Review: 76830 Zyclops Chase

The printing looks terrible, and I first thought they chose that due to not wanting to make that piece in yellow. Turns out there’s a yellow one on the back (and shoulders)! Very strange.

I was at Target today. Lots of the Lightyear sets were just sitting on the shelves. However, quite a bit of the other Lego stock was empty.

I think Robot looks cool and I like what they did with legs.
But that yellow print...

I'll probably wait a while. The movie wasn't that good and bombed at the B.O., so the sets will be on clearance soon when they become "shelf lead". Was the same for the actual Toy Story sets, which were ridiculously overpriced. I'd probably be more motivated to get it if this wasn't a 4+ set with those awful large pieces.

@Isabella_and_Lego_Liker said:
" @briandrewz86 said:
"I was at Target today. Lots of the Lightyear sets were just sitting on the shelves. However, quite a bit of the other Lego stock was empty."

And it plunged 65% from last week as well in estimates for the box office, worst fall for a Pixar film outside of Onward (and only due to Covid)."

I wonder if it’s because every Pixar film between those two was released straight to Disney+— I wonder if Disney is gonna start cutting their budget and doing that with future films even when Covid stops being as much of an issue. My parents and I went to the LEGO store yesterday and saw this set, since both of us have seen the movie my dad said “Zurrrrrrrg” while pointing to it, epic reference that people won’t understand if they haven’t seen it.

When Hasbro was talking about Haslab Unicron, they mentioned that yellow was the most difficult color to color match. Still holds true looking at this set.

Maybe the chest piece is yellow printing on grey because if it were grey printing on yellow, it might be confusing to 4-year-olds, with three plain yellow ones also in the set. I think a plain yellow part for the chest would look better than the terrible print.

I love this range of sets and I will build what collection of them that I can. There are plenty of good elements in this set that I can work with. Thanks for the review.

Why are the Lightyear sets categorised under Disney rather than Toy Story?

I got two the day they came out, along with Zurg. Might have to get two more, as these are great army builders!

Re: Izzy's outfit
"The colour combination of dark tan and sand blue... "

To be honest, it totally looks like dark bluish grey to me, not sand blue.
Perhaps it's the lighting.

Where's Buzz's iconic helmet?

@Ridgeheart said:
" @TomKazutara said:
"I only see a Mega Man Yellow-Devil in this."

Right? One man's Zyclops is a Mega Man's Yellow Devil."

Hilariously over on the Action figure side of things the Action Figure nerds are loving the Zurg figure as it easily mods into an X-Men Sentinel. And the XS-01 spaceship will fit a 6” GI Joe or Star Wars figure and is an easy repaint.

Haven't seen the movie...nor am I going to, any more than 'Cars 3' or 'Toy Story 4' (Last Pixar movie I saw was 'Onward', which I still say I somewhat underrated...). That said:
The Zyclops robot's bottom half looks really go to use as a base for making an 'industrial walker' (well, with four or six of 'em), or even an Aliens-esqe style loader/exo-suit...

Hello All:

On further inspection, after I broke down and built the set, the following day… I made an error that I’d like to make note of.

CORRECTION: “What most annoyed me, was that they even had a sticker for the transport disc that is a printed part in the 4+ set. Are you kidding me?!? They already have the part!”

The circular sticker that I referenced is for the head of the utility robot, not the transportation disc, which is printed. Additionally, the stickers, while tedious were not as difficult to line-up as on most Star Wars sets. This is no excuse, however, for LEGO’s expanded use of stickers vs. printed parts. For example, I just opened the final Lightyear set, 76832 XL-15 Spaceship, which contains 13 stickers. Again, most, if not all of these, should have been printed for this UCS-like set that wasn’t cheap. Added to this, the instruction booklet was torn because it was crammed into the small box which contained 5 robust bags. This is the first time, I’ve received a torn booklet. This is also the first time, the box has been crammed. LEGO should have used a larger box.

Cheers!
Ron

The thing about the color matching that annoys me most is that printing the grey bits onto a yellow piece would have looked better and required no new parts. They literally just chose the worst way to execute the part in question.

getting this once there's a sizeable discount, I want both minifig heads and there are a few other neat parts. Shame about the printed front thing, I was certain from the intial images that it would be printed grey on a yellow piece.

Also in the images, Buzz's hair piece looked dark brown to me..? Shame, would have been a cool recolour

I've just watched the movie two days ago, and wanted to buy this set. I came to Brickset for a review first (as I always do before I buy new sets) but there wasn't a review for this set. Just when I thought you weren't going to do a review, you did! Thanks so much!
Great review, I will definitely get this set. The exclusive Izzy variant looks great (just wish there was a new hairpiece though)

@ronvining said:
"The circular sticker that I referenced is for the head of the utility robot, not the transportation disc, which is printed. Additionally, the stickers, while tedious were not as difficult to line-up as on most Star Wars sets. This is no excuse, however, for LEGO’s expanded use of stickers vs. printed parts. For example, I just opened the final Lightyear set, 76832 XL-15 Spaceship, which contains 13 stickers. Again, most, if not all of these, should have been printed for this UCS-like set that wasn’t cheap. Added to this, the instruction booklet was torn because it was crammed into the small box which contained 5 robust bags. This is the first time, I’ve received a torn booklet. This is also the first time, the box has been crammed. LEGO should have used a larger box."

I agree with your points. Also, those inverted dish/slider pieces are usually printed if there is detail required, as stickers don't fit on those pieces and will peel.

Your point about cramped space in boxes is very valid. LEGO has a weird thing with space in boxes. Sometimes, there will be a set that has a lot of empty space on one side of the box, like my most recent purchase of 71770 Zane's Golden Dragon Jet.

Some other times, like your case, the bags will be so crammed inside along with crumpled instructions and even unbacked sticker sheets.

I like the design considering it’s a 4+ set, but that color matching is just embarrassing.

@Mylenium:
The movie is actually pretty good, but it’s not targeted as directly at kids. It feels like it’s directed at people who were the same age as Andy back in ‘95, and have grown up. A few backwater nations have banned it, and I’m sure there are individuals who will skip it based on one brief kiss, but I suspect a lot of the lost business is still due to Covid, combined with the fact that this isn’t Toy Story 5.

For people griping about the new voice for Buzz, I don’t remember any similar noise when Patrick Warburton became the second person to voice Buzz Lightyear for Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Here’s how I see it. Within the Toy Story world, this movie exists, Andy watched it, and asked for the Buzz toy for his birthday (this all works because this is also all canon, per Pixar and Angus MacLane). BLoSC is therefore the lower-budget animated series that was spun off the feature film (again, this) and tweaked a few things to make the show more marketable to kids. Movie got one voice actor, TV series got one who agreed to a smaller paycheck (as often happens in real Hollywood), and the toy got a third voice actor just to record a handful of lines…much like how Chris Evans is the _SEVENTH_ actor to record lines for “Buzz Lightyear”.

@brick_r:
Skip Cars 3 if you want (the plot is fairly muddy, with a conflicted message), but Toy Story 4 is challenging TS2 for my favorite film of that series. For my is hands down the funniest Pixar character of all time, and the film feels like a much more conclusive ending to the story of Buzz and Woody than simply writing out the kid who sometimes pops in to the scene. Andy was never critical to the plot of any TS film. The toys’ love of Andy is what drove the story, and they deftly transferred that relationship to Bonnie, like when Doctor Who reincarnates the previous Doctor into the next. It doesn’t end the story to any degree. It just means you’re seeing a different face.

@Ephseb:
Buzz’ hair is reddish-brown, which still isn’t a recolor. Second most common color after black, for that hairstyle. What bugs me is Buzz does come with that hairstyle in dark-brown in 76831 and 76832!

I'm only interested in Izzy because I like the amor and I'm a sucker for army builders, ever since I got the XL-15 I thought just using these minifigs to make like a cool Star Wars New Republic kind of deel.
At first i thought, I'll just keep buying these sets for Izzy, but then I realized, man I'm stupid. I'll just wait. The price on Izzy will drop with how cheap and accessible she is, and instead of spending 20 dollars on one Izzy, I can probably spend 20 dollar on like 5 Izzys depending on the price.

About the printing, what can I say, only the best is good enough :D

The arms on Buzz are exclusive. The right one in 76831 has his wrist laser emitter, while this one doesn't have that detail.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Zyclops

Turns out the final movie version has zero red accents on its legs. Red is limited to the outer tips of the three fingers on each hand, the laser emitter on the palm of each hand, and the single glowing eye. Feet should have a lot of grey, particularly on the toes. There do appear to be concept designs that feature a _lot_ of red accents, so maybe this was based on an earlier vision that changed before the film released. It’s too bad the Ninjago tri-handle doesn’t allow connections on both top and bottom, as that’s the only part I can think of that might make fixing the hands possible.

After watching the movie, I think LEGO dropped the ball with this set. They could've released this set a little later and included an opening cockpit with Evil Buzz minifigure. I think 2 minifigures and one cat aren't exactly the best value for a set of this size.

@Torrent_Studios:
I think you’ve got the wrong set. This is one of the Zyklops drones, of which there are dozens seen in the film, none of which have cockpits. What you’re describing sounds like 76831, which would be even more awesome with an Old Buzz minifig for sure (I got dupes of all three and planned to see if I could hollow Zurg out for just that reason).

@PurpleDave said:
" @Torrent_Studios:
I think you’ve got the wrong set. This is one of the Zyklops drones, of which there are dozens seen in the film, none of which have cockpits. What you’re describing sounds like 76831, which would be even more awesome with an Old Buzz minifig for sure (I got dupes of all three and planned to see if I could hollow Zurg out for just that reason)."

Ah yes, my bad. Lightyear was such a boring film I fell asleep halfway through.

I thought it was pretty good. Not their best, and not really targeted at children the way most Pixar films are, but Buzz has always been one of my favorite Pixar characters, and it was fun to see a new take on him (as well as figure out how Buzz Lightyear of Star Command _may_ tie in to the film). The one major issue I have with it is that it feels less like a movie that Andy could have experienced in _our_1995, and more like a movie that was written for a world that had another quarter century of experience. Again, I liked the movie, and it could be worse. I’ve had people suggest to me that they should do the same thing for Woody, and I cringe a bit at the idea of trying to pass off a clearly 2022 show as being from the 50’s, or how badly a show written like it was actually from the 50’s would be received in 2022 (plus, there’s no evidence that Andy had even been aware of Woody’s Roundup). Basically, I think this establishes that Toy Story is supposed to take place in an alternate Earth rather than this one.

The other thing is, aside from a pair of possible HHG references (two uses of the number 42), all of the Easter eggs I noticed were throwbacks to Toy Story, and specifically about the toy Buzz. I didn’t notice a single instance of any traditional Pixar eggs.