Wednesday, November 30, 2011

LEGO Pharaoh's Quest #7307 Flying Mummy Attack Review

Theme: Pharaoh's Quest
Name: Flying Mummy Attack
S/N: #7307
Year: 2011
Pieces: 125
Minifig: 3
Price: RM119.90, SGD40.90, USD19.99, GBP14.99

Box
Our box are different from those in the United States, and as such the front of the box just shows us the serial number and the theme together with the nice box art.  The side shows us all three minifigs that we get in this set and the diamond is shown in actual scale instead of minifigs. The back of the box shows the playability of the set and the special accessory that were included in this set.

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Content
Inside the box are three bags of bricks and the standard instruction book and a sticker sheet that need to be apply on the bricks. Also the headgear for the flying mummies and the wings are packed separately.

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To view the instruction, please click HERE.

Accessories
These were the accessories that can be use by the minifigs in this set. There are another two guns but they were attached to the plane. It can be said as few.

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Minifigs
I have to snap the picture of the minifigs separately since the wing of the flying mummy are too big. Jake Raines got both side of his torso printed. The torso of the flying are same with the other mummy and yes, they are printed at the both side too and the leg are printed as well. The wings are nice too just that it is too space consuming.

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Obelisk
The obelisk seems very plain without the stickers on it but I believe it can looks better if we were to place sticker on them. The top of the obelisk are smooth surface and so the plane can grab the diamond easily.

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Biplane
I am not sure why I am attracted to this set, probably the nice box art and nice minifigs, especially the flying mummy that attracted me. The biplane looks not bad but needed some stickers to make it looks better and it got no rear wheel. Plus the machine gun is placed too low and might have shot the propeller.

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The plane have working propeller that can turn but manually. So I guess is one of a small playability. Also the front engine part looks somewhat more details with the technic parts added.

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The cockpit have one controller built in for Jake Raines to control the plane.The cockpit is quite narrow and it fit only one minifigs in it. It would better if it can fit two and have a rear machine gun. Anyhow, not much to complain here and there is a transparent piece place in front as the windscreen.

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The biplane is arm with a twin machine gun on top. Guess it comes in handy when shooting the flying mummy but beware, you might destroy your propeller as well and end up crash your own biplane. I take this as a added details to the biplane.

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Now the real playability, the grabbing function. Is just some technic part with the torch part attached on it but this thing work fine when come to stealing the diamond on top the obelisk. It can be swing 180 degree.

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Extra pieces
Below here are the few extra parts left after the assembly process.

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Completed model
I personally thinks this is one nice small set but the treasures in this set looks way too normal as this part can get from any other set. The minifigs are great as well as the plane and obelisk. But is quite hard to display them unless you hang them. Overall is recommended to everyone.

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Playability: 5/10 The playability is quite low but the design save the day.
Building experience: 5/10 Not much of a new building technique is learnt from this set.
Parts: 6/10 The parts with this light brown is quite hard to find.
Value for money: 5/10 The price still falls in the affordable range but is near to RM1 per piece but the minifigs is too hard to resist.
Overall: 5/10 Great set, I think the Pharaoh's Quest collector might wan to duplicate this set or grab it first as the first Pharaoh's Quest set.

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