Good news for those who are impatiently waiting for June 1st to treat themselves to a few boxes on the official online store or in a LEGO Store: the offer that currently allows you to obtain a copy of the LEGO Ideas set 40533 Cosmic Cardboard Adventures from €160 of purchase is finally extended until June 14, 2022 when it was initially supposed to stop on May 30.

It's up to you to see if this little box of 203 pieces really deserves to spend 160 € to get it, you will probably find more easily enough to reach this sum in June than with the novelties of these last months which are for the most part already available elsewhere for much less than at LEGO.

You have revenge until tomorrow evening to combine the various offers currently on offer: the set 40533 Cosmic Cardboard Adventures free from 160 € of purchase, the LEGO set 40529 Children's Amusement Park free from 90 € of purchase and the LEGO Friends bag 30417 Flower and Butterfly free from 40 € of purchase with the code MD22

It's time for the most eager art and LEGO lovers to checkout: the LEGO Ideas set 21333 Vincent Van Gogh - The Starry Night (2316 pieces) is indeed now available in preview on the official online store at the public price of 169.99 €. Do not forget to identify yourself on your VIP account to be able to place an order.

Almost everything has already been said about this box via the comments, the official announcement of the set et my "Review ", you just have to decide if you really have to crack immediately or wait until this reference is available elsewhere at a more reasonable price.

To console you for paying this set at a high price, know that you are combining the two promotional offers of the moment: the 40529 Children's Amusement Park (170 pieces) offered from 90 € of purchase and the LEGO Ideas set 40533 Cosmic Cardboard Adventures (203 pieces) offered from 160 € of purchase.

To further optimize the operation, you can obtain one of the two polybags currently offered: the LEGO Friends bag 30417 Flower and Butterfly free from 40 € of purchase with the code MD22 or the LEGO Speed ​​Champions bag 30434 Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro also offered from 40 € of purchase with the code FD22

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Do you want more ? LEGO is teaming up today with the US Target brand to organize a vote between three LEGO Ideas projects that had reached the required minimum of 10.000 supporters but were then rejected in the review phase. The winner will see their creation become an official set.

This disguised draft leaves the power to the fans, so you need to vote for your favorite creation before May 31, 2022 if you want to see it end up on your shelves. You have the choice between the Working Mini Golf Course from LEGOParadise, the Viking Village of BrickHammer and the Marine Life by Brick Dangerous.

To vote, go to this address and follow the link to the voting interface after logging into the LEGO Ideas platform. Announcement of the winner in August 2022, the set will be released one day and will be available on the official online store like any set from the LEGO Ideas range.

Today we are quickly interested in the content of a novelty in the LEGO Ideas range, the set 21333 The Starry Night, which will be available as a VIP preview from May 25, 2022 at the retail price of €169.99. No need to be an enlightened art lover to recognize the subject treated in this box of 2316 pieces, it is an interpretation of the famous painting The Starry Night (The Starry Night) painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889 during of his passage to the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1941.

The set is inspired by the project Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night submitted by legotruman (Truman Cheng) on ​​the LEGO Ideas platform, validated by 10.000 supporters and definitively approved by LEGO in February 2021. It was obviously reworked by a brand designer to lead to the product which will be available on the shelves of the official store.

The selection of this rather original creation corresponds perfectly with LEGO's ambitions in terms of seducing the adult public who occasionally like to assemble a few bricks: It's art in LEGO sauce and the object can be displayed on the dresser of the living room without looking like an adult who still "plays" with his ships and other LEGO trucks.

The manufacturer has retained the aesthetic bias of the carrier of the initial project with a table that gains in depth thanks to a beautiful 3D effect. We therefore leave here the usual diverse and varied mosaics which even if they are gathered in the range entitled "LEGO ART" have nothing really artistic apart from the fact that they reproduce photos, objects or known characters.

We cannot blame LEGO for having distorted the reference creation, the designer who took over the file in hand strictly respected all the intentions of the creator. Only the background of the sky is flat, everything else from the cypresses to the swirls of the sky passing by the stars and the village with its lights is in relief. The creation goes out of the frame and takes on volume, it's successful if you consider that it was the intended objective.

LEGO provides a minifig of the painter with an easel that features a reproduction of the reference painting. One might wonder if these elements were really necessary, but the manufacturer has found how to integrate them effectively into the overall volume via a small remote platform.

It is nicely executed and the presence of this minifig changes the whole perception of the construction: the painting is not one, it is the real starry night seen by the painter from his room which is proposed to us. The resulting work is therefore on the white plate placed on the easel.

The assembly of the product is not what one would call "relaxing" and that's LEGO's fault. Beyond the relative complexity of the construction, it is especially the instruction booklet that spoils the pleasure with a big problem of colors: we do not really find the different shades of blue and green over the pages and the confusion inevitably arises at certain stages.

You have to go by deduction to use the right pieces in certain places and get the desired result. Since it is a question here of stacking layers of parts, it is better to be vigilant not to have to dismantle several rows of elements in order to correct a possible inversion of parts. Take my word for it.

In the end, I found the assembly phase really laborious and it was the pleasure of finally being able to observe the finished product that allowed me to forgive the technical errors of the manufacturer and the impression of working on the assembly line for hours. .

The construction needs to be seen from a certain distance to have its small effect. Up close, however, only the cypress and the spiral in the sky seem a bit crude to me, the rest can be seen as an artistic interpretation of the reference work. The tree clearly protruding from the frame, you will have to be careful not to catch a branch when moving the object to find the right place for it.

The micro-village is successful, we take pleasure in discovering the different techniques used to create the houses with their colored roofs or the church with its bell tower. For the rest, it's stacking of parts without much interest which only makes sense when the last page of the instruction booklet is turned.

The frame is also very successful, it is thick and its design gives it a truly stunning appearance. It would almost be mistaken for a real one. Only regret: many black parts are marked or a little scratched and it's a shame on a high-end exhibit.

The minifig is also very convincing, LEGO did not skimp on the pad printing so that the tribute to Van Gogh is up to par. Since the character is accompanied by his pad-printed work on a plate itself placed on an easel, it will be possible to dissociate the main construction from the rest and to exhibit the two sets separately: the painting on the wall, the painter with his easel on the corner of a desk.

You understood it thanks to the photos that I propose to you, we assemble the creation itself and then slide it into a frame, or a window, which gives it character and which allows you to install this 3D painting on the wall. On the back of the object there is the hook usually supplied with the mosaics of the LEGO ART range, the finish is really very correct with two studs which allow the painting to be kept perfectly vertical.

It will also be possible to exhibit the painting on a piece of furniture, it is stabilized by a crutch placed on the junction between the frame and the platform which accommodates Van Gogh and his easel. There are no stickers in this box, so you get a few nicely pad-printed pieces to embody the stars and the moon.

I have long wondered if LEGO would manage to get by with the selection of such an atypical and complex project, I must admit that I find the "official" version of the product both very successful and respectful of the original creation of reference. This is far from always the case in the LEGO Ideas range.

This product should meet at least a success of esteem, it will only really appeal to those who are sensitive to the work of Van Gogh or collectors who strive to collect all the products marketed under the LEGO Ideas banner. This is not my case, but I think that many art lovers, not necessarily LEGO fans, should largely find their account there even if the set will probably not work miracles in terms of sales volume .

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 27th May 2022 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.

LEGO today unveils a new reference in the LEGO Ideas range, the set 21333 The Starry Night (2316 pieces) which will be available in VIP preview from May 25, 2022 at the retail price of €169.99. In the packaging, enough to assemble an interpretation of the famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, based on the idea posted online by legotruman (Truman Cheng) on ​​the LEGO Ideas platform.

The idea in question was able to gather the 10.000 supporters necessary for it to go through the review phase and was then definitively approved by LEGO in February 2021. The result is a three-dimensional construction that reproduces the painting exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) of New York. The 38 cm long, 28 cm high and 21 cm deep object is accompanied by a minifig of the artist and can be hung on the wall or displayed on the dresser in the living room.

I'll talk to you more about this product in a few minutes on the occasion of a "Review ".

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