u/Healed_Scar

Intro

I bought this set off of Aliexpress for about $30 (Shipping to US). The set was shipped quickly and it took a little over a fortnight to arrive. The set comes with 1458 pieces, two stickers, and three printed parts.

Building Experience

The set comes with a paper instruction manual and also has a free PDF online. I used the physical manual to build the set. I didn't have any issues with the manual. The colors were fine and the images were a bit larger than the dense manuals I'm used to. The build was split into four main parts with five bags used for each part. The bags are not ordered meaning you need to open all five bags (Over 300 pieces) for each section. This slowed me down a little bit but wasn't too much of a hassle. I had no issues with the clutch power as the pieces were very close to Lego tolerances.

I was very impressed with the engineering used in the design. The whole cat is built sideways and takes full advantage of double sided plates and various SNOT pieces. Because of this the set has very few anti studs and looks great from almost every angle. The part usage was also incredible. The designer used various molds for shaping including parts like snakes, wings, horns, fish, umbrellas, and various foliage. This made the set very fun to build and very visually interesting. The design was very complex and dense using mostly smaller pieces. Even the Snitch surprised me with it's engineering to get all the faces lined up with each other.

The set has three prints and two stickers. The printed parts were the eyes (thankfully) and the ruby book runes. The two stickers were for the pink book. The stickers were clear backed and go over multiple pieces which isn't the best. I liked how the set mainly uses sculpted rather than printed details.

Issues

I did have two minor issues with the set. The first is that one of my bracket pieces arrived as a disfigured lump of plastic. Thankfully I had a replacement from my personal collection. The second issue I had was that two of the pieces were different than the instruction manual. Although it wasn't a huge difference I decided to swap the incorrect pieces out for a few of my own to get the slightly better shaping (See image included above).

Finished Build

The Finished build feels great. It is stable and easy to move around without anything falling off. The feet and head have a few degrees of rotation, the waist can rotate fully, and the arms can articulate more freely. As mentioned earlier the build looks great from nearly every angle. It uses a fun variety of pieces to add texture and shaping. It also uses pieces that Lego has yet to make like brown mixel joints and gold Technic pins. The only section that could look a little bit better is the arms. The red Technic pins stand out which brings attention to the holy Technic joint.

Final Thoughts

I was very surprised by how great this set was. I feel like this is what a good alt-brick set should strive to be. It checks all the boxes, creative idea, great price, well engineered design, and a fun build while being very close to Lego quality. Maybe most importantly this set does what Lego has yet to do. It uses double sided plates for seamless snot, It recolors pieces like the mixel joints to get a nicer look, and it's sold at a fraction of the price. This is now my favorite alt-brick original.

If you have any questions or thoughts I'd love to respond to them in the comments. Also if you have your own recommendations I'd love to build more alt-brick originals that are fun, complex, and enjoyable like this one. Hope you all have a great day!

This is my heavily modified version of ItsTech2's Rebrickable MOC.

I enjoyed building ItsTech2's MOC my favorite parts being the brick built logos and the perfectly fitted for Tails cockpit. However, I felt like it was closer to your standard biplane design and didn't quite capture the wacky proportions of the Tornado in game. I spent probably more than 15 hours making change after change until I got the plane to a spot I'm satisfied with. Nearly every part of the build I rebuilt to accommodate my various changes.

Some of the biggest changes I made were:

-Shifted the wings down a full brick relative to the fuselage

-Shifted the lower wings a stud back

-Shortened the plane by over a stud.

-Completely rebuilt the tail and moved it up 2.5 studs

-Made it possible for Tails to actually see out the front of the plane instead of looking into a wall

-And many more

I am happy with the point that the build is at. I feel like I successfully captures the view over wing style of the original and all the other important details. My favorite change might just be adding those duel silver and black boosters.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy and have a great rest of your day!

When I first saw the tails sidekick in game my first thought was, "He's short". But that got me thinking, "If he is short by how much?". Thankfully we only need two pieces of information to answer the question.

1. What is Tail's canon height?
2. What is his height in game?

For Tail's canon height a quick internet search leads to the Sonic wiki which references Sega's Sonic channel website. Saga states that classic Tails is 60 cm tall and modern Tails is 80 cm tall.

Finding Tails height in game is easier than you might think. By using the Swag Shot emote we are able to directly bring in a virtual ruler in centimeters. By emoting next to Tails and by watching the replay I was able to get a very clear measurement of his height.

Turns out that that the Tails sidekick is a bit short. He measures the same height (60cm) as his shorter classic design even though he's based off of the modern Tails design. To visualize the difference I decided to quickly edit an image scaling Tails up to show what it would look like. Its impressive how just a 33% height increase makes him look that much larger.

Although he's short I guess it still makes enough sense in game as the Tails sidekick is a supposed to be a hologram. For once sidekick floating blue spheres and teleporting are actually fitting. I am still left with one question though; is the Tails glider large enough to be Tails in the flesh? I might try to find out but it will doubtless be more difficult to measure.

If you got this far thanks for reading my post. Hope you all have a great day!

When I first saw the tails sidekick in game my first thought was, "He's short". But that got me thinking, "If he is short by how much?". Thankfully we only need two pieces of information to answer the question.

1. What is Tail's canon height?
2. What is his height in game?

For Tail's canon height a quick internet search leads to the Sonic wiki which references Sega's Sonic channel website. Saga states that classic Tails is 60 cm tall and modern Tails is 80 cm tall.

Finding Tails height in game is easier than you might think. By using the swag shot emote we are able to directly bring in a virtual ruler in centimeters. By emoting next to Tails and by watching the replay I was able to get a very clear measurement of his height.

Turns out that that the Tails sidekick is a bit short. He measures the same height (60cm) as his shorter classic design even though he's based off of the modern Tails design. To visualize the difference I decided to quickly edit an image scaling Tails up to show what it would look like. Its impressive how just a 33% height increase makes him look that much larger.

Although he's short I guess it still makes perfect sense in game as the Tails sidekick is a supposed to be a hologram. For once sidekick floating blue spheres and teleporting are actually fitting. I am still left with one question though; is the Tails glider large enough to be Tails in the flesh? I might try to find out but it will doubtless be more difficult to measure.

If you got this far thanks for reading my post. Hope you all are enjoying the season!

Note:

-Typo, caption should end with "modern design which is 80cm tall."

The slideshow can be viewed at any time using this link (google slideshow published to the web)

Submissions:

Respond in a comment under this post with your character's name, reason why they are your favorite and an image if you don't want me to use a default one.

Please keep your reasons appropriate and meaningful. Your reason shouldn't boil down to "I like them because I am freaky for them." If you don't have a meaningful reason give a funny one and chances are I'll include it.

Similarly keep you images appropriate. Is shouldn't be suggestive in any way and should accurately reflect a real style of the character. (AKA: Don't submit an image of your character with no shirt on if they normally have a shirt)

Excited to see all of your responses. Hope you all have a great day! I'll do my best to keep the slideshow updated.

Random Notes:

The example slides are examples. Flytrap is not my favorite character. I would be surprised if Flytrap is actually someone's favorite character.

If you're a clown like me please feel free to make a joke submission. I will likely accept it and find it hilarious.

I changed the format to have larger text boxes and smaller images to account for the longer responses and low quality images.

To gauge what other people like and don't like I used fortnite.gg's community ranked outfits page found here. Feel free to use my template. Hope you all have a great day!