Review: LEGO Disney 43186 Bruni The Salamander Buildable Character

Today we are quickly interested in the LEGO Disney set 43186 Bruni The Salamander Buildable Character, a small box of 96 pieces sold at the public price of 12.99 € which features a character from the film Frozen II (Frozen 2).

Bruni the Salamander is one of the many characters created especially to fill the shelves of toy stores, like the Ewoks or the Porgs. It's often small, it's sometimes cute, it's always funny and it easily turns into a plush or figurine. But Frozen is not Star Wars and LEGO was content with a modest reproduction of the salamander rather than offering a more imposing minifigure of several hundred pieces in the style of a Porg or a Grogu.

From the publication of the first visuals of the set, I was one of those who found this little figurine rather successful. Looking at it more closely and from other angles than those offered by LEGO on the packaging or on the product sheet, it is a little less obvious.

Comparing with the creature from the animated film, it's confirmed: the LEGO version is only a very rough adaptation of the creature. She loses in the process what makes all her charm on the screen: the cute and mischievous side of the character. But it is LEGO under the Disney license and we can therefore count on the indulgence of fans who will be content with this reproduction with the tail a little too straight and the head a little too flat.

There is no miracle, with an inventory of 96 pieces of which a large handful is used to build the campfire and the marshmallows, the little salamander therefore remains a little rough. There are, however, some good ideas such as the car hood that dresses the head or the shell that forms the lower part of the jaw and everything is nicely pad printed.
To quibble, I think that LEGO could have considered lengthening the tongue to make it protrude and pad a flake on it. The large snowflake provided is indeed not to scale, but at least it has the merit of being there.

Let's see the bright side of things, this small set sold for 12.99 € remains affordable and it will please Frozen fans who already have all the other boxes based on the franchise and who accumulate mini-dolls.

I still believe that LEGO could have been a more ambitious in this file by offering a larger and more detailed creature. The public price would have inflated as well, but we all know that is only a side issue when it comes to successful franchises around which derivatives sell like hot cakes.

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