Onward to the second “big” wave of new products for 2024 with numerous sets available today in a slew of different ranges. there is something for all tastes and budgets, it's hard not to find what you're looking for among the long list of new boxes available. I am listing here all the qsets which are actually available today even if many sets were already offered for pre-order for several weeks.

As is often the case, there are some nice things in this wave, but the majority of these boxes will be available quickly for much less expensive elsewhere. As usual, it is therefore up to you to decide whether you should go ahead and pay the full price for these boxes or whether you should show a little patience and wait for the inevitable reductions that will be offered in the weeks and months to come at Amazon, on FNAC.com, at Cdiscount, at Auchan and at a few other resellers.

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The stars aligned in time and I can therefore offer you a new competition which will allow the lucky winner to save €459,99 and receive a copy of the LEGO ICONS set 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-Dûr put into play a few hours before the Insiders preview launch of this very large box of 5471 pieces.

I recently spoke to you about the contents of this box during a “Review”, go read or reread it to check if the prize at stake is worth spending a few minutes registering your participation. Please note, this is a second copy put into play after the one used for the review, this one is new and sealed.

To validate your participation, as always, simply 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 answering the question correctly. At the end of the participation phase, the winner will be chosen by lot from the correct answers. Participation is free and without obligation to purchase.

Your details (name/pseudo, email address, IP address, postal address and phone number of the winner) are only used in the context of this competition and will not be kept beyond the draw which will designate the winner. As usual, this competition without obligation to purchase is open to all residents of metropolitan France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

The prize worth €459,99 at stake is generously provided by LEGO and Warner Bros., it will be sent to the winner by me upon confirmation of their contact details by return email.

As always, I reserve the right to disqualify any entrant who has attempted to defraud or hijack the entry system in order to increase their chances of winning. Grumpers and bad losers abstain, the others will have a better chance of winning.

For information: the name / nickname of the winner is displayed in the participation interface once the draw has been made. I also notify the winners by email, but remember to check anyway.

Two clarifications: all the products involved are physically in my possession and are shipped by me, no risk of having to wait weeks for the brand to send the batch. The products are shipped very quickly to the winners, those who have received their prize in the past can attest to this.

Today we very quickly go around the contents of the LEGO ICONS set 40693 The Lord of the Rings: Fell Beast, a small box of 269 pieces which will be offered from June 1 to 7, 2024 on the official online store as well as in the LEGO Stores for the purchase of the LEGO ICONS set 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-Dûr.

I already wrote it in my review of the set 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-Dûr, this small promotional product would, in my opinion, have fully deserved to be integrated into the box of the large set allowing the assembly of the Dark Tower, the creature could have added a little volume by, for example, being installed in a flying position on the sides of the tower via a transparent pole. This is not the case, and LEGO has chosen to make it a promotional product which, however, is not unworthy by offering a little construction and making it possible to obtain a rather successful creature.

We could regret that the head of the creature is not more detailed, even with the help of a possible sticker, but the whole thing is visually very coherent. The two wings are made of soft plastic flanked by a superb pattern and dotted with a few holes, it's very nicely executed. The creature also benefits from a certain mobility with the possibility of orienting its head, wings, tail and legs to vary the settings. No stickers in this box.

LEGO does provide a small additional wall on which we can display the thing but the manufacturer forgets to offer us a transparent support which would allow the construction to be placed in a flight position, a scenario which is nevertheless visually evoked on the back of the product box. I cobbled together a solution for the photos shown here, adding three pieces of the same type to the box would not have cost LEGO much and the result would have been even more interesting.

The Nazgûl figurine delivered in this box benefits from a new torso, everything else, the black head, the hood, the neutral legs and the cape already seen in the past in Ninjago, Harry Potter sets or even on the back of Batzarro, being rather generic. We could have hoped for a figurine of the Witch-King of Angmar for the occasion, too bad.

This little promotional product therefore seems sufficiently worked out to trigger my immediate purchase of the LEGO ICONS set. 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-Dûr, what it contains really seems to me to be a very appropriate complement to Barad-Dûr. Mission accomplished for LEGO, I will go to the checkout without regret, just so as not to regret having passed up this offer and having to turn later to the secondary market to add this little box marked with the words ICONS and The Lord of the Rings to my collection.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 26th May 2024 next at 23:59 p.m. Simply post a comment below the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. Avoid “I’m participating” or “I’m trying my luck”, we suspect that this is the case.

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

Anthony8989 - Comment posted the 16/05/2024 at 21:05

LEGO ICONS 40693 The Lord of the Rings: Fell Beast

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Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO ICONS set 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-Dûr, a very large box of 5471 pieces which will be available as an Insiders preview on the official online store as well as in the LEGO Stores at the public price of €459,99 from June 1, 2024.

This new box intended for an audience of adult fans of the franchise The Lord of the Rings comes after the very successful LEGO ICONS set 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell marketed since last year, we are therefore entitled to be demanding with this new derivative product with its substantial inventory, high price and tempting promises.

It is therefore a question of assembling Barad-Dûr, the lair of Sauron installed in the depths of Mordor. Barad-Dûr meaning "Dark Tower", we suspect that the construction will be less colorful and shimmering than the one nestled in the Rivendell valley. And it is an understatement to say that the whole thing is almost worryingly sober, there is hardly anything other than the lava which flows at the foot of the construction and the rocky staircase which circulates around the center of the tower to bring a little of variety.

The product is an exhibition model on one side and a playset for older children on the other. We know that LEGO appreciates this type of combination mixing two different scales and this principle is used here to good effect by offering a relatively detailed tower on one side and a few spaces on the scale of the minifigs provided on the other. Don't look for references to the interior designs, LEGO has taken care of imagining them in its own way by adding its usual touch of humor and a few nods to the saga.

That being said, you still have to settle for an impeccably cut half-tower in the height direction which will not really support being exposed in profile and the interior spaces, spacious at the foot of the tower, then become difficult to access. on the upper floors. We will use these niches to store the minifigs, LEGO not having planned a display except the small independent rocky peak which can accommodate Frodo, Sam and Gollum.

The construction is divided into four distinct sections, three of which can be assembled and disassembled without a fixing point. These sections simply slide onto the construction below, they are supported by a few beams which pass through the space available in the lower section. The manufacturer also delivers three separate instruction booklets which allow the assembly of the product divided into 40 bags by several people for a little more conviviality, even if that is not the atmosphere of the place.

Two of these sub-assemblies are joined together by a fixing point which remains removable and which is made up of an axis to slide into the protrusion of a Technic beam. This overall modularity of appreciable simplicity will allow the model to be moved or stored without breaking everything.

You have surely read or heard somewhere that LEGO promises to be able to extend the tower on its thinnest section according to your desires. This theoretical possibility is not documented anywhere and I doubt that the manufacturer will one day provide precise instructions allowing the tower to reach even higher than the 83 cm of the model delivered in the box. It would be necessary to obtain both an accurate inventory of the necessary parts as well as detailed assembly instructions, I think that the ingenious fans will have solved these two equations well before LEGO actually tackles the problem to keep its promise.

You have understood, this set gives pride of place to black parts and once again we cannot escape the usual quality problem which affects the elements in this color with numerous scratches and other marks upon unpacking. Seen up close, it is annoying, observed from further away Barad-Dûr will be an illusion if you also avoid fingerprints and dust the construction very regularly.

The set incorporates a few features that allow it to be qualified as a playset: the entrance door to the tower is not really "automated" as LEGO claims in the official product description but it opens and closes by manipulating an offset wheel on a side rock. We feel that the mechanism forces a little during manipulation, but it works.

You can access the Palantír as well as the more detailed version of the map of Middle Earth housed behind the throne by pulling on an outgrowth placed on the front to open the two sections of partition, the ladder of the library moves along shelves and a light brick with a red plastic insert allows you to light up the eye located at the top of the tower provided you keep your finger pressed on the button, LEGO still not having decided to provide us with light bricks with a switch.

There is also a small secret compartment to discover in the foundations of the tower, I leave the privilege to all those who acquire this box to locate it precisely. These different playful refinements are there to offer a little more than a simple static model, no one will really play with this tower but LEGO remains faithful to its reputation as a toy manufacturer and these different devices will fuel conversations during your evenings with friends.

The inevitable sheet of stickers, even in a high-end set sold for €460, is here made up of fourteen stickers, some of which, like the map of Middle Earth or the portrait of Sauron, are graphically very well executed. We also find on one of them a nod to the promotional product which will be offered from June 1 to 7, 2024 to members of the insiders program: the LEGO ICONS The Lord of The Rings set 40693 Fell Beast, with its 269 parts allowing you to assemble the creature ridden by a Nazgûl. Some of these stickers are laborious to apply, they fit inside curved parts and it is rarely fun.

The supply of minifigs may seem a little sparse to some fans with around ten figurines including a few generic orcs, but the minifigs of Sauron and The Mouth of Sauron largely save the furniture with very high-end pad printing and accessories. Buying this box only for Sauron may seem a little excessive, but I know that some will take the plunge so as not to have to pay crazy amounts of money to later acquire the minifig alone via the secondary market.

The new Gollum figurine clearly divides fans, I hesitate between finding it too close to a Kinder toy and considering it as a credible interpretation of the character with its emblematic attitude rather well reproduced. For those who are wondering, the Frodo and Sam minifigs are those already seen in the LEGO ICONS set 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell.

LEGO is not stingy here with various and varied accessories, including a gaggle of helmets, equipment and weapons of all kinds scattered throughout the furniture and construction racks. Perhaps a few additional orcs are missing to carry all this paraphernalia, in my opinion the set would not have suffered from a larger population.

We're not going to lie, this tower is a little less sexy than the superb construction from the LEGO ICONS set 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell and we may ultimately find it all a little too crude despite the efforts made to offer interesting architectural and chromatic variations throughout the levels. The subject covered does not help to demonstrate finesse and refinement, it was undoubtedly difficult to escape the large black areas and the base of the construction visually saves the furniture even if it means doing a little too much.

There remains the obvious pleasure of assembling this imposing and emblematic construction which will find its place a few cables from Rivendell on our shelves with its sequences alternating between stacking of bricks, construction of furniture and discovery of some techniques which are always interesting although difficult to re-use elsewhere. A day.

I was one of those who long regretted that the range of LEGO products derived from the franchise The Lord of the Rings marketed in 2012/2013 is a little too timid and lacks panache (and orcs), I'm not going to complain about finally being entitled to a few more ambitious sets capable of satisfying me as much as the set did 10237 The Tower of Orthanc at the time, another half-tower with its 2359 pieces and its 73 cm high.

Some will also regret that for €460 you have to settle for a half-turn instead of a model closed on all sides with, for example, the possibility of opening certain compartments to access the interior spaces. As it stands, we are indeed more of a toy for older children than a pure exhibition product for adult fans who would have liked to be able to observe the tower from all angles without having to hide the back against a wall.

It is therefore up to everyone to appreciate LEGO's proposal and to judge its interest. I am neither frankly disappointed nor really enthusiastic about this product which will nevertheless join my collection from the beginning of June because I also want to obtain the LEGO ICONS The Lord of The Rings promotional set 40693 Fell Beast the contents of which should in fact have been integrated into this box. The creature could, for example, have been attached via a transparent pole to the sides of the tower to give it a little volume, but LEGO preferred to separate the two products to make one of them an urgent incentive to buy the other. The marketing trick is crude but it will work on me.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 25th May 2024 next at 23:59 p.m. Simply post a comment below the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. Avoid “I’m participating” or “I’m trying my luck”, we suspect that this is the case.

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

LEGO today unveils a very large box licensed The Lord of The Rings, the LEGO ICONS set 10333 The Lord of The Rings: Barad-Dûr with its 5471 pieces and its public price set at 459,99 €.

This product will be available as an Insiders preview from June 1, 2024 before global availability announced for June 4, 2024.

Those who purchase this box from its launch on June 1 and before June 7, 2024 will be offered a copy of the associated promotional set LEGO ICONS The Lord of The Rings 40693 Fell Beast, with its 269 parts allowing you to assemble the creature ridden by a Nazgûl.

In the large box of more than 5700 pieces, enough to assemble a giant playset of the tower of Barad-Dûr, the fortress of Mordor peaking at 83 cm high in the LEGO version and even being designed to be easily expandable provided you have more of a copy of the product.

The tower being an exhibition model divided into four distinct sections on one side, a playset on the other, it is therefore in reality a half-tower. a light brick illuminates the Eye of Sauron placed at the top of the construction.

Ten figurines are delivered in this box: Frodo Baggins (Frodo Baggins), Samsagace Gamgee (Samwise Gamgee), Gollum, Sauron, Mouth of Sauron, Gothmog and four orcs.

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