LEGO Star Wars #7959 Geonosian Starfighter Review

Theme: Star Wars
Name: Geonosian Starfighter
S/N: #7959
Year: 2011
Pieces: 155
Minifig: 3
Price: RM254.90, SGD79.90, USD29.99, GBP29.99

Box

The front of the box shows a nice box art of this set, and also the serial number, name of the set and the minifigs that comes from this set. On the top side of the box, it shows all the three minifigs in their actual scale while the back of the box shows the playability of the fighter and pictures of other Star Wars sets.

Content

The content of this set is not much, just three bags of bricks which you can see each of the bags have a just a few parts, an instruction book and two slope parts that are not pack inside the plastic bag.

Just in case you are interested to look through the instruction book, please click HERE.

Accessories

Moving to the accessories that are for the use of the minifigs, I feel that it is too few, since most of the set also include us with a number of accessories while this one only a lightsaber? Also that two guns from ARC accessories. How I wish the Geonosian have a weapon to carry too.

Minifigs

We get Commander Cody here, which used to be only in Republic Attack Gunship (#7676), this one has no different with the one from the Gunship. The good part of this set is that there are two new minifigs, the improved version (and at the same time lacking) Geonosian, and also Ki-Adi-Mundi which helps to make your collection on the Jedi to be more complete.

The Geonosian is just great just lacking of wings, while Ki-Adi-Mundi looks ugly in his Clone Wars version and Commander Cody still have the common clone head.

Geonosian Starfighter

I do face some hardship snapping pictures of this vehicle. Not sure why the color have effect on the lightning that my camera receive. Anyway, the ship do improve in the design, but it sure is built with so little pieces of bricks. It do have some playbility and a cockpit which fits a Geonosian.

First of all, we have this windscreen that you are able to open it up and place a Geonosian into a cockpit instead of removing the whole windscreen. I like it when it can open and close as it seems a bit imperfect to me if I were to need to remove the windscreen to seat a pilot.

The cockpit do have a little detail, and I mean it, which is a piece of printed tile plate with button design on it. Also, the surface of the cockpit are smooth and the Geonosian are not attach to the seat. Probably due to the small shallow cockpit but a tall pilot. The Geonosian fits very well and it hardly move inside the cockpit when you swoosh around.

Under this quick fighter is a compartment where you can drop a missile, but  most of the time this missiles get stuck and cannot be release. It do malfunction in my case, maybe because of the parts.

The last playability, which seems to be normal and not much tricks are needed is the adjustable front laser cannon. You can push them to either left or right and that's it. It cannot move upward or downward just left and right.

Extra piece

I got shock to see only one extra piece left after I assemble this whole fighter. I rarely meet a set that have one extra part especially a set of this size. Is normal to see battle pack have a few extra part or none at all but not this one. Thanks to all the big big pieces that made this fighter.

Completed model

If you are someone whole like to stage a battle between the Republic and the Geonosian, you might want to own a few of this as the design are not bad. The downside of this set is that there are too few pieces which makes it pricey.

Playability: 4/10 The only playability that got my attention is the bomb dropping function.

Building experience: 4/10 The step are somehow alike, just a few step that are different.
Parts:4/10 Very few in quantity and got no rare pieces.
Value for money: 2/10 I would say is pricey looking at the piece count, but I wonder if the two new minifigs can make up for the price.
Overall: 3/10 Pricey, few pieces, few accessories, terrible playabiliy, but nice design and minifigs.