Review : The LEGO Workshop 3, Brick Adventures

You don't change a winning team and Megan Rothrock understood that. So here is a new book in the series "Lego workshop"translated into French by the publisher Huginn & Muninn: Brick adventures (27.00 € at amazon).

As with the previous two volumes from the same collection, this book is a mix of minifig-based comics, instructions and ideas around the LEGO product. The concept is enticing, we are promised "150 creative ideas and 40 models to build", but the realization is less and less convincing.

This series of books is in fact only a compilation of different models proposed by several creators and here vaguely united by a red thread without great effort on the layout and the readability which has further deteriorated since the first volumes.

It is on the side of the instructions provided that I criticize this work for its real lack of homogeneity. There are indeed about forty models to assemble, but the level of readability of the instructions provided now turns from (often) fair to (sometimes) indecipherable. The inventories of the parts required for each model do not always include any numerical reference allowing them to be quickly located on Bricklink or at LEGO.

Good luck, if you plan to replicate some of the models on offer while relying on your bulk of LEGO. You may not have some very specific parts and you will have to search for them on the internet based on the simple visual provided.

The book is ultimately more a compilation of good ideas than a collection of models, the layout of the assembly instructions really lacks consistency.

As with the previous volumes, you often have to be content with photos of the different assembly steps and deduce the positioning of the parts to be added. Some of the instructions offered in this third volume, especially those using white pieces, are almost incomprehensible.

Several of the models presented are only digital versions of each of the creations in question. A bit of a shame for a book that claims to be part of the collection "The LEGO Workshop".

We really have the impression that Megan Rothrock no longer makes an effort to offer real decomposed models and is now content with a few screenshots. Its name is undoubtedly enough to motivate certain MOCeurs who see in these books an opportunity to make themselves known a little more.

Yet today there are many tools that allow you to generate readable instructions, but maybe it was too much work ...

The few comics on offer struggle to hide the impression of shoddy work that emerges from this new volume. It's uninteresting filler, just to create a semblance of interactivity. We are very far from the promised "Adventure".

Since the proposed creations do not meet the most demanding creative challenge, this book is aimed primarily at young audiences. Unfortunately, the completion of this third volume is so poor that young LEGO fans should quickly tire of trying to decipher the instructions on offer.

I say no, at € 27 for 150 pages of passable photos and muddled instructions, this LEGO Workshop is not up to what the first volume of this series released in 2014 offered (LEGO Workshop 1: Ideas to build).

Megan Rothrock continues to exploit her juicy vein, some MOCeurs probably find there a forum to publicize their art and pocket some royalties in the process and sales are clearly sufficient to justify the publication of new volumes, but she does so less and less good.

LEGO Workshop 3: Brick Adventures - 192 pages - 27.00 €

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