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(More customer reviews)Good grief- just when I thought I'd gained a modicum of maturity, I go and take another step back toward the womb. In this case, it was this particular contraption that led to my regression. Having been a Lego builder during my pre-middle school years, and a fan of naval vessels, I decided to relive my childhood for a little while with this little gem. Eight hours and two sore thumbs later, I managed to complete the task of assembly. And I must admit, this block model does have a pretty close resemblance to its real-life seafaring counterpart (aside from the somewhat- um- 'blocky' appearance, that is)! It even has an added feature that the real-life Kitty Hawk lacks: wheels! Yep, after putting it together, you can roll this naval behemoth along instead of dragging it! Definitely a wear-saver on wooden floors!
Although a few other folks have stated that Mega Bloks don't seem to adhere to each other as well as Legos do, I didn't encounter any difficulty with the finished product keeping itself together, except for some of the more weakly-anchored bits on the ship's deck (directional 'lights', thrust backwash flaps, etc.). My real problem was getting the blocks together- you really gotta push 'em in to get them to click together! I also had a bear of a time getting all the deck plates to be flush with one another- where no one plate was higher or lower than the other. I also had to deal with an elevator that wasn't level, and wouldn't stay in place. I try to put it up flat at deck level, and it just hangs a slight angle. Strangely enough, the other elevator didn't have these problems- it stayed perfectly flat with the plane of the deck. Of course, it could just be I didn't put the one elevator together correctly. So much for my career as an engineer...
My only other complaint is that the set comes with assembly instructions for just the Kitty Hawk, and not the other vessels depicted on the back of the assembly booklet. Although I'd like to try my hand at putting together these alternate configurations, I don't quite have the patience to figure out how to do it on my own...
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