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Star Wars Clone Wars StaRFighter Vehicle - Cloud Car | 
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| Brand: Star Wars
Category: Toy
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $24.97
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 41819
Batteries Included: No
Age: 4 - 98 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 12.8 x 10.5
MPN: 9.4806E8
Model: 94806
UPC: 653569491798
EAN: 0653569491798
ASIN: B003A6JLG0
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Retract the landing gear as you being your ?flight?and blast off for adventure | | • | Thrilling ?intergalactic? vehicle separates into two vehicles and features firing ?missile? lauchers | | • | Cockpits open and figures fit inside (each sold separately) | | • | Package coverts into diorama | | • | Vehicle comes with missile accessories and instructions |
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Product Description
Cloud cars maintain order in the skies of Cloud City above the planet Bespin. These atmospheric vehicles have twin pods and are armed with laser cannons. Using ion and repulsorlift engines, cloud cars can achieve impressive speed as they cruise above the mining colony. When the Millennium Falcon arrives at the floating city to escape Imperial pursuers, two cloud cars immediately flank the ship and keep a close watch on it until permission is granted for the Falcon to land.
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| Customer Reviews:
Another great original trilogy vehicle! July 30, 2010
Jon (NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'll be honest - I'm a Star Wars purist: only the first film has any interest for me, though I make an exception for the Hoth sequence in "Empire..." and Boba Fett. I've felt this way since I was a kid.
But I've always had a soft spot for the TPCC. Maybe it was the twin canopies, the way you could have two plastic SW buds cruise around looking for trouble. The TPCC pilot figure was released too late for me - I stopped playing with toys around 1982. Still buy 'em though!
But now there's a super nice TVC 2010 pilot figure (I have two) and this vehicle pushes my personal interest another 30 minutes into "Empire...". Who knows? At this rate I may even buy an Ugnaught or two. And a new 'Slave One' can't be far behind...
The new TPCC is very nice with opening engine hoods and super clear one piece canopies. The missile launchers are cool, not really "film canon" I guess, but it gives the kids something extra.
I'm not crazy about the way the landing gear lays: it kind of juts out unnaturally and I don't see why they couldn't have designed it to lay more flush, or flush at all. But it's not too much of a distraction from the design.
Regarding scale, the first example I checked was at SW dot wikia dot com. If you hold up your Hasbro 2010 cloud car with pilots to the screen's full size image it lines up almost exactly! It may even be exact and the perpective by eyesight is what seems like it's throwing it off. That image appears to be of an original film model.
Great play value, almost as good as the snowspeeder ('cos that's just cooler, but I have a Hoth/snow bias), and a good price value.
The Cloud Car will take you to Cloud 9. July 7, 2010
Dave Cordes (Denver, CO)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The vintage Kenner Twin Pod Bespin Cloud Car was always one of my favorites as a kid so needless to say my expectations were exceptionally high for Hasbro to release a new one that could compete with the original mold which has held up surprisingly well after all these years. After 15 years of waiting for one since the POTF2 line began in 1995, the long awaited Cloud Car arrives just in time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back and it delivers in spades. The size is a bit smaller than the vintage Kenner one but it is sleeker and far more movie accurate looking. The landing skids don't stand up nearly as high as they did on the old one. Each pod has a hidden compartment cover that exposes the engine detail and also serves as storage to hold accessories. The pods also separate into two individual pods (something we never saw them do in the film) and they slide together from "flight" mode to "attack" mode to reveal missile launchers on either side plus two center launchers. This has been one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to Hasbro. For some reason they feel the need to include missile launchers of some kind with every vehicle they make because they say action features like this are what kids want. Even when I was a kid (okay, I still am) I thought they were pretty hokey since they are not a feature in the movies. That's my only complaint. Aside from that the Cloud Car is everything I had been hoping and waiting for. The Cloud Car Pilots, unfortunately, are sold separately and while I am still waiting for the new Vintage Cloud Car Pilots I am currently using the Star Wars Original Trilogy Collection #19 Cloud Car Pilot Action Figure from 2005 which have held up and fit just perfectly. My dreams of a new Cloud Car have finally been fulfilled and it feels like it's 1980 again.
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