Today we quickly take a look at the contents of the LEGO Disney set 40659 Mini Steamboat Willie, a box of 424 pieces which will be offered on the official online store and in the LEGO Stores from October 23, 2023 on condition of purchasing at least €100 worth of Disney-licensed products (including Star Wars & Marvel).

It's impossible not to think of the previous interpretation of the subject covered here in the LEGO Ideas set 21317 Steamboat Willie (751 pieces - €89.99), this is the second time that LEGO has made a direct reference to the animated film Steamboat Willie which, in November 1928, featured Mickey, Minnie, Captain Pete (Pat Hibulaire) and some animals.

This promotional product allows us to assemble the boat seen in black and white on the screen and the construction therefore remains in two tones even if the interior of the model is made up of colored parts which will no longer be visible once assembly is completed .

This steamboat, 20 cm long and 13 cm high, goes a little further than the bare minimum by having the luxury of having an integrated mechanism which sets in motion the two paddle wheels and the two chimneys of the boat during its travels.

The functionality may seem relatively anecdotal on a product which will undoubtedly end its career on the corner of a shelf, but its implementation enhances the construction process and gives meaning to this set by taking advantage of a few simple but effective techniques. The pleasure of assembly is there, it is already an important argument in favor of this small promotional product, a priori unpretentious.

On arrival, the boat is convincing given the scale chosen and the finish of the object is sufficiently accomplished to not have to regret having spent the amount requested to obtain it. Don't put the thing in the bathtub, that boat doesn't float.

LEGO only provides one minifig here, that of Mickey, and therefore skips Minnie who was present in the LEGO Ideas set 21317 Steamboat Willie. No legs injected in two colors for the single figurine provided, it is minimum service even if the figurine remains consistent with what we have the right to expect from an interpretation of the reference look of the character.

For those who are interested, Mickey's hat is the one already seen in the bag of the 2nd series of Disney collectible minifigs wearing the reference 71024, the head is also delivered in the same bag as well as in the sets 21317 Steamboat Willie et 43230 Walt Disney Tribute Camera. All that remains is the new gray legs pad-printed with two white buttons to make this figurine a new and for the moment exclusive version, the torso being neutral.

There are no stickers in this box, the set didn't really need stickers anyway, and this is good news for anyone who wants to display the construction without the risk of seeing it deteriorate over time. time.

This small promotional set which celebrates the 100th anniversary of Disney by referring to an animated short film that has become cult seems to me to be up to the occasion with great exhibition potential and an assembly process which will a little further than just stacking bricks and I'll be one of those who makes the effort to buy something from the official online store to get it.

I'm not an unconditional fan of the Disney universe but this product seems to me to be a nice homage, neither too bulky nor too pretentious, which will easily find a place in my collection. The minimum amount required to obtain it seems almost reasonable to me if we take into account the latest promotional offers offered by the manufacturer, knowing that with €100 you get more from LEGO anyway.

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Today we are very quickly interested in the content of the LEGO DREAMZzz set 71461 Fantastic Tree House, a box of 1257 pieces sold since the beginning of August 2023 at the public price of €104.99.

The product clearly rides on the popularity at LEGO of the “tree house” concept, largely confirmed since the marketing in 2019 of the LEGO Ideas set 21318 Treehouse which has since become a bestseller and also included in the Friends range in 2022 with the set 41703 Friendship Tree House.

Here, the tree is therefore adapted to the LEGO DREAMZzz universe: the trunk with its blue foliage becomes the headquarters of the heroes of the range and is found dressed in various constructions and other scales which allow movement between the levels.

It's pretty well executed and the tree doesn't deteriorate even when the additional sections are not yet installed. The structure is solid, the branches benefit from a very acceptable finish for a product intended for a very young audience and all that is missing is a little more foliage to give a little volume to the whole.

There is in reality only half of the bark of the trunk, one side remaining bare to facilitate access to the different playable areas with a tiled kitchen, a living room with its sofa and two bedrooms logically equipped with beds and tables bedside.

So much the better for young fans of the LEGO DREAMZzz universe, even if the interior fittings are not at the level of a Structure, here they have on hand a "real" home with its different spaces easily identifiable and really accessible by the minifigs provided via the series of integrated ladders.

LEGO is also not short of fun little details with a mailbox on legs, a pretty carnivorous plant and a handful of mushrooms which bring a little density to the base of the tree. We feel the care taken in the product even if it is not an ultra-detailed model.

As with the rest of the range, the set offers two variants documented throughout the pages of the instruction booklet but the modifications here are rather modest and discreet and only concern the three housing blocks which must be fixed on the trunk using clips in the three locations provided.

In the basic configuration, the tree is in "peaceful living" mode, it becomes a fortress with weapons on all floors in the proposed variant. Both variants make good use of the set's inventory, with only a few small pieces left on the tile. You know if you follow, it is also possible to integrate the three modules of the set 40657 Dream Village on the branches of the tree, the three constructions, more detailed than those delivered by default in the set in question here, will then give a more opulent and undoubtedly more magical look to the tree.

Upon arrival, the construction still looks great without using the contents of another box and it offers different playable and easy-to-access spaces. But the tree alone would ultimately only be a somewhat sad playset and LEGO provides a little opposition to the young (and not so young) heroes with a very simplified version of the Grimkeeper also available in the form of a more detailed interpretation in the and 71455 Grimkeeper the Cage Monster and two villain figurines in the pay of the King of Nightmares including the Night Hunter.

The supply of figurines is also consistent and sufficient for a set of this size with a large part of the main cast and a few attackers who guarantee real playability to the set.

I won't go into the level of finish of these different figurines, you already know that LEGO has gone all out on this range with a riot of pad printing that will make fans of the Star Wars or Marvel universes jealous. We obviously cannot escape a large sheet of stickers which adorn the signs, furniture, flags and other street signs present on the tree, there remains on arrival a small series of stickers available to personalize the decoration a little. construction.

We could necessarily discuss the public price of this product, set at €104.99 by the manufacturer, which may seem very high given the content offered even if the whole thing seems rather convincing to me, but the debate is already closed with a substantial reduction proposed by various brands including Amazon which currently sells this box for a little less than €80, which immediately makes it much more attractive:

Discount -33%

LEGO 71461 DREAMZzz The Fantasy Treehouse, 2-Way Buildable Toy, Featuring Mrs. Castillo, Izzie, Mateo and the Huntsman Minifigures

104.99 € 70.61 €

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Today we take a very quick tour of the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76249 Venomized Groot, a box of 630 pieces sold since August 1 at the public price of €52.99 on the official store and in the LEGO Stores.

To put this product in context, know that it is inspired by the third season of the animated series Marvel's Spider-ManEntitled Maximum Venom and broadcast in particular on the Disney + platform and not from the series of animated short films entitled I am Big also available on the Disney + platform as I have sometimes read. The character in question here is therefore a “venomized” version of Groot, the reference visual of which you will find below:

If you have the construction of the LEGO Marvel set on hand 76217 I am Groot (476 pieces - €49.99), you will undoubtedly find something to fill your shelves a little more with this new figurine, perfectly in line with the one marketed since summer 2022. The two figurines are in fact identical in their construction and there is no only the “venomization” of the 2023 version to bring some logical aesthetic variations.

It's visually a little messy in places, the head is a little fragile even if the figurine is stable on its supports, we don't escape the usual Ball Seals gray which stand out at the joints and there is a relatively large sheet of stickers associated with the inventory provided. There are still a few pad-printed parts in the box with the character's single eye and the row of teeth a little less white in real life than on the official product visuals.

Bonus delivered directly in the box: the possibility of completely "venomizing" the character using the last bag which includes the black and white parts necessary for the ultimate transformation of the figurine. It's a good idea even if this possibility obviously encourages you to purchase a second copy of the product to be able to have both versions at the same time and display the three figurines side by side to obtain a coherent whole. You will then be left with a large handful of unused coins as a bonus.

Please note, the total transformation of Groot into Venom is not documented in the instruction booklet in paper version and you will absolutely have to use the LEGO Builder application (iOS version ou android version) dedicated to instructions in digital format. It's a bit petty, all it took was a few additional pages like the sets in the LEGO DREAMZzz range to be able to take advantage of all the possibilities of the product without having to use a smartphone or tablet.

There is no point in dwelling on the subject, it's almost cute, the partial "venomization" is rather well executed and the figurine can possibly take some interesting poses.

Displayed alone, it will not have as much effect as in the company of the two other existing versions, but LEGO has followed through on the ideas and absolute fans of the character will inevitably find what they are looking for. You must therefore consider paying the modest sum of €155.97 to be able to have the collection bringing together the three variants of the character, this is the (high) price to pay to follow LEGO in its logic and impress your friends.

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We briefly talk about the contents of the LEGO set 40596 Magic Maze, a box of 332 pieces which will soon be offered subject to purchase on the official online store and in the LEGO Stores.

I'm not making a drawing for you, it's about putting together a little game of skill which involves moving a ball around a circuit to take it to the exit point of the maze. There is no tilting mechanism for the game board and you will therefore have to grasp the construction by the two side handles which reuse the headlights of the vehicle from the LEGO Technic set 42154 Ford GT 2022, minus the pad printing.

The labyrinth is assembled very quickly, it is made up of a few mini biomes with their obstacles that are more or less easy to cross, including a blind section and it will really take a lot of skill and patience to overcome this challenge. For my part, I quickly gave up, the test quickly becoming more annoying than fun, especially in the section based on red crates. A second ball is provided, it is held in the rubber supports attached to the edge of the board.

Bravo to LEGO for the effort to offer a product that is intended to be fun, colorful and accessible to all, but the level of difficulty of the product will force those who do not have the required dexterity to quickly give up and put the construction away. a drawer. Whatever the minimum amount required to spend on products sold at their public price to obtain this little box, it will in any case be too expensive even if the object seems attractive at first glance.

There will remain those who will benefit from the varied and colorful inventory provided with the bonus of two bees and two ladybugs, both pad printed, or who will try to modify the circuit to make it easier to navigate, they will perhaps find what they are looking for because the starting idea with the board reinforced by a few Technic beams is there and you just have to change the arrangements to vary the pleasure and the level of difficulty.

We don't yet know how much you will have to spend from October 1st to get this little box, probably €150 judging by the relatively substantial contents of the product. It's you who will see when you go to checkout whether the effort required is justified or not, I won't get up at night for this toy which is certainly creative and colorful but not really playable.

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Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 75364 New Republic E-wing vs. Shin Hati's Starfighter, a box of 1056 pieces which has been available since September 1 at the public price of €104.99.

This product inspired by the series Star Wars: Ahsoka currently being broadcast on the Disney + platform allows you to obtain two ships and a small handful of characters from the cast of the series. At the end of assembly, I had the impression that this box in fact brings together two products initially thought to be sold separately: the two ships offered are in fact not really on the scale of one of the The other one and the one piloted by Shin Hati is too big compared to the E-Wing piloted by Captain Porter.

The fact remains that these two constructions seem successful to me, they benefit from the overall reduction in scale initiated by LEGO over the past two years and they benefit from a very appreciable level of detail for a simple toy intended for of the youngest.

The E-Wing, which will bring back memories to anyone who has ever held a copy of the LEGO Star Wars set in their hands 75018 JEK-14's Stealth Starfighter, even has the luxury of having retractable landing gear in addition to being entitled to a nicely pad-printed canopy.

There are a few stickers to stick on the cabin and some of them are often printed on a background that is too white for the rooms on which they are placed but the number of stickers used to add a little finish to the together remains relatively reasonable.

The assembly of the E-Wing also reserves some interesting techniques, particularly at the nose of the aircraft with convincing angle management for a product which is not a pure exhibition model.

As usual, both Stud Shooters imposed to bring playability to the product can be easily removed if you find them superfluous. The astromech droid that accompanies Porter is, as is often the case, on LEGO ships of this scale placed in the wrong direction, we will make do with it.

On the side of the ship piloted by Shin Hati, we change the scale but we also benefit from some appreciable refinements with a pretty pad-printed glass roof, two Stud Shooters easily removable and two easily accessible spaces to store the various accessories provided. The ship is rather faithful to the version seen on the screen and the few stickers to stick on the cabin reinforce the "used" side of the craft.

The two pilots are in a lying position in their respective cockpits to make the most of the space available under the canopies, nothing serious even if there was undoubtedly a way to allow them to be installed in a slightly more credible manner.

This box therefore allows you to obtain two ships seen on the screen in different scenes, it's always a good idea to combine them with other ships available elsewhere to reproduce some action scenes from the series, for example Ahsoka's ship from the set 75362 Ahsoka Tano's T-6 Jedi Shuttle.

The set's supply of minifigs is rather convincing with three major characters from the series: Baylan Skoll, Shin Hati and Morgan Elsbeth.

These three figurines have their faults but you will have to put up with them: Morgan Elsbeth has to make do with a black skirt without any pattern and it is a little disappointing with a "half-finished" rendering while the rest of the elements are very about. The hairstyle is perfect, the facial expressions are successful and the torso is beautifully executed.

For his part, Baylan Skoll could have benefited from a cape and pad-printed arms to really pay homage to the character's outfit on screen, as it stands it's a little too sober for my taste knowing that the hairstyle of the character in LEGO version is already very approximate. Shin Hati fares a little better but also suffers from the absence of patterns on the arms. I'm not a fan of the braid that ends up on the character's right shoulder, it's not really in the visual continuity of the chosen hair.

For the rest, we obtain here a pilot who logically reuses the outfit with a slightly too light blue and white areas on the not really white legs of Lieutenant Beyta seen in the set 75357 Ghost & Phantom II, and which benefits from both a pretty helmet with unique pad printing and additional hair which allows you to enjoy the two faces printed on the character's head. The astromech droid that accompanies Captain Porter is a new example of the problems encountered by LEGO in terms of pad printing, the blue printed on the dome of the robot does not match at all with the rest contrary to what the official visuals of the product promised .

However, we are not going to be too choosy, this box brings a little freshness to a range that often goes in circles and we will welcome the arrival of two new ships and completely new characters in our collections. There is no point in spending more than €100 on this derivative product, it has already been seen elsewhere than at LEGO for less and it will quickly be available again at a more attractive price than its usual public price. It's new, it's well executed, we feel the desire to offer constructions that make the most of the imposed scale and the set allows you to obtain a large part of the cast of the series in one go, I say yes .

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