Today we are quickly interested in the contents of the LEGO Creator 3-in-1 set 31152 Space Astronaut, a box of 647 pieces which will be available at the public price of €49.99 from January 1, 2024.

For those who don't yet know, this Creator 3-in-1 range offers, as the title indicates, products whose inventory allows you to assemble three different models. The subtlety of the concept, always specified in the title, lies in the fact that it is not possible to assemble these three constructions at the same time and that one will therefore have to be dismantled to build another.

This box is also flanked by the packaging which in 2024 will ensure a crossover between different ranges around the theme of space with references in the CITY, Friends, Technic or even DUPLO universes.

This involves building an astronaut equipped with his jetpack and placed on his base as if he were floating in space. This is the main construction of the product, the one which logically uses the entire inventory provided.

The large figurine obtained at the end of the first of the three instruction booklets seems rather convincing to me, it balances on its legs, its arms are articulated to allow different poses including the removable jetpack control socket and the helmet bubble conceals even a location that can accommodate a minifig (not included), therefore transforming this astronaut into astro-mech.

The combination is detailed enough for the whole thing to be displayed on a shelf without having to blush, in my opinion we are well at the top of the basket of what the Creator 3-in-1 range offers in terms of finishing. The only regret is that the back of the suit was obviously less careful than the front, which is a bit of a shame even if the astronaut is obviously intended to be presented frontally or in three-quarter view.

The nice surprise of the set comes from one of the two secondary models offered. Even if these two alternative constructions, which each have a dedicated instruction booklet, only use a very limited quantity of the parts delivered in this box, the dog in mode Friends in Space (Disney film from 2009) is in my opinion frankly successful and as far as I am concerned it easily steals the spotlight from the astronaut with the added bonus of the possibility of seducing an audience which will rather seek to avoid the very first degree treatment of the theme addressed for turn to something more original.

The second alternative build of the product is a small, unpretentious Viper-class ship which also skips a large part of the inventory and which is in my opinion too anecdotal to deserve to be the one which will end up on the shelf . The ship at least has the merit of offering a cockpit capable of also accommodating a figurine (not supplied), that's always a bonus.

We will remember that the golden bubble is delivered in a separate bag which prevents it from possible scratches and other scratches, it is also this attention to detail which should in principle allow LEGO to make the difference with competing products and to justify the high prices of these boxes. The black parts provided allow you to assemble three different displays adapted to the constructions they suspend. These supports are simple enough to blend into the decor but they are also sufficiently stable.

No stickers in this box, this is good news for anyone who is allergic to these stickers. A small logo Classic Space pad printing recalling the theme of the product would have been welcome on an element to be used for the three constructions proposed but it will be necessary to do without this refinement.

For €50 and even less with a little patience, you get here a figurine with which you can play a little to then display it and at least one convincing alternative construction, the dog in a space suit. It's already very good for this price and in my opinion it would be a shame to miss this unlicensed box which really highlights the concept of construction toy thanks to the variants offered.

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Today we very quickly go around the content of the LEGO DREAMZzz set 71477 The Sandman's Tower, a box of 723 pieces which will be available from January 1, 2024 at the retail price of €89.99.

I'm not making a drawing for you, this is, as the name of the product indicates, about assembling the Sandman's Tower, a building which highlights some temporal attributes associated with the owner of the place. Those who saw the construction in the first season of the animated series know that LEGO has frankly simplified the physical version of the structure, but it still remains something that is, in my opinion, quite elegant and consistent.

Everything is quickly assembled, it is a relatively basic stacking of walls and arches in the style of sets usually reserved for younger children. We still come across some refinements with the installation of a nicely executed entrance door taking into account the positioning of this range, some furniture elements and the installation of the mechanism which sets in motion the clock placed on the facade as well as the upper structure of the building. A few gears and a remote dial are enough, it's simple but effective.

The two gears based on parts placed on the sides of the building add a nice finishing touch well within the theme, it is aesthetically very successful and these two excrescences give character to the construction by differentiating it from the usual palaces and other castles for children of the Disney universe. If the tower may seem a little empty, with interior spaces deprived of various and varied furniture, its 47 cm high will allow it to stand out in a child's bedroom among other sets in the range.

As with all references in the LEGO DREAMZzz range, the manufacturer offers a variant to be assembled using the inventory provided (visual below). I ignored the proposal of the set, I find the tower much more successful than the alternative construction which seems to try to do the best to reuse a large part of the inventory but which in my opinion becomes much less readable .

It will obviously be up to everyone to choose which version to assemble and it will always be possible to move from one to the other by dismantling a model to return to the intermediate point from which the two construction processes diverge. We will also note the presence of several pad-printed elements, everything that is not on the sticker sheet that I scanned for you (see below) and a beautiful assortment of golden pieces.

The supply of figurines is interesting with a Sandman (Sandman) perched on its support, the Nightmare Witch (Never Witch), accompanied by his minion Sneak, with his superb hairstyle adorned with a crown, Logan, Izzie and Mateo. As usual in this range, the pad printing is of a very high level and there is plenty of fun knowing that LEGO provides the added bonus of a giant spider and a bird on which Izzie can sit. The transparent support that you see in the photos is not provided, I added it for the situation.

I will say it once again, this range allows at least to see that LEGO can make efforts on pad printing when it comes to "in-house" ranges while we often have to settle for economy figurines in many licensed products. It is therefore never a question of know-how, it is always financial concerns which decide the level of finishing of certain minifigs: LEGO clearly pulls out all the stops when it does not have to pay royalties to a beneficiary and when any the margin ends up in his pocket.

If you have a young fan of this universe in your circle who has not yet tired of the sets from the first wave, this box could possibly complete their collection. It is also a possible interesting starting point for a very young fan who arrives late in contact with the LEGO DREAMZzz universe, with an imposing construction around which it will then be possible to add some less ambitious and less expensive products .

There is also no need to be offended by the public price of the product, set at €89.99, which ultimately only serves as a reference here when we all know that it will quickly be possible to find this box for much less elsewhere. than at LEGO. Once again, I find all of this rather convincing in terms of form, even if I am not the target of the product in substance.

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Today we are very quickly interested in the content of the LEGO DREAMZzz set 71455 Grimkeeper the Cage Monster, a box of 274 pieces which is available at the public price of €37.99 on the official store.

This product is in the soft underbelly of the first wave of sets based on the "home" LEGO DREAMZzz license, it modestly showcases the imposing Grimkeeper ou Keeper of Nightmares seen from the first episode of the animated series which serves as marketing support for derivative products.

The brick interpretation of the monster seen on screen is hardly more convincing here than that of the set 71461 Fantastic Tree House which I spoke to you about a few weeks ago, but this time the creature is really at the center of the product, it logically benefits from a little more attention from the designers. The head, however, remains reduced to its simplest expression with a pretty pad-printed part used on both versions but a half-jaw without an upper row of teeth. The two gray shoulder pads are not pad printed, although they would have deserved to be to flesh out the overall look a little.

The main functionality of the product: the cage placed in the thorax of the creature with the possibility of enclosing the young Cooper there, who will have to be rescued, with the help of the Mateo figurine perched on his flying machine. It's very well executed and the playability is obvious.

The mobility of Grimkeeper is ensured by a few points of articulation but the limbs based on macaroni elbows necessarily remain a little rigid. The whole thing is stable on its supports and the construction can take a few poses but we obviously do not achieve the flexibility of figurines of the same style available for example in the Marvel range. I'm pointing this out because it's nice: there are no stickers in this box, all the patterned pieces are pad printed.

Facing Grimkeeper, we have a flying machine which is the only part of the product concerned by the usual possibility of varying the pleasures by choosing one of the two variants proposed in the last pages of the instruction booklet. Nothing crazy, the differences between the two versions are symbolic and this box is not the one which makes the most of this good idea which is much better exploited in other sets in the range.

Two figurines are provided, Mateo and Cooper, it's enough to have a little fun and start assembling the main cast of this universe without spending too much. Z-Blob is also present in the form of a green dome with pad-printed eyes.

The version of Cooper delivered here without his super-outfit seen in other boxes (71458 Crocodile Car et 71459 Stable of the Dream Creatures) is only present in this set, it will undoubtedly interest those who want to complete a collection of characters with all their variants. The Mateo figurine and the dome embodying Z-Blob are also delivered identically in the set 71454 Mateo and Z-Blob the Robot.

In the end, this box currently available for a little less than €30 from many merchants constitutes a nice gift for a young fan of the LEGO DREAMZzz universe, it offers enough content to have a little fun and Keeper of Nightmares is an interesting villain whose LEGO version, although a little economical, retains the look and main functionalities of the character.

This is a constant in this range anyway, there is a real gap between what we see on the screen and the LEGO versions of the vehicles, ships and other creatures present in the derivative products, this will have to be addressed to do, LEGO having decided not to limit itself to the possibilities offered by its own product to develop the animated series which then makes it possible to sell these boxes.

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We continue with another LEGO Advent calendar and today we take a very quick tour of the LEGO Marvel set 76267 Avengers Advent Calendar 2023, a box of 243 pieces available since September 1, 2023 at the public price of €37.99 via the official store and for much less elsewhere.

As with the LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar, if you don't want to experience the contents of this product in its entirety because you took care to buy it with your eyes closed and then immediately moved to an area white far from all civilization for two months to avoid spoilers, don't go any further.

Otherwise, I was lenient with the LEGO Star Wars calendar because it offered some interesting constructions despite a somewhat poor assortment of figurines and I will also be relatively lenient here but for the opposite reasoning: this Marvel-licensed calendar, which contains 128 grams of plastic, offers a rather convincing assortment of figurines but they are accompanied by mostly uninteresting mini-things.

Worse, Disney must really pick LEGO's pockets in terms of royalties so that the manufacturer can afford to fill some of the boxes with content about which we wonder if it is not a packaging error: Doctor Strange's cape occupies for example one of the 24 boxes and the minifig which must carry it is in another box, another location is satisfied with a simple pack of golden canvases and the tree is delivered in two parts with its base in the colors of Captain America to go. I readily understand the principle of this type of product, but to provide Doctor Strange without his cape to fill one more box, I think we reach an Olympic level of pettiness.

The most consistent mini-things to build can be combined with each other via the clips present on each of them, the intention is laudable and we almost obtain in the end a mini-diorama which allows us to stage the figurines provided. For the rest, the "toys" to put under the tree like the Quinjet or the HYDRA train are correctly executed but that is not enough to make this calendar a product that will have the capacity to surprise or at least satisfy each day.

As for the seven characters provided, many figurines already seen elsewhere and little new: Iron Man with his Mark 85 armor is not exclusive to this box, he is also delivered this month with the official LEGO Marvel magazine, the Captain America figurine is the one available in the set 76269 Avengers Tower, Wong's is also in the sets 76269 Avengers Tower et 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum, Okoye's is in the set 76214 Black Panther: War on the Water, Doctor Strange is an assembly of elements seen in several boxes and only Black Widow and Spider-Man remain to get something new and unprecedented with their respective ugly Christmas sweaters. Even the Spider-Man head is very common and not a red Santa hat in sight. It's frankly meager but this set of figurines nevertheless remains the main asset of the product compared to the poverty of the rest of its contents.

Once again, we can only note that the public price of this box is excessive compared to what it has to offer, but it is up to everyone to appreciate the lifespan of the set depending on the rate of production. chosen unpacking. Over 24 days, we could almost consider that to be reasonable...

I think for my part that this set frankly smacks of well-packaged savings and that LEGO does not really make an effort to please fans, young and old, who wait for these products every year in the hope that they will offer for a something really attractive. The box is pretty, it's salesy and it's difficult not to fall for it. The disappointment is generally quickly forgotten anyway, knowing that it is diluted over almost a month, which perhaps makes it less painful.

For all practical purposes and if you do not want to ruin the product packaging by taking out the interior insert from the side rather than opening each window, please note that the assembly instructions are available in PDF format at this address.

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Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75366 Advent Calendar 2023, a box of 320 pieces sold at the public price of €37.99 on the official store and around €20 elsewhere. If you don't want to see in advance what's in the box that you probably bought just because you know what it contains, don't go any further.

I'm not going to lie to you, I set out to unpack this calendar as it should be by opening one box per day. Tired of the mediocrity of the contents of several of these boxes, I finally unpacked everything at once so I could move on to something else by eating my daily Kinder.

On arrival, once free of the product packaging, the new interior cardboard insert and the 24 plastic bags, there remained 143 grams of LEGO bricks, I weighed everything. It's a lot of packaging for little content, but it's at this price that the marketing has its effect on the shelves and that LEGO can sell this small batch of parts at full price.

This calendar is broken down into four categories of mini-things of varying interest depending on your affinities with this type of product: vehicles and other vessels, accessories for the characters, some reproductions of more or less recognizable and emblematic places from the saga and some figurines. We're not going to lie, many here only buy these calendars for the few new and possibly exclusive figurines they contain.

As for ships and machines, I must admit that this calendar is not the worst of what LEGO has marketed in the same format so far. Some are quite successful given the scale imposed and it's easy to get into the game of assembly. It remains to be seen what to do with it afterwards, but the micro-things offered this year more than do the trick.

As for accessories and mini-micro-nano-dioramas, we feel the need to fill boxes with additional elements which for the most part do not add much to the project.

It is sometimes extremely symbolic and possibly useful to showcase the figurines provided and give consistency to a product which lacks a little and even if the flying wing of the Ewok is intended to be placed in a slightly strange due to the limited mobility of the associated figurine or that the battle station intended for the Clone Trooper is a bit ridiculous and that the STAP is relatively stable. We'll make do.

Upon arrival, there remains a small handful of characters who will probably not end up at the bottom of a drawer or a toy bin. Most of the elements used for these figurines are, however, far from new and LEGO does not really make an effort to reward those who spent €38 on this box.

The Omega figurine is also in the set 75323 The Justify, that of the Clone Trooper of the 212th is in the set 75337 AT-TE-Walker, Leia is in the set 75353 Endor Speeder Chase Diorama but it is delivered here without his helmet, Palpatine uses elements already seen and there are only the Ewok and Palpatine's sweater that are completely new and undoubtedly exclusive for eternity to this box.

I'll spare you the Battle Droid without any special pad printing, it's just a box on the calendar that can be quickly filled in at a lower cost. The festive Pit Droid and the Gonk Droid disguised as a reindeer don't really count, they are just assemblages, certainly interesting, of very common parts.

In the end, I came for the figurines but I especially remember the few rather well executed ships this year, this 2023 calendar having at least the merit of offering some interesting and original constructions.

€38 is obviously much too expensive for what it is, even if some will see it as a tradition that extends over 24 days and which would almost justify this incredible price. For around twenty euros, it's already more acceptable but the supply of figurines is still sparse and in my opinion once again lacks panache.

For all practical purposes and if you do not want to ruin the product packaging by taking out the interior insert from the side rather than opening each window, please note that the assembly instructions are available in PDF format at this address.

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