A great starter.
Posted by
R.R
in Netherlands
on
08 November 2009
When I saw this set here on Brickset, I had to get it because it was cheap (only 6,00 euros) and because it contained everything you could ask for in a small set: a minifig, a nice-looking vehicle, accesoires and some scenery.
The diver minifig has a serious face and a printed helmet with airtanks. He has a double-printed torso and black legs. He looks neat, although a second diver would have been even better.
The sub is actually pretty big. It has two robot arms with claws at the front to collect objects and stuff. The arms move up and down and the claws rotate 360 degrees. You can put almost everything the set comes with into them.
The sub also has two blue lights at the front and two spinning propellors at the back. The rudder moves from side to side and the yellow tail piece is printed - it says 'sub deep diving'. One thing I would like to mention is that in the picture, the two pins for connecting the flippers are yellow, but they are grey in the set.
There are, in my opinion, no bad points about the sub at all.
The accesoires are two flippers, two harpoon guns, two red snakes, a treasure chest, four golden coins, an evil skull, a blue crystal (rare) and a green crystal (also rare). There are no big problems with them, although I would like to see two snakes with different colors. Also, a skeleton instead of just a skull would increase the playability quite a bit. But I do like the crystals really much because you could easily use them with Power Miners sets.
The scenery consists of a 4x4 grey baseplate, some rocks and a dark green seaweed thing. It isn't anything special, but it could have been bigger and withe one or two more plants. That would increase the playability, because then the diver could have something where he could hide for the snakes.
All in all, a great set to start with if you haven't got any bigger Aqua Raiders sets yet (like me). I am considering buying Angler Ambush to go with this set, because that also looks like a great set.
Thank you for reading my review.
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