Tuesday, June 26, 2012

LEGO Star Wars #9496 Desert Skiff Review

Theme: Star Wars
Name: Desert Skiff
S/N: #9486
Year: 2012
Pieces: 213
Minifig: 4
Price: RM169.90, USD-, GBP-
Box
The design of the new box art now shows minifigs on the right in the front of the box and tells you which is new and which character are they. On the top side of the box it shows all four minifigs which one of them is in 1:1 scale. The back of the box shows the playability of the set.

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Content
The set comes with three numbered bags of bricks, an instruction book and three pieces of plate. Not much of a content.

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Accessories
Here's the accessories that comes with this set. Lightsaber, axe, and four pistol blasters. Boba blasters is added with the lightsaber hilt.

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Minifigs
Everyone is after minifigs in this set, especially Boba Fett and I suppose Lando came in second. I minifigs are awesome, they looks very details. Luke, Lando and Kithaba got both side of the torso printed while Boba got his leg printed.

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Sarlacc
Perhaps the Sarlacc is some icon to this scene and it must comes with the skiff or the sail barge so that you can kill Boba Fett. To be frank, the Sarlacc is actually taller when display together with the skiff which I will show in the completed model. Moving to the playability is its open and close function. Boba fits very well inside the Sarlacc, so no issue with the playability.

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Desert skiff
This skiff comes with a few playability and I believe you know it, which will be implemented and what shall be implemented in this skiff. Below are shots from different angle:

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At the front of the skiff, there are space to fit your minifigs and in this case here, I attach Boba on it, afterall he is the star in this set. Maybe can fit one more? I'm not sure because I did not try.

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In the middle there is a weapon storage compartment where you keep the two pistol blasters. The storage compartment can be open and close so the weapon are not revealed and snatch by the Han Solo (he is on board too right?). There are also walkway on the both side of the storage and there are fencing to prevent the lousy bad guys from falling off too easily.

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Both side of the skiff have different playability and this the playability that you know it will be implemented in the skiff. Designer all time favorite: flick-fire missile. In this case, the rail guard is in the way. Also you can see the translucent parts attached below of the skiff to add the hovering effect.

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While here on the other hand is the must have playability, the plank. It's hidden under the skiff and you can turn it outward only when you need it. The piece that you see on the left picture is to help you to move the plank outward easily by pushing it sideways.

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At the back of the skiff is the controller. It is spacious enough to fit a minifigs to maneuver the skiff. Very well protected from the back and side too.

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Extra pieces
Below pictures shows the extra parts that are leftover after the assembling process.

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Completed model
Is lucky that this set is price at RM170 here, and not RM250. The minifigs in this set are worth collecting and the set is affordable. On the side note, the only flaws here is that there are not enough translucent parts given and the outcome is that the Sarlacc can actually reach d skiff and bring the whole skiff down.

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Playability: 6/10 Plank, flick-fire, open and close storage compartment and Sarlacc.
Building experience: 4/10 You can finish it very fast and nothing is learnt here.
Parts: 8/10 A few cool parts and most importantly cool minifigs!
Value for money: 6/10 Pricey but RM40 per these rare minifigs sounds logic.
Overall: 6/10 A must have minifigs, Boba and Lando should be very pricey. Great set to get tan and brown parts.

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