LEGO Star Wars #7929 The Battle of Naboo Review

Theme: Star Wars
Name: The Battle of Naboo
S/N: #7929
Year: 2011
Pieces: 241
Minifig: 12
Price: RM149.90, SGD60.90, USD24.99, GBP25.99

 

Box

The box art shows the Gungan fighting against the Battle Droid that invades Nabooo and it also shows the minifigs that comes with the set. The top side of the box shows the Jar Jar Binks in his 1:1 scale and the back of the box shows the playability of the set and advertisement of the other Star Wars set.

 

Content

The set comes with three seal bags of bricks and a instruction booklet. Also the head of the Gungan are packed in plastic bag as well and the new head are just great.

If you plan to build the carrier by yourself, just go HERE to grab the instruction.

Accessories

I love the the new translucent shield, they look so good and this make it look more alike with the one that are used in the movie. Also we get a lot of short blaster.

Minifigs

The Battle Droid are nothing new, but the Pilot Droid have a new torso which are printed. Anyway, the droids are not the main focus here. The new Gungan minifigs is the main focus here whereby they get a new head which are much more detail.

The new printed head of the Gungan definitely looks better than the old ones, and well the new head do help to recognize which is which character rather than only differentiating them by using their torso.

Droid Carrier Transport

The new carrier looks good too but there is definitely room for improvement. Although it comes with a rack and the rack is detachable from the transport, I wish it can deploy the Battle Droids like it does in the movie. Anyway, I still like it.

The cockpit is at the front and there are two controller for the Pilot Droid to pilot the carrier. There is another compartment at the back to place another Pilot Droid, or is it suppose to be a place for the Commander Droid to command the Battle Droid.

The rack which I said is detachable is actually hold by a clipper and for my case, it really hold, the grip is very tight and I face hard times detaching it sometimes fearing that I will crush the rack if I were to pulled too with all my strength. You get a lot of 2x4 tiles to hold the blasters and they are placed right beside the Battle Droid.

I guess by deploying the Battle Droid means removing the plate from the rack.

I snap a picture of the carrier with all the droids on it and I feel that I do looks good.

 

Extra pieces

Picture below shown some extra parts that are left by this set.

Completed model

There are a lot of brown element in this set and of course there are a lot of Battle Droid, which is a good news for the Separatist lover and is actually a good set fro building the droid army after the Droid Battle Pack that were released four years ago. The carrier is not that bad looking as well and  personally think is worth getting.

Playability: 4/10 The playability that comes with this set is the detachable rack and plate from the rack.

Building experience: 5/10 I actually look forward for the rack and the playabilty and is quite fun to learn new things.
Parts:6/10 A lot of parts, nice accessories, a lot of brown parts.
Value for money: 5/10 Considering the new minifigs and amount of parts given, I think is not bad at all.
Overall: 5/10A good set to build droid army and also to get the Gungan, a lot of accessories included too.