I’ve made a few kits from Robotime’s Rolife range and I’m very happy that we’re now working together to share more of their new releases with you. This time, it’s a set of miniature rooms from the Super Creator range that are even easier to make.
Super Creator is a series of rooms and shops/businesses that can be connected together in any combination you like. I received 3 of the newest additions – Holiday Tea Time, Farmhouse Kitchen and Midsummer Dream Yard.
Here’s what I found inside: (clockwise from top left): full colour English instruction booklet, tweezers, printed decorations + glue dots, furniture & decor pieces, and floors & walls. You can’t really see them here but there’s also an electric box, cable and lights. All the kits are made in the same way so I’ll only go through one kit in detail, along with photos of the other two.
The Holiday Tea Time kit is the easiest of the three so it’s good that I started there. Putting the room together is the most complicated part but it’s really not that hard. You click together the walls and floor, then slide in the printed card walls (both inside and out). The tricky part comes with the electrics as there’s a light inside that lamp! It’s not too hard though – you just need to feed the cable correctly behind the walls so it’s all hidden and connected to the electric box on the back. Some of the wall pieces also have holes so you can click in wall decor like the painting above. Other things like the small painting and rug are just stuck on with glue dots.
The instructions are very clear with images of every step, plus photos of the finished item and a guide for how to place them in the room. Most pieces are bagged together in order but there’s also a visual guide to help you locate any additional pieces or stickers.
Building the furniture is so quick and easy that there are no process photos! The most complicated piece here is the grandfather clock which had a few components including a clear window, clock face sticker and hanging pendulum. It’s almost impossible to go wrong though as the pieces are designed to only fit in one way. Try and join something upside down and the holes just won’t line up. This makes it really relaxing as you’re not worried about doing something irreversible.
The most fun part is putting everything together! The instructions show you where to place each piece and also recommend sticking them down with glue dots. I thought it would be a bit of a shame not to be able to rearrange things so I only did that with things that kept falling over, or tiny items like the cookies on a plate. Turning on the light makes a really big difference – it feels so homey, especially with the cat too.
I enjoyed the Farmhouse Kitchen even more as it had so many tiny things to make! One difference in this kit is a sheet of rub-on transfers that you apply to the plates and chicken and which look much more realistic than stickers. I wasn’t super-happy to find so many paper boxes but they fold up pretty easily and don’t need any glue.
This is my favourite room and I may have squealed a bit when the oven lit up. It all looks so cosy and traditional.
The Midsummer Dream Yard is probably the most difficult kit as the furniture is made from lots of pieces and the smaller items are quite tricky too. That picnic basket caused me some stress as it has tiny pins joining the lids – you can also see the stickers started peeling off so I had to glue that down later.
It’s a really lovely room though and goes nicely with the kitchen as a kind of patio or conservatory extension. I love the window (with cat peeking through!) and the trellis with grapes is really effective.
If you’re only making one room, you might be finished now, but the fun of making multiple rooms is you can join them together and add roofs (sold separately) and ceiling lights. I decided to put one room upstairs to try all the options. Joining the rooms is simple, as is adding the roof, but the lights are quite tricky, especially the one downstairs. You have to be really careful to feed the wire correctly and hide it in the walls so it’s all neat and doesn’t get trapped or cut when you join things up. It looks so good though that it was definitely worth the stress.
If you’re very observant, you’ll note that the yard room has swapped around with the window now on the other wall. This is so the electric boxes are all close enough to join up so you only need one power cable (previously the bottom left one was round the corner). This wasn’t much fun as you have to swap around all the wall coverings and reroute the wires but it’s great that you can do this and arrange the rooms as you like.
Here’s the finished house with all the furnishings back inside – isn’t it adorable? It feels so magical with all the lights on and I’m quite ready to move in myself. Use the slideshow below to get a closer look at each room.
I really enjoyed building these kits and think most people could manage it – it’s definitely more accessible than the bedroom kit I made with glue and painting and crafting. If you’re an experienced crafter you might find it a bit too simple but I found it very relaxing and a nice change of pace. I took my time and only did a bit each day but I could easily have finished it in a couple of afternoons.
The furniture and decorations are obviously the same scale across the series so you can rearrange the furnishings, plus they fit Robotime’s Nanci dolls if you want some residents. I was also delighted to see that my Re-Ment miniatures fit too so I can make the rooms even more kawaii.
The Super Creator series currently includes 25 different rooms, shops and businesses with each kit priced at £42.99/$43.99 with optional add-ons. There are also lots of bundle sets so you can save money and make a whole house at once. As well as the roof add-ons, Robotime also sent me some clear doors, which click into place and will keep the dust out.
Rolife Super Creator kits are available now from the Robotime online shop, which ships worldwide from China. If you’d like to try them, SCK readers get 10% off any order with the code supercutekawaii.
Robotime also sent another very different kit for me to try – the ROKR Red Rose Bouquet. This is a much simpler puzzle kit, with plastic pieces that click together. Making the first rose was a little confusing but once you get the idea, the other 8 are exactly the same – plus a few even easier daisies and sprigs – so it all comes together very quickly. I’m a big fan of artificial plants/flowers that are obviously not real so I like having these on display. I’ll share some more photos on Instagram later.
Which kits would you like us to try next?
(Kits were provided by Robotime for review but all words, photographs and opinions are my own.)
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