Friday, May 24, 2024

Review: Block Tech US24-2433 Mount Up! Swift-Sting Scorpion 2

This is part of the third or fourth release in Block Tech's "Mount Up!" line.  The older sets are sitting in my backlog pile and I will review them at some point.  Honest.  The main reason I jumped this one to the front of the line is that is has parts I can use in my Amalgamate frame design.  Guess I'm going to have to go back and look at all the other sets again to see if they have any useful parts I overlooked.


Box.  MSRP is $5.00 for a $0.03 Price per Piece.  

Instructions.








Minifig.














Parts 1.  Minifig Weapons Sprue.  This was in a bag all by itself.  Why?!
They could have just left it loose or packaged it with other parts.




Parts 2.  Tiles, Inverted Tiles, Plates, Inverted Studless Slopes, Clip
Plates, Clip Bar Holders, Barbs, Apollo Studs, and Translucent Bar.





Parts 3.  Plates, Slopes, Wedge Bricks, Tiles, Ball Joint
Plates, Studless Slopes, Axle Plate, and Tail End/Horn.








Parts 4.  Inverted Tiles, Wedge Plates, Ball Joint Plates, Large
Cheese Slopes, Bracket, Padlocks, and Exo-Force Arms.




Build.  Two Frames and a Station.
The Questions:
Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away?  Yes.  (+5)
Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio?  Below.  (+5)  
(The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)
If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away?  Yes.  (+5)
Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts?  Yes.  (+5)
Score: +20 (A+).  Two Frames and a Station, with leftover parts, for $5?  That's a deal. Although given the size of the set, if you couldn't make at least two Frames that would be a serious black mark against it.

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