First off I'll just cut to the chase, the gunship itself is really cool, it's just a very funky design, and I had a lot of fun putting it together. It's a very interesting design, as you can clearly see, an interesting feature is the angled body, which uses snap joint pieces, it's a clever use of parts, as are the engines, or at least I assume they're the engines, it's forerunner, nothing they built makes sense. Given the odd design, it's also surprising and very cool how few specialised parts there are, most of it is just standard Mega Bloks parts, and I always love that. I'm not entirely sure that this model is 100% correct, and I don't think the colours are accurate, but still, I like the colours on this thing, with grey, dark bluish grey, and orange blocks, and as far as abstract designs go, this thing is way cooler then that bonkers ONI REAPX line, I did not like those things, at all. As far as playability goes this thing is no Scorpion, but it's still pretty nifty, with adjustable cannons on both sides, even if I needed to fix one on my gunship, it was loose, and 2 hatches on the vehicle to seat mini figures. The engines are fixed in place, impressively securely, and they don't rotate, which you'd think they would, but that's not a problem, and it's pretty funky how the engines are attached, like many forerunner things, they seem to defy the laws of physics, and are secured to the body of the ship with transparent pieces, to give them the appearance they're floating. There is something I'm a bit confused by, and that's the display stands, while they're fairly easy to miss with their size and they do a good job of keeping the ship off the ground, but they're fairly short, not keeping the ship terribly far off the ground, a taller display stand, similar to the Seraph or Broadsword sets, would have been much better in my opinion, that way I could have this thing in my Halo ships display without it taking up a huge amount of space, space that my Phantom and Pelican sets really need. over all I'm very happy with this ship itself though, I like the look, the design, it was a fun build and has a few items of playability, even though it's display options are somewhat limited as they are. now for the figures, the Spartan is unremarkable, to me he's just another Spartan to join the army of UNSC figures I already have, but the other 2 are far more interesting. they are the Promethean soldiers, and while they don't have the same extensive armour options as the Spartans or Elites, their armour, in my opinion looks really cool, and it's nicely sculpted and painted, though like the gunship itself I don't know how accurate to the in-game soldiers they are. They do however use the redesigned articulation, which lets you pose them in interesting ways and let's them hold 2 handed weapons like the Binary rifle you can see one of them holding, weapons include a binary rifle, a boltshot pistol and a new Halo 5 redesigned rocket launcher. it's cool to A get more Promethean figures, of which I don't have many, and B get new figures that are pretty cool. and overall I'd say this is a pretty cool set, I can understand why maybe people wouldn't like the vehicle's look, it's a very unusual design, but I personally think it looks really cool, and I like 2 of the figures this set comes with, even with my indifference to the Spartan, I'd say if you like the look of the Phaeton gunship you should pick this up, if not, I'd still say consider it because it's a cool set.
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