For those interested in the content available around LEGO products, know that two animated films based on the LEGO Star Wars and Jurassic World universes are expected at the end of August and mid-November 2020 respectively.

The animated short LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special will be broadcast on the Disney + platform on November 17th before being probably offered on classic channels later. The action of this animated short, which echoes the telefilm bearing the same title broadcast in 1978, takes place after the events of the last episode of the cinematographic saga.

It is interesting to note that the 2020 version of the traditional LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar (ref. LEGO 75279) has been developed in partnership with the production of this animated film: the different characters in festive attire that we will get in some of the 24 boxes of the set will be present on the screen. More info on StarWars.com.

The 75279 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2020 set will be, as is the case every year for the traditional calendars in LEGO version, available from September 1st.

The LEGO Jurassic World video library will expand its side with a new animated short in two parts entitled LEGO Jurassic World: Double Trouble which will air in the US on the Nickelodeon channel on August 23 and 30, 2020.

No release date for this new film in France for the moment, but we can at least bet on a DVD release in the coming months, as was the case for the animated series. LEGO Jurassic World: The Legend of Isla Nublar.

Below, the trailer for this new animated film:

Today we quickly tour the LEGO set 75939 Dr. Wu's Lab Baby Dinosaurs Breakout (164 pieces - € 19.99), the smallest box of the new wave of licensed Jurassic World sets.

We're not going to lie to each other, at the point where we are in the LEGO Jurassic World range, the interest of the new sets loosely based on the animated series LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar responsible for furnishing while waiting for the next installment of the cinematographic saga scheduled for 2021 lies mainly in the presence of new species of dinosaurs.

As is often the case with LEGO, the marketers have done their job of putting together a very pretty staging of Dr. Wu's lab on the box. But we all know here that the reality is sometimes disappointing at LEGO and this mini lab all to its advantage on the packaging of the product will not impress many people when it is placed on the living room table.

We can always gargle with the incubator, its eggs and its robotic gripper or on the "functionality" which allows "to break" the large blue window via a black lever that no one has made the effort to really integrate into the construction, there is frankly nothing "... play to create new species of dinosaurs and help Owen Grady stop the dinosaur escape ..."as the official description of the product pompously indicates.

The escape of the dinosaurs is also purely theoretical since LEGO does not provide an enclosure, cage or closed space from which the two creatures could possibly escape. Looking more closely, we see that the designer has chosen to put the lab on one side of the building and the enclosure on the other. The triceratops therefore have access to a bowl of water and a little food. Nothing prevents him from also having fun with the joysticks and other buttons placed on the console visible to the right ...

On the lab side, Dr. Wu has at his disposal a slew of control screens all based on stickers graphically very successful but whose installation is laborious and the rendering very average. It should be noted above all that the designer did not even bother to complete the construction, for example leaving the tenons visible on the central control screen.

When the content of a set is a little too simplistic to really convince, all that remains are the micro-things or the good ideas that the design of the product can conceal even if the microscope with its Tile used upside down to make a Petri dish, the "robotic" arm of the incubator and the pad-printed amber block will not really save the furniture. Especially for 20 €.

Let's face it, LEGO charges us two baby dinosaurs for € 20 and adds a few handfuls of parts so as not to tarnish its reputation as a manufacturer of construction toys. If you collect the different molded species offered by LEGO, here you will get a baby ankylosaurus and a baby triceratops.

The ankylosaurus could have found its way into a Kinder egg and it is hardly the post on its back that reminds us that it is indeed a LEGO product. I predict the confusion among many parents who will one day want to get rid of their kids' LEGOs on Le Bon Coin and who will put the minifigure in the bin for "cute stuff but probably not worth much".

The triceratops is a little more consistent and there is no doubt that it belongs to the LEGO universe: it has a notch on the back in which you have to install two pieces to give it its final shape, or a minifigure "because it fits".

If the ankylosaur is composed of a single injection molded element of two colors, the triceratops is the result of the assembly of two elements with a somewhat rough fit in places. Purists will see a minifigure in the LEGO spirit, others will regret the spaces visible on the side of the animal while the minifigure is not removable. For the rest, the pad prints of these two baby dinosaurs are very correct and the injection in two colors on the head of the triceratops is perfectly carried out without burrs.

The two minifigs provided are made up of reused parts and a few new elements: Dr. Wu's torso was already in the set 75927 Stygimoloch Breakout (2018), the character's head is unpublished. We could find the character's outfit a bit simplistic, but it is perfectly in line with the one worn by BD actor Wong on screen. A head in Light Flesh would have been sufficient.

Owen Grady's torso is a novelty based on the character's look in the animated series and also featured in sets 75940 Gallimimus and Pteranodon Breakout et 75942 Velociraptor Biplane Rescue Mission. As often, the official visuals are a little too optimistic and the flesh-colored area of ​​the neck here turns pink because of the color of the torso.

The character's head is the one already seen in several boxes marketed since 2018 with here a misalignment of the whites of the eyes on one of the faces, the legs are a slew of sets marketed from then 2018 and are even reused in the set Lego city 60266 Ocean Exploration Ship for the helicopter pilot.

In short, LEGO applies here the recipe well known to fans of other licensed ranges with something to attract collectors and a few pieces to coat it all. The two baby dinos will therefore easily find their audience and the laboratory will probably end up in the toy box unless the one who obtains it has some of the other boxes in the range to compose a diorama a little plush.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at July 16, 2020 next at 23pm. 

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Today, we are taking advantage of the posting by Rakuten of small 360 ° presentation sequences of the novelties of the second half of 2020 to discover the content of the four LEGO Jurassic World sets planned for this summer.

In these boxes still vaguely inspired by the animated series LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar, we find Owen Grady, Claire Dearing, Doctor Henry Wu, Sinjin Prescott and a few others and we get in the process some new creatures like the two young dinos (Triceratops and Ankylosaurus) from set 75939, the new Gallimimus from set 75940, the Ankylosaurus from set 75941 and the blue Velociraptor from set 75942.

You can put the small video sequences below in full screen to discover the sets from all angles.

The videos are still online at Rakuten: 75939 here, 75940 there, 75941 here et 75942 there. Visuals of the boxes via skvis.no.

Brief return of the exclusive LEGO Jurassic World pack initially offered in 2018 by the King Jouet brand with an offer proposed by the Zavvi brand: For any purchase of a t-shirt from the "collection"Primal"for sale on the brand's website, you get the Jurassic World minifig pack (ref. 5005255) with Ian Malcolm, Claire Dearing, Owen Grady, a chicken thigh and a micro-dino.

There is no minimum purchase, only one item from the collection is enough for the minifig pack to be automatically added to the basket. There are some pretty cool t-shirts in the bundle, it's up to you to see if you find what you want.

(Thanks to Joehelldeloxley for the alert)

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This week, LEGO is offering the polybag 30382 Baby Velociraptor Playpen from € 35 purchase of products from the Jurassic World range.

This bag is not unpublished, it had already been offered in June 2018 on the official LEGO store, but it allows you to obtain at a lower cost a copy of the baby green dino also provided in the sets 75931 Dilophosaurus Outpost Attack et 75933 T. Rex Transport.

As usual, the bag of 48 pieces is automatically added to the basket as soon as the minimum required amount is reached. The offer is valid until July 28 and while stocks last.

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