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Protect the intergalactic gold shipment!

All-points bulletin: that four-armed space villain Frenzy is up to his old tricks again! He's planning to ambush the gold shipment carried by the Space Police XL SpaceFreighter and use his hyper-hopper to make a speedy getaway. Use the flick-launching freeze rays to take him down and haul him off to galactic jail. Hope you remembered to bring extra handcuffs! Includes handcuffs, gold bars, four-armed Frenzy minifigure and Space Police Officer minifigure! Flick fire the quad freeze ray cannons! Spin and position the multidirectional engines for speedy pursuit! Space Police XL SpaceFreighter measures 7 inches (17.8cm) long by 6 inches (15.2cm) wide!

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Frenzy is stealing TWO gold bars!

Posted by TheLEGOmaniac in Denmark on 02 February 2010

I do like this set, it's my first Space Police III set. Alot of people don't like it that much, and sure, it has it's flaws but it's a nice addition to your Space Police collection, I'd recommend it.

Minifigures:
So, we get two minifigs in this set: We get a space police officer with a pair of handcuffs. His torso is double-printed, and his legs are printed as well. The head has appeared in Mars Mission, but I didn't have it. I like the black helmet with the black visor as well. He's a cool figure, I do like him! You also get Frenzy which is one of my favorite minifigures of all time. He's got four arms, because his head is also the upper part of a torso, where you put "Battle Droid" arms on him. He's got nice detail on his face, and his torso is double-printed. Awesome figure!

Hyper-hopper:
The hyper-hopper is Frenzy's little speeder thingie. It's pretty small, but still cool. It's got lights and flames which are useful, as well as the handlebars. It's also got a tow thing in the back where you can connect the safe. That's a nice play feature in my opinion. The only CON about this is that the piece at the bottom breaks off a little easily during play.

Safe:
The safe is yellow, and it has lots of room in there. I checked - you can fit seven gold bars in there, yet they only give you two, which is a CON for me. It has a sticker that says "SAFE" and it can fit into the ship. And as I mentioned above you can connect it to Frenzy's hyper-hopper.

Ship:
The ship is very cool-looking, but has it's problems. The major problem is that there's too many objects on here which swivel. The worst part is the front engines. They do look good with lasers and police lights on there, but when you play with the ship you will sometimes get it to swivel. This can be fixed though. The flick-fire missiles work very good, but they also swivel when you flick. So you have to hold them with one hand, and flick with the other. But if you want to flick while the ship is in the air, you will need a third hand to hold onto the ship! Which is not possible I'm afraid. The back engines also swivel, but that's okay, since they are supposed to. You can also open the flaps on these engines. The safe fits into the back, but it does wobble once it's in place. And there's a mechanism where you can push over a lock in the back and pull a pin out. Then the safe drops. Sometimes this doesn't work, which is another CON. There's also adjustable fins at the back. The cockpit on the ship is not at all airtight (another CON), so how is the officer supposed to breathe when he doesn't have an oxygen tank? The cockpit does open very nicely though. It's a fold-out cockpit - the front and top opens. And there's a blue windshield which is awesome. And the control panel inside is just a sticker. There's also an antenna and headlights on the top.

PROS:
*Cool figures.
*Cool hyper-hopper.
*Cool ship.
*Lots of useful parts.
*It has nice looks.

CONS:
*ALOT of objects which swivel or wobbles.
*The safe mechanism doesn't work every time.
*Cockpit is not airtight.
*There's only TWO gold bars.
*The piece at the bottom of Frenzy's hyper-hopper breaks off easily.

OVERALL: 3.8/5

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It certainly doesn't look bad in the picture...

Posted by Cyborg Phloyd in United States on 30 December 2009

This set is, quite simply, to me, an outright disappointment to the quality of set design I have typically experienced in SPIII. Why? Here are the PROS and CONS.

PROS
To make this review complete, I must, perhaps for the fifth or sixth time, state how much I love the SPIII minifigures. The Space Police Officers are just so futuristic looking and convincing. And the criminals! How I love the criminals! This set comes with the very uncommon FRENZY! He is one of few four-armed minifigs out there, and boy does he look great! Frenzy is reason enough to buy this set, IMO. Also, despite the inevitable CONS of this set, it does, admittedly, look very impressive for a machine of its kind. You might even be able to compare it to one of those Separatist hover-tanks from Star Wars!

CONS
Its difficult to envision the "XL SpaceFreighter" (I believe that's the machine's name.) floating through the void of space, carrying whatever it is carrying, because it is without a doubt, not airtight. There are plenty of people out there, I'd wager who are nit-picky about that in LEGO spacecraft, as I am. If it's just a speeder, I don't mind. But if it's something as big as this machine, then I just want to see it fully encase the pilot! Another thing is the SpaceFreighter's roofing; it cannot secure itself in place; that is, if you tipped the vehicle upside down, the roofing would fly open. Also, the jet engines on this ship are on an axis. That in itself is fine, and would allow the ship to possibly maneuver better (perhaps that's what LEGO had in mind.) but with this ship, it is just so loose and such a hassle to play with and position, or attempt to position! Sadly, I must also criticize the flick-rocket system. Usually I am quite content with the flick-missiles, though people dislike them because they feel they are gimmicky (which I think they are as well, I just don't MIND them, is all). But in this set, the idea of "flicking" the rocket, well, it would completely tear off the firing mechanism from the ship because its so poorly built. Sadly, I don't like Frenzy's Hyper-Hopper, not over the fact that one could consider it gimmicky and poor, but because the back rod on the ship is quite loose. I just don't like it! I must mention that I would LIKE the Hyper-Hopper if it DIDN'T have that cheesy little tow thing at the back.

I just don't like this set's anatomy. The main feature of this set, although good LOOKING, is just a piece of garbage, IMO. Flimsy, non-airtight, poorly built overall. Essentially, if I were an officer of the Space Police, I would plead not to be assigned to fly this scrap pile!

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Not too great, but it's a start

Posted by Johnnus in Australia on 07 December 2009

This is the third cheapest substantial Space Police set (impulse excluded) and it isn't the worst set i've ever seen.

minifigs + tools:
stats:
- 2 - frenzy & police
- frenzy is unique to this set
- handcuffs
- gold
This set is the only set to contain frenzy (so far) and he isn't a disappointment. His eyes make him look like he's crazy, and he uses a standard body, with only a customised head piece. The handcuffs that come with the set are perfeect. They fit minifig arms well and can be linked together for a minifig criminal chain. Unfortunately, the Police Officer isn't quite up to standard. He lacks an airtank and his head is common within Mars Mission sets.

pros:
- frenzy - the first minifig with 4 arms using basic minifig legs and torso
- frenzy's upper body rotates
- frenzy's lower body works just like a normal minifig
- handcuffs fit
- gold looks like gold
cons:
- police officer lacks airtanks
- police officer's head is common

'hyper hopper' - frenzy's plate with jets:
stats:
- 14 pieces only
- handlebars
- essentially a plate with a handlebar piece and jets
A massive disappointment, but since Frenzy is quite tall, it would be hard to fit him in an enclosed vehicle. It clips to the vault, but the clip thing often swings around violently with the vault attached.

pros:
- fits frenzy on
- handlebars can be used for many other things
- flame pieces can be used for many things as well
cons:
- very, very small
- how could someone actually sit on it and not fall off in real life?
- leaves frenzy very vulnerable to freeze rays

vault:
stats:
- clips into space freighter and hyper hopper
- holds gold
A simple construction, yet brilliantly designed and very tough. It holds the gold with plenty of room to spare; perfect for the two handcuffs (one is a spare part).

pros:
- sturdy
- lots of space
cons:
- none, really

XL Space Freighter:
stats:
- swivel jets
- freeze ray guns (flick fire)
- opening cockpit
- hold and drops vault
This is the main feature of the set. It has two swivelling engines and two swivelling engines with wings and guns. This can get annoying without blutack (random note: blutack = the solution to everything and anything..except food and water). The cockpit isn't enclosed, but this allows for some brilliant cockpit engineering, in which the roof folds back and the front folds forward. Shame about the controls though, 'cos it's just a sticker. There are a lot of stickers in the set, but I've seen more. The vault is held in place by a technic beam and the two upside down cones on the top of the vault.

pros:
- great cockpit!
- swivelling rear engines - looks like a hover craft
- the cheapest SPIII set to have guns (not flick fire missiles, guns)
- fairly sturdy
cons:
- front engines swivel - that can be fixed by...BLUTACK (or craft glue/superglue/rubber glue/etc
- cockpit isn't enclosed - to allow for the opening cockpit
- from the back it looks very flimsy
- vault sometimes refusees to fall off

overall:
Great for functions, not so good for structure
3.5/5
but unlike many people, i listened in maths classes and have rounded it UP to 4/5

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Gold Heist - Good style, but sloppy design

Posted by jkool in United States on 17 September 2009

Like many others, I waited for Space Police 3 with excitement! I grew up with SP1 and SP2, so I was very happy to see the return of the SP line. I'm not entirely satisfied with the sets released so far, but that's only because my expectations are so high.

The main problem with this set is that neither vehicle is really fleshed out. I would have much rather seen them bulk up the Police ship a little more and forget about the little alien craft which is really poor.

Specifically, improvements I would've liked to see would be a little more support so the engines in the front didn't just wobble around. I don't mind the top "hovercraft" style engines swiveling, but the front ones need to be fixed to give the craft more stability.

The cockpit just seems half finished on the police ship, and I wish they had built it up a little more on the sides. The way the cockpit swivels open on the top and front is a very nice design, but there is nothing to lock it in place and it comes open very easily. Minus 1 point.

The price point is fair, just over 200 pieces for $19.99 should be easy to swallow for any LEGO lover.

As an aesthetic complaint, I feel that this is not really a "Space Police" ship, but more of an armored money carrier more suited to a futuristic city theme. This would normally be OK, but this is Space POLICE, and for that I have to take off a point.

The tiny blue window is almost too small to be useful. I would've liked to see a slightly bigger window, but to be fair, it fits here as a small window on an armored transport vehicle. The only problem with this being an armored transport vehicle is there is no armor! Minus 1 point.

2/5

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Frenzy is such a nincompoop

Posted by Starwarsgeek500 in United States on 12 September 2009

the title says it all. How can frenzy take a gold safe from a secure, heavily armed hovercraft, and then tow the gold away in this miniscule speeder? I guess zero gravity makes it possible Makes zero sense. Pros and cons now!

PROS:
Extra handcuffs(Otherwise frenzy would just break free)
Ultra-rare frenzy minifig
gold safe
hover jets
sweet cockpit

CONS:
frenzys speeder is tiny
front laser engines move too much
No air tank on policeman (How will he breath)?

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