Today we quickly tour the LEGO Speed ​​Champions set 76908 Lamborghini Countach, a small box of 262 pieces sold at the retail price of €19.99 since March 1st. We no longer need to present the small vehicles in the Speed ​​Champions range, with their always original techniques and their aesthetics that are often successful but sometimes also a little banal due to the use of the same canopy for many models and square parts for bodywork. with often asserted curves.

The Lamborghini Countach in LEGO version uses these last two flaws to its advantage for once and that's good news. The Countach is not very young, its aesthetics testifies to it, and it made a whole generation of teenagers dream in the 80s, including yours truly. It was the sports car that was talked about in schoolyards when it came to arguing with a friend who preferred the Ferrari Testarossa.

The Countach was also one of many luxury vehicles used in the Miami Vice TV series, those who follow the series may recall a chase that featured a Countach 50000 QV and Sonny Crockett driving his fake Ferrari Daytona Spider.

All that to tell you that this vehicle sends me back a few years and that the arrival of a LEGO version makes me really happy, at least more than many others super/hyper/machine cars a bit too dark for my taste.

The LEGO version is immediately identifiable and there is no doubt from any angle: it is indeed a Countach. It's already taken when you know some products in the range that are difficult to identify without having the box on hand. White suits me, it's the color I remember. Others might have preferred a yellow (Sunstreaker) or red (Lambor) version to stick to their nostalgia for Transformers toys, a question of time and generation.

Square parts for an angular vehicle? in principle, everything should go well here given the subject matter. And in my opinion it is. Despite the limitations of the format, the designer was able to perfectly reproduce the "curves" of the vehicle and even gratifies us with some truly original techniques with angles managed in a sometimes surprising way.

I tried not to spoil too much the composition of the various sub-assemblies in the photos, but if you want to keep the element of surprise and fun intact, avoid the galleries below. The fans should in any case take pleasure in assembling this Countach which takes shape before our eyes, it was the case for me.

The usual canopy is used wisely here, and once is not custom it really looks like that of the reference vehicle. We just regret that the pad-printed white areas are "too white" compared to the rest of the bodywork, which is rather cream. Again, LEGO fails to lightly color the ink used to try to match the hue of their parts and that's unfortunate. The manufacturer is trying to attenuate the color difference a little on the official visuals, but it's even worse in real life.

No scissor doors on the LEGO version, you can't have everything on this scale. Too bad for the purists who would have liked to exhibit the vehicle with the "Lambo Doors" In the air, we will have to do without. We will also be satisfied with the classic steering wheel which is not perfectly placed in front of the driver, even if I think it is time for LEGO to imagine a more suitable solution.

The four rims are pad printed, and it's successful, the sheet of stickers is quite large but they are stickers on a transparent background whose glue is not visible on the white background of the bodywork and the rendering is therefore overall satisfactory. The headlights are as often based on stickers but here they are placed under transparent parts and the effect obtained seems satisfactory to me.

The minifigure provided is not stunning, we are satisfied with a driver with a torso flanked by the Lamborghini logo, a black helmet without patterns, hair and a key which is not out of place but whose primary purpose is to remove the hubcaps from the wheels.

The LEGO Speed ​​Champions range is often a somewhat thankless subject for designers who try their hand at the exercise and the result is sometimes a bit approximate despite all the efforts made to reproduce the vehicles concerned. For this time, I really admire the result with a Lamborghini Countach that is fun to build and pleasant to observe from every angle.

Nostalgia is no stranger to this sentiment, the Countach has long been my favorite supercar and I'm thrilled to finally be able to display one on the corner of a shelf as a reminder of the endless Lamborghini/Ferrari debates that filled my recreations.

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It's March 1, 2022 and LEGO is selling a very large handful of new sets on its official online store starting today. As usual, you will find the complete summary of these new features below.

As with every new LEGO product launch, it's up to you whether to jump right in and pay full price for these boxes or whether to show a little patience and wait for the inevitable discounts that come with them. will be offered in the weeks and months to come at Amazon, on FNAC.com and at a few other resellers.

An important detail: the offer that will allow you to obtain the LEGO set 40530 Jane Goodall Tribute offered from 120 € of purchase without restriction of range only starts on March 3, 2022. It's up to you.

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On the sidelines of five new sets from the LEGO Speed ​​Champions range which will be available from March 1, 2022, collectors will also have to go in search of a new promotional polybag, the reference 30434 Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro which offers a more compact interpretation of one of the vehicles in the set 76910 Speed ​​Champions Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro & Vantage GT3 (592 pieces - 39.99 €).

The bag of 97 pieces and some stickers under official license allows you to assemble a micro version of the 1000 horsepower hypercar, if it is not offered by LEGO on the occasion of the launch of the new products in the range, it will be necessary find a sign that offers or sells it in the coming weeks.

We were missing a reference from the LEGO Speed ​​Champions range among the sets unveiled yesterday by the German brand JB Spielwaren, it is now online on the official store along with the other boxes: The set 76909 Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E Performance & Mercedes-AMG Project One will also be available from March 1, 2022.

The five planned references are therefore now online on the official store, it's up to you to see which ones will deserve to end up on your shelves:

We had almost forgotten the LEGO Speed ​​Champions range which nevertheless allows us to obtain each year a large handful of more or less successful reproductions of vehicles to line up on our shelves. We know that the year 2022 has in store for us in principle eight boxes including the set 76910 Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro and Aston Martin Vantage GT 3 whose official visuals are now online on the website of the Swiss brand Migros.

The usual recipe will not change, the designers are still doing what they can to ensure that these vehicles are as faithful as possible to the reference models and there will always be as many stickers to stick on, especially for the headlights of the two vehicles below which probably deserved better than a few stickers, especially for an officially licensed box from the prestigious Aston Martin brand. Public price of this set of 592 pieces: €39.99, availability in principle scheduled for March 2022.

We end the series of reviews of the 2021 novelties of the LEGO Speed ​​Champions range with the set 76904 Mopar Dodge // SRT Top Fuel Dragster & 1970 Dodge Challenger T / A, a box of 627 pieces sold at the public price of 64.99 € since June 1st.

This set highlights two Dodge brand vehicles with on one side the dragtser in the colors of the "Angry bee"driven by Leah Pritchett in NHRA Drag Racing competitions and the other a Challenger T / A from 1970. The selection of vehicles offered in this box seems a little confusing to me, there was probably better to do by combining the 1970 Challenger to the 1320 Challenger R / T Scat Pack 2019 or a recent Charger, and the automaker may have had some say in the selection on offer.

The dragster of more than 30 centimeters long at least has the merit of offering a different experience from that generally offered in the boxes of the LEGO Speed ​​Champions range and the LEGO version of the machine is really very successful. The assembly of the front fuselage composed mainly of a stack of bricks with tenons on three sides stiffened by a few flat takes only a few minutes, the longest step being the installation of the many stickers on the different Tiles that dress the structure. The two rear tires seem a bit undersized on the LEGO version, but we will do with it.

The cockpit and engine are a bit more fun to build with some nice details, a handful of stickers, and a gorgeous pad printed canopy. Leah Pritchett is dressed in her racing suit with seams that run down her legs. It is therefore possible at LEGO and I regret that all pilots in uniform do not systematically benefit from this level of finish.

The 1970 Challenger T / A, on the other hand, seems successful until it is compared with the benchmark vehicle. The cause is understood, we cannot efficiently reproduce curves with square bricks, and the LEGO version of this muscle car suffers once again from its too sharp angles and the usual approximations.

As often, the front and rear of the vehicle are the most faithful parts and we install "real" headlights, the rest is a somewhat crude adaptation using elements that struggle to embody the attributes of this muscle car. The windshield has neither the curves nor the proportions of that of the "real" vehicle and it is all the upper part of this Dodge Challenger that is affected.

Unfortunately, things don't get better when the side stickers have to be placed on a transparent background, the glue of which remains visible on the purple color of the parts. The icing on the hood, the roof is a 6x6 matte plate with a large injection point in its center. It seemed to me that LEGO had learned a lesson from the LEGO Batman set 76139 1989 Batmobile marketed since 2019, for which the same roof plate has been replaced by three tiles 2x6 smooth and shiny. This is clearly not the case, or the designer will have felt that the Speed ​​Champions range does not deserve this level of aesthetic refinement.

Unsurprisingly, the three transparent elements delivered in this box are scratched when unpacking, they walk around in bags that are too large thrown into boxes themselves too large. Once again it will be necessary to call on customer service to obtain impeccable parts.

The four rims of the Challenger T / A are pad printed and the result is rather faithful to the reference elements. If you lose one, be aware that LEGO provides a total of five copies in the box. The minifig that accompanies the vehicle benefits from a very nice torso which takes up the symbol of the angry bee, the mascot of the brand used for its muscle cars in the 1970s.

I would have gladly done without one of the two vehicles in this box sold for 65 € to keep only the Challenger 1970. The dragtser is successful but it is a bit off topic in this range which usually mixes supercars, vintage vehicles and sometimes SUVs. . Dodge will undoubtedly have had the final cut on the content of the set and will have imposed its dragster instead of offering us a recent Charger or a new generation RAM pickup in racing version.

In the end, the content of the different sets that will join the LEGO Speed ​​Champions collection this year is in my opinion very uneven, but all these products mainly suffer from recurring technical faults at LEGO which sabotage the work of the designers a little. The absence of new parts specific to this range, such as more suitable windshields, is felt and the compromises made are far from convincing on certain models. Stickers on a transparent background can be useful in certain configurations but they also sometimes ruin the aesthetics of certain models.

We can finally say that it is only LEGO and that it is an exercise in style with its constraints, but at 20 € the vehicle alone or between 40 and 60 € both, I think that we are entitled to expect a little more than the sometimes disappointing level of finish of the reproductions offered. The shift to eight studs wide of these vehicles is a good thing, in my opinion there is now room for improvement in other areas so that this range, much appreciated by both collectors and the youngest, is at the level of what it is. 'we can expect a high-end toy in 2021.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at June 21, 2021 next at 23pm. For newcomers, know that you just need to post a comment to participate in the draw.

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.

This is the offer of the moment on the official online store and in the LEGO Stores: the LEGO Speed ​​Champions polybag 30343 McLaren Elva is offered from 40 € of purchase and without restriction of range until June 20, 2021.

This small bag allows you to reproduce the vehicle also available in the set 76902 McLaren Elva (19.99 €), I told you about these two products a few days ago on the occasion of a "Review".

This new offer can obviously be combined with the one which currently allows you to obtain the LEGO DOTS polybag until June 30. 30557 Picture Holder Cube from € 40 purchase of products from the LEGO DOTS, Friends and / or VIDIYO ranges.

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