Review : The LEGO Movie 2 70831 Emmet's Dream House / Rescue Rocket

Today we take a look at The LEGO Movie 2 set 70831 Emmet's Dream House / Rescue Rocket (706 pieces - 64.99 €), a box which features the ideal home of the very optimistic and a little naive Emmet and / or a slightly wacky vessel (and a separator of colored bricks Teal).

This box is stamped "2-in-1" and we are therefore promised to be able to assemble two different constructions using the inventory provided: the house seen in the film in the middle of the desert plains surrounding Apocalypseburg and the spacecraft. built by Emmet from this house.

Note that LEGO provides two separate instruction booklets, that the bags are not numbered and that one construction must be completely disassembled to assemble the second. No sub-assembly is reused by the other model, but you can leave the panes to the windows ...

I started with the construction featured on one of the two sides of the box, namely Emmet's house. Nothing to say about the house itself, it's Creator in The LEGO Movie 2 sauce with the classic techniques of stacking parts which often give a very correct result.

The roof uses some special techniques that allow it to house the parts that will later be used to make the slope of the roof of the other model in the set, it is well seen and some will find some ideas for their future creations. .

But it is when it comes to assembling the "accessories" that come to surround the house that we understand the logic of the designers with this box: it is indeed the spaceship that was designed first and if the most of the inventory used to mount the walls and the roof logically finds its place in the alternative construction, it was necessary to find what to do with all the elements that make up the engines and the engine of the ship.

The result: a series of small, uninteresting assemblages that some people wonder what they really represent. The only interesting element in this amalgam of accessories, the micro-vessel, a nod to the other construction offered by this set.

As I said above, the house is at the level of what we usually find in the Creator range. The finishes are very decent with nice arches on the windows, a well-designed roof and a minimalist but very well appointed interior.

Not enough to have fun for hours with this house, but it is nicely done with the possibility of opening the construction to obtain a quite acceptable playset and to close everything while storing the minifigs in the passage.

Since I started with the house, I then had to take everything apart so that I could assemble the crafted ship by Emmet to go in pursuit of Sweet Mayhem. This disassembly step is not really laborious, you just have to sort the parts by color with the arrival of yellow, blue and the rest.

The assembly of the vessel is also relatively simple and accessible to the youngest, it is the stacking of parts. The whole inventory goes through it and the end result is really cool. If I had known, I would have skipped the first model and its host of unnecessary accessories to go directly to the ship.

This alternative model is sufficient on its own, with its removable roof which gives access to an interior / cockpit spacious enough to house Emmet, pretty engines grafted to the rear and sides and even two discreetly launchers. integrated under the cabin.

If you are giving the box to a distracted young fan, remind them that to assemble the ship, they will need the entire inventory in the box. If it starts with the house, it is better not to store the various additional elements that accompany the construction at the bottom of a toy box at the risk of not being able to assemble the ship afterwards. If he starts with the ship, he will probably never build the house ...

As for the minifigs provided, LEGO is rather generous. Emmet and Lucy Wyldstyle (Cool-Tag) are once again in the game but these two characters already present in many sets are here accompanied by Rex Dangervest and Unikitty. Rex even comes with an opaque visor helmet AND with additional hair that allows you to enjoy the character with your face uncovered.

Unikitty does not come in two copies, LEGO simply delivers enough to transform it into a sleeping or angry version with two faces and the part that constitutes the body of the unicorn. How you prefer it is up to you, but you can't have both at the same time.

This set is ultimately a very good surprise in a range populated with more or less interesting boxes. Emmet's DIY ship from home is one of the few creative modifications seen in the second installment of The LEGO Movie saga and so for me that's a big yes, especially at the price Amazon currently charges:

[amazon box="B07FNW8R5H"]

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