• Year of the Pig

    <h1>Year of the Pig</h1><div class='tags floatleft'><a href='/sets/40186-1/Year-of-the-Pig'>40186-1</a> <a href='/sets/theme-Seasonal'>Seasonal</a> <a class='subtheme' href='/sets/subtheme-Chinese-Traditional-Festival'>Chinese Traditional Festival</a> <a class='year' href='/sets/theme-Seasonal/year-2019'>2019</a> </div><div class='floatright'>©2019 LEGO Group</div>
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    Pigs on the loose

    Written by (AFOL , gold-rated reviewer) in Belgium,

    I like pigs. Big, dirty, scruffy, blobs of pink, yet highly intelligent and entertaining. This little LEGO piggy is also a big blob of pink with some good and some bad things about it.

    GOOD THINGS:

    COLOR:
    Yes!! A beautiful bright pink color is used to build up this pig. The color does the model and the actual animal just. The gray on the belly is spot-on and the dark gray rounded 1x1 plates make excellent feet/legs/paws(?)

    EARS:
    Yes!! Lovely big ears. Pigs do have lovely big ears, so it is good to see that this LEGO model has gotten a pair of them.

    PRINTS:
    Yes!! The eyes are nothing special, but they suit our piggy right. Turning them in different positions gives you the opportunity to give different facial expressions to our little guy: form duffy to bright :D
    The print for the snout is superb and finishes of this model. It is absolutely critical for this build. I don't see any other use for it besides on this pighead, but I am sure other people will come up with various moc's showing of the possibilities of this rounded tile.

    POSE-ABILITY:
    yes!! movable ears, eyes, legs, head, tail. It seems like everything about this model is changeable and that's perfectly fine.

    BAD THING:

    SHAPING:
    Some of the shapes or parts used are off. This is most visible with the tail, which is too long, not curly enough and has a different color then the rest of the figure. Also the snout is too flat.

    And that is a shame: the 2 most notable characteristics about a pig (it's curly tail and it's protruding snout) are not modeled correctly. It is a little bit of a let down and the reason why, although the model has a lot going for itself and has a lot of positive things, it get's a fairly low score of only 3 stars.

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