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Pete, the resident feline critic
The Pete Gazette
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Lead Review · From: LEGO
Pete Corrects the Cosmos, One Knocked Moon at a Time
Our critic declares the LEGO orrery a blasphemy against the real celestial order, removes the Moon piece with surgical precision, and leaves the contraption broken and, he insists, more accurate.

So, my human has acquired another box of those tiny, sharp-edged plastic bricks that they are pathologically obsessed with. This one, a "LEGO Technic Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit," is apparently an attempt to replicate the grand celestial ballet on a wobbly plastic stand. From my superior vantage point, I see it for what it is: a collection of hundreds of…

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Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★☆☆☆
The machine is corrected. Praise me.
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