Review: LEGO 40690 Tribute to Jules Verne's Books

Today we take a quick look at the contents of the LEGO set 40690 Tribute to Jules Verne's Books, a small box of 351 pieces currently available from €150 of purchase via the official online store as well as in the LEGO Stores.
I might as well tell you right away, there is nothing new in this box which pays homage to the writer Jules Verne via a half-open book on which we install references to three of his best-known works: a hot air balloon For Five weeks in a Balloon, a train for Around the world in eighty days and a micro version of the Nautilus for Twenty thousand leagues under sea. 

It's rather well executed with a book with a fixed structure but very pleasant to put together and a few micro-constructions which give volume to the staging. Only one sticker in this box, the one that reminds us who it is. And it's useful because the minifigure provided is really very generic. It's not very tasty with a torso having already been used with its flesh-colored hands for two goblins from the Harry Potter universe (76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors' Edition et 40598 Gringotts Vault), hair seen and seen again, the head of Gustave Eiffel or Obi-Wan Kenobi as well as a pair of neutral legs.

We are not going to complain about being entitled to a promotional product which offers a bit of a construction challenge, even if we may wonder what to do next with this model which will have to end its career on a shelf lined up alongside other products in the same vein paying homage to famous people: 40291 Creative Storybook (2018) 40410 Charles Dickens Tribute (2020) 40450 Amelia Earhart Tribute (2021) 40530 Jane Goodall Tribute (2022) 40579 Eiffel’s Apartment (2022) or 40595 Tribute to Galileo Galilei (2023)

Do you have to spend the €150 requested by LEGO to get this little box? Nothing is less certain unless your passion for the subject covered or the desire to resell the set later on Vinted to amortize a little the amount spent by purchasing sets at full price on the official online store takes over. . It's up to you, knowing that the secondary market already allows you to afford this little box without having to buy anything else.

This promotional product is offered from June 21 to 23, 2024 for members of the Insiders program, the offer will then possibly be extended until June 30, 2024 for all customers of the official online store and LEGO Stores, there's some left until then.

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