Review:6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle
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Joined: December 29, 2006 
№ of Reviews: 17 
№ of Featured reviews: 1
Time to review the smallest Marvel Super Heroes set to date, 6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle.
The Set
The set contains a glider, a small weapons platform, and a motorbike for Captain America. The glider is nicely designed, and the front part and wings are adjustable. The colour scheme for this and the weapons platform looks appealing and fit well with the colours on the Chitauri minifigures. The platform is not large, but again looks pretty good, and comes with the inevitable flick-fire missile, which personally I find to be a nice, easy way of adding a bit more functionality to a set. Personally I much rather flick-fires when you don't have to flick them with your finger (that is, when you can press a switch down which fires the missile), but for a set this size, that isn't realistically an option.
Captain America's bike is completely inaccurate to the film, however I think this was for the best, otherwise we would have gotten a very plain-looking black bike in the set. This one's colour scheme looks very nice, and features the use of several Captain America-related stickers.
The Minifigures
I really think the Chitauri (both the soldier and the general) could have been done much better. I've always been a bit baffled as to why they have golden heads and purple hands (reference image of what they're based on). I also find the printing on the head a little confusing- most of the time I would think that printing on the back of the head would be a great thing, but since their mask doesn't look a whole lot like a normal face, honestly I find the printing of the back of the head a little distracting, and have more than once accidentally put the head on back to front (maybe that's just me).
The accessories for the aliens includes a gun for the general, held in a bit of an unconventional way, and like a lot of the set, doesn't seem to match anything from the film. Not worrying about its accuracy to the film though, I find it to be a pretty original weapon (and way to hold it), and purple pieces are always nice to have.
Captain America- the torso and the shield are great- I couldn't think of a better way to design them. Not only the printing design of the shield is good, but I like these new shield moulds, which be able to be held in many more ways by the minifigure than a traditional shield piece. The only thing I don't like about the minifigure is the head. The skin printing is very dark, at least on mine, which is probably due to the dark blue piece it's printed on, and also I would find it much better if the hood was separate- Captain America did spend a significant amount of time fighting without anything over his head in the film, I just think they missed a good opportunity there.
Overall
This is probably one of my shortest reviews, mainly because the set is very straightforward. It's not that it's a bad set, but to me would have to be the least interesting out of the Marvel sets so far. It is good to have a mixture of heroes and villains in the set, which gives it some points playability if you have only this set, but the bottom line is, I just don't think it would be worth getting unless you wanted a Captain America minifigure.
| Playability |   4 / 5 |
| Minifigures | 3 / 5 |
| Price |  2½ / 5 |
| Overall | 3 / 5 |
TheNightingale
Country: Australia
Joined: 31 July, 2011 № of Reviews: 12 № of Featured reviews: 1
Building Experience: Expert
Today I will be reviewing 6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle. A small set that went on sale about last year, but I was too busy with my beloved Monster Fighters, to buy.
One year later, we have IM3, USM, and also a LEGO Marvel video game coming up.
Shall you join me in my quest to found out if this set is any good?
YES YOU SHALL.
The Packaging
Simple box, shows features on one side, and ages and such on the other.
The Minifigures
You get three figures in this set - 2 exclusive.
Captain America
He is obviously the only reason people are buying this set, as he is exclusive, and also pretty cheap. I think this is a pretty decent portrayal of Chris Evans portraying Steve Roger/Cap (portrayal-ception). The head piece is a little bit too tanned for the skin, but the rest is fine. It is easily recognisable to be the Cap, I mean, name me one other hero in tights, with a star on his chest and a shield? His shield is a good piece to have too - LEGO has done well with it.
Chitauri General
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The Chitauri were villains in The Avengers who we never knew about, and villains that all comic book geeks visiting the film "said" they knew who they were. From memory, the Chitauri never actually injured any innocent human beings, and it IS The Avengers fault for waiting so long to agree to start fighting them. I am talking too much about the film. Anyway, the general is a nice figure, the head is easily reusable for a lot of things. It is very generic which is not too bad. He is armed with a gun of sorts, which is held in a position that seems rather uncomfortable, to be honest.
Chitauri Soldier
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He is very similar to his general, but different colours (very, very slightly different colours). The head, again, is reusable, and the armour feels like it isn't too accurate to film, I never saw the Chitauri wear purple gloves. I am again, reading too much into all this.
The Build
Very simple build, maybe 5 minutes all together. The stickers are transparent, so it isn't too much to complain about. I did note the simplicity of the set, I would have liked it to go upto maybe 100-ish pieces, so we could get another figure, so it feels more like the battle pack they want it to be.
The Set
There is three builds: Captain America's cycle, Chitauri flick-fire station, and the chariot of dooooom.
Cap's Cycle
The first thing you build in this set - the cycle. It doesn't resemble what Captain America didn't use in the film either (Yes, Captain America never used any motorcycle in the film, but Bruce Banner used one). It is a lot like the cycle in that DC Catwoman set, so I am not too impressed with it.
Chitauri Flick-'n'-Miss-iles Station
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Making fun of flick fires has never been so much fun. This is such a basic area of build, they could have at least added in like a small thing that makes this seem less bland.
The Chariot of Doom
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This just seems like a more basic, smaller, and bland-er version of the one which is included in the Quinjet set.The flick-fire underneath is fairly useless. Again, I just find this bit too bland. It does have some noice pieces, but that is it.
Overall
As much as my critical wording of this review makes it seem like I dislike this set, I do not. I think it isn't bad for the price, you get 2 exclusive figures, and a cycle for Cap.
| Overall Rating: | 3½ / 5 |
| Play Experience: | 3½ / 5 |
| Minifigures: | 4 / 5 |
| Value for Money: | 4 / 5 |
| Pieces: | 4½ / 5 |
-Czecho
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