Review: LEGO Jurassic World 75939 Dr. Wu's Lab Baby Dinosaurs Breakout

Today we quickly tour the LEGO set 75939 Dr. Wu's Lab Baby Dinosaurs Breakout (164 pieces - € 19.99), the smallest box of the new wave of licensed Jurassic World sets.

We're not going to lie to each other, at the point where we are in the LEGO Jurassic World range, the interest of the new sets loosely based on the animated series LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar responsible for furnishing while waiting for the next installment of the cinematographic saga scheduled for 2021 lies mainly in the presence of new species of dinosaurs.

As is often the case with LEGO, the marketers have done their job of putting together a very pretty staging of Dr. Wu's lab on the box. But we all know here that the reality is sometimes disappointing at LEGO and this mini lab all to its advantage on the packaging of the product will not impress many people when it is placed on the living room table.

We can always gargle with the incubator, its eggs and its robotic gripper or on the "functionality" which allows "to break" the large blue window via a black lever that no one has made the effort to really integrate into the construction, there is frankly nothing "... play to create new species of dinosaurs and help Owen Grady stop the dinosaur escape ..."as the official description of the product pompously indicates.

The escape of the dinosaurs is also purely theoretical since LEGO does not provide an enclosure, cage or closed space from which the two creatures could possibly escape. Looking more closely, we see that the designer has chosen to put the lab on one side of the building and the enclosure on the other. The triceratops therefore have access to a bowl of water and a little food. Nothing prevents him from also having fun with the joysticks and other buttons placed on the console visible to the right ...

On the lab side, Dr. Wu has at his disposal a slew of control screens all based on stickers graphically very successful but whose installation is laborious and the rendering very average. It should be noted above all that the designer did not even bother to complete the construction, for example leaving the tenons visible on the central control screen.

When the content of a set is a little too simplistic to really convince, all that remains are the micro-things or the good ideas that the design of the product can conceal even if the microscope with its Tile used upside down to make a Petri dish, the "robotic" arm of the incubator and the pad-printed amber block will not really save the furniture. Especially for 20 €.

Let's face it, LEGO charges us two baby dinosaurs for € 20 and adds a few handfuls of parts so as not to tarnish its reputation as a manufacturer of construction toys. If you collect the different molded species offered by LEGO, here you will get a baby ankylosaurus and a baby triceratops.

The ankylosaurus could have found its way into a Kinder egg and it is hardly the post on its back that reminds us that it is indeed a LEGO product. I predict the confusion among many parents who will one day want to get rid of their kids' LEGOs on Le Bon Coin and who will put the minifigure in the bin for "cute stuff but probably not worth much".

The triceratops is a little more consistent and there is no doubt that it belongs to the LEGO universe: it has a notch on the back in which you have to install two pieces to give it its final shape, or a minifigure "because it fits".

If the ankylosaur is composed of a single injection molded element of two colors, the triceratops is the result of the assembly of two elements with a somewhat rough fit in places. Purists will see a minifigure in the LEGO spirit, others will regret the spaces visible on the side of the animal while the minifigure is not removable. For the rest, the pad prints of these two baby dinosaurs are very correct and the injection in two colors on the head of the triceratops is perfectly carried out without burrs.

The two minifigs provided are made up of reused parts and a few new elements: Dr. Wu's torso was already in the set 75927 Stygimoloch Breakout (2018), the character's head is unpublished. We could find the character's outfit a bit simplistic, but it is perfectly in line with the one worn by BD actor Wong on screen. A head in Light Flesh would have been sufficient.

Owen Grady's torso is a novelty based on the character's look in the animated series and also featured in sets 75940 Gallimimus and Pteranodon Breakout et 75942 Velociraptor Biplane Rescue Mission. As often, the official visuals are a little too optimistic and the flesh-colored area of ​​the neck here turns pink because of the color of the torso.

The character's head is the one already seen in several boxes marketed since 2018 with here a misalignment of the whites of the eyes on one of the faces, the legs are a slew of sets marketed from then 2018 and are even reused in the set Lego city 60266 Ocean Exploration Ship for the helicopter pilot.

In short, LEGO applies here the recipe well known to fans of other licensed ranges with something to attract collectors and a few pieces to coat it all. The two baby dinos will therefore easily find their audience and the laboratory will probably end up in the toy box unless the one who obtains it has some of the other boxes in the range to compose a diorama a little plush.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at July 16, 2020 next at 23pm. 

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