For its part, the Irish brand Minifigure Madness now offers a pre-order of a set of two boxes of 36 sachets at the price of 234 € or 3.25 € per sachet instead of 3.99 €. We do not yet know the exact distribution of the boxes, difficult to know for the moment if a box of 36 sachets makes it possible to obtain three complete series of 12 characters. Delivery announced around May 14, 2022 and you can use the promo code HOTH148 to pay only 229.99 €.

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It's April 17, 2022 and LEGO is marketing a large handful of new sets from the Jurassic Park / Jurassic World range on its official online store as planned. As far as I'm concerned, I'll settle for a copy of the exhibition set 76956 T. rex Breakout, the rest leaves me unmoved despite the presence of some pretty plastic dinosaurs in some of the other boxes.

As usual, it's up to you to see whether to crack without waiting by paying the full price for these boxes or whether to show a little patience and wait for the inevitable reductions that will be offered in the boxes. weeks and months to come at Amazon, on FNAC.com and at a few other resellers.

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New promotional offer on the official online store: the LEGO Technic polybag 30433 Volvo Wheel Loader is free from 40 € of purchase in products in the ranges Technic, Creator 3-in-1 et Speed ​​Champions.

The offer that allows you to get this little bag of 69 pieces valued by LEGO at € 3.99 is valid from today and at best until April 30, 2022.

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We continue today with a new box put into play: the LEGO Technic set 42141 McLaren Formula 1 Race Car worth €179.99. Icing on the cake, this is the initial version of the product before the modification made by LEGO on the different stickers that cover the construction. The new version of the vehicle is currently out of stock anyway and the winner will have the satisfaction of owning a copy whose marketing period will have been relatively short.

To validate your participation and try to add this pretty building of more than 3000 rooms to your shelves at a lower cost, 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.

Your contact details (name / nickname, email address, IP) are only used within the framework of this competition and will not be kept beyond the drawing of lots which will designate the winner. As usual, this no-obligation competition is open to all residents of mainland France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

The prize is provided by LEGO, it will be sent to the winner by me as soon as his contact details are confirmed by return email.

As always, I reserve the right to disqualify any participant who has attempted to defraud or hijack the entry system in order to increase their chances of winning. Hateful and bad losers to abstain, the others will have more chances to win.

Good luck to everyone !

No participation via comments, I leave the form open as long as the competitors who cannot read are not there yet. Then we close.

Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Botanical Collection set 10311Orchid, a box of 608 pieces stamped 18+ which is currently in pre-order on the official online store at the public price of 49.99 € and which will be available from May 1, 2022. I am not drawing you a picture, this is about build an orchid in its vase. We can always discuss the interest of reproducing plants with plastic, it will be up to everyone to see if it is better to be content with buying real flowers which will have to be taken care of rather than contenting themselves with exposing this eternal reproduction that is only in danger of gathering dust.

The final appearance of the product does not really reflect the complexity of certain elements that compose it and the internal structure of the pot is deliberately much more detailed than what would have been necessary to achieve the same result. Good for us, the construction challenge is all the more interesting, knowing that the assembly of stems and flowers is very repetitive and has nothing very exciting about it.

The pot, whose outer surface is sober but nicely made, is heavy enough to avoid any accidental tilting of the construction afterwards, no risk at this level. It will be enough to leaf through the instructions to understand that the pot can easily be personalized to make it a little less sad, the internal structure with its pins on which you can attach Tiles allows for some creative variations if your inventory allows.

Those who have already spent their money on other products of this Botanical Collection will be on familiar ground when it comes to assembling the stems and their stakes. Nothing very exciting at this level, but if you want to reproduce the model shown on the packaging identically, you will have to be careful to respect the angles and bends of the two green rods and their ramifications.

We then assemble and install the buds and flowers, LEGO also specifies that it is up to everyone to compose their presentation by changing, for example, the length of the stems and placing the flowers where they see fit according to their mood. time or space actually available between two shelves: the construction measures 39 cm high on arrival.

Note in passing the use of the head of the Demogorgon minifig seen in the LEGO Stranger Things set 75810 The Upside Down, flanked here by a superb pad printing which really gives character to the object. These two pieces are also so successful that the six large flowers based on pieces and frogs seem almost indirectly a little too coarse.

Taking a step back, however, the whole is really an illusion and we almost believe it. The few "diverted" pieces used for the flowers such as the white forks, the shields and other shoulder pads are discreet on arrival and fit perfectly into the overall aesthetic, it's appreciable.

There are only the green leaves made from very large pieces which in my opinion spoil the overall presentation a bit, it's too coarse to convince me. The contrast between the finesse of the flowers and these large green pieces without veins is obvious, it will be possible to attenuate it by carefully orienting the leaves to make them a little more discreet.

The pot is filled with substrate to conceal the internal structure as best as possible, which remains visible from certain angles. Lego is once again content to deliver us a handful of pieces that simply have to be thrown into the pot while trying to distribute the different elements between the stems and the tutors. These pieces are not fixed, you will have to be careful when moving so as not to lose some of them. I find the process a bit lazy and disappointing, you can't really talk about "construction" anymore at this stage.

at €50 for a flowerpot, there's nothing to think about for too long: It's nicely done, the asking price is rather reasonable and the product will easily find its place in the interior of whoever will receive the product. This plastic orchid is also a little less kitschy than the fake bouquet in the set. 10280 Flower Bouquet with its car hoods or the plant of the set 10289 Bird of Paradise with its Technic body panels. The frogs present on the flowers also seem to me more appropriate here in their role as a nod to the many possibilities of use offered by certain pieces than on the Bonsai which used a hundred of them.

I think we have here the most elegant product of the entire collection of plastic plants offered by LEGO, if you only had to buy one for yourself or as a gift, this is it. The real flower requires a lot of attention and care, this plastic version will delight anyone who wants to emphasize their love or their friendship to someone without risking seeing the thing wither and disappear from the shelves too quickly.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at April 25th next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate.

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