You know that the theme of Space is in the spotlight this year at LEGO and the LEGO ART range is no exception to this trend with today's announcement of the set 31212 The Milky Way, a box of 3091 pieces which will be available as an Insiders preview from May 15, 2024 at the public price of €199.99 before global marketing planned for May 18.

The inventory of the set will allow you to assemble a Milky Way 65 cm long by 40 cm high and 5 cm deep with a rather convincing relief effect. The product is divided into five distinct sections, each benefiting from a dedicated instruction booklet which will allow several people to assemble the thing.

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Today we are quickly talking about a derivative product which will be offered subject to purchase at LEGO during the May the 4th promotional operation, the LEGO Star Wars reference 5008818 Collectible Battle of Yavin which will be automatically added to your basket from May 1 to 5, 2024 as soon as the minimum purchase amount of €90 in products from the range is reached.
The minimum amount required will quickly be reached, for €90 we don't have much left in this range.

It is therefore a metal medallion 5 cm in diameter inserted in a rather successful box. We find in the manufacture of the thing Chinese company RDP which now regularly produces this type of object for LEGO and once again the technical execution leaves a little to be desired. The medallion is rather pretty with its plastic insert which allows you to embody the targeting of the X-wing in the bays of the Death Star by a TIE Fighter, but the whole thing is definitely not up to the level of a derivative product offered by a manufacturer operating in the high-end toy sector. It is barely properly machined and on the back we discover the canopy of the TIE fighter flanked by a very unsightly rivet responsible for holding the piece of floating plastic which is not in the best taste. All that for this.

There remains the pretty box, even if I never tell you about the packaging of LEGO products, which is correctly designed with its opening in two sections to reveal the medallion in its cardboard case. We could have hoped for more aesthetic foam inside, but we clearly shouldn't be too demanding.

In short, we could discuss the usefulness of the thing, its truly "collector" side and the insistence on the part of LEGO to regularly want to offer us derivative products which are only very distantly associated with its flagship product. , especially in this specific case.

Many fans will be satisfied with it and they will undoubtedly be right, you have to cheer yourself up after spending your money buying a few boxes at full price on the official online store.

As usual, it will be up to you to decide whether this little souvenir reserved for members of the program LEGO Insiders and which is not even stamped with the words "May the 4th" really deserves the honors of your wallet.

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Today we are quickly interested in the content of two sets from the LEGO Marvel range, the references 76284 Green Goblin Construction Figure (471 pieces - 37.99 €) and 76298 Iron Spider-Man Construction Figure (303 pieces - €34.99), which have been available since April 1 on the official online store, in LEGO Stores as well as at some resellers.

It is not necessary to go into detail once again about the concept of these Action Figures in the LEGO sauce with their qualities and their faults already highlighted here on several occasions during other tests, but I must admit that I have the feeling here that the format finds a certain maturity and these two figurines seem to me quite completely acceptable.

There remain the usual "problems" of joints with limited amplitude and pieces whose color does not match the rest of the outfits offered, but there is still something to please the youngest with characters well represented and easily manipulated.

The icing on the cake is that Iron Spider and Green Goblin both come with buildable accessories that take the playability a little further and also make these figures products capable of being proudly displayed between two play sessions .

Everything is pad printed, we don't stick any stickers on these two figurines and that's all the better for allowing them to withstand intensive handling. Each of the two characters can take interesting poses and even if we could talk for a long time about the aesthetic choices at work here, the main thing obviously remains the possibility of really having fun with these figurines.

The assembly process remains, as usual with this type of product, very basic and you will not spend hours building these two figurines which take shape very quickly. The Green Goblin's glider, however, offers some interesting sequences based on elements from the LEGO Technic universe which help to sweeten the pill of the set's public price. The machine can then accommodate the character and the whole thing works quite well visually in my opinion. Same observation for the articulated arms to be fixed on Spider-Man's back, even if the assembly sequence is summarized here in its simplest form.

The back of the two figurines is a little less detailed than the front but the finish is still very acceptable as is for Action Figures in the LEGO version, the faces are far from perfect with still strange angles on the part used, a variant of which with a raised nose is attached to the torso of Green Goblin and the back of the skull of these two figurines is still also cubic and failed. Four fingers on the hands, there is no room to add one to be credible but no one will blame LEGO for this compromise which remains acceptable.

I had fun with these two figurines by trying to make them take dynamic poses, the possibilities are there and the few aesthetic defects are quickly forgotten in the face of the obvious playability of these products without any particular pretension aside from their playful vocation.

It is undoubtedly vain to hope that LEGO will one day produce the parts necessary for the joints of these figurines in the colors which would make them more discreet, we can console ourselves by saying that this choice is voluntary and is part of the "signature" decisions. " of the brand in the same way as the blue pins which often remain clearly visible on products from the LEGO Technic range which would however happily do without this visual distraction.

In summary, these two products do not revolutionize the genre but are a continuation of what LEGO has been offering for several years now in the same format and I even find a certain charm in them.

It is obvious that it is advisable to pay less for them than their public price and to try to offer both so that each of the characters can face the other instead of sitting alone on the corner of a shelf. These two boxes are currently available from Amazon for a few euros less than their usual public price, which is always a bargain:

Discount -6%

LEGO Marvel Buildable Iron Spider-Man Minifigure

34.99 € 32.99 €

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Discount -10%

LEGO Marvel Buildable Green Goblin Minifigure

37.99 € 34.13 €

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