16/03/2023 - 00:01 Lego news New LEGO 2023 Shopping

40587 lego easter basketball offer march 2023

Onward for a new promotional offer on the official online store with the set 40587 Easter Basket which is offered from today from 70 € of purchase without restriction of range.

This new offer is valid at best until next April 9, unless the product is sold out before this date. This product of 368 pieces in "limited edition" is automatically added to the basket as soon as the minimum amount required is reached.

As a bonus, LEGO is also offering a copy of the LEGO Creator polybag until March 31, 2023. 30643 Easter Chickens from 40 € of purchase without restriction of range. This bag of 61 pieces is also automatically added to the basket as soon as the minimum amount required is reached.

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It's all in the title: if you're a fan of the Harry Potter universe and LEGO, you will currently find on newsstands a set comprising a collector of stickers, a collector's card to collect, a pouch containing five stickers and a card, a box cardboard storage box, as well as the LEGO Harry Potter polybag 30435 Build Your Own Hogwarts Castle. The whole is sold 6.99 €.

The 62-piece bag allows you to assemble up to eight different Hogwarts micro-models (in turn) and get a chocolate frog card to collect as well as a nice Albus Dumbledore minifig whose torso also came in the LEGO Harry Potter set 76389 Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets.

For the rest, the "magazine" provided is only a collector of Panini-style stickers with very limited editorial content and you will obviously have to go back to the checkout to complete your collection of stickers and images by buying additional packs. also available at newsstands.

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75579 lego avatar payakan tulkun crabsuit contest hothbricks

We continue today with the putting into play of a copy of the LEGO Avatar set 75579 Payakan the Tulkun & Crabsuit (99.99 €), a box of 761 pieces that should appeal to fans of the film Avatar The Way of Water.

To validate your participation and try to add this derivative product to your collection at a lower cost, 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 set is as usual generously provided by LEGO, 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.

Good luck to everyone !

No participation via comments, I leave the form open as long as the contestants who cannot read are not yet there. Then we close.

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.

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14/03/2023 - 18:16 LEGO ICONS Lego news New LEGO 2023

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On the way for a short teaser sequence which should in principle lead us very quickly to discover the next vehicle in the ICONS range, a Land Rover Defender in Classic version.

No date for the moment concerning the announcement of this 2023 novelty which should bear the reference 10317 and which the latest rumors predict us as a set of 2336 pieces which will be sold at the public price of 239.99 € from April 1st. . To be confirmed as soon as the product is officially announced, which should be soon.

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We continue today with a quick overview of the content of the LEGO Indiana Jones set 77013 Escape from the Lost Tomb, a box of 600 pieces which will be available from April 1, 2023 at the retail price of €39.99. The scene in question here is inspired by the film Raiders of the Lost Ark released in 1981.

If you've seen the film recently, you'll find that everything here is summarized, symbolized and simplified in order to make it a reasonably priced children's toy. The underground Well of Souls is only made up of a few pieces of wall on one side, the two statues of Anubis are less impressive than those seen on screen and there are inevitably fewer snakes than in the cinema. LEGO does not really make an effort on the finish of the product and the gray Technic beams that keep the set upright remain visible from almost all angles.

This is a playset for young audiences and therefore the product has some features that allow you to vaguely replay the scene seen on the screen. Indiana Jones knocks down one of the two statues on the wall behind it and the wall collapses, a snake comes through a hole in the wall of the tomb via a rocking system and a mummy fixed to the ceiling of the rear cavity comes to frighten Marion Ravenwood. It's playable, difficult to say otherwise even if everything is more or less summarized in its simplest form.

The construction process is commensurate with the simplicity of this Well of Souls, with simple stacks of bricks for the wall, and there is little more than the assembly phase of the two statues of Anubis to add a little pepper to experience. The latter are identical and I find them rather convincing. It lacks one or two additional mummies in the back, the only figurine provided ensuring a satisfying nod to the scene of the film but it remains too symbolic for my taste.

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The ark could have been stored in a container allowing it to be hidden while playing to take it out using the Indiana Jones and Sallah figurines, it sits here simply in the middle of the playset. Thinking about it, it is definitely the absence of the underground side of the tomb that breaks the dynamics of the product a little by depriving it of many additional playful possibilities. We will have to deal with it.

The sheet of stickers to stick on the different elements of the set is substantial with about twenty stickers, some of which do not hesitate to offer a few nods to the easter eggs from the movie or certain LEGO ranges. It's visually very well executed, we only rarely salute the work of the Billund graphic designers who nevertheless largely contribute to the successful aesthetics of many products.

Four minifigs are delivered in this box: Indiana Jones, Marion Ravenwood, Sallah and a very successful generic mummy. Again, don't be fooled by the slightly overambitious unofficial visuals about the quality of the pad printing: Indiana Jones' neck is very pale and no longer matches the color of the head and legs by Marion Ravenwood are much less well executed than announced with legs certainly injected in two shades to obtain the desired effect but on which the manufacturer has come to put a layer of too visible flesh color at the junction of the tear in the skirt.

These are technical defects that will probably be of little importance to most purchasers of the product, but they should still be noted. I'll say it again if you haven't read my review of the set 77012 Fighter Plane Chase : the Indiana Jones hat with integrated hair is also supplied here in two copies, you will have the right to lose one without having to pretend to notice the absence of the accessory as soon as you unpack it with customer service.

We can almost consider as "reasonable" the price of this box which today refers to the previous version of the same scene marketed in 2008 under the reference 7621 Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb to the rank of a dated and somewhat crude prototype. This derivative product is however only a modest playset at 40 € more covered with stickers, difficult to expect more from LEGO in this price bracket. We still get four minifigs and some playful possibilities, that's always taken.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at March 24, 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.

black lotus - Comment posted the 17/03/2023 at 22:40