Mega Bloks Skylanders Giants Dark Castle Conquest
Best Product From Mega Bloks
Great fun and durability... But..,
If your used to the organized instructions of Lego sets, this is not for you. The instructions are difficult and you need to have all the packages open at once. There was no rhyme or reason to the different bags of pieces. It took my husband many hours beyond the patience of my six year old. And with sore fingers, he realized he got a piece wrong somewhere and needed to undo most if it. But my done loves it and is a huge fan of Skylanders.
Bring order to Kaos with the buildable Mega Bloks Skylanders Giants Dark Castle Conquest (95443)! Atop the Dark Castle hides the dark Portal Master Kaos and his most trusted minion, Glumshanks, in his rotating secret chamber. Ignitor and Bouncer team up scale the fortress, but they must overcome many obstacles like the collapsing wall, tumbling barrels, and the falling ramp. You can also fire the Sheep through the castle rings and discover the many other cool features!
- Buildable castle with working launcher, collapsing wall, swiveling throne, interior courtyard with Kaos fountain and more
- Working catapult and castle ring vortex
- Buildable Kaos (Evil Portal Master) and Glum shanks (Kaos' Trusted Minion)
- Buildable Bouncer (Tech Giant) and Igniter (Fire Skylander)
- Two white sheep and one exclusive black sheep, cheese, pizza and treasure chest
Fun but...definitely spoiled by Legos
This was the first Megablocks set I have bought and my son begged me to get it. Found it on clearance locally and picked it up for $75. The instruction manuals weren't that hard to follow - but I have definitely been spoiled by Legos and the ability to sort their pieces so things are easy to find but bag number of the pieces you need for that part. I had to open every bag at first and have a big enough place to spread them out and reach around the towers. It was just hard and frustrating. We also had a hard time getting some of the pieces together, specifically the tower walls and the purple tops. Our portal wouldn't stay on very good either and he really didn't care about launching the sheep at it so we used some of the extra pieces and put on the back to keep it up. It's together now and looks awesome and my son loves it. The details are really neat and he loves the Kaos water fountain and picture on the wall. I would give it 4 stars if it weren't for the fact it took me...
Great kit
I will never understand why people complain about the Megabloks instructions being difficult - they're every bit as simple for me and my 9 year old as lego instructions are. The pictures for assembly actually color the dots on the bricks to show exactly where a part snaps onto it from above. It really doesn't get any easier unless you buy it prebuilt.
The only problem we had with this one was the towers - the crenelations hang out, so you're putting pieces on that stick out over the edge of the piece under them, then adding more pieces on top of them - for me it was easy, but my 9 year old wasn't quite supporting underneath well enough and popped some pieces off. Not a big deal but he ended up just asking me to put those parts on.
Great kit though - large, each section is built separately, left tower, center piece, right tower. So it lets you get one major part done at a time.
The only piece problem we had was the cannon - the spring didn't work so...
