Art is priceless, but when it is too expensive it sells for less. This is undoubtedly the conclusion drawn by LEGO a few months after the sale of the four Brick Sketches inspired by the work of MOCeur Chris McVeigh, who this year became a designer at LEGO and arrived in Billund with his concept in his suitcase.

The public price of the four available references therefore drops from € 19.99 to € 17.99 and we can consider that this price reduction, which is ultimately only 10%, goes in the right direction even if I think that the fair price of these boxes should be € 14.99 instead.

The other information of the day is the upload of the trailer for the animated mini-film LEGO Star Wars Holiday Speciall which will be broadcast on November 17 on the Disney + platform.

If you are not a subscriber to this VOD platform, do not worry, this short film which echoes the telefilm bearing the same title broadcast in 1978 and whose action takes place after the events of the last episode of the saga cinematographic will probably be rebroadcast until more thirst afterwards on the chains which diffuse children's programs.

The thing also takes on the air of high-end advertising with a derivative product that is already available since the beginning of the school year: the LEGO Star Wars set. 75279 Advent Calendar 2020 whose content was developed in partnership with the production of this animated film. The different characters in festive attire that we will obtain in some of the 24 boxes of the set will indeed also be present on the screen.

LEGO today unveils the set 10274 Ghostbusters ECTO-1, a large box of 2352 pieces which will allow, from November 15 and against the modest sum of 199.99 € / 209.00 CHF to assemble the emblematic vehicle of the cinematographic saga launched in 1984 and whose third part, entitled Ghostbusters: Afterlife, will be released in theaters in June 2021.

The announcement of this set is not a surprise to those who follow social networks assiduously, several photos of the box have been posted in recent days.
The vehicle proposed here is therefore an interpretation of the Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance from 1959 which will be present in the sequel with Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) and Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things) scheduled for next year. LEGO is not the only toy manufacturer to offer an interpretation of the film's ECTO-1, Hasbro for its part will market its 1 / 18th version in January 2021.

This LEGO version of the ECTO-1 measures 47cm long, 16.5cm wide and 22.5cm high. Unlike the LEGO Ideas set 21108 Ghostbusters ECTO-1 marketed in 2014, this new set does not contain any minifig. Some may regret the absence of a small separate display with several minifigs as is the case with DC Comics sets. 76161 1989 Bat Wing et 76139 1989 Batmobile, but the film will feature a main cast very different from that of the first two parts of the cinematographic saga and the presence of the four "historical" ghost hunters is not really justified here.

You understood it by discovering the first visuals of the set published on the usual channels a few days ago, this is not the original ECTO-1 but the version that will be used in the third part of the saga.

If the franchise logo on the three doors of the vehicle is well pad printed, the rust spots are based on stickers and it will therefore be possible with some adjustments to choose between the original version of the vehicle and the one that will be present in the film which will be released in 2021. It will be sufficient to refrain from placing the 38 (!) stickers embodying the rust stains on the bodywork and possibly to manage to move the ladder from the left side to the right side of the roof in order to to exhibit an "original" version of the vehicle.

As for the new elements present in this box, we will note the presence of a windshield specially designed for this model and a new steering wheel. The ambulance steering is functional, the doors open, and the rear seat on the right side slides out to become a firing position like in the movie trailer. It will be remembered that in the animated series The Real Ghostbusters broadcast in France at the end of the 80s, the seat came out of the roof of the vehicle.

Note that the instruction booklet and the sheet of fifty stickers are no longer packaged in a transparent plastic bag but are packaged here in neutral cardboard packaging.

Designer Mike Psiaki worked on this new vehicle, we already owed him the Aston Martin from the set. 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 marketed in 2018. I believe that apart from the rear of the ambulance, the door of which seems to me visually a little too narrow, we can without getting too wet consider that this new model is much more faithful to the reference vehicle on the aesthetic level than the Aston Martin was in its time.

We will talk about this box again quickly and I have already been able to obtain an additional copy to put into play on the occasion of the launch on November 15 thanks to Sony Pictures Consumer Products (SPCP) which I thank in passing.

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Today we will briefly talk about the LEGO Star Wars set 77904 Nebulon B-Frigate, a small box initially planned for San Diego Comic Con 2020 and which is for sale on Amazon following the cancellation of the convention.

Several hundred copies of this box of 459 pieces had already been put on sale (product link at this address) at Amazon USA in mid-October with a shipping date announced for November 18th, but it seems that this is a false start and that the set will be "officially" on sale soon, still at Amazon USA. We know that this box is also available in some LEGO stores in Discovery Centers established in the USA, which explains the availability of some copies on eBay.

For those who are interested, know that it is possible to order from France at Amazon USA even for products indicated as undeliverable elsewhere than in the United States. All you have to do is create an account on a forwarding service which provides you with an address in the USA and which then takes care of returning the package to you against payment of transport and a few additional costs.

I used for example the services of Shipito.com to send me a copy of the LEGO Marvel set 77905 Taskmaster's Ambush listed on Amazon USA a few days ago. Note that the set 77906 Wonder Woman, exclusive to the DC Fandome 2020 virtual convention, is also offered at a reasonable price at Amazon USA via marketplace resellers whose products are shipped by Amazon.

If the adventure tempts you and you prefer to pay for a reshipment service rather than fattening the resellers on the secondary market, watch for the set to go live. 77904 Nebulon B-Frigate via the LEGO Star Wars section of Amazon.com or by performing a search on the reference of the set. The actual availability of the set should not last more than a few minutes, dealers and other speculators will be on the spot as well.

We will briefly talk again today about the LEGO Harry Potter set 30628 The Monster Book of Monsters with the upload by LEGO of some official visuals and instruction booklet in PDF format of this product which should soon be offered on condition of purchase on the official online store.

In the box, enough to assemble a reproduction of the edgy book which makes its first appearance in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The construction is equipped with a mechanism that sets the book in motion when moving and it is accompanied by a minifig of Draco Malfoy whose torso is not unique or exclusive. The element does indeed appear in sets 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall (2018) et 40419 Hogwarts Students (2020)

For those who would like to try to assemble the book (without the countless stickers), the instruction booklet in PDF format can be downloaded at this address.