Saucer Scout #6835

Saucer Scout

Product Number: #6835
Year: 1994

This is one of the most amazing spaceship I had in my lego arsenal, despite its size. The ship has a tight cockpit, plus an actual seat unlike most ships. The ship is not over armed and has just enough firepower to be a threat on its top. Though the panel out side seems like a computer, it also looks cool as a front cover, rather than having all four ends exactly the same, taking away from the design and the playability, since you can't build much else without the computer. Also, the computer can serve as a security system, allowing the pilot in, or as a dataport for the found (stolen) information. But what makes this a great scout is that the four dual boosters make this ship beyond agile, since the thrusters make for movement in all eight standard directions as well as allowing the ship to turn on less than a dime, since if two thrusters fire in opposite directions the ship rotates

Includes:
1 Spyrius Astronaut Minifigure

Pros:
-Very well designed.
-A good source of red inverse slopes and jet engines.
-Weapon can be used by minifig
-No controls? No problem. Note the funky headband on the minifig's head. It suggests direct brain-control.

Cons:
-Is there any point to having the monitor outside the cockpit? itd be pretty hard to see from a reclining position.
-Not enough pieces, i could easily imagine this in a bag set or as part of a combination pack.