COBI Top Gun Aircraft Carrier Set 5922

COBI's Top Gun Aircraft Carrier is a 1:300 model built from 6,130 blocks, 114.5 cm long, under the official Top Gun licence. Sections of the flight deck lift away to show the hangar below, the aircraft elevators raise and lower, the propellers and rudders turn, and a set of micro-scale aircraft is included for the deck and the hangar. A display stand with a plaque carrying the Top Gun logo, the name and the scale is included. All markings are printed; no stickers.

Read this before you order

This is COBI's largest ship and one of the largest sets the company has made. 6,130 pieces is a project measured in weeks rather than evenings, and 114.5 centimetres is longer than most shelves. It is rated 14+, and that is not a formality.

Decide where it will stand before it arrives. A model this size cannot be moved easily once built.

Which ship is it?

The film used more than one. The carrier in the 1986 Top Gun is the USS Enterprise — the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier — but a great deal of the deck footage was shot aboard the USS Ranger, and aerial sequences used the USS Carl Vinson.

Film carriers are usually composites for this reason: filming has to fit around a warship's actual schedule, so a production shoots wherever a ship happens to be available and cuts it together. The result is a vessel that exists only on screen.

This model is that ship: the cinematic carrier rather than any single hull.

In the COBI range

The Top Gun aircraft are set 5811A (F-14A, 1986 film), 5920 (F-14 from Maverick), 5859 (the black MiG-28) and 5921 (the Enemy Strike Jet). At 1:300 the carrier matches COBI's warship range.

Specifications

Pieces: 6,130 · Scale: 1:300 · Age: 14+ · Lifting decks, working elevators, micro aircraft · No stickers
Model dimensions: 114.5 × 38 × 31.5 cm (45.1 × 15.0 × 12.4 in); 27.5 cm high without the stand