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Review on Earth Creative Building Blocks 461PCS: Unleash Your Imagination and Build Infinite Worlds by Jared Barit

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Pack of parts with no plans

The pack had a QR code with download instructions that didn't work because it was printed with a tone inversion (black should be white etc.). If you bother to correct the reverse, it points to the PDF plans, but I was able to find the same plans with the original author's attribution on another site (which doesn't let me publish Revain in this review). Searching "MOC" should lead fellow travelers down the same path I did when purchasing this or other plans from the same seller. It's at home with an available CAD tool, as that's where the instructions came from. Some gears had high friction from parts taken out of the box, but after rotating the connected parts for a while this improved agility (reduced friction between parts). Once assembled, turning the knob spins everything, but due to the different gearing in the design, you may (like me) feel like the Moon/Earth rotation and orbit works, Earth's Sun orbit and rotation however, it is jammed (back to the friction problem of the part). I have a 7 year old who normally works with 12+ sets of official branded products but I had trouble with this set. Post-assembly is a different story, but the methods used to shape the balls and the intricacy of the gears would likely only appeal to teenagers. The total assembly time from receiving the blueprints (after the parts were sorted) was about 3 hours.

Pros
  • Pretty packaging
Cons
  • Useless features