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Brickcraft Dr. Seuss The Grinch Up the Chimney Grinch Building Set

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00:00And out of every Who House he had their holiday in his hands. Here's your
00:03Christmas spot on the BrickCraft Dr. Seuss the Grinch of the Chimney Grinch.
00:22I'd like to thank the kind folks once again over at BrickCraft that kindly did
00:27provide this sample of another brick building set of the Greenfella that
00:30stole their season. Whose season? Exactly. 504 pieces are required on your part so
00:36a little bit of time may be required in order to build the image that you're
00:38seeing right now. What you may also be seeing right now to your left is he does
00:42actually have movable parts more specifically hands arms and hats. Picking
00:46up the box right now it's got a little bit of weight to it on the back of the
00:49box it tells you just exactly how big the set will actually be. 9.1 inches in
00:53height 5.2 inches in width. It also as well gives you an image of what this
00:57will look like in front of your fireplace. My fireplace doesn't look like
01:00that. That looks too good of an image. Down below as well it's compatible with
01:03other name brands and to help of course your journey along the ways of getting
01:06to from point A of opening up the box the point B of getting this to look like
01:10this you of course get yourself an instruction manual. Which I will say the
01:14instruction manual has been pretty kind on me even though I had a rough patch
01:18trying to get through building the wreath. I hope though I'm gonna have an
01:21easier time building the actual set here of the chimney with Grinch. Of course to
01:25see exactly how many presents he's stealing from the Who's down below in
01:28their house. You'll have to wait and see just how long first of all it takes me
01:31to build this and how cool the set actually is once I finally do. So oh how
01:36did it go? I think it went pretty well from the time that I opened up the first
01:39bag of bricks to the final step of putting the arm on the Grinch's body. Two
01:42hours 17 minutes. I know right now people are saying bro that took you a
01:46little longer than that was necessary. Well to be fair I had a few things
01:50playing in the background on TV. I figured while I was completing one goal
01:53why not complete another goal of catching up on some of my favorite
01:56Christmas specials. So while building the Grinch I managed to get through Rudolph
01:59the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosted Snowman and a year without a Santa Claus. What? To
02:04help of course build the Grinch the trusty manual is included by BrickCraft.
02:08Once again a very straightforward easy to understand manual. I know I kind of
02:12got hung up a little bit when I was building the wreath just because
02:15again like the wreath has tiny little leaves and branches to contend with. This
02:18is so straightforward. From the first page well not technically the first page
02:21is just the advertisement of the other Grinch collection that BrickCraft has
02:24put out looking forward to building the fireplace Grinch next. But from step one
02:29all the way to step 167 and step 167 is obviously putting the arm on the Grinch.
02:33168 though is just the time where you get the chance to look at what you've
02:36done. Pat yourself on the back or in this case on my arm. Again like with the
02:41instructions nowhere did I feel confused. I know with kind of the wreath I had to
02:45flip back a few pages kind of just to understand where all the leaves are and
02:48stuff we're supposed to go. But like if you look at the individual steps they
02:51clearly outline first of all what colors of bricks you need, where they have to go,
02:55and how many pieces you need for each of the individual steps. BrickCraft I will
03:00say does a really good job when it comes to their instruction manual. Let's just
03:03move that off to the side. Now there is a little bit of movability on the Grinch
03:06which is pretty cool. We couldn't say that really at all with the with the
03:08wreath. While this arm is stationed you can't move this at all in place just
03:13because the way it's plugged into his body. You most definitely though can move
03:16the Grinch's arm on this side. Each of the fingers by the way though and the
03:19hand for that matter are also in ball joints. This hand here, this hand here. So
03:24you can also move these back and forth as well and each of the individual
03:27fingers. I'm being careful not to bang the Christmas ball. The Christmas ball
03:30actually is just plugged in place. You can see it's just clipped around the
03:33part for his palm but like each of the individual fingers for example can move
03:37in and out and also you can move the thumb too. I probably will end up just
03:41having like the arm of the Grinch kind of up like this the kind of way
03:44they've depicted on the front of the box. Again you can also really rotate
03:47the arm this way too. You would just have to kind of bring the Christmas ball
03:49down just like that. You know what might might even be a better way to do this.
03:54This arm, this hand I should say also is on a ball joint so you can move this
03:57around and each of the individual fingers yeah clipped in place so those
04:01also move freely back and forth. There is also two other places that this moves.
04:05First of all like the Christmas package for example the present does also spin.
04:09There's a little spinning piece on the bottom of the brick here that allows this
04:12to rotate. I don't know why it necessarily rotates it's I suppose just
04:15something else that just gives you something to do when you're looking at
04:18this on display but the cool thing that's also about this is with the the
04:22hat on the Grinch there's a hinge right here where you can move this up and down.
04:25You can also move the Christmas ball too. Now with the actual Grinch face I'm just
04:30gonna move the hand back over here kind of make it look like he's grasping the
04:33the package the present in his hand. The one thing though about the Grinch is I
04:37feel like it's a very similar face the one that we got with the wreath. In fact
04:40size-wise short of the fact that the wreath Grinch had a little bit more of a
04:44furrier rim on the top of his head you couldn't even see both eyebrows. This one
04:48you can actually see both eyebrows clear as day. There's a little bit of also a
04:52sticker printing not that you have to imply apply a sticker but the only part
04:55that's actually printed seems to be the Grinch's eyes. So essentially it's a one
04:58piece brick goes in place and then you put the nose the bridge of the nose and
05:02the mouth over top of it. They've also added a little bit of darker coloring
05:05here on the side. The dark green bricks I guess sort of simulate the smile on the
05:09Grinch's face. It's a really interesting looking Grinch. I really like the set and
05:12it didn't take much time at all. I know two hours and 17 minutes may seem like a
05:16lot but I never had a part where I felt really overly confused. Even like laying
05:20down the bridge you have to literally lay down the bricks you can see that the
05:22way that they they overlay one another like this is a pretty stable piece.
05:27Nothing at all has really fallen off this Grinch unlike the wreath. The only
05:31thing that actually does fall off frequently is the Christmas ball just
05:34because again it's clipped in place. You just want to make sure you don't bang
05:36that. But it's a very strong stable Grinch. Color-wise it's really good
05:40gorgeous as well. Of course you got the bright red hat a little bit of furry
05:43trim. He's got fur trim also around the sleeves of his suit also around the
05:47collar piece around his suit as well. If you look at the inside though and I love
05:51the fact they add all this little snow rim on the top of the chimney but if you
05:55look at the inside the Grinch actually is kind of levitating. I don't know if
05:59you can actually see that or not. He doesn't go all the way down. I don't know
06:02why they didn't have this where it just went all the way down but you know it's
06:05pretty again stable. I've moved this guy around a couple of times. I put this guy
06:09out on my mantle and short of maybe again like the Christmas ball being like
06:12the only thing that's fallen off the figure everything else on him has stayed
06:15pretty generally stable. Again big thank you to the folks over at BrickCraft that
06:19provided this sample of the Up the Chimney Grinch. 504 pieces may seem like
06:24a lot of pieces but I mean like short of just having something kind of
06:27distracting me in the background I probably could have built this a little
06:29bit faster than the two hours and 17 minutes. Again what do you guys think of
06:33these? Let me know down below in the comments section. If you do want to
06:35check out more from BrickCraft most definitely click the link down below in
06:38the video description. You can see currently what they're doing when it
06:40comes to Grinch. You can see what they're doing for Christmas. You can see what
06:42they're doing just in general when it comes to brick building sets. If you guys
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06:52course the most important thing is that you're coming back. There's gonna be a
06:54lot more Christmas spots coming your way for the rest of the season so as always
06:57thanks for watching. See you guys next time.

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