Review: 10391 Over the Moon
Posted by Huw,Pharrell Williams' biopic Piece by Piece, which is rendered entirely in LEGO form, premieres on October 11th and a tie-in set 10391 Over the Moon with Pharrell Williams is now available at LEGO.com.
An indistinct spaceship makes a brief appearance in the film's trailer, so presumably space travel features in it. That was presumably a good enough excuse to make a model of one, in a year when the Danish toy manufacturer's product range has been dominated by space-related sets.
Summary
10391 Over the Moon with Pharrell Williams, 966 pieces.
£94.99 / $109.99 / €109.99 | 9.8p/11.4c/11.4c per piece.
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An eye-catching model unlike anything LEGO has made before
- Impressive looking jet stream with solid base
- Sleek looking spacecraft with gold canopy
- Wide assortment of minifig heads in varied skin tones
- Prints on all parts
- Back of spacecraft looks unfinished
- Minifig head rack arguably superfluous and has bloated the price
The set was provided for review by LEGO. All opinions expressed are those of the author.
Reference
A spaceman and ship appear very briefly in the trailer, neither of which look anything like those in the set.
The completed model
It's hard to tell how big the model is from the box art and official pictures and, at almost 50cm high, it's taller than I expected it to be. It's certainly eye-catching and unlike anything LEGO has made before.
The space shuttle bursting through a plume of white smoke leaving a colourful jetstream in its wake looks fantastically dynamic.
The set includes two minifigs, Pharrell and his wife Helen Lasichanh, and an additional 49 heads in every colour currently used for licenced minifigures, all neatly arranged in a display stand entitled 'My Phriends'. There's a diverse selection of males, females, beards, glasses, and facial expressions.
The minifigures wear identical titanium-coloured spacesuits with finely printed logos and other details on the front and back, and come with matching helmets with gold visors in addition to hair for her and hat for him. The design is quite different to that seen in the still from the trailer, though, which includes a classic space logo on the front.
Apparently, 30 of the head prints are new, and most are double-sided, so if you want to swap out the heads of the figures for those that resemble yourself and a family member, there's a good chance you'll find some that match.
The rainbow jetstream stand is held at an angle with Technic beams hidden inside the smoke plume, which is designed to stop the whole thing toppling over.
The shuttle slots and clips onto the top and comes away easily for when you want to swoosh it around the room.
Various half-spherical elements have been used to good effect to form the smoke.
The space shuttle is named Atlantis Apartments, after the tower block in Virginia Beach where the singer grew up. The names, and the 2x2 round tiles with colourful decoration on the wings, are printed. Its design is clearly inspired by real-life space shuttles, so arguably it's a bit simplistic and boring.
The hole in the back that slots onto the protrusion at the top of the stand looks somewhat ugly, detracting from the overall sleekness of the ship, although it has been quite neatly integrated into the fuselage without looking like it's part of it.
Much was made in the set's promotional material about the new drum-lacquered gold cockpit element, and it certainly looks very cool, contrasting with the black surrounding it. It was good to find that it came packaged in its own bag to keep it free of scratches.
Inside, there are control panels and levers, and seats for two minifigs.
Verdict
The space shuttle and jetstream make an interesting and attractive display model unlike anything we've seen before. The dynamic positioning and smoke plume really give the impression that the ship is blasting up into space, and I like it.
The minifig heads and rack are a slightly bewildering inclusion. The intention is presumably to enable you to make a likeness of yourself, whatever you look like, to blast off into space in the shuttle, but will many people actually bother to do that? Or would they rather have paid less for the set?
So, who exactly is going to find this somewhat niche set appealing? Pharrell fans, presumably, and maybe those who enjoy the film, although I suspect that'll depend on whether it's a success and if a space shuttle features prominently in it.
The price of £94.99 / $109.99 / €109.99 for 966 pieces is not too bad I suppose, but I'm sure it would be more palatable if it was priced at £70 / $80 / €80 without all the heads.
Perhaps LEGO will Get Lucky and be Happy with sales figures, although I have my doubts...
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Pharrell is absolutely trying to kill you with Plasma Wave. You've seen what he does to his friends; now see what he does to his enemies.
That said, I like this set and particularly that rainbow murderwave a whole lot more than I initially thought I would.
As Andy Townsend would say, "Not for me, Clive"
I only want the figures and heads for my purist customs. If we're lucky, they'll go the way of the heads from "Table Football" and "Icons of Play" and be available on PAB in a few months.
LOB
I feel like the comments section would be unrecognisably different if this exact same set had been made in trans yellow, blue and light grey instead.
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..." /j
Anyways, I think that the sets a pretty good display piece, but i feel as if the rainbow smoke beam thing could have been downsized a little.
@MisterBrickster said:
"I feel like the comments section would be unrecognisably different if this exact same set had been made in trans yellow, blue and light grey instead. "
Yeah, everybody would be questioning why pharrel is here in the first place
Expensive for a disembodied heads battlepack. I hope they all turn up on PAB eventually. I'd love to get them all.
I have followed the career of Pharell for the last 25 years. Not too closely, but enough to be informed about his works in different fields. And I still struggle to see how this model relates to his career. I guess the movie will have an answer but it still is kind of an odd choice for first set from his "brand". I wish we would get a proper recording studio location with full minifigs representing actual artists involved in Pharells life and work. Oh well.
I think it's phlipping ugly. Easy pass phor me.
Wish we could BAP the heads.
This is such an odd choice for a LEGO set. It is eye-catching, and the design is good... But for me this feels like an over-reach of LEGO's IP tie-ins. I don't know how big/dedicated the Pharrell fanbase (Phanbase?) is, but are people outside that really going to be buying this over, say, Botanicals or even Creator sets?
Looks like this is the set to get if you want some head.
Has to be the biggest celebrity vanity project lego set in history
Looks great from certain angles, but.... I don't really get it. Great idea perhaps, but too abstract for me, and the build is not interesting enough... and a display of heads is a little disturbing!
@MisterBrickster said:
"I feel like the comments section would be unrecognisably different if this exact same set had been made in trans yellow, blue and light grey instead. "
Well, if Lion's Knight Castle was branded with Taylor Swift I would not buy it either.
I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that.
I'd rather take the heads over the jetstream at any time. Unnecessary to say, a standalone pack with just heads would have been a hot seller, as so many people want customization options.
@Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
I for one, welcome our new childless cat lady overlord.
Very quirky set. I quite like it.
I quite like the model, but having zero interest in Pharrell or his friends, I think it's the first time I've been disappointed tiles are printed and not stickers. Have to swap out the Atlantis Apts.. once it's come down in price.
@Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
Has to be a fun life if you get off by imagining people you don't like being angry lol
If I don't listen to Swift and would not buy her merch, does that make me part of the wrong evil people or the good nice people? Is there anything in between in your worldview?
@Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
This*. Which is much more interesting than this set.
*although I have listened all the way through to many of her songs
This looks like a $30 Lego set from the 80s, with an additional $80 of needless bloat.
@Brainslugged said:
"This looks like a $30 Lego set from the 80s, with an additional $80 of needless bloat."
That's what it's basically is. Nothing against $30 80's sets!
How stable is it?
I don't know why they didn't make one side of the heads male and the other side female. Then you would have either sex for each head variation.
I still don’t understand the point of this set.
@myth said:
"I still don’t understand the point of this set."
Me neither!
@classicstylecastle said:
"How stable is it?"
Stable enough not to topple, fear not.
Fleshies, yuck...!
@GirlWoman said:
"Fleshies, yuck...!"
Yep. If they were yellow heads, they may have got a sale from me. Ship looks a bit simple too.
As a fan of Black spaceships ( looking at you Blacktron! ) , I like the ship ( although simplistic ) and the rainbow exhaust for display value. The extra heads don’t do it for me and jack up the price too much. Maybe for€45 excluding the heads. Looking at the comments, you should have no problem to sell those separately.
Also a missed opportunity to continue the “space” box-art!
So many heads......yet I spot a severe lack of white males with glasses 8-(
Overall just a weird set, and this review doesn't change that one bit: This very much is what you see is what you get. I mostly see some okayish elements that just don't add up. The shuttle is rather simplistic, apart from that canopy nothing interesting here, and couldn't they have done that connection a bit more elegant? While that jetstream makes for a nice display (which is kinda wasted on a this shuttle), it overshadows it all, and makes this a rather pricey set for what it is. And then those heads.....just like with the 21337 : don't throw these in with some overpriced set, but just make a dedicated minifig builder set!
Maybe the movie will change everything, but as it is now, I feel this will even be a weird set for most Pharell fans. I just don't see much Pharell in this, and €110 is quite a lot for just the minifig which, dare I say, is hardly recognizable as him.
€109.99 for 966 pieces is not too bad. It's just bad
@NissanZ32 said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
Has to be a fun life if you get off by imagining people you don't like being angry lol
If I don't listen to Swift and would not buy her merch, does that make me part of the wrong evil people or the good nice people? Is there anything in between in your worldview?"
I'm sorry. You just don't matter all that much to me, either way. Do whatever you like.
I snarkily commented that this is how luxury brands create "value" when it was announced and I still feel that way. This is a nothing burger of a 20 Euro Creator 3in1 space shuttle recolored in black and gold with a lot of extra stuff lumped into the package to make it a little less obvious that there is no real content.
@MisterBrickster said:
"I feel like the comments section would be unrecognisably different if this exact same set had been made in trans yellow, blue and light grey instead. "
Or if that canopy was trans-yellow and there was a logo with three yellow triangles on the wings - plus some trans-red details thrown in for good measure. :-)
@b2_O said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
I for one, welcome our new childless cat lady overlord."
But please tell her to stay away from Springfield. Or at least leave her cat at home...
:-p
@GusG said:
"€109.99 for 966 pieces is not too bad. It's just bad"
It's not the size uuh I mean amount that matters, it's what you do with it.
@WizardOfOss said:
" @GusG said:
"€109.99 for 966 pieces is not too bad. It's just bad"
It's not the size uuh I mean amount that matters, it's what you do with it."
Well, since Huw measured the whole thing at 50cm high, that pen.., I mean that "jetstream with plume of white smoke" must be around 30cm. Maybe it's my inferiority complex, but I find that size quite impressive... ;-)
Oh, behave!
Still no Caucasian head with glasses and a stubble. Boo.
I just like the space suits, but I'm sure they will appear again.
The ship’s rear has a prolapse.
I thought the ship might redeem this set, but no.
@WizardOfOss said:
"Oh, behave!"
Yeah baby, yeah!
Can’t imagine this is going to be produced in very large numbers
This would be cool if my name was Pharrell and I wanted a custom LEGO set that only really meant something to myself
I agree with Cheesystudios on this:
'Cool... I guess?'
I love the pros and cons of this review (along with the rest of it). Perfectly balanced... as all things should be.
Why are some heads orange? Are they Oompa Loompas?
I still think if the point of all the heads was for representation, including a classic yellow smiley head would have been great. Oh well...
I'm not sure, but this set is not totally dependent on the tie-in with Pharrell, is it?
I can imagine people buying because they just like the looks of it. If I liked it a bit more I might be one of those people, but I have too much other stuff on my wish list (and not enough space to display anything).
A Taylor Swift set would be bought just because of the tie-in, whether I like it or not (we've got a Swifty at home and I don't really mind that).
But the question is...
Who is who among the phriends?
I just hope we get a Snoop Dog minifig from the movie.
What a bizarre set. If it weren't for all those minifig heads I don't think most people would even consider buying it. I don't pay any attention to Pharrell Williams, is he even still popular?
Hard pass.
@b2_O said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
I for one, welcome our new childless cat lady overlord."
I just can’t help but wonder if the rumoured ‘Cat lover’ in an upcoming CMF series will be a sneaky homage
Enjoy the film?
What film?
Everyone else arguing politics and business, and I just feel sorry for the BrickLink catalog admins who have to name and number every one of those unique heads.
I am getting 10291 vibes here. A set only very few people care about with 40/50% discounts as a result. Even at that price an easy pass for me.
There was literally a Robot Chicken short where the punchline was that someone was using Lego heads as spare building material for a house.
looks like the bifrost
A shelf warmer if I ever saw one.
@CoreySinny said:
"A shelf warmer if I ever saw one. "
The next thing to do is to convince the seller that it is better to free storage space for ~50% off than not to sell at all. I find that quite logical =D.
The spacecraft alone is probably around 250 parts - which I will order on PaB. There are already plans online to Blacktronize this spaceship with trans-yellow, yellow and red parts - which I will do to some degree (you don't want to overdo it). The tail-end of the ship must also be fixed appropriately. Then this modified ship will be authorized to land on my custom 'Classic Space' landing pad. The suits are nice-ish but the helmets are not classic so no use really and no oxygen tanks???
Really weird editorializing. Who is this going to appeal to? The people who think it looks good, same as any other set. This performative bewilderment is so transparent.
@CoreySinny said:
"A shelf warmer if I ever saw one. "
You see a shelf warmer, I see an eventual bargain!
I am a sucker for space shuttle like builds, so I actually like the ship on its own more than I expected after seeing the entire set earlier.
Despite knowing little about Pharrell, I would have considered buying the ship alone for $40-$50.
The rest of the set is just bloat. I wonder if designers were up against a set-in-stone-by-contract price point, and had to add "something" to the ship.
Nearly forgot to make a "SPACESHIP!!!" comment!
@b2_O said:
" @CoreySinny said:
"A shelf warmer if I ever saw one. "
You see a shelf warmer, I see an eventual bargain!"
For it to be a possible bargain it would have to at least contain some interesting contents.
The only piece in this set I have even the slightest interest in is the golden canopy. Even though I have no project where I would need one. Trans-yellow, trans-green, trans-blue or trans-red, those are the canopy colours I am typically looking for.
Everything else in this set is Meh for me. Even the heads, since I only use the classic yellow faces on my MOCs.
Can the shuttle be mounted sideways on the jetstream?
@b2_O said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
I for one, welcome our new childless cat lady overlord."
Ordinarily, I'd be against bringing politics into a Brickset discussion (whether or not I agree with the views expressed), but @b2_O brought out one of my favorite memes, even if I have no real interest in the series that spawned it.
@Binnekamp said:"Perfectly balanced... as all things should be."
I felt the urge to snap my fingers after reading that.
@SomeTimesYouFeelLikeANut3 said:"looks like the bifrost"
And another Marvel reference! If I got this set, I would be sorely tempted to modify the jetstream and have Thor standing on it, halfway up..
@TheOtherMike said:
"Can the shuttle be mounted sideways on the jetstream?
@b2_O said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
I for one, welcome our new childless cat lady overlord."
Ordinarily, I'd be against bringing politics into a Brickset discussion (whether or not I agree with the views expressed), but @b2_O brought out one of my favorite memes, even if I have no real interest in the series that spawned it.
@Binnekamp said:"Perfectly balanced... as all things should be."
I felt the urge to snap my fingers after reading that.
@SomeTimesYouFeelLikeANut3 said:"looks like the bifrost"
And another Marvel reference! If I got this set, I would be sorely tempted to modify the jetstream and have Thor standing on it, halfway up.."
\(^-^)/
If LEGO had put the Yellow Submarine at the end of the rainbow exhaust, and included the Sgt. Pepper-cover Beatles outfits instead, then i would buy it. As it stands, no sale.
Who is Pharrell Williams?
I’m sorry, just kidding, I am now well informed about him by cultural sheep:
He is really phriendly and sings about being happy and lucky, he distances himself from writing about blurred lines- probably about past illegal builds and inappropriate Lego connections but I don’t know if that Spaceship stand is far removed enough?
I think he’s made himself a really beautiful set, I hope enjoys building it. The heads would have cost him a lot on pick-a-brick.
@AustinPowers said:
" @b2_O said:
" @CoreySinny said:
"A shelf warmer if I ever saw one. "
You see a shelf warmer, I see an eventual bargain!"
For it to be a possible bargain it would have to at least contain some interesting contents.
The only piece in this set I have even the slightest interest in is the golden canopy. Even though I have no project where I would need one. Trans-yellow, trans-green, trans-blue or trans-red, those are the canopy colours I am typically looking for.
Everything else in this set is Meh for me. Even the heads, since I only use the classic yellow faces on my MOCs. "
I like the heads, the main ship and the "my phriends" sticker (yes, seriously). If I can get the set for at least 50% off, that's definitely a steal! (for me at least)
I've heard and liked a few songs of P Williams, but ain't no fan. But I like the concept and set just for what they are and look like. And I appreciate the addition of the heads rack, mainly for the heads of course. I like it and even if I don't feel so, I must be in the niche for such sets. Thanks for the review and nice pics of it.
Nope.
@Huw said:
" @myth said:
"I still don’t understand the point of this set."
Me neither!"
You'd probably need to watch the movie for that. ;-) People who haven't watched any MCU or Star Wars movies probably don't know what's going on with those sets either. Context matters.
Even without context, it looks pretty cool.
@ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @Huw said:
" @myth said:
"I still don’t understand the point of this set."
Me neither!"
You'd probably need to watch the movie for that. ;-) People who haven't watched any MCU or Star Wars movies probably don't know what's going on with those sets either. Context matters.
Even without context, it looks pretty cool."
Then it's a good thing the movie's name/logo/existence is prominently featured on the box of the set, right? ...right?
EDIT: It's not even mentioned in the set's description, I guess LEGO had trouble getting a license for a LEGO movie.
I wish they just sold all the heads separately. Maybe I'll find someone who wants the ship and will sell me the heads.
Of all the sets coming out this fall.... this is one of them.
@sipuss said:
" @ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @Huw said:
" @myth said:
"I still don’t understand the point of this set."
Me neither!"
You'd probably need to watch the movie for that. ;-) People who haven't watched any MCU or Star Wars movies probably don't know what's going on with those sets either. Context matters.
Even without context, it looks pretty cool."
Then it's a good thing the movie's name/logo/existence is prominently featured on the box of the set, right? ...right?
EDIT: It's not even mentioned in the set's description, I guess LEGO had trouble getting a license for a LEGO movie."
I'm sure most people won't have a problem putting 1 and 1 together. Except those who still claim to not know who Pharrell Williams is. ;-)
@Zoniax said:
"Of all the sets coming out this fall.... this is one of them."
Correct.
@MisterBrickster said:
"I feel like the comments section would be unrecognisably different if this exact same set had been made in trans yellow, blue and light grey instead. "
But in that case, wouldn't the 49 minifig heads on the skull rack all have had to be identical yellow ones with the standard grin?
Wow, another $100+ 18+ set that includes a bunch of new diverse head prints for customization locked behind an unrelated build and an absurd price point. Stunning.
If LEGO cared about representation as much as they claim, they'd do something like this at a smaller scale so kids can actually afford it - something like the LEGO City People Packs, but with fleshie heads and probably no builds, so as to not inflate the price. Lord knows that between this set, the Foosball Table, Icons of Play, and those Harry Potter trunks that they have enough head prints to make 3 or 4 sets like what I just described. But I suppose if they did that, they wouldn't be able to charge $110 for this when all most people will want are one or two heads.
@mmillers said:
"Really weird editorializing. Who is this going to appeal to? The people who think it looks good, same as any other set. This performative bewilderment is so transparent."
Not to mention the weirdly low effort parts of the review. Took the liberty of rewriting it.
Pros:
- impressive looking jet stream with solid balance
- Sleek look spacecraft with gold canopy
- Wide assortment of minifig heads in varied skin tones
- Prints on all parts
Cons:
- Back of spacecraft looks unfinished
- Minifig head rack can be seen as superfluous
Even the ship doesn't look that great now I've seen it from different angles. Easiest pass in the history of easy passes.
@b2_O said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"I think I might. Swift's starting to grow on me. I've yet to completely listen to a single song of hers, but she riles all the wrong people, and I deeply appreciate that."
I for one, welcome our new childless cat lady overlord."
All hail.
@chrisaw said:
" @mmillers said:
"Really weird editorializing. Who is this going to appeal to? The people who think it looks good, same as any other set. This performative bewilderment is so transparent."
Not to mention the weirdly low effort parts of the review. Took the liberty of rewriting it.
Pros:
- impressive looking jet stream with solid balance
- Sleek look spacecraft with gold canopy
- Wide assortment of minifig heads in varied skin tones
- Prints on all parts
Cons:
- Back of spacecraft looks unfinished
- Minifig head rack can be seen as superfluous
"
Thank you. I did write the +/- in a bit of a hurry this morning, and find it hard and tedious to review sets that I have no interest in, and no appreciation of the source material if they are licensed ones, which is why I don't do many nowadays.
Would you like to write reviews for us?
Being a collector of Minifigures I feel it incumbent upon myself to try to source just the Minifigure head display stand.
@Huw said:
"Thank you. I did write te +/- in a bit of a hurry this morning, and find it hard and tedious to review sets that I have no interest in, and no appreciation of the source material if they are licensed ones, which is why I don't do many nowadays."
I love that answer. It perfectly sums up my feelings towards a lot of current LEGO releases, especially licensed ones. Such a lot of uninteresting, overpriced and unnecessarily bloated stuff no one seems to have asked for.
Or mildly interesting sets that immediately become uninteresting once you see the ridiculous RRP.
Why: the set
@DJ_Hamford said:
"Wow, another $100+ 18+ set that includes a bunch of new diverse head prints for customization locked behind an unrelated build and an absurd price point. Stunning.
If LEGO cared about representation as much as they claim, they'd do something like this at a smaller scale so kids can actually afford it - something like the LEGO City People Packs, but with fleshie heads and probably no builds, so as to not inflate the price. Lord knows that between this set, the Foosball Table, Icons of Play, and those Harry Potter trunks that they have enough head prints to make 3 or 4 sets like what I just described. But I suppose if they did that, they wouldn't be able to charge $110 for this when all most people will want are one or two heads."
All those sets you mentioned have been at 50% off or greater. The only one I purchased was HP.
I look forward to buying this (interesting build I like @Hobbes idea, cool gold window, white round pieces, and da 'eads). But, it will have to be at 50% or greater.
@Klontjes said:
"I'm not sure, but this set is not totally dependent on the tie-in with Pharrell, is it?
I can imagine people buying because they just like the looks of it. If I liked it a bit more I might be one of those people, but I have too much other stuff on my wish list (and not enough space to display anything).
A Taylor Swift set would be bought just because of the tie-in, whether I like it or not (we've got a Swifty at home and I don't really mind that)."
I'm strongly considering buying it just because of how beautiful the contrail is, and how cool of a sculpture and display piece that makes it. The tie-in doesn't do anything for me positively or negatively... in my head, this might as well be a tie-in with No Man's Sky.
I'm hoping to swing by a LEGO store and see what it looks like in person to make my final decision. Honestly, this review's photos made me like the spaceship itself *less*... when it's not atop the contrail, it has very odd proportions, and Huw's stellar photos (pun not intended) makes that much clearer than the official images (thanks for the great review, Huw!).
Also, yeah, gotta love the TSwift appreciation that accidentally cropped up in various comments! XD
@DaLegoNerd1 said:
"Too woke for me"
@lego4elio said:
"too woke"
I'm genuinely asking... in what way is this set 'woke'?
@Balthazar_Brannigan said:
" @DaLegoNerd1 said:
"Too woke for me"
@lego4elio said:
"too woke"
I'm genuinely asking... in what way is this set 'woke'?"
Someone commented "to woke for my taste, easy pass..." verbatim on the reveal post of this set, and i think these comments are referencing that.
The spaceship is quite nice and fits two minifigs which is good. Rainbow jetstream is pretty too with the white smoke clouds. The abacus of heads is disturbing like someone mentioned earlier. Love the lady minifig’s hair which has great highlights. Overall it’s an okay set. I think ppl will still buy this at discounted price ofc..
The value is far from terrible in this set, for anyone who likes making custom minifigs with realistic skintones this seems like a good set to get, the main build is attractive and you get plenty of heads for customs.
@bluejazz said:
"The abacus of heads..."
That is a hilarious description. I've long thought about attempting to MOC a Lego abacus. Have there been any submitted to Ideas?
@Huw said:
" @chrisaw said:
" @mmillers said:
"Really weird editorializing. Who is this going to appeal to? The people who think it looks good, same as any other set. This performative bewilderment is so transparent."
Not to mention the weirdly low effort parts of the review. Took the liberty of rewriting it.
Pros:
- impressive looking jet stream with solid balance
- Sleek look spacecraft with gold canopy
- Wide assortment of minifig heads in varied skin tones
- Prints on all parts
Cons:
- Back of spacecraft looks unfinished
- Minifig head rack can be seen as superfluous
"
Thank you. I did write the +/- in a bit of a hurry this morning, and find it hard and tedious to review sets that I have no interest in, and no appreciation of the source material if they are licensed ones, which is why I don't do many nowadays.
Would you like to write reviews for us?"
Are you looking for more reviewers? I have thought about contributing reviews before, but in these days of YouTube I don't see many new user reviews on brickset and figured there wasn't much demand...
If you need more written review content I for one will try and contribute some more user reviews, maybe including my daughter's opinion too so it isn't just the usual AFOL moans. If I can manage to contribute a few fairly regularly, maybe you'd consider me for a brickset reviewer. ??
@Brick_Master said:
"Are you looking for more reviewers? I have thought about contributing reviews before, but in these days of YouTube I don't see many new user reviews on brickset and figured there wasn't much demand...
If you need more written review content I for one will try and contribute some more user reviews, maybe including my daughter's opinion too so it isn't just the usual AFOL moans. If I can manage to contribute a few fairly regularly, maybe you'd consider me for a brickset reviewer. ??"
Thar certainly won't hurt! It may complicate things that you appepar to be in HK so getting sets to you may be problematic but we'll corss that bridge if and when we come to it.
@Ephseb said:
"I only want the figures and heads for my purist customs. If we're lucky, they'll go the way of the heads from "Table Football" and "Icons of Play" and be available on PAB in a few months."
Several of these heads have appeared in other sets, and already are on Pick-A-Brick.
With a few modifications, we’ve got a great Predator set. I could also see buying it for the opportunity to swap in different LEGO sets blasting off.
The pros for this set are intriguing but I think it leans too heavily towards the con…trail.
I’ll see myself out.
Cockpit needs to be swapped for the trans yellow variant. Then a touch of yellow added.
@BrickAnomie said:
" @Ephseb said:
"I only want the figures and heads for my purist customs. If we're lucky, they'll go the way of the heads from "Table Football" and "Icons of Play" and be available on PAB in a few months."
Several of these heads have appeared in other sets, and already are on Pick-A-Brick."
yeah I know, those are almost all from the 2 sets I mentioned
@Huw said:
" @Brick_Master said:
"Are you looking for more reviewers? I have thought about contributing reviews before, but in these days of YouTube I don't see many new user reviews on brickset and figured there wasn't much demand...
If you need more written review content I for one will try and contribute some more user reviews, maybe including my daughter's opinion too so it isn't just the usual AFOL moans. If I can manage to contribute a few fairly regularly, maybe you'd consider me for a brickset reviewer. ??"
Thar certainly won't hurt! It may complicate things that you appepar to be in HK so getting sets to you may be problematic but we'll corss that bridge if and when we come to it."
Actually I'm normally in Australia, I'm just traveling at the moment! We get home I'll work on some sets and reviews!
I've never been a fan of the whole include-a-bunch-of-different-heads-so-people-can-better-identify-with-the-set-or-whatever thing because - while great for getting new minifig heads - it bumps up the price a lot more (and they really could just sell an Oops! All Heads polybag, though maybe not with that particular name), but also because they can only include a finite number of heads, which means a lot of people inevitably WON'T be able to pick a head to represent them, which kind of defeats the idea anyway.
@bluejazz said:
"The abacus of heads... "
I guess you'd call that mental math?
Are the minifigure heads sienna brown or dark orange?