Product Description

Take the battle to the Separatists with this heavily armed troop transporter, as seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Features opening crew bay doors, flick missiles and separate speeder bike. Includes seven mini-figures: Four clone troopers, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and two new minifigures, Plo Koon and Asajj Ventress, a Sith Lord equipped with a new double lightsaber. 1,034 pieces.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #411 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LEGO
• Model: 7676
• Dimensions: 15.12" h x 3.78" w x 25.67" l, 4.45 pounds

Features

• Builders can take the battle to the Separatists with this heavily equipped troop transporter from Episodes II and III and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" television series
• Features include opening troop bay doors, removable command station and healing chamber, position able cannons, spy droids and flick missiles
• Deploy the speeder bike from the back; multiple decals to create different gunships for your army are included
• Includes seven minifigures: Obi-Wan Kenobi, four Clone troopers, and two new minifigures, Plo Koon and Asajj Ventress, a Sith Loard equipped with a new double lightsaber
• Contains 1,034 pieces

Amazon.com Review
Get in on the action of the Clone Wars with the Republic Attack Gunship set 7676 from the Lego Star Wars Collection. With plenty of cannons, spy droids, and flick missiles to jumpstart a major battle, this building set is primed to satisfy both serious Lego builders and Star Wars collectors. With lots of little parts and detailed instructions, this set is recommended for ages 9 to 14. Like all Lego sets, it also holds the potential to keep creative adults entertained for hours.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: Detailed gunship is ready for intragalactic battles The Bad: Nothing In a Nutshell: This Star Wars inspired building set is sure to keep imaginative kids busy for days At a Glance Ages: 9 to 14

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Lightsabers make hand-to-hand combat exciting. View Larger.

Confront the Separatist Crisis
Drawing from the wealth of Star Wars lore, the Clone Wars are part of a back-story of intragalactic unrest that set the stage for the original trilogy. They are portrayed in a new animated movie, TV series, and video game, which help fill in gaps that appear between the other movies. With this set, you can be part of the action. Take up the battle against the Separatists using the Republic Attack Gunship, a heavily armed and armored Clone Wars troop carrier that's ready to invade even the most hostile terrain.

Included Lego figures represent the well-known characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Plo Koon, Asajj Ventress, and Commander Cody. Of course, there's Clone Trooper mini-figures as well. There's a cool speeder bike that deploys from the back, and multiple decals to create different gunships for your army. Arm your favorite figure with a lightsaber in Jedi blue-green or Sith red, and let the intragalactic battles begin. There's even a healing chamber that helps your characters recharge after a tough battle.

Preparing Your Gunship for Battle
With 1,034 pieces in 18 bags and two instruction booklets, the Republic Attack Gunship took our eight-year-old tester just under eight hours to build. He broke the construction up into three shorter sessions to make it more enjoyable and had only one slight difficulty. While Lego instructions are known for being colorful and accurate, there were a handful of pieces in our booklet that appeared clear when they were in fact yellow. This didn't do anything to diminish our appreciation for this model. Our tester struggled to find anything negative to say, and he gave this ship a fun factor score of one million, based on a scale of one to 10!

Cockpits in unexpected locations on the wings, unique sliding doors, the zoomer buggy, and an emergency capsule for sick and injured characters ranked high on the list of cool features. That's not all though. There's also a front side compartment that opens so you can remove the command station, eight positionable flick-fire missiles on top, two rotating missiles in front, and a top compartment which opens to provide access to the spy droids.

When asked if there was a downside to this gunship, our tester could only reply, "It's the best ever! I just like the whole set." Soon after completing construction, he had a big battle with all the ships in his collection and commented on how this set includes updated pieces that he's never seen before.

Even though there's plenty of features on just the Republic Attack Gunship to hold a child's interest for a long time, we can imagine how much fun the set would be with a whole group of friends and siblings plus all their Star Wars ships. We also appreciate the way that Lego systems never limit imaginative play. All the cool hardware that makes up the Republic Attack Gunship can be used to build any structure or vehicle your child dreams up.

What's in the Box
1,034 Lego pieces and two instruction booklets.

From the Manufacturer
Send in the clones…and the Jedi Knights. Take the battle to the Separatists with the Republic Attack Gunship. This heavily armed and armored Clone Wars troop carrier can fly and land in any battlefield or hostile terrain. But will even Obi-Wan Kenobi and Plo Koon be enough to stop the sinister Asajj Ventress and her double Sith lightsabers?

Customer Reviews

Great hidden features but 3 major flaws
I am actually a 28 year old Star Wars geek who animates LEGOs as a hobby who got this for his birthday from a very patient and understanding wife. I've been waiting 3 years for Lego to bring back the Gunship and it's back with mixed results.

The construction method is genius. The cockpits, wings, doors, cargo bay, and nose section are each separate sections that snap together upon completion. The only problem came when the nose section snapped to the cargo bay section, the columns were not sturdy and fell apart twice before snapping together. Together, however, they were very sturdy. As a completed gunship, the set is very sturdy and built with finger grips so a child could easily hold it.
The two weakenesses in the set design are that there are not enough knobs in the cargo bay to hold several clone figures and that the rear of the ship is wide open and not closed. The ramp is not anywhere near wide enough to protect the rear cargo bay. That can easily be fixed by adding some pieces of your own to it.
My main complaint is that for a $119.99 set you only get 5 minifigures. Amazon's product description says 4 clones. You really only get 2, Cody and another. The point of the Gunship is to carry a platoon of troopers into battle. The set only comes with enough to pilot it. Hopefully, LEGO will release more $9.99 sets at the end of December that come with 4 troopers and a small vehicle so you can load your gunship.

I LOVE THIS AWESOME LEGO SET!!!
I got this Lego republic gunship set for my twelve year old son and he overall was mostly happy with it.

Pros: This Starwars the Clone Wars Lego set was awesome! It had five mini figures of characters from the story and I was so happy when I got Obi-Wan Kenobi, Plo Koon, Clone Commander Cody, Clone Trooper, and Asajj Ventress so I could have another character to fight.

Cons: One of the problems was that when I was playing with it up the stairs and holding it by the top part (as it shows in the commercials) the top part and the bottom part split completely open and pieces fell all over the stairs. But when I thought I had gathered all the Lego pieces up, the ship looked exactly like how it was supposed to be except that I had one piece leftover. So I did some durability tests. My results were I had a total of two crashes first then five successes. So I flipped through the instruction booklet to see if I could find out where the spare piece was supposed to go. But I couldn't find out. So I just let it be. The other problem was that the small cargo bay doors were loose. So when I flew it up with the doors open, they just swung back.

Features: The really cool features were the sliding cargo bay doors, flick missiles, and multi clone trooper cockpits. The mini speeder was really cool too. And the medical pod was a nice Lego piece, but it was a little bit small for a clone trooper.

Secret Feature: There is a hidden flipping door. Well, it's not really hidden because you could still open it. It's that thing that's right under the clone trooper pilot cockpit it's the thing that you put the Armed Kowakian Monkey Lizard/Dancing Twilek Girl sticker on. If you have built it right. You have to carefully lift the top part of the door out and lift it up. That's supposed to be the place where you put the little radar station in. To make it fit, you first have to take out the handles of the little radar station at the left and right edge sides. That way it will fit.

Overall: This was THE BEST LEGO SET I EVER HAD!!! Despite the flaws, this was my best Lego set ever. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT TO ANY STARWARS THE CLONE WARS LEGO FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quality Lego product
This was a Christmas gift for my 8 year old son. He was extremely delighted when he saw it. Assembly took him about 2 days. This toy is very playable as it doens't come apart easily like some lego toys do. It is a very good design and captures the Gunship pretty accurately.