Have you ever been putting together a set, something that you know the look and feel of outside of LEGO form, and hit a point where you know that the build is just wrong? When I started the build before reviewing 76081 The Milano vs. The Abilisk, I hit that point on page 27, when I clicked on the two dish winglet things and realized that the ship was far tinier in the build looked on the box… and it looked awful on the box. Of course, as bad as that was, when you snap the first wing into place on page 34, you realize that wrong doesn’t even begin to describe what’s wrong with this set. If you don’t remember snapping that on the first time, don’t worry, you’ll have to do it again when it falls off later, and then several more times after that when it continues to do so.
There are a few things going for the set at the outset, mostly that it’s 460 pieces only run us $49.99. Beyond that, it includes all of the Guardians except Rocket, and it does get the color of the ship right, and that was a big miss of the original. After that, though… I’d be pretty hard pressed to come up with a lot of good based on my first impressions. Honestly, that was only made worse after I watched the movie. I will discuss some spoilery aspects of the movie in this review, because we love talking about things in a movie that’s long since come out in theaters and video.
Ultimately, the scariest thing about this set is that it might be even worse than it looks, and, outside of the color, it looks just terrible.
