Quick Review: LEGO Marvel 76311 Miles Morales vs. The Spot

Today we take a very quick tour of the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76311 Miles Morales vs. The Spot, a small box of 375 pieces currently available for pre-order on the official online store and which will be available from January 1, 2025 at the public price of €49,99.

For those who don't know the context of the set, it is the first derivative product of the animated film. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and the proposed construction refers to the scene in which Miles Morales and The Spot confront each other in a Brooklyn store. If you have seen this movie, you will probably agree that LEGO stages this part of the film quite well with a minimalist but fairly faithful reproduction of the store and the important elements of the action seen on screen such as the ATM.

The manufacturer adds Miles Morales' father, Jefferson Morales, and his vehicle to the box, but leaves out the owner of the store who would have been right at home here, armed with a baseball bat, for example. The construction is quickly assembled, and it also makes intensive use of stickers with 16 stickers to place on the front and on the various interior elements. These stickers are graphically very successful, but the modeling phase remains, as usual, really boring. We still stick on average one sticker every five stages of construction in this box. The only real functionality of the place is embodied by the possibility of ejecting the ATM, which is meager. We will also note the presence of a flexible canvas that allows the bad guy on duty to be locked in.

The PDNY police vehicle (NYPD but a little "different" like the whole world in which Miles Morales evolves) is relatively simple but will appeal to younger people. It is at the level of what is usually found in the CITY range but with a little British twist that is very appreciable. Jefferson can be installed at the wheel even if the driver only has a steering wheel without a seat or any refinement of the interior. This spartan layout of the car, however, allows two figurines to be crammed inside if the need arises.

You probably understood it a long time ago, the two assemblies of parts provided here are in reality only a pretext to make this construction toy a luxury display for the minifigs delivered in this box. They are all new in this form and successful, including Gwen Stacy who benefits here from a different torso from the one already seen in other sets. Small disappointment that smells of savings, three of the four characters do not have patterned legs, you have to make do with neutral elements.

Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy both come with their respective faces and matching hair. This is nice, but you'll have to pay again to get two more torsos and line up these two uncovered-face "variants" of each character in a Ribba frame.

Jefferson's torso is also really successful with a level of detail rarely achieved on a police officer's torso, especially on the back. The villain's figurine may seem a little too "simple" but it is faithful to the version of the character seen on screen with his white body and his spots spread all over his body including his legs. LEGO did not go so far as to pad print the arms or the side of the character's legs, which is a bit of a shame. A hat like the one seen on screen would also have been welcome, just to have a "variant" here too.

The late but compelling arrival of the Spider-Verse at LEGO is great news for all fans who enjoyed the two animated films already available (Spider-Man: Next Generation et Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) and who are impatiently awaiting the release of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. In any case, we're not going to complain about occasionally being treated to something other than yet another Iron Man suit or a twelfth version of Thor in a range that rarely leaves the already fairly exhausted Avengers universe.

Once again, we could discuss the high price of this little box, but I think that this debate is endless and that patience will be required to find it a little cheaper elsewhere than at LEGO. In any case, I prefer to spend €50 for four new characters that deserve to one day go down in history at LEGO than for other sets without taking risks or without real novelty.

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