Buy Star Wars Episode 1 Electronic Naboo Royal Starship Blockade Cruiser PlaysetStar Wars Episode 1 Electronic Naboo Royal Starship Blockade Cruiser Playset Product Description:
- Naboo Royal Starship Blockade Cruiser made for play with the 3.75 inches tall Star Wars action figure line.
- Contents: 1 Vehicle playset, 1 Federation Droid Vehicle, 1 Escape Pod vehicle and and an exclusive R2 action figure.
- Starship is over 3 Feet Long! Battle Sounds and Lights! 15 Distinct Movie Sounds!
- Panels Open to Expose Huge Playset! Removable Escape Vessel with firing missile!
- Trade Federation Droid Fighter with infra-red power blaster "Blasts" off panels, sets off alarms, lights and explosions!
Product Description
During the Trade Federation invasion of Naboo, the Royal Starship is the only escape for Queen Amidala and her Jedi protectors from the occupied palace at Theed. Under a relentless attack from Trade Federation forces, this J-type 327 Nubian vessel boosts its powerful shields but still sustains heavy damage from the aggressive assault. The crew's only hope is to reach Corscant and the Galactic Senate - the fate of Naboo depends on it! Made by Hasbro in 1999 and long out of production.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Tatooine, here we come.
By A Customer
This is an excellent playset/vehicle recreation of the Star Wars ship. A few drawbacks you should be aware of. 1)The landing gear is popped on and off every time it "flies" anywhere, rather than being stored on the ship a la The original Millenium Falcon. 2)The top won't close all the way when figures sit in the cockpit seats.3)The various battle damage panels and landing ramp tend to fall off in flight as they are not connected at all. 4)It is HUGE! There is just no weildy place to display this, Star Wars fans. It's ONE YARD LONG! 5)It's kind of thin flimsy plastic due to it's size. I thought I would break it every time I picked it up. On the other hand, the sound effects are killer, and the IR battle droid fighter action is the coolest idea Hasbro has come up with yet. You hit the ship with an Infra red blast 3 times and the panels (and little red droid) blow off and sirens wail. Way cool! Amazon's price tag is the best offer anywhere, even with shipping, you save off what you'd pay at Target or Walmart. So get crackin' and pick one up! Little Anikin is waiting on Tatooine!
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
A very nice Playset
By A Customer
I personally had the honor to buy this Royal Starship Set and I must say that the detail quality in the ship is truly maginificent. From the controls of the Royal starship to it's "battling" sounds, it's truely a very detailed ship. You can probably fit more than seven action figures in the ship. It comes exclusively with a red R2D2 action figure which is a plus also since it's going to be a highly collectible item in the Episode One series. But i must say for any star wars fan, this is a really good collectible ship even though it will take a lot of space in your present Star Wars collection, so make room for it if you decide to buy it!
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Ambivalence.
By A Customer
The Starship is really cool in theory, but the translation toplastic doesn't always go smoothly. As mentioned below, the panels ofthe different portions of the ship (it comes in 2 pieces, plus separate tail fins - and the nose portion sags, due to gravity) don't always match up well. The 97 (!) stickers can be quite a pain to apply, even as Star Wars stickers go. The droid lift is jerky, and the floor of the main passenger hold feels a bit flimsy. Flimsy, too, is the included Trade Federation droid fighter. Also, the Lazy Boy recliners that the passengers and crew sit in must be almost horizontal if one wants to put the top back on.
Also, the ramp, unlike the Millennium Falcon's, isn't secured into place, which makes lowering and retracting it more of a task. Granted, it's not moving mountains, but it's something. In addition, the hyperdrive is tossed in a corner of the ship (unlike in the film), as though Hasbro realized that they had 4 square inches of space over there, and decided to include something else as dressing, which makes it kind of a non-event.
Now, the oft-recited claim to fame of the Naboo Royal Starship re: its coolness is that it's long. So's the list of Nazi war crimes. That doesn't make it cool. The front third of the ship is essentially useless, and a reject from the Kenner cruisemissile trooper fiasco of a couple years ago takes up all available space in that sector. Also, large as the ship is, the droid hold which in the film stocked 6 droids now has the capacity to hold just 2 - and only one harness is included. And it's a bad one. You're better off substituting R2-B1's harness.
Now, the ship doesn't completely stink. The included R2-R9 is cool - the first time that Hasbro's ever made an astromech (and everybody loves astromech droids) that isn't either R2-D2 or R5-D4. His head is even frosted, like the booster rocket R2-D2, but unlike the unfortunately/unrealistically chrome-domed R2-B1 that's since been released. And his head clicks, a la the 1977 R2-D2, which is a great touch. I just wish that I didn't have to pay to get this guy. But there's no other way.
Another high point is the sounds. The ship has a million and one different sound effects, from 8 or 9 different buttons. And they sound good, too (though some might be familiar to owners of other electronic Star Wars products), unlike the Commtech chips.
Also, in the sad, sad world of Star Wars playsets (a doomed realm since the original Power of the Force line, it seems - the Ewok Village of old would never be made today) this is one of the better ones. Maybe the best. But to paraphrase Dennis Miller, that's sorta like being valedictorian at summer school.
Basically, the whole thing just leaves you wanting...more. More space. More included figures (the cheaper AT-AT had two, remember?). The ship comes with a (hollow, with no bottom or back) throne for the pseudo-Queen to sit on, yet no such figure exists or is currently planned. Why didn't Hasbro include her? Also, a 12" scale R2-A6 has been in stores for some time; why not take the two seconds required to repaint the 4" astromech mold and toss him in as well? (And, really, why not the white G8-R3, too? - he perished at the same time as R2-R9, so his presence makes sense, and the power of the statement "Includes three droids!" on the side of the box would be great indeed. Surely enough to encourage more people to buy the thing, which, looking at the aisles of the toy stores near me, is a department in which the Starship could use some help) Why not include a new Ric Olie figure to pilot it, with articulated knees and cloth tunic? Why is the ship not covered in Hasbro's chrome effect that they use on the Transformers Beast Wars series? The $30 Naboo N-1 fighter doesn't have it, either; couldn't we get the coolest aesthetic element of the ship from the film in a $100 vehicle?
In short, the Naboo Royal Starship's not a bad item; it's just not what it could be, not what it should be, and not what you deserve when plunking down bones for...a toy. END
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