Month: July 2024

Review of nanoblock Electric Guitar Red NBC_037

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Electric Guitar Red build and package

This post is a review of the nanoblock Electric Guitar Red build. Electric Guitar Red is part of the nanoblock Mini Collection series. Wondering what else is part of the Mini Collection? Click here for a list.

Number: NBC_037

Number of Pieces: 130

Difficulty Rating: 2

Electric Guitar Red build front view

This build is simply a tower of bricks that are 2-3 bricks deep. This allows there to be some depth and detail but to still have the trim body of an electric guitar.

Electric Guitar Red build side view

The build begins with the base of the guitar. The build then goes up in layers to create the body of the guitar. I needed to be careful to make sure I completed each layer correctly. It was a bit tricky to tell exactly which brick to use.

Electric Guitar Red build back view

After building the body, the neck is added. The neck is two 16 brick towers, one clear and one golden yellow.

The last step is to build the head of the guitar. It was fairly straightforward and simple to build. I don’t really like how the finished neck looks on the finished guitar.

Electric Guitar Red build front 3/4 view

Things I liked:

  • I really like that the build came with a pair of bricks to create a base for the guitar

Things I didn’t like:

  • I don’t really like how the head of the guitar looks

Review of nanoblock Mega Man NBCC_132

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Mega Man build and box

This post is a review of the nanoblock Mega Man build. Mega Man is part of the nanoblock Character collection. Wondering what else is part of the Character collection? Click here for a list.

Number: NBCC_132 

Number of Pieces: 170

Difficulty Rating: 2/5

Mega Man build front 3/4 view

Mega Man is the main hero of the Mega Man video games. The original game came out in 1987. For more information about him, check out his Wikipedia article here.

Mega Man is broken into 2 parts. There is Mega Man and an Energy Tank.

Mega Man

Mega Man build front view

The actual Mega Man build is broken up into 4 sections. There is the head, the body, the base, and the shots.

The head goes up in generally straightforward layers. The front builds up a pixilated face, and the rest of the way around builds his helmet. Building the head is a bit tricky because of the face. The face is built with several stacks of single bricks, so it is easy to pop a column out of place and tricky to keep things lined up.

The body begins with a square of dark blue. The body goes up in several layers. Unlike many nanoblock builds, Mega Man isn’t square because he is turning backward, so the body layers aren’t square. The body is finished by adding the arms. One arm is curved under his body, and the other is going backward, held out to shoot.

Mega Man build back view

The shots are extremely straightforward. They are a chain of clear bricks with the shots on top of the chain.

The last section is the base. The feet are laid out on the base. The legs are then added in layers to the feet.

The next step is to put the 4 sections together. There is a great side-view diagram to get the base, body, and head lined up properly. The last step is to attach the shots to the outstretched arm.

Energy Tank

Energy Tank front view

The energy tank is a simple collection of layers to build the tank. The only challenge is that you can’t build it on the nanoblock pad because the base layer isn’t square.

Things I liked:

  • I like that he isn’t square and sifted on his hips

Things I didn’t like:

  • I don’t love the face because the eyes are so big, but it does look like the original pixel video game image