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In 4Gamer's illustrated column Hōkago Reviewers! ("After-School Reviewers!"), the club builds the LEGO PlayStation: 1,911 pieces recreating the original console, which launched on December 3, 1994, at close to real size. The finished model is about 26 cm wide, 6 cm tall and 19 cm deep. The set is labeled 18+, and the column's dialogue says it took the club about six hours to build (the article's summary line says four hours).
The pieces come in numbered bags, one for each stage, and the LEGO Builder app shows the steps in 3D on a phone. The build starts with a circuit board using coil pieces, then adds the POWER and OPEN buttons, which really press thanks to suspension parts that give a satisfying click. A PlayStation logo on the base is hidden once the cover goes on.
Press OPEN and the disc cover pops up. Where a disc would sit, there are a miniature Gran Turismo course and a diorama of the island from Ape Escape (Sarugetchu in Japan) with a Pipo Monkey whose head light can be set to red or blue. The controller is the original pad without analog sticks, which the column jokes means you cannot catch the monkey with it. Side vents, rear ports and even rubber feet on the underside are recreated.
The club's verdict is that building it was more fun than looking at the finished set. The price is ¥27,980, which the column calls reasonable among adult LEGO sets. They end by deciding to build the 12,060-piece Sagrada Família set (¥129,980) and to leave the last piece for the day the real church is finished.
The insider take
The recognition is the product here: for anyone who knows the original console, each part you build — the board, the vents, the buttons — triggers a memory.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).