LEGO 4002016 50 Years on Track: There are those who sell it and those who open it ...

The French employees of the LEGO Group received their Christmas gift, the exclusive LEGO 4002016 50 Years on Track set.

If some prefer to part with it without waiting for a few hundred euros on eBay ou The good corner, others did not waste a second and opened the box to discover its contents. One of these LEGO France employees sent me some pictures of his gift, just opened and assembled. Thanks to him.

In the box, six numbered bags, six instruction booklets with a decidedly vintage look and a brick separator.

Six models inspired by the iconic trains produced by the brand can be assembled: The very first train released in 1966 in the set 113 Motorized Train Set, the western locomotive from 1976 (726 Western Train), the futuristic train released in 1987 (6990 Monorail Transport System), the 1991 RER (4558 Metroliner), the 2009 steam train (10194 Emerald Night) and the festive train of 2016 (10254 Winter Holiday Train).

For this exclusive set of 1141 pieces reserved for group employees, LEGO has made the effort to provide the small introductory texts at the start of each instruction booklet in several languages ​​including French. This is not usually the case in collectors' sets containing some introductory texts marketed by the brand. When we want we can...

By the way, I asked LEGO if it was possible to get a copy to put it into play here, unfortunately the answer was negative, this set being a gift exclusively reserved for employees. You will therefore have to be satisfied with these photos or break the bank to redeem a gift to an employee.