It's April 1, 2022 and LEGO is selling a small handful of new sets on its official online store starting today. The star of the day is obviously the DeLorean of the set 10300 Back to the Future Time Machine, a box about which we have already spoken a lot and which should break sales records if we are to believe the surrounding enthusiasm. Three copies maximum per customer, it makes sense. Limit now set at a maximum of one copy per customer.

As usual, it's up to you to see whether to crack without waiting by paying the full price for these boxes or whether to show a little patience and wait for the inevitable reductions that will be offered in the boxes. weeks and months to come at Amazon, on FNAC.com and at a few other resellers.

On the side of current promotional offers at LEGO, you can get a copy of the polybag 30583 Easter bunny from 40 € of purchase and the set 40527 Easter Chicks from 65 € of purchase, the whole being cumulative and without restriction of range.

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It's not an April fool, I suggest you try to win the copy of the Modular 2022 10297Boutique Hotel worth €199.99 up for grabs as of today.

To validate your participation and try to add this pretty building of more than 3000 rooms to your shelves at a lower cost, 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.

Your contact details (name / nickname, email address, IP) are only used within the framework of this competition and will not be kept beyond the drawing of lots which will designate the winner. As usual, this no-obligation competition is open to all residents of mainland France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

The prize is provided by LEGO, it will be sent to the winner by me as soon as his contact details are confirmed by return email.

As always, I reserve the right to disqualify any participant who has attempted to defraud or hijack the entry system in order to increase their chances of winning. Hateful and bad losers to abstain, the others will have more chances to win.

Good luck to everyone !

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Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars Diorama Collection set 75329 Death Star Trench Run, a box of 665 pieces which will be available at the public price of €59.99 from April 26, 2022. This derivative product is the least expensive of the three new references in the LEGO Star Wars Diorama Collection launched this year, whose public prices reach up to €89.99. No minifigs in this box, we build here a reproduction in the format microscale surface pursuit of the Death Star with Luke Skywalker's X-wing, Darth Vader's TIE Advanced and two TIE Fighters.

To remain visually accessible, the diorama does not really reproduce the entire trench on the surface of the Death Star seen on the screen and we are satisfied with two nicely textured planes on which we fix the different ships which are at the work in this scene from Episode IV (To New Hope). The work of "greebling", the technique of creating surface details using various and varied elements, is perfectly executed and it almost feels like it. You also have to see the good side of things and despite the somewhat abstract side of the assembly, you will have the right to make a mistake, no one will notice your negligence.It may lack a little contrast on arrival on the gray surfaces but the lighting of the exhibition room will take care of compensating to create relief.

Gossips will only see a paid promotional product here, barely more opulent than when LEGO offers mini-dioramas during certain events around the Star Wars license. The assembly of this 22 cm long by 15 cm wide and 10 cm high diorama is also quickly dispatched and it is difficult to imagine the presence of more than 600 parts in this construction. They are however there, they are mostly small elements used to texture the surface of the Death Star. The set is relatively fragile on arrival, the four vessels are only maintained by a simple tenon and you will have to be careful when moving.

The TIE fighters provided in this box are really token renditions of barely the level of what you get every year in the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendars, but Luke's X-wing on the other hand looks particularly neat to me. No stickers in this box, the three TIE canopies already seen in the set 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser marketed since 2021 are therefore stamped just like the R2-D2 micro-dome visible on the back of the X-wing, a part that we will certainly see again in future polybags or Advent calendars.

There is no functionality or moving parts in this diorama, although you can place the different ships as you see fit provided you find an available stud elsewhere than in the locations provided. No surprise on the back of the construction, it would have been interesting to place a minfig of Darth Vader or Luke in pilot's outfit to fuel the conversations. We will do without.

La Tile pad-printed with a line of dialogue that becomes the gimmick of this new collection of derivative products displays here a sentence pronounced by Darth Vader during the pursuit in the trench of the Death Star: "...The Force is strong with this one...". I'm much less adamant than the quote displayed on the front of the set. 75339 Death Star Trash Compactor regarding the need to localize the text into other languages, the phrase posted here has become popular enough to stand on its own, no one refers to it by saying "...it's like he's protected by the Force..."as in the French version of the film.

This product is perhaps not the sexiest of the three sets proposed to launch this new collection of dioramas for adult fans, but the scene is in my opinion generally rather well interpreted with a very acceptable level of finish. The format microscale deprives this product of staged minifigs but that's not so bad because it's also the least expensive of the three advertised references.

If you take two and place them face to face, you get a real trench and an extra X-wing for the late Biggs Darklighter. If you place them back to back, you get nice bookends, perhaps a little light, to frame your collection of comics or beautiful books on the Star Wars universe.

This set is the cheapest of the three but it is not a product that I consider affordable. 60 € for that is much too expensive in absolute terms even if we all know here that fans of the Star Wars license will be more vindictive of the increase in the price of a liter of diesel by a few cents than about of a few grams of plastic sold at exorbitant prices. Everyone has their own priorities.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at April 9th next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Star Wars Diorama Collection set 75339 Death Star Trash Compactor, a box of 802 pieces which will be available at the public price of €89.99 from April 26, 2022. With this new collection of mini-dioramas, LEGO is frankly targeting adult fans who do not have the space or the desire to fill their living room with imposing vessels or other devices from the Star Wars universe but who still wish to display their passion for the saga via a few discreet decorative elements. It was already the possibility offered by the helmets marketed since 2021 and these new stagings will bring a little diversity on the shelves of the fans.

To launch this new collection, LEGO has therefore selected three "cult" scenes from the saga. The selection was not very difficult: in the Star Wars universe everything is more or less cult for many fans and the product in question here refers to the scene of Episode IV (To New Hope) in which Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia, and Chewbacca become stuck in the 3263827 trash compactor. The place is inhabited by a dianoga, a creature that attacks Luke Skywalker before C3-PO and R2-D2 prevent everyone from ending up in an imperial pancake.

The construction with its base and its three ends of walls is very quickly assembled. The scene is presented on a support designed to give it cachet and allow it to end its career honorably on a shelf. The back wall with its magnetic closing door (in the film) is fixed. The two sections of side walls are mobile and can be manually brought closer to the center of the diorama to simulate the start-up of the compactor. No complex mechanism or gears with a wheel at the end, you push with your fingers.

A very satisfying little detail: the construction of these two side panels seems messy at first glance, but we see that on arrival everything fits together perfectly, provided you have carefully placed the different minifigs in the intended locations beforehand. We can therefore have fun five minutes to put the grinder into action by pushing on the walls and the integrated functionality has at least the merit of offering two possibilities of exposure.

The dianoga certainly deserved better than the frankly symbolic representation proposed here. The critter plays a significant role in this scene, but unfortunately it only has one red eye that protrudes from the center of the diorama. In their time, the sets 10188 Death Star (2008) et 75159 Death Star (2016) which depicted the waste compactor in one of the compartments of the Death Star at least made the effort to offer us an assembly of a few parts to correctly embody the creature and there was no doubt a way to make a little better on an exhibition product entirely to the glory of this scene of a few minutes.

C-3PO and R2-D2 are installed behind the diorama facing the console which allows them in the film to disable "all mechanical grinders that are level 5". On the screen, the two droids are obviously not just behind the wall of the room in question, but their integration into the construction went through this shortcut and it is well executed. One could almost regret the lack of finish on the back of the diorama but the presence of the two droids is more of a wink than anything else.

LEGO has chosen to illustrate each of the products in its Diorama Collection by using a line of dialogue pad-printed on a Tile placed on the front. We are therefore entitled here to the sentence pronounced by Han Solo: "...One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner!...". This line of dialogue in English is not necessarily remembered by French-speaking fans who will best remember the phrase "...there is one thing for sure, it's that we're all going to lose a lot of weight..." and LEGO would have been well advised to propose the Tile in different languages, to give meaning to its presence in non-English-speaking markets. We'll do with the original version.

No stickers in this box, the three patterned elements are stamped. To populate this mini diorama, we get six figurines: Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2. The most observant will have noticed that these figurines combine new elements and parts already seen in other sets in the past: C-3PO keeps his head available since 2012 with his eyes more or less well centered depending on the boxes and he enjoys a brand new torso and pair of legs. The pad printing is very successful and LEGO finally makes the effort to properly dress this droid whose arms and feet usually remained neutral.

R2-D2 reuses the dome seen in several boxes since 2020 but it benefits from pad printing on both sides of the white cylinder. The minifigure now lives up to what you would expect from a manufacturer like LEGO and R2-D2 finally has a truly accomplished representation.

The Princess Leia figurine uses the torso available since 2016, the head which dates from 2019 and which is also used for Captain Marvel and the hairstyle which dates from 2011. Chewbacca remains equal to itself, it is the figurine of 2014 which is provided here.

Luke Skywalker and Han Solo inaugurate a new version of the Stormtroopers armor on which Luke receives the head dating from 2015 which has also been used by Gunther from Central Perk and Han Solo the head marketed since 2014. I prefer this version of the armor to the one seen in the set 75159 Death Star (2016) then in the mini-set exclusive to the Star Wars Celebration convention in 2017, the reference Detention Block Rescue, the shadow effects and the mixture of gray and black proposed here seem really relevant to me.

We will also talk about the other two dioramas from the new collection launched by LEGO, but I must admit that I am particularly convinced by this one. The scene concerned is correctly interpreted, the integrated functionality is anecdotal but it makes it possible to propose two variants of exposure and the endowment in figurines is consequent with two droids finally treated as it should be. The presence of C-3PO and R2-D2 on the back of the diorama will surprise your friends who come to visit you and the whole thing will fuel a few conversations during a dinner. We can in passing be offended by the price charged by LEGO for this box or wait wisely for Amazon to get on the file.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at April 8th next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment (something to say what) under the article to participate.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

LEGO brings out a small promotional product that had already been offered last January: the set 40532 Vintage Taxi is again offered subject to purchase, but this time you have to buy at least one of the four Modulars below so that this box of 163 pieces is automatically added to the basket:

Lego modular 10255 Assembly Square (259.99 €) Lego modular 10270 Bookshop (179.99 €) Lego modular 10278 Police Station (179.99 €) Lego modular 10297Boutique Hotel (199.99 €)

The offer is valid until April 7, 2022 or while stocks last and can be combined with those that allow you to get the polybag until April 16. 30583 Easter bunny from 40 € of purchase and the set 40527 Easter Chicks from 65 € of purchase.

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