Review : LEGO 71024 Disney Collectible Minifigures Series 2 (Part 1)

New Disney Collectible Minifig Series (Ref. 71024) Coming In Just Over One Month on the LEGO Shop and on the shelves of your favorite toy store so it's time to take a look at the 18 characters that make up this new series of bagged characters.

No question of giving you an academic presentation on the subject here or giving you a simple description of what you see in the photos, you have in any case already selected your favorites among all the characters proposed. I will therefore content myself with highlighting the qualities or the faults of these minifigs. Some of them deserve a closer look and take five minutes out of the usual wonder at Disney products, especially at € 3.99 per copy.

For the service haters, when I talk about finishing, I am well aware that no one will spend their time scrutinizing these minifigs very closely and they will end up lined up on a shelf a reasonable distance from their owner's gaze. ...

Picsou, Riri, Fifi and Loulou will find their audience among the readers of Picsou Magazine and also among all those like me who one day had in their hands a re-edition of the manual of the Juniors Castors. Scrooge's minifig is really very accomplished and it incorporates almost all of LEGO's know-how in molding and pad printing.

It is flawless for printing with an exemplary finish, even the element that allows the duck tail to be inserted between the legs and the torso and colored on three sides to be really fitting with the hips and the bottom of the character torso.

Donald's three nephews are a bit more sober with the same head and legs for the whole troop and a torso / cap set in the colors of each of the three young ducks. The torsos are neutral but it is faithful to the usual outfit of the characters. We can discuss the budget to spend to bring together the three characters: 3.99 € x 3 ...

The detail that makes the difference and that gives interest to each of these characters: the accessories provided with each of them with a slingshot (Bartman's), a torch to assemble, a copy of the Beavers manual Juniors and a compass that will also serve as an interior page.

I would have preferred to get the three fur hats that the Junior Beavers are equipped with instead of the caps. But it's very personal. No major finishing flaw to note on these three rather banal but very neat minifigs.

Recall in passing that Donald and Daisy were both delivered in the first series of Disney collectible minifigs (ref. Lego 71012) marketed in 2016.

In a box of 60 sachets: 4 copies of Picsou and 2 copies of each of the Castors Juniors.

The Mickey and Minnie minifigs are directly inspired by the animated short Steamboat Willie but are available here in a "Light" version. Exit the metallic shade of the minifigs from the LEGO Ideas set 21317 Steamboat Willie, and the minifigs are ultimately more faithful to the cartoon version.

The two big white circles on Minnie's torso are still missing and the skirt still has polka dots when she did not have any in the short film, but these two minifigs available for € 3.99 will save money for those who do not want the steamboat set 21317 sold for € 89.99. They will at least be able to boast of having the right to the helm of the boat and a lifebuoy.

The finish could have been better for these two characters. There is black ink drips under the noses of both mice and the white ink applied to the front and sides of the feet is drooling a bit in places.

No pad printing on the inside of the feet or on the back. There is also a difference in color between the white parts tinted in the mass and the pad-printed parts. A single coat on a black background is clearly not enough.

More colorful versions of these two characters were already delivered in the first set of Disney Collectible minifigs (ref. Lego 71012) marketed in 2016.

In a box of 60 sachets: 4 copies of Mickey and Minnie.

Tic et Tac are really successful and the pad printing of the torso, simple but effective, offers a beautiful fur effect with just a few strokes.

For the uninitiated, we differentiate the two characters by the color of their nose and their teeth: Tic (the serious) with the black nose and tight upper teeth, Tac (the blunderer) has a red nose and teeth discarded.

No plastic tails on these minifigs, and I think that's a shame. An insert identical to the one seen on Donald's or Scrooge's minifigs with a small molded tail making the junction with the pad printing on the back would have done the job.

For the rest, it's pretty good. There are a few ink stains which have nothing to do there in certain places of the characters' faces but it is overall very clean. The two minifigs even have the luxury of having the right to small articulated legs that allow really more dynamic poses.

Big marks related to the manufacturing process are visible on the back of the head of the two minifigs, but it is a technical constraint which is at the origin of this aesthetic defect and it is therefore difficult to blame LEGO for these somewhat unsightly traces.

In a box of 60 sachets: 4 copies of Tic et Tac.

Elsa and Anna are now joining the world of minifigs in parallel with their already well advanced career in mini-doll format. Opinions will be divided on the adaptation of these two characters in minifig version. They probably lose some of their usual grace in passing, but I find the two minifigs very convincing all the same.

Please note, the capes are simply thrown into the bags and all the plastic parts are delivered in an additional transparent bag. Beware of the scissors a little too fast.

The two sisters are here equipped with somewhat soft rubber hair which does not fit completely over the characters' heads and which produces a somewhat comical "wig" effect. Looks like these pieces have a little sizing issue, the quilts that rest on the shoulders of the Queen of Arendelle and her little sister limiting the sag of the accessory anyway. This defect is much more visible on Anna, it is amplified by the thickness of the cape and there is still a significant space at the level of the front of the minifigure which makes the whole thing a little disappointing.

For the rest, it's quite successful with pretty pad prints on the chest and the entire outer surface of Elsa's arms. I am a little less enthusiastic about the skirt of the two minifigs, the details of Anna's are not very visible but remain faithful to the usual outfit of the girl. The provided capes do the job, Elsa's is really beautiful with its ice crystals. Two identical soft capes are provided for Anna in the bag.

In a box of 60 sachets: 4 copies of Elsa and Anna.

Here is in a few words what I could tell you about these first 10 minifigs of the second series of Disney characters to collect. The continuation in the second part of the test which arrives quickly.

Note: During this first part of the test, a first complete set of 18 characters (provided by LEGO) is brought into play. To participate in the raffle, simply post a comment on this article before April 8, 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.