30453 Captain Marvel & Nick Fury

Time to take a look at the polybag 30453 LEGO Captain Marvel & Nick Fury a copy of which was sent to me by LEGO, although we do not know if this bag of 32 pieces will one day be offered directly by the manufacturer or if it will end up at the bottom of a bin in the toys department of a particular brand . While waiting for a hypothetical arrival in France of this bag, we know that it is already on sale for a little less than $ 5 at Walmart in the USA.

The context of this polybag is not difficult to guess for those who have seen the movie Captain Marvel: It reproduces a scene in which the superheroine comes into contact with her sidekicks by calling them through a phone booth. The Captain Marvel minifig is here in Starforce version and it is indeed the same figurine as the one delivered in the set 77902 Captain Marvel and the Asis (271 pieces) sold during San Diego Comic Con 2019. Nice pad printing on the chest, desperately neutral arms and legs, it's minimum service but the minifig does the job.

Captain Marvel

The other minifig provided in this polybag is that of Nick Fury seen in the LEGO Marvel set 76127 Captain Marvel and The Skrull Attack (307 pieces - 29.99 €) marketed since the beginning of last year.

LEGO is missing an opportunity to offer us a version of the character whose outfit would be more faithful to that of Samuel L. Jackson in the scene concerned. namely with a jacket over his shirt. I already said it in my review of the set 76127 Captain Marvel and The Skrull Attack : We do not necessarily recognize Samuel L. Jackson, but we know that it is him so we will end up convincing ourselves that there is a resemblance between the figurine and the actor.

30453 Captain Marvel & Nick Fury

30453 Captain Marvel & Nick Fury

The rest of the contents of the bag allow to assemble a telephone booth without much interest and to dress the thing using the few accessories provided: a video cassette also seen in the LEGO Jurassic World set 75935 Baryonyx Face-off: The Treasure Hunt (434 pieces - 69.99 €) marketed in 2019, a rather common control panel, a walkie-talkie and a keyboard which here symbolizes the Gameboy seen in the scene concerned. LEGO does not forget to add a copy of the Tesseract casually placed next to the telephone booth, just to please the fans.

This polybag therefore has above all the merit of allowing all those who refuse to spend more than a hundred euros to afford a copy of the set. 77902 Captain Marvel and the Asis on the aftermarket to get the Starforce version of Captain Marvel. The set sold during the last San Diego Comic Con only has the exclusive Maria Rambeau head, the character's torso being that of Tallie Lintra, a character seen in the LEGO Star Wars set. 75196 A-Wing vs. TIE Silencer (2018)

Note: The polybag presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at March 10, 2020 next at 23pm.

Update : The winner was drawn and 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. Shipment of the batch as soon as the sanitary situation permits.

The SPY - Comment posted the 09/03/2020 at 19:13
29/02/2020 - 13:34 Competition

40370 40 Years of LEGO Trains

Go ahead for a little contest where two of you can win a copy of the LEGO set 40370 40 Years of LEGO Trains, a box offered from March 1 to 15, 2020 from € 99 purchase on the official online store. As everyone loves trains but doesn't necessarily have the budget to be offered this little set, I thought it was a good idea to put in play the two copies that LEGO sent to most sites or blogs from the legosphere to promote the offer.

To participate in this new competition, it's always so simple: You look on the brand's website for what to answer the question asked and you enter what you think is the correct answer in the area of ​​the form provided for this purpose .

As usual, this no-obligation competition is open to all residents of mainland France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The prize will be shipped by me to the winner and by Colissimo with insurance and signature on delivery (and suitable packaging).

Good luck to everyone !

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29/02/2020 - 12:02 Lego news

LEGO Creator Expert 10271 Fiat 500

LEGO officially "unveils" the LEGO Creator Expert set 10271 Fiat 500 (960 pieces - 84.99 € / 109.00 CHF), a box whose visuals have already been published everywhere following the "early" sale of a few copies on eBay. Nothing new therefore for all those who follow closely the news of LEGO products.

At first glance and on a purely aesthetic level, we are in my opinion more in the spirit of the set 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 only the set 10265 Ford Mustang with some reinterpretation of the curves of the original vehicle and that's to stay polished. It is also not difficult to find MOCs that do much better in terms of loyalty to the original vehicle.

The LEGO Creator Expert set 10271 Fiat 500 will be on sale from March 1 in the official online store and from March 2 in the LEGO Stores. The "Review "of this cross between a FIAT 500 and a FIAT 126 will have to wait until LEGO decides to send the test copy promised, something that tells me that the manufacturer is not in a particular hurry ...

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LEGO Creator Expert 10271 Fiat 500

LEGO Creator Expert 10271 Fiat 500

For the record, a (roughly) scale 1: 1 version of the vehicle was to be exhibited at the Geneva International Motor Show 2020, but the event was canceled, we have the video below. To save the furniture, LEGO also offers us some pretty vintage posters featuring the vehicle:

28/02/2020 - 18:43 Lego news Shopping

LEGO 4000026 Tree of Creativity

If you had planned a pilgrimage to Billund soon with the aim of bringing back one or more copies of the products that are only available there, know that set 4000026 LEGO Tree of Creativity (837 pieces), which is exclusive to the store located in the heart of the LEGO House, will be quickly and permanently removed from the shelves "to make room for a new exclusive set from May 2020".

If you had planned to buy yourself a copy via the secondary market, now is the time to get agitated because the announcement that has just taken place will inevitably cause prices to soar among sellers who have stocked this reference launched in 2018 pending its end of life.

The set is currently sold for a hundred euros on Bricklink, much more on Brickowl and even more on eBay.

As a reminder, this reference was sold until now at the public price of 599 DKK (80 €) and it is a version Light from the very exclusive set 4000024 Tree of Creativity offered to participants of the LEGO Inside Tour in 2017. These two boxes reproduce the giant tree installed in the heart of the LEGO House, and it is the same designer, Steen Sig Andersen, who developed the original set and then adapted the version Light by ensuring that the gift offered during the LEGO Inside Tour 2017 remains a unique and exclusive product.

76142 Avengers Speeder Bike Attack

Today we are interested in the LEGO Marvel set 76142 Avengers Speeder Bike Attack (226 pieces - 24.99 €), which despite packaging that may suggest that the product is based on the cinematographic saga concluded with the film Avengers Endgame is actually based on the Marvel's Avengers (Square Enix) video game which was originally slated for release in May 2020 but was eventually pushed back to next September.

We know that the video game will feature the Avengers facing the AIM troops (Advanced Idea Mechanics) and the color of the combination of the agents delivered in the two sets already available confirms that it is the faction led by MODOK. So we should not look for a reference to the different films and be satisfied with what LEGO offers us while waiting to see if all this really has a credible link with the content of the video game.

In this box, the building machine is Black Panther's motorcycle. Why not, the design of the machine is original and we can imagine that the factories of Wakanda are capable of producing such machines with a futuristic look. Unfortunately, the thing is oversized and not at all minifig scale. It is enough to install Black Panther at the controls of the machine to understand that the figurine can not even grab the two handles of controls. And that's without counting on the totally crazy riding position created here which will bring back memories to those who already have the sets. 76126 Avengers Ultimate Quinjet ou 76113 Spider-Man Bike Rescue...

As LEGO provides in this box the two silver accessory packs (ref. 6266155 and 6266977) already seen in other Marvel or DC Comics sets, the designer in charge of the file logically tried to use all the elements of each bag by integrating them more or less effectively on the fairing of the motorcycle and on the jetpack of the AIM agent

The two magnificent rims of the motorcycle are not exclusive to this box, they are also found in the sets 76143 Avengers Truck Takedown et 76148 Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock marketed this year and I think we will see them again quickly on a slew of more or less conventional vehicles in other ranges. The bike is easy to handle thanks to an internal structure based on Technic beams and there is no risk of losing too many parts apart from perhaps the two blue side extensions ending in the headlights, it is equipped with Stud Shooters adjustable and the playability is maximum.

76142 Avengers Speeder Bike Attack

76142 Avengers Speeder Bike Attack

The AIM agent's jetpack is rather successful, it is made up of two mobile and independent parts fixed in the back of the minifig. I would have appreciated that both Stud Shooters be orientable and do not remain in the axis of the support to retain the possibility of adjusting the shot without affecting the flight position.

Here we find all the elements of the two accessory packs that are not integrated into the bike and it is therefore a bit loaded. We feel we had to fit everything in and the designer did his best. Two cans of dangerous product (it's written on it) are provided and the AIM agent can take them away thanks to the anchor attached to the end of the chain, itself attached to the end of a grapple launcher which does not throw a grapple. The minifig / jetpack set is visually very consistent thanks to the orange colored elements placed on the jetpack fairing and the arms and head of the minifig.

76142 Avengers Speeder Bike Attack

76142 Avengers Speeder Bike Attack

The three minifigs delivered here are brand new. They are inspired by the Marvel's Avengers video game and therefore allow you to afford original variants of Thor and Black Panther. It should also be noted that none of the three minifigs delivered in this set has pad-printed legs. It is not always essential to overload a minifigure in various and varied details to make it believable, but when all the characters in a box are deadlocked, we can not help thinking that LEGO wanted to save some money. .

Thor's torso is a nice representation of the digital version of the character, except for the arms which should have been flesh colored. The Black Panther minifigure is relatively sober compared to previous versions of the character but the result seems very correct to me.

The AIM agent also benefits from a beautiful graphic work on the chest, too bad the legs are neutral. On the head, I have the impression that the details of the respirator duplicate the supplied accessory, but the character is not intended to walk without this accessory and his helmet anyway.

76142 Avengers Speeder Bike Attack

LEGO obviously plans to provide us with some additional AIM agents this summer via sets 76153 Helicarrier et 76166 Avengers Tower in addition to those delivered in this box and in the set 76143 Avengers Truck Takedown, so it's time to start building a team of villains.

25 € for a set with a (too) big motorcycle, a well-equipped villain and two super heroes, it's almost reasonable. There is a lot of fun, the construction phase is interesting especially in terms of the jetpack and the minifigs provided are all new and beautifully made. The reference to the video game which was to be released in May and which will not be available until September is in my opinion ultimately very incidental, the set is sufficient in itself.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at March 8, 2020 next at 23pm.

Update : The winner was drawn and 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. Shipment of the batch as soon as the sanitary situation permits.

komik - Comment posted the 01/03/2020 at 21:03