Finally I'm posting this post which has been sitting in my draft section for months!!
For those who love LEGO will definitely love these miniature lookalikes. Nanoblock is a Japanese building block and I think it's been out for quite a while. Years I think!! The first one I bought was from Artbox around December 2012. My hands were fidgeting to try something new. So when I saw packets hanging beside the till, and I had already purchased some other stuff, I grabbed the most difficult one and built it on the same night!
This is a cool Grand Piano. According to one Instagrammer at the time who saw this was surprised I had a white one! ^^ Hers was in black. I guess the white one just came out at that time...
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| My grand white piano ^_^ |
After completing this one, I decided to purchase a couple more from eBay... :D
This is the Elephant one. The nose and ears keep coming off and I constantly have to rebuild it!! This was ok to make. Not too hard. The nose is difficult to keep on...!!
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| Be careful when making the ears and nose... and the tusks... quite difficult to keep on! |
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| Nanoblock elephant |
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| From a different angle |
And this is the Panda one, which I completed in about 45 minutes. This was hard for sure. So many layers! ^_^ I think this is my favourite animal nanoblock so far!
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| A difficult nanoblock to make... |
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| My favourite animal! |
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| Panda nanoblock |
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| From the behind XD |
Both the elephant and panda are my favourite animals, and surprisingly (well not really) I have two figurines of an elephant and a panda on my desk at work!
I got another one from Artbox a while back... This is the Japanese Tree Frog, which I made before the panda actually, and this one is easy! Definitely not the hardest.
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| Japanese Tree Frog Nanoblock |
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| So easy to make! |
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| Those eyes are staring at me! |
In Hyper Japan, I purchased two more as they were on discount. Yay! ...
This is a Japanese gate called a Kaminarimon which means "thunder gate". I bought this one for £10! Mega discount! It's usually around £15 or more... This one was the most difficult nanoblock to make out of all the ones I bought!!! The base was the hardest to get through, and I had to stop because I was so tired whilst making it... and then I finished it within another 2 hours... Total time: ~3 hours!!
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| Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate) |
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| From the back |
On the night I made this gate, I decided to take one of my LEGO toy figures which I bought last year in LEGOLAND, (the rest I gave away, and I have no idea why I saved this one)... It came in handy for this post though! :D See how small this gate is! |
| Japanese warrior on top of the Kaminarimon |
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| That gate is too small! |
This one is Bender from Futurama! It's not actually from the original company Kawada, but from a Chinese "copycat" company called LOZ. The pieces are a bit tough and not as smooth or as easy to play with as the ones from Kawada...  |
| Bender!!! |
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| From the back |
And finally, I saw a minion at Hyper Japan, and I really wanted it, so I purchased this one on ebay, and made it. :D This one is also from LOZ. It took me longer to make than expected... Over two hours to be exact. I was texting, dropping pieces on the floor and watching TV all at the same time... And I got really stuck on instructions 10-12 because it's not really clear how to make that minion's goggle..  |
| My minion nanoblock... it took me 2 hours to make :( |
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| From the back |
Nanoblock is a bit expensive, but they are fun to play with if you have small hands and have loads of spare time (use tweezers if needed)! I recommend buying them off from ebay. And I think in American toy stores (I saw some in Macy's in Dallas) they were quite cheap! So shop around! Go to a lot of Japanese events too to find them!!
