u/TheSeriousFuture

Hello everybody, I'm here with another review! This time I am trying out Nanoblock for the first time!

Today is Hatsune Miku's 19th anniversary! She is what's known as a Vocaloid, which to put it simply: she is essentially a recording of someone's voice that can be modified and manipulated to talk and most importantly, sing! Hatsune Miku was released in 2007 on August 31st. Hatsune Miku revolutionised Vocaloid, and while there are many other characters with there own unique voices, Miku is the single most popular, and is by far the most recognised.

The review:

My package from Amazon arrived a few days late, just today actually, which considering this is her anniversary, it couldn't have been better timing.

Instructions:

The instructions were mostly okay, although there were some parts I did find quite frustrating, such as at the beginning, when I had to lay some slanted pieces down flat, which would then fall out of place and onto their slanted sides as I tried to build on top of them. I also had to go against the instructions, and make her right leg and the clear stand that holds her up taller in order to get both points to meet.

Durability:

Some parts of the build such as her head and arms feels sturdy enough, but her legs and pigtails were frustrating. When I finished her first pigtail and tried to connect it to her head, the build came apart into its major parts, such as the head, torso + arms, legs, and stand. I recommend connecting her pigtails to her head, before you put the head onto the body. The front of Miku's skirt is also delicate and easily detaches, which happened several times as I was repairing her mid-build.

Quality:

Despite there small size, Nanoblock pieces feel very high quality and go together well.

In the end:

Nanoblocks Hatsune Miku is a small and charming build of the virtual blue diva. While I did have my issues with it, I feel I can recommend this one for anyone interested. Just be wary that Nanaoblock's pieces are much smaller than LEGO's own pieces, so just be ready to have a gentle hand! Despite my issues with the build, I hope Nanoblock in the future make sets of the other Vocaloid characters owned by Crypton Future Media.

Happy Birthday Miku!

Hello everybody! This is my first alternitive brick set review, as well as my first big experience with an alternative brand! I unfortunately won't be able to compare this to other alternative brand sets as this is my first.

I highly recommend anyone considering this set to read my review first, as what you read may change your mind.

First of all, the real life prototype: Flying Scotsman is a British A3 class locomotive, built for the London North Eastern Railway and later British Railways. The locomotive is very historically important, being the first locomotive to achieve a speed of 100mph in 1934, and later achieved the longest non stop run for a steam locomotive of 679 km on a visit in Australia in 1989. Flying Scotsman is one of the most famous railway engines in the world!

The Review: I ordered this model on Barweer a couple days after I first saw it. The set was marked as brand new and I found no information about the set anywhere else. So hey, why not be the first?

The set didn't arrive in a box and just a bag with all the pieces sorted into a few plastic bags. These bags contained even smaller bags within them, so you had the large bags numbered 1-5, and the smaller bags within them numbered, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, etc.

The set is marked as having 1147+ pieces and is recommended for those 14 and over.

The locomotives appearance almost perfectly captures the real life engine! From the number of boiler stripes to the size of the driving wheels! The rear wheels under the cab are a bit on the large side through. The only big issue is that the number on one side of the engine is 60103, when it should be 4472 on both sides, because of the shade of green the engine is depicted in here.

Anyone who dosent like working with stickers will probably be turned away as I counted over 50 stickers on the sheet! The stickers themselves were fine, but the paper they were on came quite creased and bent, so get the set with the box if you can!

Piece quality was a mixed bag. The first three bags has bricks that were very stiff and a lot of force often had to be used to get them to stick together correctly. The last 2 bags however had much nicer bricks that felt a lot like LEGO's own bricks. It sort of made me realise just how good LEGO are at manufacturing that perfect fit and clutch their own bricks have!

Performance was unfortunately, poor. The locomotive comes with a motor that is hidden in it's tender. The motor dosent come with a remote and only allows for a simple forward and reverse, and require six AAA batteries. The motor was too powerful. It was so fast it would always derail before completing even one lap around it's track. Unfortunately, a LEGO motor seems to have the opposite problem and couldn't move the engine. Some of the wheels were also stiff. Despite the included motor, this set really is better off as a static display. I hope someone may find a way to fix these issues, but man I'm disappointed.

Who is this recommended for? Unfortunately, a set I thought would be a smash hit across the board, is one I can only really recommend to a few people. Those being anyone who is:

1. Okay putting on a lot of stickers
2. Someone who is okay with very tight pieces.
3. Someone who intends this model to be a static display.

All that said. This is still probably the best looking model of Flying Scotsman that you can buy that is built to the LEGO track gauge.

Final verdict: buy for static display only!

So I'm in the middle of Building a DK set with over 1000 pieces. This is my first real rodeo with an alternative brand. My fingertips do normally hurt a tiny bit with LEGO sets, but I find I'm getting to this level of pain with this DK set a lot faster. The bricks feel a bit more sharp and are more stubborn and tight compared to LEGO. I'm building this set over a period of a few days in order to avoid hurting myself, but does anyone else have this issue?

The set I'm building is there brand new model of Flying Scotsman, no. 80100 (you may see me give a review on it here in a few days time when it's finally done).

(LEGO minifigure for scale)

Also included how spongebob used to look before

Without fail, Spongebob has been involved in COUNTLESS crushes, everyone seems to crush on him, and he gets a crush on everybody. Currently MEIKO and an OC of mine are crushing on him, while he's crushing on Peter Griffin, but before he's been involved in a bunch of other peoples crushes, he's interrupted several proposals, turned down several. I don't know what it is, he just always finds a way into everyone's love life.