Product Description

The Penitente Expidition Helicopter made its inaugural flight in 1996 as part of the technical support team for the Himalayan Alpine Federation's annual crevasse rescue training missions. Winning accolades from the alpine community for its excellent manouevrability in close quarters and hostile weather conditions, the Penitente has been delivering mountaineers and extreme sports enthousiasts to remote mountain locations for well over a decade. Build it and take make your high altitude adventures come true.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38953 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Mega Brands
• Model: 03230U
• Released on: 2007-05-18
• Dimensions: 14.17" h x 2.36" w x 11.93" l, 3.31 pounds

Features

• Build and create the ultimate high altitude expedition helicopter
• Detailed construction toy has working propellers.
• Comes with ski skids to allow for snow-top landings.
• Includes 2 highly detailed figures (pilot and extreme skier), fully poseable
• Intense building with approximately 425-piece

Customer Reviews

Good toy, built together with our 3 year old
If your child is past putting things in their mouth, its a great way to spend time together, show them how to follow directions, and build it with them. It added hours of good interaction with our 3 year old and we'd buy advanced toys like this again --- but it does supervision.

Best "Brick" Helicopter
This is probably one of the best looking "Brick" Helicopters. I've yet to see a realistic collector quality helicopter by Lego. MegaBloks has made one. The MegaBloks helicopter is based on a Eurocopter EC 135. It was a lot bigger than expected when completed. Although a bit below "Lego" quality, it's very nicely done. I'd recommend it for adult collectors as well as kids. A few minuses are the back portion is a little "rough" looking with some flat doors covering the rounded aft end, The aft doors tend to fall off easily. Some of the paint on the parts are also a little thin. I touched mine up with some spare paint. Once completed it looks proportional compared to pics of the real EC 135. The main rotors look the right size and are nicely detailed. It looks like it would fly! You'd probably pay twice or three times as much for a equivalent Lego version.