Review : LEGO 10391 Over the Moon with Pharrell Williams

Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO set 10391 Over the Moon with Pharrell Williams, a box of 966 pieces currently available for pre-order on the official online store and which will be available exclusively from LEGO from September 20 at a public price of €109,99.

Once again, reactions were very mixed when this product was announced, based on the animated film PIECE BY PIECE, a biopic based on bricks and minifigs on the life of the artist Pharrell Williams, which is scheduled for release in theaters in October 2024. Some praise the artistic side of the thing, while others see it as a lazy product without much creative effort sold far too expensive for what it has to offer.

I think that this set should indeed be considered as a product whose content, which came out of the artist's imagination, was simply translated into plastic bricks by LEGO. Nothing more, nothing less.

The construction provided here will not revolutionize the genre, but the result is rather pleasing to the eye with a nice contrast between the shuttle, the smoke plumes and the colored trail. The scene is dynamic, we can easily imagine the ship escaping towards new adventures leaving behind a great breath of colorful optimism.

The shuttle is not extremely complex, it is even a very basic machine of the level of what is usually found in the CITY range. It still has some attributes that make it credible in its context with three wheels that can be easily removed when the machine is in flight, a golden canopy through which we can't see much but which will undoubtedly delight a few creative minds who will find a use for it in their constructions and a notch placed at the back that allows the ship to be securely installed on the drag without the whole thing risking falling. No stickers in this box and the golden canopy is delivered packed in a dedicated bag to avoid the inevitable scratches if it had been thrown in a bag with other parts.

I won't spoil the construction process for you, the assembly experience is pleasant with some rather original techniques for the trail and the smoke volutes. In the photos above, you will also understand how the trail can balance thanks to the triangular smoke volute base, it's well seen. The rest of the product is not very inspired on a technical level, but nothing serious.

LEGO adds a small abacus-shaped display stand to the box that contains 49 different heads in 7 skin tones, making a total of 51 heads with those of the two figures provided. 30 of them are new, but it's a safe bet that they won't remain exclusive to this box and that they will populate many LEGO sets in the future.

Two figurines are provided, Pharrell Williams and Helen Williams, they benefit from very pretty pad printing, they are accompanied by hair for Helen and a cap for Pharrell as well as helmets with golden visors, it is very well executed and the result is very neat.

This product, intended for an audience of fans of the artist, will probably only meet with critical success, but its marketing potential probably outweighs the potential sales volume. It serves the promotion of the film, it associates LEGO with a creative effort by going beyond the usual context of licenses wrung out to the limit and allows the toy manufacturer to give itself an artistic and poetic dimension often absent from its catalog of derivative products.

This set, which glorifies the artist in question and his vision of the world, can also be considered a bit of an arrogant and pretentious exercise. It will probably not appeal to regular LEGO fans, but it will probably find some buyers among those who have a different relationship with LEGO products.

Later, this box will inevitably end its career with a big reduction in its public price, it will then be time to treat yourself to a big handful of diversity in the form of plastic heads and to obtain the pretty golden canopy that equips the ship. The objective will be reached for LEGO and the fans who have been able to show patience will find what they are looking for.

In the meantime, I'm keeping the visuals of the product packaging to illustrate my usual photo during the next sales and other Black Fridays.

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