Tonecheer Star Workshop - so nice, I built it THRICE.
Video is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYErnYNlWsq/?igsh=cjVzcmYwYzB3cTF5
So, this kit is essentially Tonecheer Sweet Dreams, on acid. You will be painting edges until your markers run dry. Luckily, Tonecheer INCLUDES TWO ACRYLIC MARKERS. Yes! Not too many kits acknowledge the edge-painters of nookery…thanks Tonecheer! Also, they give you actual glitter stars and sparkly pieces of blue translucent “star ore.” It’s fun.
Per tradition, the bloody thing worked perfectly until I was close to the end and then…the Star Cylinder - it almost broke me. The frustration with that component was CLOSE but not quite “Emily’s-Flower-Shop-Wire-Rack” level. As advice to future builders of this behemoth: do not flay yourself ritually until you pop the entire cylinder component into the build, because some of the stabilization seems to help everything move smoothly. The Tonecheer directions tell you to check to make sure it works prematurely, in my opinion…because the damn thing didn’t work until I gave up and installed it into the build, believing it would never function.
There is a lot going on with this kit - lots of movement and things on springs. The “star ore cart” actually detaches - Tonecheer suggests it is an independent toy.
One thing that irks is that the plastic “tubes” or cylinders are just flat pieces of thin acrylic that you peg into rounded shapes. They not only attract every dust mote and particle within a five mile radius, but they are also both lit up dramatically, thereby highlighting every dust mote and particle (and, in the case of this builder, every fingerprint and smudge). If you have your own clean room (for whatever reason - no judgment) then you might be able to build this without getting anything on the acrylic.
For the pastel patrons, the rhinestoners, the blingers, bedazzlers and sparkle punks - this is your Xanadu.