Today we take a detour through the film Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice with the small set 853744 Knightmare Batman Accessory Set (46 pieces - € 12.99) that I had forgotten at the bottom of a drawer ...

For less than 13 €, LEGO allows us to obtain an exclusive minifig, two generic evil creatures and a very small construction without much interest which serves as an alibi to be able to promote the LEGO concept.

The Knightmare Batman minifigure is therefore exclusive to this small pack, it is written in large letters on the box. No fabric accessories here, everything is pad printing, skilfully designed to best reproduce the Batman costume seen in the film.

And it's quite successful with a host of details and a multitude of different shades to embody the different layers of the outfit. Too bad the transition between the torso and the hips of the character is a little rough, which annihilates the visual effect of a coat whose sides go down to the knees.

The minifigure really highlights everything LEGO can do in the field of pad printing with an accumulation of colors, numerous details underlined by lines of varying finesse, legs molded in two colors and even pad printed areas on the forearm reproducing the bandages seen on the costume of the film.

The character's mask has also been the subject of a nice graphic work with glasses whose shiny and worn effect is very convincing.

Batman is equipped with an automatic pistol with a Tile bearing the Joker symbol similar to the pattern seen on the butt of the assault rifle worn by the character in the film. LEGO has really taken the attention to detail to its limits here.

In the box, LEGO also provides two Parademons, the service villains, identical to those seen in the sets 76086 Knightcrawler Tunnel Attack (2017) et 76087 Flying Fox: Batmobile Airlift Attack (2017)

These superb minifigs come with their transparent plastic wings which would be perfect if they did not so visibly display the copyright printed on the back which is unfortunately not obscured by the Tile which serves to hold them in place.

Anyway, if you haven't yet bought that little pack that delivers what I consider to be the most successful Batman minifigure yet, there's still time to do so by the way. by the LEGO Shop to be sure to spend only 12.99 €. In a few weeks / months, it will be too late ...

Note: The set shown here, supplied by LEGO, is included in the game. To participate in the raffle, simply post a comment on this article before January 20 at 23:59 p.m.. You have every right to disagree with me, this is not eliminatory.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Go ahead for a quick peek at the LEGO Marvel set 76113 Spider-Man Bike Rescue (235 pieces - 24.99 €) which proves us once again that LEGO is convinced that Spider-Man really needs various and varied vehicles to go on a mission and face some bad guys.

Here we are entitled to a motorbike which could be acceptable if it was not oversized. The bike is really successful but the minifigure frankly looks ridiculous on the seat with the added bonus of a driving position far from natural. But it is necessary that the youngest have something to have fun and this bike is there for that.

Note that the mini spider drone launcher is functional but the web launcher placed on the left side of the machine does not launch anything at all.

If you are wondering where the two little gray spiders delivered here come from, it is on the side of the Nexo Knights range that you should look, for example in the set 72002 Twinfactor.

The other construction of the set is the generator "with explosion function". The term is a bit pretentious, it is simply a question of tilting a part to eject the two containers placed on it. Everything else is only decorative, with large reinforcements of stickers except for the yellow plates with the black bands which are pad printed.

Some of these stickers are also printed on a transparent support and the effect obtained is very convincing. I would like to see this type of sticker more often.

Everything that is to be built here is ultimately just a pretext to sell us three minifigs: Spider-Man, Miles Morales and Carnage.

The Spider-Man minifigure is a welcome evolution of the one we've already gotten since 2012 in over a dozen sets. The torso turns red with the blue areas now pad printed and the legs benefit from a two-color molding. It was time. Too bad, the blue pad printed on the chest is not exactly the same shade as the arms and legs.

Miles Morales is also an updated variant of the version seen in the set. 76036 Carnage's SHIELD Sky Attack marketed in 2015. Some modifications to the muscles of the torso, but not enough to get up at night if you already have the previous version. I would have put red hands on the character, he often wears gloves with red fingers in the various comics that feature him.

Carnage has undergone a nice facelift and the monochrome pad printing now gives way to details in two rather successful colors. I am however less convinced by the tentacles of this new version and I prefer the shape of the eyes of the minifigure of the set 76036 Carnage's SHIELD Sky Attack marketed in 2015. Carnage here uses the back support already seen on the Outriders in the Avengers Infinity War sets.

A note about these minifigs: LEGO could have made the effort to offer us faces without masks for Peter Parker and Miles Morales, just to be entitled to an alternative presentation and to make these figures even more attractive to collectors.

In short, nothing to discuss for hours on this box which quite simply offers three updated versions of characters already present at LEGO for several years. The big bike will amuse the youngest and the other construction will quickly end up loose in the bottom of a drawer.

24.99 € for a very small box, it's probably a bit expensive for collectors who already have the three characters delivered here, but it seems almost correct to me for a set which provides young fans with three major minifigs at once from the Spider-Man universe.

Note: The set shown here, supplied by LEGO, is included in the game. To participate in the raffle, simply post a comment on this article before January 17 at 23:59 p.m.. You have every right to disagree with me, this is not eliminatory.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Go ahead for a quick peek at The LEGO Movie 2 set 70826 Rex's Rextreme Offroader (236 pieces - 29.99 €) which on paper (or rather on the packaging) promises us a 3-in-1 product with two alternative assemblies to the main model.

This is not a new concept, several sets in the range based on the first part of The LEGO Movie saga already offered alternative models to build with the inventory provided (70804 Ice Cream Machine, 70805 Trash Chomper, 70806 Castle Cavalry, 70811 The Flying Flusher).

So we will start with Rex Dangervest's all-terrain vehicle which is assembled in a few minutes. We're at the limit of the set "4+"There is nothing very complicated here. A few stickers to stick on the vehicle, the" official "Rex logo on the left rear fender being the only pad printed element.

The four Stud-Shooters are adjustable via a dial placed under the rear of the vehicle, the two seats in the front can accommodate the pilot and a passenger and there is a firing station placed at the rear. It's compact, playable and the vehicle has a good face.

The blue velociraptor is loaded like a camel with enough to knock down anything that moves and accommodate a minifigure. It's funny.

In this box, LEGO provides us with the instructions to assemble two other models using the inventory provided. So I dismantled the Recon Rex-o-saurus to start editing the Quad Rex-os-saurus. Again, nothing very complicated and the hybrid machine obtained is rather nice.

The real problem is that this 3-in-1 set does not allow all or at least a very large part of the 236 parts provided for each of the three models to be reused. Once the quad is assembled there really are a lot of unused parts left and that's a shame.

The designers could have cracked real alternative models using a larger number of parts. And I'm not even telling you about the planned third model, theExecu-Rex-o-saurus, which is in fact a simple velociraptor with a little gear on its back and which is also far from making good use of the entire inventory of the set.

In the box, two minifigs and a buildable creature. Emmet and Rex Dangervest are here accompanied by a rather funny Plantimal figurine.

You already know, Rex Dangervest, voiced in the original version of the film by Chris Pratt who also plays the role of Emmet, is a mash-up of the characters of Owen Grady (Jurassic World) and Star-Lord (Guardians of the Galaxy) that the actor interprets on screen.

His work outfit vaguely echoes Emmet's with the same reflective bands on the chest, just like the spike in the hair that we find on the heads of the two characters.

The Plantimal figurine is an assemblage of more or less improbable elements with colorful foliage, purple glitter pieces and even a pink crab. Why not.

In short, if offering alternative models with the instructions provided in paper format is a real good idea to increase the replayability of a set, I find it unfortunate that the two additional models in question only make very limited use of the inventory of the set.

At 29.99 € the box, it's far too expensive for what it is, even if this box remains the cheapest of the two that allow you to obtain a blue velociraptor, the set 70835 Rex's Rexplorer which contains two copies being marketed at the public price of € 129.99.

But you already know, this set like all the others will sooner or later end up on sale or in clearance somewhere ... Patience will inevitably be rewarded.

Note: The set shown here is put into play as usual. To participate in the raffle, simply post a comment on this article before January 17, 2019 at 23:59 p.m.. You have every right to disagree with me, this is not eliminatory.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Today we make a little detour to the LEGO Technic range with the set 42096 Porsche 911 RSR (1580 pieces - 149.99 €) that LEGO presents to us as "developed in partnership with Porsche"and which allows to assemble"an authentic replica"of the vehicle in question.

You might as well get rid of the inevitable comparison with the Porsche 911 GT3 RS from set 42056 marketed since 2016 (2704 pieces - 299.99 €), the two models do not share much in common apart from their desire to reproduce two versions of the same vehicle. This 911 RSR is 7 cm shorter and 5 cm narrower than the GT3 RS version and it does not benefit from the same features as the model "Luxury"from 2016.

So don't expect to have many Technic functions here, it's more of a simple licensed mockup based on Technic parts than a product that will turn your kids into future NASA engineers.

You have to be content with the doors that open, a steering that is a little soft and hardly usable with a steering wheel placed very low and difficult to access, a six-cylinder engine set in motion by the rear axle and whose pistons move during travel and four suspensions that do their job very well. No sequential gearbox, steering wheel paddles or other mechanical refinements on this model.

I do not generally post photos of the sticker sheets present in the different sets that I present to you here, but this Porsche 911 RSR does not exist without its wrapping (do not listen to those who tell you the opposite to hide their plates stickers in a binder ...) and there is also another problem posed by the fifty or so stickers to stick on the vehicle.

Some of these stickers are printed on a pristine white background which is not the same shade (slightly cream) as the body parts. The end result is a little disappointing because of the contrast between the two shades which becomes obvious depending on the light used.

The assembly is very pleasant, with the usual progression of chassis, functions, engine, bodywork. Nothing complicated here, this set is accessible even to the youngest fans. It will take a little patience to finally see the Porsche take shape thanks to the implementation of the various bodywork elements.

The four wings are pad printed, it's always four less stickers to stick. The wheel arches are a little too wide for my taste, or the wheels are too small in diameter, but we'll make do with it.

Competition vehicle requires, the cockpit comes down to a bucket seat, a few instruments and the steering wheel. This is consistent with the sporting vocation of this vehicle which evolves in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship, we can't blame LEGO on this point. As I said above, the steering wheel seems to me to be placed a little too low in the passenger compartment.

The naturally aspirated flat-six engine is recessed at the rear, but it won't completely disappear under the body and will remain visible when lifting the rear panel. This is a good point that allows you to take advantage of the only assembly really "Technic"from the set.

The curves of the body are embodied by tubes Flex which are struggling a bit on this model as on others. It is also necessary to place them and bend them correctly for the effect to be successful. On this model, LEGO also split a reproduction of the central wiper. Why not, even if I could have done without.

The roof hatch is embodied here only by a simple sticker and we could also discuss the somewhat rough rendering of the headlights. On the reference vehicle, the bubble effect is not as pronounced as on the LEGO version. I still prefer the option chosen here by the designer rather than the flat headlights of the model of the set 42056 which leave too much empty space around their location.

Speaking of glass surfaces, I wouldn't be against a few transparent elements to reproduce the windshield and side windows of these models, no offense to the fundamentalists of the LEGO Technic range. This range is already evolving with the regular addition of new parts and will continue to evolve with or without their agreement.

Where this Porsche 911 RSR also makes a big impression is in the finish of the front and rear rocker panels. Apparent blue pines aside, the solutions adopted by the designer ensure a very clean rendering. Special mention for the ingenious use of two quarter-toothed crowns at the front and at the rear with a perfectly reproduced diffuser.

The rear spoiler is perfectly positioned, it just lacks the Adidas stickers on the side trim ... The mirrors are a bit massive but that doesn't shock me too much.

In short, this Porsche 911 has nothing to envy aesthetically to its big sister of the set 42056 Porsche 911 GT3 RS even if it logically offers fewer features. I prefer the sporty look of this exhibition model, having no particular passion for LEGO gearboxes ...

If you haven't bought the 42056 set (€ 299.99) yet and just want a Porsche 911 to display on a shelf, you can in my opinion save some tickets and go to this set which is sold at the retail price of 149.99 € on the LEGO Shop which will inevitably end up on sale around 100 € at Amazon.

If you prefer to keep your stickers in the back of a cupboard, you will not really enjoy the look of this Porsche 911 RSR, many stickers reproducing details of the different body parts.

It's up to you.

Note: The set shown here is put into play as usual. To participate in the raffle, simply post a comment on this article before January 13, 2019 at 23:59 p.m.. You have every right to disagree with me, this is not eliminatory.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Today we take a quick look at the LEGO Marvel set 76115 Spider Mech vs. Venom (604 pieces - 54.99 €).

First of all, I want to clarify that despite what is indicated in the description of the product, there is in my opinion only one mech in this box: that of Spider-Man. The Venom minifigure is just an evolution of the character who doesn't really need a robot to fight opponents.

The name of the set also indicates that this is simply a clash between Spider-Man's robot and Venom himself. But children who absolutely want to organize a robot fight can always place the Venom minifigure in the cockpit discreetly integrated behind the figure's head.

Spider-Gwen aka Ghost Spider comes with a rather successful flying surfboard that matches well with the dominant colors of the character's costume. It's consistent and this character has here a real element of playability with the added bonus of two Stud Shooters positioned at the front of the board. This accessory makes all the difference, instead of playing two with this set, we can play three. Ghost Spider isn't just a minifigure thrown in the box, he's a character who gets really into the action.

The Spider Mech looks a little pale against Venom, but it's also a way of making the latter more prominent. This exoskeleton that houses the Spider-Man minifigure is well designed even if it may seem a bit messy at first glance.

It is stable, it can take many poses and can even throw a few web traps thanks to the Stud Shooter integrated in the left arm. The assembly can be handled with both hands without any parts escaping in passing.

Venom is obviously the real star of the set. The figurine is impressive, although the arms seem a little gaunt while the musculature of the legs is visually very successful. As with the Spider-Man mech, stability and the possibility of taking many poses are there, especially thanks to the finish of the character's feet. Sometimes you have to carefully seek the balance point of the figurine, but with a little practice, you can get there without getting excited.

The handful of stickers to stick on the chest will quickly be forgotten, these stickers partially disappearing behind the character's scary, very successful jawbone. the hemisphere with the eyes, however, is pad printed. Too bad for the visible blue Technic pine in the palm of the figurine's hands.

In this box, LEGO provides four characters: Spider-Man, Ghost Spider, Aunt May and Venom.

Fans have been waiting for a long time for LEGO to finally deign to bring them a version of Spider-Gwen. It's now done, even if the result is a little minimalist. No pad printing on the arms or on the legs, a torso that is satisfied with two small colored inserts at the shoulders, I know some who will continue to prefer the version of Phoenix Custom with reflections on the hood and pad-printed arms ...

For the rest, it's pretty decent with a nice pattern on Spider-Man's torso, a metallic eye shade, and a pair of legs molded in two colors.

The new version of Aunt May is quite acceptable with two facial expressions and the minifigure of Venom finally shows the character's tongue between the two rows of teeth. Nothing revolutionary here, but these four minifigs are welcome in our collections.

In summary, I say yes because the minifig assortment is consistent and the Venom figure / mech is really very convincing.

Note: The set shown here is put into play as usual. To participate in the raffle, simply post a comment on this article before January 13 at 23:59 p.m.. You have every right to disagree with me, this is not eliminatory.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.