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The latest LEGO find: A nice metal key ring in a box similar to the one offered 5006363 Han Solo Carbonite Metal Keychain offered at the end of October from 100 € of purchase.

As for the Star Wars model, this new keychain will therefore not be a product manufactured directly by LEGO but by the company RDP, a Chinese structure specializing in the design and manufacture of derivative products that works for many brands.

This new derivative product requires sacrificing 950 points in order to obtain a code to use on a next order. I broke down.

Note that while the discount coupons can be combined when checking out, those allowing you to obtain a promotional product are not: only one product per order.

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LEGO who sent a copy of the LEGO set 40416 Ice Skating Rink to all the bloggers on the planet including yours truly, I suggest you quickly take a tour of this small box of 304 pieces currently offered and as long as there is still more from 150 € of purchase on the official online store.

More than a simple static ice rink to be exhibited in a festive Winter Village, it is above all a real toy with a function that will please all those who expect from LEGO something other than too mini-dioramas. static. No complicated mechanism under the ice rink, these are three notched wheels that will put the two children in motion. The principle used here is similar to that seen in the LEGO Harry Potter set 75948 Hogwarts Clocktower with the ballroom and its dancers.

Ice is embodied by a layer of tiles transparent to the bluish tint installed on a white background. The effect is convincing, but the apparent pile of pieces used to portray the two skaters on the ice is a little less convincing. The extra thickness breaks the sliding effect on the ice and it is still very rough, even if we are not going to complain about being able to play with this little merry-go-round on ice.

To make the two young skaters turn, just push the toothed wheel that protrudes from the base. The most motivated may possibly consider motorizing the thing, even if I'm not sure that the game is worth the candle, except perhaps for a Winter village which will serve as a nursery for the end of year celebrations.

The two minifigs provided are dressed in new festive sweaters. Both elements are content with a few simple winter designs and the minifigs come with neutral legs. A hat and a scarf to complete the paraphernalia of young skaters, it is in the theme.

Do you absolutely have to spend 150 € on the official online store to get this little box? If you collect the limited edition party sets that LEGO offers each year, you can get started. Otherwise, you still have to be honest, this little set is cute but it does not justify spending 150 € and paying a high price for the products in order to get it.

If this box seems essential to you but you have other things to worry about financially at the end of the year, wait a few weeks, the sellers of the secondary market will quickly fight to offer it to you for a few tens of euros. Remember that many of the official store customers rely on the resale of these offered products to reduce the amount of their spending. There is something for everyone on arrival.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at December 15, 2020 next at 23pm. 

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.

Today we are quickly interested in some novelties of the LEGO Harry Potter range planned for January 1, 2021 and I preferred to group the four "books" which are announced in the mini-collection entitled "Hogwarts Moments". These four sets will be one for many fans who will not ask themselves many questions when choosing which reference to buy and they will without hesitation spend a second the 119.96 € requested by LEGO to afford the integral part of this series of playsets, so it seemed logical to tell you about this whole mini-range.

As you already know from the announcement of these four products, they are in fact classrooms installed in a container that closes to look like a book. These are not pop-up books, the contents of these four books do not unfold by themselves when opened and you will have to manually rearrange the various pieces of furniture to obtain a play space that looks like something.

Each of these playsets is built on the same principle as the other three and the variations are found in the furniture and its arrangement to allow the book to be closed and constitute a more or less homogeneous section. Only the front side of the cover is pad printed, the back cover remains empty. Those who had imagined that the back would also be pad-printed will be at their expense, we must be content with a somewhat coarse thematic sticker whose background color does not even match the color of the piece on which it takes square. No even discreet mention on the back of the membership of these different works in the Harry Potter universe, it's a shame.

Inside, it's a bit of a sticker fair with very large stickers to put in place in the various locations provided. These stickers greatly contribute to the atmosphere of each classroom and it will be difficult to do without them, the open book serving as a backdrop. In defense for LEGO, these stickers are really well done, and we salute the work of the graphic designer responsible for the file.

The interior layout of each of these works is more or less inventive and some classrooms seem to me to be significantly more successful than others on a technical level. This difference in quality in the design inevitably affects the good behavior of the book once closed. Some examples (76382 and 76385 to a lesser extent) are really very fragile and difficult to move without having to tighten the cover tightly to prevent something from falling off. Others are stronger and benefit from a better thought-out "storage" solution.

We will remember the presentation video offered by the manufacturer during the announcement of this mini-collection which invited us to buy them all in order to have a 360 ° competition playset. Missed, the playset shown in the video only brings together three of the four books and the assembly of the four products between them does not leave much room to play.

Unconditional fans of the Harry Potter universe, like those of the Star Wars or Marvel and DC Comics universes, are demanding on the details and they are quite right. They will be served with the content of these four playsets which do not really innovate in terms of gameplay but which are full of more or less supported winks to the lessons given by the four teachers provided.

No one will have much fun replaying a Transfiguration or Potions-making class, but the little scenes on offer should appeal to those who never tire of accumulating everything that LEGO can market around the Harry Potter universe. Collecting is a disease that cannot be cured.

Others will only see the inside of these books when they are assembled and will then be content to display them aligned on a shelf after having extracted the various minifigs that this collection allows to obtain. A classic presentation will not visually add much to a shelf and it will probably be necessary to find a solution to highlight the different covers.

Speaking of minifigs, the assortment here is rather honest with a teacher and two students per classroom, a lot of new elements and the possibility for the buyers of these boxes to expand their collections all at once with new ones. variations of their favorite characters.

In the set 76382 Hogwarts Moment: Transfiguration Class, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley with a new torso also delivered in two other of these boxes and a minifigure of the headmistress of Hogwarts Minerva McGonagall completely new. Special mention for the hat with integrated hair, it was about time and it was successful.

In the set 76383 Hogwarts Moment: Potions Class, Draco Malfoy and Seamus Finnigan also equipped with new torsos available for the moment only in this mini-collection, and the director of Slytherin Severus Snape who would undoubtedly have benefited from having pad-printed legs.

In the set 76384 Hogwarts Moment: Herbology Class, Cedric Diggory featuring Han Solo's face, Neville Longbottom and Hufflepuff Headmistress Pomona Sprout who reuses Paleontologist's legs from the LEGO Ideas set 21320 Dinosaur Fossils (2019) and the character minifig hat from the series 2 collectible characters. The torsos of the two students are identical.

In the set 76385 Hogwarts Moment: Charms Class, Filius Flitwick (without hat), Harry Potter and Cho Chang all benefit from new torsos, the director of Ravenclaw is equipped with the beard of Dwalin here declined in white and his face, just like that of Cho Hang is unpublished.

Finally, I must admit that I was very impressed by the official visuals of these products when they were put online on the official store but that I am a little less after having had them in hand, even if I continue to think the original idea is excellent. LEGO knows how to make us salivate with pretty packaging and clever staging, then it's up to everyone to decide if the promise is really kept.

The four playsets are really very compact and these books a dozen centimeters high lack a bit of cachet to really convince me with their apparent gray clips. The often annoying fragility of some of them does not help matters but the clips provided on the back of each of the books, designed to connect the different playsets to each other, make it possible to join the four volumes to facilitate movement and alignment. .

At 120 € all together, it becomes difficult to be choosy especially for a fan of the LEGO Star Wars universe like me who rarely sees such creative products in his favorite range. The idea is excellent, its execution is uneven depending on the reference but remains very correct, the assortment of minifigs is plentiful and the different environments are very supplied with decorations and other accessories. This collection of books / playsets could have been more ambitious on the size and finish of the books but the retail price would have been that much higher. So it is very good like that.

Note: The set of sets presented here, supplied by LEGO, are as usual in play. Deadline fixed at December 15, 2020 next at 23pm. 

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.

Let's go for a new promotional offer on the official online store, it allows you to get the LEGO set 40416 Ice Skating Rink (304 pieces) from 150 € / 165 CHF of purchase and without restriction of range. The product is automatically added to the basket as soon as the minimum required amount is reached.

According to LEGO, the offer is valid until December 24. Too bad for those who believe in it.

On the LEGO Stores side, the polybag Creator 30575 Train (59 pieces) is free from 40 € of purchase without restriction of range until December 24th.

Please note that VIP points are doubled throughout the month of December on LEGO CITY sets 60262 Passenger Airplane (104.99 €) and DUPLO 10933 Tower Crane Construction (129.99 €).

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Today we will briefly talk about the LEGO set 40416 Ice Skating Rink, a small box in "Limited edition"which will be offered very soon on the official online store and whose sheet has been updated with the addition of official product visuals.

We still do not know how much to spend to be offered this little winter scene of 304 pieces but I think we can bet on at least a hundred euros. The offer description is still not online at the time of this writing, but we should be fixed very quickly.

Update : The set will be offered from 150 € of purchase from December 1 to 24, 2020 without range restriction.