Today we take a quick look back at a year 2023 which will once again have been very rich in products targeting in a completely uninhibited and assumed manner an adult clientele who can afford plastic toys. . Like each of you, I was seduced, enthusiastic, annoyed or disappointed by some of these products but the tastes and colors cannot be discussed and the sets that I consider successful or unsuccessful will undoubtedly not be so for everyone.

I say this so as not to appear to be obsessed only by overpriced products, I am an adult fan generally seduced by sets which have a little more to offer than simple fun functionalities and my gaze is therefore turned logically towards the boxes at the high public price that LEGO tries to sell me all year round.

My big favorite this year is undoubtedly the set 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell (€499.99), a box which allowed me to immerse myself in a universe initially too poorly exploited for my taste by LEGO and put aside for too long afterwards. This product was an excellent surprise, not trying to take on the appearance of a playset by fully assuming its status as a pure exhibition model and the adult that I am was largely satisfied with it, both in terms of content and on form, despite a price that will probably seem unreasonable to many fans.

Another favorite in a universe that also takes me back a few years, the set 77015 Temple of the Golden Idol (€149.99) which is also a nice display product which does not, however, miss out on some well-integrated features. The object pays a beautiful tribute to the film from which it is inspired and I found something to get excited about and even have a little fun while having the possibility of displaying a relatively compact diorama on my shelves. I'm not one of those who dedicate an entire temple to their collection at home, but I like to keep a few sets assembled in a corner, at least until another box steals the spotlight and temporarily takes their place. This set fulfills this role perfectly.

In the LEGO Star Wars range, these are not the two stamped products Ultimate Collector Series marketed this year which excited me the most with on the one hand yet another X-wing and on the other the nevertheless very successful Hunter, the good surprise came for me from the set 75356 Executor Super Star Destroyer (€69.99), an accessible box which offers an excellent compromise between level of detail and space occupied by the construction. I obviously remain a fan of the more ambitious models regularly offered in this range, but the possibility of having on hand some more compact products without being too simplified or symbolic really appeals to me.

Another set that found an audience at home: the LEGO Disney reference 43227 Naughty Icons (139.99, €) with its references to the cartoons of my childhood and especially the presence of a VHS cassette which takes me back to my younger years. This product, which is obviously aimed at a Disney clientele "before", reaches its target as far as I am concerned, the worn-out video cassettes, erased by mistake or rewound by hand having punctuated a large part of my youth. Ultimately, it's almost more the presence of this cassette that attracts me here than the subject matter.

I also place the LEGO Harry Potter set 76419 Hogwarts Castle & Grounds (€169.99) in my top of this year, even if I am not an unconditional fan of this franchise. The construction takes up just enough space so as not to invade my living space while offering an effective and affordable nod to this universe. It's a good compromise which appeals to me and which allows all those who like the license to have access to a derivative product that is less invasive than the usual Hogwarts playsets. Once again, LEGO wants to seduce what I call fans in "mode"casual", those who love a license or a franchise but not to the point of living in a plastic museum all to the glory of the universes they appreciate.

A special mention for some products from the LEGO Ideas range such as the sets 21338 A-Frame Cabin (179.99 €) and 21343 Viking Village (€139.99), two boxes which in my opinion have favorably embodied the concept this year. Some will no doubt consider that this range sometimes strays a little by trying to ride trends or attract an audience that is not the brand's usual clientele, but there are still some good ideas that are often well executed. among the selected creations which meet the expectations of the most demanding fans. In my opinion, this is sufficient to tolerate the more hazardous attempts which leave those who are not fans of the universes, licenses or franchises in question.

My main disappointment 2023 materializes in an overall award awarded to the LEGO Marvel range which was content with a few derivative products without any particular flavor and the marketing of the very acceptable set 76269 Avengers Tower (€499.99) was in my opinion not enough to relaunch. The 2023 offer oscillates between a large, somewhat crude shield and some very messy micro-dioramas, I needed a little more to get me excited despite some pretty figurines available in some of these boxes. This is undoubtedly the end of a cycle, both in the cinema and on the shelves of toy stores and I hope that Disney and LEGO will quickly be able to relaunch themselves to offer us more successful films and more associated derivative products. creative and attractive.

What more can I say about this past year except that I had the impression of being the target of some pretty, well-designed companies and of not being asked too often, which allowed me to stay within a relatively reasonable budget . A small regret concerning the DC Comics range which has still not emerged from the slump in which it has been stuck for several years already and this is not the set 76252 Batcave Shadow Box (€399.99) which helped to resuscitate her. I was not seduced by the aesthetics of the product even if some perhaps see it as a good idea and this set which makes intensive use of black parts highlights an important detail at LEGO which annoys me to no end. point: scratches. This is also the case for the set tower 76269 Avengers Tower (€499.99) and at this price level, I expect a little more from the world's number 1 manufacturer in the toy sector in terms of finishing.

I say it again like every year: there will be as many opinions as there are fans and the LEGO offer was in any case so varied again this year that everyone will have found at least one product considered to tick all the boxes. My selection of successful or failed products is therefore far from exhaustive, I base myself mainly on the impressions that these different sets leave me several months after their marketing. Other sets will have simply left me indifferent, it doesn't matter, they will inevitably have found their audience among other fans who will have been sensitive to the proposition.

Don't hesitate to mention your favorite sets of 2023 in the comments, this article is ultimately just a pretext for everyone to express their opinion and read those of others. Also indicate the products that left you hungry, there was plenty to do this year and that's ultimately the good news: the offering offered by LEGO for its adult customers is still as varied as ever, there's something for everyone enough to have fun even on a limited budget.

Today we take a quick look back at a year 2022 which will have been very rich in products targeting in a totally uninhibited and assumed way an adult clientele who can afford plastic toys. Like each of you, I have been seduced, enthusiastic, annoyed or disappointed by some of these products, but tastes and colors are not to be discussed and the sets that I consider to be successful or unsuccessful will probably not be so for everyone.

The set that I remember this year is the reference LEGO ICONS 10302 Optimus Prime (179.99 €), an almost affordable box which really caused a big whiff of nostalgia in me and which highlights all the know-how of the manufacturer.

The construction is really transformable without having to go through improbable techniques or an endless and tiresome learning phase and the product keeps all its promises in my opinion with a very acceptable finish and satisfactory playability for an adult fan who simply wants to find the essence of this license in this derivative product. I really found the toy of my childhood, the contract is fulfilled.

LEGO markets many licensed products, but a large number of them are content to lazily surf on the popularity of the universe concerned without really bringing any added value linked to the extended possibilities of the LEGO concept itself beyond the 'assembly. In my opinion, this is not the case here, and it is therefore my favorite product of the year 2022.

The LEGO ICONS set 10497 Galaxy Explorer (99.99 €) also deserves the honors of my top and yet it is a product on a theme about which I feel no particular nostalgia. This product has been marketed to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the brand and pay tribute to a universe that many adults today knew during their young years and, even if this range does not evoke anything particular in I welcome LEGO's desire to make a successful product accessible to as many people as possible and thus invite a large number of fans to the party.

Sold for a hundred euros, this emblematic vessel with a vintage look but which benefits from modern construction techniques is in principle within the reach of all those who do not have an excessive LEGO budget but who still wish to immerse themselves in the space of a few hours in their childhood memories. Too bad LEGO did not choose to decline its other anniversary product, the LEGO Icons set 10305 Lion Knights'Castle (399.99 €) in a similar format and price range so that fans of the Castle universe are also invited without having to pay several hundred euros.

The LEGO Marvel set 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum (€249.99) also ends up in my 2022 top. young public passionate about superheroes and concerned about accumulating figurines.

The adult fan that I am finds here a dense and interesting construction challenge with a construction that has the luxury of being the ideal complement for all those who love the format Structure very popular at LEGO. I don't line up restaurants, bookstores and jazz clubs, but this Sanctum Sanctorum allowed me to take advantage of all that LEGO knows how to do in terms of detailed buildings while integrating various and varied references to a universe that seduced. The crossover is of quality, so this product deserved to be mentioned because LEGO was able to put some of its abilities at the service of a universe usually treated with much less respect.

The LEGO Star Wars range has both thrilled and disappointed me this year with two examples of which one is a success story and the other a spin-off product of shame. The LEGO Star Wars set 75331 The Mandalorian Razor Crest (599.99 €) embodies in my eyes what all products in the universe Ultimate Collector Series should be: finished and detailed toys, offering an entertaining building experience and meeting the price requirements of the manufacturer. In my opinion, this is the case with this reproduction of the Razor Crest, which brings a little freshness to a range that still purrs a lot.

At the other end of the spectrum, I can't resist mentioning the set 75334 Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Darth Vader, a small box that didn't even give me any for my 50 € with a distressingly sad content that betrays the desire to fill in a tariff box and surf on the popularity of the subject concerned without making any particular effort. This is just one example among many others, but it is emblematic of what I call the spin of license until more thirsty. No matter how hard I try to see the bright side of things, at €50 it's difficult.

My 2022 flop is the LEGO Ideas set 21337 Soccer table (249.99 €). I haven't changed my mind since my review posted a few months ago, this product is the symbol of broken promises and LEGO's ability to appropriate a product to try to work on its image by disappointing many potential customers who do not find the original idea in the official product.

I wanted a foosball table, I was probably a little naive because I got an uninteresting micro-toy flanked by a slew of minifigs that didn't add anything to the original concept. LEGO has made the passage of this botched product a tool to promote its approach to inclusiveness, it is laudable in absolute terms but it was not the subject, at least not during the selection of the basic idea that was to serve as a reference for the official product.

Basically, the proposed miniature table football is simply ridiculous, it has no relation to what it tries to represent and which was nevertheless at the center of the initial idea and I still wonder who can " have fun" with this $250 thing. Maybe Thierry Henry.

The LEGO Ideas set 21332 The Globe (229.99 €) is also a disappointment for me. I find it old-fashioned and rude, it's very personal, and there was probably better to do from the original idea. Products lifestyle can seduce me but they still have to be sufficiently accomplished for me to agree to pay the asking price.

I can understand the desire to deliver a globe with a "vintage" finish, but in my opinion the designer had a little trouble finding the right balance to keep the spirit of the original idea without offering a dated product to very rough finish. Not everything deserves to be put through a LEGO mill, or it takes a lot of talent to convince me that a particular object gains something from it, as is the case, for example, with the typewriter in the set LEGO Ideas 21327 Typewriter or the two 2023 references of the Botonic Collection announced a few days ago.

Finally, the last big disappointment of 2022 for me is embodied by the LEGO Marvel set 76210 Hulkbuster (€549.99). Once again, it's not so much the product itself that disappoints me as the fact of having discovered as soon as it was announced that my imagination had gone too far and that I was going to have to settle for a product that was too dear to the Japanese robot look that no longer has much to do with the reference armor. This is the daily lot of LEGO fans: the first leaks that reveal the title of upcoming products let us imagine a lot of possible things and the first visuals always put us off a bit.

For lack of anything better, many fans will find their account and some may even cry genius, but I expected something more aesthetically successful, especially at this price. This product leaves me with the feeling that LEGO does not always make the necessary efforts and relies both on the indulgence of its loyal customers and on the power of the licenses concerned to make the pill go more easily. I am often like many of us the ideal victim of these marketing manipulations, but not at 550 € the joke which consists in putting an Iron Man doll in a samurai armor.

As you will have understood, the current profusion of sets intended for adult customers requires making choices and mine are more and more often guided by both form and content. I remain an assiduous fan of the LEGO universe but I have to raise my standards a little more each year to only offer myself products that appeal to me because of what they really have to offer. A few bricks and a pretty box are no longer enough, even if there are still several ranges of which I buy almost all the products without discernment (the collection...), and when it comes to digging into other universes I want to at least get my money's worth and be able to tell myself that the LEGO-style interpretation of the subject concerned was ultimately a good idea.

I repeat like every year: there will be as many opinions as fans and the LEGO offer was so varied this year that everyone will have found at least one product considered to tick all the boxes. My selection of successful or unsuccessful products is therefore far from being exhaustive, I mainly base myself on the impressions that these different sets leave me several months after their marketing. Other sets will have left me quite simply indifferent, it does not matter, they will necessarily have found their audience among other fans who will have been sensitive to the proposal.

Do not hesitate to mention your favorite sets of 2022 in the comments, also indicate those which will have left you hungry, there was plenty to do last year and it is finally the good news: the offer proposed by LEGO for its adult clientele has never been so varied, everyone finds something to enjoy even on a limited budget.

Quick look back on the year 2021, a year rich in large sets intended for an adult clientele, with a manufacturer who has really come out of the woods by fully assuming its strategy in terms of detailed and often very expensive exhibition products that will end their career. on the shelves of fans of interior decoration a little geek, lifestyle and in tune with the times.

As far as I'm concerned, without even hesitation, I award the mention of the best product of 2021 to the LEGO Harry Potter set. 76391 Hogwarts Icons Collector's Edition (249.99 €), a box which reconciled me a little with a range for which I am not really enthusiastic. The product seems to me to be up to what a fan who does not want to burden himself with a Hogwarts model can exhibit without too much invasion of his interior while proudly displaying his passion for the saga. The set, despite some aesthetic flaws and shortcuts, is in my opinion a very good summary of what the saga has to offer in terms of derivative products and an excellent compromise when it comes to finding a place for it.

On the second step of my podium, I place the LEGO Marvel set 76193 The Guardians' Ship (159.99 €), a box which finally proves to us that LEGO can put all its know-how at the service of a range which is too often content to offer us constructions of no great interest to sell us minifigs. The result is in my opinion worthy of the best UCS in the LEGO Star Wars range and this Benatar perched on its display really looks great.

I hesitated for a long time with the construction of the LEGO Marvel set 76178 Daily Bugle (299.99 €) but I finally concluded that the latter is only an extrapolation bordering on the exaggeration of the lazy technique mentioned above and that the construction itself, a little too basic and too gray, is definitely no match for Benatar, despite the 25 minifigs that accompany it.

LEGO DC sets 76240 Batman Batmobile Tumbler (229.99 €) and LEGO Star Wars 75313AT-AT  (799.99 €) share third place on my podium, they hardly deserved better because it is above all a remake for the Tumbler and an inevitable but ultimately not as essential as we could think bulky interpretation of AT-AT. Make no mistake, I am happy to be able to add these two constructions to my collection, but I did not have the few seconds of wonder that the first two in the ranking caused. The AT-AT is the definitive version of the craft that many of us have been waiting for for a few years, but it still didn't measure up to me against the owl and the big orange ship.

The bottom of the ranking is made up of four references marketed this year. It is not, however, a question of denigrating free of charge products which will undoubtedly have found their audience, but in my eyes they are sets which accumulate too many faults to deserve to be considered as truly successful products worthy of the reputation of the manufacturer and its often elitist pricing policy.

The and 10279 Volkswagen T2 Camper Van (159.99 €) does not in my opinion pay the hoped-for homage to the reference vehicle with a too rough design and a fragility which does not help matters. We know that LEGO sometimes has trouble with the characteristic curves of certain vehicles, but the usual excuse "...it's difficult to make round shapes with square pieces ..."is no longer enough.

Glove from the LEGO Marvel set 76191 Infinity Gauntlet (79.99 €) is not totally missed but looking at it well we end up saying to ourselves that it is more the hand of a musketeer than the big glove with rounded shapes seen on the screen, the LEGO set ART 31023 World Map (249.99 €) is actually just a simple bathymetric map, a little ugly and too expensive which is content to delimit the continents in a completely neutral way and without particular indications and the LEGO Technic set 42129 4x4 Mercedes-Benz Zetros Trial Truck (299.99 €) is far from keeping the promises made on the box or the official visuals in terms of mobility. These four products are therefore those that seem to me to be the most disappointing among those marketed in 2021, each for different reasons or grievances. It's subjective but that's how it is, what I consider to be faults is probably sometimes a simple marketing awkwardness or a price positioning that does not stick with the ambitions displayed of the product concerned but these are important elements .

I obviously give a special mention to the LEGO VIDIYO range, which in my eyes is out of the ranks for its incomprehensible concept and its uninteresting interactivity.

Upon arrival, the year 2021 will in any case have been sufficiently rich in products targeting a demanding adult clientele and who are looking for products offering a successful assembly experience or sufficient exposure potential for the result obtained to deserve a place. on a wall or a shelf, there were plenty of opportunities to spend a lot of money.

LEGO fans have been served with reinterpretations or original creations this year and those who only very occasionally buy LEGO products will no doubt have been won over by one or two boxes that celebrate the favorite licenses. As every year, there will be as many opinions as there are fans. You have mine, so I'm just waiting to know which are your favorite 2021 sets or which ones we avoided in the comments.

It's time for the 2020 review with a small, very personal selection of the sets that I consider the most successful this year and a few boxes that I find of no great interest or on which I have several comments to make.

The most assiduous readers had noticed that I ignored this annual review in 2019. Indeed, I did not have much to say about the assortment offered by LEGO during the year and the LEGO Batman set. 76139 1989 Batmobile in my eyes had won first place in the top without having any real competition. Having already shouted a lot of my enthusiasm for this box as soon as it was announced and then during my "Review ", I preferred not to put on a layer so as not to seem to overdo it.

The year 2020 is more nuanced and I had a little trouble getting out a ranking of my favorite sets. In the LEGO Star Wars range, this is the set 75292 The Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Transport (The Razor Crest) which will have excited me the most this year. It is not the biggest box nor the most expensive of the assortment marketed in 2020 but it is the one that has reconciled me a little with a range that often just reinterprets existing products. Series The Mandalorian broadcast on the Disney + platform was an excellent surprise even if it has its flaws and this derivative product is a real blow to a range that has been purring a little too much in recent years.

As for the LEGO Marvel and DC Comics ranges, there are only two boxes that really caught my attention this year: the set 76157 Wonder Woman vs. Cheetah whose content is ultimately nothing very exciting but it is the beautiful packaging very different from what LEGO usually offers that convinced me and the set 76161 1989 Bat Wing because I'm a fan of the 1989 film and the machine deserved to be entitled to its LEGO version, even if it is a little less successful than the Batmobile of 2019.

I'm sure many fans will mention the set 10274 Ghostbusters ECTO-1 among their favorite products of 2020, but I won't. I have never been an absolute fan of the franchise and by extension this very successful vehicle is not a priority in my collection.

Like many of you, I classify the set 71374 Nintendo Entertainment System among my 2020 tops, although I'm pretty sure it's not for the right reasons. This is indeed the subject that far outweighs the achievement and nostalgia has done its job. By being more objective, I would have gladly contented myself with a reproduction of the NES at 80 euros without the (too) vintage TV that came with it.

In the LEGO Ideas universe, I have to admit that most of the sets released this year left me unmoved: the set 21322 Pirates of Barracuda Bay, with its strong homage to a range that I have never really played with, did not awaken in me the nostalgia that LEGO was seeking to provoke by turning away in the frank passage of the initial project and the set 21323 Grand Piano is far from the interactive product that I thought I could get. Its polished aesthetic does not in my eyes compensate for its really ridiculous "playability" which boils down to listening to audio tracks on a smartphone or typing at random on the keys of the instrument, taking yourself for a virtuoso. Fortunately, the representation of the ISS of the set 21321 International Space Station managed to convince me and this model is a beautiful object of exhibition which joined my collection.

I'm not a fan of the Harry Potter universe, so I didn't have to rack my brains to find space for the new Hogwarts expansions released this year. I also sympathize with those who collect the entire range, I know what it's like to buy certain products without great interest so as not to regret one day having missed out and to pay for them at the price. strong in the secondary market. It would be inappropriate for me to criticize the current development by LEGO of the Harry Potter universe while I collect products from ranges like Star Wars or Marvel which are models of the genre.

In the range of products that seemed to me to be really below what one is entitled to expect from a leading toy manufacturer in its market and which clearly displays a high-end positioning: The LEGO Technic set 42109 App-Controlled Top Gear Rally Car with its shapeless vehicle wrapped in a popular license and its disappointing performance, the set 10271 Fiat 500 with a car that looks like a lot but not quite a Fiat 500 and the Iron Man helmet from the set 76165 Iron Man Helmet which probably never should have been marketed as is.

It is not really a flop in my eyes but I am still very reserved about the sets of the LEGO ART range with their scripted mosaics without any real challenge at 120 € each and the final result very uneven depending on the references. I already have enough LEGO products in my life, I don't need to hang a few more on the walls.

Same observation for the Colosseum in the set 10276 Colosseum : I understand the show of force and all the potential in terms of communication that results from it, but I remain convinced that this product was not "necessary" for this format and at this price.

I deliberately refrain from passing judgment on universes intended for the youngest, for example I have no affinity with the LEGO Super Mario concept or the Hidden Side range but I am not the target of these products which have clearly found their public: the Starter Pack 71360 Adventures with Mario Caracole for example at the top of sales this year.

In short, 2020 has been a busy year in big sets, in tribute to different universes and licenses and in new and innovative concepts. Everyone will have found something to have fun among the many sets marketed and this is the essential. There will be as many reviews as there are fans, you have mine so I'm waiting to hear what your favorite sets of 2020 are in the comments.

It's time for the 2018 review with a small, very personal selection of sets marketed this year that I consider very successful, without much interest, or on the contrary as first-class failures.

I will not give you an inventory of the small boxes that deserve to be considered successful this year. Their reasonable price often justified taking the risk of acquiring them and the possible disappointment felt will not have put you on the straw.

Overall, in 2018 I therefore found something to please me in my favorite ranges (Star Wars, Super Heroes, Jurassic World) without being too tempted to spend my money on products from other universes.

So much the better for my wallet, too bad for LEGO who could not really attract me out of my comfort zone except for several copies of the LEGO Architecture set 21041 Great Wall of China because I am strangely fascinated by the possibility of aligning several of these boxes to make a long wall. At 50 € a box, I quickly revised my ambitions downwards, the very very long wall I dream of will wait a bit ...

I'm still just as allergic to the Speed ​​Champions range because of the concept: stickers with bricks and not the other way around. Even the atmosphere Revival around the Harry Potter universe left me a little indifferent. It all comes a little late for me and it smells warm, certainly intelligently updated, but I have long since moved on without particular nostalgia or regrets.

I assiduously collect sets from the LEGO Star Wars range and even though I'm generally very (too) indulgent with what LEGO offers us on this theme, I couldn't leave out the calamitous set. 75201 First Order AT-ST. This is the absolute failure of the Star Wars range this year. Fortunately, this fiasco will have cost me only about fifty euros and it is in fact already too much for what this product vaguely derived from the film offers. The Last Jedi.

This box perfectly embodies the permanent opportunism around the Star Wars universe and the portfolio of its most assiduous fans. By dint of trying to sell them anything, there comes a time when it goes too far. Here we are with this set. And also with the very dispensable set 75230 Porg.

The other product that I think deserves to be considered a failure is the LEGO Creator Expert set 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 which does not really pay homage to the vehicle concerned. There will always be a few diehards to defend LEGO on this issue, but this box is proof that we cannot do everything with LEGO bricks and that we sometimes have to know how to let go at the risk of making a fool of ourselves and selling a product. that even the worst second-class Chinese brands would not dare to market.

I hesitated for a long time to put the Bugatti Chiron from the Technic 42083 set in this list of flops. There are a number of reasons why it belongs: the LEGO vehicle only looks like a Bugatti Chiron from a distance, and the designer's many approximations and other shortcuts do not make this set the ultimate luxurious model promised by LEGO. Fortunately, the building experience saves the furniture.

It is therefore ultimately the Aston Martin that wins between the two: if you do not tell you what it is, there is little chance that you will spontaneously find the model of the vehicle that LEGO has tried to reproduce. here. At 150 € joke, this box is not worthy of a manufacturer like LEGO.

Fortunately, aside from the usual small sets with scraps of scenery, more or less successful ships and a large handful of minifigs, the LEGO Star Wars range occasionally reserves some nice surprises with boxes with very successful content. This is the case with the set Ultimate Collector Series 75181 Y-Wing Starfighter, a true demonstration of LEGO know-how.

More than a simple opportunistic reissue of the 2004 version, this is a great adaptation that meets the expectations of today's adult fans, ever more demanding on the finish and the fidelity of the reproduction.

In the department of good surprises, the LEGO Marvel set 76105 The Hulkbuster: Ultron Edition is also worth mentioning. It is an exhibition figurine which is in my opinion very successful.

If we forget the absence of knee joints and the somewhat approximate reproduction of the armor, this product is a fine example of LEGO know-how that will find its place with any fan of the Marvel universe who does not he isn't necessarily a plastic brick addict.

Another set that I found really successful this year: the LEGO Technic reference 42078 Mack Anthem which is a really balanced mix between aesthetics and functionality. The workmanship is excellent and the final model really looks like the real version it was inspired by. You don't have to be an absolute fan of the Technic range, its construction machinery, pins and other gears to appreciate the contents of this box.

After a great 2017 in the LEGO Ideas range, I'm skipping this year's sets. Frankly, even if the set 21315 Pop-up Book was rather a good surprise, there is nothing to do with these niche sets which for the most part only have the merit of being "different" from what LEGO usually sells.

Each box marketed this year was the result of a global plebiscite on the selection platform and therefore inevitably found its audience at the time but these sets leave me rather indifferent with the passing time: A set on a nanar which dates from several years (21314 Tron: Legacy), a reference to an animated series that I have never watched (21311 Voltron: Defender of the Universe) or a concept that is really too kitsch for my taste (21313 Ship in A Bottle), nothing to ignite ...

I'll stop there, this small non-exhaustive selection obviously reflects only a very personal opinion and I know that there will probably be as many opinions as boxes. I look forward to hearing which were your favorite 2018 sets and which ones you consider disappointing ...