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Ultrakatty & Warrior Lucy!

Posted:February 15, 2019

Shoka

Age: 25-34 years old

Customer Type: LEGO Fan

Building Experience: Intermediate LEGO builder

Overall:

4 / 5

UltraKatty and Warrior Lucy

" Bought this model within twenty minutes of seeing it first advertised. It just looked fantastic.

And I must admit in the flesh it is really great. Paired up with UniKitty in her more innocent form it's quite the contrast!

It's a nice straightforward build, reasonably interesting. The four legs are the same other than certain parts being mirrored due to being on the left or right side of the body, but that's the only time on this model you see the dreaded "x2" after a list of instructions.

The Duplo model is pretty clever, the rotating eye doesn't really do a great deal for me, the control sticking out the back to rotate the eye just seems a bit clunky. I don't know if these parts are even still available but making the eye just so it sat on a rotating piece, a turntable if those are still used, something like that so it could be rotated would be fine, or honestly even just making it so it was there but couldn't rotate, that would be fine too.

Lucy looks great with her new accessories and outfit, and Emmet is just the standard Emmet. The only major difference from the versions of him you got with the original movie sets is he doesn't have the attachment for the Piece of Resistance, because of course that's no longer a plot point.

About the only slight disappointment for me was that UltraKatty's shoulder, hip and neck joints are ball joints, so they're very adjustable, but her knee, ankle and waist joints are single axis hinges, with the detents that click around to various positions. This does limit the poseability somewhat. I do wonder if this was a decision done because the ball joints wouldn't hold a pose as well perhaps. I thought there were high friction ball joints available now which ought to be able to hold this model up - it's not -that- heavy, and it would make a great improvement for this model - it would give it way more poseability.

There were a few stickers too, just four of them, for UltraKatty's armour plates. UltraKatty's face (with two alternate face pieces), and Lucy's Stop sign shield are printed pieces, thankfully.

That said though, honestly I think it's worth the asking just for UltraKatty, that is one of the most awesome brick built figures I've ever built.

Overall, an excellent set. "

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