Product Review | Keepplay Pochacco Brick Set

I picked up this set at Asian Food Mart (2150 McNicoll Avenue Scarborough, ON M1V 0G5) located near McNicoll and Steeles. The set was on sale for $7.99. My favorite Sanrio characters are Pochacco and Chococat, and the store only had two options to choose from, which were Pochacco and Pompompurrin. Hence, Pochacco was the chosen one.

In this set, the box comes with an instruction booklet and 3 packets filled with building bricks.

Although the bricks are not Lego, the pieces themselves were high quality. The pieces were nicely sized making it easy to assemble together, and if you made a mistake, you could simply remove them with ease.

While building the set, I thought the structure of the inner body could be better—I noticed every time when I was adding bricks on top of the central base of the figure the parts could dissemble easily so I was on a mission to be careful or else I had to restart from square one; it was a little frustrating at times. In addition, when I assembled the set, I noticed a few pieces were dirty, which was probably related to production issues. Lastly, because the figure is meant to be sitting down, the end result is stable.

The instructions in the booklet (there are 25 pages in total) were clear and concise to follow along. There were 1-2 steps that were confusing to me, however, the illustrations within the booklet were large enough for me to continue without any problems.

After assembling the pieces together, I thought it looked exactly like the picture on the box. There were two extra pieces that were leftover in case you dropped or lost a piece.

Overall, the set was quick and easy to build. It took approximately 30 - 45mins to complete and Pochacco now lives on my work desk, chilling with my fake Lego plants. That said, this set is perfect for beginners and anyone who is a Sanrio fan who loves Lego.

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