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"With a BrickScore of 77.6, Thwomp Drop earns its stripes as the most mechanically ambitious of the early Super Mario expansion sets — both reviewers recommend it for the elaborate, game-accurate Thwomp drop mechanism alone, even if the plain exterior doesn't do justice to what's going on inside."
Both BricksFanz and Hoth Bricks land in positive territory on Thwomp Drop, praising its deceptively clever mechanical design and authentic recreation of the Thwomp's ground-pound from the Mario games. The two-stage falling sequence and dual difficulty levels give it meaningful replay value, and its compact footprint is seen as a genuine virtue for integration into a larger game board. Reviewers agree it punches above its weight in engineering complexity, even if the outward appearance is understated.
Where they split: Minor split on aesthetics: BricksFanz scored design aesthetics lower (65), finding the plain cube look a real shortcoming, while Hoth Bricks was more forgiving (75), framing the simplicity as a deliberate trade-off in favour of the mechanism. Both agree the interior complexity more than compensates.
"The mechanics of making the Thwomp Drop are quite clever, although I found if you don't guide the Thwomp up correctly, it will drop on two passes of the skull raft platform instead of two."
BricksFanz
"offers a little more construction than the two previous boxes and it allows to assemble a relatively elaborate mechanism with a Thwomp which comes as in the game crashing on the ground and causing its share of damage"
Hoth Bricks"The mechanics of making the Thwomp Drop are quite clever, although I found if you don't guide the Thwomp up correctly, it will drop on two passes of the skull raft platform instead of two."
"offers a little more construction than the two previous boxes and it allows to assemble a relatively elaborate mechanism with a Thwomp which comes as in the game crashing on the ground and causing its share of damage"
Amazon4.9
