u/dazzleduck

I bought the BeatBlitz from the PipCraft website on pre-order on July 28th and received it yesterday, August 18th. I played around with it this morning for about half an hour on an random Amazon painting and here are my thoughts:

Size: It is considerably smaller than I expected and I am not seeing any dimensions listed on the website, but possibly my bad for not looking at the images closer. I have mild arthritis in my fingers which makes it a little difficult to hold, but overall it is not that huge of a deal to me personally and I made it work. I could possibly have trouble if I tried to use it for a longer period. It is extremely light which is good.

Loading: Fairly straight forward, use the included tray, collapse the pen down into the loading position, and start picking up diamonds. Sometimes if you line it up wrong a diamond will go flying, but for the most part it indeed held all 20 diamonds well. 

Diamond placement: Since the opening of the pen is slightly larger than the diamonds (obviously nothing can be done about that) I struggled getting the diamonds close together and straight as I placed them, but even with having to clean up the row at the end I found it made placing the diamonds faster overall and it was not something that deterred me from using it. Sometimes a diamond would go sidways at the opening and needed to be straightened. There were some reports of diamonds falling out of the pen as you got to the last few, but I only experienced that happening once and I just placed those three with tweezers. 

Useability: I followed all of the directions exactly and overall had a good experience. Make sure you are holding the pen correctly, the wings serve a purpose, and that you press down very firmly when placing. 

I made another post asking if anyone else struggles with this. This is what I am talking about guys I know how the can's tab works 😭

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IT'S A JOKE I STILL THINK HE'S CUTE

Edit: I PROMISE I am not squeezing him hard at all he is just skinny on top and ROUND on the bottom!! He has had a lot of medical issues and is only 3 weeks old so he is skinny but also fat now after he started eating well again lol

I modified a foxtail mask for my extra small guy who loves to eat poop. I could not find a basket muzzle that fir him well, and the foxtail mask was absolutely huge. Before and after cutting and sewing it!

The skull is covering a shrively popped out eye 🥰

🔔 Shame! Shame! 🔔

I just wanted to post about how impressed I was at Disney accommodating our food allergies with experiences we booked.

My wife and I are pretty savvy when it comes to finding food we can eat out and about since we have a few serious allergies and restrictions, but desserts are one thing that are almost always off limits so we were a little concerned about booking the World of Color Dessert Party. We read good things about being able to customize the options though and went for it, EpiPens in hand lol.

I have a severe peanut allergy, my wife is celiac/gluten/wheat, and we both avoid dairy by choice but do eat it occasionally. We requested those three things not be included in our dessert boxes and they were more than accommodating! A week or so before our reservation a cast member from the Disneyland Special Diets team reached out to confirm and clarify our requests. They even asked if we were comfortable sharing a table with others who may have food with our allergens. When we arrived to our reservation a cast member confirmed our requests then brought out our dessert boxes with an allergy note on the side. All of the items were delicious and we had zero issues.

I will also add that I bought my wife an in room celebrations package for her birthday and also requested her dietary restrictions be followed in the snacks included in the package and they were more than happy to do that.

Highly recommend!