Three new items in the ICONS, ART, and Super Mario ranges are now available on the official online store. Please note that the launch of the set 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft which we have already talked about a lot is an Insiders preview, so you will need to make sure you are logged in to your account to be able to add the product to your cart.

Also note that the sets 72037 Mario & Standard Kart et 31216 Keith Haring – Dancing Figures were previously available for pre-order, they are now available for immediate shipment.

As usual, it's up to you to decide whether to jump right in and pay the full price for these sets or whether to be a little patient and wait for the inevitable discounts that will be offered in the weeks and months to come. at Amazon, on FNAC.com, at Cdiscount, at Auchan as well as some other retailers.

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About the LEGO Super Mario Insiders Reward 40787 Mario Kart: Spiny Shell, it will be available in the rewards center from 10:30 a.m. on May 15, 2025.

Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO ICONS set 10351 Sherlock Holmes Book Nook, a box of 1359 pieces currently available for pre-order on the Shop and scheduled for June 1, 2025 at a retail price of €119,99.

As you already know, LEGO is attempting a foray into the Book Nook sector this year, the very popular format that features miniature dioramas to be placed between the books stored on the shelves of a library. This is the first in a series of sets that will exploit this format, with at least two other references already planned: the LEGO Harry Potter set 76450 Book Nook: Hogwarts Express (832 pieces - €99,99) and the LEGO ICONS set 10367 The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook (1201 pieces - €119,99) which rumor has it will be coming soon.

Let's not kid ourselves, we quickly realize that LEGO is simply riding the wave of the current popularity of the term Book Nook with these products, as the format codes are not all strictly respected. This is not the first time that LEGO has produced sets in the form of a book containing a scene, the twist here being to leave the scene in question visible once the book is closed.

These new LEGO products, which use the mention Book Nook in their title, are also presented open in the form of dioramas with a very relative thickness on the front of the packaging and the possibility of closing them to then insert them in the middle of a row of books is indicated only very discreetly. The construction of the LEGO Harry Potter set 76450 Book Nook: Hogwarts Express is even presented as a simple two-part bookend on the box without even clearly indicating the possibility of closing the thing.

This is in fact more of a diorama to close for storage with a scene that spreads out here in the form of the street in central London where Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are located. It is rather well done with some very convincing facades, a piece of pavement covered with Tiles rounds and the usual urban developments which inevitably remind us of Diagon Alley but I must admit that I am a little disappointed.

I expected LEGO to invest in the format in a more frank way with a staging that would take on its full meaning once the construction is closed. This is not really the case here despite a nice perspective effect towards the end of the street but with a clear lack of light. The back of the construction remains open, which in principle increases the available light, but this will not be of much use once the whole thing is pressed against the back of a bookcase.

The designer also left the top of the construction open to rely on natural lighting, but in any case, it is too insufficient to highlight all the details of the construction and create the very special atmosphere that many real Book Nooks diffuse. LEGO is probably missing an opportunity here to introduce a "homemade" lighting kit that would bring these scenes to life and, in the process, make these models real Book Nooks with usable content even when they are stored between a few books.

There remains a diorama style movie set to display open to really take advantage of the integrated features with a door that opens via a wheel placed on the roof to reveal the Moriarty figurine, a display case that rotates to give access to its contents and a panel that reveals the interior of the investigative duo's apartment. It is once again well done but it is not what I expected from this type of product.

The whole thing is packaged like a book on the cover with the silhouette of Sherlock Holmes, it's nicely done even if some Tiles could have smoothed out the two flaps of the book. Special mention for the silhouette of a simplicity which may seem obvious but which I find very well done.

The stickers are, as is often the case, part of the set and contribute to the atmosphere of the place with stickers with a very inspired design. The only pad-printed elements of the set are the name of the street which is present on the top of the front face of the building and the two Tiles which embody newspapers announcing Moriarty's disappearance.

We will welcome the fact that the instruction booklet is embellished with some comments on the universe developed here, it is always pleasant to have some information during the different phases of assembly. We will also remember that this product is under "official" license The Conan Doyle Estate, a brand managed by the descendants of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, even though the writer's works are now in the public domain.

As for the minifigs provided, we get five characters: Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, Professor James Moriarty, the singer and actress Irene Adler and Paige, a newspaper delivery boy who does not exist under this identity in the universe of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

No pad-printed legs for the characters who have them, a nice new torso for Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Moriarty, a really very successful outfit for Irene Adler and Pippin's torso for the newspaper delivery man who reuses a hairstyle combining hair and cap already seen elsewhere since last year. Why not, even if there were probably better things to do than to provide us with a generic newspaper delivery man and a very anecdotal character. Inspector Gregory Lestrade and the landlady Mrs Hudson would have been welcome, for example.

In short, I readily admit that this product is rather well executed with real attention to detail and some good ideas, but I am generally disappointed because I was expecting something else with the arrival of LEGO on the Book Nook niche. The absence of integrated lighting, one of the codes of the format as we see it exploited on the shelves of many stores currently, is a real disappointment. We will console ourselves with the possibility of storing these mini dioramas by closing them on themselves, it will be additional space on our shelves.

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Today we are taking a quick look at the contents of the LEGO ICONS set. 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a box of 2417 pieces which will be available as an Insiders preview from May 15, 2025 at a public price of €229,99 before general availability scheduled for May 18, 2025.

As you know, if you've been following along, this is about assembling the Boeing 747 that transported the shuttle Enterprise from its landing field to its launch base at the Kennedy Space Center. The version offered here is the one that was used in 1977 to test the approach and landing phases of the shuttle Enterprise, the latter ultimately never being put into orbit. The plane/shuttle combination delivered by LEGO is the one that was presented at the Paris Air Show in 1983.

The overall construction measures 63cm long, 53,5cm wide and 27cm tall, and comes with two small display plates attached to the model stand.

Let's not kid ourselves, there's reason to be a little wary when discovering the aesthetics of this construction. The product seems to come from a time when the LEGO inventory wasn't as substantial as it is today, and we get the impression that the designer struggled to find a way to offer us two machines with very approximate shapes.

I know that many will be happy to accept this, perhaps a little blinded by their passion for anything remotely related to space exploration, but it must be acknowledged that while the shuttle Enterprise performs honorably, the Boeing 747 has more difficulty resembling the reference aircraft.

One could overlook the aircraft's appearance and console oneself with the five synchronized landing gears that can be deployed and retracted using a wheel located under the 747's fuselage, or settle for the ability to put the shuttle Enterprise into flight configuration thanks to the presence of engines and wheels that attach to the fuselage after removing the tail cone used during the shuttle's transport on the back of the 747.

But it's 2025, and we're entitled to expect something aesthetically more accomplished from the toy leader, while other, more modest manufacturers are doing better in this area. LEGO didn't see fit to include anything to close the compartment that houses the Boeing 747's landing gear, so we'll have to make do.

Sorry if I sound insistent, but the presence of barrels at the exit of the 747 engines bothers me. We can consider that the choice of this part is interesting if we are a fan of NPU (For Nice Part Usage) at LEGO but I find these elements completely irrelevant here and their presence only reinforces in me the feeling that the designer really made do with what he had on hand.

One could also discuss the number of visible studs on the 747's wings, the somewhat undersized engines, or the lack of flaps on the plane's wings, especially on a supposedly high-end model intended to appeal to an adult audience. But I think that would be a waste of time; the product is in any case far from what we would expect from a manufacturer like LEGO in 2025.

The shuttle is attached to the back of the Boeing via three ball joints, so there's no risk of it coming loose during handling. The attachment system could have benefited from a little more detail on the two connection points at the rear; this is a model for adults, not just a children's toy.

The assembly comprising the 747 and the shuttle is of very acceptable solidity, the wings are not at risk of detaching and the whole thing is rigid enough to be handled knowing that the black support is not fixed to the fuselage of the Boeing.

LEGO could have produced the elements that would have allowed us to offer a Boeing with a less angular front end, but the manufacturer probably judged the expense to be unnecessary and forced its designer to make do with the parts already available. The result is therefore barely passable, rather vintage and frankly disappointing up close.

I won't reveal the insides of the 747 with the rather complex mechanism that allows the landing gear to be deployed; it's almost the only interesting and convincing part of the construction, and we must leave something to marvel at for all those who spend the €230 requested by LEGO.

A detail: if you notice that you have some orange pieces left at the end of the assembly, this is normal, they only serve to hold the different sub-assemblies during the construction phase in the same way as what LEGO already offered in the LEGO ICONS set 10318 Concorde.

This pure exhibition product does not escape a large sheet of stickers with stickers on a transparent background for the two machines and two stickers on a black background for the presentation plates.

If the choice of transparency for the stickers to be stuck on the fuselage of the 747 and the shuttle seems relevant to me to avoid the usual differences in color between the white of the stickers and that of the pieces on which they are placed, I do not understand why LEGO did not deign to pad print the two small presentation plates. Even those of the collections of helmets or ships in the format midi-scale from the LEGO Star Wars range are pad printed.

As usual, everything you don't see on the sticker sheet that I scanned for you is therefore pad printed, i.e. the 27 pieces that make up the edging of the fuselage of the 747 as well as the canopy and the nose of the latter, with the usual problems of alignment and conformity of color with the Tiles which connect the patterns in certain places.

The product assembly is entertaining, no problems on this side, with original techniques and the feeling that the designer did his best by seeking solutions that are not always aesthetically satisfying but technically convincing.

This leaves one question unanswered: should the aesthetics of a display model be sacrificed to provide an assembly experience that meets the expectations of the brand's customers when it seems impossible to reconcile the two? I don't have an absolute answer to this question, but I think the compromise proposed here is not really aesthetically satisfactory. The comparison is probably off-topic, but the planes in the LEGO CITY range fare better because the manufacturer produces suitable parts, probably sacrificing some of the assembly experience.

Even if the subject covered is ultimately almost anecdotal on the scale of everything that contributed to the conquest of Space, this product could play second fiddle in a collection composed of the most emblematic sets on the same theme such as the LEGO IDEAS references 92176 NASA Apollo Saturn V., LEGO ICONS 10341 NASA Artemis Space Launch System or Creator Expert 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander.

Those who already have the Discovery shuttle from the LEGO ICONS set on hand 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery (2021) may, for their part, possibly skip it unless the subject covered here seems interesting to them, those who were hoping that LEGO would give us a demonstration a little more convincing than that of the LEGO ICONS set 10318 Concorde (2023) in terms of finishing the nose of the plane will be at their expense and in my opinion we can predict without too much error that this box which could have pleasantly surprised me in 2000 or 2010 will end up among the sets on sale during the next Black Friday.

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LEGO today unveils a new reference in the ICONS range, the set 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft which will be available as an Insiders preview starting May 15, 2025, before general availability is scheduled for May 18, 2025.

This large box of 2417 pieces, which will be sold at a retail price of €229,99, contains enough to assemble the Boeing 747 that transported the shuttle Enterprise from its landing field to its launch base at the Kennedy Space Center. The version offered here is, incidentally, the one that was used in 1977 to test the approach and landing phases of the shuttle Enterprise, the latter ultimately never being put into orbit.

The overall construction measures 63cm long, 53,5cm wide and 27cm tall, and comes with two small display plates attached to the model stand.

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Because there's more to life than Star Wars, today we're giving away a copy of the LEGO ICONS set. 10354 The Lord of the Rings: The Shire a box of 2017 pieces sold at the public price of €269,99 on the official online store.

To validate your participation, as always, 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 details (name/pseudo, email address, IP address, postal address and phone number of the winner) are only used in the context of this competition and will not be kept beyond the draw which will designate the winner. As usual, this competition without obligation to purchase is open to all residents of metropolitan France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

The prize worth €269,99 at stake is generously provided by LEGO, it will be sent to the winner by me upon confirmation of their contact details by return email.

As always, I reserve the right to disqualify any entrant who has attempted to defraud or hijack the entry system in order to increase their chances of winning. Grumpers and bad losers abstain, the others will have a better chance of winning.

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.

Two clarifications: all the products involved are physically in my possession and are shipped by me, no risk of having to wait weeks for the brand to send the batch. The products are shipped very quickly to the winners, those who have received their prize in the past can attest to this.