Today we're taking a quick look at the 27th (already!) series of collectible LEGO minifigs that will be available from January 1, 2025 under the LEGO reference 71048 Collectible Minifigures Series 27 and at the public price of €3,99 per minifig.

This new series of 12 characters will, as usual, allow you to obtain a rather varied assortment of figurines, some of which come with accessories or animals: the wolf master, the pirate quartermaster, the Steampunk inventor, the fan dressed as a pterodactyl, the bogeyman, the jetpack pilot, the cat lover, the skater, the child astronomer, the Cupid, the fan dressed as a hamster and the stuffed toy collector.

As with most of these figure series, the selection is often a little uneven with a few figures that stand out and a few that fillers not particularly flamboyant that ensure the filling of the collection. Some of these figurines are probably not worth spending time on, if they were delivered in sets of the CITY or DREAMZzz ranges, we would not even notice their particularities or their possible lack of originality. Here, it is above all the presence of accessories or new animals that allows certain characters to become indispensable, more than their pad printing or the subject covered.

Without getting too involved, we can predict that the star of this selection will be for many fans the master of wolves, a member of the Wolfpack who is accompanied for the occasion by a completely new wolf that we will probably see again quickly elsewhere in other shades. The animal is very successful and it is generic enough to come and populate a forest diorama or a zoo.

The associated minifig benefits from its side from a very pretty pad printing which highlights the faction concerned on an outfit with many details and a double face with one of the expressions simulating a howl. It is a flawless and this minifig will probably be the most requested.

The cat lover is immediately identifiable because he wears a sweater full of cats, his pants are loaded with fur, and he's accompanied by a cat with a completely new furry coat in this form. It's well executed, but I'm not sure you should spend $3,99 on this figure considering that the cat in question will likely make several appearances in future sets. If you're a cat person, you'll probably disagree.

The hamster costume fan will please anyone who collects the costumed character figures that LEGO regularly offers. The costume is cute, the little cucumber slice is pretty, the pink hands are appropriate and it will be one more costume on the row dedicated to this theme.

The cartoon-looking bogeyman is in my opinion a little more interesting, with a very accomplished pad printing of the visqge. We will also remember the presence of a book whose cover and the inside page are flanked by pad printing in the theme. Why not, if you are nostalgic for the Monster Fighters or Hidden Side universes.

The Pirate Quartermaster is a magnificent figurine with a successful design with a very detailed outfit and the presence of two new elements: the hairstyle with its integrated headband and the cockatoo that accompanies the character. It's superb, even if the white area of ​​the neck is a little duller in real life than on the official visuals. This figurine should also find its audience very quickly, many dioramas are just waiting for it.

The fan dressed as a pterodactyl will also join the collection made up of figurines in costume, it's cute but not very inspired as it is and I don't see the €3,99 requested here in terms of pad printing and originality.

The plush toy collector is more polished with her pink outfit with a fluffy look and her two new plush toys which will perhaps bring back memories to those who collect the multiple variations of Furby or Squishies.

The skater doesn't seem particularly inspired to me, even though she comes with green hair incorporating a backwards cap with a strand sticking out and she uses a longboard that's new to LEGO. The character's outfit is in keeping with the subject matter, but I don't find the panache expected for a figurine sold individually. It's too generic, it deserves a CITY set, not a separate marketing.

Cupid is cute, no doubt about it, but I find his look perhaps too typical of the 80s at LEGO because of the combination of red and yellow colors. It's very personal. The wings fixed on a tenon are detachable, they are compact enough not to distort the figurine and this character will undoubtedly easily find its audience with its two essential accessories: a red bow and a heart. A best-seller in the making that will make LEGO fans in love happy on Valentine's Day.

The Steampunk inventor is in my opinion one of the real successes of this series with a superb pad printing and an attention to detail that will undoubtedly make this superb minifig a future star of retrofuturistic dioramas. The accessory provided to build and attach to the character's hand is in the theme, it is really very successful.

The child astronomer is acceptable with his nice t-shirt and his prosthetic hand to attach to the molded arm to accommodate the element. The associated telescope offers a little construction for a very satisfactory result. The jetpack pilot is also very acceptable with a nice outfit flanked by the Octan logo, a helmet integrating a red visor and two interesting faces. The jetpack to build is not ultra-detailed but the whole works rather well and I have the impression of seeing the amount requested.

As I said above, I'm not sure that each of these minifigs deserves the €3,99 that LEGO is asking. Some have clearly been the object of all the attention where others are less original or technically less accomplished and this is a bit the lot of all the series of collectible characters marketed so far.

Fortunately, the ones that stand out are real successes, you will have to act quickly if you want to hope to be able to find them on the shelves of your favorite toy store or invest in complete boxes that will allow you to obtain them without having to spend hours there.

I would also like to point out in passing that Minifigure Madness is currently offering the set of two boxes (72 figurines in total) at €231.98 including postage using the code S27preorder or,  3.22 € the minifig delivered to your home by DHL Express. Please note, this is a pre-order, shipping expected in early 2025.

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Today we take a quick look at the promotional set of the moment, the LEGO reference 40701 Ballerina & Nutcracker Scene currently offered on the official online store and at best until December 12th from 150 € of purchase without restriction of range. The offer is still valid at the time of writing and the product is not yet sold out.

In the box, 244 pieces to assemble an interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet with its festive decor and its dancer staged on a rotating support. If you are looking for the Nutcracker from the title of the set, this is the microfig visible in the hands of the minifig provided.

This product is a nice surprise and LEGO is once again making a nice offer to encourage purchase with a set that offers a nice building time, a festive atmosphere that will allow it to come out of the cupboard every year at the same time and a relatively rustic but convincing integrated functionality.

The rod that protrudes from the back of the model allows you to rotate the support on which you place the dancer, nothing crazy but the youngest will have fun for two minutes with the thing. It should be noted in passing that the figurine provided is equipped with a new torso for the moment only available in this box. There are a few stickers to stick on so that the night visible through the windows is starry and the product makes good use of many golden pieces.

In short, it's festive. The construction is finished, it's nicely decorated on the theme of the end of year celebrations and it features a pretty figurine. From there to spending €150 on products sold at their usual public price to get it, it's up to you. But if you're considering acquiring a product that is exclusive for the moment to the official online store, the doubling of Insider points currently in effect and this pretty promotional product are in my opinion strong arguments. Be careful, the offer does not apply to pre-orders.

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Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO DC set 76303 Batman Tumbler vs. Two-Face & The Joker, a box of 429 pieces currently on pre-order on the official online store at the public price of €59,99 with effective availability of the product scheduled for January 1, 2025. This is not a figment of the imagination, the LEGO DC range has been surviving for a few years now with a few rare playsets as well as several sets for adults which are responsible for trying to retain the attention of fans of the license.

In January 2025, the Tumbler will return to the catalog in a toy version for children with a new interpretation which should take over on the shelves of the set 76239 Batman Batmobile Tumbler: Scarecrow Showdown, a box of 422 pieces marketed between the last quarter of 2021 and the end of 2022 at a public price of €39,99. The 2021 set then offered two minifigs: Batman and Scarecrow. If you want to refresh your memory and compare the two versions, my review of the previous set is available on the site at this address.

The comparison between the two versions will be inevitable for collectors who already have the previous set on their shelves, it will probably not be relevant for younger fans who will not have known it. In any case, we will now have to deal with this new version which takes up some of the good ideas of the previous one but which also differentiates itself by some aesthetic shortcuts.

The Tumbler is a complex vehicle that is difficult to pay homage to without falling into a kind of visual mush that is difficult to decipher and this version seems to me to do rather well. We can regret that the size of the tires used here does not allow to reinforce the aggressive side of the vehicle and that some sections of bodywork ignore the well-felt details that dressed the 2021 version, and this Tumbler equipped with two Stud Shooters too visible but which can be easily removed confirms its status as a simple toy and almost relegates the other version to the rank of a model on a very reduced scale.

Should we conclude that LEGO didn't make much effort on this product? Perhaps knowing that the vehicle is accompanied by a not very inspired Bat-Signal that consumes a few pieces of the set's already limited inventory. For those who are interested, know that this Tumbler is like the previous one based on the 6x12x1 chassis used on many vehicles in the Speed ​​Champions range from 2020 to 2023. It should also be noted that the cockpit is designed to accommodate the Batman minifig with his soft plastic cape and that the three windows provided are smoked with a blue tint.

Three characters accompany the vehicle and the Bat-Signal: Batman, the Joker and Two-Face. The three minifigures benefit from new torsos, Batman's soft plastic cape is the one already seen in the LEGO DC set 76274 Batman with the Batmobile vs. Harley Quinn and Mr. Freeze (€59.99), the mask of the Gotham vigilante is the now usual one which includes white eyes, the Joker's head is the one already seen in the LEGO DC set 76240 Batman Batmobile Tumbler (269,99 €).

So only Harvey Dent / Two-Face remains who is totally new in this form with a nice face pad printing and a new hairstyle. Neutral legs for everyone, let's not exaggerate either. LEGO does not deprive us of stickers, however, with five stickers to dress the Bat-signal and the Tumbler. The Bat-Signal sticker is not even phosphorescent.

This product is sold for €60 and it's expensive, no doubt about it even with three minifigures in the box. No light brick for the Bat-Signal, a vehicle that skips on big tires and many finishing details and a handful of minifigures that reuse elements already available elsewhere, we can't say that LEGO gives us value for our money here.

We all know that this box will soon be available elsewhere than at LEGO for much less than its retail price, but it is clear that the content/price ratio is not to the advantage of this box.

Those who don't have the set version 76239 Batman Batmobile Tumbler: Scarecrow Showdown won't have much choice, the others can in my opinion largely ignore it unless the new minifigs delivered in this box are a strong argument in their eyes.

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Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76313 Marvel Logo & Minifigures, a box of 931 pieces currently available for pre-order on the official online store and which will be available from January 1, 2025 at the public price of €99,99.

As you already know if you follow, LEGO has long understood that it also needs to target customers who are fond of purely lifestyle outside of its usual clientele. All ranges are more or less entitled to products whose sole purpose is to end their career on the corner of a shelf and the LEGO Marvel universe is no exception to this trend.

The manufacturer is probably betting on the fact that those who do not buy the multiple playsets that invade the shelves will perhaps be tempted by this product which simply highlights the logo of the license, but based on bricks.

LEGO wouldn't be the toy manufacturer we know if the most basic products didn't include a few features, just to highlight the brand's concept and the know-how of its designers. Here, the red box flanked by its white letters includes a mechanism that reveals the different characters fixed on their respective supports.

Be careful, this synchronized mechanism does not retract by itself: the figurines are deployed by pushing the discreet buttons on the top of the construction, then pushed at the back to reveal Iron Man, but in the end you have to put everything away manually and put back in place the sections that are ejected during manipulation. Nothing serious, I think that beyond a few attempts to impress your friends, you will quickly choose to display the thing completely closed or in the "visible minifigs" version and that the object will then remain as is.

The construction is quickly assembled, even if it will be necessary to remain vigilant during the construction of the integrated mechanism and to regularly test the correct deployment of the supports so as not to have to come back to it later. The different colors used for the Technic beams present help to find your way around and not to make a mistake in the connection point. The installation of the letters on the front face is a fairly satisfactory process, they take shape gradually and the result seems to me simply perfect if we compare the LEGO version with the logo that we know. A few studs remain visible on the surface, the ratio with the smooth surfaces of the different letters is very correct.

LEGO provides five Avengers in this box, we will remember the absence of Hawkeye, and the minifigs are all new at least by the torso with globally very successful pad printing. Collectors of figurines who will not care about the associated construction will therefore still have something to fill their Ribba frames a little more with the endowment of this set.

The most observant will have noticed that Iron Man is wearing his armor here in the "intact" Mark VI version with the legs already seen in the LEGO Marvel set. 76269 Avengers Tower under the torso of the damaged version of the outfit. Captain America is clearly in the damaged version here. First avenger With a very nice torso and her usual shield, Black Widow reuses the legs already seen on the same character but also on Hawkeye or Falcon. Hulk goes to theOlive Green In this box, Thor benefits from a nice torso which is also new.

Regarding the public price of this box, and even if we all know here that we will end up finding it for much less elsewhere than at LEGO, I find the price excessive for a derivative product which does not necessarily reflect the €100 requested.

It's a bit like a Nike t-shirt sold for €60, you pay the high price to display a simple advertisement for the brand via its logo and I've always had a bit of trouble with the concept of a sandwich man who pays instead of being paid. I have a bit of the same feeling here even if I salute the creativity at work to create a visually rather convincing trompe-l'oeil, all accompanied by a slightly rustic functionality but which has the merit of adding a bit of spice to the assembly process of the thing.

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Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram, a box of 1048 pieces currently available for pre-order on the official online store as well as on Amazon and which will be available from January 1, 2025 at the public price of €99,99.

If the figurine from the LEGO Star Wars set 75318 The Child had left many fans wanting more with its slightly strange look, it seems that the one offered here is generally considered to be much more convincing by those who followed the official announcement of the set. I personally think that this is the case, even if the two are not really comparable in terms of scale: the one marketed in October 2020 and since withdrawn from the Shop measured 33 cm high, the one delivered in this box peaks at only 14 cm. The 2025 version only uses a portion of the inventory of 1048 pieces while the 2020 version alone absorbed more than 1000 pieces.

The Grogu figurine delivered in this box is logically very quickly assembled, it takes up the usual concept with an internal structure on which we come to stick subassemblies which give texture to the character's clothes. Small interesting refinement, we have two independent mechanisms based on gears which allow to orientate Grogu's arms from the back of the construction. At this scale, we obtain more smooth surfaces and fewer visible studs on the surface, I prefer this approach to that of 2020 with a grogu which was then covered with studs on all his clothing with the exception of a collar.

The two dials remain visible but it is not a big deal, we no longer see them when the character is installed in his pram. The neck is mobile thanks to a Ball joint which is very discreet, the ears can be raised or lowered with sufficient amplitude to vary the expressions. Grogu's face seems cuter to me here than creepy with his chubby and laughing side even if we can always find faults in him like a slightly strange nose or very marked bags under his eyes from staring at him.

The bet of offering us a LEGO version of Grogu's pram was risky, the object is all curves and the designer does rather well in my opinion by multiplying the quite original techniques and not skimping on the number of elements to serve the structure. It is very pleasant to assemble even if we sometimes wonder where the designer is taking us and the object seems to me to be sufficiently accomplished to make this product a real exhibition model.

LEGO is not stingy with accessories and provides us with Grogu's favorite pommel, two biscuits and a Sorgan frog. All these elements can be fixed on the character's hands, thus creating as many possibilities of display. The pram benefits from a support which allows to vaguely give the impression that it floats in the air, it is stable and convincing even if the set of black pieces will remain clearly visible. I would have tried something based on transparent pieces, in order to reinforce the visual illusion.

The whole thing is accompanied by the essential support which highlights the traditional plaque distilling a few facts whose main mission is to give a collector's side to the product and we even get the usual figurine of Grogu in a micro-pram. These plates have long since ceased to be reserved for sets that inherit the label Ultimate Collector Series, some will not see a problem with it, others will regret that LEGO is now extending this privilege to products that perhaps do not deserve as much honor. LEGO has still not solved the problem of the color difference between the soft plastic head of the figurine and the hands molded with the body, we will make do.

There are a few stickers to stick on the pram and on the frog to improve the finish of the whole thing a little, I have scanned the board in question for you (see above).

I think there is no point in debating for hours about this product, it does better in every way than the set version 75318 The Child and the addition of the pram is a real plus. This version of the character on a more modest scale seems frankly more successful to me without sacrificing important details like the character's facial expression, his characteristic legs and the texture of his clothes. The compromise is satisfactory, Grogu is in my opinion finally entitled to an acceptable LEGO version that makes him more likeable than the one in the set 75318 The Child.

LEGO Star Wars 75403 Grogu with Hover Pram

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