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Searching for my "next" kit.
   I have my eye on the Ugears merry go round, there are some kits that look a bit more "fancy" or perhaps better "looking"...all the kits have the horses run in a circle, but this is the first I have found that the Horses have a Vertical "jump" as well, it made me laugh the first time I saw it run on a video.
   One possible "down" side of Ugears IMHO is they really go out of the way to make the kits 100% wood. This is pretty cool, but I have found it is often Much more difficult to get there kits to run as smooth as the models shown in there professional filmed videos. Rokr is a brand that I have found Will use metal pins for axles in a model, if it helps the model run more smoothly.
   
Observation: the pole the horses are mounted to has what looks like a "T" shape sticking out the roof, you see these moving up and down as well when the model runs. If you zoom in these are actually "birds" flying in the circle. The "wings" are Very block shaped thickness. I can not tell yet, but from what I can see in the video the wings are not critical to function, so a clever builder could make the wings Much thinner for better bird presentation.