"The box arrives. It is smaller than I thought a near $400 set would be. Hope that isn't a bad sign. I grab some scissors and slice it open. Not too bad. Not the best packaging compared to my favorite set, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, but hey, at least the back flips over! I look for that instruction manual, expecting a big phone book sized manual (To build all those things like the snake or monkey thing or whatever) to find a manual so tiny, my heart fell to the ground. It had instructions to build the most pathetic of all, a tiny robot that wasn't on ANY of the pictures I saw. Where is the instructions for the big one? The one on the box? ANY of the ones on the box? NOPE. You have to actually go to the website! WHAT?!? I HAVE TO PRINT OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS MYSELF???? I hate that. I look at the EV3 brick. It takes 6 (Or was it 8?) AA batteries. I guess this is to keep it running so you don't have to take it off to change, but I later find this to be wrong. I print out the instructions for the Astromech droid that looks like R2-D2. After spending 20 minutes printing it, and 30 minutes building it, it is finished. I stock the greedy little EV3 brick up with brand new Duracell batteries. I turn it on. It makes a few cute sound effects and the lcd screen lights up. I plug it into the computer and put the program on the brick. I unplug it and start the program. It is set to move at top speed. It is soooooooooo slow. It was as slow as the Lego Technic bucket wheel excavator. and that is pretty slow. I gave it all those fresh new batteries, and this is how you repay me? I run it through 3 more times and then it stops in the middle of it's program, beeps, and starts complaining about low battery. LOW. BATTERY. BRAND. NEW. DURACELLS. WASTED. BY. A. GREEDY. LITTLE. ROBOT. I hope Lego Boost fixes this problem. At least the programing software is ok! Oh well, time to put it on the shelf to collect some dust. Maybe borrow a few pieces from it."