The Armored Assualt Tank (AAT) set (8018) is a LEGO Star Wars set which came out in 2009. It comes with 7 minifigures and 407 pieces. This set does include decals.

Minifigures:

• Clone trooper: The clone trooper comes with a double-printed armour and the basic head for the clones.
• Super battle droid: The new super battle droids are awesome. They look very basic but they have got new arms for 2009!
• Battle droid: The battle droids are very simple. There's nothing much to say about them...
• Yoda: Yoda comes with a special head which is made out of rubber and has bigger eyes and ears.

AAT:

• The AAT comes with a turret which turns a full 360°. The blaster swivels up and down. Also, the turrets on the left and right side does turn a full 360°. There're also flick-missiles which are put in the wrong position: Actually, the missiles are on the bottom, but LEGO put a sticker instead. If you shoot the missiles out of the turrets, there won't be turrets anymore. The top of the turret can also be opened, but I would recommend you not to put any minifigure in there because the ceiling won't really close. On the inside of the AAT you can see a speeder bike for the droid which you can take out.

Positive:

• Minifigures
• New super battle droids
• Yodas eyes look better
• Pieces for brickfilms and stopmotions

Negative:

• Stickers
• Price

All in all, this set is a great set and I would recommend you to get it. You can find this set on eBay and BrickLink for sure. Here is the link where you can check out the full gallery I made for this set on my website: www.klokriecher.de

Videos I made of this set:

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Review 1

Review 2

I have 2 8018 and i am really pleased with them.

Pros:

- Really good set to play with

- Good size

- Cool figures (3 super battle droids!)

- Fantastic look

- Good value

Cons:

- Just 2 Republic figures

- Easy to destroy

Overall opinion:

I think it's a good set to buy, because it gives a lot of fun and it looks amazing. With just 2 - 3 of them, you can build really cool army. Everyone needs to buy it, because it's wort it!

The AAT was one of my first LEGO Star Wars sets and it's still one of my favorites; a set with good playability, nice minifigs and a sweet tank.

Pros

• The tank is great; lots of guns (including some of those infamous flickfire missiles), a few stickers (but not too many) and a storage compartment for a little speeder that comes with the set
• Yoda; may be a fairly common fig now but it was good to get him in this set
• Always nice to have another clone
• New super battle droid arms
• Two standard battle droids

Cons

• Flickfire missiles not the greatest
• Would've been nice to get one more droid; maybe a commander battle droid
• STAP, perhaps?

Overall, a great set and one I'd recommend to any Star Wars fan especially one trying to have a Republic-Seperatist battle. Goes great with the AT-TE (there's my STAP!) and/or the RFT.

I really like this set. It has a really awesome design. It has awesome minifigures, so lets review them first.

Yoda. This is a new version of of him, only found in this set so far, but I think they're releasing one with the new, not yet released republic cruiser (not the old red one).

Now, the clone trooper. He's pretty normal, but all the same, it's nice. If You're one of those gazillionares who's trying to build a huge clone wars battle, you can get a huge separatist army, and a medium-sized clone army.

Next, the good old b1 battle droids, but, I wish they had the new arms! Now I can't make a modern droid army!

Last but not least, the brand new exclusive b2 super battle droids! What makes them exclusive, is they have the special new rocket launchers on their left arm!

Pros:

• great playability!
• You can re-enact a few of the lego star wars clone animated comics!

• Old droid arms
• Flick - fire missles!
• The lasers on the side don't fire themselves in the movies!

Nice looking and well designed tank.

A fairly easy build but it comes with some neat stuff...
PRO's - Overall look and design, a small hidden patrol car that holds one of the Battle Droids which comes out the back of tank(and can be seen from a hatch below the top hatch), 4 long flick fire missiles, top hatch can close neatly with Battle Droid inside, movable turret, cannon raises and lowers, side missile battery raises and lowers and 7 minifigures(2 Battle Droids, 3 Super Battle Droids, One Clone Tropper and the best of which is a real nice Yoda figure). Yoda's head is actually made of a soft plastic/rubber. Nicely scuplted.

Would recommend this model. Fun to play with and it moves very well on smooth surfaces with several shallow domed shaped pieces below the vehicle to simulate a slight hover effect.

CON's- Long flick fire missiles to the left and right fall off from time to time. Wish it had a tighter fit or set deeper into the side arms of the tank. Two front stickers to simulate a metal plate could've been subsituted with a Lego brick plate to look a little better. When you put the stickers there, make sure they line up with each other to have a nice symetrical look.