REVIEW: 76991 Tails' Workshop and Tornado Plane

[Pchan1983]

Here is my review on 76991 Tails' Workshop and Tornado Plane from Sonic The Hedgehog:

 

THE GOOD:

• Great minifigures
  • A cheaper set to get Tails
• Tornado plane surprisingly good looking and fun to build
• No stickers

THE NOT SO GOOD:

• The work shop looks somewhat underwhelming.
• Personally I think the set is about $15 NZD too expensive if you are paying at RRP.  (Luckily I bought this with a discount) 

This is the slightly cheaper set with Tails minigure and main reason I bought this.  Both Sonic and Tails do not disappointed.  These 2 are extremely well done.  On top of this, the Tornado Plane is actually very good.  The wings are brilliant both the execution of the design and the building experience.  Also I'm surprised there are no stickers in this set.  However, the workshop is a big empty and felt more like a Juniors set type of build but without those big pieces.  Considering if you paid full price on this, it really feel expensive with the somewhat too simple looking workshop. I wonder if there was a point LEGO considered an alternate version just the plane plus 2 minifigures with a price tag a little bit cheaper.  If you are a fan of sonic, I think you will love this set.  It's definitely a set to go for if you are looking for the tails minifigure. And if you are not into Sonic, it's probably a set to skip =)

[Fenghuang0296]

Honestly, this set annoys me because we had some really great designs for Tails’ Workshop in Sonic Boom and Sonic Prime, among others, that could easily have been a set all its own. But this junky little side build pretty much prohibits us ever getting something like that.

Oh well, I can always MOC something I guess.

[Pchan1983]

On 8/28/2023 at 8:03 PM, Fenghuang0296 said:

that could easily have been a set all its own. But this junky little side build pretty much prohibits us ever getting something like that.

Oh well, I can always MOC something I guess.

sometimes it's frustrating eh ... but yes, at least we can MOC something compared Marvel sets missing legs prints which we can't really do much about it.