LEGO DC Character Encyclopedia New Edition: A Look at the Val-Zod Earth-2 Superman Minifig

We are now quickly interested in the new edition of the encyclopedia of characters from the DC universe in LEGO version with the availability of the book concerned. I will spare you the content of the book, you will find examples of pages on the product sheet at Amazon and I think there wouldn't be many people to buy this type of book anyway if it weren't accompanied by an exclusive and unpublished minifig.

For this time, the publisher Dorling Kindersley and LEGO have made an effort by offering us a character that is certainly second-rate but which has the merit of being completely new to LEGO and which will remain exclusive to this book: it is Val -Zod in Earth-2 version, as he appears for the first time in the comic Earth 2 #19 published in 2014. We also know that a series around the character produced by Michael B. Jordan is in progress writing for the HBO Max streaming platform.

The minifig is overall successful, no doubt about it. We could however quibble about the differences in color between the blue tinted in the mass of the torso and the ink of the pad printing of the legs, it is not perfectly fitting. Same observation for the pad-printed white areas on the chest, we guess the blue background under the thin layer of ink.

We are delivered a classic one-hole soft cape and once again I regret that LEGO does not generalize the solution used for Batman and Doctor Strange with nicely molded plastic accessories. No accessories with the character, the minifig is delivered alone.

Another interesting technical detail of this book, the publisher is now changing the process for inserting the supplied minifig: the figurine is no longer directly visible on the cover and you have to remove a sticker and tear the flap of the interior insert to access the elements.

This solution should limit the theft of minifigs in bookstores, the old transparent sticker that closed the plastic insert could be peeled off and reattached in the blink of an eye. On the other hand, it will be advisable to be careful on delivery or during the purchase of the work and to check without delay that the insert is indeed intact and the minifig is present, it is no longer possible to ensure it visually from the cover.

We are not going to complain about being able to add a character from the DC universe unpublished at LEGO to our collections, knowing that the sets in the range have become rather rare since the beginning of the year. The book that accompanies the figurine is only a collection of digital visuals of the minifigs of the range which distills some statistics and anecdotes about the different characters concerned, it will be necessary to wait for a possible edition in French if you plan to give to a young fan who has a poor command of English.

This 200-page book and its exclusive figurine is currently available for almost €22 at Amazon:

LEGO DC Character Encyclopedia New Edition: With exclusive LEGO minifigure

21.84 €

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