Today we take a quick look at the content of the two spin-off products from the Netflix series. Wednesday, the sets 76780 Wednesday Adam's Figure (702 pieces - 49,99 €) and  76781 Wednesday & Enid's Dorm Room (750 pieces - €89,99) which will be available from October 2024, XNUMX. I chose to group these two boxes in the same Review because they have a relatively interesting point in common which I will tell you about later.

You've had plenty of time to form a strong opinion on these two products since their official announcement, so I'm not going to try to convince you that their inventory or the final rendering is up to your expectations or not. It's up to each of us to judge the interest of these two sets, each of which pays tribute to the series in their own way.

That being said, LEGO has chosen two very different approaches to try to offer the same type of product with an original packaging. Because these two constructions have one thing in common that will please young fans: they offer "hidden" compartments that transform them into secret boxes.

Each of the two models has two drawers hidden in the base of the scenes and the two opening mechanisms are discreet enough to allow them to be considered as "secret" spaces: a rod to be removed on the front for the base on which the Wednesday Addams figurine is installed and two side buttons that blend into the base of the top floor of the nevermore academy.

These compartments can obviously be used to store elements related to the product, the second outfit of the young girl for the base with the figurine and the additional mini-dolls for the diorama which depicts Wednesday and Enid's room, but in my opinion it will only take a few seconds for the target audience to understand the "real" functionality of these two products.

I personally find the idea and its execution excellent in both cases, with products that gain depth and functionality instead of simply paying homage to the reference content. The drawers are not very spacious, but they will be enough to store some jewelry and other souvenirs.

By considering these products as elaborately decorated boxes, it is also easier to overlook the fact that the set 76781 Wednesday & Enid's Dorm Room is not a big dollhouse representing the entire school but is simply content to stage the bedroom of the two young girls.

No one will play with either of these sets and these decorative objects with very good finishing and accompanied by numerous details and accessories should easily find their audience as long as one correctly interprets the approach at work here.

For the rest, you already know that the Wednesday figurine can be dressed in two separate outfits thanks to a few modifications documented in the instructions and accessible later via the QR Code that you can see on the sticker sheet provided. Why not, this variation between the two outfits is an interesting possibility that will allow you to vary the pleasures even if I think that most fans will choose their favorite outfit from the initial assembly. On the side of the two girls' room we find the thematic separation of the places and LEGO provides two mini-dolls per character with their respective emblematic outfits.

I find that the mini-doll format is very appropriate here, we get characters that are less clumsy than with classic minifigs and the two young girls deserved in my opinion this very fine interpretation of their outfits. This aesthetic choice will perhaps determine the clientele that will be sensitive to the proposal, or in any case the clientele that will ignore it because LEGO has chosen not to include minifigs but it is also the coherence between the two products that justifies in my opinion the presence of mini-dolls, the Wednesday buildable figurine being more of a maxi doll that maxi-fig.

Both products make relatively reasonable use of stickers and we can also salute the work of the graphic designers who really knew how to adapt the universe of the series to the LEGO sauce. Too bad these pretty details do not go down in history in the form of pad printing, we will make do. You will have understood that everything that is not visible on the sticker sheets that I scanned for you is pad printed.

The most observant will have noticed that both sets are full of new elements or pieces available for the first time in certain colors, these elements will probably not be reserved for these sets for long and we will inevitably see them again sooner or later in other boxes. We will remember for example the mold of Thing (the thing) with its anti-stud in the palm of the hand, the forearms of the Wednesday figurine in a single mold, the black flowers or even the transparent leaves as well as the pretty gargoyles which adorn the balcony of the school terrace.

We can conclude that these nicely decorated "boxes" with their secret compartments are sold a little expensive, but there is something here to please young fans of the series who want to decorate the shelves of a room with products that have a finished look and offer an interesting functionality.

These are derivative products that only seek to seduce a specific audience of fans, if you have never seen the series or it has left you cold, you are obviously not the target. As far as I am concerned, I find that these two boxes are largely up to the modest mission entrusted to them: simply to please the young fans of the series.

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Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Star Wars set  40755 Imperial Dropship vs. Rebel Scout Speeder, a box of 383 pieces which will be available at the public price of €39,99 from October 1, 2024.

This product is one of those that are responsible this year for celebrating the 25th anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars range and it is therefore a tribute to two references marketed in 2008: the sets 7667 Imperial Dropship et 7668 Rebel Scout Speeder.

This big Battle Pack brings together two modernized interpretations of the machines that were then sold separately and that allowed you to have fun without breaking the bank. Few fans of the LEGO Star Wars range have escaped these small, accessible boxes and this year's tribute seems appropriate to me.

We feel in this new box the effort to really give a fresh look to the two vehicles by taking advantage of many new pieces available in the LEGO inventory. The whole thing is a nice balance between modernization and fidelity to the original products, I find the exercise very successful even if the Rebel Scout Speeder seems visually more accomplished than the Imperial Dropship which I find a little messy.

To make this product a real toy for children, we have the possibility to separate an element of each of the vehicles: the turret for the Speeder and a platform hosting two Stormtroopers for the Dropship. Not enough to get up at night in terms of playability, but it's always something and we're not going to blame LEGO for overdoing it in this area.

This tribute set to two very popular sets of their time ticks all the boxes in my opinion to deserve its place in a series of boxes that references sets from the past by revisiting them without distorting them.

The figurines are well-balanced, even if these six minifigs are obviously not new. There is plenty to have fun with without having to pay again, but the set will probably not be a cheap supplier of figurines with its public price set at €40.

The minifigure in charge of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars range is, as usual, off-topic: here it is the astromech droid QT-KT, often nicknamed Qutee, who accompanied Aayla Secura during the Clone Wars.

There are a few stickers to stick in this box, we finally pay each vehicle and its three associated minifigs €20 instead of the usual €15 and the figurine allocation could have been more varied knowing that the set 7667 Imperial Dropship allowed at the time to obtain three Stormtroopers and a Shadow Trooper with a total inventory of 81 pieces.

The and 7668 Rebel Scout Speeder offered four rebel soldiers but with only 82 pieces in total. So we gain a few pieces here with 383 elements on the counter, we lose two classic figurines but we get an astromech droid new to LEGO. The balance is precarious but all those who have had the 2008 versions in their hands will probably have a hard time resisting... I am one of them.

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Today we take a quick look at the contents of the LEGO FORTNITE set 77070 Durrr Burger, a small box of 193 pieces currently available for pre-order at the public price of €14,99 on the official online store and which will be available from October 1, 2024.

Let's not lie to ourselves, this video game derivative product is not worth spending hours on. This burger is actually the brand of a fictional fast-food chain that appears regularly in the video game and the wink sold for €15 will probably only speak to the most assiduous fans.

There will remain the relative pleasure of assembly with some well-felt techniques that I recommend you not to spoil too much to get your money's worth and the possibility of then leaving the thing lying around on the corner of a desk or a shelf. Once again, LEGO forgets to add at least one minifig in this box despite the profusion of skins available in the game and you have to make do with this modest toy that could just as easily come out of a Happy Meal.

When I see the size of the packaging on the front of which the object is presented at an almost deceptive scale, the 70-page instruction booklet and the bags containing the parts necessary for assembling this burger, I cannot help but observe with circumspection the waste of effort and means at work to try to highlight this construction without much flavor.

I sometimes make an effort to find something to be indulgent with with certain derivative products, but here I have a little trouble finding something to justify the public price of this construction of less than 200 pieces. Worse, the four products in the range are exclusives of the official store and we will have to wait at least for a doubling of Insider points or a product offered under conditions attractive enough not to have the impression of paying too much for this hamburger.

We feel that LEGO has sought to create a balanced pricing structure for the four sets based on the video game and the €15 bracket has inherited this thing that could occasionally serve as a gift to a young fan of the video game who has brought home a decent report card. The others will have saved €15.

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Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO DC set Batman: 76328 The Classic TV Series Batmobile, a box of 1822 pieces which is currently available for pre-order on the official online store at a public price of €149,99 and whose availability is scheduled for October 1, 2024.

As you probably already know since the announcement of this product, the new 18+ version of the Batmobile from the cult series of the 60s takes over from the more modest one from the set 76188 Batman Classic TV Series Batmobile (345 pieces - €39,99) released in 2021 and since withdrawn from the LEGO catalog.

Like many of you, I was pretty excited when the first official visuals were released. We immediately recognize the Batmobile from the series, the general lines of the vehicle based on the Lincoln Futura concept and the colors are there as well as the emblematic attributes of this car with for example the bubbles placed in front and behind each seat or the large central turbine at the back.

It's in the detail that things get a little tricky, and even if we're lenient with LEGO on the fidelity of the interpretation, there are still a few approximations and other aesthetic shortcuts on this model.

The assembly experience here is largely on the same level as that offered by other sets allowing you to assemble various and varied vehicles: floor based on elements from the Technic universe, bodywork composed of sub-assemblies with often interesting techniques, detailed and "realistic" interior fittings, we find the usual codes of the ICONS range (ex Creator Expert) and this Batmobile will easily fit into a display case which groups together other cars.

For those who are wondering, there is no steering or shock absorbers here, it is a bare minimum in terms of integrated features and you will have to make do with the trunk whose movable hood reveals a reproduction of the Mobile Crime Computer emblematic of the series.

Looking more closely and comparing the model with the reference vehicle seen on the screen, we see that the whole thing lacks a little grace and finesse in places with angles that are too sharp to embody curves and lines that are too straight to reproduce the curves of certain sections of the bodywork. This Batmobile does not dethrone the vehicle from the LEGO Creator Expert set. 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 (2018) in the category "It's almost that but not quite" and the subject matter here was relatively complex.

So I'm willing to accept most of the compromises visible here because this vehicle is at least as iconic to me as the 1989 Batmobile, but I really have a bit of trouble with the wheel arches that I find, and I'm clearly not the only one, a bit too flat. I also have a hard time tolerating the gray arches that surround the four canopies and I wonder if they are really useful: they visually weigh down this area of ​​the vehicle and I think that the designer could probably have skipped these finishing sub-assemblies.

The fact remains that this Batmobile, 50 cm long, 18 cm wide and 14 cm high, sold for €150, has some assets to show with a very successful front end and a rear area that does rather well with some good ideas. The interior is just as convincing with an obvious attention to detail in terms of the upholstery and the various accessories installed in the passenger compartment.

The four bubbles, two different versions are used here for the front and the back, are delivered in dedicated packaging, thus avoiding scratches on these important elements of the model. However, expect many scratches and other various marks on the black parts, many of them are in poor condition upon unpacking. Depending on your tolerance threshold, you will therefore have to call on the brand's customer service to obtain the replacement of those which seem really too damaged.

The vehicle is here accompanied by a new Batman minifig with his rigid cape perched on the usual ledge already seen in other sets. This ledge is also a little off topic here if we take into account the very kitsch atmosphere of the series but LEGO probably thought to please the fans who accumulate similar displays already available. The figurine is obviously not on the scale of the vehicle, it is there to look pretty on the wall provided.

Robin is missing from this box, it's hard to imagine Batman without his sidekick, but we have to make do with just one figurine. The Batman minifig does not escape the usual technical defect present on the different versions of the character: the area of ​​the face that should be flesh-colored is disappointingly pale. The official visuals are, as is often the case, extensively retouched to make us wrongly imagine that this problem has finally been solved by LEGO.

The vehicle's finish is done with a very large handful of stickers, you'll have to deal with it and it's at this price that this Batmobile refers to many gadgets integrated into the vehicle and used in the series. There is also a large sticker for the product presentation plate, the latter does not have the chance to be pad printed.

On the other hand, I find it more modern than those delivered with a blue illustration in the Star Wars range. Ultimate Collector Series with here a gray pattern whose sobriety is welcome. I scanned the two boards provided, so you can get a more precise idea of ​​what awaits you at the bottom of the box and everything that is not on these boards is therefore pad printed, like the hub caps with their red logo.

This Batmobile will join my collection, and the few flaws I note here will have no influence on my decision. The public price of this product, set at €150, seems almost reasonable to me at a time when LEGO is regularly in the price gouging but I am far from being objective on the subject treated here.

If I had to keep only one flaw that seems really annoying: the wheel arches that really lack roundness. But I'll do with it, this cult Batmobile really deserved to be offered at this scale and I think the proposal is honest enough for me to make the effort.

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Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO set 10391 Over the Moon with Pharrell Williams, a box of 966 pieces currently available for pre-order on the official online store and which will be available exclusively from LEGO from September 20 at a public price of €109,99.

Once again, reactions were very mixed when this product was announced, based on the animated film PIECE BY PIECE, a biopic based on bricks and minifigs on the life of the artist Pharrell Williams, which is scheduled for release in theaters in October 2024. Some praise the artistic side of the thing, while others see it as a lazy product without much creative effort sold far too expensive for what it has to offer.

I think that this set should indeed be considered as a product whose content, which came out of the artist's imagination, was simply translated into plastic bricks by LEGO. Nothing more, nothing less.

The construction provided here will not revolutionize the genre, but the result is rather pleasing to the eye with a nice contrast between the shuttle, the smoke plumes and the colored trail. The scene is dynamic, we can easily imagine the ship escaping towards new adventures leaving behind a great breath of colorful optimism.

The shuttle is not extremely complex, it is even a very basic machine of the level of what is usually found in the CITY range. It still has some attributes that make it credible in its context with three wheels that can be easily removed when the machine is in flight, a golden canopy through which we can't see much but which will undoubtedly delight a few creative minds who will find a use for it in their constructions and a notch placed at the back that allows the ship to be securely installed on the drag without the whole thing risking falling. No stickers in this box and the golden canopy is delivered packed in a dedicated bag to avoid the inevitable scratches if it had been thrown in a bag with other parts.

I won't spoil the construction process for you, the assembly experience is pleasant with some rather original techniques for the trail and the smoke volutes. In the photos above, you will also understand how the trail can balance thanks to the triangular smoke volute base, it's well seen. The rest of the product is not very inspired on a technical level, but nothing serious.

LEGO adds a small abacus-shaped display stand to the box that contains 49 different heads in 7 skin tones, making a total of 51 heads with those of the two figures provided. 30 of them are new, but it's a safe bet that they won't remain exclusive to this box and that they will populate many LEGO sets in the future.

Two figurines are provided, Pharrell Williams and Helen Williams, they benefit from very pretty pad printing, they are accompanied by hair for Helen and a cap for Pharrell as well as helmets with golden visors, it is very well executed and the result is very neat.

This product, intended for an audience of fans of the artist, will probably only meet with critical success, but its marketing potential probably outweighs the potential sales volume. It serves the promotion of the film, it associates LEGO with a creative effort by going beyond the usual context of licenses wrung out to the limit and allows the toy manufacturer to give itself an artistic and poetic dimension often absent from its catalog of derivative products.

This set, which glorifies the artist in question and his vision of the world, can also be considered a bit of an arrogant and pretentious exercise. It will probably not appeal to regular LEGO fans, but it will probably find some buyers among those who have a different relationship with LEGO products.

Later, this box will inevitably end its career with a big reduction in its public price, it will then be time to treat yourself to a big handful of diversity in the form of plastic heads and to obtain the pretty golden canopy that equips the ship. The objective will be reached for LEGO and the fans who have been able to show patience will find what they are looking for.

In the meantime, I'm keeping the visuals of the product packaging to illustrate my usual photo during the next sales and other Black Fridays.

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