We continue with another LEGO Advent calendar and today we take a very quick tour of the LEGO Marvel set 76267 Avengers Advent Calendar 2023, a box of 243 pieces available since September 1, 2023 at the public price of €37.99 via the official store and for much less elsewhere.

As with the LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar, if you don't want to experience the contents of this product in its entirety because you took care to buy it with your eyes closed and then immediately moved to an area white far from all civilization for two months to avoid spoilers, don't go any further.

Otherwise, I was lenient with the LEGO Star Wars calendar because it offered some interesting constructions despite a somewhat poor assortment of figurines and I will also be relatively lenient here but for the opposite reasoning: this Marvel-licensed calendar, which contains 128 grams of plastic, offers a rather convincing assortment of figurines but they are accompanied by mostly uninteresting mini-things.

Worse, Disney must really pick LEGO's pockets in terms of royalties so that the manufacturer can afford to fill some of the boxes with content about which we wonder if it is not a packaging error: Doctor Strange's cape occupies for example one of the 24 boxes and the minifig which must carry it is in another box, another location is satisfied with a simple pack of golden canvases and the tree is delivered in two parts with its base in the colors of Captain America to go. I readily understand the principle of this type of product, but to provide Doctor Strange without his cape to fill one more box, I think we reach an Olympic level of pettiness.

The most consistent mini-things to build can be combined with each other via the clips present on each of them, the intention is laudable and we almost obtain in the end a mini-diorama which allows us to stage the figurines provided. For the rest, the "toys" to put under the tree like the Quinjet or the HYDRA train are correctly executed but that is not enough to make this calendar a product that will have the capacity to surprise or at least satisfy each day.

As for the seven characters provided, many figurines already seen elsewhere and little new: Iron Man with his Mark 85 armor is not exclusive to this box, he is also delivered this month with the official LEGO Marvel magazine, the Captain America figurine is the one available in the set 76269 Avengers Tower, Wong's is also in the sets 76269 Avengers Tower et 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum, Okoye's is in the set 76214 Black Panther: War on the Water, Doctor Strange is an assembly of elements seen in several boxes and only Black Widow and Spider-Man remain to get something new and unprecedented with their respective ugly Christmas sweaters. Even the Spider-Man head is very common and not a red Santa hat in sight. It's frankly meager but this set of figurines nevertheless remains the main asset of the product compared to the poverty of the rest of its contents.

Once again, we can only note that the public price of this box is excessive compared to what it has to offer, but it is up to everyone to appreciate the lifespan of the set depending on the rate of production. chosen unpacking. Over 24 days, we could almost consider that to be reasonable...

I think for my part that this set frankly smacks of well-packaged savings and that LEGO does not really make an effort to please fans, young and old, who wait for these products every year in the hope that they will offer for a something really attractive. The box is pretty, it's salesy and it's difficult not to fall for it. The disappointment is generally quickly forgotten anyway, knowing that it is diluted over almost a month, which perhaps makes it less painful.

For all practical purposes and if you do not want to ruin the product packaging by taking out the interior insert from the side rather than opening each window, please note that the assembly instructions are available in PDF format at this address.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at December 19, 2023 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.

If you want to assemble your copy of the Fortnite llama offered under the reference 5008257 to a handful of journalists and influencers who attended the press conference launching the LEGO Fortnite video game, know that the instruction file for this little construction is now online in PDF format on Epic Games servers at this address.

The 3.7 MB file lists the inventory of 61 parts necessary for assembling the product as well as the different construction stages. Nothing very rare or unobtainable, those who want to get started should be able to do so without too much problem.

If by chance Epic Games deletes this file in the coming days or weeks, you will find a hosted copy of it on my server at this address.

Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75366 Advent Calendar 2023, a box of 320 pieces sold at the public price of €37.99 on the official store and around €20 elsewhere. If you don't want to see in advance what's in the box that you probably bought just because you know what it contains, don't go any further.

I'm not going to lie to you, I set out to unpack this calendar as it should be by opening one box per day. Tired of the mediocrity of the contents of several of these boxes, I finally unpacked everything at once so I could move on to something else by eating my daily Kinder.

On arrival, once free of the product packaging, the new interior cardboard insert and the 24 plastic bags, there remained 143 grams of LEGO bricks, I weighed everything. It's a lot of packaging for little content, but it's at this price that the marketing has its effect on the shelves and that LEGO can sell this small batch of parts at full price.

This calendar is broken down into four categories of mini-things of varying interest depending on your affinities with this type of product: vehicles and other vessels, accessories for the characters, some reproductions of more or less recognizable and emblematic places from the saga and some figurines. We're not going to lie, many here only buy these calendars for the few new and possibly exclusive figurines they contain.

As for ships and machines, I must admit that this calendar is not the worst of what LEGO has marketed in the same format so far. Some are quite successful given the scale imposed and it's easy to get into the game of assembly. It remains to be seen what to do with it afterwards, but the micro-things offered this year more than do the trick.

As for accessories and mini-micro-nano-dioramas, we feel the need to fill boxes with additional elements which for the most part do not add much to the project.

It is sometimes extremely symbolic and possibly useful to showcase the figurines provided and give consistency to a product which lacks a little and even if the flying wing of the Ewok is intended to be placed in a slightly strange due to the limited mobility of the associated figurine or that the battle station intended for the Clone Trooper is a bit ridiculous and that the STAP is relatively stable. We'll make do.

Upon arrival, there remains a small handful of characters who will probably not end up at the bottom of a drawer or a toy bin. Most of the elements used for these figurines are, however, far from new and LEGO does not really make an effort to reward those who spent €38 on this box.

The Omega figurine is also in the set 75323 The Justify, that of the Clone Trooper of the 212th is in the set 75337 AT-TE-Walker, Leia is in the set 75353 Endor Speeder Chase Diorama but it is delivered here without his helmet, Palpatine uses elements already seen and there are only the Ewok and Palpatine's sweater that are completely new and undoubtedly exclusive for eternity to this box.

I'll spare you the Battle Droid without any special pad printing, it's just a box on the calendar that can be quickly filled in at a lower cost. The festive Pit Droid and the Gonk Droid disguised as a reindeer don't really count, they are just assemblages, certainly interesting, of very common parts.

In the end, I came for the figurines but I especially remember the few rather well executed ships this year, this 2023 calendar having at least the merit of offering some interesting and original constructions.

€38 is obviously much too expensive for what it is, even if some will see it as a tradition that extends over 24 days and which would almost justify this incredible price. For around twenty euros, it's already more acceptable but the supply of figurines is still sparse and in my opinion once again lacks panache.

For all practical purposes and if you do not want to ruin the product packaging by taking out the interior insert from the side rather than opening each window, please note that the assembly instructions are available in PDF format at this address.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at December 18, 2023 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.

New promotional offer on Fnac.com with an immediate 25% reduction without conditions, no obligation to join or any prize pool on a large selection of LEGO products. Many ranges are affected and the reduction is calculated on the usual public price of these products.

The brand guarantees delivery before Christmas and the offer only applies to products sold and shipped by Fnac.com. It's probably not the deal of the year, but if you have some last minute shopping to do, you might find what you're looking for.

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New promotional offer at Carrefour with the usual jackpot mechanism: you buy three products, the least expensive of the three is refunded to you in the form of a credit on the brand's loyalty card.

Add the three products to your basket directly from the LEGO set list, the amount donated to your kitty appears as soon as three references are in the basket. The offer is valid until December 10, 2023 and is therefore only of interest if you have your habits on the site or in the brand's stores, in order to be able to benefit from the amount raised afterwards. Remember to identify yourself on your Carrefour account so that the offer appears in the basket (see example below).

For information, the Carrefour card is a brand loyalty card with which you can subscribe for free online. With each transaction you accumulate euros thanks to the discounts offered, which you can then spend in store or on the carrefour.fr website.

Many LEGO references are affected and are still in stock as I write these lines:

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