Review: LEGO Marvel 76127 Captain Marvel and The Skrull Attack

Today we take a quick look at the LEGO Marvel set 76127 Captain Marvel and The Skrull Attack (307 pieces - 29.99 €), the only box based on the Captain Marvel movie expected in theaters on March 6.

To be honest, I was surprised and then disappointed by the content of the set, but I forgot that this little box of 300 pieces with its three minifigs is only sold for around XNUMX euros. Obviously, if we put all these parameters in perspective, we find some explanations that minimize the disappointment.

So don't expect to assemble a Quinjet the size of those in the sets 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle (2012)  76032 The Avengers Quinjet City Chase (2015) et 76051 Super Hero Airport Battle (2016). This is a very compact (and vintage) version of the ship seen in the movie trailer that LEGO offers. It almost looks more like a big Microfighter than a small classic ship loosely on a minifig scale.

Only Nick Fury enters the tiny cockpit, Carol Danvers cannot fit there because of her hair too voluminous. The canopy is not fixed to the cabin, it must be removed completely to put the minifig in place and then reassemble everything. The result is hardly ridiculous for anyone accustomed to larger ships, but younger ones are likely to find what they are looking for.

The level of detail of this first generation Quinjet remains very correct even at this reduced scale and the few stickers provided largely contribute to polish the thing. Always so annoying, you have to dress the canopy of the cockpit with a few stickers and it's ugly in addition to being difficult.

The youngest will be able to knock out things using the two rocket launchers nicely integrated under the wings and whose mechanism ejects four missiles at a time. A hatch opens at the back of the ship, but other than the cat, it's hard to slip anything inside.

On the minifig side, there are some good, some not so good and some downright mediocre. Young Nick Fury is absolutely correct with his shirt, tie and holster. We do not necessarily recognize Samuel L. Jackson, but we know that it is him so we will end up convincing ourselves that there is a resemblance between the figurine and the actor.

Regarding Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel, it will take even more imagination to find Brie Larson in the minifig provided. Neither the truly generic facial features already used in the LEGO Star Wars range to reproduce the face of Qi'Ra (Emilia Clarke) nor the hair color seem convincing enough to me to associate this minifigure with the one that embodies Carol Danvers. on the screen. Brie Larson seems to me to be more blonde than anything else.

The torso of Captain Marvel is successful, it is in any case faithful to the version of the outfit seen in the various trailers already released. Too bad for the legs which are here neutral and which could have benefited from a bi-injection version with red boots.

Talos, the Skrull on duty, is in my opinion a failure. The torso does the trick, but the headdress used to replicate the character's pointed ears is a bit ridiculous. In my opinion, it was enough to pad two ears without adding anything on the character's head to avoid this elf look from the Juniors range. The savings thus achieved would have made it possible to finance a fabric "skirt" to embody the sides of Talos' coat and a pair of legs in two colors for the Captain Marvel minifigure ...

I forgot, Carol Danvers is here with Goose, her cat. It is a cat identical to the one that also hung out in the Batcave (76052), In the Old Fishing Store (21310) or in the Detective's office (10246). What a cat.

In short, this set has at least the merit of existing and allowing us to obtain a new version of Nick Fury and a new minifigure of Captain "almost" Marvel after that of the set 76049 Avenjet Space Mission (2016)

The Quinjet is a micro version that can't be faulted aesthetically but is too compact to be believable and Talos' minifigure doesn't really pay homage to the character in the film.

For 30 € or a little less in the coming months, I will still make the effort to add this box to my collection because it is the only product derived from the film offered by LEGO.

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