Name: Aerial Defense Unit
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8971-1
Rating: 83 (4 reviews)

Aerial Defense Unit is LEGO set 8971-1. It has a score of 83. This is average compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 1 reviews, based on 4 scored reviews and 4 reviews total. It is ranked in the top 35.53% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2009, and it is categorised in Agents.

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Recommendations

Indifference 75%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2009 is 0.16. PPP for this set is 0.13, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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Average PPM for System in 2009 is 15.31. PPM for this set is 13.62, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.3 / 5 → 86 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 → 86 / 100

Eurobricks Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: meh 78 / 100 → 78 / 100

Set information

Set ID: 8971-1
Name: Aerial Defense Unit
Parts: 733
Minifigs: 7

Retail price (USD):
Original: 79.99
Inflation adjusted: 95.32

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.11
Inflation adjusted: 0.13

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 11.43
Inflation adjusted: 13.62

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.3 / 5 from 11 reviews

Grandson loved it! Legos are great products!

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 11 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 from 6 reviews

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 by starstreak

The helicopter is the reason why I bought this set. It's very well designed. The only real gripe is that the helicopter really doesn't need a tail rotor because it uses two main blades to counter act the rotational effect a single main rotor would produce. And again, I still think the base was a afterthought. Not enough pieces to be really good, and yet, if thy left it out, this set would be missing something for the helicopter to attack.

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