It's been a while: today we're taking a quick look at the contents of the LEGO Star Wars set 75400 Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter Microfighter, a small box of 89 pieces which will be available from June 1, 2025 at a public price of €14,99. The Microfighter format has been a little rarer until now, this box brings it back to the forefront with Plo Koon in the spotlight this time.

The character was also becoming more than rare at LEGO, he had not appeared in the range since 2014 with the set 75045 Republic AV-7 Anti-Vehicle Cannon.

Here we assemble the first Jedi Starfighter of this range of ships in the format chibi and this is the Delta-7B piloted by the Jedi in the animated series The Clone Wars. Everything is on the usual scale, you like it or you don't.

Nothing too complicated, it's finished in a few minutes and the result seems rather satisfactory to me as long as we can appreciate this format. We install the dome of the astromech droid R7-D4, Plo Koon can take his place at the controls and we can even store his saber under the fuselage via a dedicated clip. Two Stud Shooters are integrated on the wings.

The Plo-Koon minifigure included in this box is brand new, with the added bonus of a new mold for this character's head, which we'll likely see in other boxes. The pad printing is decent, and the level of detail is sufficient.

LEGO only delivers the droid's dome, which is mean, especially since the retail price of these little boxes has gone from €9,99 to €14,99 without customers finding anything to their liking in terms of content. LEGO is also missing an opportunity to provide us with a complete and updated version of the droid, which has only been seen once so far at LEGO in 2010 in the set 8093 Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter.

In short, if you absolutely want to add this new version of Plo Koon to your minifig collection, this box will allow you to do so at a lower cost and without having to deal with larger and more expensive constructions that you won't really have any use for. Too bad for his wheeled companion, you'll have to make do with the dome provided for now at least.

If you like the Microfighter format, here's some good news confirming that this range isn't being completely abandoned by LEGO. In any case, I think there's no point spending €15 on this set, which, with a little patience, should soon be available for less elsewhere than at LEGO.

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Today we'll quickly take a look at the contents of the promotional set. 40767 Up-Scaled Baby Astronaut which is offered from €150 of purchase without restriction of range from May 15 to 23, 2025 on the official online store.

I won't give you the detailed pitch for this little product that lets you assemble an oversized baby astronaut; everyone already knows what it's about. Just for the record, there are no stickers in the box; the facial features and the Classic Space logo on the torso are pad-printed.

For the rest, it's very quickly assembled with a few techniques similar to those used for the BrickHeadz format, a little SNOT, a large handful of colored pieces inside the figurine and a very acceptable final result. It's cute, it measures barely 11 cm high and the object has some decorative potential.

Now that the format is established, the door is open to multiple variations of this baby astronaut in all existing colors, and if LEGO does not launch, I have no doubt that many fans will engage in the exercise without delay.

It's almost paradoxical, but I find that this version is more successful in terms of the face than the usual big figurines: if we compare the head of this baby with that of the LEGO set 40819 Up-Scaled Racing Driver Minifigure which is also flanked by a helmet, the comparison is clear in favor of the baby.

At this scale, you shouldn't expect the impossible either: the baby's arms are fixed, the hands are full, so they can't hold anything, and the head doesn't turn. The two tanks placed on the back of the figurine are successful, we could worry about their appearance because they were not visible on the official visuals.

If you're planning on spending your money on the official online store between May 15th and 23rd, 2025, I think it would be wise to make the effort to reach the €150 LEGO is asking for to get this nice little promotional product.

It's cute, and it's almost missing the associated minifig to make it the perfect product. It doesn't currently exist in red from LEGO, the manufacturer having only offered blue so far (71045 Collectible Minifigures Series 25) with the sets variant 40712 Micro Rocket Launchpad et 40786 Micro Command Center, pink (71046 Collectible Minifigures Series 26) and white (40712 Micro Rocket Launchpad).

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Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75399 Rebel U-Wing Starfighter, a box of 594 pieces currently available on the official online store at the public price of €69,99 and already sold for 10 € less at Amazon.

This is not LEGO's first attempt to offer us an interpretation of this ship; the most assiduous fans will surely remember the set. 75155 Rebel U-Wing Fighter (659 pieces - €79,99) marketed between 2016 and 2018. The version available this year, directly inspired by the second season of the series Star Wars: Andor, is lowering its ambitions with a slightly more approximate look and an even more assumed vocation as a playset aimed at younger fans.

We can't really say that we have a convincing model in our hands; almost everything here is symbolic or summarized with a lot of aesthetic shortcuts. The fact remains that this ship is immediately recognizable, even if it notably ignores the sliding opening system for the cargo area, whereas the 2016 version offered this refinement. Here, we are content with two rather crude hatches that provide access to the interior space, which can't fit many people in anyway.

What about the reactors, symbolized here by an assembly of parts that struggles a little to embody the turbines seen on screen? It's basic but solid, and younger children will be able to have fun without breaking everything. The layout of the ship's cockpit is similar; Cassian Andor must be placed in a lying position, and he has no physical controls other than a few screens represented by a sticker.

We will remember the successful integration of the two Spring-Shooters which is activated by pressing on the front cover of the ship, it is ingenious and discreet enough not to disfigure the construction. The canopy is pad printed, a good point which saves us the headache of applying stickers almost impossible on the different panels of the object.

The number of stickers to be installed on the ship's fuselage is also limited, so we won't complain about that. A fun little detail is that there's a push button to slightly lift the canopy embedded between two flush sections of the fuselage whose angles don't allow for easy opening. This is a good idea so that younger children don't get too upset about this issue.

As for the four figurines provided, we get a very approximate version of Cassian Andor, I don't really find the features and hairstyle of Diego Luna there as well as a pretty minifig of Dedra Meero which is unfortunately a little spoiled by the white tint pad-printed on the black legs of the character and which therefore no longer matches the base color of the torso dyed in the mass.

We also get a generic ISB agent who is pretty convincing and K-2SO in an improved version that we will see again identically from August 1, 2025 in the LEGO Star Wars set 75434K-2SO. We will remember that Dedra Meero's hair and cap are molded together, it's a success.

We're not going to complain about the assortment of figurines included in this box, even if I think a second BSI agent would have been welcome for €70. We can, however, quibble about Dedra Meero's appearance, which is frankly ruined by the manufacturer's technical errors.

Offering this type of finish in 2025 when you boast of being the specialist and undisputed leader in the sector is an unforgivable faux pas, knowing that the official visuals of the product presented on the official website and on the packaging of the set are extensively retouched to hide this detail.

This box, which is aimed at younger audiences, will undoubtedly easily find its audience in the absence of a more detailed alternative of this ship, which is only the second version since the release of the set based on the film. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2016.

I don't know if LEGO has planned a version Ultimate Collector Series of the thing, even if the subject would deserve in my opinion a luxury treatment to finally offer us the detailed version that adult fans deserve. In the meantime, we will be content with this somewhat expensive proposition. Those who have the 2016 version can in my opinion largely skip it, unless the few minifigs provided justify the investment in their eyes.

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Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO ICONS set 10351 Sherlock Holmes Book Nook, a box of 1359 pieces currently available for pre-order on the Shop and scheduled for June 1, 2025 at a retail price of €119,99.

As you already know, LEGO is attempting a foray into the Book Nook sector this year, the very popular format that features miniature dioramas to be placed between the books stored on the shelves of a library. This is the first in a series of sets that will exploit this format, with at least two other references already planned: the LEGO Harry Potter set 76450 Book Nook: Hogwarts Express (832 pieces - €99,99) and the LEGO ICONS set 10367 The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook (1201 pieces - €119,99) which rumor has it will be coming soon.

Let's not kid ourselves, we quickly realize that LEGO is simply riding the wave of the current popularity of the term Book Nook with these products, as the format codes are not all strictly respected. This is not the first time that LEGO has produced sets in the form of a book containing a scene, the twist here being to leave the scene in question visible once the book is closed.

These new LEGO products, which use the mention Book Nook in their title, are also presented open in the form of dioramas with a very relative thickness on the front of the packaging and the possibility of closing them to then insert them in the middle of a row of books is indicated only very discreetly. The construction of the LEGO Harry Potter set 76450 Book Nook: Hogwarts Express is even presented as a simple two-part bookend on the box without even clearly indicating the possibility of closing the thing.

This is in fact more of a diorama to close for storage with a scene that spreads out here in the form of the street in central London where Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are located. It is rather well done with some very convincing facades, a piece of pavement covered with Tiles rounds and the usual urban developments which inevitably remind us of Diagon Alley but I must admit that I am a little disappointed.

I expected LEGO to invest in the format in a more frank way with a staging that would take on its full meaning once the construction is closed. This is not really the case here despite a nice perspective effect towards the end of the street but with a clear lack of light. The back of the construction remains open, which in principle increases the available light, but this will not be of much use once the whole thing is pressed against the back of a bookcase.

The designer also left the top of the construction open to rely on natural lighting, but in any case, it is too insufficient to highlight all the details of the construction and create the very special atmosphere that many real Book Nooks diffuse. LEGO is probably missing an opportunity here to introduce a "homemade" lighting kit that would bring these scenes to life and, in the process, make these models real Book Nooks with usable content even when they are stored between a few books.

There remains a diorama style movie set to display open to really take advantage of the integrated features with a door that opens via a wheel placed on the roof to reveal the Moriarty figurine, a display case that rotates to give access to its contents and a panel that reveals the interior of the investigative duo's apartment. It is once again well done but it is not what I expected from this type of product.

The whole thing is packaged like a book on the cover with the silhouette of Sherlock Holmes, it's nicely done even if some Tiles could have smoothed out the two flaps of the book. Special mention for the silhouette of a simplicity which may seem obvious but which I find very well done.

The stickers are, as is often the case, part of the set and contribute to the atmosphere of the place with stickers with a very inspired design. The only pad-printed elements of the set are the name of the street which is present on the top of the front face of the building and the two Tiles which embody newspapers announcing Moriarty's disappearance.

We will welcome the fact that the instruction booklet is embellished with some comments on the universe developed here, it is always pleasant to have some information during the different phases of assembly. We will also remember that this product is under "official" license The Conan Doyle Estate, a brand managed by the descendants of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, even though the writer's works are now in the public domain.

As for the minifigs provided, we get five characters: Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, Professor James Moriarty, the singer and actress Irene Adler and Paige, a newspaper delivery boy who does not exist under this identity in the universe of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

No pad-printed legs for the characters who have them, a nice new torso for Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Moriarty, a really very successful outfit for Irene Adler and Pippin's torso for the newspaper delivery man who reuses a hairstyle combining hair and cap already seen elsewhere since last year. Why not, even if there were probably better things to do than to provide us with a generic newspaper delivery man and a very anecdotal character. Inspector Gregory Lestrade and the landlady Mrs Hudson would have been welcome, for example.

In short, I readily admit that this product is rather well executed with real attention to detail and some good ideas, but I am generally disappointed because I was expecting something else with the arrival of LEGO on the Book Nook niche. The absence of integrated lighting, one of the codes of the format as we see it exploited on the shelves of many stores currently, is a real disappointment. We will console ourselves with the possibility of storing these mini dioramas by closing them on themselves, it will be additional space on our shelves.

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Today we are taking a quick look at the contents of the LEGO ICONS set. 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a box of 2417 pieces which will be available as an Insiders preview from May 15, 2025 at a public price of €229,99 before general availability scheduled for May 18, 2025.

As you know, if you've been following along, this is about assembling the Boeing 747 that transported the shuttle Enterprise from its landing field to its launch base at the Kennedy Space Center. The version offered here is the one that was used in 1977 to test the approach and landing phases of the shuttle Enterprise, the latter ultimately never being put into orbit. The plane/shuttle combination delivered by LEGO is the one that was presented at the Paris Air Show in 1983.

The overall construction measures 63cm long, 53,5cm wide and 27cm tall, and comes with two small display plates attached to the model stand.

Let's not kid ourselves, there's reason to be a little wary when discovering the aesthetics of this construction. The product seems to come from a time when the LEGO inventory wasn't as substantial as it is today, and we get the impression that the designer struggled to find a way to offer us two machines with very approximate shapes.

I know that many will be happy to accept this, perhaps a little blinded by their passion for anything remotely related to space exploration, but it must be acknowledged that while the shuttle Enterprise performs honorably, the Boeing 747 has more difficulty resembling the reference aircraft.

One could overlook the aircraft's appearance and console oneself with the five synchronized landing gears that can be deployed and retracted using a wheel located under the 747's fuselage, or settle for the ability to put the shuttle Enterprise into flight configuration thanks to the presence of engines and wheels that attach to the fuselage after removing the tail cone used during the shuttle's transport on the back of the 747.

But it's 2025, and we're entitled to expect something aesthetically more accomplished from the toy leader, while other, more modest manufacturers are doing better in this area. LEGO didn't see fit to include anything to close the compartment that houses the Boeing 747's landing gear, so we'll have to make do.

Sorry if I sound insistent, but the presence of barrels at the exit of the 747 engines bothers me. We can consider that the choice of this part is interesting if we are a fan of NPU (For Nice Part Usage) at LEGO but I find these elements completely irrelevant here and their presence only reinforces in me the feeling that the designer really made do with what he had on hand.

One could also discuss the number of visible studs on the 747's wings, the somewhat undersized engines, or the lack of flaps on the plane's wings, especially on a supposedly high-end model intended to appeal to an adult audience. But I think that would be a waste of time; the product is in any case far from what we would expect from a manufacturer like LEGO in 2025.

The shuttle is attached to the back of the Boeing via three ball joints, so there's no risk of it coming loose during handling. The attachment system could have benefited from a little more detail on the two connection points at the rear; this is a model for adults, not just a children's toy.

The assembly comprising the 747 and the shuttle is of very acceptable solidity, the wings are not at risk of detaching and the whole thing is rigid enough to be handled knowing that the black support is not fixed to the fuselage of the Boeing.

LEGO could have produced the elements that would have allowed us to offer a Boeing with a less angular front end, but the manufacturer probably judged the expense to be unnecessary and forced its designer to make do with the parts already available. The result is therefore barely passable, rather vintage and frankly disappointing up close.

I won't reveal the insides of the 747 with the rather complex mechanism that allows the landing gear to be deployed; it's almost the only interesting and convincing part of the construction, and we must leave something to marvel at for all those who spend the €230 requested by LEGO.

A detail: if you notice that you have some orange pieces left at the end of the assembly, this is normal, they only serve to hold the different sub-assemblies during the construction phase in the same way as what LEGO already offered in the LEGO ICONS set 10318 Concorde.

This pure exhibition product does not escape a large sheet of stickers with stickers on a transparent background for the two machines and two stickers on a black background for the presentation plates.

If the choice of transparency for the stickers to be stuck on the fuselage of the 747 and the shuttle seems relevant to me to avoid the usual differences in color between the white of the stickers and that of the pieces on which they are placed, I do not understand why LEGO did not deign to pad print the two small presentation plates. Even those of the collections of helmets or ships in the format midi-scale from the LEGO Star Wars range are pad printed.

As usual, everything you don't see on the sticker sheet that I scanned for you is therefore pad printed, i.e. the 27 pieces that make up the edging of the fuselage of the 747 as well as the canopy and the nose of the latter, with the usual problems of alignment and conformity of color with the Tiles which connect the patterns in certain places.

The product assembly is entertaining, no problems on this side, with original techniques and the feeling that the designer did his best by seeking solutions that are not always aesthetically satisfying but technically convincing.

This leaves one question unanswered: should the aesthetics of a display model be sacrificed to provide an assembly experience that meets the expectations of the brand's customers when it seems impossible to reconcile the two? I don't have an absolute answer to this question, but I think the compromise proposed here is not really aesthetically satisfactory. The comparison is probably off-topic, but the planes in the LEGO CITY range fare better because the manufacturer produces suitable parts, probably sacrificing some of the assembly experience.

Even if the subject covered is ultimately almost anecdotal on the scale of everything that contributed to the conquest of Space, this product could play second fiddle in a collection composed of the most emblematic sets on the same theme such as the LEGO IDEAS references 92176 NASA Apollo Saturn V., LEGO ICONS 10341 NASA Artemis Space Launch System or Creator Expert 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander.

Those who already have the Discovery shuttle from the LEGO ICONS set on hand 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery (2021) may, for their part, possibly skip it unless the subject covered here seems interesting to them, those who were hoping that LEGO would give us a demonstration a little more convincing than that of the LEGO ICONS set 10318 Concorde (2023) in terms of finishing the nose of the plane will be at their expense and in my opinion we can predict without too much error that this box which could have pleasantly surprised me in 2000 or 2010 will end up among the sets on sale during the next Black Friday.

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