LEGO Star Wars #7930 Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship Review

Theme: Star Wars
Name: Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship
S/N: #7665
Year: 2011
Pieces: 389
Minifig: 4
Price: RM309.90, SGD109.90, USD49.99, GBP40.99

Box

I don't find this gunship interesting however, the minifigs does. As usual the front of the box art provide us with serial number, name of the set and sometimes the minifigs which were included in the set. At the top side of the box you can see all the minifigs in their actual scale and the back of the box shows the playability and advertisement of other Star Wars set.

Content

There are three bags of bricks, a sticker sheet and a instruction book. Each bag of the bricks were numbered and each of them assemble the separate part of the gunship.

If you plan to go through the instruction book, please click HERE.

Accessories

There are quite a number of weapons included, and one of them is the crate with a printed tile as the cover. The blasters and everything just sufficient for all of them.

Minifigs

The assassin droid is just to add the number of minifigs only. My target is Embo, Aurra Sing and Sugi. the three of them get their torso printed both side and they look so nice.

Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship

The good thing about this ship is that the shape looks accurate. The other good part is that it comes with a lot of dark green parts but there are also weaknesses in this. the ship got small cockpit, small prison cell, and lack of playability. Anyway pictures first:

The cockpit surprisingly can fit Embo and since these bounty hunters are separated into two teams, I didn't try Aurra Sing in it. To reveal the cockpit we just need to open up the panel on top. It make us more convenience to fit the minifig too.

The cockpit not only fits a minifig but at the same time you can keep your blaster in it. The blasters can be attached to the roof. There is a brick that can hold maximum of two blasters.

There is a door at the side of the cockpit. All you need to do is to slide open the door to reveal the cockpit and the prison cell below the cockpit. However, there prison sell is not suitable to captured the Jedi, is more suitable to be a storage cell. The crate fit in very well but not the figs unless they are in lying positing.

There is a panel behind the lower part of the cockpit which can open and close to reveal the prison cell. Maybe it is useful to show some proof there are Jedi captured in there or to show that they have a lot of supplies.

To change the position of the ship from flying position to landing position we just need to push the grey slope piece backward. The weakness here is that in flying position, the engine cannot be 90 degree straight and it is still a little heavy hence exposing the hidden compartment a little.

So the secret compartment to place the crate that stored holocron is right below the grey slope that we push forward and backward. It no longer hidden when the gunship land.

The gunship is equipped with a few blaster cannon, where there is a pair dual blaster cannon in front which can be adjust up and down. Another two blaster cannon is right above the secret compartment that protect the rear of the gunship.

Extra pieces

The leftover after the assembly process are as below picture.

Completed model

I suggest fellow minifigs collector to buy the minifig separately rather than the whole ship unless you are a MOCer yourself and the parts might be useful to you. there's not much playability in this set and the main playability which is changing position of the gunship got a little flaws.

Playability: 4/10 Few playability and the main one got flaw in it.

Building experience: 6/10 It's cool to have slide open door and storing the blaster at the roof of cockpit is a good idea.

Parts: 7/10 A lot of dark green parts and a number of uncommon part like the large cone.

Value for money: 3/10 I cannot tolerate the unreasonable price here although is dropping.

Overall: 5/10 Not really a good set, I just bought it for the minifigs.