Oh my, does writing this bring me back.

This set was just plain fun to build, and it was somewhat easy for an 8 year old to build. The parts are great, and the ship looks great as well.

This set has some pretty good play features. You pull back on the back section of the ship, and the two engine turbines transition from a horizontal position to a vertical landing position. This also reveals a hidden compartment in which a crate is snuggly put in! You can of course, open the top and insert a pilot as well as the two 'cheeks'. This reveals a little prison cell under the pilot's seat. On the back of the cockpit, you can lift a hatch to show some bars that look into the inside of the prison cell.

There are some great minifigures. Especially the Embo. He has great printing and is probably my favorite bounty hunter from the Clone Wars TV Show. Aurra Sing as a special hairpiece, and the other two aren't very special.

The build is great, the price is set just right, it has some nice play features, and it has some nice minifigures. However, the build is delicate. That lowers my the rating to a 4.7 out of 5

Have a good day/evening and happy building!

LegoMoose

This set is known for being the least-attractive set out there. You can argue, but if you compare the price of $50 for a set that has only has 389 pieces, you know that the other one would win. But the minifigures are very nice and the ship design is decent.

Minifigs

We can all say that the main reason for getting this set would be for Aurra Sing. She comes with a very unique headpiece and a detailed front/back torso and nice printed legs. Her weapons are two small blasters.

Two other minifigures in this set are Sugi and Embo. I personally dont know much of their backround but the Embo minifigure is very nice with a printed hat, a unique face with front/back printing, a unique front/back printed torso, and uniquely designed legs. Sugi lacks a hairpiece, which saddens me, and her legs are simply two shades of grey. Her head and torso are front/back printed however.

Finally, we come to the unimportant useless assassin droid. I wouldnt really call this a minifigure since you could get 7 of them for $10 in a battle pack.

The Assault Ship

The ship itself is a nice size: not too big, about 11 inch. x 11 inch. The cockpit is nicely decorated to seat once person (Which i assume is Sugi). Underneath the cockpit is a compartment where you can barely fit a single minifigure. It looks like a brig for prisoners though by its jailbars, which is why it might be so small.

When ever you slide the large grey center panel of the ship, the wings rotate. When pushed foward, the wings go into flight mode: when you push them back, they go into landing mode. There is also a tiny chamber for a holocron of somesort.

Aside from the functions and size, there are stickers to this set. The pieces are pretty nice since you dont see these types of pieces in a dark green to often. It is pretty sturdy so it is pretty playable.

So overall, would I recommend this set? Not at first, I'd buy a few other 2011 sets first, but this set is pretty nice even for $50.

This set is my favorite lego star wars set so far.

MINIFIGS

embo:best bounty hunter included awesome hat and detail

aurra sing: best sniper in the galaxy with the ability to use the force

sugi: halo driver with one knife but still a unique bounty hunter

VEHICLE

halo: awesome jet turning air/hovercraft with room to store one prisoner it also has space for some holographic lego peice in a detailed container

It had been a long time since i've seen a set this accurate to its tv counterpart. I just recently watched the episode Bounty Hunters, and saw quite literally no differences between the set actual gunship. The minifigures are fantastic and i especially like Embo. His hat is awesome and the printing is extremely accurate to the show. He even has printing on the back of his head! The crossbow is cool, but should be pure black rather than silver. Aurra Sing has been a fan favorite for years as well as my second favorite bounty hunter (Bossk for the win!) Her hairpiece is excellent, despite the fact that it is brown. This doesnt bother me though, since the attempted product came out even better than i expected. The biggest con is the exclusion of the long ranged rifle as seen in the comics and Hostage Crisis. I'm not surpirsed though, as the rifle is much longer than the standard clone rifle and has a strap across it. Mabye next time... Sugi is terrible. She looks more like an old lady than a Zabrak and only has four horns. The attempt at a pony tail was poor, and could have been replace with a new headpiece. The assasin droid is *sigh* just another assassin droid. This could have been a perfect attempt at including a commando droid, but I guess not.

Pros:

New and incredible figures

Good pieces, nice colors, great design

Solid cockpit

Cool engines

HOLOCRON

Cons:

A tad expensive

minimal room for figures

Assassin droid

Engine flaps move way too much

Sugi

Overall:

A fantastic start to 2011, a truly incredible set. If your on the fence about this one, just buy it! It may be expensive, but the figs make up for it as well as its sheer beautiful appearance. So far, this is the best set i've seen in a LONG time.

This set is just sublime, pure and simple, the Minifigures and the Gunship itself are both excellent and have a high play value.

Box/Instructions

The box art for this set shows the Gunship flying through space away from an orange planet with an asteroid belt, probably Geonosis. The laser cannons are firing and many explosions are taking place around the ship. There is also a smaller image of the ship in landing mode and a line up of the four Minifigures included in the set.

The instructions are perfect, like in every other set and I had no missing pieces, what more can you ask for? Unlike most Star Wars sets however the set has numbered bags, which makes the build much shorter and easier, but for those of you out there who enjoy the challenge of building your Lego sets, as I do, this can be a little frustrating.

Parts

There are many interesting parts featured in this set including a couple of brand new moulds including Aurra Sing's hair and a dark grey flat piece with studs on either end. I particularly like however a new printed piece which has several buttons and some Aurebesh writing on it, in this set it acts as the lid for a box stored on top of the vehicle. I can see this piece being used a lot in future Star Wars sets. For those of you who dislike stickers, there are several in this set, but fortunately they are not too difficult to apply. Also there are many dark green parts in the set, which are quite rare, so could be useful in your own models.

Minifigures

The Minifigures in this set are brilliant, we get four, an Elite Assassin Droid which is just the same as seen in the Assassin Droid Battle Pack, but it is still a nice inclusion to the set. There is also Sugi, who is quite a good figure, but lacks some detail and Embo who is a really interesting character and has been well recreated in Lego with some excellently detailed printing on his head, torso and legs. The highlight of the minifigures though, in my opinion is Aurra Sing, her printing is very accurate as is the new hair piece, which is not something that has been attempted before. She could be very useful as she has appeared in many recent Clone Wars episodes. On her legs she has printed holsters which look really good, equally as good as the new pistols which are included for her.

The build

The build took me about half an hour and was quite engaging. The construction of the mechanism to move the engines is very clever, and deceptively simple. There are many areas of the set which use some nice sloped pieces, and even better, they come in dark green! The method of connecting the cockpit to the main body of the gunship is quite interesting, and allows or easy separation, not that I can see why that would be necessary.

The completed model

The set overall is brilliant, very accurate to it's appearance (albeit short) in the season two episode of the Clone Wars 'Bounty Hunters'. I am very pleased that they included an Aurra Sing Minifigure even though she did not appear with this ship in the show, and therefore would not need to be in the set. The cockpit is spacious but has only one seat and a control panel. There is also a storage chamber or jail cell with bars and a hatch which closes over the bars. The main feature of the set however is the movable engines which move into landing position when the back of the ship is pulled, this movement also reveals the cargo box inside which there is a Jedi Holocron, despite what many people have said, I like this accessory, it at least resembles the Holocron seen in the television show, and is a welcome inclusion.

Summary

Overall, this set is amazing, in my opinion of all the Star Wars sets I have so far from 2011 (all but the T-6 Jedi Shuttle and the Battle of Naboo) the best equal to the Clone Trooper Battle Pack.

Overall - 10/10