I have had a reasonable experience with my Starter Kit so far.
Prior to Christmas, I had downloaded a version of the assembly instructions to familiarise myself with the process. The printed copy is a little different, as are some of the bits of mechanical hardware.
Press rivets seem to have been introduced in place of nut and bolts, and the ones holding the Orion onto the chassis failed at the first hurdle. I had to purchase some M4x30 nut and bolts to complete the job.
All in all, a pretty good product! I was looking forward to using the graphical mBlock for programming, but don’t find it great. As a trained programmer, I am more at home with the Arduino C IDE.