Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75380 Mos Espa Podrace Diorama, a box of 718 pieces which will be available on the official online store, in LEGO Stores and at certain resellers from May 1, 2024 at the public price of €79.99.

This new diorama will join what we now call the Diorama Collection of sets based on the same principle launched in 2022 and which already brings together the references 75329 Death Star Trench Run (€ 59.99), 75330 Dagobah Jedi Training (€ 79.99), 75339 Death Star Trash Compactor (€ 89.99), 75352 Emperor's Throne Room Diorama (99.99 €) and  75353 Endor Speeder Chase Diorama (69.99 €).

This model logically takes up the principle of the black base on which the scene in question is installed and this is a snapshot of the Boonta Eve podracer race which takes place on Mos Espa. The scene is frozen with Anakin's podracer pursuing Sebulba's through the canyon, Anakin passing under an arch which gives a little volume and depth to the whole.

In my opinion, it is rather well done with a relatively dynamic presentation of the two machines and a sufficiently substantial rock layout to highlight the two constructions. It is difficult to do more on this scale, the two machines already exceed the limits of the base and it was a question of maintaining the legibility of this construction which can obviously be exhibited and observed from different angles.

You have to show a little imagination to see the two pilots at the controls of their machines, it is especially the latter with their respective attributes which allow fans to immediately identify Anakin Skywaker and Sebulba. A few stickers are present to increase the level of detail of the two modules, difficult to do without them even if those who want to avoid seeing these stickers deteriorate over time will undoubtedly consider not sticking them.

The assembly reveals no surprises, with on one side the usual base on which we install the rocky environment of the scene before embarking on the construction of the two micro modules. We remain a little unsatisfied upon arrival in terms of "experience" especially for the 80 € requested by LEGO, but the product still offers a fairly complete and balanced set of techniques that are both a little crude if we does not step back to observe the object and more interesting when it comes to building the two relatively detailed podracers.

The base is flanked by three pad-printed elements: the brick celebrating the 25th anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars range which I would have liked to be different depending on the product it accompanies, for example a direct reference to the context of the set while maintaining visual coherence of the room and two Tiles including one which repeats a line of dialogue spoken on screen by Qui-Gon Jinn. The latter is once again in English, LEGO does not localize this type of detail according to the geographical area in which its products are marketed and it is a bit of a shame for all those who like this type of reference and remember the dialogues. in question in their own language.

This diorama seems to me to be rather successful on arrival, it will remain to try to pay a little less for it elsewhere than at LEGO or to take advantage of a promotional offer which will make the pill of the high price of the thing, for example during May the 4th operation which will take place from May 1 to 5, 2024 and which will allow you to receive some products along the way.

The collection which brings together all the scenes based on the same principle grows a little more each year and what was initially an advantage with the saving of space guaranteed by these mini stagings can quickly fade if you intend to collect and align all the references offered on your shelves.

However, in my opinion, the whole thing forms a very nice set of tributes to the Star Wars saga and fans who wish to settle for exhibition products that are not too invasive should once again find what they are looking for with this new proposition.

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IF you haven't seen this visual yet, know that the LEGO ICONS set 10341 NASA Artemis Space Launch System is currently available in the LEGO Store at Taipei Airport (Taiwan) and we therefore obtain a first visual of this product which will probably be available from mid-May 2024 at the public price of €259.99. In this large box of 3601 parts, enough to assemble a reproduction of the launcher which should one day allow the return of human beings to the Moon.

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Onward to two new promotional offers which should in principle motivate us to pay full price for our sets via the official store or in the LEGO Stores: On the one hand, the set 40684 Fruit Store is offered from 200 € of purchase and until April 25, 2024 without restriction of range and on the other the set of two polybags 30666 Gift Animals and 30671 Aurora's Forest Playground is free for purchases over €50 of products from the LEGO Friends, Animal Crossing, Disney Princess, Creator 3in1 and DREAMZzz ranges. This latest offer is valid until April 29, 2024.

It's as usual for everyone to see if they should go to the official online store or in a LEGO Store for a few sets sold at their public price in order to get this set and these polybags offered or if it is worth It is better to wait until the secondary market is flooded with these products to buy them separately and continue to make your LEGO purchases from the usual stores which offer better prices.

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Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75383 Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator, a box of 640 pieces which will be available at the public price of €69.99 from May 1, 2024.

The most avid fans of the LEGO Star Wars range know that this is not the first time that LEGO has tried to reproduce the Scimitar, I have never really been convinced by the different interpretations marketed since 1999 and this one will probably not change my mind. However, the designer has tried here to integrate some welcome features as if to compensate a little for the relative sadness of the object with its slightly outdated look.

We can possibly console ourselves by considering that the homage to the 25th anniversary of the range is perfectly rendered here, this ship takes us back a few years with its approximate proportions and its super finish. microfighter. The assembly is quickly dispatched, and we benefit from the arrival of some rather interesting functions including the possibility of integrating Darth Maul at the controls of the ship on his somewhat simplistic speeder, of dropping a few DRK-1 probe droids through the hatch planned, deploy both landing gears and shoot anything that moves via both Spring-Shooters installed at the front.

It's a child's toy, so you can have fun with it. Long-time collectors who are still waiting for an acceptable version of the ship will have to be content with this interpretation while waiting for something better, it won't be this time unless we consider this attempt as on scale. Midi Scale and that we tinker with a support identical to the other vessels available in the Starship Collection in the same format launched this year.

Nothing is planned to put the ship in flight position, I tinkered with the support made up of transparent parts that you see in the photos below.

As for the provision of minifigs, it is correct but without ambition: Darth Maul is delivered without cape or hood while the character would have been more faithful to the outfit seen on the screen if he had been equipped with these clothing attributes , Anakin Skywalker and Qui-Gon Jinn are acceptable as is except for the beige color of the latter's legs which does not match the color of the torso and the new and exclusive minifig of Saw Gerrera is a little off topic in plus being delivered in a green color next to the plate. I understand the desire to include new characters in these boxes that are not necessarily linked to the theme of the product, but there was undoubtedly room for a little more consistency in the choice of associated figurines.

LEGO has, however, had plenty of time to refine this Saw Gerrera figurine; offering it in a more faithful color would have been appreciable despite the very advanced pad printing. We'll be content with that, this will surely be the one and only appearance of the character at LEGO for a good while even if I don't despair of seeing him reappear in a stamped set Rogue One A day. We know that LEGO has not finished spinning out the Star Wars universe, so there is hope.

We obtain in passing a base which allows us to present this collector figurine as it should be with a plaque stamped with an illustration celebrating the 25 years of the LEGO Star Wars range and a Plate provided which will allow this display to be connected to others of the same barrel delivered in other boxes. No stickers in this box, the pretty one Dish of the vessel is pad printed.

In short, this box will probably not make an impression and many will undoubtedly wait to find it at a more reasonable price than the €70 requested by LEGO to add the few figurines provided to their collections.

The 25th anniversary of the range undoubtedly deserved something more accomplished so that the celebration was notable, here we are faced with yet another attempt, neither totally failed nor really successful, to offer us this ship in a LEGO version. The model is however equipped with several functions which make it a real toy, that's already a given.

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