Review: LEGO Star Wars 75267 Mandalorian Battle Pack

Today we are quickly interested in the LEGO Star Wars set 75267 Mandalorian Battle Pack (102 pieces - € 14.99), a small box that features characters more or less inspired by the series The Mandalorian whose first season has just ended on the Disney + platform.

Fans of the Star Wars universe will obviously be delighted to be able to add a few colorful Mandalorians to their collection, but beyond that I think a closer look at the set misses its point a bit.

If you haven't seen the first season of the series and that you prefer to wait for the availability of the Disney + platform in France, scheduled for March 2020, before you start watching the eight episodes, do not read on.

This box makes a priori direct reference to the third episode of the series, with a scene in which the one who is in fact called Din Djarin escapes from the city of Nevarro carrying the one we now nickname "Baby Yoda" . Surrounded by a small army of Bounty Hunters, the hero is supported by his colleagues who land in "mode"Mandalorians Assemble!"to allow him to set sail.

Where the set misses what it tries to reproduce a little, it is by the absence of jetpacks for the minifigs delivered in the box. The Mandalorians who arrive as reinforcements disembark by air and we do not find this accessory in the set.

Instead, LEGO delivers us a Speeder-Bike almost identical to the one seen in the set 7914 Mandalorian Battle Pack marketed in 2011 and which has little to do there. The machine is only used as a pretext to confirm the designation "construction toy" of the product, as is always the case for Battle Packs.

Another slightly annoying detail, the presence of coarse blasters which offer a certain playability to the product but which really struggle to reproduce the weaponry of the characters seen on the screen. Those of Speeder-Bike are sufficient and LEGO could have provided classic blasters to enhance the "realism" of the set. After all, no one is going to stage a battle with red pieces between Mandalorians who are normally on the same team.

The four characters provided are all unique by their pad printing, both in terms of design and colors. And it's very well done with a really impressive level of detail. The same goes for the helmets which are also unique and really successful. Since there are no small savings, one of the four characters does not benefit from a detailed pad printing on the legs. We will do with it, it's not dramatic.

Under the four helmets, we get neutral heads, it is in any case not the point here to give a face to these Mandalorians. Two of the helmets benefit from a design with a visor of a shape identical to that of Bo Katan (The Clone Wars, Rebels) and Sabine Wren (Rebellious), we can therefore deduce that these are possibly female characters. The balance is respected, LEGO thus avoids possible criticisms of the type "and why women can't be mandos, etc.."

If there was one version to reproduce in this set, it was that of the over-armed Mando-Commando which landed in Iron patriot to spray the Bounty Hunters troop with their heavy machine gun. Bad luck, LEGO may not have had the information when creating this Battle Pack.

In short, it's a nice little set more or less "inspired" by the series with four official minifigs really unique from head to toe to line up in our Ribba frames or to stage in a diorama based on the scene from the Episode 3. Too bad for the lack of classic jetpacks and blasters.

Below, another possibility of staging ...

Note: The set shown here, supplied by LEGO, is fun to play. Deadline set at 4th January 2020 next at 23pm.

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