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Hours of frustration for adults: a summary of what to expect
The concept is great, but if you're considering buying this, I'll save you the $70 and summarize the experience:
1) Box arrives, children wet selves with anticipation
2) Adult opens box, realizes mistake
3) Children break and misplace pieces during adult assembly
4) Adult finishes assembling chain links after 110 minutes of pain
5) Children wander away to find something interesting to look at
6) Adult puts project on indefinite hiatus, drinks self to sleep
7) Entry way littered with dominoes and broken promises for weeks
8) Adult warns guests and own children to keep distance from work zone
9) Motivated by hate, adult nearly finishes project late one night
10) Adult learns stick bomb finale is literally impossible to assemble, cries
11) Adult #2 wants to reclaim the lost square footage, intervenes with stick assembly
12) Adult #2 confirms sticks are a trap, tells first adult to determine workaround
13) Children, hope renewed at signs of project activity, resume interfering
14) First adult breaks mentally, explains sternly to children this isn't about them now
15) Adults cobble household trash into viable workaround, prepare cameras
16) Reaction fails 2% through execution because everything is cardboard and lies
17) Unrelated paper monster domino falls for no reason, sets off spinning mechanism mockingly
18) Adults sequentially remove components deemed likely to fail, little is left
19) Adults openly mock product design while children rapidly become disillusioned
20) Adults joylessly activate isolated sections manually, some nearly working
21) Children feign interest for benefit of adults
22) Family boxes project and tries to forget psychological damage
June 2020 · Toys and Games · verified purchase