I was driving around the airport doing some spotting when I came across what I believe to be the abandoned headquarters of Big Sky Airlines. There's a couple partially scrapped planes on the property and the building looks completely shuttered. I'm a bit of a fan of abandoned places and old airlines, so I wanted to see if anyone knew more about this place.
For me, it's Bowie the hedgehog. I've only got two 5 inches and a clip, but c'mon. He's a rainbow hedgehog! But I'm curious, who are the characters or species that you always get more of no matter what?
I've had a couple before (pictured in the second pic) but I've never seriously wanted to collect these until now. There's a shop at my mall that has a ton of the 5-in ones and they're just too cute. Did I find any rare ones? I'm really excited to get into this hobby!
Big snapping turtles in Spring Creek!
This is my first lepin and some people asked me to share my thoughts!
First things first, this set is gargantuan and heavy. It barely fits on my long shelf. I wasn't expecting it to be this huge, even with 4.5k pieces. Make sure you have a lot of building space for this one.
Shipping was easy from AliExpress, came from a US warehouse and arrived in 6 days. No complaints.
Packaging was fine, all 14 bags and two instruction booklets were in perfect shape.
Like someone else in this sub has noted, this building process is a bit tedious. Especially when doing the keel. Those first couple bags are a bit of a slog. But otherwise, this thing was a joy to put together. Very interesting and weird building techniques, although some pieces definitely had to be forced together. I only had one defective piece but it was easy enough to cut it to get it to fit with no issues. Everything else was great quality, although some of the plates were a little scuffed, but it was nothing that some soap and water couldn't fix. No stickers here, all printed tiles, and the quality of those prints is great.
The sheer amount of accessories was a nice surprise. I was expecting a couple of drones and helicopters, but you get a whole loadout here. Lots of drones and helicopters and tanks, and two LCACs that can dock in the lowest deck. Not to mention a handful of tugs and extra helicopter rotors so you can stow them in the hanger level.
As far as realism goes, it's spot on. The exterior looks perfect to the real thing. Air defenses are all in their proper places as well as the defensive launchers. The elevators work well and look fantastic. The interior is also very well detailed, especially the generators and magnetic catapult system.
Overall, I give this thing a 9/10. Only docking a some of the more difficult building techniques and the tedious nature of putting together something so big. But overall, I could not be happier with my first big set and my first from AliExpress.
I'll be getting some more warships in a month or two, so I'll review those as well if y'all like this one!
Does anyone know which episode is the one where Alex misunderstood ender's game and ranted about the butlerian jihad from Dune? I remember listening to it a couple of months ago but I can't find it.