Today we take a quick look at two small sets from the Creator range that LEGO took the trouble to send for us to talk about: the references 40468 Yellow Taxi & 40469 Tuk-tuk, both currently sold at the public price of € 9.99 on the official online store.

The theme: the transport of people for remuneration across the world with two very different versions of the concept: on the one hand the classic American yellow taxi with its advertising panels on the roof as we see it circulating in the streets of New- York, on the other an Indian tuk-tuk with its colorful bodywork and traditional decorations.

The two vehicles are not the scale of each other, as you can imagine. The 124-piece New York taxi is strangely "crushed" in the passenger compartment and we can't really say that LEGO succeeds in selling us a Ford Crown Victoria. But it's Creator at 9.99 € and simplification is essential. The taxi is 6 studs wide, which should please fans of the LEGO Speed ​​Champions range who have not appreciated the recent change in format of the vehicles in the range. No elaborate windshield, we are satisfied with a few almost transparent bricks.

The 155-piece tuk-tuk is much more successful, we find all the attributes of the machine that circulates in the streets of Indian, Pakistani or Thai megalopolises: a mix of more or less assorted colors, traditional decorations, packed lunches placed on the roof, everything is there. The assembly of the machine is more interesting than that of the yellow taxi, the latter being ultimately a pile of bricks on wheels. If you only have 10 € to spend and you have to choose between these two boxes, the tuk-tuk should be taken, both for the end result and for the pleasure of assembly.

With their reduced inventories, these two machines are quickly assembled and it will then be up to each to find a place for them in a diorama: the yellow taxi can circulate in the streets of a "classic" LEGO city and the tuk-tuk can eventually expand a thematic exhibition shelf on Asia (Ninjago, Monkie Kid), even if the version delivered here is not really emblematic of China or Japan and that it is not on the minifig scale.

Only the taxi is accompanied by stickers for the license plates, the mention on the doors and the advertising panels placed on the roof. No minifigure in these two boxes and that's a bit of a shame. A passenger hailing the taxi and a driver for the tuk-tuk would have been welcome, just to pass the pill on the public price of these small boxes.

In short, these two small sets probably do not deserve that we spend hours there and if LEGO had not bothered to send them, we would probably never have talked about them beyond the announcement of their availability. .

These are small additions that can possibly enhance a more global staging and only the tuk-tuk seems to me sufficiently accomplished to deserve to belong to the Creator range. The yellow cab is more eyeing the universe 4+ and with its vintage yet crass design it might bring back memories for those who had LEGOs in their toy boxes 15 or 20 years ago.

Note: The set of sets presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 15th January 2021 next at 23pm. "The" I try, I participate "are automatically deleted, make an effort.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

You can always pretend you haven't seen anything, but you would have to be blind not to understand that the next vehicle in the format CreatorExpert, which becomes from this year the all new Vehicle Collection, will be a Porsche 911.

A visual of the LEGO set 10295 Porsche 911 is currently circulating on the usual networks and we discover the model of 1458 pieces which should be available by March 2021 at a price around 150 €.

If we consider that the visual used to present the product on the packaging is the most flattering, I think that we will once again have to be content with something relatively similar but also rather approximate in places. The curves of the 911 appear to be there, but the flat, straight-edged windshield is nowhere near that of the benchmark vehicle. We could also discuss the techniques used for the wings, but we'll save that for a "Review ".

The pandemic will have definitely wreaked havoc in 2020 and it will be necessary to sort among 25 LEGO Ideas projects that have reached the required threshold of 10.000 supports during the third phase of the 2020 review, the results of which will be communicated next summer. For the year 2020, there are therefore 86 projects in all that will have gathered the 10.000 supporters required to have the right to be evaluated by LEGO and possibly end up on the shelves of the LEGO Stores.

LEGO does not even bother to do a post-validation pre-sorting and we find in this selection a Colosseum which will obviously go by the wayside due to the marketing of the set 10276 Colosseum, a police station Structure which will also be automatically rejected following the sale of the set 10278 Police Station, a new version of the house of hobbits already seen in 2013 in the set 79003 An Unexpected Gathering, an MRI machine, a karate-themed board game that no one has ever understood, a reproduction of the Milwaukee Art Museum, a dumpster, a Boeing 737 and the inevitable license-backed projects like Wallace & Gromit, the video game Among Us, Avatar, the other Avatar, The Addams Family, Jumanji, Red Dwarf, Gravity Falls and Spirited Away. The detailed list of the projects concerned is available on the blog of the LEGO Ideas platform.

While waiting to know the fate of these 25 qualified projects, we will be entitled within a few weeks to the result of the second phase of the 2020 review which brings together 35 projects. We will also know more about the project Sonic Mania - Green Hill Zone which was still under review last September following the announcement of the validated projects among the 26 in the first phase of the 2020 review.

We do with what we have, while waiting for something better: Space dedicated to children from the LEGO website highlights a first visual of one of the minifigs that will appear in 2021 with the LEGO VIDIYO range, a new universe about which we do not yet know much.

Already teased in the pages of the official catalog for the first half of the year, this new range seems to be the result of the recent partnership between LEGO and Universal Music and it should be a series of products accompanied by an application in the form of a social network " secure "on which the youngest could post their musical creations.

We will therefore find at least the festive llama of the visual above in one of the seven boxes of the range promised for the month of March 2021 and whose references should range between 43101 and 43107.

Update : LEGO has added a teasing page on the space dedicated to the range, the official announcement is scheduled for January 26.

Today we are interested in the LEGO Star Wars set 77904 Nebulon-B Frigate, a box of 459 pieces which was only marketed across the Atlantic via the official online store and at Amazon. The set was sold at the public price of $ 39.99, since its sale it has been a hit with resellers on the secondary market where you currently have to spend a little more than € 70 excluding delivery costs to acquire a copy.

I ordered three copies from Amazon US as soon as the product went on sale, I repatriated the package via Shipito, I offered a copy, I keep one and I will therefore give you some impressions of this product at using the third copy received.

Putting aside the current price of the product in the aftermarket, I think this is a really nice set that deserved better than being an exclusive product at a canceled convention, San Diego Comic Con 2020. La The box still bears the mark of this exclusivity and LEGO has not bothered to modify the packaging of the product before ensuring its distribution through other channels.

The ultra-limited availability of this reproduction of the escort frigate Nebulon-B, which boils down to an exhibition product, only served to remind many fans that the ship had so far never had the right to a "general public" interpretation. Yet it would be difficult to imagine a version "System"of this vessel which would not be accompanied by a support to allow the frigate to stand upright and the scale of this small model is a compromise which seems to me acceptable.

The support provided here is sober enough not to spoil the setting and the ship, about thirty centimeters long, holds without tipping even by shifting it a few studs. The most observant will have noticed the micro-Millennium Falcon stowed under the central section separating the life modules from the engines of the vessel, the wink is appreciable.

The internal structure of the ship uses a few colored elements which bring some variety to the inventory and make it easier to locate during assembly. The exterior finish is mainly in two tones and it gives pride of place to what is called the "greebling", a technique which consists in creating surface details using various and varied elements.

Microphone, revolvers, roller blades, monochrome minifig heads, ski poles, binoculars, skeleton feet, everything goes and in my opinion it is very successful. The counterpart to this overbidding of small elements: a relative fragility of certain appendages which will tend to come off easily. This frigate being a pure exhibition product, it is ultimately not a problem and the central section is strong enough to allow the suspension of the model, I know that some love to hang their vessels from the ceiling with fishing line.

This frigate is not to the scale of any other ship available in the LEGO Star Wars range but it will easily find its place alongside some of your UCS sets (Ultimate Collector Series) thanks to the presence of the usual small black display. Too bad that LEGO did not crack a sticker with some characteristics of the ship, history of making a mini UCS (!).

In short, this pretty product could have joined the collection of any fan of the LEGO Star Wars range if its distribution had been more global, but unfortunately you have to agree to pay at least double its retail price to be able to exhibit it on a shelf alongside other vessels in the range.

With all of the expense of ordering from Amazon and reshipping through Shipito, the three copies I received ended up costing me as much as if I had ordered through the aftermarket, but I at least got the satisfaction to fend for myself without having to call a reseller and I do not regret this investment. It is you who see, depending on your desires and your means, if the purchase is justified at the current prices. on Bricklink ou on eBay.

If you are not interested in the box, you can easily reproduce this ship using the instructions in PDF format, the set does not contain any exclusive element apart from the sticker which pays homage to the 40th anniversary of theEpisode v.

Note: The set presented here, purchased by me, is put into play. Deadline fixed at 15th January 2021 next at 23pm. "The" I try, I participate "are automatically deleted, make an effort.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.