This post is a review of the nanoblock London Tour Bus build. The London Tour Bus is part of the nanoblock Sights to See series. Wondering what else is part of the Sights to See series? Click here for a list.
Number: NBH_080
Country: UK
Difficulty Rating: 2/5
It used to be that you couldn’t travel anywhere in London without seeing the classic double-decker bus. Over the years, they have slowly been replaced by greener single-deck buses. However, you can still find the double-decker tour buses all over. The bus rides are amazing on days with good weather with the open-top deck. While this kit says London, I have seen tour busses like this worldwide.
The first 6 steps are creating the central base of the bus. You then build the layers to build the sides of the bus. Each layer adds either red or details to the build. Eventually, you create the floor of the top layer. Then you add the seat bottom and seat backs. Then you add the walls to finish off the top of the build. Then you flip over the build to add the wheels. After building the London taxi, I was disappointed that the wheels didn’t move. The final steps of the bus part of the build are to add the poll at the back of the bus and the front of the bus. If you want to, there are people that you can add to the top of the bus. The last step in the directions is to add the stickers to the side of the bus. I did not add the people due to scale and didn’t add the stickers for the reasons in my post here.
Overall, I enjoyed the build. I liked the detail nanoblock adds with bricks getting from the bottom to the top with different colors. I don’t feel that the stickers would have added a lot to the build, so I didn’t add it.
Things I liked:
- The amount of detail in bricks
Things I didn’t like:
- That the wheels don’t spin