Character Building Doctor Who Cyberman Conversion Chamber. Cold, emotionless figures, encased in steel suits, their original insanity stripped away and replaced by machinery and computers. No sense of hot or cold, fear or pride, love or hate. The Cybermen just exist to convert everyone to their way. Highly detailed Cyberman construction playset featuring swivelling cyber-conversion machine arm and moveable conversion bed with restraining arms. Set includes one Space Captain and one Cyberman micro-figure. Recommended For Ages 5 Plus.
How disappointing My son pleaded for this toy; waited for Christmas, waited for the marvel of the conversion chamber. What a load of rubbish. It is nothing like as slick as Lego – the instructions were not exactly crystal-clear and once assembled, it fell apart so frequently that my son was reduced to tears of frustration.He has never been reduced to tears by a toy before. My husband ended up gluing the thing together so that it could be played with. We expected better quality from a franchise of this association, but be warned BBC brand, my son saw another toy in the range, but then said, ‘there’s no point in getting that – the stuff isn’t very good’.You can’t talk kids out of a toy they have their hearts set on, but I can’t in all honesty recommend it.
This is one of Character Options “Lego-like” building sets (with Lego being the benchmark to compare these sort of kits) effectively its a playset you have to build rather than a general pile of bricks that can be reused in endless combinations.Assembly was straightforward: the construction is broken down into 34 steps and there are pictures of the completed model from three angles to compare your efforts with.The parts are all cleanly made and generally fit well tightly together. There are some parts that are done differently to Lego and a few seem less robust but not to the extent that they will break easily. The final model is robust though one assembly which I think is supposed to be a “lift” comes apart too easily if you manhandle it – eg but trying to stick one of the figures to it.Once it was together, my son immediately started playing with it making up his own stories and then came back to it after his tea to play with it some more.Time will tell how long it stays together or it gets broken up to make new toys let alone gets built again – but in our home I’d put money on some Star Wars crossover action.