Avatar RDA Scorpion Gunship Incoming! A key player in the battle scenes in James Cameron’s Avatar is the Gunship, recreated here in intense, movie-accurate detail. Comes with dual firing projectiles, quadruple spinning blades, rotating gun barrels, and a cockpit that opens to fit most 3.75-inch figures in the line. Includes a vehicle specific i-Tag for instant access to more movie themed action. Figures sold separately.
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The ONE gem from the AVATAR collection Why I am qualified to speak: I have been collecting action figures since the first Star Wars figures back in the 1970s. I have thousands of 1:18 action figures (literally THOUSANDS) and hundreds of vehicles that go with them.
I Paid $14.99 for this ship (movie pre-release sale at K-mart) and feel that it was the perfect price for this item. I see that they are now $24.99 to $29.99 at various stores and that price is way over the value mark. Watch this item for sell-out, though, as it is the best AVATAR product currently on the shelves.
It appears that this vehicle is released in the same quantities as the flying creatures and other vehicles as they all had equal representation on the shelves at 8 different stores I visited.
THE GOOD:
-The olive drab color is perfect. There is a very, very subtle gold dust in the paint that is nice if the model is touched by the sun.
-The cockpit has very nice plastic “glass” and has an interior section that folds up and out to make it easier to get figures inside. The effect is imagination inspiring.
-Assembly was fun. It kind of reminded me of an elementary snap-together model kit at first. Additionally, once it is together it stays together.
-The over-all structural appearance is awesome. This is one of my all-time favorite vehicles… based on appearance alone.
-The Cockpit hinge is made to snap on and off easily to avoid breaking if torqued.
-The guns on the front wing rotate 360 degrees.
-I like the fact that this ship has no springs inside and that it doesn’t shoot any funky colored missiles. (But I would have liked to have had individual missiles that separate from the wing)
THE BAD:
PARTS and ASSEMBLY (the bad):
The front “wings” where the machine guns are attached require adult strength and child fingers to easily assemble. I was afraid that if I held them at the outer edges while pushing I ran the risk of bending them and getting a crease where the plastic would be lighter than the surrounding areas. With a little work and focus I was able to get them installed while maintaining a solid grip on the larger gun and the top of the wing at its base.
Those same front wings each have 2 stubs that protrude INTO the cockpit area. So long as the cockpit is closed you won’t care, but those nubs detract from an open cockpit experience.
The tail assembly and the snap-on wings are a different type of plastic than the body of the ship. Bright light passes through the softer plastic and it is much more flexible than the rest of the ship. The color is also not perfectly matched up and a close inspection makes it easy to see where one begins and the other ends. It is too early to tell but I would expect discoloration differences over time to make the parts stand apart even more.
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