Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO set 80021 Monkie Kid's Lion Guardian, a box in the soft underbelly of the Monkie Kid 2021 range with an inventory of 774 pieces, five minifigs and a retail price set at 74.99 €.

On the menu, a rather imposing mech, a mini modular arcade room and a mechanical spider that serves as a battle station for the big villain of this second season, the set tries to create a little context and opposition around the mechanical guardian lion who is in principle the star of the product.

The idea of ​​the guardian lion converted here into a robot does not come out of nowhere: in Chinese culture, Fo lions are statues that guard the entrance to buildings and other important places in the city thanks to the protective powers that the popular belief attributes to them. The lion is also celebrated on the occasion of the Chinese New Year holidays through a traditional costume dance that would attract good luck. The set therefore draws frankly from these Chinese traditions and adapts them to the context developed by LEGO in the Monkie Kid universe. The stone lion and the colorful lion of the parades become an over-equipped robot who helps the young hero take on the Spider Queen.

The mech is not uninteresting even if it is in my opinion a bit messy in its realization. This mechanical lion gets lost a bit in the mix of colors and the many decorative touches that struggle to hide the lack of finish of certain parts of the animal. From some angles the robot looks great, from others it feels a bit like the designer has taken a few creative shortcuts to move on faster. The machine is perfectly matched to the mech of the set 80012 Monkey King Warrior Mech (2020) from which he borrows the assortment of colors and some decorations, once again I salute the visual consistency of the range.

Special mention for the head of the animal which is really very detailed with a movable jaw and eyes embodied by a Technic bullet with an unprecedented pad printing. The skin of the side drums is also pad printed with a pretty, very successful pattern that gives allure to the whole. These two drums hung on the sides of the mech conceal Spring-Shooters and you have to push on the black rim placed at the back to fold down the two white discs and release these projectile launchers.

So there is something here to have a little fun trying to aim the Spider Squeen minifigure perched on his mechanical spider. Of the 24 stickers to stick in this box, 8 take place on the lion, at the level of the legs and the two hoops placed on the back.

The animal's tail is arguably the most fragile element of the model, it only fits on a simple clip and it is a bit difficult to stay in a raised position. It often bends under its own weight when it does not come loose during handling. Other elements such as the black rims clipped on the robot's neck are also likely to come off easily, you will have to be careful when gripping the model. This lion also has many articulations at the level of the legs which allow very diverse poses, it is always taken for those who would like to exhibit this mech in an advantageous position on their shelves.

In addition to the guardian lion, the set allows you to obtain a small modular arcade room whose walls unfold to allow you to enjoy the two attractions installed inside, with on one side a reproduction of the rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution and on the other a clamp machine (probably rigged) which allows you to try to win one of the two copies of the golden microfig. The machine is "functional" in the sense that it can be fed through the hole placed on the top of the attraction and the wheel placed at the back allows the clamp to tilt to try to eject a microfig.

The presence of this minimalist arcade in this box may seem a bit off topic but it should be enough to tip many fans who are reluctant to invest the 75 € requested by LEGO for this product. The construction concentrates the rest of the sticker sheet delivered in this set for a very 80s result and the whole should fit quite easily into a retro-futuristic diorama.

The third notable construction in the set is the mechanical spider that Spider Queen rides on. The accessory equipped with two Spring-Shooters will not replace the big spider in the set 80022 Spider Queen's Arachnoid Base I told you about a few days ago but it will at least allow young fans to wait until the opportunity to be offered another large box of the range presents itself. It's a detail, but I find very interesting the solution used which makes it possible to embody the eyes of the spider via the tips of the two ammunition integrated in the projectile launchers.

As always, without precise reference to the context of the events described here, it will be necessary to show imagination to integrate all the elements of the sets in a timeline which will lead to the confrontation between the Monkie Kid and the Spider Queen.

As for the minifigs provided, the endowment is balanced with on one side the Monkie Kid, Mei and Lu and on the other the Spider Queen and his henchman. As for the rest of the range, the pad prints are of a high standard and I just note a printing defect on the right leg of the Monkie Kid with a white mark which has nothing to do there at the level of the thigh. This task is not present on other copies of this minifigure that I have seen in various reviews of the set, so it is probably an isolated problem.

Note that Lu's pretty torso is not new, it's Poppy Star's in the LEGO CITY set 60271 Main Square (2020). The character's head also comes from the CITY range, it is available in the set 60262 Passenger Airplaine (2020). The elements that make up the minifigs of Mei, the Monkie Kid, the Spider Queen and her man tomorrow are also available in other sets, nothing exclusive here.

In the end, this set is arguably not the best of the second wave of products in the LEGO Monkie Kid range. It offers several varied constructions and it allows you to have fun without having to checkout again, which is already a notable advantage over other LEGO products. The design of the lion-robot is not the best barrel but the whole remains visually very consistent with the other mech marketed last year and collectors should find their account.

I regret a little that LEGO does not insist more on the presence of shops or homes in this range, just to create a more consistent environment to showcase all the robots and other devices provided in the different boxes. The small arcade would undoubtedly have deserved an additional floor and a real roof, just to make it a successful building and not to remain at the stage of a simple independent module which we do not really know what to do with.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at March 29, 2021 next at 23pm. 

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.

A few days before the launch of the promotional offer which will make it possible to be offered this box from 60 € of purchase, today we take a quick look at the LEGO set. 40449 Easter Bunny's Carrot House.

A reduced inventory of 232 pieces, no minifig, a large handful of stickers, this set has a priori some of the usual handicaps but it seems to me sufficiently original and creative to justify that we are interested in it. It is therefore a question of assembling here a little Easter bunny and his carrot-shaped house. The idea is original and I find that it is rather well executed.

You won't spend long hours putting the contents of this box together, but the assembly is relatively entertaining. A plinth, two walls, a door and a few covering elements which come to press against the visible tenons, it is well thought out and the result is visually very correct. The back of the house is not closed, probably to give access to whoever wants to play with it. The designer even added a bathroom cabinet under the mirror, just to fill the space a little.

There are about fifteen stickers to stick in this small box, or one sticker every four assembly steps. Those which give a little relief to the carrot are quite successful, even if their background color is not completely in line with the parts tinted in the mass which receive them. We will do with it.

On the inventory side, we obtain in particular three eggs, one of which is Tan already seen in several boxes and two in Medium Lavender which were previously only available in the Trolls World Tour set 41255 Pop Village Celebration. We also get a pad printed trunk and a little more than 80 pieces of orange color, the Moceurs may find their happiness there.

Thinking about it, I would have exchanged the provided rabbit for a minifig disguised as a rabbit in the style of the one in the set 853990 Easter Bunny House sold last year by LEGO which had only been entitled to a cardboard house. If you have this set on hand, you can possibly combine its content with that of this new reference.

In short, this pretty little box will be offered from 60 euros of purchase without restriction of range from March 15, 2021 and I think that I will make the effort to pay for one or two boxes at a high price to get it. It's creative, it's cute, it's fun to put together, so there's no reason not to go for it.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at March 26, 2021 next at 23pm. 

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.

The product has made the rounds on social networks and many of you have contacted me so that I can talk about it here: today we take a quick look at the "Lego Periodic Table"in its second updated and corrected version.

A first version of this product had already been marketed by the WLWYB sign (We Love What You Build) and this new variation abandons the original blue background for a staging a little more sober. We lose in passing eight colors that were present on the first version of the table (Blue-Violet, Bright Light Yellow, Glitter Trans-Neon Green, Light Nougat, Maersk Blue, Medium Orange, Pearl Light Gray and Very-Light Gray) and we go from 69 to 65 pieces, but the manufacturer adds four (Dark Tan, Dark Gold, Glitter Trans-Light Blue, Trans-Neon Orange) which were not on the initial version.

As you can see, the object has no scientific vocation, it is a purely decorative product to frame and display in a LEGO Room. It uses the principle of the Mendeleïev Table which aligns all the chemical elements classified by their atomic number and adapts it to the assortment of colors offered by LEGO.

The finish of the object is correct, although it will be necessary to pay attention to fingerprints and the impression of the background pattern is not completely uniform in places. On the 40x30 cm support, there are therefore 65 LEGO bricks glued cleanly and without burrs on their respective locations and accompanied by several more or less relevant information according to your affinities with the different classifications used by fans or marketplaces. I would like to point out for those who have doubts about this: the parts used are original LEGO elements.

The presentation is a little confusing at first glance, it will be necessary to refer regularly to the legend to understand the logic used by the manufacturer of this product: year of introduction of the color concerned in the LEGO inventory, number of sets using this color , Bricklink reference, LEGO reference and even an abbreviation created from scratch for this table, we get a little lost.

It should also be kept in mind that some information displayed on this board is already obsolete and that others will become so very quickly. The success of the product being obvious, the manufacturer will undoubtedly not fail to decline the concept until more thirst by integrating any corrections and updates, it is up to you to see if you want to accumulate the different versions of the product over the years. years or if you will be satisfied with what graphically seems easiest to fit into your interior.

The list of colors printed on the right side of the table is sorted alphabetically, which does not really correspond to the positioning of the boxes. It's a bit confusing at first, but you'll have to get used to it. The legibility of the legend is also very limited, the characters are printed in gray on a black background and are small. The list lacks a bit of contrast and its usefulness is a bit questionable.

It will not take long for the most learned fans on the subject treated here to detect some errors, approximations or omissions among the statistics provided by crossing them for example with those available on Bricklink or directly from LEGO. If you are looking in this product for a precise and reliable documentation tool, go your way, the object is not exhaustive on the subject it deals with and it is above all a decorative painting whose main purpose is to allow you to display your passion for the LEGO universe in a slightly more subtle way than with the usual posters.

WLWYB sells the item for $ 39.95 including delivery and the product arrives well packaged. It is possible to hang it on the wall via the folding hook glued to the back but I think that it will then eventually 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 treat yourself to a copy of this "Lego Periodic Table", know that WLWYB provided me with a code that allows you to get 10% off, you just have to enter HOTTABLE during checkout to benefit from it. It is always that taken.

Note: The product shown here, provided by WLWYB, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at March 25, 2021 next at 23pm. "The" I try, I participate "are automatically deleted, make an effort.

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 quickly tour the LEGO Monkie Kid set 80022 Spider Queen's Arachnoid Base, a large box of 1170 pieces sold at the public price of 109.99 €. This product allows us to assemble the very imposing and colorful mobile headquarters of Spider Queen, the service villain who takes over from the Iron Bull King this year.

And this is precisely what is wrong here: the mobility of the imposing machine (44 x 34 x 25 cm) that we have to assemble. Before looking more closely at the contents of this box, I had imagined a spider with interesting possibilities. It is (almost) nothing, this mechanical spider with rather well-matched colors is unfortunately content with the minimum union in terms of integrated features.

After a few minutes of assembly, we quickly realize that the designer has not provided any mechanism to put all the legs in motion when moving the machine. Even though the Technic beams with their casters placed on under the spider's body sell the wick from the first pages of the instruction booklet, I expected something in the spirit of what LEGO was offering in the sets. 76163 Venom Crawler (2020) et 76114 Spider-Man's Spider Crawler (2019)

Here it is only possible to set in motion two of the eight legs of the mechanical spider via a central lever to be moved in the desired direction to lift one leg, the other or both and two of the remaining six legs can loosely be oriented to reinforce the impression of movement. It's a little thin for a toy at 110 € which features a necessarily mobile device.

Aesthetically, the structure that holds this heavy spider on its legs is not in the best taste, but it was undoubtedly the price to pay to be able to offer a machine of this size which remains stable on its legs and does not bend under the weight. piece weight. The beast's abdomen hides a laboratory in which Spider Queen makes its robot-spiders, a cell and some arrangements that will undoubtedly amuse the youngest and allow them to store their minifigs there between two sessions. This is rather well done even if the two movable portions do not clip together to keep the abdomen closed.

The balance of power is embodied by the micro glider piloted by the Monkie Kid and which takes the design of the stick seen in the hands of the mech of the set 80012 Monkey King Warrior Mech (2020). The wink is appreciable and the consistency of the entire range is only reinforced.

This secondary machine is probably only there for reference and it will be necessary to associate this product with a strong opponent like the drone of the set. 80023 Monkie Kid's Team Dronecopter to really have fun. I had also hoped to be able to associate in one way or another the container with the assorted colors delivered with the giant drone to this spider, but nothing is planned to hang or embark the accessory.

There is no escaping a gigantic sheet of stickers in this box and some of the stickers are to be stuck on curved pieces. The youngest or the most clumsy would be well advised to get help so as not to disfigure their large mechanical spider.

The endowment in minifigs is interesting here even if it will be partly redundant in the eyes of those who will invest in the other sets which allow this year to obtain a copy of Spider Queen. We can at least count here on the presence of Pigsy with a torso decked out in a tactical vest of the most beautiful effect, derived from his outfit seen last year in the sets 80010 Demon Bull King et 80013 Monkie Kid's Team Secret HQ. Pigsy is on foot in this box, a flying sausage would have been welcome but you can't have everything for 110 €.

The rest of the inventory reunites the Monkey King without his armor and as he also appears in the set 80024 The Legendary Flower Fruit Mountain, the Monkie Kid with his new jacket, the Spider Queen and one of his henchmen already seen in the set 80023 Monkie Kid's Team Dronecopter and a civilian in a colorful shirt who is there to be imprisoned and then released.

Once again, it is difficult to really immerse yourself in the context developed by this line of derivative products. The animated series is not broadcast in our regions, it will be necessary to show imagination even if the good guys and the bad guys are easily identifiable.

In the end, I want to use the usual expression "All that for this"and I am not sure that this box is of the level of what one would have hoped for in terms of functionality in a toy at 110 €.

This big mechanical spider is too static for my liking and the front of the model is a bit too messy to convince me with an interesting trio of colors a bit confused by the addition of a lot of gray pieces. The fact remains that this is a rather attractive big colorful toy that begs to be paired with other products in the range to really have fun with.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at March 25, 2021 next at 23pm. "The" I try, I participate "are automatically deleted, make an effort.

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 Star Wars set 75297 Resistor X-wing, a reference stamped "4+" which is aimed at the youngest fans of the franchise with its sixty pieces and its two characters.

There is not really much to philosophize about the contents of this small box sold for € 19.99, it offers an even more limited construction challenge than that of the set 75235 X-Wing Starfighter Trench Run (132 - € 29.99) marketed in 2019.

The X-wing to be assembled here has been simplified to the extreme to facilitate the task of the youngest and the overall aesthetic of the vessel does not come out enhanced, especially at the level of the cockpit with its a little ridiculous canopy or the back which looks like cut clean. Looks like a bit of a failed Microfighter.

Everything is assembled in three minutes flat, there are no stickers the wings must be unfolded / folded by hand. Fans of the Classic Space universe will perhaps find something to their liking with some pad-printed pieces that could be integrated into a personal creation on this theme. It will be noted in passing that the blue printed on the parts of the fuselage is not that of the other blue parts tinted in the mass.

Two characters are provided in this box: Poe Dameron and BB-8. The little droid has become a chestnut tree in the LEGO Star Wars range, you must already have at least one in your drawers.

Poe Dameron's minifigure is identical to the one seen in 2016 in the set 75149 Resistance X-Wing Fighter (740 - 99.99 €). It retains the torso and helmet of the 2016 minifigure, down to the last detail, but the two elements are here decked out with new references.

So we can't really speak of an "new" or "exclusive" minifigure, it is simply an update with perhaps a little more finesse in certain features. The problem of color difference between the flesh color of the head and that of the neck area pad-printed on the torso has not been resolved in 5 years. The head of Poe Dameron is the one used in all boxes since 2015, we can not blame LEGO for trying to maintain a certain consistency in the appearance of the character over the years and derivative products.

In short, if you already have a copy of the set on hand 75149 Resistance X-Wing Fighter, you have no valid reason to spend € 20 in this little box. Poe Dameron's minifigure is the same in both sets and it will hardly be that ultra-complete collectors to consider the 2021 version as "unseen" due to the use of different production references.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at March 22, 2021 next at 23pm. "The" I try, I participate "are automatically deleted, make an effort.

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.