Yes, two reviews in one day! You poor, poor people ;)

Anyway, I'll review the $9.99 V-Wing, a set that's gotten a mixed bag of reactions so far. I'd have to say, it's a bit of a disappointment >-|

So, on with the review!

Here's a picture of the tiny fighter from the front. I had to fold the bottom wings to let it sit down, since they don't TURN |-/

As you can see, it's piloted by a standard clone pilot. Anyone found a use for them yet?

Here's a picture of the bottom, including the "landing gear". Even though it's a cheap set, you'd think that they could spring for retractable landing gear, like in Anakin's Jedi fighter...

Engines from the back. You can see the way the NON-ROTATING wings connect to the body of the ship, and the folded bottom wings:

The two blasters on the wings:

The NICE red R2 unit...unfortunately there's just the "head' (even though it's just the "head", it's probably the highlight of the set)

Finally, the fighter with all wings fully extended:

Rating:

Pieces: 9/10

Minifigures: 3/10

Playability: 7/10

Originality: 5/10

Set Design: 6/10

Overall: 6/10

Really, the ship is only good for getting lots of bley wing pieces, fast. There are some dark red elements as well, which are pretty nice, and of course that R2 head *wub* The pieces aren't even that useful (to me at least), but I'm sure to some people out there it comes packed with lots of valuable pieces.

2 reviews in one day

but this is only one >-| whats the other one

2 reviews in one day

but this is only one >-| whats the other one

the B-Wing

http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/eurofo...t=ST&f=2&t=3062

the fact that the wings don't turn is very dissapointing...you think they would make room for something like that. It's like leaving the x-wing with non movable s-foils. In fact, they could have just used the pieces that make up the cannons on Jango's slave 1, those would have been great. Anyway,Good honest review.

Starwars4J,

Tks for the nice review !! It looks a little better than I thought and the astromech head is just... adorable *wub*

Cant wait to get it ;)

EDIT: both reviews pinned !!!

It looks like a fun ship to me, i love the new r2 units head though it is a shame that he dosent come with a body though.

This is one ship that i hope to get a few of, thanks for the reviews SW4J :)

great review! :oD

the ship doesn't really look spectacular to me. It seems to me they wanted to make some money fast, the cheap way...

can you give us a pic of the cockpit and an over all shot from above?

What would Sne do without cokpit pics !!! :D :P

I dunno...I like it, but Its dissapointing to know tha the wings don't turn...Its not like in the movies...Perhaps someone can modiy it to make them rotate...

I know ill try, and I know Im gonna get like 5 of these to hang all ovah!

great review! :oD

the ship doesn't really look spectacular to me. It seems to me they wanted to make some money fast, the cheap way...

can you give us a pic of the cockpit and an over all shot from above?

Sure, I'll get around to it after class in a few hours

Also Starwars4J, can you take a close up pic of how the wing attach to the main body, to see if it is possible to Moc it so the wings DO turn ?? Tks ;)

Also Starwars4J, can you take a close up pic of how the wing attach to the main body, to see if it is possible to Moc it so the wings DO turn ?? Tks ;)

Sure, I'll do that too :) It's just a simple technic pin, though

great review! and great pics! :-D thanks.

Well nuts, I was really looking forward to this set and from the pics it looks pretty skimpy :(

But, at that price point it's a good "squadron builder" set, and I can never have too many of those "Republic Red" bricks

i'm glad the wings dont rotate

i'm glad the wings dont rotate

why is that ??? It would be a lot more movie accurate ;)

i'm glad the wings dont rotate

why is that ??? It would be a lot more movie accurate ;)

1 word, stability

True, if the wings could rotate, they'd be doing it all the time ;)

soory , for my this is a joke ! |-D it s made by a 8years old child or what ??

Yes, from what we've seen this definitely seems to be the weakest of the news SW sets. Ah well, if one had to be weak, I'm glad it's the prequel ship.

At least it's cheap. :/

Thanks for the great review, though! :-D

I really dont see this set as being weak, in fact i think its alot better than alot of ships that weve had over the years. For the price i think that its a great little ship and one that will no doubt do well in sales for lego.

As for the wings well im sure theres ways around the whole turning issue and i expect someone to come up with a way for them to rotate without doing it all the time.

I totally agree with you Vader !!!!

For the price, itsd a great little ship !!!!!!! I think its way better than I thought from the pic of the box !!

The only bad point is the lack of the Astromech body like in all ep and ep 3 JSFs !!!!

Yeah thats one thing that i do wish was included in the set, with any luck lego will give us a body for this little fella soon.

I really dont see this set as being weak, in fact i think its alot better than alot of ships that weve had over the years. For the price i think that its a great little ship and one that will no doubt do well in sales for lego.

As for the wings well im sure theres ways around the whole turning issue and i expect someone to come up with a way for them to rotate without doing it all the time.

of course you can! replace the the black round 2 x 2 plates by a 1 x 1 round plate, attatch the wing section to it, and you'll have a wing section that can easily be rotated, but at the same time the wing will be quite solid and won't move unless you manipulate it! come on, people, this is so simple i should kick your butt for not having come up with this solution yourself! :P

The only bad point is the lack of the Astromech body like in all ep and ep 3 JSFs !!!!

in the jsf2 and in the V-wing, it isn t a R2 units it a R4 units alle the R4 units have just the head

So there is no error just ine the JSF3