Today we are quickly talking about the two new bags of the LEGO XTRA range, marketed since the beginning of the year and that LEGO has kindly sent in several copies to a slew of history sites that we are discussing this range of polybags, with the references 40375 Sports Accessories (36 pieces - 3.99 €) and 40376 Botanical Accessories (32 pieces - 3.99 €) which come to flesh out this series of small packs of more or less interesting thematic accessories grouped under the label XTRA.

The bag 40375 Sports Accessories offers elements related to rather varied sports activities. There is no seasonal theme here, you get both ice or sliding sports equipment and something for rollerblading or archery practice. If you have assembled a diorama on the theme Winter village, you may find here something to expand your scenes and equip your minifigs.

In all cases, there will be only one winner who will be awarded the trophy provided. As is usually the case with XTRA range pouches, there is not much to assemble here. We will be content to mount the two hockey gates and the archery target (pad printed).

The bag 40376 Botanical Accessories offers for its part a fairly complete assortment of vegetation accompanied by two barriers. It will take several bags to really brighten up a street or a park, but it's a good start. The little tree to assemble is hardly better than the mini-gadgets of Advent calendars, but that's not really what the polybags of the XTRA range are. The best product: the possibility of changing the leaves of the tree to switch it to winter mode.

This is not the first polybag on this theme to be marketed in the LEGO XTRA range: in 2018, LEGO put the bag on sale 40310 Botanical Accessories which already allowed to obtain a little greenery.

In short, if you already buy retail parts on the secondary market more or less regularly, including some of the items provided here, you know that the shipping costs usually add significantly to the bill. These two bags therefore make it possible to add them to an order placed on the official online store in order to only pay for their inventory at the right price.

Note: Three lots of the two bags presented here, supplied by LEGO, are as usual put into play. Deadline fixed at 18th January 2020 next at 23pm.

Update : The winners were drawn and were notified by email, their nicknames are indicated below.

Today we finish the series of reviews of the five sets of the LEGO Speed ​​Champions 2020 range with the reference 76898 Formula E Panasonic Jaguar Racing GEN2 & Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY (565 pieces - 44.99 €).

It is in my opinion the least successful of these boxes even if some were content a little quickly to marvel at the presence of many colored elements Medium Azure in this set. If we go a little beyond the inventory and avoid hiding behind the usual excuses, we see that the designer has this time missed the subject a little.

To begin with, I remind you that the Jaguar Formula E Panasonic Racing GEN2 entered in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, that's it:

LEGO offers us a version that does its best to try to resemble the reference model and in general terms we could almost conclude that this is more or less the case. But at 45 € the box containing less than 600 parts to assemble two models, we can also afford to be a little demanding.

The LEGO version really struggles to convince me, it's rude, the front fenders are much too angular, the rear fins are too simplified and there is little left but the cockpit with its roll bar to find favor in my eyes. Some people will appreciate the visible tenons on the wheel arches, I find that at this scale it is rather unsightly. The Slope black used for the nose of the vehicle vaguely does the job, it's a little wide at the end despite the sticker which tries to give us an optical illusion.

It is as usual the sticker fair and the many stickers unfortunately do not help to improve the finish of the vehicle. In the end, it is vaguely similar thanks to the enlargement of the format but not enough for my taste.

The assembly of the chassis based on parts is interesting, but the fun is constantly spoiled by the phases of applying stickers. Fortunately, this first vehicle is assembled very quickly and we can move on to the next.

The other vehicle to build in this box, the Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY electric SUV, that's it in real life:

Here too, the LEGO version, which uses the new chassis and the new axles, really struggles to reproduce the curves of the vehicle and we end up with a construction that has little to do with the reference model. It's too long, the flat roof is awful, the rear profile is a mess with its windows that don't follow the curves of the body and the front would be almost passable if the headlights had been a little more elaborate.

The front face, with its far too angular wings, also benefits from an ingenious combination of parts to reproduce the specific grille of the vehicle. This is in my opinion the only element, possibly with the hood, that can be considered really successful.

It is once again the sticker fair with large surfaces to cover. We notice in passing that the background color of the stickers is not the same as that of the parts on which they are placed. It's really very ugly.

Unsurprisingly, the steering wheel is offset but the minifigure fits easily in the cockpit, even with its helmet on its head.

LEGO delivers two characters in this set, including a female pilot in a nicely pad-printed outfit. A gantry is also built with a function that allows you to manually trigger the appearance of colored lights. As for the set 76899 Lamborghini Urus ST-X & Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO, I would gladly exchange this accessory without much interest for 5 or 10 euros less on the public price of the set.

In short, fortunately these are vehicles which evolve in more or less confidential championships because we once again reach the limits of what it is possible to do with square parts when it comes to reproduce vehicles whose body displays beautiful curves.

Complete collectors will probably not ignore this box with a little disappointing content, but they can wait a few weeks for its price to drop significantly at Amazon.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at 17th January 2020 next at 23pm.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Today we take a quick look at the other "lifestyle" set from the start of 2020: the reference 40382 LEGO Birthday Set (141 pieces - 12.99 €) which allows, as its title suggests, to assemble a birthday cake.

The idea is simple: We build the cake, we plant the minifigure at the top and we put in his hands two flags dressed in stickers that display the age of the one whose birthday we are celebrating. Not enough to make a ton, it's cute and it works.

The top of this three-tiered cake spins on itself, but there is no built-in mechanism with a crank positioned at the foot of the cake. Suffice to say that no one will really turn the top of the cake, but we know it's possible.

The real plus of the set for those who are too big to marvel at this cake, a dozen centimeters high, is obviously the exclusive minifigure provided which oddly represents the service clown who came to amuse the gallery with his animals. base balloons. No children with interchangeable hair to put on the top, but we get two new elements: a nice torso with its festive patterns and a head in the false air of Elton John.

On the inventory side, we also get four candles, four cupcakes and a copy of the toothed wheel in Medium Azure already seen on other mobile constructions in the Disney, Harry Potter and even Jurassic World ranges.

In short, another small box that will only be used on a few occasions and whose use will be limited by the availability of stickers that will have to be removed from the flags over the years. Not enough to wake up at night, but if you have a young LEGO fan around you, this little set will probably work.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at 16th January 2020 next at 23pm.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Today we quickly tour the LEGO Star Wars set 75271 Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder (236 pieces - € 29.99), one of those multiple reinterpretations of machines, vehicles or ships from the Star Wars universe that allows newcomers to the LEGO hobby to get an affordable version of the machine without having to go through the secondary market.

The latest version of the Landspeeder X-34 was from 2017 with the set 75173 Luke's Landspeeder. For 29.99 €, we then obtained a completely acceptable version of the machine and 4 characters. This year, we have to settle for the same price of 3 minifigs and a small additional construction without much interest.

As with each new version of a product that is permanently maintained in the LEGO catalog, the designer has endeavored here to offer us a revised version of the Landspeeder. The machine remains very close to the 2017 version but it benefits from a few adjustments which seem to me to be significant in terms of fixing the engines or finishing the front, even if we have to rely on a few stickers here. .

Some perfectionists will regret the gap between the edge of the front of the machine and the half-moon that forms the hood. You can see it as a stylistic effect or the nonchalance of a designer in a hurry to move on.

Again, the Landspeeder does not really float above the ground. The few transparent parts placed under the machine allow it to slide on all types of surfaces, but when it comes to exposing the whole it will be necessary to find a solution allowing to give a little height to the vehicle. Too bad that LEGO does not provide us with a transparent central support, two pieces would be enough.

No innovation in the windshield, which is identical to the one already used on the 2010 version, and it would be time for LEGO to offer us a more realistic half-bubble. On the other hand, I welcome the effort on the seats, the backs of which are here much more convincing than on the previous version.

As for the minifigs delivered in this small box, nothing transcendent for an informed collector: the three characters are versions already available in other boxes.

The pad printing of the torso and legs of the minifigure of Luke Skywalker is identical to that seen in the sets 75159 Death Star (2016) 75173 Luker's Landspeeder (2017) 75220 Sandcrawler (2018) 75229 Death Star Escape or even 75270 Obi-Wan's Hut (2020). I'm not a fan of the new poncho delivered here, although I welcome the effort to provide us with this item. I find the accessory really too basic and poorly cut, knowing that on screen it also covers the arms of the character.

C3-PO and the Jawa are also regulars in the LEGO Star Wars range and no effort has been made in this box to try to bait us with at least one exclusive torso.

There are about ten stickers to stick on the model and, better, I find them very appropriate, especially with regard to the engines. I also prefer the solution implemented here on the side of the vehicle to the one based on flexible tubes used on the machine in the set. 75173 Luker's Landspeeder and on that of the set 75052 Mos Eisley Winery (2014)

In short, the Landspeeder is a chestnut tree from the LEGO Star Wars range and in my opinion it is always a good idea to acquire the most recent model for those who do not already have their copy.

This new version does not revolutionize the theme and does not correct all the faults of the multiple versions already marketed so far, but it will do the trick by combining it with the elements of the set. 75270 Obi-Wan's Hut also marketed for a few days.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at 15th January 2020 next at 23pm.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Today we quickly tour the LEGO Brickheadz sets 40383 Wedding Bride (306 pieces - 12.99 €) & 40384 Wedding Groom (255 pieces - € 12.99), two sets based on the same principle as the set 41597 GB Brick Me marketed in 2018 which already made it possible to customize a figurine.

Admitting that we are a fan of the format of these cubic figurines, I must admit that it is rather well done. In each box, you will find something to assemble several versions of the groom and the bride, so that the two characters look more or less like their "human" versions.

You have three skin tones, three heads of hair, two suits, a hat and a pair of glasses for the groom. Same assortment for the bride, without the hat or the costume variants. The only two pad-printed pieces in these boxes are the groom's gray jacket to integrate into the suit of your choice and the lace of the bride's dress on a white background. Even though I've put a mustache on the versions I'm showing you here, you can put a face together without this element for the groom.

The instruction booklets are well designed with clear directions on what to assemble or replace based on the character's skin or hair color and what accessories will come to equip the figure. It is not possible to replace the skin or hair without disassembling some of the sub-assemblies of the previous figure, the inventory is quite extensive but not to the point of allowing instant modification of each figure.

It is also possible to customize the groom's buttonhole, which has the choice of a black or dark blue suit, and to accessorize the bride's dress by changing the decorations of the dress, the veil and the bouquet.

The body of the figurines is identical to that of most of the products in the range with a dressing that takes place around the guts and the brains of the characters. Too bad the bases provided are not white to better integrate with the whipped cream of the mounted piece.

You have the right to lose or forget alliances, LEGO provides three per box.

A note on the glasses: I know that we are here in a theme where almost everything is square and the glasses provided are no exception to the rule. Despite everything, I remain convinced that a pair of round glasses would make it possible to offer a less "aggressive" possibility of customization than the version delivered here, the principle of these boxes being to allow to stick as close as possible to the real version of the people reproduced. .

The two figures are sold separately, so you can also combine two bride and groom or two brides, it's up to you. You still have to agree to spend € 25.98 to afford two minifigures to plant at the top of the mounted piece, but when you love LEGOs, you don't count for a long time.

In short, we are probably more here in the "lifestyle" product than in the collectible figurine and it will still be necessary to make sure that your partner accepts to see these two cubic characters enthroned at the top of the cake which cost you an arm.

Nothing is less certain, the Brickheadz figures are already not unanimous among fans of LEGO and probably even less among those who do not necessarily want to replace the usual small characters by these piles of bricks a little coarse. It would be a shame to argue over that on your wedding day.

Note: The two sets shown here, supplied by LEGO, are put into play as a single set. Deadline set at 11th January 2020 next at 23pm.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.