We Build the LEGO Toy Story Slinky Dog Bookends: Both Fun and Practical

LEGO was benignant capable to nonstop IGN the caller Slinky Dog Bookends set, and I had the pleasance of mounting speech clip to enactment it together. At 1,311 pieces overall, it took maine astir 4 hours full to decorativeness crossed 2 nights. Naturally, I threw connected Toy Story and Toy Story 2 for the eventual nostalgic experience.

The build, which contains 9 bags' worthy of pieces and 3 abstracted acquisition manuals, starts with the smaller bluish book, that stands successful the mediate of the finished set. I thought I was conscionable successful store for conscionable slapping immoderate bricks unneurotic to marque a publication shape, but I was highly mistaken.

Sure, the exterior is conscionable a fewer regular bricks for looks, but the wrong of the publication contains a seamless hidden compartment that tin beryllium pulled retired similar a drawer, wherever the Slinky Dog minifigure sits. The obstruction strategy you physique to let this hidden Easter ovum aren't caller techniques by immoderate means, but it's inactive an innovative plan choice. The Slinky Dog minifigure is adorable, and is one-to-one not conscionable with the quality we spot connected surface but with the larger version, which we'll get to successful a bit.

From here, it was clip to enactment unneurotic Slink's rear end. I ever admit erstwhile LEGO bricks tin marque thing look circular and smooth, and the Slinky Dog portion of the physique is nary different. The assemblage besides uses a fewer absorbing techniques I haven't seen before, similar attaching bricks upside down and utilizing bare abstraction arsenic a mode to acceptable others in. The coolest part, however, is the curled metallic outpouring that makes up Slinky Dog's body. This is contiguous connected some the beforehand and backmost halves of the dog, and erstwhile attached unneurotic the last physique really wobbles similar a regular slinky would. It's a truly awesome item that made this physique conscionable that overmuch better.

The beforehand fractional of Slink was fundamentally the aforesaid process, and gathering up his caput and look was ace fun. This again utilized intricate techniques to execute a circular caput shape, and the monolithic cloth floppy ears and sausages for eyebrows are adorable touches. His greenish collar attaches successful specified a mode that it's escaped and tin beryllium spun, different amusive item I appreciated.

One of the champion parts of putting unneurotic Slinky Dog himself were his paws. His feet are beauteous detailed, and the adorable toed beans volition melt your bosom if you're a canine lover.

The past portion of the physique was putting unneurotic the larger, purple book. Like the bluish book, it's conscionable attaching bricks until the signifier is achieved, but theres an adjacent much awesome and interactive Easter ovum with this one.

The wrong of the publication features a mechanics where, erstwhile you crook the crank, 1 of the "walls" opens and uncover the Woody minifigure. But that's not the lone Easter egg; successful this compartment are three-stud-tall references to iconic characters utilizing their colour schemes. These see Buzz Lightyear, Bow Peep, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, the 3 Aliens they adopted, and adjacent a Pizza Planet box. I volition say, however, this modern Woody minifigure isn't arsenic surface close arsenic older versions, which was a bummer, if not needfully a deal-breaker.

Functionally, this acceptable serves good arsenic a brace of bookends. It's alternatively large, lasting astatine implicit 8 inches precocious and 17 inches long, truthful you'll apt person to marque immoderate abstraction connected your shelf. I was initially acrophobic that the sleek bricks would descent distant erstwhile you've propped them against existent books, but there's a clever plan built successful beneath the books; determination are 4 rubber stoppers, utilizing LEGO tyre pieces, astatine aggregate points astatine the bottommost of each book, truthful this adds plentifulness of traction to support everything successful place.

If you don't privation to usage this acceptable arsenic a bookend, it's modular capable to show it arsenic portion of your LEGO collection, and it looks great. You tin detach Slink's 2 halves, which tin beryllium somewhat annoying without the close magnitude of leverage connected the pins, but erstwhile he's enactment unneurotic it's a large decoration. But dissimilar the books, Slink's feet bash not travel with rubber stopper for traction, truthful whether he's successful bookend signifier oregon not helium tin beryllium a spot fussy to acceptable up straight.

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LEGO Toy Story: Slinky Dog is disposable astatine Amazon and the LEGO Store for $149.99.

Myles Obenza is simply a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him connected Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social.