City Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions 60354 Toy Building Kit
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Web ID: 14480551Infuriating
Bought for my 8 year old who loves spaceships and being creative with them. The concept of a set that enables a kid to come up with many different builds is great. Unfortunately, the mandatory app and digital instructions, as well as the silly build-to-a-story concept ruined the experience. My son skipped all the videos, had no interest in the story and just wanted to build the base ship model. I understand LEGO wants to embrace digital technology, but please, don't force apps and stories on us. Provide physical instructions for the base model and the various accessories while letting the kids go to Youtube or something if they want to watch a story.
Customer review from LEGO
Not worth it
I bought this as a Christmas gift for my great nephew who is almost 5. There were literally no instructions for this. You have to use the lego app and the instructions there are still terribly vague. Not worth the time, money or headache. Worst lego purchase ever. So disappointed
Customer review from LEGO
Response from LEGO
We’re sorry to hear you’re not happy with your LEGO® set, and we appreciate your feedback. Our City Mission sets use videos in the LEGO Building Instructions app to deliver a story that unleashes imagination and creativity for a more interactive play experience. Brief digital building instructions are provided in-app to give a foundational model to get our fans started. An in-app vs printed solution allows us to make this experience available to more kids in their own languages! If you would like to reach out further and speak with us, please head to LEGO.build/Service-BV where we will be happy to help.
Needs option besides app
Can only access instructions through an app that is not compatible with kids fire tablet. Other Lego apps are on the fire tablet so I did not verify compatibility and gave this to my son for Christmas. Now he cannot build it. At least Lego could have an optional instruction PDF available on the website to download but they don't... If more Lego sets go this way for building instructions, I'll save a ton of money since we will not purchase them
Customer review from LEGO
Excellent for encouraging creativity
Since my son received this as a Christmas present he's played through the missions several times each time taken the space ship apart building the space ship a different way. It was the Christmas present he kept coming back to. The missions have really encouraged him to not just build as per a set of instructions but to really make the spaceship his own. It's reminded me of the alternative ideas for sets that used to be on the back of Lego sets boxes when I was a child. He's also enjoyed being able to rotate the images of the build in the app. He liked this one so much that I got him the other two mission sets.
Recommends this product
Customer review from LEGO
Awesomeness!
This set is just great! I love how you can make the set with a story and make your own custom ship and at the end you can make extra things with the spare parts. Just one thing, If you make more put more character faces and hair in so there’s more of a custom figure feel.
Recommends this product
Customer review from LEGO
10 out of 10
My 6 year old had an amazing time with this set. In his words 10 out of 10. The app that drives the build experience is fantastic and gives a good balance of instruction plus opportunity to be creative. It also really extends the play time compared to other sets, where it's not just build and done. On top of all that the intense music during some of the cut scenes and build time is great keeps them focused on doing the task.
Recommends this product
Customer review from LEGO
Great idea but app issues
So I played this with my 4 year old who is a beginner Lego builder but loves it. I thought this would be great as he likes Lego city adventures so natural next step. We got to mission 3 of both this and another set and that’s when it all fell apart. The app has issues and wouldn’t load - blank screens. I contacted support and as I write this they have acknowledged the issue but no fix yet (15th May 2023 - been over a week wait so far). Up to this there were some minor other issues but generally if it was working well would have been a great experience otherwise. I then found out that there is no printed version / PDF version. I was expecting a comic strip with some of the build exercises and the building steps - but nothing available. I think in future I will only buy these kind of sets if they aren’t 100% app reliant. I think this is a real shame to make this fully reliant on the app and then there is no backup when it fails. Currently we have tried to come up with some build ideas but my son really wants to do this on the iPad.
Recommends this product
Customer review from LEGO
No pdf instructions
I bought this set for my son but I was disappointed because no real building instructions, but only link to web application. I don't want to install any application. I think the download pdf installation guide should be also possible! Let me choose what I want.
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