Customer Reviews

LEGO Exo-Force Sonic Phantom

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Aside Bionicle, I haven't purchased any LEGOs in quite some time-- until EXO Force. Since it's pointless to just have one, I must have them ALL. The Sonic Phantom here was my 5th EXO Force buy, one of the only sets that does not resemble humanoid armed mecha.

The "So-Pha" is fairly simple to build, but the turbines are the majority of the set itself, making it seem much larger than it really is. It has an airship-type motif with gun turrets on the left and right rear turbines, which can pivot in almost a 360 angle. The turbines can also spin, but not very well since the other parts scrape or hinder it from helicopter-like twirling. It comes with an "Iron Drone" pilot, and one of the new light bricks (red LED). It can be activated by handling the trigger "built" into the set-- which can also shoot a projectile. The whole ship kind of has a bit of a "gun" feel about it, being flown by the kid grasping it like a firearm rather than simply holding it (of course, he/she could do thast, too). It is not as interactive as the other EXO Force sets, aside these points.

As with all the EXO Force sets, it comes with a small sheet of decals, with instructyions on where to put them. Being a tad of a perfectionist, I spent a great deal of time trying to put them on flawlessly-- if you purchase this set for a little one, he or she may want your help with it. I personally like this challenge. Just don't fudge up, there are no extra decals.

Overall, the set is not bad. LEGO always gets high marks for Durability, but this set uses a few bricks in easy-to-fall-off locations. Fun? I suppose so-- your kid will want an open space to "fly" this around in. But being a few bucks more expensive than the other bipedal mecha, along with the lack of interaction that the others have make me understand why it shows disappointment for the other reviewer. It's just a nice looking LEGO airship.

I'm Toysrus's new critic and my (not real) name is D.L.Smith (no I didnt' pick the name Mom X5, that is my mom's review name) . I used to collect LEGO movie sets like Spiderman and Harry Potter. Now I just use those sets to make new things like forts , but occasionally I'll buy sets that have ships and tanks. This is why I like stuff like LEGO Vikings, Knights Kingdom, and Dino Attack to add cool stuff to my forts. Anyways, that is why I first decided to buy LEGO EXO Force.I thought the cool weapons and robot fighters would make a neat addition to my expanding collection, so I bought two sets so far: this product and the Fire Vulture. I must say that the Sonic Phantom hasn't impressed me much. You will see why.

Durability. That is the key word that LEGO's need to have, and I must admit this is not a very well put toy. Small parts would snap off (after it was done) and it would be annoying to keep putting them on. The one part that snapped off the most would be the laser canon. The laser cannon was pretty annoying and cramped in a narrow space so so you couldn't keep it at a decent angle. Also, the laser canon had a very pathetic beam. I turned off all the lights and put my hand in fromt of it and it didn't shine my hand. I would be willing to pay a few extra dollars for LEGO to make it at least as strong as a laser pointer key chain. If you can't stand badly-put-togheter toys then I do not reccomend buying this toy for all the annoying parts that never seem to stop falling off.

Even though this toy is not too durable, it can still be fun to run around with in your hand like a toy airplane. It has a great place to hold on to to and shoot with the missile( shoots about 7 ft.), which is why I would give the toy 2 and a half stars if Toysrus.com would let you. JUST MAKE SURE NOT TO DROP IT,TRUST ME. The set comes with a small robot to operate the set, nothing special about him. All in all, this toy is fun if you just like to run around with toys shooting stuff.

Thank you for taking your time to read my review.

This toy was just a sad rip-off of a star wars racer, I even think they used the same pieces from their Star Wars line. The packaging was cool and it looked like it would be a good toy for my little cousin Andrew, but he was pretty disappointed with it once he got the box open. Not much play value in this EXO-Force stuff.