LEGO Avatar Jake & Neytiri First Banshee Flight 75572, Pandora Movie Set with Toy Dragon-Like Figures, Minifigures and Glow in The Dark Elements

My kiddos are Lego guys. Another coincidence was Avatar trailer and Jake & Neytiri’s First Banshee Flight happened same day I can’t express how much my son loved that moment. Plastic sheets for the wings are really nice. I can definitely say one more excellent Lego set added to Lego collection for my boys.

I loved this product and it challenged my son, and he loved putting it together.

Kids are obsessed! Took a while to assemble, but this is so cool!

Super cool lego set. Very unique. I know they are from a movie, but the characters and the animals are top notch and very unlike any I have put together from lego before. Great addition to a collection or any fan. Easyish to put together. Just a few pieces I was not familiar with, but it came together nicely. Highly recommend.

I was happily surprised when LEGO announced a series of sets based on the original Avatar film and not only for the new sequel, though those sets are now here as well. I ordered a couple of the Avatar sets, this being the second that I built. I happily rewatched the scene that this set is based on and I have to commend LEGO on recreating the joy I felt watching it. The set comes with three instruction manuals, each representing the three portions of the build. I like it when LEGO separates the instructions like this as it allows three people to have a shared build experience. In my case, my son and I worked on this set simultaneously and then swooshed the banshees around afterwards. JAKE & NEYTIRI The new Avatar minifigures have been received with some mixed feelings in the LEGO community, mostly objections related to the ears molded onto the heads and not incorporated into hairpieces like LOTR Elf/Orc minifigures. That and the presence of a printed nose that LEGO minifigures normally do not have. I dont share those concerns as I think LEGO did a great job branching out with the Navi head pieces. The use of long legs, last seen on the LEGO Woody and Jessie minifigures IIRC, is inspired since the Navi are much taller than humans. So is the use of longer arms as well. Jakes and Neytiris hairpiece has a long ponytail to represent the Navi kuru that can attach to Pandora fauna to forge a bond. In this series of sets, LEGO uses the whip piece to represent the fauna side of this relationship and they work well together. The anti-stud end of the whip simply attaches to the end of the hairpiece. That does often leave one whip piece hanging loose from the fauna but that is accurate in-universe. Overall I think all of the Navi minifigures in the Avatar sets look great and Jake and Neytiri here are no exception. THE BANSHEES Each banshee has a molded head piece with separate, movable bottom jaw. This approach will be familiar with those who have LEGO dinosaur sets, for example. The brick built bodies are a bit blocky – by modern LEGO standards – but are largely masked when the wings are installed. LEGO minifigures cant really straddle anything and even with saddle pieces they are standing. Jake and Neytiri actually lie on top of each banshee while they straddle the banshees in the film. In this set the approach works pretty well as you can see from the attached pictures. The plastic wing pieces are punched out large foil sheets. As with other winged LEGO builds, the wings are attached to ball joint pins inserted into Technic connector frames. The wings are attached using hinge pieces and can be posed for display. PANDORA FLORA & DISPLAY BASE FOR BANSHEES I really like the snippets of Pandora landscape that come with the new sets and the build for this set is no exception. I often encounter side builds in LEGO sets that seem like they are just an afterthought and serve little to enhance the build. But in this set the landscape is really a third character. The fact that it doubles as a stand for the Banshees makes it that much more interesting as well. Kudos to LEGO for incorporating this feature. Aside from traditional plant pieces, some of which are recolored from traditional green to magenta for the LEGO Movie sets, the landscape also includes new transparent support and glow in the dark pieces. A few Technic connectors are used to support both the small floating islands and the banshees. The blue support piece double as a waterfall as well. The result is very colorful and is a reasonable approximation, given how few pieces it uses, of the Pandora landscape. At one end of the landscape is a clip and at the other end a vertical bar handle. These pieces allow the landscape builds from other Avatar sets to be connected to create a long Pandora landscape. Great idea. SUMMARY Overall, this is a really great LEGO set both for play and display. Im no spring chicken but my son and I enjoy swooshing the banshees in the air. To be honest, I like the entire Avatar line of LEGO sets. As for this set, it brings to life such a wondrous and joyous scene from the original movie. The set makes excellent use of the 572 piece count that LEGO allocated to it. The minifigures are excellent and the builds look great. Adding other Avatar sets enhance the display value.

The box was delivered torn on the side but all pieces were intact and given as a Christmas gift to my grandsons

We love this set, as we are huge Avatar fans. This set was a great addition to our collection! The step-by-step instruction booklet made assembly easy and hassle free!

I was surprised but the size of this set. It is very unique and colorful. The wings are cool. Overall an excellent set.

This is a cool set, especially if your an Avatar fan. It was a fun build and the end result looks really nice.

Gift for a young boy. Easy for him.