Avatar RDA Scorpion Gunship

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: 29,626 in Toys ; Games (See Top 100 in Toys ; Games)

By : Mattel
Price : $29.77

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Incoming! A crucial 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 three.75-inch figures in the line. Contains a vehicle particular i-Tag for instant access to far more movie themed action. Figures sold separately.
Intended for ages 6+, each Avatar Creature/Vehicle interacts with most 3 Â¾â?- 4 Â¼â? figures, and is accompanied by a character-certain i-tag. The Scorpion Chopper functions rotating blades and firing missiles, and seats 1 pilot figure (not included). The AT-99 Scorpion Gunship is a VTOL Gunship utilized as both close-in fire help and air support in conjunction with RDAâ?TMs mining operations. In the movie Avatar, the Scorpion was outfitted with dual co-axial ducted-fan rotor systems with four 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-accurate detail
Comes with over 24 points of articulation
Consists of dual firing projectiles, quadruple spinning blades, and rotating gun barrel
Articulated cockpit that fits all basic Avatar RDA and Na'vi figures

Buyer Critiques

Why I am qualified to speak: I have been collecting action figures considering the fact that 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 really feel that it was the fantastic value for this item. I see that they are now $24.99 to $29.99 at various shops and that cost is way more than the value mark. Watch this item for sell-out, although, as it is the most beneficial AVATAR item currently on the shelves.
It appears that this car is released in the very same quantities as the flying creatures and other vehicles as they all had equal representation on the shelves at eight various retailers I visited.
THE Fine:
-The olive drab color is ideal. There is a very, very subtle gold dust in the paint that is good if the model is touched by the sun.
-The cockpit has really great plastic "glass" and has an interior section that folds up and out to make it a lot easier to get figures inside. The effect is imagination inspiring.
-Assembly was fun. It type of reminded me of an elementary snap-together model kit at initially. In addition, when it is together it stays together.
-The over-all structural appearance is amazing. This is a single of my all-time preferred vehicles... based on appearance alone.
-The Cockpit hinge is created to snap on and off conveniently to stay clear of breaking if torqued.
-The guns on the front wing rotate 360 degrees.
-I like the reality 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 person missiles that separate from the wing)
THE Poor:
Parts and ASSEMBLY (the poor):
The front "wings" where the machine guns are attached need adult strength and child fingers to conveniently assemble. I was afraid that if I held them at the outer edges even though pushing I ran the threat of bending them and obtaining a crease exactly where the plastic would be lighter than the surrounding areas. With a tiny perform and concentrate I was able to get them installed whilst maintaining a solid grip on the larger gun and the top of the wing at its base.
Those same front wings every single have two stubs that protrude INTO the cockpit area. So long as the cockpit is closed you will not care, but those nubs detract from an open cockpit experience.
The tail assembly and the snap-on wings are a several type of plastic than the body of the ship. Bright light passes by way of the softer plastic and it is substantially alot more flexible than the rest of the ship. The color is also not perfectly matched up and a close inspection tends to make it quick 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 components stand apart even more.
SCALE (the bad):
-The seat inside the cockpit is as well little and is pretty much not even there. It is molded into the rear wall of the cockpit and serves to do little even more than hold the hips of a sufficiently tiny pilot.
-I wish all the several suppliers would settle on a standard 1:18 scale for their figures and then honor that scale with acute consideration to detail. This ship is also tiny for most 1:18 action figures. If you definitely bend and crunch a normal GI Joe figure (with no gear) you can squeeze him inside. Neytiri just barely fits inside if you squish up her legs adequate (a dilemma with Neytiri's scale way more than the ship's) [EDIT meaning that Neytiri is as well smaller and should not be able to squeeze in there... but this point is included to give an approximation of how huge the ship is for individuals who are not up to speed on the size of other action figures]. GI Joe's Scarlett in Reactive Influence Armor (See Desert Ambush Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara) fits snugly, in a correct seated position, with her feet beneath the fold-up dash and her head squarely under the cockpit hinge IF you swivel her holster up onto her lap.
PAINT (the bad):
-With the exception of the white, yellow and black utilized for 6 TEXT locations of the ship (two No Step and four 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 consider is supposed to be a follow light for night ops (a little red, see-through plastic "light" would have been much nicer). I am not a major fan of weathering for paint jobs, but they could have simply elevated the aesthetics by basically doing 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. As an alternative, they painted the complete face of the assembly gold, to include the rockets and plating behind the rockets.
ARTICULATION (the poor):
- The twin rotors on each 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 moving, but still tight adequate that it holds its position.
-The nose sensor is not articulated.
ACCESSORIES (the poor):
- Missiles do not detach and there are no accessories. (1 missile on every side does fire making use of springs. They are rather well integrated and blend in perfectly)
CONCLUSION:
I Like this ship. If it had been to scale with GI Joe and Star Wars I would have purchased 6 of them. Considering that it is too smaller I'll just have to settle on two of them (for Scarlett and Cover Girl). I will apply my own black wash and add a few high good quality bitz to spice it up. It was a outstanding worth at $[...]. I can see spending $[...]. It is more than priced at $[...] but I bet it will sell anyway. If this is nevertheless about when clearance hits, snap it up if it gets anywhere near $15. Less than that and it is a steal.

It's modeled specifically like the one in the movie. He's obsessed with the movie and loves all the Avatar toys he got for Christmas. It is a fun toy for him and it stay place together even immediately after dropped a couple of difficult instances.