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Series: Spawn 18
Craftsmanship: 9.3 out of 10 - Boggles the mind how they designed everything - An engineering marvel - Tons of detail and accessories - Very good display piece -Assembly borders on insanity, definetly not for the impatient - Some of the pieces are so spindly you’ll wonder how it stays together - Great stand
Playability: 1.0 out of 10 - Playing with this toy is not recommended - Loads of accessories to lose - Be satisfied with repositioning the arms
Accessories: Many
Potential Frustration: High
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Interlink Spawn (Spawn 18)
There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the figures which make up Interlink Spawn should be packaged with something to kill the pain. A headache larger than a bus started tearing around my skull mid-way through assembly. Which is to say nothing of my bruised fingers. Some of the pain could have been avoided had I downloaded the instructions (in handy PDF format) from spawn.com. However, not everyone has a computer so I used the included instructions. But I’m getting ahead of myself. You’ve just spent a lot of hard-earned money getting all six Interlink figures (TS2, RL3, RA5, LL4, LA6, HD1). Apart, they are some of the baddest-looking robots around – highly detailed, |
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highly articulated, cool to look at and play with. You can’t wait to assemble the beast that is Interlink Spawn. Before assembly I recommend you go for a walk, telephone an old friend, eat your favorite kind of sandwich – something that will bring peace to your soul – because you’re about to enter a world that jigsaw experts have nightmares about. There’s a picture of Interlink Spawn on the back of each card but this should only be used as a general guide since the finished product differs from this ideal. I started with the instructions and by about step 5 I ran into my first roadblock. There are some |
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pegged leg shields that need to be repositioned on LL4. The peg was clearly supposed to fit but it didn’t. After two hours of careful scraping to widen the hole the damn peg still wouldn’t fit! A pair of vice grips solved that problem. After a few more steps I ran into the second roadblock – the instructions themselves! The pictures are tiny and at some points resemble squashed bugs. There are so many plastic limbs and torsos everywhere that discerning what goes where turns into an exercise in trial and error. After a while I concentrated on the written instructions rather than the pictures. Bad idea! At one point you’ll be instructed to remove "RA5’s left arm." After much straining and grunting I snapped his left arm out. Hearing "snap" when dealing with action figures creates the double "S": SNAP! S#%@! When I took a close look at the picture it was more like a double "S" followed up with a few F’s and A’s. It was his left arm not his right, that needed to be removed! My next double "S" moment came later as I was putting the final touches on Interlink. Inserting the cursed RA5 where shown and instructed to form Interlink Spawn’s right arm resulted in the securing peg on TS2 to snap off. End result: Interlink Spawn is an amputee around my house. (Fortunately, the snap did not affect the individual figures, except that TS2 can only have one shoulder mounted cannon.) Disassembling Interlink is far easier. Once assembled, Interlink Spawn is a sight to behold. The group that designed the figures to fit together should be commended. They did a fantastic job getting everything to fit (for the most part) and the end result is very interesting to look at – lots of cool arms, guns, and shields. The colour scheme is good – shiny metal and cybernetic parts are all consistent with how giant robots are supposed to look. I felt a little let down though, an anticlimax considering the amount of energy that went into getting it together. Playability . . . if you know what’s good for you, you won’t play with this. Besides the fact there are a myriad of small accessories to lose, you risk breaking important pieces to the puzzle. Each figure comes with a piece that forms the base (or refueling station) which keeps the figure standing and solid. I suggest you leave it alone – maybe repostition some of the arms and guns to keep things new. When it comes right down to it, Interlink Spawn, with all its great detail and engineering wizardry, is a display piece. - Omni
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