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Star Wars Lego #4489 Mini Building Set AT-AT Lego Star Wars AT-AT Mini Building Set – 4489
Customer Review: Target That Generator
Star Wars mini vehicles allow users to create vast scenes from the movies without spending thousands of dollars. Each new model has at least one special piece so that you won’t be able to duplicate it exactly by using other pieces in your collection.

The AT-AT is a really cool looking model. You can create a whole herd of the for the price of just one of the larger version.

The companion Snow Speeder is ok but is way off scale.

The directions are standard Lego format and are easy to follow. The final construction is solid. Parts of this model can be combined with other mini vehicles to create a Y-Wing (don’t worry, those pieces come from the Snow Speeder).

All in all, very nicely done.
Customer Review: “Target, maximum firepower!”
A friend threw this, as well as a mini Millenium Falcon Lego set at me as an early Christmas gift. After I gave `em a quick glance, I turned to him and asked, “What d’ya think I am, a freakin’ ten-year-old?”

He replied, “Perhaps not in the physical sense, but it’s glaringly obvious you’re not even up to that age maturity-wise.”

“You know, you’ve got a point there”, I grudgingly admitted.

So I went home, opened the sets up, and spent a good twenty minutes assembling both of them. Out of the pair my friend gave me, I’m definitely diggin’ the mini AT-AT more. Not only does it bear a reasonably close resemblance to the real deal, it also sports some really goofy legs. Each limb is articulated in three places (at the “hip”, and double-jointed upper & lower “knees”), and will stay in place when posed in a certain manner thanks to little ratchet thingies that mesh together when the leg pieces are clicked in place. Thanks to these joints, I can pose this little contraption of gray plastic bricks into the kinds of walking/running stances that would make the director of the Ministry of Silly Walks (anyone get this` reference? Um… hello…?) green with envy! I’ve even managed to get it to stand on its hind legs and “beg” like the family dog at the dinner table, or do the sleepwalk / zombie stance! Its neck also sports a ratchet-jointed connection point near the “shoulders”. Sadly, the head can only move down and up, not side to side.

I’m also struck by how… *glurk*… CUTE… the thing looks. This mini walker looks more like some kinda mechanical puppy dog to me than a dreaded juggernaut of destruction and conquest. Speaking of puppies: if you own the large Lego AT-AT, you could buy a couple of these smaller ones, assemble them, place `em around the large one, and voila– an AT-AT mommy and her young! Can’t wait for Steve Irwin to do a special on THAT wildlife, heh…

Ooops, gotta cut this short– the orderly’s telling me it’s time for me to take my “happy pills”. But before I go, I highly recommend this particular mini Lego kit for any Star Wars fanboy who’s too lazy to build and detail a proper model, and/or is strapped for space in the basement dwelling he’s fashioned under his parents’ house. So until next time…

…`Late