Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76266 Endgame Final Battle, a box of 794 pieces available since August 1st at the retail price of €104.99. LEGO promises us "Iconic characters in a detailed settingvia the official description of this movie spin-off Avengers: Endgame, it's almost that but not quite.

It is therefore a question here of building a small round display which will be used to stage a handful of figurines on a pile of rubble as in the film. The LEGO version is on arrival only a pile of pieces a little rough in certain places with some places planned to install the characters there. The object is not a playset, there is no functionality and the scene is static.

The assembly is quickly dispatched, you have the right to make mistakes anyway and no one will really notice. There are some good ideas, especially at the level of the damaged pillar, but it's generally too confusing to clearly distinguish the different subsets that make up the scene without approaching.

However, we recognize Luis' van equipped with the Quantum-Tunnel miniaturized which was delivered complete in the set 76192 Avengers Endgame: Final Battle and which here consists of a few parts embedded in the base of the product.

For the rest, this product is aimed at customers who do not wish to invade their living room with LEGO playsets and the tribute to the scene concerned remains compact enough to be discreet in an interior decoration.

All the figures provided can be presented in a relatively dynamic pose and the object can even be displayed in a linear fashion, revealing the presence of Thor's hammer and Captain America's Shield, both hidden under some rubble.

We are sold the idea that this product can be admired at 360° when the base is closed on itself, it is true but it will then be necessary to adapt the position of the figurines according to the angle chosen to expose the object. Note that the top of the pillar on which Valkyrie is riding Pegasus pivots on itself, which allows it to be oriented in the correct position whatever the angle chosen.

There is obviously no escaping a sheet of stickers and you will have to deal with the usual problem of the (really) white background of certain stickers which is not really fitting with the slightly cream tint of the parts on which they must be installed. It's ugly, but we're used to it.

The endowment of figurines will not really motivate collectors who hoped to find something here to fill their Ribba frames a little more: the only completely new minifig is that of Valkyrie and Thanos benefits from a new head here.

Valkyrie logically reuses the head and hair already seen in the set 76208 The Goat Boat, only the torso is new and the legs are neutral. The figurine is a little sad but we are starting to get used to neutral legs in this range of derivative products. We will also remember the presence of the winged horse Pegasus whose wings are borrowed from the LEGO Harry Potter set 75958 Beauxbatons' Carriage: Arrival at Hogwarts.

All the other minifigures delivered in this box have already made at least one appearance in a LEGO product released so far: Okoye in the set 76247 The Hulkbuster: The Battle of Wakanda, Shuri in sets 76186 Black Panther Dragon Flyer et 76212 Shuri's Lab, Captain Marvel's torso is in the set LEGO Marvel Avengers 76237 Sanctuary II: Endgame Battle and that of Scarlet Witch, who here wears Indira's hair (43225 The Little Mermaid Royal Clamshell), is in the set 76192 Avengers Endgame: Final Battle.

The Wasp microfig is the one also delivered in the set 76256 Ant-Man Construction Figure, it is also delivered here in two copies in the box.

LEGO having chosen to refer directly to the scene "Girl Power" from the movie Avengers: Endgame, the presence of Pepper Potts / Rescue would have been appreciated. This is unfortunately not the case.

In short, it is probably not the selection of figurines that will motivate collectors to spend 105 € on this product, except perhaps if this box ends up being offered elsewhere than at LEGO with a significant reduction in its retail price. As far as I am concerned, I find the whole visually too messy to convince me despite the obvious potential for exposure of the product.

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The Advent calendar 2023 in LEGO Marvel version (76267 Marvel Avengers Advent Calendar) is now online on the official store at the public price of 37.99 € and we therefore discover a little closer the content of the 24 boxes of this product.

After assembling all the mini-things provided, we will be left with seven minifigs with Okoye, Doctor Strange, Captain America, Spider-Man, Wong, Iron Man and Black Widow. Availability announced for September 1, 2023.

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Two new issues of the Official LEGO Batman and LEGO Spider-Man Magazines are now available on newsstands and they come with a few bricks in their paper bag as usual.

The LEGO Batman Magazine (6.99 €) allows you to obtain a Tumbler of 58 pieces, the next issue to be published on September 15, 2023 will be accompanied by a Batwing of 44 pieces. The publisher does not provide assembly instructions for the Tumbler via its usual interface, so I scanned you the three pages of the magazine that allow you to build the thing:

The LEGO Spider-Man magazine (€6.99) for its part allows, as expected, to obtain a minifig of Venom seen with this head with an open mouth and with or without tentacles in several boxes since 2019. The next issue expected for October 26 2023 will be accompanied by a Spider-Man minifigure far from being new and delivered here with his pad-printed arms but without his legs injected in two colors. The character will have some webs to attach to his hands.

If you prefer to invest in complete boxes rather than in individual figurines, know that the Minifigure Maddness brand is offering a pre-order today on a set of two boxes of 36 sachets from the 2nd series of Marvel Studios collectible characters (ref. 71039). Knowing that it will no longer be possible to try to simply guess the contents of the new rigid cardboard packaging, this option may prove interesting to limit breakage and share the contents of these boxes with your friends.

We do not yet know the exact distribution of these boxes which could in the best case contain 3 complete sets of 12 characters, but Minifigure Madness offers the set of two boxes (72 figurines in total) at 240.98 € including postage using the code HOTH200 or,  3.35 € the minifig delivered to your home by DHL Express.

Please note, this is a pre-order, shipping announced around September 14, 2023.

If you are a little behind on your purchases of minifigs, know that the set of two boxes of 36 sachets from the Disney anniversary series (71038) is available at 283.98 € including postage with the code HOTH202 or,  3.94 € the minifig delivered to your home by DHL Express.

Bonus for those who have a facebook account: if you place a pre-order and then go to the brand's facebook page, you can enter to win a prize including the 40504 LEGO House Minifigure Tribute promotional sets and two exclusive LEGO House keychains put into play for the occasion by performing the requested actions. 

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Today we get some official visuals of the 2nd series of collectible characters from the Marvel Studios universe (reference LEGO Marvel Studios 71039 Collectible Minifigures Series 2) and its series or films like Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Wandavision, Werewolf by Night, X-Men '97, What if...? or even Moon Knight.

On the menu for this new series of 12 characters: Moon Knight, Mr Knight, Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Kate Bishop, Agatha Harkness, She-Hulk, Goliath (incl. micro Ant-Man), Wolverine, Beast, Storm, Echo ( Maya Lopez) and Werewolf by Night (Jack Russell).

Retail price: €3.99 per character in its new cardboard packaging. Availability scheduled for September 1, 2023.

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