Today we are starting a long series of competitions which will allow several of you to win some very nice boxes, as every year, and today we are starting with the LEGO set. 80013 Monkie Kid's Team Secret HQ valued at € 169.99. This luxury playset is undoubtedly on a lot of children's list this holiday season, but its relatively high retail price unfortunately does not put it within the reach of all budgets. I hope that the specimen in play will make one happy.

To validate your participation, all you have to do is 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 correctly answering the question asked. At the end of the participation phase, the winner will be chosen by drawing lots from among 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.

A big thank you to LEGO and to all the employees of the manufacturer who played the game by defending my cause once again with the decision makers to allow me to offer the series of pretty sets brought into play at the end of the year. The prize will be sent to the winner by me and by Colissimo, followed with insurance and signature on delivery (and suitable packaging) as soon as their 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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LEGO takes advantage of the 3rd China International Import Exhibition (CIIE) to unveil some of the 2021 novelties including three boxes on the theme of the Chinese New Year which will be available in Asia from January 1, 2021 and on the official online store from January 10.
The set from the LEGO Monkie Kid range unveiled today will be available from March 1, 2021 via the official online store.

The and 80106 Story of Nian depicts the legend of the regular invasion of villages by the Nian, a monster that came to devour cultures and people and that the population tried to drive away with the help of elements of red color, a supposed color scare the creature.

Today we dive briefly into the world of LEGO BrickHeadz minifigures with the cubic version of the Monkey King delivered in the Monkie Kid set 40381 Monkey King (175 pieces - 9.99 €). And it's rather a good surprise, the adaptation of the character to this relatively restrictive format seems really successful to me.

I won't repeat the usual verse on the constraints and techniques linked to the construction of these figurines that do not leave many people indifferent, you know the music: it's square, we find the guts / brains duo at the heart of the construction is a lot of SNOT (For Stud Not On Top) and the final result is more or less successful depending on the reference subject.

The main digression here lies in the relatively elaborate dressing of the character's head with its logically more facial hair than when it comes to a figurine representing a human being. The designer gets away with it without overdoing it with a face nicely framed by the monkey's mane which, without offering a very tough construction challenge, brings a little variety to the range.

The finish of this figurine also gives us a very precise idea of ​​what can become of the subject's head when the top of the face is not simply made up of a large 2x4 tile. This is obviously not the only figure in the range to use this process with a forehead masked by hair or a modeled accessory, but it is a new concrete example of the visual effect caused by a slightly more balanced face.

We will retain the few golden pieces used for the shoulder pads of the outfit and the two pad-printed pieces which embody the character's tunic to make it conform to that of the pretty minifig seen in the set 80012 Monkey King Warrior Mech.

The eyes are also a variant with a golden background of those usually supplied in these boxes and they are perfectly matched with the rest of the figure. LEGO does not forget to provide us with the stick with its two new golden handles, always identical to the accessory delivered in the set 80012 Monkey King Warrior Mech, but almost more appropriate here in terms of proportions.

Too bad for the absence of pad printing on the lower part of the figurine. No patterns on the belt or on the legs of the character that could at least have included a golden piece. We console ourselves with a nice finish to the back of the figurine thanks to the split cape that reveals the tail of the Monkey King.

In short, I think that beyond its belonging to the Monkie Kid range, itself vaguely inspired by a very popular legend in China, this figurine should appeal to all those who like products directly related to Asia and to its culture.

The Monkey King is not a LEGO invention, and those who do not want to burden themselves with the many sets in the range that pass this popular tale to the Ninjago / Nexo Knights roping machine will still be able to find something to add to their interior decoration. with this nice little set.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at September 21, 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.

Those who collect LEGO BrickHeadz minifigures or sets from the LEGO Monkie Kid range will be delighted to learn that the four boxes of the second wave of products that we were talking about a few days ago are now listed on the LEGO Shop with an announced availability. for next August 1st:

It didn't take long for LEGO to decide to upload the official visuals of the three new boxes in the LEGO Monkie Kid range we were talking about a few days ago. You will find them gathered below, it's up to you to see if these boxes deserve to join your collection.

As far as I'm concerned, the decidedly techno-futuristic turn of the thing leaves me a little unmoved, but it should appeal to the youngest.

These boxes are not yet referenced on the French version of the official online store, we do not know at this stage if they will be one day. No visuals for the moment of the fourth planned reference, the set 40381 BrickHeadz Monkey King (175 pieces) which was online a few days ago but has since been removed from the Malaysian version of the LEGO Shop.