Monday, July 30, 2012

LEGO Super Heroes #6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle Review

Theme: Super Heroes
Name: Captain America's Avenging Cycle
S/N: #6865
Year: 2012
Pieces: 72
Minifig: 3
Price: RM79.90, USD12.99, GBP11.99

Box
This is the Marvel Super Heroes set and the theme of the box is red and the four characters of Avengers were printed on the top right. At the front we have the serial number, name of the set and a nicely made box art. The top of the box shows us the actual scale of the minifigs while the back is a little like a comic where it shows Captain America fighting against two Chitauri, and the flick fire playability.

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Content
The bricks are pack in two separate bags and the chasis of the superbike is not packed in any bag. Other things that comes with the bricks are the usual content, instruction booklet and a sticker sheet.

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To read the instruction, kindly click HERE.

Accessories
The set comes with two accessories only, Captain America's Shield (the only weapon he got) and a ray gun for the Chitauri. Very very few and the ray gun is a big let down.

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Minifigs
Captain America and Chitauri General only appears in this set at the moment. All of the minifigs got their torso printed on both side and they are finely printed on it. For the Chitauri, they got their leg printed and the back of their head printed too. Too bad the face of the Chitauri are different from the one in the movie. All on all, they are nice minifigs.

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Captain America's Avenging Cycle
No idea why is a superbike given rather than old classic bike chasis. This cycle appear out of nowhere but again is a good news for superbike fans. They can add this additional cycle into their collection. So for those that bought Pharaoh's Quest #7306 Golden Staff Guardians can replace it with the motorcycle from that set.

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Chitauri's Gun Stand
Reading from LEGO product description it was written as a gun stand. I think this thing here is pointless, I rather they made the craft like the one in Quinjet playset. That would be better and more accurate.

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Chitauri General's Craft
Not really sure if there are craft that singlely maneuver by the Chitauri but this one, the designer done a good job. Although this thing is small and armed with the all time favourite designer playabilty, this craft just look right in my eyes. Like the way the designer design it.

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The flick-fire missile is armed right below the craft. Your finger might get hurt if you flick wrongly and hit the base of the craft.

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Two shots of both the gun stand and craft.

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Extra pieces
Here's the two parts left after the assembling process.

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Completed model
The set is affordable although the value does not worth something as suggested by the distributor here, maybe a little lesser would be right. For those that want only Captain America minifig, are suggested to get the set rather than buying separately for half the price of the playset since the playset comes with three minifigs and a motorbike.

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Playability: 4/10 Flick-fire missile?
Building experience: 5/10 Nice craft although the stands itself are a disappointment.
Parts: 5/10 Motorbike and a printed shield for Capatain America
Value for money: 7/10 Three minifigs, a motorbike and a nice craft.
Overall: 5/10 Although not much things, but as mention on the above, it pretty much cover up the price.

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