On the bright side, 1 of the pieces, while required early on the build is decorative and can be added at any time so it's not a show stopper. The second piece won't be needed until the middle of the build, so we have a lot we can get done in the meantime.
As excited as mom was with all the different colors while we were knolling this set, she quickly came to dislike the multiple similar shades we had of several of the colors (3 shades of blue, 2 of gray, 2 of tan). The coloring in the instruction manual makes it difficult to determine with 100% confidence which shade we are working with.
We resorted to using Lego's online manual to double check. We would not be surprised if we had to backtrack at some point to fix a color issue. On the topic of backtracking, we had to do that yesterday after only getting 30 minutes into the build. The set contains multiple lengths of tan tiles and we accidentally used a shorter length. We didn't realize the mistake until we went to mount the motor and found that the holes were not lining up. Then, as we examined more closely, we found that the carousel foundation we had built wasn't centered perfectly on the base plate but was slightly up and right of the center.
What made it somewhat funnier is that just as we started, Mom joked around that she hoped she didn't end up building a lop-sided carousel. Guess she predicted the future quite well!!
Anyway, we didn't get very far last night. Got a little bit of the foundation laid out and started on the motor platform.
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