Several things are true about this metal scorpion, which would probably be 10″ or so long if I straightened the tail out:

• It was a hell of a lot of fun to put together.
• It featured probably the clearest obviously-translated-from-Chinese instructions that I have ever seen for something like this, and the few times I made mistakes, fixing them was pretty easy.
• It was packed with an absolutely absurd number of extra pieces of hardware. There was a bag of screws missing– naturally, the most common kind– when I bought it, and a quick email got the bag sent to me, but I think they shipped close to double the amount of tiny screws and bolts I needed to build it.
• When I say “teeny,” I mean “I needed tweezers at several points to put this thing together,” and I had to keep my glasses off because my vision doesn’t work right at that distance and that resolution, for lack of a better word, to be able to put the thing together.
• There’s also a wasp, which I’m thinking of getting, but it’s $109, which seems pretty steep. This was $60 or so and I feel like I’m okay with that price.
• I did not lose a single piece while putting it together. I dropped a couple on the first day (this was built over maybe a week in three or four spurts, mostly because my eyes would get tired after a while) and managed to find them. I needed the boy to help me find one. But they’re all still in there. 🙂

The best thing about it? It isn’t Diablo IV. Which, uh, I’m gonna go play now.