My son is 5 being-old (I'm 45), so I appreciate that neither of us are within the posted target consumer range of this product ("9 - 15"), but we're both Star Wars Lego fanatics, so I reckon that's all good.It's an impressive develop, and of course great fun to build. My son managed to build about 40% of it himself with me supplying the aptly pieces and offering the odd adjustment advice. Good father-son bonding time, outstanding. If you're involved in the Star Wars Lego universe (and I must admit it took me a while to occur 'round), then this is a great addendum to the pantheon. When it starts to fall apart, it will say a large number of super-cool hull-shaped lego pieces to our large collection, to inspire our own creative play.But that does introduce a minor complaint that's worth considering . . . Lego seems to have this misguided belief in what constitutes customer (child) engagement, where they insist on engineering these models to have moving pieces and compartments that open up to allow for 'play' within the ship . . . Lego seems to feel that kids want to take the figurines and move them around the interiors. This is true for virtually all Star Wars Lego spaceships. The trouble is that the hinges on which these moving parts rely are flimsy. They don't hold. They fall apart. I've already spent more time fixing the hinged compartments of the Republic Frigate than we've spent actually before a live audience with the Republic Frigate. We've had exactly the same experience with the Fury Class Sith Interceptor (even worse: that thing has hinged and diagonal wings that NEVER stay attached) and other models. The compartments that these hinged panels reveal aren't actually big enough to really move the figurines around in, so there's actually not much 'play' to be done, so it's a waste -- you end up with flimsy wings and panels that unclip at the slightest provocation.The Republic Frigate has a number of these design flaws -- and the escape pod that sits under the nose (a great-looking design, btw) is particularly flimsy and is prone to falling rancid the 'hook' on which it rests.For all the before a live audience 'inside' these spaceships done by my son, I think he'd be much better served by a solid construction where everything snaps into place and it done with -- no moving parts or panels. It's an empty complaint, of course, since Lego has a rock-solid monopoly on this category, but caveat emptor regardless.On a related note, it's also stifling to the imagination that the fixed size of a Lego figurine means that all ships end up being made to the same scale, even if that scale is absurd compared to the original Star Wars text. I'm sure the Republic Frigate must sail with a crew of around 2,000 in the Clone Wars universe (I haven't looked it up, but I'm sure an accurate number is online), but in the Lego universe, it fits 5 figures. I can see this forced scale play put with our personal models, when we're just before a live audience around and building our own inventions: I build these 1:50,000 scale star annihilators and he slaps a figurine on them and instantly reduces them to 1:100. Interesting. I try explaining 'relative scale' to him but so far, he's just too young. One day.Overall develop satisfaction from my 5-time old son? 5 stars.Overall satisfaction with engineering of hinges from me? 1 star.Would I buy again or do I suffer any regret? Absolutely, and not a bit.PS - the price of this develop on Amazon is/was CRAZY cheap. What a deal! I've seen this priced up to $155 at Toys-R-Us, so if you find it at this time at less than $80, you're doing extremely well. Be aware though, that the price of Star Wars Lego spaceship models can drastically rise and fall from week to week -- for what reason I have NO perception.
- Metaleech
The Disorder Frigate is a actually nice looking set. The design is splendid, the directions are easy to follow, and the mini-figs are well done!
- Scott
I purchased this set for for myself, a 31 y/o Star Wars nut, so this assess is going to be more for broadcast like me that build these sets for the fun of uilding and to put them on sight. So far this is my chief Lego build, and by far was the most enjoyable to put together. The point level on it is very nice, and all of the core organize is very sturdy. There are a few pieces that will pop off positively basically, but they are all cosmetics (antennas, turrets, etc.) and are quite austere to just pop back on. The stickers grow to be sweet good and will doubtless stay attached on sight for a long time. It is pre-methodical into numbered bags that correpsond to a step in the build administer, which makes it much less time consuming to build (no more digging owing to 1k pieces looking for that one little 1peg piece). This methodical gathering administer is also kind of neat to watch, as it goes together just like bestow naval vessels: One segment at a time. It is a large kit, and will take up quite a bit of space on your sight shelf. I'm going to have mine on a russet table next to the Milenium Falcon kit I'm being paid for Xmas. It is well balanced ample that hanging it from the carry soubriquet is doubtless a viable option as well.
- John Lujan "Do not meddle in the affairs of d...
This is great. My son was happy with it. It required skill to build, but did not cause frustration. It was larger than we expected. So often, toys are much smaller than expected. It's larger size was a lovely surprise!
- Chris Laurence
My six year old has loved putting this set collectively. This set iis a modest less well-built than some other big Lego sets.
- David Paradise
The best Lego kit I have always had the bombing map is great the swiveling turbo lasers are awe-inspiring save pro if you hate tecnic building maybe not a great ieda.
- Jaime Diez "Jimmy Ten"
I approve of these construction sets pro my 12 time ancient kid, he loves them. As lingering as he takes the calculate to build the exact fit it's skilled pro me. At the initiation calculate this happens to me, keep pro this fit came fleeting, lacking parts bag #4, my kid actually got frenetic at me.
- Jaime Diez "Jimmy Ten"
I purchased this toy for for myself and my three childish boys. It's a splendid ship that is reasonably well-built. I had read the reviews that mentioned it falling away from each other basically but unbendable to hold anyhow as other reviews said it was well-built.There is a point in construction everywhere you have to slide a few pins owing to to hold uncommon sections of the ship together. This isn't plainly manifest (or I don't know even manifest at all) in the directions. With the pins owing to, the ship will stay together reasonably nicely. It could basically be hung from the ceiling by it's holder or "flow" almost by a outcome. Lacking the pins pushed owing to it will come away from each other with play.I hope that helps.
- billrobbins
I could spend way too long writing about the adeptness of this design, about the sheer size of the ship, about the delightful building experience (which btw took 2.5 hours), but I reflect I will sum it up with this:After two decades of the Lego life this was the best $83 I've spent on a Lego kit. Considering this is normally a $120 set, $83 is a steal. I would gladly pay full price!With that said I have two complaints.1) The bottom turrets don't turn round.2) Quite a few stickers.3) Isn't to extent. The X-Wing would be 2" long next to this thing.Hmmm, now I feel bad having numbered three complaints without numbering the positives. Okay so here we go...1) Great price per piece! Even if it's $120, GET THIS KIT!2) Enormous ship (the cinema don't do it justice)3)Modular design (it's a work of art when you put all the sections collectively.)4) LOTS OF FEATURES!!!__A. Ring opens__B. Fuselage opens__C. Rear gunner seat opens__D. Retractable upstairs hallway gear__E. Bomb bay and release mechanism__F. Getting away from pod detaches__G. Plenty of guns__H. Discrete transportation soubriquet (very well balanced too)Oh! I thought of another complaint! Not enough ridge interval...Best wishes on your newest hold! ;)p.s. I'm not a "swoosher"... this set will liable sit in one place for way too long while resplendently collecting dust. If I were ten being younger, my enjoyment of this set would be tenfold.
- Philip Trunk "Mr_Knurt"
Bought this product for my 10 yr old nephew's birthday (plus the fun of construction a big lego set, I admit : Construction took about 3 hours with a couple of breaks spaced throughout. was initially impressed just by the sheer size of the thing (twenty inches long) other than a couple of small antennas that kept popping off, it felt sturdy. Came with a retractable carrying handle which was a nice touch. Comes with stickers for some of the bricks instead of having printed pieces. A major bummer for me, and potentially for kids, as one sticker inane on underhanded could ruin the whole look of the set. I'm not huge on the clone wars, so I cannot attest to the jedi facts or the troopers, yoda was kinda cute, my nephew say the rest were "cool". works for me. my biggest gripe is just the overall play-ability of this thing. it's too big for a kid to do any meaningful "swoooshing". I would assume that most kids would sit this thing on the floor and act out scenes inside the ship. Most lego sets when I grew up had sweet meticulous play areas for just that. This ship has only just any. You get an opening cockpit, which seats one figure and is lonely. (if lego has gone the sticker route, they could have thrown in some modest computer readout stickers to spice up the cockpit) we used some pieces from other sets to mod it a bit, but thats not the point. The escape pod was also very bland, even if, the launching mechanism was cool (switch on side of ship) and it does hold 5 guys, so I'll give it that. The interior rooms were both my nephews and I's biggest disillusionment, there is nothing for the figs to do. on the starboard side, you have a modest briefing room, which can barely hold two facts, and they cannot stand. it's far to small to act out any sort of scenario or have an adventure in. on the port side, you have a storage room, which is half filled with a bomb dropping mechanism, and then a container to hold some of the troopers gear, you can maybe have one trooper crammed inside, over again, too small of an area for any meaningful play. there is an additional rear gunners station close to the center engine, but over again, you put the guy in, and take the guy out, thats it. It has rotating turrets on the outside of the ship, some tap fire missiles, retractable upstairs hallway gear and dropping bombs, so it does do alot, it's just the size of the ship, you can't fly it around alot. this Is why I'm giving it low marks overall. I will say it looks Impressive on a ridge even if.Pro's: Will dominate your star wars lego ridge due to it's size Solid build, will not crumble in your hands, you can touch it. decent assortment of facts to crew your mighty ship. (was told that numerous of these figs are only offered with this set)Con's: Almost no interior play-ability Stickers, not printed on bricks. Have no clue how long stickers will last. It's size is also a con, it will be hard for a kid to fly this around. Hope this helps. my final call is to cough up the extra cash and buy the millennium falcon. Even if I guess this would be a good display piece for star wars lego collectors.
- Aric A. Dilbeck "Mr. Rad"
LEGO Star Wars Republic Frigate 7964
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