REVIEW: 30053 Republic Attack Cruiser

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As many of you may be aware, the british newspaper The Sun are giving away free LEGO sets each day this week. I intend to review all 7 sets beginning with this one....

Click below for other reviews from the Sun's free LEGO week.

Saturday - Republic Attack Cruiser

Monday - Harry Potter Lab

Tuesday - City Truck COMING SOON

Wednesday - Alien Conquest Jet Pack COMING SOON

Thursday - Cars 2 Gremlin COMING SOON

Friday - Ninjago Ninja Training COMING SOON

Saturday - Harry Potter Trolley COMING SOON

BASIC INFORMATION:

Set Name: Republic Attack Cruiser

Set Number: 30053

Number of Pieces: 41

Minifigs: 0

Price: FREE with The Sun (60p)

Theme: Star Wars

Year Released: 2011

RESOURCES:

Bricklink

Brickset

BAG:

Front:

Like most 'free' sets. The model comes in a small sealed bag. No expense spared on the graphics however. All the necessary details are here and a great image of the ship in action.

Back:

All the small print plus a small to scale image of the Binocular piece.

INSTRUCTIONS:

The instructions are printed on both sides of a small sheet. Also including another neat image of the final model.

Front:

Back:

PIECES:

As far as Pieces go, this set is great. No less than 10 light grey jumper plates and 4 gorgeous dark red pieces.

Spares:

You can never have too many of those dinky slopes.

ASSEMBLY:

For such a small model the build is quite straightforward and if you can read the instructions above if you need to. I've taken this one mid-build shot to give an idea of how it all fits together.

FINAL PIECE:

Here it is. The final model. Very simple but as usual with these mini-scale models, it is very well thought out. The binoculars cleverly represent the two bridges the real ship has.

And here's a image for comparison...

TOTALS:

Design: 10/10 Considering the scale I think it would be very difficult to beat this model. IT captures the shape and style of the vessel perfectly.

Parts: 10/10 Another 10 as you get a lot of nice parts form such a small set. MY favourite being the dark red pieces!

Build: 9/10 The build was simple. Simple Enough to fit into less steps on smaller paper. Save a bit of tree.

Playability: 8/10 Small enough for children to hold in their hand and fly about without dropping it. You could also easily afford to buy a small fleet of these at just 60p for each newspaper.

TOTAL: 37/40 I loved this set, I bought 5 of them. Great colours and really beautifully designed.

HQ Photos on my Flickr