LEGO just announced the result of the second phase of LEGO Ideas evaluation for the year 2021, with a batch that brought together 34 more or less successful ideas but which had all been able to gather the 10.000 supports necessary for their passage to the review stage.

Two projects are definitively validated: A-Frame Cabin by Andrea Lattanzio (Norton74) and BTS' Dynamite by Josh Bretz (JBBrickFanatic) and Jacob (BangtanBricks).

Everything else goes directly to the hatch including the project Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs whose fate was in suspense, for various and varied reasons which are not officially communicated by LEGO. The manufacturer is usually content to specify that he can only produce and market a limited number of products in the LEGO Ideas range and that the quantity of ideas validated during each review phase is therefore not proportional to the number of competing proposals.

If you have time to waste, you can always try to guess who will emerge victorious from the next review phase, the results of which will be revealed in the summer of 2022.

36 projects are in the running, there are some more or less interesting ideas, but the vast majority of those who managed to qualify their project will undoubtedly have to settle for the "consolation" endowment consisting of LEGO products with a total value of $ 500 offered to everyone who reaches 10.000 supporters.

LEGO announcement today that the result of the second phase of the 2021 review will be announced on Tuesday February 22 at 9:00 a.m. 34 ideas which were able to gather the 10.000 necessary supports are in the running with an imposing selection which brings together as usual licenses, castles, modulars, medieval, an airplane engine, a tribute to the group of K-pop BTS, more medieval, the All Risks Agency van, etc...

The vast majority of these projects should more or less logically go by the wayside but those who managed to place their idea in this selection will be able to console themselves with the endowment of LEGO products with a global value of $ 500 awarded to the finishers. LEGO reveals, however, that several proposals have been validated: "...What's more exciting is that we can reveal that new sets have been approved!..."

While waiting for the official announcement, you can always risk a prognosis. If you want to refresh your ideas, the 34 ideas whose fate will be definitively sealed tomorrow are listed at this address on the official LEGO Ideas Blog.

LEGO today unveils the set 76208 The Goat Boat, a box inspired by the film Thor: Love and Thunder expected in theaters next July. This derivative product will be available at the retail price of €49.99 from April 26, 2022.

In the box, 564 pieces to assemble Thor's flying longship pulled by the two goats Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder and five minifigs: Thor, Mighty Thor, Valkyrie, Korg and Gorr. The main construction of the set is 43 cm long, 12 cm wide and 10 cm high.

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Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75324 Dark Trooper Attack, a small box of 166 pieces which will be available at the retail price of €29.99 from March 1, 2022. The set could only have been a simple Battle Pack too expensive but it cleverly emancipates itself from its obvious function of providing minifigs of the same faction by offering a very relative playability, we can't blame LEGO for emphasizing the fact that this product is also a " building toy".

With 166 pieces on the counter, the proposed construction is necessarily basic, even if the use of large elements gives it a little volume. This is to reproduce the scene of the arrival of Luke Skywalker aboard Moff Gideon's cruiser in the last episode of the second season of the series The Mandalorian. The scene had its small effect on the screen, LEGO could not miss the commercial potential of even a symbolic reproduction of the thing.

The playset offers a little fun with a rotating elevator shaft, a rotating platform that can be manipulated from the side of the construction and a support on a slide that allows Luke to push back a Dark Trooper using the Force. Why not, we'll play for three minutes, and we'll have to take the time to understand how Luke can take the elevator with his saber deployed in his hand like in the series: just orient the accessory upwards, a space has been planned. The level of integration of the wheel placed on the elevator is debatable, it can be removed if you do not want to keep the playset side of the product.

The ghost therefore faces three Dark Troopers who furnish the piece of corridor nicely dressed with about fifteen very faithful stickers without which the scene would be a little pale. One sticker for eleven pieces to assemble is still a lot. The droids are ten in number on the screen, you will need several boxes to obtain a less symbolic reproduction. Everything can end its career wisely on the corner of a shelf, unless you rely on this box to recover the three Dark Troopers it contains and install them in the cruiser of the set 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser (159.99 €) which provides only one copy.

The three Dark Troopers delivered here are identical to that of the set 75315 Imperial Light Cruiser and that makes sense. The sellers of the secondary market have also reacted quickly as soon as this product was announced by lowering the price charged so far for this very successful minifigure. LEGO corrects the shot here by delivering us black blasters more aptly than the gray version provided in the other set. You will have the choice to display these minifigs with or without their shoulder pads, the pad printing of the torso is almost identical to that of the accessory which covers part of it.

The Luke Skywalker minifig is new from shoulders to toes: the figure's torso and legs are flanked by new pad printing and the character's head is the one used on several occasions since 2015. The angular black hood is not not new, it is that of Ap'lek (Knights of Ren) in 2019, Palpatine (2020), Garindan (2020) or even Bone Spirit from the Monkie Kid range in 2021. The minifig is successful, difficult to make a relatively sober outfit sexier. Some might find the hook on the bottom of Luke Skywalker's torso a little too big, but it's along with the belt buckle the only significant detail in a torso that's just a few gray lines.

In short, we have here a nice little interactive derivative of the series The Mandalorian which allows both to enjoy a scene that will be remembered and a trio of Dark Troopers. What more ? Grogu hiding somewhere? A lower public price for this Battle Pack luxury? A sale in batches of two copies to obtain a more faithful scene? We could always find ways to improve this product or compensate for its high price, but this set is far from embodying the worst of what LEGO offers us in the Star Wars range. I say yes.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at March 2, 2022 next at 23pm.

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