Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Lego legends of chima set review: Lavertus's twin blade

Here's my Lego legends of chima set review, Lavertus's twin blade! I bought this along with the Eagle legend beast set at Metro two days ago. Here are 3 pictures of it.


Whole set

Scutter

Close up on Lavertus in the vehicle
Review time!
Minifigures: Great minifigures as always. Though I really don't like the fact that Scutter has no real minifigure legs. :\ (9/10)
Vehicle: It's overall appearance is great, and the special feature makes it two times even greater! :D (10/10) Here's the video of the function.





Pieces: There are a LOT of new pieces in this set for me, such as all of the orangey-yellow pieces in this set, since I don't really buy lion tribe vehicles, I don't really have a lot of those pieces so they are quite new. Also, the brown coloured Frost Beast weapon spike thingys(the ones used as the 'lion head' mane) are new too! The rotor blades also, the grill piece thingy used for the mechanism, some of those dark brown version of a 1x2 slope piece that has a 1x1 plate space, similar to the 1x3 version which also has a 1x1 plate space. There are also those Hero Factory(HF) 3.0 claws in dark pearl grey/gunmetal grey which was released in HF already. Oh, and there's also a rubber band used for the mechanism, too! So basically there are quite a number of new stuff here. (10/10)
Total: 29/30
That's it for now and I hoped you enjoyed this review!

Written by Lynn

Monday, January 13, 2014

Twisty Puzzle review: Pyraminx

Here's my Twisty puzzle review, the Pyraminx! I bought this at Comics Connection 2 days ago. Here are 2 pictures of it.


Green and blue side

Yellow and red side

So, basically, this has 4 sides- red, yellow, blue and green, which has orange and white(sometimes black) missing. So what did I even want this for? Well, I was starting to get a little bored with my 3x3 rubik's cube(well it's actually QJ brand and so was this) since I played with it everytime my phone was low on battery. So I thought I would get another twisty puzzle, and for some reason I choose this. Anyway it didn't really take a long time for me to solve after scrambling it. But, still, it's nice to have a new puzzle at last. My thoughts on this? Well, it is great in terms of turning, good enough for my taste. As for corner-cutting, I personally don't care about that, but I think why some people who likes twisty puzzles to have puzzles corner-cut is because if while solving, the cube gets out of line, turning another layer won't make any sort of difference and that cuber won't have to go and straighten it before turning another layer. But, for people who really really REALLY want to know how well it corner-cuts, well, it is just real bad. It can only corner-cut upwards, turning middle layer left, corner cut upwards, turning middle layer right a wee bit(hardly even a quarter), can't corner cut downwards, turning middle layer left and can't corner cut downwards, turning middle layer right, though that may be the same for all puzzles, since I don't really care about corner-cutting, I don't really notice that much. One thing I DO hate about this puzzle is that IT'S WHITE!!! I don't usually like white for my puzzles since dirtiness can be seen on a white surface easily. But anyway, that's it for my opinion on this puzzle!

Written by Lynn