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Made By:
McFarlane (set #12892)
Type:
Building Blocks
MSRP:
$8.99
 
Steven Universe

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Peridot with Jailbreak
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With the success of McFarlane's The Walking Dead building block sets, they expanded the concept to include more properties. One of those was Cartoon Network's Steven Universe, the coming-of-age story of a young boy who lives with the Crystal Gems and learns about life, love, family, and saving the world on a regular basis. One of the smaller sets in the series is #12892, Peridot with Jailbreak. It contains 48 pieces and a block-style Peridot figure. The box is bright and colorful, with nice graphics that combine the animation and the actual building set and a window to show the actual figure that is included. Instructions are a full-color stapled booklet, with a small sticker sheet tucked between the pages of it. The stickers are paper, so you won't be able to reposition them if you miss when placing them, but the printing is sharp and the edges are cut nearly perfectly to fit the parts.

The "Jailbreak" part of this set recreates one of the doors and part of the floor in the detention facility within the Gem Warship. It mixes four different shades of green with black and light gray to mimic the tiled surface of the facility walls and floor. The doorway is a simple hexagon, but it cleverly built in a way that combines studs facing all four directions - it's more of a loop than a base-up construction. Five stickers get applied to the front of the doorway to add more facets as well as the tech detailing and control panels found flanking the doors. The parts all fit together tightly and easily, with construction (including sticker placement) taking less than 10 minutes.

Peridot is wearing the limb enhancers from her earliest appearances, and is wielding her Gem Destabilizer. Her short stature and custom limbs help her fit the block aesthetic better than some other figures, and the head sculpt is very nice with frayed ends of her hair and a cast-in visor. She moves at the legs, hips, waist, shoulders, wrists, and neck. All of them are simple cut joints, though the legs are limited thanks to her knee pads. She can be disassembled along any of the main vertical joints. These joints all use the same sized studs and sockets, which is the same size as the studs used throughout the rest of the set.

Possibly the weakest of the Steven Universe sets due to its simple base (there's only so many ways to jazz up "a doorway," regardless of how cleverly it's built), but the inclusion of Peridot helps make up the difference.

 

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