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(More customer reviews)A new movie and we get a large new ship to go with it! This is a cool looking fighter and it is comparable in size to the old FX X-Wing. It has space for three crew members plus a droid - none of which come with the vehicle. There is a retractable gear in the nose, and a "control stick" that pops out the bottom. Pull a trigger on the stick to drop bombs from another small compartment. The S-foils open on the wings and are manually operated without a switch. The wing cannon fire a missile and have a little rotating gun. There are two canopies and some cockpit detail. There is the tailgun that rotates and elevates. The ship assembles easily, with pieces snapping together.
The amount detail is reasonable, but not as good as with past Hasbro Star Wars vehicles. In a glaring lack of quality, screw-holes were left all over the right side of the vehicle, and the undersides of the wings (you can actually see this in the picture of the ARC-170 on Hasbro's Star Wars toy website. Other companies manage to fill in or conceal these holes on their vehicles, so why Hasbro didn't do that is puzzling and it wrecks the overall look of the fighter. It is also nearly impossible (at this early stage) to find the Clone Pilots that crew this vehicle and the Republic Gunship. Hopefully these will be avaliable in much greater numbers here on amazon and at other stores in the near future. The rebel pilots I have flying the thing now just don't look quite right!
The Hasbro ARC-170 is an ambitious attempt, but falls short of its potential - the exposed screw-holes and unavaliability of the pilots being the real sticklers. The Red 1 X-wing and Y-Wing avaliable a few months ago were actually better vehicles, in my opinion.
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