IncrediBuilds: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Swooping Evil Deluxe Book and Model Set

My daughter got this as a Christmas gift and once started, it was done in just a few hours. It's mostly easy to assemble, a few tricky parts here and there, like the first pieces of armor look like they're supposed to go on the the back of the neck but actually go on the back of the head, a few pieces seem to be right-left flipped in the instructions but that's a fairly simple thing to figure out, if it doesn't fit where it looks like it should, try the other side. The third belly piece is fragile, press a little too hard and it can break, we're hoping to get a replacement piece. It's a nice model, even in plain wood it looks very nice when completed. My daughter wished that the wings were patterned on both sides so that the back of the wings matched the armored back, but this could pose a problem in the instructions as you depend on the pattern to know how to place certain pieces. If the pieces were in numerical order it would make finding them much easier, but this was no big deal. It would have been very nice for the instruction pictures to be a bit bigger, some of the detail pieces were difficult to place due to such small pictures. Strangely, there's an extra #10 piece, for why we don't know. You will be tempted to complete some pieces separately and then slide them into place, don't. It's much harder in the long run that way, do it the way the instructions say and it'll go smoothly.

My 11 year old loved this and even painted it (paints not included) when he was done building. Required no assistance from us so he was able to do it on his own.

My 11 year old granddaughter loved this, but she need my help to put it together.

So cool

This is one of my favourite Incredibuilds models so far, it was fun to make and took a little longer than the other ones I've done (Niffler, Dobby, Buckbeak etc) because it had more pieces. More than ever it's really important to follow the instructions carefully when building this one and it's so much easier to keep track of the pieces if you only remove them from the board as you need them. You can choose to paint your model if you like, the booklet it comes with even includes some colouring suggestions, but even unpainted these are nice little models. The book has a few interesting facts about the Fantastic Beasts movie and some of the different beasts but it's only short so you're really buying this for the model not for a book to read. These books make a fab gift for any Harry Potter fan, they're fun to make and they look great as bookshelf decorations.

Chegou antes do prazo, muito bem embalado!! Produto fácil de montar porem é um pouco frágil. Não é brinquedo bom para colecionar.