The offers planned at LEGO on the occasion of the annual May the 4th commercial operation are now active on the official online store, it's up to you to see if they are worth the effort to buy a few sets at their recommended retail price. :

These offers apply to any purchase of products from the LEGO Star Wars range.

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In addition to these offers subject to purchase, LEGO also offers a few initiatives to members of the VIP program, including three prize draws:

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It's the tradition and it continues this year: ahead for some competitions on the Star Wars theme on the occasion of this week dedicated to the May the 4th operation with a first batch of two new products from the LEGO Star Wars range involved: references 75352 Emperor's Throne Room Diorama (99.99 €) and  75353 Endor Speeder Chase Diorama (69.99 €).

To validate your participation, as always, simply identify yourself via the interface below and follow the instructions provided. As usual, it is a question of finding information on the official online store and then answering the question correctly. At the end of the participation phase, the winner will be chosen by lot from the correct answers. Participation is free and without obligation to purchase.

Your contact details (name / nickname, email address, IP) are only used within the framework of this competition and will not be kept beyond the drawing of lots which will designate the winner. As usual, this no-obligation competition is open to all residents of mainland France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

The prize put into play is generously provided by various services of the LEGO group, it will be sent to the winner by me as soon as his contact details are confirmed by return email.

As always, I reserve the right to disqualify any participant who has attempted to defraud or hijack the entry system in order to increase their chances of winning. Hateful and bad losers to abstain, the others will have more chances to win.

May the luck be with you!

For information: the name / nickname of the winner is displayed in the participation interface once the draw has been made. I also notify the winners by email, but remember to check anyway.

Amazon today timidly opens hostilities before the start of the annual May the 4th commercial operation with a first flash sale which concerns a few boxes from the LEGO Star Wars range.

Nothing crazy in the selection offered, but it is possible that other more attractive references will be added to the selection in the coming days and that the offer will evolve.

Legislation obliges, the percentage of reduction displayed on the sheets of each of the products concerned by the offer is based on the lowest recent price, which is already well below the price charged by LEGO, and not on the usual public price.

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We now know the (meagre) selection of sets from the LEGO Star Wars range that will benefit from VIP X5 points in the LEGO Stores from May 1 to 7, 2023 during the annual May the 4th commercial operation.

This offer only concerns five boxes and it will obviously not be combined with the doubling of points offered on the rest of the products in the range. On the other hand, it will allow you to take advantage of other offers subject to purchase depending on the amount spent.

To put it simply, you will therefore obtain five times more VIP points than in normal times for the purchase of one or more of these sets, these points will be credited to your account and you can use them later, at the occasion of a new purchase in Store or online to obtain a reduction or benefit from a reward that you will have previously "purchased" in exchange for points.

To make it even simpler, these X5 VIP points actually correspond to a credit of 25% of the public price of the product on your VIP account in the form of a credit note for a subsequent purchase.

Today we need a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75355 Ultimate Collector Series X-wing Starfighter, a box of 1949 pieces which will be available as a VIP preview from May 1, 2023 at the public price of €239.99 before global availability announced for May 4.

In the bags, enough to assemble a new exhibition version of the X-wing which will finally take over from that of the set 10240 Red Five X-Wing Starfighter (1558 pieces) marketed between 2013 and 2015 at the retail price of €219.99.

If the X-wing regularly makes the heyday of the LEGO Star Wars range via many products intended for the youngest, this emblematic ship of the Star Wars universe is now what we could call a chestnut tree in the section. Ultimate Collector Series with three different interpretations on the counter.

This new version of 55 cm long by 44 cm wide is indeed the third in 23 years since the launch of the set 7191 X-wing Fighter (1304 pieces) in 2000 and if the version of the set 10240 Red Five X-Wing Starfighter only took over after 13 years from a first interpretation which had aged badly, it still delights many fans and collectors today. The 2023 version of this ship should therefore in principle take advantage of all the evolution of the LEGO inventory and associated techniques to try to renew the genre and bring its share of notable improvements.

I won't give you the details of the whole process of building the product, the photos available below speak for themselves and I hope you will keep all the pleasure of discovering the different techniques at work here. Just know that the mechanism for deploying the wings is for this time of a rather surprising simplicity with an easily accessible wheel placed on the cabin of the ship and two rubber bands.

I'm still a little distressed to see that LEGO persists in using these consumables on high-end models sold at full price knowing that the manufacturer does not even make the effort to slip a set of two replacement rubber bands into the box. The manipulation of the cam mechanism requires a little force and some creaks are heard but it is a pure exhibition product and the functionality will remain anecdotal once you have chosen the configuration that suits you. The junction between the two pairs of wings is not perfect in flight mode and you will have to help the mechanism a little by pressing on the two pairs with your hands to put them horizontally, you will have to be satisfied with that. No landing gear.

The cabin is made up of a few sub-assemblies to be fixed on side clips and there are clearly visible spaces all along the hull. It was probably the price to pay to obtain angles conforming to the reference ship and a shape of the front section a little more realistic than that of the previous model. More embarrassing for me, the duckbill effect of the nose of the ship at the end a little too flat reinforced by the space visible on both sides at the junction between the two sections which meet at the end. The set seems to me visually a little too clumsy and I preferred the previous solution which I found much more elegant.

The wings of the X-wing, which may seem a little short to some and which are in my opinion a little too "disconnected" from the fuselage frankly letting the integrated mechanism appear, have benefited from a very appreciable care with sufficient thickness and a skin on the inside that makes them less stark when deployed. The balance between visible tenons and smooth surfaces on the entire model seems convincing to me, you can see at first glance that it is indeed a LEGO product but the whole retains a certain elegance.

The presence of correctly sized air inlets for the engines is good news even if the three interior fins are simply wedged between a few tenons, the fact that the canopy is pad-printed is appreciable when one remembers the complex sticker supplied with the model of 2013, the inside of the wings benefits from a slightly more accomplished finish with a fixing on the body of the ship which is a little more discreet and the passage to pad printing for the exposure plate which includes some facts is obviously an interesting development.

The pad printing of the plate which presents some information about the vessel is well done but it reveals the large injection point placed in the middle of the element concerned. It will be difficult for LEGO to find a solution to this technical detail, the injection of this type of large part must allow a uniform distribution of the material in the mold and the positioning of the injection point is strategic. The solution proposed here is nevertheless still more interesting than the large sticker, difficult to position correctly supplied so far and which ages very badly under the effect of light and heat.

The display that allows you to stage this X-wing is well designed, it is rather discreet, the whole remains unfailingly stable and you can even place the ship in a diving position if your shelf is high. , just to admire the underside of the construction with its very basic finish. R2-D2 will remain in its housing, there is no space for the astromech droid on the display which can only accommodate the minifig of Luke Skywalker.

The product does not escape a small sheet of stickers, but the number of these stickers remains contained and those which take place in the cockpit are graphically very well executed. Too bad that these parts which will be exposed to the light are not pad printed, this high-end model intended for an adult public and sold for 240 € nevertheless deserved this effort.

The last visual of the second gallery above brings together the three versions of the X-Wing of the moment, I added that of the polybag 30654 X-wing Starfighter (87 pieces) which will be offered from May 1 to 7, 2023 from 40 € of purchase in products from the LEGO Star Wars range as well as that of 57 pieces from the bag supplied with April 2023 issue from the Official LEGO Star Wars Magazine. You currently have the choice according to your desires, your financial means and the space you have on your shelves.

As for the figurines provided, the new Luke Skywalker minifig benefits from all the technical refinements currently available at LEGO with legs injected in two colors and nice pad printing on the arms. the R2-D2 figurine with pad printing on both sides is not new, it is the one already seen in the LEGO Star Wars Diorama Collection set 75339 Death Star Trash Compactor marketed since last year.

It is also too small to convince when placed in the housing provided behind the cockpit, the dome of the version of the astromech droid seen in 2017 in the polybag 30611 R2-D2 could possibly have done the trick but it would then have been necessary to resolve to obtain only this element without the rest of the robot.

To tell you the truth, I'm a little torn after assembling this new X-wing: the model is generally in line with the reference ship when viewed from a certain distance, but there are still some finishing details that seem questionable to me. closer. LEGO strives to renew its aesthetic and technical choices with each new interpretation and this one combines good ideas with some approximations which in my opinion still do not make it the expected final version.

So much the worse for those who wanted to believe it, so much the better for those who collect all these boxes even if the subject treated is the same, there remains a certain margin of progression and evolution for the next version.

As an inveterate collector of the LEGO Star Wars range, I will be in line from May 1st to acquire this new version and take advantage of the various promotional offers announced. The version of the set 10240 Red Five X-Wing Starfighter However, it will remain my favorite this time around.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 6th May 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. 

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.