ship was in the movie for all of... One scene? And Grievous didn't have a cape in that scene it isn't a total loss. The Clone Wars has introduced a new iteration of this vessel and I have yet to pick that one up, but it looks suitably impressive. All in all I'd say if you only prefer to have one copy of the ship I can't tell you which of the two is the better deal, yet, but if you're like me, a LEGO Star Wars Completist then this set is a must have item.

First off, this set is just awesome. The fact that you can turn the guns over and hide them underneath is a good feature. The beige and brown pieces in the middle make the set look really interesting. The only problem is when you try to pull the cockpit back, it either gets stuck or falls. The lightsaber storage area underneath is a great spot to keep the lightsabers. Overall, I give this set 5/5.

I think this set is REALLY cool and I suggest anyone who likes starships will LOVE this set! it's easy to build and play with.

Pros:
Stable
nice sliding cocpit
4 lightsabers
general grievous
raise and lower blasters
moveable tail rudder

Cons:
when holding the ship, beware of fragile lightsaber holder underneath

This was my second Lego set and i got it because of Grievous but the starfighter
was cool,the flip up guns,the opening cockpit, the lightsaber holder under the starfighter.

PROS

Grievous

ship

lightsaber,s

CONS

no cape

all of Grievous's arms broke

This is a great set. I love it. The Soulless One (Grievous's starfighter) is one of my favorite SW ships, and Grievous is my favorite villian.
Pros:
-Very good-looking.
-Sturdy.
-Cheap, and worth the price.
-Includes a rare minifigure, and one of the new blasters.
Cockpit opening mechanism is quite cool and works well. Hope to see more of these in future sets.
-No stickers (not a pro for me, but some people care about that)
Cons:
-Not a big con, but only one minifig.
-Grievous has no cape.
-The cockpit piece isn't printed and has no stickers to make it look like it should.
-Soulless One has no controls.
-The rudder can't turn, and instead is I believe incorrectly labeled as tail landing gear.
-The Grievous minifigure is colorless, has legs that can't independently move and arms that can't pose very well (probably not big cons to most people, but to a brickfilmer like me it is a pretty big problem, probably the biggest for me since I have the Grievous with the cape and don't care much about controls in this ship.)
Though there are more cons than pros, they are fairly small and fairly easily fixed by me. This an extremely great set that should be bought by any Star Wars fan.