Found this beast of a vehicle at a Target, last week, for $99.99
Though the Turbo Tank was seen briefly in ROTS, it has been one of those iconic Republic vehicles that we thought that we would never see.
Well, here it is! Coming out of the box, the bohemoth isnt too taxing to assemble and comes with a detailed instruction sheet and a small decal sheet containing 6-8 decals.
When assembled, the Turbo Tank has a whole pocket-full of features, most of which, we have heard about.
You got the cylindrical crowes nest which recesses into the top of the forward control area and extends up with a floor and enough room inside to contain one clone standing watch.
You got some smaller anti personele guns on the sides that will spin into position.
You have the main driving cockpit area up front accessable by a swing up hatch on either side and two control seats with consoles.
Just aft of that area, there are these two rectangle box missle launchers that extend from and retract into the side of the vehicle. both of these spin into position on an axis and hold three missiles each launching controlled by three buttons on each launcher.
Just aft of these, there is a mid-sized interior area with side-swing open doors. each of these doors have a standing shelf with pegs for mounting clones.
Just aft of here is a larger interior area with swing down doors to access the area. These doors have foot pegs for mounting figures. Inside this area, on the aft wall, there are two standing controls which I would assume are for controlling those side guns. In the middle of this area is a standing gunner's station with foot pegs, controll handles, and a spinning action that matches the one shot missile launcher mounted topside.
Aft of this is the removable control station with swing down doors and a sitting gunners station inside that spins with the once again mounted missile launcher. Both launchers can pivot up and down as well as spin side to side.
Naturally, you have the large 10 rolling wheels. On the lower front of the vehicle, you have a door that swings down to reveal the barc speeder bay where you can load the included rolling speeder till it clicks into place. At the
touch of a top mounted button, the speeder launches out of the vehicle.
This one comes with the exclusive turbo tank driver fig.
There is an array of control buttons on the top of the vehicle that trigger different light and sound effects including voice clips from the clone wars cartoon series. Like the BMF, some of the buttons in other locations will trigger sound effects also, like the barc speeder launch button.
I havent gotten any batteries for the thing yet, so I will have to review the sound effects later.
Until then, check out all of the pics that I took.
