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With no response from the Klendathu outpost for months, the patrolling Galaxy
Squad has decided to determine the cause for so long a silence from the
important border-lying outpost. A full regiment has been assigned to inspect
the site but an impatient Major M. Mason has taken the initiative to fly ahead
of the others and get to the outpost first. What he finds shocks him to the
core as he discovers the outpost completely abandoned. Buildings show damage
from immense tears in the walls and some sort of acidic damage that has eaten
through metal. To top this all off, odd two-meter purple cylinders litter the
entire compound haphazardly. There’s little the impetuous Major can do until
more sophisticated instruments arrive, but undaunted, he enters a storage
warehouse where he hears an odd humming accompanied by strange green glowing
lights . . .
| | Galaxy Squad is the new Space theme released in the tail end of 2012. Where the last Space theme was Space Police III (2009-2010) versus criminal bad guys, the Galaxy Squad appears a bit more militaristic with the force going up against insect-looking bad guys. When the sets first appeared, the good guys appeared to be humans teamed with alien-looking humanoids but when names were released for the figures it was revealed that the ‘side-kicks’ are actually robots (kinda takes the magic away from Earth collaborating with alien species but there are still some cool looking figures on both sides of this conflict). I’ll probably only try a couple of these sets, the most appealing being this (70702 Warp Stinger) and the 70704 Vermin Vaporizer.
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| | The two good guys in the 70702 set have red uniforms (and the different color uniforms per set is kind of a neat idea) with the robot having kind of a fish-head (think Admiral Ackbar with less buggy-eyes) and sporting a neck-bracket jet-pack (though the jet pack could also go on the human if you give him the neck-bracket instead). The good guys are provided with an open seat sled type flyer. Construction is pretty good and the design is good with a minimal number of parts.
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| | The star of the show for this set is the large almost mosquito-looking creature (the large models in this and the 70703 Squad Star Slicer make GREAT monsters but for some reason there’s a ‘need’ to make them appear to be crafts with places for insectoid pilots). The big flying bug model is comprised of a large head (with pointy-nose stinger) that leads into a curling tail with four small wings that mount at the back of the head. A detachable trans-purple cocoon fits nicely into the back of the creature’s head and can be used to hold the good guys captive. The tail ends in a squeeze/pinching ball launcher that doesn’t do too much for me; however, if you look closely at the box/instruction picture of this set, the tail is actually shooting some sort of crystallizing encasement to capture the good guys (a cool concept!).
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| | Construction of the Stinger is very solid with the tail being permanently formed in the curling position. I would have preferred to have the tail be able to uncurl (constructed with clicking hinge pieces) but that would perhaps have led to a less stable structure. Two technic-rod appendages (legs?) are added to the model but I’ve found that the model stands just fine without the legs (and I think it looks just a little bit better without the legs). The diagonally hanging nose piece assembly is particularly well-done. The (unnecessary) cockpit isn’t entirely enclosed but again I think the craft works better as a large monster instead of a ship with a pilot. Colors for the main model are an odd mix of scarlet, lime green and dark tan that I never would have chosen, but the color combination kinda works for me.
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| | As mentioned, the set comes with two astronauts and a point-nose, green flyhead guy (I didn’t like this guy at first but he’s growing on me). Two double-barrel laser guns mount on the sled flyer for good-guy accessories, plus the robot sidekick is shown in the instructions using trans-blue flair flashes as weapons (another good/unique concept). The flyhead guy is in an odd mauve-green with red highlights. He sports neck-mounted wings, rubbery insertable antennae (these will be easily lost) and is armed with a ray pistol that cleverly uses a black scorpion for the body of the gun. A sticker sheet is included.
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| | The set contains an amazing amount of brackets for lateral building possibility. One thing that amazed me was the way 2x4x2 bricks with side studs are completely built from smaller parts. Price per part is pretty dang good for the set and the terrific main Stinger model is a good reason to pick this one up!
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!!! 4x2ReVu Stats !!!
Rating: Six out of eight studs.
Thumbs up for: A great monster design with a good mix of parts and figures for
playability.
Wallet-Wise: 310 pieces for $29.99.
Date: 1/7/2013
More photos here.
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