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Lowest Rating - Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Needs Better Instructions
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Frank DiGiacomo (New York, NY)
I had fun building this kit with my 10-year-old son, but I would have had a lot more fun f the instructions weren't so vague in spots, particularly at the end. I had to write the company for more specific instructions on attaching the sling. The guy who responded was very nice about providing them, but the manufacturer could do all of its future customers a service by revising both the written instructions and the diagrams that accompany them. Otherwise, I'll take a trebuchet over a catapult any day.
- Thursday, January 03, 2008
Poor workmanship
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Nathaniel Polish (New York, NY)
Unfortunately I recommended this item to the other reviewer, Frank, before I had tried building it. The quality of the workmanship of the parts is poor. Holes are drilled off center. Miter cuts are not accurate. I found that the kit required considerable reworking to be buildable as shipped.
- Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Fun But Glitchy
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Rebecca (New York, New York)
My 10-year-old son enjoyed building the trebuchet but needed more help from me than he would have liked because of defects in the kit. We needed to bore out every drilled hole and sand down all dowel pieces quite a bit in order to fit the two together. Ultimately the throwing arm ended up quite crooked because the holes were drilled asymmetrically. For a few pieces of balsa, a screw, a square of leather, and some string the precision of drilled holes should be much better than it is. It flings things like marbles quite well but plastic cows are not as easily sent over the ramparts.
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