Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 4 x 12 inches ; 3 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
- ASIN: B002GP5XK4
- Item model number: R2317
- Manufacturer recommended age: 6 - 12 years
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: 37,181 in Toys ; Games (See Top 100 in Toys ; Games)
By : Mattel
Price :
$24.99You Save :
$2.00 (7%)Product Description
From the Manufacturer
Incoming! A key player in the battle scenes in James Cameron's Avatar is the Gunship, recreated here in intense, movie-precise detail. Comes with dual firing projectiles, quadruple spinning blades, rotating gun barrels, and a cockpit that opens to match most 3.75-inch figures in the line. Consists of a vehicle particular i-Tag for instant access to significantly more movie themed action. Figures sold separately.
Intended for ages 6+, every single Avatar Creature/Vehicle interacts with most three ¾â?- four ¼â? figures, and is accompanied by a character-certain i-tag. The Scorpion Chopper capabilities rotating blades and firing missiles, and seats one pilot figure (not included). The AT-99 Scorpion Gunship is a VTOL Gunship utilized as both close-in fire support and air help in conjunction with RDAâ?TMs mining operations. In the movie Avatar, the Scorpion was outfitted with dual co-axial ducted-fan rotor systems with 4 3-bladed prop rotors and twin Magnussen KE-76 turbine generators powering counter-rotating annular ceramic motors weaponry included gimbal-mounted .50 caliber guns, 190 TK-411 WAFAR in ten 19-tube rocket launchers, and eight Hawkeye HELLFIRE projectiles.
Product Functions
- From James Cameron's film, Avatar
- Scorpion Chopper, recreated here in intense, movie-correct detail
- Comes with over 24 points of articulation
- Contains dual firing projectiles, quadruple spinning blades, and rotating gun barrel
- Articulated cockpit that fits all simple Avatar RDA and Na'vi figures
Buyer Evaluations
Why I am qualified to speak: I have been collecting action figures since the initial 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 $[...] for this ship (movie pre-release sale at K-mart) and feel that it was the best price tag for this item. I see that they are now $24.99 to $29.99 at varied shops and that price is way over the worth mark. Watch this item for sell-out, though, as it is the preferred AVATAR product at present on the shelves.
It appears that this automobile is released in the very same quantities as the flying creatures and other vehicles as they all had equal representation on the shelves at 8 several stores I visited.
THE Decent:
-The olive drab color is wonderful. There is a especially, pretty subtle gold dust in the paint that is good if the model is touched by the sun.
-The cockpit has extremely good plastic "glass" and has an interior section that folds up and out to make it less difficult 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 very first. Also, when it is with each other it stays together.
-The more than-all structural look is awesome. This is 1 of my all-time preferred vehicles... based on look alone.
-The Cockpit hinge is produced to snap on and off simply to stay clear of 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 does not shoot any funky colored missiles. (But I would have liked to have had person missiles that separate from the wing)
THE Poor:
Parts and ASSEMBLY (the negative):
The front "wings" where the machine guns are attached require adult strength and child fingers to effortlessly assemble. I was afraid that if I held them at the outer edges even though pushing I ran the threat of bending them and finding a crease where the plastic would be lighter than the surrounding areas. With a small function and concentrate I was in a position to get them installed even though maintaining a solid grip on the larger gun and the top rated of the wing at its base.
These same front wings every have two stubs that protrude INTO the cockpit place. So lengthy 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 several variety of plastic than the body of the ship. Vivid light passes by way of the softer plastic and it is much additional flexible than the rest of the ship. The color is also not perfectly matched up and a close inspection tends to make it simple and easy to see where 1 begins and the other ends. It is too early to inform but I would count on discoloration differences more than time to make the parts stand apart even alot more.
SCALE (the poor):
-The seat inside the cockpit is also modest and is nearly not even there. It is molded into the rear wall of the cockpit and serves to do little alot more than hold the hips of a sufficiently compact pilot.
-I wish all the numerous firms would settle on a normal 1:18 scale for their figures and then honor that scale with acute attention to detail. This ship is as well small for most 1:18 action figures. If you really bend and crunch a common GI Joe figure (with no gear) you can squeeze him inside. Neytiri just barely fits inside if you squish up her legs adequate (a difficulty with Neytiri's scale much more than the ship's) [EDIT which means that Neytiri is also compact and really should not be able to squeeze in there... but this point is included to give an approximation of how major the ship is for individuals who are not up to speed on the size of other action figures]. GI Joe's Scarlett in Reactive Impact Armor (See Desert Ambush Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara) fits snugly, in a appropriate seated position, with her feet beneath the fold-up dash and her head squarely below the cockpit hinge IF you swivel her holster up onto her lap.
PAINT (the negative):
-With the exception of the white, yellow and black implemented for 6 TEXT regions of the ship (2 No Step and 4 missile designations) the only other color on the ship is gold on the finish of some missile tubes and a hint of red that I believe is supposed to be a follow light for night ops (a tiny red, see-by means of plastic "light" would have been much nicer). I am not a enormous fan of weathering for paint jobs, but they could have effortlessly elevated the aesthetics by merely performing a black wash to bring out the molded line particulars (like the vents and plating joints).
-The rockets that are painted gold are not individually painted. Instead, they painted the whole face of the assembly gold, to contain the rockets and plating behind the rockets.
ARTICULATION (the bad):
- The twin rotors on each and every side spin and the entire assembly pivots just as it does in the movie... with eight clicked-position increments but it is already wearing out so it is becoming free of charge moving, but nevertheless tight enough that it holds its position.
-The nose sensor is not articulated.
ACCESSORIES (the bad):
- Missiles do not detach and there are no accessories. (1 missile on each side does fire making use of springs. They are really nicely integrated and blend in completely)
CONCLUSION:
I Enjoy this ship. If it were to scale with GI Joe and Star Wars I would have purchased 6 of them. Because it is too smaller I will just have to settle on two of them (for Scarlett and Cover Girl). I will apply my own black wash and add a couple of high high quality bitz to spice it up. It was a outstanding value at $[...]. I can see spending $[...]. It is more than priced at $[...] but I bet it will sell anyway. If this is still about when clearance hits, snap it up if it gets anyplace near $15. Much less than that and it is a steal.
It is modeled specifically like the one in the film. He's obsessed with the movie and loves all the Avatar toys he got for Christmas. It is a entertaining toy for him and it stay put with each other even just after dropped a handful of difficult instances.
