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As is often the case, there are some products that are temporarily exclusive to the official store, such as the new FORTNITE products, but the majority of these boxes will be available quickly for much less elsewhere. As usual, it is up to you to decide whether to buy them right away by paying the full price for these sets or whether to be a little patient and wait for the inevitable discounts that will be offered in the weeks and months to come. at Amazon, on FNAC.com, at Cdiscount, at Auchan as well as some other retailers.

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Today we take a quick look at the content of the two spin-off products from the Netflix series. Wednesday, the sets 76780 Wednesday Adam's Figure (702 pieces - 49,99 €) and  76781 Wednesday & Enid's Dorm Room (750 pieces - €89,99) which will be available from October 2024, XNUMX. I chose to group these two boxes in the same Review because they have a relatively interesting point in common which I will tell you about later.

You've had plenty of time to form a strong opinion on these two products since their official announcement, so I'm not going to try to convince you that their inventory or the final rendering is up to your expectations or not. It's up to each of us to judge the interest of these two sets, each of which pays tribute to the series in their own way.

That being said, LEGO has chosen two very different approaches to try to offer the same type of product with an original packaging. Because these two constructions have one thing in common that will please young fans: they offer "hidden" compartments that transform them into secret boxes.

Each of the two models has two drawers hidden in the base of the scenes and the two opening mechanisms are discreet enough to allow them to be considered as "secret" spaces: a rod to be removed on the front for the base on which the Wednesday Addams figurine is installed and two side buttons that blend into the base of the top floor of the nevermore academy.

These compartments can obviously be used to store elements related to the product, the second outfit of the young girl for the base with the figurine and the additional mini-dolls for the diorama which depicts Wednesday and Enid's room, but in my opinion it will only take a few seconds for the target audience to understand the "real" functionality of these two products.

I personally find the idea and its execution excellent in both cases, with products that gain depth and functionality instead of simply paying homage to the reference content. The drawers are not very spacious, but they will be enough to store some jewelry and other souvenirs.

By considering these products as elaborately decorated boxes, it is also easier to overlook the fact that the set 76781 Wednesday & Enid's Dorm Room is not a big dollhouse representing the entire school but is simply content to stage the bedroom of the two young girls.

No one will play with either of these sets and these decorative objects with very good finishing and accompanied by numerous details and accessories should easily find their audience as long as one correctly interprets the approach at work here.

For the rest, you already know that the Wednesday figurine can be dressed in two separate outfits thanks to a few modifications documented in the instructions and accessible later via the QR Code that you can see on the sticker sheet provided. Why not, this variation between the two outfits is an interesting possibility that will allow you to vary the pleasures even if I think that most fans will choose their favorite outfit from the initial assembly. On the side of the two girls' room we find the thematic separation of the places and LEGO provides two mini-dolls per character with their respective emblematic outfits.

I find that the mini-doll format is very appropriate here, we get characters that are less clumsy than with classic minifigs and the two young girls deserved in my opinion this very fine interpretation of their outfits. This aesthetic choice will perhaps determine the clientele that will be sensitive to the proposal, or in any case the clientele that will ignore it because LEGO has chosen not to include minifigs but it is also the coherence between the two products that justifies in my opinion the presence of mini-dolls, the Wednesday buildable figurine being more of a maxi doll that maxi-fig.

Both products make relatively reasonable use of stickers and we can also salute the work of the graphic designers who really knew how to adapt the universe of the series to the LEGO sauce. Too bad these pretty details do not go down in history in the form of pad printing, we will make do. You will have understood that everything that is not visible on the sticker sheets that I scanned for you is pad printed.

The most observant will have noticed that both sets are full of new elements or pieces available for the first time in certain colors, these elements will probably not be reserved for these sets for long and we will inevitably see them again sooner or later in other boxes. We will remember for example the mold of Thing (the thing) with its anti-stud in the palm of the hand, the forearms of the Wednesday figurine in a single mold, the black flowers or even the transparent leaves as well as the pretty gargoyles which adorn the balcony of the school terrace.

We can conclude that these nicely decorated "boxes" with their secret compartments are sold a little expensive, but there is something here to please young fans of the series who want to decorate the shelves of a room with products that have a finished look and offer an interesting functionality.

These are derivative products that only seek to seduce a specific audience of fans, if you have never seen the series or it has left you cold, you are obviously not the target. As far as I am concerned, I find that these two boxes are largely up to the modest mission entrusted to them: simply to please the young fans of the series.

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