Review: 72423 Shrek, Donkey & Puss in Boots
Posted by CapnRex101,
Shrek has become a beloved animated franchise and I am surprised it has taken so long to see its characters portrayed in LEGO form. 72423 Shrek, Donkey & Puss in Boots is not exactly what I was expecting from LEGO Shrek, although the model looks outstanding as a display piece.
Lots of brick-built characters have been released recently. Even though these are not normally my favourite kind of set, this example is executed exceptionally well. Shrek and Donkey are both sculpted brilliantly and I love how they are presented on the base, but choosing a minifigure for Puss in Boots is questionable, given the relative scale between characters.
Summary
72423 Shrek, Donkey & Puss in Boots, 1,403 pieces.
£109.99 / $129.99 / €119.99 | 7.8p, 9.3c, 8.6c per piece.
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Shrek and Donkey look fantastic together in LEGO form, but Puss in Boots is out of scale
- Brilliant composition for display
- Great shaping for the characters
- A few posing alternatives
- Fun referential details
- Puss in Boots is undersized
The set was provided for review by LEGO. All opinions expressed are those of the author.
Minifigure
I find the decision to portray Puss in Boots as a minifigure surprising in this context, when the other characters are brick-built. Beyond the scale issue, which I will discuss in more detail later, there is a stylistic difference between sculpted statue-like figures and minifigures. These figures are sometimes mixed in sets, usually with a brick-built character designed to match minifigures, like 76316 Fantastic Four vs. Galactus Construction Figure, but providing a minifigure to match brick-built figures reminds me of a few Homemaker sets.
Anyway, this minifigure is well executed. Dual-moulded boots were essential for Puss in Boots and the details on the torso look good, as does the uniquely-sculpted head. The hat cannot be removed, which is a shame, though its shape and the yellow plume are accurate to the movies. Also, I like Puss' confident expression, which definitely suits his personality.
The minifigure sports a fabric cape, which hangs surprisingly naturally over the tail. I expected some interference, but the cape slots nicely in the bend of the tail. Puss in Boots is armed with his rapier, of course.
Reference
Source - Shrek 2, DreamWorks Pictures
The Completed Model
I absolutely love the composition of this model, with Shrek and Donkey naturally posed on the base. They look excellent together from every angle and I like the compact design, for ease of display, although it is smaller than I expected. Despite comprising over 1400 pieces, the model only measures 24cm in height, very similar to 75430 Wicket the Ewok.
Nonetheless, I think it has presence and the vibrant colour scheme is striking, with an attractive contrast between the three characters, plus the base. There is plenty of detail on all sides, even the back, where you can find some accessories supplied for display with the figures. Despite the limited articulation, a few display options are welcome.
The base is constructed sideways, with slopes and curved slopes around the edge to create a smooth surface. There is still ample detail though, inspired by Shrek's swamp, with teal pieces comprising a little pond towards the front and plenty of foliage around this scene. The new leaf element is used to nice effect, cascading over a rock.
Shrek warns against visitors to his swamp with a wooden sign outside, available in both Shrek sets revealed so far. I was pleasantly surprised to find that these 2x6 tiles are printed, so there are no stickers in the set, which is always a bonus. Additionally, I like the sign's irregular shape, plus the fly printed on a 1x1 round tile in the corner, seemingly designed for the Trash Monster Collectable Minifigure.
Though frequently irritating, Donkey is a close friend of Shrek and the pair look superb together here. I am especially impressed with Donkey's proportions because his short legs and relatively large head are very faithful to the character's onscreen appearance. I like his stance too, with his front hooves perched on the aforementioned rock.
Each character is attached to the base and they are not really designed for display separately, though they can be detached without too much trouble. Donkey and the rock he stands on are only connected to the base using Technic pins and removing them affords a clearer view of the sunflowers, which are a common sight around Duloc in the original film.
Even though Donkey's front legs are built into the rock, swapping a couple of light bluish grey plates allows you to display him alone and the character looks fantastic like this as well. Once again, Donkey's proportions are accurate and curved slopes are used to good effect to convey his body shape, with occasional studs for texture.
The legs are individually articulated, while the tail and head are also moveable. The mouth and ears can be posed to convey Donkey's personality and I thought you might be able to swap the printed eyes around for an angry expression, but the eyes themselves are angled, so that tends to look a bit strange.
The ball cup visible above is used to attach Shrek's left hand, fondly resting on Donkey's back. The standard pose looks perfect to me, but you can easily swap this ball cup and 2x2 tile for a 2x2 curved slope if posing the figures apart. The extra curved slope is not included, however.
Donkey's face is brilliantly sculpted, with prominent teeth, a pink tongue and brick-built nostrils, plus printed eyes and eyebrows. The mouth in particular is very expressive and I like the black mane too, which is neatly textured. In addition, Donkey can clutch a blue flower with red thorns in his mouth, in reference to the scene from the first Shrek movie.
Shrek himself looks just as authentic as Donkey, dressed in his simple attire from the films and with appropriate proportions, between his stubby legs and chubby body. Lime green is an ideal colour choice for Shrek's skin tone, although as is commonly the case with brick-built humanoid characters, the face has attracted some criticism.
Much like Donkey, you can modify Shrek to remove the pieces connecting him to the base and he stands quite securely without it. However, his arms are relatively static, basically limiting the figure to a waving pose. Personally, I certainly plan to keep Shrek and Donkey attached to their base, but the options are welcome.
The boots and dark orange trousers roughly correspond with the films and I like the 1x1 quarter circle tiles along the edge of Shrek's shirt, so it seems slightly tattered. So much of this model is very smooth, which makes areas of texture like this one particularly stand out.
Although it is not something I would have identified before building the model, I think the key to capturing Shrek's appearance is his belt, which is higher at the rear than at the front. Small ball joints link the lower and upper body to this belt, creating a natural shape that genuinely looks as though the belt is pulled tight around Shrek's waist.
The building instructions show Shrek's right hand resting on his hip, but you can also pose this hand holding the included onion, though it does not actually clip to the hand. Shrek memorably tells Donkey that ogres are like onions because they both have layers, so this is a clever choice for an accessory.
A panel on Shrek's body can be detached to reveal a smaller onion, perhaps partially digested, inside, plus a printed waffle and an eye. I am not convinced that we actually needed to see the contents of Shrek's stomach, but I suppose this space would otherwise be empty, so there was no harm in using it for something!
The head tends to be the most difficult feature to capture on any brick-built figure, especially in cases where the head is very rounded. Shrek could be a great example, although I am actually pretty impressed with the shaping. The wide nose and chubby cheeks look reasonably accurate and the printed mouth and eyes are effective, although I wish the mouth was a little lower.
Neck articulation is quite limited by the jacket and the size of Shrek's chin, though even subtle movements are enough for differing poses. Of course, the shape of the head is not completely flawless, but short of producing highly specialised curved slopes for this purpose, I am satisfied. The distinctive ears look excellent in particular.
I should also highlight the alligator-skin vest, which features an extremely distinctive texture in the movies and is similarly rough here. 1x1 round tiles, 1x1 slopes and visible studs are nicely combined to match the onscreen texture, with occasional curved wedge slopes for appropriate shaping in the middle and at the edges.
Puss in Boots stands on Shrek's shoulder, attached to a trans-clear angled stand element. The pose seems quite dynamic, but as referenced earlier, the minifigure is simply too small. Puss in Boots should be a bit taller than the height of Shrek's head, so the scale is not correct. However, the only alternative would be a brick-built figure and I imagine that could be difficult for this size, so perhaps a minifigure was the best choice.
Overall
Strange though it may sound, 72423 Shrek, Donkey & Puss in Boots reminds me very much of 76989 Horizon Forbidden West: Tallneck. Both sets are presented on compact bases, although their designers have made clever use of the available space and posed the figures brilliantly, so they look impressive from every angle.
However, the sculpting is arguably more remarkable here, as Shrek and Donkey incorporate no specialised parts, but still reflect their onscreen designs very closely. The scale of Puss in Boots is the only major issue and while I do understand using a minifigure, this model would potentially look better without him. Maybe that would have reduced the price too, though £109.99, $129.99 or €119.99 feels relatively fair to me.
72423 Shrek, Donkey & Puss in Boots will be released on June 1st and is available to pre-order now on LEGO.com.
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I know theres another Shrek movie due in the near future when they finally redo all the animation after the early image backlash ala the Sonic the hedgehog movie, but this still feels like its rather late to the party to draw much attention.
It feels like this was meant to be a sculpt purely for the original Shrek movie, then they've just added Puss in as an afterthought given the incorrect scaling quickfix of being a Mini-fig.
Donkey: Woah, Shrek, did you do that? Man, you gotta warn somebody before you just crack one off, my mouth was open and everything!
Shrek: Believe me, Donkey, if it was me, you'd be dead!
[sniffs]
Shrek: It's brimstone. We must be getting close.
Donkey: Yeah, right, brimstone. Don't be talking about "it's the brimstone". I know what I smelled and it wasn't no brimstone and it didn't come off no stone neither.
I know waffles are frequently mentioned in the Shrek movies, but what does the eye in Shrek's stomach refer to?
Seems like there are a lot of layers to this build!
There should obiously have been a second head for Puss with big eyes.....
Other than that, solid set.
@Tc99m said:
"I know waffles are frequently mentioned in the Shrek movies, but what does the eye in Shrek's stomach refer to?"
When confronting the mob in the beginning of Shrek 1, Shrek claims that ogres will squeeze the jelly from their eyes (and that it's quite good on toast).
@Tc99m said:
"I know waffles are frequently mentioned in the Shrek movies, but what does the eye in Shrek's stomach refer to?"
If I remember correctly, Shrek was seen eating a soup with at least one eye in it during the opening scenes of the first movie.
@Tc99m said:
"I know waffles are frequently mentioned in the Shrek movies, but what does the eye in Shrek's stomach refer to?"
The soup !
@Tc99m said:
"I know waffles are frequently mentioned in the Shrek movies, but what does the eye in Shrek's stomach refer to?"
In the first film, when Shrek's eating on his own, there's a jar of eyeballs on the table that the Three Blind Mice eventually knock over.
I understand there’s clearly an audience for this - I just can’t quite picture what it looks like. The finished model does what it sets out to do very well, though.
It looks scary. Haha. I’m sure there are fans…
Donkey is a little bit large compared to Shrek. Puss is a little small. I don't think the scale is that bad. I think trying to make a brick built Puss at this scale would look much worse and people would then complain about that. It's why Donkey is a little too large. They had to do that to make the sculpt look good. One thing I've learned is LEGO fans can complain with a ham under each arm. LOL
The waffle Easter egg really should have been incorporated into Donkey instead of Shrek. Other than that minor nitpick, this set looks nice and is priced reasonably enough.
Why does every new license have to be a giant statue set! Imagine if they took all the budget from Shrek and Donkey, turned it into the swamp house atop this same base, and included minifigures.
A great-looking set. It's beyond dispute that Puss in Boots is too small. On the other hand, we all know that minifigure heads - especially custom ones like this - are proportionally too big for minifigure bodies. That minifigure head is still only about 75% of the proper size relative to Shrek and Donkey, but a brick-built cat in proportion to that head would get a good deal closer to proper scale than the minifigure body does. I expect that very soon after release, someone at Rebrickable or on social media will post a more properly scaled brick-built MOC of Puss n Boots, either using or not using that head.
It's not as awful as I first thought, but I'd still have to lose a significant bet before considering putting this on my shelf.
I'm not sure the Puss in Boots is undersized. Maybe the rest of this set is oversized.
@GrizBe said:
"I know theres another Shrek movie due in the near future when they finally redo all the animation after the early image backlash ala the Sonic the hedgehog movie, but this still feels like its rather late to the party to draw much attention.
It feels like this was meant to be a sculpt purely for the original Shrek movie, then they've just added Puss in as an afterthought given the incorrect scaling quickfix of being a Mini-fig. "
There are two movies. Shrek 5, and a Donkey movie.
I'm a bit disappointed that this set doesn't include a Gingy microfigure.
@PurpleDave said:
"There are two movies. Shrek 5, and a Donkey movie."
Huh... somehow I'd missed hearing about the Donkey Movie.
Yeah yeah, great, can we get some more HTTYD stuff instead please?
Movie is great, just never wanted a LEGO version so won't be buying this.
Looks great, but I don't have enough interest in the franchise to justify the purchase. That, and I'm really burned out of all the large, collector-focused figure statue sets that seem to plague every new license.
So, there’s supposed to be a Shrek CMF wave coming down the pipeline. CMF waves are currently running 12 characters each. There are quite a few characters I’d expect to see represented in this theme. Just from the first film, I could see Shrek (2x, if this is when he wears the suit of armor), Fiona (human and ogress), Donkey, Puss in Boots, Gingy, Lord Farquaad, Pinocchio, Robin Hood, and the Three Blind Mice. Only two of those are female, and both of those are Fiona. They’ll probably need to dive deep to get some more female characters in the mix, since I don’t think they’ll repeat a character within the same batch. I fully expect to see an actual minifig-scale set at some point, which lets them siphon off some of the more difficult characters (Donkey is not a minifig, and the dragon won’t fit in one of those boxes). I very much believe they put the PiB minifig in this set just to eliminate needing to use a CMF slot on a character they could sorta justify slipping into a non-minifig set.
@GrizBe said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"There are two movies. Shrek 5, and a Donkey movie."
Huh... somehow I'd missed hearing about the Donkey Movie."
Shrek 5 next year, and, uh…Donkey 1(?) the year after that. I missed Shrek 5 because they buried it in the middle of the list (Shrek 1-5, PiB 1-2, Donkey), and I was thinking in terms of overall release order. (Shrek 1-4, PiB 1-2, Shrek 5, Donkey).
The lack of white printing on Puss looks awful
I'm glad that the Puss in Boot's ridiculous scale got a mention. It's nigh condescending towards anyone who has any interest in Shrek beyond surface level brand recognition.
Guys please! Look at second to last picture. This flat face of Shrek is horrible, also there is no jaw line when you compare it to real photo. How can you say it's great shaping?
Donkey looks good but Shrek is awful and this is a DISPLAY set 18+
To be honest feels like an April fools...
@SpaghettiDish said:
"I'm glad that the Puss in Boot's ridiculous scale got a mention. It's nigh condescending towards anyone who has any interest in Shrek beyond surface level brand recognition. "
now that you mention holy cow his scale is egregious!
I guess they gave up on making a brick built cat?
@SpaghettiDish said:
"I'm glad that the Puss in Boot's ridiculous scale got a mention."
I called it out when the sets were first revealed, and then went looking for pictures that proved what I remembered. I found one that showed PiB being a bit taller than shoulder height on Donkey, which this minifig clearly is not. However, I later noticed that PiB’s height appears inconsistent in stills from the films. At his tallest, he’s technically taller than Donkey (bipeds are measured to the top of their head, but a donkey would only be measured to the shoulder). In other images, he only seems to come up to mid-flank on Donkey, which is a difference of more than the height of Donkey’s head. That’s a pretty significant margin for such a little guy.
"It's nigh condescending towards anyone who has any interest in Shrek beyond surface level brand recognition. "
I’m fine with it on the condition that I’m right about them wanting to avoid burning a CMF slot on PiB so they could fit another character in who might otherwise not have appeared. Well, mostly fine, as it will make PiB a lot more expensive, since you have to drop more than 2/3rds a case of CMFs just to get _one_ PiB minifig.
Damn!!!
-- Shrek
"Great shaping for the characters".
Is that really the best you could write about that set ?
I'd recommend you buy eyeglasses instead of that set.
@PurpleDave said:
"So, there’s supposed to be a Shrek CMF wave coming down the pipeline. CMF waves are currently running 12 characters each. There are quite a few characters I’d expect to see represented in this theme. Just from the first film, I could see Shrek (2x, if this is when he wears the suit of armor), Fiona (human and ogress), Donkey, Puss in Boots, Gingy, Lord Farquaad, Pinocchio, Robin Hood, and the Three Blind Mice. Only two of those are female, and both of those are Fiona. They’ll probably need to dive deep to get some more female characters in the mix, since I don’t think they’ll repeat a character within the same batch. I fully expect to see an actual minifig-scale set at some point, which lets them siphon off some of the more difficult characters (Donkey is not a minifig, and the dragon won’t fit in one of those boxes). I very much believe they put the PiB minifig in this set just to eliminate needing to use a CMF slot on a character they could sorta justify slipping into a non-minifig set.
@GrizBe said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"There are two movies. Shrek 5, and a Donkey movie."
Huh... somehow I'd missed hearing about the Donkey Movie."
Shrek 5 next year, and, uh…Donkey 1(?) the year after that. I missed Shrek 5 because they buried it in the middle of the list (Shrek 1-5, PiB 1-2, Donkey), and I was thinking in terms of overall release order. (Shrek 1-4, PiB 1-2, Shrek 5, Donkey)."
Licensed series have broken the current 12 limit. Disney and Wizarding have had over sixteen in their series. Not sure Shrek will get this freedom, but 12 figures is not necessarily a rule for licenses.
@Anio said:
""Great shaping for the characters".
Is that really the best you could write about that set ?
I'd recommend you buy eyeglasses instead of that set."
How would you improve the design? I recognise that the shape is not perfect, of course, but as I mentioned in the review, short of producing highly specialised pieces for Shrek's head, I think the designer has done a good job.
@Squidkid_Belmont said:
"Yeah yeah, great, can we get some more HTTYD stuff instead please?"
Absolutely not interested in that! So we let LEGO marketing decide!
:-)
Tired of display piece IP sets (does this fit the qualification of millennial slop)?
Donkey's face looks really off.
@8BrickMario said:
" @PurpleDave said:
Licensed series have broken the current 12 limit. Disney and Wizarding have had over sixteen in their series. Not sure Shrek will get this freedom, but 12 figures is not necessarily a rule for licenses."
It's not a rule, but it's a minimum.
I really like this set.
I think Shrek looks awesome.
Puss is way too small and I won't bother displaying him with the set. Shrek and Donkey will look good on their own.
@Anio said:
""Great shaping for the characters".
Is that really the best you could write about that set ?
I'd recommend you buy eyeglasses instead of that set."
I agree… @CapnRex101 shouldn’t buy a second copy of this free set.
@8BrickMario said:
"Licensed series have broken the current 12 limit. Disney and Wizarding have had over sixteen in their series. Not sure Shrek will get this freedom, but 12 figures is not necessarily a rule for licenses."
Looney Tunes established the current standard of 12 minifigs per wave in January 2021, which was followed by licensed waves Marvel 1, Muppets, Marvel 2, D&D, F1, and Spiderman. Since HP2 released in 2020, the only exception to this has been the Disney 100 wave, which stuck to their apparent standard of 18 minifigs. Marvel 2 introduced the modern cardstock boxes, which complicate things. With the inflexible design of the boxes, the new shipper case fits precisely 36 packs. Disney's 18-count is still possible, with two complete sets per case, but the only other larger count that won't result in a return to split rarity is 36 with only one complete series per case, unless they change the size of the case. I can't remember which wave changed to a flat rarity, but it predates the shift to boxes, and my gut feeling is that they're going to try to stick to the flat rarity scheme going forward. So, I fully expect the Shrek CMF wave to keep to the 12-count limit.
There's another complication. I think it was S20 in 2020 that finally achieved gender parity, with an 8:8 split male/female. Since then, only licensed IP has really skewed male-heavy, which is only to be expected when the IPs represented have a significant lack of female representation. Shrek is no exception to this, as Fiona and Dragon are the only females in the main cast from the first film. Keeping the count low keeps the gender parity as close to even as possible.
+ Reasonably swooshable
+ Does not require Smartbrick or apps
+ Fun sidebuilds are a good match for many Botanicals-set
- Set, for some reason, fails to include a recoloured Classic Spaceman
- Oversized characters do not comfortably fit in the same vase as many other Botanicals-sets
@Crux said:
"+ Reasonably swooshable
+ Does not require Smartbrick or apps
+ Fun sidebuilds are a good match for many Botanicals-set
- Set, for some reason, fails to include a recoloured Classic Spaceman
- Oversized characters do not comfortably fit in the same vase as many other Botanicals-sets"
Ogres do better in a wide bowl, like a swampy hot tub.
Shrek's face ruins the set. Everything else looks great, but his head is just awful, it doesn't look good from any angle. They should've made a Shrek-only set without the extra gubbins at a larger scale that allowed for higher detail on the face.
I do think this looks very good, despite Shrek being at least 40 years later than any cartoon I watched!
The size of Puss in Boots looks fine to me. Lego don't really do scale models, otherwise Lewis Hamilton in 43022 or Mickey Mouse in 40478 could be a bit problematic!
@CapnRex101 said:
" @Anio said:
""Great shaping for the characters".
Is that really the best you could write about that set ?
I'd recommend you buy eyeglasses instead of that set."
How would you improve the design? I recognise that the shape is not perfect, of course, but as I mentioned in the review, short of producing highly specialised pieces for Shrek's head, I think the designer has done a good job."
I am not saying it is easy to get a better design. But as it is, Shrek just looks awful. The head is so wrong. It is absolutely impossible that Lego did not see that this product turned into a terrible final product. Maybe Designers are not to blame. I don't know. And tbh, I don't care. The thing is that Lego has to be smarter and just not release a product when it looks as awful as that.
@CapnRex101 said:
" @Anio said:
""Great shaping for the characters".
Is that really the best you could write about that set ?
I'd recommend you buy eyeglasses instead of that set."
How would you improve the design? I recognise that the shape is not perfect, of course, but as I mentioned in the review, short of producing highly specialised pieces for Shrek's head, I think the designer has done a good job."
What about my argument? Shrek on the movie photo has long jaw, Lego Shrek has 0 jaw.
I'm not Lego designer, to show how to do better but for sure it's wrong.
Don't you see difference between display adult sets like 72050 Luigi how perfect it's shaped AND kid sets like 75582 Gru & minions? Acording to Lego Shrek set should belong to first group...
@PurpleDave said:
"I’m fine with it on the condition that I’m right about them wanting to avoid burning a CMF slot on PiB so they could fit another character in who might otherwise not have appeared. Well, mostly fine, as it will make PiB a lot more expensive, since you have to drop more than 2/3rds a case of CMFs just to get _one_ PiB minifig."
I'm pretty sure PiB will be in the CMF, if I recall the leaks correctly, unless they confused this figure as the CMF. But they should have had a list of 13 rather than 12 in that case. I'm more curious to see what degree he'll be a reprint or exclusive.
@PurpleDave said:
"Shrek is no exception to this, as Fiona and Dragon are the only females in the main cast from the first film. Keeping the count low keeps the gender parity as close to even as possible."
I doubt they'll limit it to just the first film, especially as Puss is in this set and doesn't show up till film 2 iirc. The fairy godmother is a shoo-in
@Briczk said:
" @CapnRex101 said:
" @Anio said:
""Great shaping for the characters".
Is that really the best you could write about that set ?
I'd recommend you buy eyeglasses instead of that set."
How would you improve the design? I recognise that the shape is not perfect, of course, but as I mentioned in the review, short of producing highly specialised pieces for Shrek's head, I think the designer has done a good job."
What about my argument? Shrek on the movie photo has long jaw, Lego Shrek has 0 jaw.
I'm not Lego designer, to show how to do better but for sure it's wrong.
Don't you see difference between display adult sets like 72050 Luigi how perfect it's shaped AND kid sets like 75582 Gru & minions? Acording to Lego Shrek set should belong to first group..."
72050 Mario Kart - Luigi & Mach 8 does indeed look excellent, but uses a highly specialised piece for the character's defining feature. While they could perhaps have done the same for Shrek's nose and the lines above his mouth, or his ears, I think the current design works.
The jaw is not a feature I would highlight as an issue at all, as Shrek's jawline is not strongly defined in the films. The screenshot used in the article is rather unusual in a sense because he is thrusting his jaw out slightly. I selected that screenshot primarily because it shows the scale between characters.
@AgentKallus said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"Shrek is no exception to this, as Fiona and Dragon are the only females in the main cast from the first film. Keeping the count low keeps the gender parity as close to even as possible."
I doubt they'll limit it to just the first film, especially as Puss is in this set and doesn't show up till film 2 iirc. The fairy godmother is a shoo-in"
I would assume not, since this theme is almost certainly leading up to the release of Shrek 5 next year. But most of the core cast besides PiB were there in the first film, I believe (unlike Toy Story, where the second film feels to me like when the full gang is finally assembled…and then they got large expansions in each of the next two films anyways). I had some sort of Shrek brawler on DS, and there really aren’t a lot of female characters of note. Besides Fiona and Dragon, I know there was a Fairy Godmother, Fiona’s mother, and I think Red Riding Hood, but I’m drawing a blank on any others.
I've never seen any of the Shrek movies, and am only mildly interested in seeing the first one, and so have no interest in the set as a whole, but as I said when this was revealed, I like that Puss in Boots minifigure. And in addition to the Homemaker sets you linked to, one set in the Building Set with People line used a minifig along with a brick-built figure: 208.
@Briczk said:"Guys please! Look at second to last picture. This flat face of Shrek is horrible, also there is no jaw line when you compare it to real photo. How can you say it's great shaping?
Donkey looks good but Shrek is awful and this is a DISPLAY set 18+
To be honest feels like an April fools..."
Is it just me, or has "This feels like an April Fools' Day joke" (or variations, such as "Is this an early/late April Fool's Day joke?") become the new "This is a bad set and I don't see why anyone would want to buy it?"
@PurpleDave said:" @SpaghettiDish said:"I'm glad that the Puss in Boot's ridiculous scale got a mention."
I called it out when the sets were first revealed, and then went looking for pictures that proved what I remembered. I found one that showed PiB being a bit taller than shoulder height on Donkey, which this minifig clearly is not. However, I later noticed that PiB’s height appears inconsistent in stills from the films. At his tallest, he’s technically taller than Donkey (bipeds are measured to the top of their head, but a donkey would only be measured to the shoulder). In other images, he only seems to come up to mid-flank on Donkey, which is a difference of more than the height of Donkey’s head. That’s a pretty significant margin for such a little guy."
Inconsistent scale? Lego has a long history with that!
@Crux said:"+ Reasonably swooshable
+ Does not require Smartbrick or apps
+ Fun sidebuilds are a good match for many Botanicals-set
- Set, for some reason, fails to include a recoloured Classic Spaceman
- Oversized characters do not comfortably fit in the same vase as many other Botanicals-sets"
Why hasn't Brickset tapped you to do reviews for them?
@TheOtherMike said:
"Why hasn't Brickset tapped you to do reviews for them?"
+ Not a nine-to-five mentality
+ Strong swimmer
+ Comments sometimes insightful
- Comments not always insightful
- Unreliable narrator
- Likely to get shadowbanned
Two points of ten .
Sepatated beware sign? Really? Is it serious? Its very ugly. The whole set is ugly as well.
The only good point is the cat minifigure. I love it!