It's a pretty cool plane, I personally like the anime-esque update to the design. It has plenty of play value, and the action and lights/sound features are well done. I actually thought to myself the first time I goofed around with it, "THAT is how sound attack should nave been done." The only thing missing from the sound feature is a climbing/diving differential, like the old MB Starbird or FP Space Shuttle. The cockpit raises and lowers with a lever gimmick where the upper gun was on the original.
It's about 1/3 smaller than the original
but I find that I don't mind that that much. It's not as heinously undersized as the Dragonhawk or Airship are.
The only things that I can honestly say that I DO NOT like about this plane are:
-one piece, molded-non rolling landing gear, but then I can see where that may be too much to ask from hasbro's point of view
- the copious amount of stickers are on opaque paper colored to match the plastic of the plane instead of clear paper, which will make painting harder for those so inclned, and several of them aren't very good images to begin with.
