This is because each leg is on a ball joint which has a surprisingly large freedom of rotation. One of them I found when taking photographs of it: it isn’t that easy to get the mech to stand straight. He wears a backpack and sports a pretty fierce expression.īeing so small, he has no movable parts, nor can his hands hold anything, but despite these limitations, I feel they did an incredible job bringing him into the LEGO world.įor a set this good, I do have a couple of nitpicks. However, just like his mech, good things come in small packages: Hammond is a triple moulded piece and exquisitely detailed, right down to his little tail. Hammond is taller than his cutesy counterparts, yet he’s still pretty small next to a minifig, being a little over one brick in height.
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We’ve had hamsters before in LEGO, but they’ve all come from the Friends line (the Heartlake theme, not the TV Show version!). This set doesn’t actually come with minifigs – but it does come with the representation of Hammond. LEGO Overwatch Wrecking Ball does come with a few stickers – but to be fair, as someone who loathes stickers, there aren’t that many and two large circular pieces are printed, thereby sparing us all the horror of having to place a sticker on a spherical object. Since you can’t recreate that on such a small construct, this feels like an acceptable compromise. This is to replicate the game version where metal sheets rotate into position to protect that front contraption as it rolls around. There’s a cover for the mech’s front eye which you should put on when in ball mode. It’s surprisingly sturdy for a LEGO model. The legs are articulated and you can close everything down and roll the mech around. The twin guns, along with their ammo containers can extend and retract.
Quite a few play features have been packed in as well: the cockpit can open and close you can place Hammond in Wrecking Ball and have him either at the top, overlooking the situation, or, with the turn of a technic piece, lower him inside the machine. We don’t see it very often, so it’s a nice change. It’s also nice to see a good number of pieces produced in sand green. It’s an interesting construction – the build process isn’t complex, in fact it feels quite simple as you assemble it, and it’s fascinating to experience how the designers managed to replicate the in-game mech with so few bricks. Don’t let the piece count and price point fool you though – this ball packs a punch. And surprisingly, it’s even cheaper than the latter. In fact, it’s the third smallest after set 75970, Tracer vs. Are you not entertained? The BuildĪt 227 pieces, the build is a relatively small one. See what I mean about Overwatch having a cartoon feel? They have a hamster rolling his ball into combat, taking down enemies and becoming champion. In order to make ends meet, he turned his escape pod into a battle mech, and took part in brutal competitions in the Scrapyard Arena, hoping to earn enough to venture out of the Outback. The genetically modified hamster who escaped the Horizon Lunar Colony at the same time as Winston, and crash landed in Australia. Wrecking Ball features a fan favourite, Hammond.
The focus this time is on the Australian setting of Junkertown, a place that hadn’t been touched on in the previous batch. So, Blizzard and LEGO got together and hammered out a deal. The sets were released in January 2019 and by all accounts, the first wave sold well enough to warrant two additional sets which went for sale in October, one of which is the LEGO Overwatch Wrecking Ball. This was an unusual step for LEGO since Overwatch is primarily a combat game, but the violence is more cartoonish with no realistic wounds or death, and even comes with a rich tapestry of stories to draw inspiration from. When the LEGO Group announced back in November 2018 that Blizzard Entertainment’s massively popular Overwatch game would be converted into sets, it surprised many.
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