Released for January 2024 we have the first ever super battle pack.
The set contains 215 pieces 9 minifigures and retails for £24.99
The Builds
when it usually comes to battle packs the builds are nothing special but this time i was pleasantly surprised to find how good the builds were. The first thing you build is a speeder bike which can fit two clones on on to pilot and one to use the blasters on the back, the seconed thing you build is a turret which contains a stud shooter on the you build a vehicle for the B1 battle droid which goes well with the bike.
The final build of the set is the Tri-droid which uses lots of good building techniques and has flick fire missiles in the center which i have never liked.
Minifigures
Name
Ranking
Clone Shock Trooper
4.8
Clone Trooper 4.8
4.6
Battle droid
4.5
Super Battle droid
4.9
clones would be higher if they did not have helmet holes battle droid is very common but the super battle droid is very good.
Overall thoughts and price
Overall i think you are getting some good builds and a minifigure selection as good as this in star wars these days is getting rarer.
The price per part ratio is £0.11 per piece which is a little high but you do get nine minifigures plus you can often find this set on sale for around £18 so i would say at that price it is worth it
Released for spring 2024 we have the first ever Lego Hogwarts boathouse
The set contains 350 pieces 5 minifigures and once you have finished the build you will have two small boats and the Boathouse.
Starting with the boats for there size i think they are very good and has a great use of the sausage piece in black as the light
The actual boathouse itself is very impressive of course they had to base this of the first film since when it it appears in the last it is quite a dark scene and since Lego is family friendly brand it is obvious why they chose to make it in the way they did
when building the boathouse i noticed that the exit is to small to fit a standard minifigure out of which could have easily been fixed. i do also like how much room there is to place the minifigures in the set and the tree build is also very good using the new fern elements to create it
as you may have seen on the box this can connect to the most detailed Hogwarts castle ever right now there are only four of these sets out but more coming in 2025.
Minifigures:
the sets minifigure is strong coming with an exclusive professor McGonagall who now has arm printing and skirt printing making this a 10/10 minifigure
as for the student minifigures they are all nearly identical but this is a good way to get non house torsos in this set you get Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, and Dean Thomas. it is also important to note that the Hermione uses a different set of legs than the rest.
Price and overall thoughts
For £31.99 you are getting a never before seen in Lego location a very good minifigure selection and even if you already own a Hogwarts castle i would still recommend this set
As for price per part you are paying £0.09 per piece which is very good another thing is you could probably find this set for around £20 and £25 making it even better
Released for spring 2024 we have the forth addition to the elemental mech collection
The set contains 253 pieces 3 minifigures and once you have finished the build you will have a mech for lloyd
The torso use the EVO mech front and the follows the similar style as the other three wear you can remove the torso from the legs. as for the rest it continues to follow the same formula which personally i really like
one thing i must say that is questionable is the use of dark red on the arms and legs since Lloyd has never used dark red before i think that this may have originally designed to be a Nya mech but they changed it out at the last moment since Lloyd sells better.
Minifigures
the minifigure selection is good you receive Lloyd and Nya in their mech pilot suits and cinder
since release cinder has come in a lot of sets including a magazine so he is very common as for mech Lloyd he was previously exclusive to 71809 Egalt the Master Dragon and has recently been on a magazine so there are a few ways to get him finally Nya only comes in 2 sets this being the cheapest but you could a near identical copy in Nya’s Rising Dragon Strike 71802 just with a different hood. hear is how we would rank them.
Name
Ranking
Lloyd
4.8
Nya
4.7
Cinder
4.8
Lloyd would be five if he had armor
Price and overall thoughts:
For £17.99 you get a decent mech with good minifigures but if you already have egalt the master dragon then you would not be missing anything to special as for the price per part the average for each part is 0.07p making it a very good deal
Before the review begins, I must give a SPOILER ALERT for Ninjago if you have not seen it.
Overview:
The episode starts at the monastery of Spinjitzu where the ninja have gone lazy and are playing videogames until the news comes that Lord Garmadon has returned. So the ninja dash of to Jamanakai village only to find it is not Garmadon but his son Lloyd who wants to steel all the sweets in town.
The ninja soon deal with Lloyd and leave but before they leave they find a scroll which is the prophecy of the green ninja and the start becoming competitive so when they get back they have a tournament where the last ninja standing becomes the green ninja. at first it goes all right but the Kai nearly burns down the monastery and Sensei Wu is not happy.
after his defeat Lloyd leaves the village and comes across a strange lever in the ground he pulls it and falls into a tomb full of Serpentine Lloyd manages to take control of the Hypnobrai general and returns to the village with them and takes control of the villagers.
The Ninja soon learn about this and head back to the village along with Nya and they try to get the generals staff in the process they learn that the Hypnobrai can hypnotize you. while fighting them Cole gets hypnotized by a snake called Skales but nothing happens since he becomes distracted since he is holding the staff and puts it in the fountain curing all the villages.
Our thoughts:
we thought this was a good way to introduce the serpentine as villains and Lloyd for the first time.
Before the review begins we must give a SPOILER ALERT for Ninjago if you have not watched it before also we will be doing the UK version of the pilots which had 2 episodes instead of 4
Overview:
The episode starts at the 4 weapons blacksmith shop where two teenagers Kai and Nya are working on weapons. whilst they are working a traveler knowns as Wu enters the shop wondering if there are any weapons for a Ninja and Kai says No and sends him on his way.
Suddenly the skeleton army arrives scaring the villages, Kai tries to protect everyone but comes face to face with Samukai, who orders the other skeletons to Kidnap Nya. Kai then nearly gets crushed by a water beaker but Sensei Wu saves him using Spinjitzu and the skeletons leave.
After they have left Kai thanks Wu for saving him and master Wu tells the story about the golden weapons and how they created Ninjago and how Wu’s Brother Lord Garmadon tried to steal them and how he was banished to the underworld.
After the story Wu convinces Kai to become a Ninja he reluctantly says yes but only since he want’s to save his sister. So they head to the Monastery of Spinjtzu to train and kai keeps failing the course several times till he succeeds. Later that night three other Ninja break in and Kai attacks them till he learns there his teammates and the get their Ninja suits.
NOTE THIS IS WHERE THE SECONED EPISODE BEGINS IN THE US
The three Ninja introduce themselves as Cole, Jay and Zane together they head to retrieve the first golden weapon the Scythe of Quakes from the caves of despair. In the process they also retrieve the map to the other golden weapons.
As they head into the cave they move a giant boulder to retrieve the Scythe but they are heard by the skeletons. The ninja the quickly retrieve the scythe but the entire army is waiting so a huge battle takes place and during the battle the ninja learn Spinjitzu forcing the skeletons to retreat.
After the skeletons retreat the Earth dragon who guards the scythe then starts attacking them so they use the scythe to escape disobeying Wu’s orders and get out of there. Later though Wu is not happy at them for using the scythe.
Our thoughts:
for the first episode ever we think it was very good and still holds up today.
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