Evaluation: LEGO Animal Crossing – Kapp’n’s Island Boat Tour – Is It Any Good?

What’s within the field?

You get three plastic baggage within the Kapp’n’s Island Boat Tour field — plainly solely Bunnie’s Out of doors Actions accommodates Lego’s sustainable paper packaging on this preliminary batch of Animal Crossing choices — together with Kapp’n’s boat hull and the requisite directions.

Kapp’n’s Island Boat Tour construct

As all the time, the minifigure is the very first thing you assemble and Kapp’n seems as fetching as ever.

As soon as you’ve got received the kappa captain himself, it is time to construct his boat. She’s a modest however sturdy vessel, with slightly outboard motor, a lantern, and a flask that includes a neat deal with component we’ve not encountered earlier than. Kapp’n additionally has some Ok.Ok. Slider sheet music onboard to assist whereas away these lonely nights at sea with a shanty.

Bag two introduces Marshal and a number of the beachy terrain tiles. The minifigures are maybe the strongest component of all these units, and Marshal isn’t any completely different, with nice element and a cute tail component. Not like each different minifigure within the vary, nevertheless, Marshal’s legs are the short-and-static selection — they do not bend on the hip or have holes within the again.

This is not an enormous drawback, though it does imply he is unable to sit down down on the seashore recliners you construct immediately after assembling him, nor within the boat.

The seashore tiles themselves are enjoyable — we take pleasure in any space with lapping water and wash from the waves depicted in brick kind. Once more, a great deal of element right here, from the sandwich/hamburger and drink beside the pink recliners to the fishing rod and the palm tree with its dangling coconuts. The umbrella is similar one you discover outdoors Rosie’s home.

The third and closing bag contains a hill with a ladder and a rock on prime (bash with a shovel for Bells,) a tiny jetty for Kapp’n to dock his boat, and an lovable little crab. A recipe sits on a stump below a second coconut tree and it balances the set out properly within the default configuration — clearly, you are free to rearrange issues how you want.

Kapp’n’s Island Boat Tour price

Kapp’n’s Island Boat Tour sits within the mid-range of the accessible Lego Animal Crossing units, with a retail worth of $29.99 / £24.99 / €29.99.

You get 233 items, together with two unique minifigures and a ship. That works out to only below 13 cents a chunk, which is not the finest worth you will discover, but it surely’s within the ballpark for licensed units.

General, there is a good mixture of parts right here for the value level. We like the varied terrain, with the shoreline element including visible curiosity as a show piece and the hill and palm bushes bringing some vertical selection, too. For those who mixed a number of copies of this equipment with a number of copies of Bunnie’s Out of doors Actions, you would assemble fairly the island.

Given the terrain tiles included — the sandy seashore, the 2 ranges of grass-topped hill with bamboo, and the lapping waves of the shoreline — we really feel this can be a barely higher standalone set in comparison with Bunnie’s, with the waves on the shoreline offering a ‘pure’ border as Kapp’n roams the place he pleases over the water.

It nonetheless feels slightly disjointed, however with two minifigs, together with our favorite salty seadog, we got here away feeling constructive. Truthfully, if this equipment had included Gulliver and/or Pascal diving for scallops, plus some shells and communicator components to dig up, this might have been important. As it’s, it is simply ‘good’.

Conclusion

Kapp’n’s Boat Tour may not ship every part that Animal Crossing followers need from a beach-based set, but it surely works fairly nicely for show whereas additionally retaining the reconfigurable, modular design that threads all of the Lego Animal Crossing builds collectively for artistic play. Whereas it really works higher alongside the bigger units, the appeal and element right here is sufficient, simply, to make this a worthwhile buy by itself, particularly in case you’re taken with the concept of shifting the terrain round like jigsaw items. And who’s not on board with Kapp’n? Value a glance.

Nice minifigs, as per the opposite units
Nice particulars, as per the opposite units
We just like the combination of shoreline, sand, and grass tiles right here
The shoreline acts as a pure border for show
The little crab is impossibly cute

Much less so than Bunnie’s and Julian’s, but it surely nonetheless appears like an ‘add-on’ set
Marshal is unable to sit down, bend over, or lean again
Think about if it had a Gulliver!

Good 7/10

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