Well I made the video and got it down to 8 minutes. My problem is Youtube is saying it is gonna take 785 minutes to upload it so I might have to wait to get to some high speed dsl tomorrow. That being said, once I got it together my daughter and I spent the entire afternoon just playing and pushing buttons over and over and over again. Needless to say, it got a good hands on test and I thought I would share some pics and my critique.
First off and the last thing I will say about the box, besides the Rex needing to go, is the fact that it is roughly the same size as the AT-TE box.
As far as the vehicle itself, it comes in two major pieces. One back troop body and a small front portion of the body that attaches in a nice groove system to the bigger body piece. Once connected it feels like one big piece. It was nice to see that the neck area got the grey treatment, I was worrying that it would remain black.
As you can also see the top portion of the troop carrier also sports the hidden handle for the head. Once you rotate that bad boy up it shows two small cannons. To move the head up and down it is rather easy. To turn it to the left and the right you have to twist the handle pretty roughly, but perhaps it will get better as it gets used more.
The cockpit looks great and the light up display screen (blue) is very nice. It will fit more figs than our previous offerings, but they are pretty crammed in there and my little gal got frustrated a bit with them sticking. One nice thing I will note though is the fact that there are figure footpegs everywhere in this beast including the cockpit. It really makes displaying multiple figures nice.
The body is a real wonder. It has gadgets and a light up work area (in red) and even a hidden trap door in the bottom that has a push button reel. The two side reels are nice too.
The back of the troop area with the speeder end has a nice shoot out feature with its own sound features, but for the life of me I think this is probably one play feature I could have done without and I would have loved a launch out web cannon or something along those lines. I will say the speeder they give you for this is so flimsy as to be almost useless from a real posing standpoint. It started to bend as soon as it was free of the box. I can higly see me trying to talk Clint into trying to make this back area a home for one vintage death star cannon or something of the like.
The legs are huge and the feet go together nicely and snap to the bottom of the legs. The only thing of note is the new feet braces sometimes come out of thier socket, but it is real easy to put them back in. I will aslo include some size comparison shots with a POTF2 AT-AT. The top of a POTF2 one came to roughly the bottom of the new Walker.
As you can see my daugher and I give this two great big ole thumbs up. If I can talk my girl into playing SW for five minutes I am good and she played with this for over three hours this afternoon. It sure did take me back a few years to my own childhood. Hasbro has a great offering here and any of my nit picks were just that, nothing that really is that big of a deal. The doors tended to come off a bit easy, but I dealt with that too. One thing I almost forgot is the fact that there are a ton of movie quotes, some are screen accurate and some are not. I know one thing for sure, if you like the AT-AT you will have to have multiples of this. I will try to get my opening video on here soon and do another of the features. No promises with my horrible internet though.
