I don't always order kids that are not buildings, but this one looked interesting and fun, and was certainly both. In the past I've not had a good time with some of the mechanism-based kits, since it's easy to make misakes and sometimes hard to fix them, so I generally stick with buildings and similar that have a strong visual logic. But this one was more straightforward than others and I had zero troubles with it.

I mainly bought this for the figures. Turns out, it was very fun to build. The machine is actually fully functional. The design is spot on...you would think it's an actual gumball machine...not made from Legos. I don't regret buying this and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes gumball machines or collects minifigures.

This build was absolutely an awesome mechanical build. Very creative. The instructions were completely on point very easy to follow. The size and the working of it again on point! The only thing I think is for the characters we could’ve done a little bit better job of not having so many duplicates.

I normally used the paper booklet instructions but early on I found a picture difficult to understand as it looked like I was missing pieces. Once I went to the digital instructions and could rotate the image, I realized I had the pieces and how to connect them. I will now use the digital all the time! The mechanism worked the first time and the little balls come out easily. After the grandkids get all the minifigures, I plan to fill the balls with candy or other small,items for future fun and continual usage. I love this set because there is action vs just being looked at. It’s a mix of regular legos and technics type for the turning mechanism.

Bought this for myself, collect Lego, Love building. Easy to follow instructions, great selection of mini figs, The mechanical design to retrieve the balls containing minifigs is a work of genius, Love getting ideas from the masters for my own builds.

Gotta be honest, I primarily bought this set for the new colors of classic space new knight minifigures as Space was my pirmary theme growing up in the 80s and Castle was also and interest. That said, my 10 year old twins are obsessed with vending machines and minifigures in general so I'm busy finding fill ins for the half of the minifigures I pilfered. The mechanics of this thing are awesome and it's overall a very clever build and looks great. I do think it could have been at least $50 cheaper due to the number of parts and fact that it's not a licensed product.

This was a fun set to build. There were several nice touches to the construction. But the standout was using some pieces flexibility to butt up against another brick to prevent motion in one direction and flex and snap creating a click sound in the opposite. Little things like that are nice and add a lot more realism to the set.

Really nice set, worth my time and so much fun when building it, simple but interesting

Love love love this set. Build was so much fun and I love how it looks

I had fun building this one, some of the mini figs when put together don't fit in the ball