My girlfriend's mom got me the Vermin Vaporizer Lego set for Christmas this year. I'm a huge fan of the Galaxy Squad series, so I'm pretty psyched to put this bad mother fucker together:
The entire thing is going to take at least a couple hours to assemble, but I got started with some of the smaller parts before opening presents this evening.
It came with these dudes:
I don't know what's up with that robot and his weird giant energy sword and shield but whatevs. The space marine guy and angry bug are pretty neat, though I've already got a couple of them. This space marine is green, though, and the one I have is blue. I think they're from different teams? Maybe with different powers?
Those two both come with little vehicles:
I realize that this is just part of a larger set and this piece fits into the big mobile laboratory thing, but I am not a fan of these shitty little vehicles Lego puts into every set these days. I call them "battle carts" and they just seem like a lazy way to give my minifigues something to do besides take up space on my desk.
I'd probably feel differently if I were 8 years old instead of 32 (and to be clear, I DID feel differently about shitty little spaceships when I was 8 years old) but that's where we are. I'm a grown ass man, asking for Lego sets for Christmas, then writing a blog post about stupid things I don't like about toy sets that are designed for people 1/4 my age.
I like angry bug's whip better, mostly because of the cool scorpion tail and unconventional part usage on those legs (diagonal plate connections? In an official set? haha wtf are you even doing, Lego engineers!) However, this set also features another thing I don't like about modern Lego sets: those shitty little missiles on the side.
Like those shitty little battle carts, these are used in a lot of sets I've picked up in the last couple of years, as an easy way to add playability to your favorite Star Wars sets. Hilariously, the instruction manuals all warn you not to fire them directly into your friend's eyeballs, even though these missiles only poop out about a millimeter when you flick them from the back.
Still, I'm pretty excited to build the entire thing! My girlfriend followed this gift up with the much larger Bug Obliterator set, so I'll be posting about it when I get around to building it.
