Review on 🌟 Light Up Illuminated Ballerina by Thames Kosmos by Mar Pacora

I saw this at a toy fair and bought it to build. Instructions are for drawings only, like Lego instructions. I will say that it took a little time to understand the instructions, but once you did, everything went relatively smoothly. Pieces come in sheets - I recommend cutting out all pieces and then sorting them by color and shape. There are cross connectors and square body parts as well as some special parts. The connector and housing parts are colored green or blue. One thing I noticed after sculpting the first assembled part is that the two sides of each part are different - one side is smooth and the other is textured. I'm not sure if it makes a difference in the end, but I thought the textured side should always be facing out - I think it looks better in the light. shatter), but once you've made a few it will be very easy. The ends of the connectors are slightly larger so they snap into place. With enough force, you can pull them apart, but they're designed to stay locked forever. Creating individual components is easy, but connecting to other components was difficult at first - in most cases you have to deform the shape (because you are turning a flat component into a 3D shark). I was concerned that something might break, but once you understand that it won't, the job becomes a lot easier. From there you simply craft the flat components and then connect them to the growing shark. I flipped a small section upside down but was able to pull it out and then realign it. When you get to the end it will be tricky to get the final pieces in place (was worried about the plastic cut) but once that was done the shark was very sturdy. Even fell down once and nothing came loose. The last is headlights. The instructions have a path for the lights but I ignored it. This is (roughly) 100 LED string lights with a USB connector (on a long cable). There is a round exit point on the bottom of the shark - I put the end of the USB cable through and wrapped it around the circle to keep the light from coming out and the cable from going in. I then inserted the bulbs into the shark (which took a while - there's plenty of light) and used a few small gaps in the shark to direct the light around the fin, tail and head. The shark looks great in the light and even better in the dark when it glows! I think it took me 1-2 hours to create it and it was worth it. I think it's strong enough to be hung from a wire if you want it overhead. A lot of work, but worth it. Finally, I checked out their online how-to videos and didn't find them helpful (no close-ups of complex construction steps).