Hasbro Star Wars Transformers - Gunship

by Hasbro

Product Features

• The Republic gunship sweeps across Geonosis, blasting the Separatist forces with a barrage of missiles
• The clone pilot lands in the middle of a fierce battle between droids and clone troopers, and converts the gunship into a heavily armed ground fighter
• Modeled after the powerful combat vessels used by the clone troopers during the Clone Wars, this fierce fighting machine is now a mode-changing figure
• Features two projectile launchers and a clone pilot figure that fits inside
• One awesome addition to your collection

Product Details

• Item Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• 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: B000GKC8MC
• Item model number: 87287
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 10 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,417 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Republic gunship sweeps across Geonosis, blasting the Separatist forces with a barrage of missiles. The clone pilot lands in the middle of a fierce battle between droids and clone troopers, and converts the gunship into a heavily armed ground fighter that goes straight for droids. Modeled after the powerful combat vessels used by the clone troopers during the Clone Wars, this fierce fighting machine is now a mode-changing figure that’s full of surprises. Convert the Republic Gunship to combat robot figure and back again. Vehicle mode features two projectile launchers and a clone pilot figure that fits inside.

Product Description

The Republic Gunship is ideal for battering dissembled squads of spindly Battle Droids with wide-swath incendiary rockets. Afterwards, once you take the hill, you break out the steaks and the barbeque pits. Still, in order to truly impress the competition, it?s best to have a Republic Gunship capable of transforming into a robot. In robot mode, the Republic Gunship features the distinctive Clone Trooper helmet design and a reconstitution of the cannons as dual handheld guns. Based in Repulsorlift technology, the Gunship features weapons such as mass-driver canons, anti-matter shower warheads and EMP rockets. There is no escape, if you?re one of the Droid infantry, as you look up suddenly, your optic receptors briefly registering the shape of your imminent doom. But true state of emergency has arrived only when the Gunship expectedly transforms into a gigantic Clone Trooper robot. And while a Clone Trooper Transformer would present little or no challenge to the likes of Megatron or Shockwave, the survival rate of the average Battle Droid would be approximate to that of a pimento loaf sandwich in Jabba?s throne room.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Falls apart easily, November 18, 2007

By 

Mom in Massachusetts - See all my reviews

= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hasbro Star Wars Transformers - Gunship (Toy)

This is a fun toy. It converts from a Star Wars ship into a robot. The problem is that it falls apart EASILY. I haven't been able to transform this from one shape to the other without legs, wings, etc falling off and needing to be reattached. It would be much funner if kids could play with it without it falling apart.

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting transformation, November 25, 2008

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Simon (Brampton, ON) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hasbro Star Wars Transformers - Gunship (Toy)

This Transformer starts as a Republic Gunship from the Star Wars prequel trilogy before turning into a clone pilot. Note that this Transformer has been released a few times with different paint jobs - the one I own has blue wings and a face painted on the front mirroring the Clone Wars cartoon series.

What I like about this one is that at first glance its difficult to tell how you make the robot from vehicle mode, since a large section of the body is hollow. The designers managed a neat trick by having various body parts tuck into one another or fold out. And despite the end robot being very top heavy, someone paid attention to the feet and the robot stands better than it has any right to. While I agree with the previous reviewer that some body parts do come off easily, this particular design is also a bit more forgiving in that the parts can snap right back on (compared to say, Boba Fett's arms from the Slave I design, which were a total pain).

What I don't like about this particular design is that like some of the other Star Wars models, the wings and some other parts have little to do except hang at the back of the finished robot. Chalk it up to the odd body shapes of Star Wars vehicles, but you kinda wish more loose ends would fold away nicely. The instructions were also a bit hard to follow the first time, but that could just be me.

Overall a Clone Trooper might not be the top character on everyone's buy list, but the transformation is certainly interesting enough to give it a try. One final note; for better or worse, the two gun turrets that become the robot's weapons are some of the best spring-loaded projectiles I've seen in a long time. The ones on other Star Wars Transformers tend to jam, but these babies fly like they're made in the 80s. Collectors rejoice, parents prepare your best "poke your eye out" speech.