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A few days ago, I mentioned I had received this set as a gift. A lot of people threw shade on the set, but an anon asked me to share what I thought about it since it was my first Lego set.
Honestly, I really enjoyed building it. The only thing that holds it back is the constant stacking of tiny, tiny squares to achieve the checkered pattern from the game - but it looked so cool, it was worth it. Stickers were annoying, because I have big hands, but some tweezers solved that issue. I really loved the 'easter eggs' in the set - for instance, when you finished a bag of parts, the last part left was always a little chaos emerald, so you 'collected' chaos emeralds as you progressed, and the final piece was the giant Eggman. Felt like you were going up against a 'final boss' of sorts.
If there is as much fun detail in other sets, I'd really like to get some more. The 90th anniversary space ship and the Mario and Minecraft sets look really fun.