WWE Stack Down Construction Bricks - Review
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure to attend the Australian Toy and Hobby fair, a trade show where all the new toys are shown off. One of the displays there focused on a new range of building blocks and were themed to the WWE.
Well now on their way to stores for people to purchase and I was lucky enough to be sent three sets to build and play with. The three sets that I was sent features wrestlers such as Ray Mysterio and Sin Cara, each of the figurines that comes with the sets have a dozen points of articulation, which is amazing, considering the size of the figures. You can use those points to help recreate moments from your favourite matches.
The sets themselves come with the usual instruction manual and bags of plastic bricks, some like the Train & Rumble playset, came with extra-large pieces outside of the bags. The bags however are not marked as to which bag should be opened first, so you will need a large space for the bigger sets, as you will need to pull pieces from each bag as you follow the instructions. The instruction booklets are also different here from other brands, the larger playset comes with the standard book form, but the smaller ones come with one that opens up, and you simply follow the steps from left to right and then move onto the backside of the paper. The instructions on these are not as clear as they could be sadly, but a little thought and you will be ok.
Of course, the reason to buy construction blocks is to build things and the end results of the sets clearly speak for themselves. The Cobra cage is nice and solid and it even comes with a little spinning sign on top, however putting that set together proved to be much more of a challenge than it should have been. In fact each of the sets provided a challenge that was not expected and it was nothing to do with me, I assure you. The problem that I faced here was the quality of the individual bricks was not great, with some bricks having little blemishes that caused problems when attempting to snap them onto others.
The biggest problem however came from the fact that the bricks just did not want to click most of the time and after checking each of the pieces, they just did not want to seem to snap together. Of course, people will compare these to Lego and why would they not, Lego has been around for decades and I am sure they suffered the same problems, but as a newcomer to the ring, pun intended, The Bridge Direct should have taken a little more time to get their manufacturing process down pat.
The final results are a mixed bag, while the sets look pretty amazing when completed, little ones might find themselves struggling with putting them together on their own. For fans of the WWE, there is little reason to hold back, with great figurines anyone can create the next great match
