Onward to a series of offers at LEGO which should in principle motivate us to properly celebrate the annual May the 4th event and go to the checkout, obtaining some promotional products along the way and taking advantage of more or less interesting discounts .

On the program, products offered according to the purchase level, coupons to download from the Insiders rewards center in order to benefit from an immediate reduction on the public price of nine products in the range and some VIP rewards with a medallion available in exchange of 1500 points and a poster in exchange of 1800 points.

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As for the products that are available today, here is the list of sets concerned, including the posting of the set online Ultimate Collector Series 75382 TIE Interceptor and a collector's book sold for €150:

A few hours before the launch of the promotional operation which will allow you to get this product, today we take a quick tour of the contents of the LEGO Star Wars set 40686 Trade Federation Troop Carrier which will be automatically added to the basket as soon as the minimum required purchase amount of €160 in products from the LEGO Star Wars range is reached. In this small box of 262 pieces, enough to assemble a Trade Federation troop transport with its six generic Battle Droids and its two pilots.

The set is part of the celebration of 25 years of the LEGO Star Wars range and pays homage to the set 7126 Battle Droid Carrier marketed in 2001 by taking up some of the ideas implemented at the time on a model which was then cruder and much less accomplished in terms of finish. The and 75086 Battle Droid Troop Carrier of 2015 displayed an aesthetic bias very different from what LEGO offers today with this return to the sources in terms of design and aesthetic refinements to best exploit current possibilities.

The product also benefits from some welcome features with the possibility of removing the rack which accommodates the battle droids and there are moving parts to visually simulate the ejection of the six figurines provided. Nothing crazy, but we're not going to complain that LEGO is making an effort to offer a construction offering a minimum of playability, even if it's a promotional product.

The supply of figurines is correct even if we all already have several handfuls of droids in our drawers from collecting them from LEGO Star Wars Advent calendars and we even get two pilots here with their distinctive torsos. Too bad, the pad printing of these elements is not really up to par with a beige area on a blue background which does not match and which is affected by defects due to the presence of the manufacturer's logo.

We also get a new copy of the brick provided to celebrate 25 years of the LEGO Star Wars range, it is still the same and it would have benefited from being available in personalized variants depending on the subject covered in the box concerned. We'll be happy with that. No stickers to stick here, the product didn't need them anyway.

This promotional product seems to me to live up to what we can expect from a manufacturer who imposes a relatively high minimum purchase on us to receive it, €160 in this specific case, and this box would have could also have been sold without having to blush in the face of other products in the LEGO Star Wars range which are sometimes much less convincing. Taking advantage of the offer will therefore allow you to celebrate two anniversaries with dignity: the 25th anniversary of theEpisode I. (The Phantom Menace) and 25 years of the LEGO Star Wars range.

It will also be possible not to fall for the official online store and to turn to the secondary market to obtain your copy of this little box, there should be many sellers there from the launch of the operation and prices should logically drop as supply increases. It's for you to see. In any case, I'm not going to complain about being entitled to a real product with an accomplished design as part of a promotional offer, it's always better than a simple polybag without much interest or a scrap metal charm off topic.

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