Rare Ship and Droid
I got this set for my birthday a couple of years back. It is a well structured set, given the fact that you can fight with the two ships. This is why I give it a higher playability rating than usual.
Vulture Droid:
Pros:
good wings, although the same as the previous version
stickers
moving head
new missiles work better on this model, as they do not fall out
Cons:
terrible buzz droids
Starfighter:
Pros:
landing gear
unique astromech droid
good stickers
wings fold up
missiles are innacurate, but sort of compensate for the fact that it's supposed to have double blasters
Cons:
missiles are innacurate
nowhere to put Ahsoka's lightsaber
This is an essential clone wars set. If you can still find it anywhere, you would be wise to buy it.
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good value for money
This is a pretty neat set I guess pretty good droid army builder and clone army builder. I got this set for a gift and when I got it I wasnt all that amazed when I first got it but once I got done building it I thought it was pretty cool I would pretty much recommend it. now onto the pros and cons.
PROS
4 minifigs: ahsoka, astronomech droid(forget the name), buzz droids (2)
vulture droid
ahsoka's starfighter
vulture droid has flying mode and walking mode
ahsoka starfighter has elevating guns on wings
vulture droid has flick fire missles
there is push fire missles under ahsoka starfighter wings
vulture droid has positionable wings\legs
you can sit ahsoka at controls
place the astronomic droid in the ship to help ahsoka during flight
CONS
way to many stickers
astronomic droid falls out when you try to do barrel rolls or flips
hard to flick the vulture droids missles
no actual place to put ahsoka's lightsaber
vulture droid isnt really that swooshable
Well thats pretty much it. You can get this in stores I would recommend this for your droid army and clone army well thats it read my other daily reviews!
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Great!
This set is awesome. I really like the current Vulture droid design (which should be sold on it's own), and Ahsoka's starfighter is beautiful.
Pros:
-Ahsoka's starfighter is awesome, and it has some printed pieces (the dark red slopes on the front.)
-The droid (don't remember it's name) is cool, and is the only exclusive minifig in the set.)
-The Vulture droid is awesome, and looks good in blue.
-Reasonable price, but $30 would have been better.
Cons:
-A fair amount of stickers (I don't mind much but some do.)
-The buzz droids are awful, and if you don't count them as minifigs, then there are only two figs in a $40 set.
-The interior of Ahsoka's fighter isn't very good.
-Both fighters have flick-fire missiles (easily removed though.)
-The droid easily falls out of Ahsoka's fighter if you do a barrel roll.
-No detailing on the fin on Ahsoka's fighter.
This is a god set, and should be bought if still available.7 out of 7 people thought this review was helpful.
Great, great set
I gotta start off by saying when i went to the LEGO store in the King of Prussia mall (near Philadelphia--go Flyers!) this set wasn't on my radar in the least bit. I went there fully expecting to walk out of there with something else, but upon arrival, said LEGO store didn't have hardly any of the summer '09 Star Wars sets, so i was forced to improvise. This, along with the Vader magnet set (see review) found its way home with me. Being relatively new still to Star Wars sets this was my first Jedi Starfighter but the Vulture droid is the exact same model from the '07 Naboo N-1, save for the blue CIS color scheme and stickers. The Jedi Starfighter is a great design, and a unique color scheme and R7 model (with the new droid head which was a huge plus--despite the fact that the colors clash badly) and my first Ahsoka minifig (not a big fan of her in the series) so there are a lot of good features here. Couple of final pointers:
-Vulture droid is updated from Episode I model (flick fire rockets, sleeker color scheme, but despite these the basic design and build is the same)
-Jedi Starfighter is awesome (better flick fire design than Anakin's version, fires both at the same time, new astromech model, starfighter is sturdy but has no weapon storage, and the droid socket is completely smooth, so rolling the ship makes the droid almost fall out)
-Rare and exclusive minifigs include some rare buzz droids, new R7-A7 droid, Ahsoka is semi-rare but cheap way to get her with this set.
All in all, if you love space battles, well, you can get one all in one box for only $40! Perfect set, glad the opportunity came by to snag it. Truely a must have.2 out of 3 people thought this review was helpful.
Another great Starfighter, for the young and energetic padawan
Based on what I observed from forums and reviews, I suspect that this is another under-rated Lego Star wars set, is it possible that being a lady's starfighter discourages guys from buying it? But my personal experiences with this set is very positive, and as a result, I bought another box for storage.
Ahsoka is a wonderful character adding much vitality to the cast, her interaction with Anakin in the clone wars brings much youthful sensation to the series. The animation did a great job in presenting the young padawan but the lego character does not seem to duplicate the animation character very well, the minifig looks too mature too me.
But aside from Ahsoka and R7, the starfighter is very good, with printed parts (which is getting rare) and a nice dark red based color scheme. The droid fighter is also good, with a design which I think is very similar to 8016 Hyena Droid bomber, it can fold and stand vertically, quite an interesting model.
And despite hating stickers, the stickers in this set is well fit into the model, well, if it can be properly placed, for me it is always challenging to place stickers on the bricks nicely.
The two buzz droids, however, can get loose easily, it is great though for us to have them again without getting the expensive old sets such as 7252 Droid Tri-Fighter.
I have read some reviews complaining about the price and it seems that some could have bought it at a strangely higher price, but I got it here in Hong Kong at around USD 50, for 2 nice vehicles + 2 buzz droid + 2 minifigs, I see this as reasonable.
I would highly recommend this set.
Please see the following blog entry for pictures of this set:
http://brickand.me/2009/07/03/Lego7751AhsokasStarfighterAndDroidsSetReview.aspx6 out of 6 people thought this review was helpful.