Picked this up at a Wal-mart for $64.88
At last, this is the new ship that I have been waiting for ever since Tamer Posted Pics from the Clone Wars visual guide long months ago.
Coming out of the package, you have the major part of the ships fuelsaulage, The two main engine nacelles, two missile launchers,6 missiles, and two bombs. With the instructions you also get a decent number of decals although only one is of interior controls and the rest are plain white looking decals of various shapes with fine black detail lines on them that are barely visible when applied. No republic markings or crumbbomber markings or anything.
Also, there was a new catalog included which had a 10% off coupon from a hasbrotoyshop.com purchase.
The assembly is easy and straight forward and the ships features are as follows. Three retractable landing gear that are more sturdy than the last y-wing and are operated manually, two missile launchers under the nose that are operated by two small buttons on either side of the main cockpit, two bomb bays with bombs that are dropped by pressing one of two small buttons on either side of the astromech hole, two swing up weapons platforms that recess into the top of the ships body and spring open at the touch of a button revealing the two detachable missile launchers that launch two missiles apiece, Opening main canopy with semi sparce interior detail and a dual hand yoke control, an opening tail gunner canopy with room for a gunner fig and guns that dont have much posability,a correctly scaled astromech socket that has the outer hinged ring that snaps into place over and around the astromech," an innovation that was first used on the delta series jsf",and, of course, the removable engine nacelles.
Fully assembled, this ship is pretty large and is longer than 2 feet long.
The price of these new ships has gotten high but so has the detail. The scale and appearance on this one are spot on and if the price doesnt matter, you just gotta get it.
As for the backdrop cardboard diorama insert that is included with this ship. It's not big enough to properly pose the ship. No surprise there. If they were to correctly promote this feature with this ship, they could have included a bigger backdrop and some kind of stand so that you could pose the ship in flight mode.
