Ralph has already looked at the orange 4 x 4 Off-roader
HERE. That set has now been re-boxed so the only thing add here is a picture of the up-to-date packaging.
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| The new box for the Canyon Crawler |
In
a quirk of branding, a remote control car was also released under the
Evolution banner. This has also been re boxed and will be reissued in
the new style packaging. Again the two sets are identical. All the radio
control sets that have gone before, with maybe the exception of the
Rabbids Police Car, have been fairly complicated to build. In the past
the body has been formed by bending and forcing flexible plates into all
sorts of extreme positions. None of that with this set.
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| New and old boxes for the same model |
The buggy style car is simple and minimalist making
it fairly easy to assemble once it is realised that the art is to
lightly tighten all the bolts until it is time to assemble the 'body'
with the chassis. Once the two are fixed together all the other joints
in the body can be tightened.
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| Easy and quick to build - Tick! |
There were no problems with the instructions other
than the rear spoiler in the kit is supplied and listed in the parts
list finished in zinc. The box art shows the spoiler in red. This means
the sticker supplied to decorate it allows zinc finish to show through
where it should be red. The other niggle is the sticker itself is not
cut correctly meaning that the bolt holes used to secure it to the car
are partially obscured. The result of this is that the spoiler has to be
removed before the sticker can be applied and the holes cleared to
allow the bolts to be refitted.
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| The spoiler blade should have been red! |
That aside this is a super little toy, intended for
the kids, that can be built with a minimum of fuss. I am sure a lot of
the older cars just never got built. I feel sure that most of these
will. This is not a set that has any appeal to us builders. There are
few parts of any great use that cannot be acquired from other sets more
cheaply. Personally, although not of great parts value, this is perfect
for the toy market. Any reasonably competent youngster would be able to
build this car and there is nothing critical about the build, nothing to
foul the wheels if the build is not just right and nothing that looks
wrong if it is not perfectly aligned.
Sue.
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