A total reversal.
December 16: Snowmobile
This is a snowmobile. It is rad.
Rating
Fun ★★★★★
Wow. This is so fun. Not only was it something to actually build, as one might do with a Lego set, but it contains some high-tech parts and becomes a super fun snow vehicle. The tracks can move around to maximize grip and the skis in front can also pivot for rough trails. The whole Lego fam (minus, perhaps, the cube-shaped baby, since there is no baby-sized helmet) is going to love “Kickin’ Up Snow Dust” and “Doin’ the Ol’ Ski-Doo Skedaddle” on this bad boy (I don’t know any snowmobile lingo, but will assume that this is completely accurate).
Ease of Build ★★★☆☆
This was a little tough to build, not because I’m rusty after there was absolutely nothing to put together in yesterday’s SINGLE PIECE Lego “set,” but because of the instructions. They’re usually a single image—a barely-exploded diagram of the prize—printed on the inside of the door of the Advent Calendar, which is about the size of a Triscuit. This one happened to have a lot of blue on black and it was a little hard to discern with the room lighting at the time, and significant real estate in the the diagram was dedicated to showing the helmet was not part of build, but we got there.
Comprehensibility ★★★★★
I don’t think there’s any secret meaning or thematic significance here (other than “fun winter thing”). Maybe at some point there will be a Yeti drinking a 96oz cappuccino and wearing an ugly sweater depicting snowmobiles and I’ll figure out where the Declaration of Independence is hidden, but for now, as Canadian Sigmund Freud said, “Sometimes a snowmobile is just a snowmobile.”
Extra Parts ★★☆☆☆
I guess the helmet was not intended to be considered “extra,” but it came with a blue helmet and a spare axle. I will put the helmet in the pile with the others, having acknowledged the safety memo.
Overall ★★★★★
I was pretty disappointed after yesterday’s prize. You can’t just put a Christmas Bunny in a plastic bag and call it a Lego set. This snowmobile is a great rebound from that, and I believe that I would have thoroughly enjoyed it even if it hadn’t followed some leporine mistake.
