After the early release of the product by Amazon China, today it's LEGO's turn to officially unveil the LEGO Super Mario set. 71387 Adventures with Luigi, a box of 280 pieces which will make it possible to obtain an interactive figurine of Luigi and what to assemble some new game boards. Note that this new Starter Course includes departure and arrival tags.

The Luigi figurine, which will for the occasion be accompanied by Pink Yoshi (Yoshi Rose), the Koopa Troopa Boom Boom (Boom Boom) and a Bone Goomba (Goomb'os) will be from the same barrel as Mario's but with a different cap, a more emaciated face, longer legs and a suitable mustache. The visual on the packaging is self-explanatory: the two miniatures can be connected to each other for a cooperative play experience.

The set is already for pre-order on the official online store (59.99 €) and at Zavvi (54.99 € with the polybag 30389 Fuzzy & Mushroom Platform and a t-shirt offered) with availability announced for the month of ... August 2021.

If you intend to add this box to your collection, you can take advantage of the doubled VIP points until tonight on the official online store or wait until the retail price of the thing drops below 40 € at Amazon, which is sure to happen very quickly.

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Small reminder to the attention of all those who said to themselves "II would have to take advantage of the doubled VIP points on the Shop, I'll see that tomorrow ...": the offer launched on April 12th ends tonight at 23pm.

We cannot stress enough, this recurring offer at LEGO is not really competitive with the prices offered by many other brands on most of the sets in the catalog. However, it can be interesting for the acquisition of an exclusive box, temporarily or not, on the official online store.

Note that the offer also applies to new products from the LEGO Harry Potter range currently in pre-order: 76386 Hogwarts: Polyjuice Potion Mistake (€ 19.99), 76387 Hogwarts: Fluffy Encounter (€ 39.99), 76388 Hogsmeade Village Visit (84.99 €) and 76389 Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets (139.99 €).

For each product purchased, you accumulate double points during the period indicated and you will then have to exchange these points for a reduction voucher to be used on a future purchase via the rewards center. 750 VIP points accumulated give the right to a reduction of 5 € to be valid for a future purchase on the official online store or in a LEGO Store.

Also remember to check that your VIP account has been credited with the number of points promised. If not, a call to customer service is required to resolve the problem.

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Today we are quickly interested in the LEGO Marvel set 76198 Spider-Man & Doctor Octopus Mech Battle, a small box of 305 pieces that will be available from April 26 at the public price of € 19.99. In the packaging, enough to assemble two mechs in the spirit of the half-dozen robots already marketed so far individually by LEGO.

This is not the first Spider-mech imagined by LEGO on this scale, the reference 76146 Spider-Man Mech, launched in 2020 and still available, already makes it possible to assemble an exoskeleton for the spider-man. The version offered in this new box which brings together two of these machines is different from that of set 76146, it is also simplified and a little less successful.

The star of the set which respects the usual codes of this mini-range of mechs is the robot used by Doctor Octopus, it is designed on the same model as the mechs sold individually with feet a little more detailed than those of the Spider -mech and three-point articulation arms with real shoulders. The four mechanical arms attached to the back of the robot are very well designed, they are orientable and repositionable, the whole thing really looks great.

The Spider-Man mech delivered here struggles to compare with that of Doctor Octopus: the legs are a bit frail, the feet are ridiculously narrow like the ones in the set. 76171 Miles Morales Mech and arms without real shoulders are content with two joints on Ball Seals instead of three. Even though LEGO charges double the regular price for these two mechs, we feel that Spider-Man's is a low-inventory budget version. The narrowness of the feet slightly harms the stability of the construction, we will seek the point of balance for a longer time.

The accessories that allow you to throw a few cobwebs are transparent here instead of being white as in the set 76146 Spider-Man Mech. Thinking about it, I prefer the other version of these pieces, I find that the white better embodies the canvases launched by the character.

The only finishing detail that seems awkward to me here: The Plate 2x2 used on the hands of Doctor Octopus' mech with its two extensions, only one of which is used for the thumb, the other remaining visible at the back. However, it was enough to use the Plate 1 x 2 with a single equivalent extension to remove this outgrowth. There are five stickers to stick on Doctor Octopus' mech, the Nexo Knights shield plastered on the torso of Spider-Man's mech is nicely pad printed.

On the minifig side, the Spider-Man figurine combines here elements that are generally difficult to find in the same box: the torso with its pad-printed arms and the head available since the beginning of the year are here associated with the legs injected in two colors that we obtained for the first time in 2015 in the set 76037 Rhino & Sandman Supervillain Team-up. This version of the minifigure is the most successful of the moment, to be able to obtain it in a set at a relatively modest public price is good news.

Doctor Octopus minifig is the one seen in the set 76174 Spider-Man's Monster Truck vs. Mysterio marketed since the beginning of the year. Nothing is planned to fix the four mechanical arms of the mech to the back of the figurine and it's a bit of a shame, it would have been interesting to be able to use these appendages without the exoskeleton.

In short, these little mechs seem to be a hit with young fans of the Marvel universe and this new set should easily find its audience. If the initial idea might seem a little crazy, it turns out that these mechs are well articulated, that it is possible to make them take some original poses without breaking everything and that the gameplay is maximum.

The most creative can also have fun creating their own mechs by combining the different elements, the possibilities are endless. For 20 €, I think that we are sure to please here: there is a bit of construction, two successful minifigs and enough to play for two without having to go back to the cash register.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 3th May 2021 next at 23pm. 

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Expected in theaters next September, the film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is talking about him again today thanks to the first trailer posted by Marvel.

Even if none of the scenes from this first trailer are represented in the two planned LEGO derivatives, we logically find on the screen some of the characters that will be delivered in the two sets based on the film: the references 76176 Escape From The Ten Rings et 76177 Battle at the Ancient Village whose availability was in principle scheduled for April 26 but whose sale has been postponed until next summer.

In the set 76176 Escape From The Ten Rings : Shang-Chi, Morris (a Dijiang), Wenwu (The Mandarin), Katy and Razor Fist.

In the set 76177 Battle at the Ancient Village : Shang-Chi, Morris, Xialing, Wenwu (The Mandarin) and Death Dealer.

The April 2021 issue of the official LEGO Star Wars magazine is now available and as planned it allows us to get a 45-piece mini V-Wing.

Throughout the pages of this new issue filled as usual with comics, simple games and advertisements for products currently marketed by LEGO, we discover the mini-construction that will be offered from May 12 and it is about 'a 28-piece TIE Bomber.

This is not the first time that a TIE Bomber has accompanied this magazine, a different version with pad-printed canopy was already provided in July 2016 and this same model was subsequently found in a MEGA version of the magazine in April 2018.

Collectors will also remember the model delivered in the set Planet Series 75008 Tie Bomber & Asteroid Field marketed in 2013 or the version to be assembled by combining elements available in the sets 4484 X-Wing Fighter & TIE Advanced, 4485 Sebulba's Podracer & Anakin's Podracer, 4486 AT-ST & Snowspeeder et 4487 Jedi Starfighter & Slave I marketed in 2003.