Do you want more ? According to Chris MacKay, the director of the animated film The LEGO Batman Movie who answered a question on Twitter, a second part would be planned.

This "confirmation" of the start of a second opus of what would become a saga is not yet official, Warner has never communicated on the subject so far. We will know in due course if the project goes to the end and if the film ends up in theaters one day ... In the meantime, we know that Batman will be present in the second installment of The LEGO Movie saga.

We are working on that rn actually! In the meantime LEGO Batman is all over LEGO 2 coming in February.

- Chris McKay (@buddboetticher) December 5, 2018

The 6th issue of the official The LEGO Batman Movie magazine is now available and the accompanying Joker minifig, with its tailcoat and two sticks of dynamite, is exactly the same as the one that came with the number 2 released ... in February 2017.

Think about it before you come home triumphant with the magazine under your arm if you've already bought the previous issues.

I also remind you that the Joker minifigure offered with this new number is obviously not exclusive or new, it is the version seen in the set 70900 The Joker Balloon Escape and in the polybag 30523 The Joker Battle Training.

Small departure from habits with the posting here on Brick Heroes of a novelty The LEGO Movie expected for January 2015: The set 70817 Batman & Super Angry Kitty Attack (115 pieces) including we had a preview a few days ago and about which many of us wondered if some of the content on the visual uploaded was unveiled on the LEGO stand.

The good news for DC Comics minifig fans is that this $ 9.99 US retail box will contain a Batman minifigure with a unique face ...

Today we are very quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76261 Spider-Man Final Battle, a box of 900 pieces which has been available since August 1, 2023 at the retail price of €104.99.

As for the set 76266 Endgame Final Battle which I was telling you about a few days ago, it's about assembling a compact interpretation of a scene taken from a film with the idea of ​​being able to display the thing without invading the living room with plastic bricks.

This film derivative Spider-Man: No Way Home therefore uses the principle of the small black and round base on which the construction is installed, with the promise of being able to enjoy it from all angles. I specify for those who have an overflowing imagination, the base is not equipped with a system which would make it rotary, it will have to be turned by hand. It's also a bit of a shame, the presence of an axis under the tray would have facilitated the exploration of the contents of the product.

We're not going to lie to each other, many fans imagined that the final scene of the film would receive more treatment at LEGO with a construction on the level of the one seen in 2019 in The LEGO Movie 2 set 70840 Welcome to Apocalypseburg. This is not the case and we have to be content with this very compact version which frankly lacks ambition. With a few details, the head of the Statue of Liberty is similar to that of The LEGO Movie 2 set, but there is only this part of the statue in this box and the diorama is economy.

Everything is very quickly assembled and then a slew of scaffolding is installed which necessarily makes the whole visually a little confusing. It is however in the spirit of the scene of the film, but much tighter with 18 cm high by 20 cm wide and 22 cm deep. the construction can be used from different angles, the finish matches on all sides.

There are a few stickers to stick on the head of the statue, but you can almost imagine doing without them as the construction is hidden behind the scaffolding, knowing that it is only a few bolts and that the background color of these stickers is not perfectly matched with the color of the parts on which they must be installed.

LEGO did not forget to slip some fun details into the heart of the construction, including Sandman's hand hidden inside the head of the statue or a large sticker evoking the contents of the set 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum accessible via the hidden portal at the back of the skull. The portal opened by Ned is there and even if everything is piled up with forceps, the references are appreciable.

The decor being planted, we can then install the large handful of minifigs provided in this box and all the fantasies are allowed with in particular some curved transparent supports and adapted to the installation of characters in a very dynamic pose. The product loses a little in compactness but it then takes on an interesting volume and we almost forget the central construction to focus on the figurines and their interactions.

The endowment in minifigs here is rather substantial with the three versions of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Ned, MJ, Electro, The Green Goblin and Dr Octopus. No Lizard in this box, it is the great absentee and there was however enough to add this central character of the scene concerned with a public price fixed at 105 €. LEGO would probably have included a large figurine of the creature and there was not necessarily room to install it on the diorama.

The three Spider-Man figurines seem successful to me, we can clearly distinguish the significant attributes of each of the outfits and the graphic designers have done their homework. Each of the characters comes with a head and a hair that allows them to be displayed without their respective masks, it is an interesting choice knowing that they evolve without their masks in a large part of the scene of the film. Legs injected in two colors for everyone, it is appreciable.

The more observant will have noticed that Tom Holland's minifigure reuses elements already seen in other boxes, it makes sense. Those who have been waiting for LEGO to one day make The Amazing Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) version more accessible than the limited edition one offered during San Diego Comic Con in 2013 will finally have the character at hand without having to spend a lot of money.

The Ned figurine is pretty much the same except for the design of the torso: the jacket is the wrong color. Same observation for MJ's minifig with a striped sweater which is also not in the color seen on the screen. On the villain side, the three characters provided are quite successful, they are all equipped with well-designed accessories that add to the dynamics of the scene. Doc Ock has glasses with very slightly smoked lenses on the screen, the minifig is faithful. LEGIO on the other hand could have made an effort on the Green Goblin figurine, the legs and arms of the character lack detail.

We must face the facts, this set is in fact a pretext to offer us a very large handful of characters with enough to stage them without wisely aligning them on a support or in a Ribba frame.

The main construction lacks in my opinion a bit of flavor and one could have hoped for a more ambitious product to represent this scene. It's dense, visually a bit confusing, but we'll have to deal with it and we'll console ourselves by keeping space on our shelves for some larger products to come.

As for the public price of this box, this is not a problem, this product is already available at Amazon at a much lower price, which immediately makes it even more attractive:

Discount -20%

LEGO 76261 Marvel Spider-Man's Final Battle, Recreate the Scene from Spider-Man: No Way Home with 3 Peter Parkers, Green Goblin, Electro, Ned, Dr Str

104.99 € 83.99 €

BUY

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at August 29, 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. 

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76248 The Avengers Quinjet, a box of 795 pieces which will be available from January 1, 2023 at the retail price of €99.99.

The Quinjet is a chestnut tree from the LEGO Marvel range, you always need one in the manufacturer's catalog. Different versions have succeeded since 2012 and collectors certainly remember the sets 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle (2012) 76032 The Avengers Quinjet City Chase (2015) or 76051 Super Hero Airport Battle (2016) 76126 Avengers Ultimate Quinjet (2019) et 76127 Captain Marvel and The Skrull Attack (2019)

With this 2023 version of the ship, it is still not an exhibition model in the literal sense of the term, this product is indeed a simple toy for children to which LEGO had the good idea to add a presentation support . I often complain about not having on hand enough to display a flying machine correctly, I feel like I have been heard this time.

I might as well tell you right away, I'm a little annoyed by this product. On the one hand, it combines excellent ideas and a very acceptable finish and on the other, it suffers from many more or less annoying flaws that remind us that LEGO is making less and less effort on the details. In terms of form, the designer is doing quite well with a ship that is more or less faithful to the reference model and without, however, overbidding the parts that would have affected the retail price of the product. The set is on arrival sufficiently detailed and functional to be both a very elaborate toy and a model that can be proudly stored on the corner of a shelf between two play sessions.

We take advantage of an easily accessible interior space, whether at the level of the cockpit or the seats placed at the rear, the canopy of the cockpit benefits from a nice finish with the addition of two side bubbles which give it a little roundness, this Quinjet is equipped with retractable landing gear which prevents it from resting on its cabin and the whole looks rather proud from almost all angles if you don't look too much at the wings with their revealing space the turbines which are sorely lacking in finish. In any case, you should not expect a perfectly faithful and refined reproduction of this product down to the smallest detail, there are necessarily some aesthetic shortcuts, especially on this scale. I simply regret the lack of pad printing on the different windows, just to correctly embody the uprights that frame these different glazed surfaces.

The presentation support provided is simple but it allows some fantasies, it can accommodate the Quinjet in different positions without the stability of the whole being affected: nose forward, take-off phase, etc... it's you who choose and you can even stow the three landing gears in the cabin to get something believable.

The vessel is unfailingly solid with its internal structure based on Technic beams and its side uprights held by plates which cross the cabin in its width. Nothing comes off during handling, but this Quinjet is also not equipped with any machine launchers. Children will have to deal with it, those who will acquire this product to display it will probably not complain.

Things get tough when LEGO highlights the product's customization functionality with two separate sticker sheets. The idea is not bad, for example I chose to apply the set of stickers on the theme of SHIELD to obtain a Quinjet identical to the one seen in the movie Avengers (see photo above). The result is aesthetically very successful with pretty logos and less intrusive mechanical details than on most stickers of the Avengers version.

Unfortunately, it will be impossible to easily reverse course afterwards, LEGO not providing the handful of parts necessary to transform the SHIELD Quinjet into a spaceship in the colors of the Avengers. It's petty, it was enough to throw the ten parts concerned in a bag and the proposal then immediately became more attractive and really exploitable. As it stands, a choice will have to be made and any subsequent change of mind will necessarily involve the purchase of the various necessary parts via the official store or a third-party reseller.

This product does not escape the problems that have become usual with LEGO: the canopies are all more or less scratched, you have to install a Plate dull and ugly with its big injection point in the middle of the back of the ship, one of the bags of the copy I received contained a part that had no place there and there was a missing part essential to the assembly and background of the stickers does not quite match the gray color of the cabin. And that's without counting on a defect that affects more and more minifigs with unsightly burrs around the eyes.

I will be told that there is nothing insurmountable here and that all you have to do is call the manufacturer's customer service to get the right part and the replacement of those that are scratched or damaged. But I have already received several testimonials from readers which lead me to believe that the tone is gradually changing at LEGO and that too many requests for replacement of damaged parts may one day lead to an end of inadmissibility. Anyway, I'm buying a top-of-the-range product, it must be in excellent condition right out of the box without me spending my time begging from more or less accommodating operators.

On the side of the minifigs supplied with the Quinjet, you have to be satisfied with part of the cast but here you escape, for example, an Outrider or a generic Chitauri without interest, that's already it. Everything is not new among the elements provided, Iron Man reuses for example the helmet seen in the set 76216 Iron Man Armory on a new torso and pair of legs rather faithfully reproducing the armor in Mark VII version. The character has additional hair that allows you to take advantage of the two usual faces, with or without the blue HUD.

Captain America reuses the mask already delivered in half a dozen products, but the two-faced head and the torso are new. LEGO still can't properly stamp the flesh color on a darker background, the result is once again frankly disappointing with a distressingly pale Steve Rogers. The copy of the usual shield, also already seen in several boxes and provided in the copy of the set that I received, is affected by a clearly visible pad printing defect, which is a shame.

Black Widow benefits from a pretty new torso with arms stamped with the SHIELD logo, it's very successful except for the pale area of ​​the neck which should have been flesh-colored and the desperately neutral pair of legs. This lack of color on the neck reminds us once again that we should not always rely on official visuals that are a little too optimistic. The face provided is also that of Jyn Erso, Mighty Thor, Mera, Rachel Green, or even Vicki Vale.

Loki's minifig is beautifully executed, brand new from head to toe with two very compelling faces and an additional hairstyle that allows the character to be enjoyed in two different configurations. The pad printing of the torso and the legs is rather complex and the whole is roughly connected to the junction between the two elements. For those wondering where Loki's black hair comes from, it's the element already seen in Dark Tan on the head of Luke Skywalker in Ahch-To version. The golden headdress is successful, its shiny color is reinforced compared to the examples already seen in other boxes and it is now fully matched with the supplied stick. For once, the real version conforms to the heavily retouched official visuals.

Finally, the minifig of Thor is not new, it reuses the head with its slightly ridiculous smile on one side initially marketed in products based on the film Avengers: Endgame and the beautiful, extremely detailed torso delivered so far only in the set 76209 Thor's Hammer.

As I said above, this product is annoying because it is sufficiently mature in substance to make it a beautiful, almost affordable toy, but the shape is a bit sloppy with flaws that LEGO still can't avoid. It is still the main job of this manufacturer who regularly tells us that quality has a price, and yet we often have to be satisfied with various scratches and other failed pad prints. 100 € for that is a high price even if we are all more or less used to the current pricing policy which sometimes makes us forget that we are paying these few grams of plastic at a high price.

The fact remains that this Quinjet which seems to me to be the most credible version to date will obviously join my collection, but I will wait to be able to pay a little less for it at the usual dealers and I am already ready to harass customer service to obtain a product that meets my expectations in terms of finish.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 11th January 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.