07/10/2024 - 18:05 In my opinion... Lego news Reviews

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You probably already know that the WLWYB sign (We Love What You Build) has had some success through the creation and marketing of different versions of its "Lego Periodic Table" and the idea is now being developed in a new form with the staging of LEGO elements on a map of the London Underground. Announced like that, it's not enough to get up at night, but this new product, designed to attract a clientele of fans who want to display original products, seems rather successful to me.

The usual 40 x 30 cm format is once again used here with the same soft plastic base equipped with a hook on the back, the pattern which serves as the basis for highlighting the 1x1 LEGO pieces is carefully printed and the arrangement of the pieces roughly corresponds to the colour of the metro line concerned.

Once again, we get here a style exercise that is neither exhaustive nor encyclopedic, it is just a question of staging pieces on an original motif with a lifestyle objective. The presentation here is logically more refined than that of the "Lego Periodic Table"and the less universal subject will perhaps appeal to fewer people.

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Also note that the first 2000 copies of this new creation are numbered. The product will not become an ultra-collector's item, but it is a finishing touch that some fans will appreciate.

WLWYB is selling the thing for $49.95 including shipping and the product arrives well packaged in a dedicated carton with internal bubble wrap protection. It is possible to hang it on the wall via the folding hook glued to the back but I think that it will then possibly be necessary to consider placing it in a frame deep enough to accommodate this painting whose thickness reaches 1.5 cm. There must be a suitable framework at IKEA or elsewhere.

If you would like to offer yourself a copy of this "Metro Network of the LEGO Colors" or to prepare a birthday by making sure that the beneficiary will not already have the gift you wanted to give him, know that WLWYB has provided me with a code that allows you to get 10% off, you just have to enter the code HOTHBRICKS at checkout to benefit from it and pay the whole $44.95 including postage. It's always taken.

THE METRO NETWORK OF THE LEGO COLORS AT WLWYB >>

Note: The sign WLWYB allows me to put into play a new and sealed copy of the product, deadline set at 17th October, 2024 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. 

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Christophe KOCHER - Comment posted the 08/10/2024 at 12:55

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Today we take a quick look at the contents of the LEGO FORTNITE set 77072 Peely Bone, a box of 1414 pieces stamped 18+ and available since October 1, 2024 at the public price of €99,99. It is now confirmed, the products of the FORTNITE range will only be exclusive to the official store until December 31, 2024 and they will then be available from other retailers.

This box is the "adult" guarantee of the brand new range of derivative products currently made up of four references, with here a pure exhibition product which takes up all the codes of the usual LEGO models: a black and sober base to stage the character in question here, a small presentation plate which is responsible for confirming the subject treated and which adds a "collector" side to the product, a construction a little fragile in places which is not intended to be handled intensively and a rather satisfactory level of detail.

Peely Bone or Peeled Banana is a skin available in the FORTNITE game since Chapter 2 of the first season and even if the LEGO version takes some inevitable aesthetic shortcuts, fans will immediately recognize the reference in question with this 37 cm high model which also offers a nice construction challenge.

Don't spoil too much of the process of building this banana, that's all you get for your €100 and the satisfaction of seeing it sit on a desk or shelf afterwards. There's only one sticker in this box, the one to place on the back of the top of the banana, everything else is pad printed.

Also note that the character is attached to the base for obvious reasons of stability, so you will not be able to remove it from its black base to make it take improbable poses. You can, however, orient the arms to vary the staging a little.

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The presentation of the character seems very successful to me with the presence of the rock on which the leg of the "living" part of the banana rests and you will understand during the assembly of the product thanks to the instruction booklet of more than 200 pages how the designer managed the constraints of balance between the full section and the skeleton part of the construction.

We can once again regret the absence of a figurine in this box, there was however plenty of room to integrate one on the presentation support provided based on the minifig version available in the LEGO FORTNITE video game.

At the risk of repeating myself, I find it a bit paradoxical that LEGO does not play the game of a universe that is full of diverse and varied skins by multiplying the figurines. Unless the manufacturer has possibly planned a series of collectible figurines to expand the range.

This box is in my opinion largely up to its claims as long as the subject speaks to you and the skin in question here is familiar to you. This product is also a beautiful exercise in style on the part of the designer with its anatomy visible on one of the faces and its relative fidelity to the reference skin.

Should you spend €100 to display the thing or wait for the price of this box to drop at a third-party reseller with the risk of a possible prolonged stock shortage at LEGO during the end-of-year holidays? It's up to you, the LEGO FORTNITE set 77073 Battle Bus being sold at the same price and may be a better choice if the budget is not extensible.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 17th October, 2024 next at 23:59 p.m. Simply post a comment below the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. Avoid “I’m participating” or “I’m trying my luck”, we suspect that this is the case.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Majicjerom - Comment posted the 07/10/2024 at 18:58

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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.

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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.

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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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Note: The products presented here, provided by LEGO, are as usual put into play. Deadline fixed at 10th October, 2024 next at 23:59 p.m. Simply post a comment below the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. Avoid “I’m participating” or “I’m trying my luck”, we suspect that this is the case.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

RedLemon - Comment posted the 30/09/2024 at 22:51

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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.

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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.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 5th October, 2024 next at 23:59 p.m. Simply post a comment below the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. Avoid “I’m participating” or “I’m trying my luck”, we suspect that this is the case.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Pat88 - Comment posted the 24/09/2024 at 21:54

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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.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 4th October, 2024 next at 23:59 p.m. Simply post a comment below the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. Avoid “I’m participating” or “I’m trying my luck”, we suspect that this is the case.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Wimmer Helene - Comment posted the 30/09/2024 at 10:48