Building Set Reviews

Anyway, it's a vital item in any kid's (or adult's) Lego set....

Moving the left claw of the scorpion, makes a giant boulder roll down . Once the boulder is away, you can acces the giant "union-shaped" tower. There is the beautiful golden shield ! Though when you try to get the red ruby ... You fall trough the ceiling ! SCARY.

The set also features -18- game cards, and a GAME BOARD. The instructions of this game are not great, but understandable.

Every little part is doubled, wich is very handy.

Made from only 99 pieces, this set isn't very hard to build, but can be a bit demanding on consentration. The finished product can easily fit into the palm of your hand or slip into your pocket.

Also, several of the models that have been discontinued by the LEGO company, such as TIE Fighter, Vader's TIE Fighter, Podracers, Sith Infiltrator, Imperial Shuttle, MTT, and Jedi Starfighter; making this a great way to obtain them for at least 75% less of the price.

I love this set!! Buy it!!

The Multi-Troop Transport is pretty true to the original but just doesn't seem the same if it can't deploy a load of droid troops (kind of hard to do at this scale). The finished model is a good size for playing with.

The directions are standard Lego format and are easy to follow. The final construction is solid and believable. The set includes extra parts for making part of a Y-Wing (the rest of the parts are available with the AT-At, Millennium Falcon, and the Republic Gunship).

All in all, very nicely done.

Legos is one of the few manufacturers that makes toys that give the child free rein to create and conceive. (Although I notice that even Legos is producing more toys that give exact instructions on what to build rather than providing pieces that can be used in multiple ways.)

My 2 1/2 year old niece loves this set. She isn't quite ready to make things that match the included instructions, but she has a lot of fun putting the bricks together and coming up with her own creations. That's how I'd rather see her play anyway, rather than building to a blueprint. She prefers these regular-size bricks to the toddler Duplo bricks.

The Millennium Falcon is pretty true to the original. The finished model is the size of the palm of a large hand. A good size for playing with.

The directions are standard Lego format and are easy to follow. The final construction is solid and believable. The set includes extra parts for making part of a Y-Wing (the rest of the parts are available with the AT-At, Republic Gunship, and the Multi-Troop Transport).

All in all, very nicely done.

He replied, "Perhaps not in the physical sense, but it's glaringly obvious you're not even up to that age mentally or emotionally."

"You know, you've got a point there", I grudgingly admitted.

So I went home, opened the sets up, and spent a good twenty minutes assembling both of them. Although I liked the AT-AT kit more, this one ain't half-bad. It shares a reasonable resemblance to the real deal, though not quite as close I would have preferred. One thing I found kinda weird was that it sported a detailed top radar-dish-shaped piece complete with "seams" and "exhaust ports", as well as "escape pod door" end caps on the sides (see Amazon's photo of the product to see what I'm talking about)-- yet the cockpit piece had no windows. It's also kinda weird that this vessel has two "cannon barrels" atop the aforementioned top radar-dish piece (those antenna-like bits), but none on the bottom piece. Guess I'll just hafta borrow a couple antennae from my mini AT-AT to give this little freighter-fighter the proper look...

But in spite of its shortcomings, I found the Lego Millenium Falcon mini set a decent addition to my ultra-geekin' stash of Star Wars collectibles. I'd recommend it to any Star Wars fanboy who's too lazy to build and detail a proper model, and/or is strapped for space in the basement dwelling he's fashioned under his parents' house. And you KNOW who you are...

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The Star Destroyer is a nice looking model and, for a mini, actually has a feeling of massiveness in its design.

The directions are standard Lego format and are easy to follow. The final construction is solid (although two sloped sides can lift a little as they are on hinges to get the slope). There is no packaged instructions for combining parts of this model with others to create a different Star Wars vehicle (some of the other sets do).

All in all, very nicely done.

- "wings" near the back can move even though they shouldn't be able to
- no extra model to motivate you to buy the entire series (like the TIE bomber or Y wing in previous LEGO Start Wars Mini sets)
- Uses new dark gray color

The color issue is only a problem if you intend to mix the pieces with other old dark gray pieces.

On the plus side, like all of the Mini sets this is:

- fast to build
- cheap
- easy to store/display due to small size