The official announcement is due later but at least one retailer was in a hurry to present the LEGO set 71741 Ninjago City Gardens and we therefore have some official visuals of this second modular extension of the set 70620 Ninjago City (2017), after the reference 70657 Ninjago City Docks marketed in 2018.

In the box, 5685 pieces and 19 minifigs including one a version "Golden"by Sensei Wu with its display which will join the other minifigs responsible for celebrating the 10 years of the range distributed in several 2021 new products in the range. Public price for France: 299.99 €, VIP preview availability scheduled for January 14 2021. We will talk about this big box again on the occasion of a "Review ".

(Visuals via the Certified Store Bricksworld.com)

Forward for a new collaboration between LEGO and a clothing brand: After LEVI'S and Adidas, it's the HYPE brand's turn to present a whole collection of clothes in the colors of the Ninjago range. On the program, t-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, swimsuits and a few accessories like backpacks and a cap.

For those who do not know it, HYPE is a brand born in 2011 following a design competition won on facebook and which since then has successfully marketed its own creations as well as licensed products thanks to various various collaborations. : Disney, Jurassic Park, Call of Duty or The Simpsons.

The new LEGO Ninjago collection resulting from the collaboration between the two brands consists of 28 products for adults and children which will go on sale from January 14 on the official LEGO online store and from January 15 on the brand's website JUSTHYPE.co.uk.

To sell us the adult-streetwear-rebel-a-little-gangsta-but-not-too-too-much-side of the collection, LEGO and HYPE are going there with a marketing campaign that uses the visual codes of many others brands that operate in this niche: a few containers, cleverly studied lighting and mannequins with suitable postures do the trick and erase the childish side of the Ninjago universe thanks to a staging worthy of a Damso clip.

Some of the designs on offer that integrate the Ninjago universe in an almost subtle way seem "wearable" to me, but the tastes and colors are indisputable and it's up to everyone to judge. The mere presence of the HYPE logo on these garments will be enough anyway to motivate many potential customers accustomed to creative risk-taking and the brand's relatively reasonable pricing policy.

Anyway, I remember that this is perhaps the first time that I see a collab between LEGO and another brand that does not just surf on the combination of basic colors / studs / minifigs and which tries for some of the pieces in this new collection an integration a little more artistic and modern than usual. HYPE grabbed the Ninjago license, visually adapted it to current streetwear codes and in my opinion it's more successful and less crass than when adidas and LEVI's did the reverse a bit lazily.

Today we are quickly interested in the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes set 76173 Spider-Man and Ghost Rider vs. Carnage, a small box of 212 pieces sold for 19.99 € which could easily go unnoticed but which in my opinion deserves better than to be considered as a product which has nothing to offer other than a handful of minifigs.

Ghost Rider is not what we can call a recurring character at LEGO, we have to go back to 2016 to find the only minifig of the character already marketed with the version of the set 76058 Spider-Man: Ghost Rider Team-up. We then added to our collections Johnny Blaze and his motorcycle, a machine that vaguely resembled the chopper driven by the character in different comics.

In this new box we get Robbie Reyes with his Dodge Charger and the appearance of the minifig confirms that LEGO was inspired by the version of the character seen on screen in the 4th season of the Marvel's Agents of SHIELD series more than that of the comic book run All-New Ghost Rider published in 2014/2015.

The vehicle to be built is largely on the level of what the Speed ​​Champions range offered in the set 75893 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon & 1970 Dodge Charger R / T released in 2019. Both Dodge Chargers are similar except for a few details and this new version adds a touch of playability by replacing the Supercharger of the engine by Stud Shooters that are delusional.

By removing a few body parts to free up connection points, Robbie Reyes' vehicle can go into Ghost Rider mode using a copy of the orange-colored bag of items often included in sets in the LEGO Marvel range. Super Heroes and the effect obtained is quite convincing with some fiery touches that do not detract from the overall appearance of the car.

The assortment of minifigs delivered in this set will not necessarily seem very consistent to everyone and one may wonder what Spider-Man and Carnage are doing in this box. I would gladly have been content with a few gang members who want to do battle with Robbie Reyes but you probably had to make sure the set attracts the younger ones and Spider-Man is generally the ideal candidate.

Robbie Reyes' minifigure is in my opinion really successful and it's hardly the neutral pair of legs that leaves me hungry for more. The character's face conforms to the version seen on the screen and the torso takes the design of the jacket worn by actor Gabriel Luna.

Too bad that LEGO does not provide us with an alternative head for the character, so that we can choose between Robbie Reyes driving his "classic" Dodge Charger and Ghost Rider driving his fiery car.

In any case, I much prefer this version of Ghost Rider to the one in the set. 76058 Spider-Man: Ghost Rider Team-up who was content to adapt a white head like we find on LEGO skeletons using a somewhat coarse pad printing.

The Carnage minifigure is the one already seen in the set 76113 Spider-Man Bike Rescue (2019) et 76163 Venom Crawler (2020), that of Spider-Man with his arms with really covering pad printing is new but it is also delivered in the other two sets marketed since the beginning of the year (76172 Spider-Man and Sandman Showdown et 76174 Spider-Man's Monster Truck vs. Mysterio).

The increase in the area of ​​the arms covered by the pattern is very good news, it now remains to solve the color difference problem on the assortments of parts with inverted colors: Red on a blue background is darker than red tinted throughout the rest of the torso.

Like many of you, I have come to realize over the waves of new releases released in recent years: with a few exceptions, the content of many sets in the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes range is too often only a pretext to make us pay a high price for a few minifigs. But I think, for once, that's not necessarily the case here as long as you really want to get a version of Ghost Rider that has long deserved to be part of the LEGO assortment.

Two unseen minifigs out of three and a pretty unpretentious vehicle but well within the theme for € 19.99? I say yes, we often have less than that for at least as much.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 18th 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.

Good news for fans of the LEGO Harry Potter range who couldn't get their copy of the set 30628 The Monster Book of Monsters during the initial promotion period, the box is automatically added to the basket again as soon as the required minimum purchase amount of € 75 in products from the LEGO Harry Potter range is reached.

The four new boxes 76382 Hogwarts Moment: Transfiguration Class, 76383 Hogwarts Moment: Potions Class, 76384 Hogwarts Moment: Herbology Class et 76385 Hogwarts Moment: Charms Class are currently in restocking and it will be necessary to be creative to find what to reach the minimum amount without finding a duplicate set in your collection.

You can always order a product back in stock, LEGO should in principle block your copy of the promotional product until the order is dispatched and in some cases you will even receive the free set alone before the manufacturer delivers the ordered products to you.

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Today we are quickly interested in the two "extensions" of the set's bouquet 10280 Flower Bouquet (756 - 49.99 €) marketed since January 1: LEGO references 40460 Roses (120 - 12.99 €) & 40461 ​​Tulips (111 - € 9.99).

These two small boxes allow in principle to add some flowers to the basic bouquet but they have above all the advantage of being able to compose other thematic bouquets and to do without some of the plants provided in the set 10280 such as the lavender plant or the snapdragon.

We usually offer red roses to someone for whom we have deep and sincere feelings and the tulip allows to mark a more nuanced intention according to the chosen color: white to be forgiven or to emphasize the purity of his feelings. , yellow to declare his flame and his despair of not being loved in return and purple to wish happiness and prosperity to the one who receives the bouquet. LEGO does not provide a red tulip, the flower embodying the same intention as the rose supplied in the other box.

The two roses in the set 40460 Roses are built on the same principle as those of the set 10280 Flower Bouquet, with the two green steering wheels but without the car cowl overlay, replaced here by a series of 4 elements identical to those placed near the center of the flower. the flower is therefore a little less voluminous but the effect remains successful. The stems with their thorns are based on the same assembly as the roses in the bouquet, but the wings of Pteranodon which embodied the leaves are here replaced by more classic elements, which is not to displease me.

Tulips in the set 40461 ​​Tulips are logically all three based on the same combination of parts. It's a bit simple at the assembly level but the effect is visually very successful. The stems are relatively coarse and the leaves will limit the presentation possibilities a bit depending on the vase chosen. If you plan to put together a big bunch of tulips, you can always remove some of the leaves to get a more even distribution of the thing.

In short, these two small unpretentious boxes that may convince some fans to invest in the bouquet of the set 10280 Flower Bouquet also offer many possibilities by collecting several copies, on condition that you agree to pay € 12.99 per set of two roses and € 9.99 for three tulips. I let you calculate the cost price of a large bouquet of red roses with at least ten flowers, we quickly reach peaks.

Some find the bouquet from set 10280 a bit bland and the two red roses sold separately will provide a bit of contrast to the set. The tulips can eventually fill a few spaces left empty by the basic composition, but it will be necessary to put up with the stems and leaves which are more green. flashy in these two small boxes and which will stand out in the middle of the elements in Sand green more discreet in the bouquet.

Note: The set of sets presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 17th January 2021 next at 23pm. "The" I try, I participate "are automatically deleted, make an effort. Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health, consume in moderation.

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.