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admit it... we bought this unpopular building block toys just for that awesome lookin Skeletor’s head...

It’s Toy Time Tuesday! With...Crystal Creatures Series 1 Nightsky! Crystal Creatures by Megaconstrux is a new thing to this Tumblr. Megaconstrux made 2 types of blind-box assembly toys the Crystal Creatures “For girls” and then the “breakout beasts” “for boys”. (Why this distinction needs to occur at all....I have no idea, toys are for people who like to play, that is all) They have the same concept, which is a buildable creature packaged in a blind box egg inside of glitter slime. The crystal picture pouch held slime, in which all the pieces of the toy are set. You have to pick the pieces out of the slime to assemble it, then store the slime in the egg. The parts of several creatures are mix-n-match-able. It is a good enough, and complex enough gimmick. However, I do not like the slime, I don’t like things that won’t get off me and it won’t get off. The pieces are difficult to de-slime and had to be washed rather thoroughly as it is the nature of slime to cling and ignore water. So, it seemed like a pre-dirty toy from a dingy flea market bin with all the fuss before you can even do anything with it. The assembly is easy enough, the parts pop together (squelching slime out of the holes.......) It’s probably 10 min or so to build. Nightsky is a neat fantasy unicorn pegasus! I love the paint on the face, very detailed. The horn and wings are nice and big/fantasy. That it is black is also cool, with the frost blue belly area. The head is a ball joint so it can look around pretty well. The chest plate interferes a little with the neck movement, though. The front legs don’t look quite right (very tubular) without the armor widgets so they’re a must. The white bits are nicely pearlized. The tail is also a ball joint but it is set rather too low on the body. The wings are ball joints on a stem but....the plastic is rather thick so they don’t hold themselves up/hold poses that well. (It is always a tradeoff on ‘assemble toy’ vs ‘very sturdy toy’--you often can’t have both)  Once built, you use the little clear stem on the egg top to display the Crystal Creature. Displaying like this looks very nice! It also takes up a good bit of space. Despite the slime, this IS a cool toy to have, 100% fantasy and decently sculpted with action-figure play value. The blindboxing is annoying because it always is, and this is 1 of 6 creatures on wave 1. At 10+ dollars each it would be burdensome to get a duplicate. If this post is well liked, I will hatch another of these. (I hatched this one on Easter...it seemed appropriate for an egg theme!)

LOOK how it’s 5 studs wide! That’s blasphemy in the Lego community. @_@