I feel very lucky to be writing this review. Since I live in the US, Lester is fairly hard to come by but thanks to a very generous Bricksetter, I have him! Let’s dive in!

THE BAG AND…ERR…THE BAG

Being only a single minifigure, Lester has no need for instructions, so we have only to look at the bag. Like many other polybags, this set doesn’t have a name and being from the UK, much of the other typical set details are missing. This isn’t a bad thing however. Just having the age range and set number paired with the simple background and yellow color scheme makes for a nice fresh look.

The bag is slightly smaller than the usual poly since, again, it just includes Lester. The plastic of the packaging is also slightly thinker than usual. The 21034 London set is silhouetted behind Lester. Very nicely done and eye catching.

THE MINIFIGURE

Lester is dressed in a smart blue suit with a British flag waistcoat and a red tie. His legs have no printing, but there’s really no need for it anyway.

The back of Lester’s suit jacket has two small buttons and a few other subtle details.

His face is exclusive and features a cheery smile well suited to welcoming customers to the Leicester Square Lego store. His eyebrows aren't visible until you remove his bowler hat, but they make him look even more friendly.

The bowler hat is unprinted which is nice since the black bowler hat is a tad rare.

Lester’s accessory is a collapsed umbrella which is a great piece. He can hold it upright, flip it around and hold it like a cane or carry it in the center. It’s too bad he can’t hold it by the curved part.

The prints are nice and crisp, though the whites on Lester’s waistcoat are rather muted. I would have liked a little more thickness to the white paint coat, but I can live with slightly muted.

OVERALL

A very nice collectable chap (does that make me sound British?) who can fit in nicely with any City or Modular Building scene. Lego did the right thing when they made this polybag, since scalpers were trying to make a ridiculous fortune off the grand opening Lester. IN YOUR FACE SCALPERS!!

Anyway, if you want a Lester, buy this one. The only difference between the two sets is the umbrella which the grand opening version doesn't even have! Let’s see…you can spend upwards of $500 and get Lester or you can spend around $10 and get Lester plus his umbrella. Tough choice…not! I definitely recommend Lester, even if you have to pay $15 to get him. He’s a special addition to anyone’s collection. In fact, he’s my second most prized minifigure in my entire collection! (Silver Centurion holds #1 and I don’t foresee that changing anytime soon)

-Fowlerbricks out!

This is my third Microfighter and it's actually not one I had planned on getting. It just didn't really catch my eye. So here's how I got it: I signed up to be part of the 2017 Brickset Secret Santa, but something went wrong and the person who was supposed to be my Santa never sent anything. Then the admin jumped in and took the place of my Santa, sending me a 60149 4x4 with catamaran and Krennic's shuttle Microfighter and I realized that I had almost missed out on a great Microfighter! So a huge thanks to the admin! Let's dive in!

THE BOX AND INSTRUCTIONS

I actually find the box to be pretty funny. Krennic's chibi shuttle is flying through a ridiculous amount of explosions with the pilot perched stoically on top. This is made even funnier by the fact that there is normal TIE Fighters and an X-Wing in the background.

A planet, which I assume is Scarif, looms in one corner. The top of the box identifies the minifigure as "Imperial Shuttle Pilot." The back of the box shows the shuttle landed on Scarif and the pilot is shooting his tiny blaster pistol at a Y-Wing. The Y-Wing pilot is apparently so terrified of being shot at that he's jumping out of his ship before the laser blast has even reached him.

I guess Microfighters don't have shields? Or maybe the pilot forgot about them. Not such a great pilot. That doesn't speak well of the rebels. Off to the left, you can see two panels showing off the shuttle's features: shooting cannons and folding wings. All of Series 4 is shown down below, with blue lighting up the shuttle since its, you know, the one in the box. The box is the dreaded push tab type. The instructions are pretty standard. One more kind of random thing about the box: Series 4 is written in four different languages while Microfighters is only written in one.

THE BUILD

Quick and easy but fun, like most Microfighters. A few clever building techniques are used, but nothing to complex.

THE MINIFIGURE

The shuttle pilot is the sole minifigure included in the set. I found out through Jangbrick's review that an almost identical figure was included in the Series 1 Star Destroyer. The only difference is the hat. Since I don't have the Star Destroyer, that doesn't matter that much to me. Plus, you can never have too many Imperial Crew members.

The torso and legs have excellent printing with a ton of detail. The pilot is dressed in a somewhat rumpled uniform and Lego has done a great job making it seem like there's actually wrinkles and rumples on the plastic. The pilot's face is nothing new, but hey, it's not angry clone! And it's a great generic flesh colored head that can be used almost anywhere.

The hat is a pretty recent mold and it's also somewhat rare as it has only appeared in three sets, one of which is the Death Star. It has one small bit of printing that shows a small silver disc. Overall, this is an excellent minifigure and getting a couple of them wouldn't be a bad thing in, my opinion.

THE COMPLETED MODEL

The finished shuttle is actually a lot cooler than it looked on the box. Lego has captured the pyramid-esque shape of Krennic's shuttle quite well here. I'm not sure why they added that bit of trans-red on the front or even what it's supposed to represent, but it looks cool, so I'll let it slide.

The underside looks slightly odd, with the sides lower than the middle. However, a quick Google search revealed the the 'real' shuttle is just like that, but with a little bit more geometric shaping that would have been nearly impossible to achieve at this scale.

The large upper fin is comically small, not even reaching past the seated pilot's head. I find it strange that Lego left the tip of the fin without anything on it. A 1x1 black tile would remedy that, or you could use the 1x1 black slope that's included as an extra.

There are two stud shooters in the front and a laser cannon on each wingtip. I feel that the wingtip cannons would benefit from another 1x1 slope each, set behind them. There's the engines and some nice vent-like detail on the back. All that looks great and keeps the ship from having a camera unfriendly angle.

The wings can fold into landed position which is an essential feature that it works perfectly. The pilot can still sit with the wings folded, which is great plus it gives him somewhere to go when it's raining (on Scarif that is, not in space. Everyone knows it doesn't rain in space).

The pilot is only attached by two studs, so you can easily remove him. The windshield on this one is a far cry from the Wookie Gunship. It's more for looks than offering any protection.

OVERALL

What an excellent set! And to think I almost missed out on it! Lego has done this Microfighter right, bar a few small flaws. It looks even better next to the large version of the the shuttle. Kids and adults alike can have a lot of fun swooshing this one around.

PROS

Excellent minifigure

Well designed ship

Lots of useful parts

Good price

Folding wings

Great display positions

CONS

A few spots could have used some more tiling

-Fowlerbricks out!

It's been awhile since my review of the First Order Snowspeeder Microfighter and as I've had this set for almost two years now I thought it was about time for a review.

THE BOX AND INSTRUCTIONS
Nothing too exciting here. Just the typical Microfighters design. The wookie does look like a dark brown wookie, like Tarrful, but in reality he's really not. He's just regular brown, so that is somewhat misleading. There's also the time honored "Small parts and small ball" warning which still makes no sense to me.

THE PARTS
Perfect timing! Let's go through the parts and see if there's a small ball. Hmm...well, we've got some tan 1x2 slopes, 2x2 gray domes, 2x2 conical droid heads (unprinted), a few 1x2 brown vents, two 1x1 trans-bright green cones, some silver studs, a gray fin, etc, etc. No balls though. I mean, you could combine the gray domes into a funny oblong ball, but that's the closest you'll get. This set does have a good selection of parts even though there is no small ball.

THE BUILD
For a Microfighter, the build is fairly complex, using studs-on-the-side construction to make the window and sides. Still, it goes together quickly and easily and even younger kids should be able to figure it out.

THE MINIFIGURE
There is also one minifigure included in this set and it is a generic wookie, if the term generic can be applied to a wookie.

In the large wookie gunship set, I believe the generic wookies got arm printing. No so for this guy, unfortunately. His legs have some fur printing that looks pretty nice. The wookie's torso is plain brown, which is great for mono-fig collectors. This wookie is 1/3 mono-fig, so there's a good reason to get this set.

As I mentioned before, the box makes him seem dark brown and angry looking. Well...he's neither of those. He looks almost like he's smiling and the fact that mine has severely misprinted fangs helps this along. The rest of the printing on his head is mostly good. There lighter brown fur is excellent, but there's a bit of white at the end of his 'goatee' fur. It doesn't look too bad, I just don't think it's there on purpose. The eyes look alright, but again, there's a tad too much white. The wookie is armed with a gunmetal gray old style crossbow which is a great piece to get, though younger kids may mistake this guy for Chewbacca.

Overall, this is a great and very massable character. It's just a shame about the misprints. Hopefully others are better. One final con: one of the hands on mine had so much friction, I could barely move it at all. I just swapped the hand out and fixed the problem, but still, that made it feel kind of cheap and sloppy.

THE COMPLETED MODEL

So after the mixed bag that was the mini figure, what should we expect from the build? Well, actually, we can expect quite a bit! The gunship may be one of the best Microfighters yet. The color scheme is great, the shaping is great and accurate to the Gunship seen in Rebels.

It even has the boarding ramp in the back! I mean, there’s no space behind it, but the ramp can be raised and lowered which is a very nice touch.

The engines on the sides can be repositioned up or down and there are some flick-missiles on the underside. These look great, but if you flick them hard enough to launch them, you are probably going to end up flicking the engine off too. That’s a bit of a design flaw, but I can’t readily see how to fix it. You just have to be careful when firing the missiles.

Adding a couple of trans-bright green studs onto the back of the engines adds a nice ‘drive glow’ effect so that’s something I recommend doing if you have a couple of studs lying around.

The seat for the wookie is a nice padded brown with a bit of a backrest as well. The windscreen is larger than usual for a Microfighter. There are no controls but that would be nearly impossible at this scale.

There is also no place to store the wookie’s bowcaster, but the cockpit is spacious enough to allow him to carry it while flying. Underneath the cockpit is a pair of laser cannons that can be moved up and down. A 1x1 clip adds some more detail to the front of the ship. A small fin sits on the back behind mechanical detail built out of pearl silver 1x1 studs. The gunship is very swooshable and sturdy. When dropped from a height of two or three feet, the engine pods may come off, along with the fin but that’s about it. So full points to Lego there. In terms of accuracy, this is about as accurate as a Microfighter can get. Yeah, there should be two windows but the wookie is sitting where the second window would be. Full points here too!

OVERALL

Microfighters may not fit some people’s tastes and that’s just fine. I very much enjoy these chibi-fied Star Wars vehicles and this one is no exception. It’s an excellent chibi rendition of the gunship from Rebels, it’s sturdy and playable and it has a good mini figure. What more can I say? I love it! Well done Lego! Just pay closer attention to the face print next time, ok?

PROS

Easy way to get a wookie

Fun and accurate

Lots of good parts

Great price

Gunmetal gray bowcaster

CONS

Wookie face misprints

Flick missiles only sort of work

Misleading box

Weirdly stiff hand (probably only applies to mine though)

For $9.99 or less, this set is a great deal! Highly recommended!
-Fowlerbricks out!

Brickheadz. You love 'em or you hate 'em. Fortunately, I'm one of the people who love them and today I'm going to be reviewing Iron Man, who happens to be my #1 favorite from series one.

THE BOX AND INSTRUCTIONS

The box is fairly small and cube shaped. The front displays the Brickheadz Iron Man and the side shows the 'real' Iron Man.

The back has all the Marvel Brickheadz shown, along with a picture of Iron Man being put on his display stand.

The instructions are a funny shape, with the picture of Iron Man on the cover being vertical and the actual instructions being horizontal but other than that they're pretty standard.

THE PARTS

If you want buttery-yellow and dark red parts, then this is the set for you. Dark red tiles, dark red 1x1 bricks, dark red headlight bricks, buttery-yellow tiles, buttery-yellow bricks...well, you get the point. There's also six printed pieces, three of which are exclusive plus some random green and pink stuff for inside the head. And of course you get a bunch of Brick 1X2X1 2/3 W/4 Knobs to make the head.

THE BUILD

Being a small set, the build is quick but fun. Lots of studs-on-the-side construction that is clever but easy enough for small kids to follow.

THE COMPLETED MODEL

I'm just gonna go right ahead and get my two nitpicks out of the way: #1: the 'ear' bits tend to move around easily since they're only attached by one stud. That can get annoying if you aren't careful. #2: at least two of the 2x2 red tiles seem to be slightly discolored. I've seen three different of these sets built and they all have the same problem.

Now I can proceed to the positive gushing bit.

In my opinion, Brickheadz is an excellent idea: Funko Pop styled Lego characters for ten bucks. I mean, you can't get much better than that. When the Comic Con Iron Man and Captain America were revealed, I was mad that they wouldn't be readily available...but then Lego released an even better Iron Man in a 'normal' set! I am a happy Lego fan. Iron Man is everything a good Brickhead (or should I still say Brickheadz? Or is that the plural? Now I'm confused) should be: recognizable, but with that cute blocky shape. Cleverly built, but using nice new printed parts to the best effect. I like Lego's choice of darker yellow and dark red instead of the brighter colors used by the Comic Con version. He's also super sturdy! The stand is a nice addition despite the fact that it's a tad too small. Iron Man looks great from all angles.

There's no "camera unfriendly angle" as Jangbricks would say. The worst view is from the back and that's only because it's rather plain there. Ok, ok, I won't gush anymore. Moving along.

OVERALL

Overall!? OVERALL!?!? I was pretty sure I made my thoughts on this set clear. But hold on a second...what's this?? People are complaing about lack of articulation? They say that Brickheadz are nothing but display models? Fah! Who needs articulation! Plus you can move the hands from pointing down to pointing forward or backward (well, you do have to remove the arms and reposition them the way you want them, but that's besides the point). Doesn't that count as articulation? And as for being display models!!...well, yes they are chiefly display models but just lock your bedroom door and let your inner child out: fly Iron Man around the room! Make him fight other Brickheadz! (even though his fists don't quite make it past his torso). Make him walk around! I mean, come on. If you hand this guy to a kid, they're not going to look at it and complain about lack of articulation. They're gonna do all the things I just listed. Plus, he looks great as a display model! There, any uncertainty about my opinions on Brickheadz has been obliterated. Brickheadz rock!

-Fowlerbricks out!

Side note: you could probably make a decent Tony Stark face using the mustache from 41593 Jack Sparrow. Just a thought.

I've been impatiently waiting for Thor: Ragnarok and the Lego sets since the first trailer. Now that I have finally seen the movie and gotten one of the sets, I am geared up for a review! Let's dive in and see if this set is really worth fifty dollars or not. (MINOR SPOILER WARNING)

THE BOX AND INSTRUCTIONS

The box is fairly sizable and sports one of the earliest pictures of Thor and Hulk in their Ragnarok gear.

I have to say that it's not the best picture ever. Hulk looks a bit like a deranged chimp and Thor looks weirdly Asian (no offense to any Asian people, but Thor isn't supposed to look like that). Quite a few people have pointed out the fact that the ultimate battle for Asgard is taking place some fifteen miles outside of Asgard proper. However, "Asgard is not a, it is a people" (-Odin and Heimdall) so in light of that it makes a small amount of sense for them to fight outside the city. Placing the battle on the Bifrost would have made much more sense though. It also seems to be snowy in Asgard which is strange. You can see the Bifrost on the back of the box, but it leads to...an empty platform with two spires on it? Well, that's not quite right. Despite these odd art choices, the color scheme of the box and the background really makes the set pop. All the characters get named which is great plus we see that Thor has a very exciting power blast! Turning the box back over we find more eye catching shots of the set and that Hela has power blasts too.

Overall the box accomplishes it's goal: to draw your eye to the set. There are some flaws, but come on, it's a box. There are two instruction books in this set plus a mini comic book.

The comic is neat, featuring Spider-Man on one side and Thor on the other. The comic also comes in the Spider-Man: Homecoming sets. The instructions are standard fare.

THE PARTS

So many different parts in so many different colors! Red, yellow, blue, dark green , black, grey and even a tiny bit of glow in the dark! Lots of interesting parts too. There is so many cool ones, I'm not even going to try to list them all. Just looks up the parts list. A few notable pieces are: five light bluish-gray ingots, five black Plate 2X3, Rock, No. 1 which are exclusive in this color as of right now and four red Circle 90D 10X10, Wry 18D which appeared in only one other set! Good stuff here.

THE MINIFIGURES

Hmm...how willl we do this? we have six minifigures to look at...well technically five since the Berserkers are identical. Why don't we start with them?

So based on the design and name of these characters, Lego or Marvel clearly pulled some inspiration from Lord of the Rings. That's not a bad thing though. It is rather confusing why these guys are included in the set at all. They never appear in the movie and only appear in one trailer being pulped by Heimdall. I guess these were prototype baddies that got scrapped somewhere in production and Lego already had the minifigures made. Despite the fact that they never appear in the movie, they are excellently designed and very accurate to the brief glimpse we get from the trailer. The printing could have been brighter though. It's hard to see the dark green since it's printed on black. As I mentioned before, both Berserkers are the same and have terrifyingly large mouths on an otherwise featureless face. Well, maybe featureless isn't the right word. There aren't any eyes or nose but the front and the back are printed with dark green rootlike designs.

The weird green root/bone/armor things continue on the front and back of the torso as well. Both Berserkers are equipped with very nasty looking twin blades and some strange spike on their backs.

All in all, these are superb and very massable characters. They're very accurate to the trailer too. It's just a shame that they didn't show up in the film itself. I almost like these guys better than the dead Asgard soldiers that Hela used. My only complaint is the dimness of the green detail.

Next up we have Valkyrie.

It's not very movie-accurate to have her in her Sakaarian outfit during the final battle with Hela, but I understand why Lego did it. Valkyrie wore the blue outfit longer than she did the white. Still, accuracy would have been nice. Valkyrie is by no means a bad minifigure though. She uses the same hair as the Orcs from 79016 Attack On Lake-Town and it suits quite well. It's a bit narrow, but there is no existing hairpiece that would work better. Her face is single-sided due to her hair, but Lego has done a good job making a suitably neutral expression for the one face. It also does a surprisingly good job of capturing the actress in minifigure form. A new cape is included for her, featuring a jagged, squared off design made to hang over one shoulder.

Valkyrie's torso has very crisp and clean except for right at the neckline. All the rest of the print is excellent, even the shiny silver bits, but the skintone above the neckline doesn't match the nougat color of her face and arms. It's the same problem Lego keeps running into: there's not enough paint applied to make it properly opaque. Valkyrie's legs are just plain dark blue and I think that's perfectly ok. She is armed with a gladius to represent the Dragonfang sword.

An extra is also included and it's worth noting that these are made of a harder plastic than the ones in, say, the Hobbit sets. I think this change is a good one, since the handle won't flake as much as they used to.

Moving on we come to the long-awaited Bruce Banner minifigure! FINALLY!!

Took you long enough Lego! It only took a Hulk movie, two Avengers movies and the third Thor movie for you guys to make one. Now, where's my Stan Lee minifigure? Anyway, let's take a look at Banner. His hair is a great choice and fairly accurate. His face is dual sided, featuring a vaguely amused expression that looks good but maybe doesn't quite capture the look of Mark Ruffalo. Turning the face around, there's a superb angry face that has green eyes, signaling that the Hulk is about to emerge!

Banner has to wear some of Tony Stark's clothes in Ragnarok and while the torso isn't entirely accurate, it's as close as Lego could get since his shirt in the film seemed to have a design that I'm sure was licensed. I think they did an excellent job, but the skin above the neckline of the gray shirt isn't toned right. There's so little of it though, so I can ignore. The plain gray shirt looks fine too me and the black jacket has great detail front and back.

Banner's legs are just normal black legs. Overall, I'm very satisfied with this minifigure. Even more so since you could easily make a custom Tony Stark with the pieces from a second Banner fig. Banner's face is generic enough to be used elsewhere, as long as you don't turn it around. Well done Lego!

Next up: the goddess of death herself, Hela and wow, there's a lot to look at here.

Hela gets two sets of accessories, two faces, a cape, a hairpiece and a huge scary helmet. Let's look at her head first. Her normal face is kind of smirking, like she knows all too well that no one can beat her. Her lips and around her eyes are green to match her torso and cape. Her alternate face is angry and has some weird shadowy mask. Freaky.

Her hair is nothing new, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that Lego had included hair at all. I was expecting to have to always use the helmet. The helmet isn't a bad piece though, quite the opposite. It's a perfectly made piece! It works with either face and is molded out of a rubbery plastic so you don't have to worry about snapping the massive hornlike spines jutting out the sides.

There's a tiny bit of dark green printing on the forehead. From the back, the helmet looks rather like a large upside down spider.

Hela's cape is the new soft kind recolored in dark green. The dark green recolor is exclusive to this set right now.

Her torso is similar to the Berserkers in that the dark green is very hard to see. There's some splashes of lighter green here too. Up in each corner there is a bit of her shoulder visible and again, it's more pale than typical Lego flesh tone. It works on Hela though, since her skin is fairly pale in the film, but Lego needs to pay more attention to this kind of thing. The bare shoulder printing continues around the back of her torso, as does the green detail.

Hela comes equipped with a gunmetal gray broadsword and a gunmetal gray old style poleaxe. Neither of them pieces are exclusive but one can never nave too many broadswords and it's nice to see that Lego still uses the poleaxe piece. Both these weapons are very appropriate since Hela can produce just about any blade imaginable out of thin air.

She also has optional twin black power blasts which are exclusive to this set right now. A third is included as an extra. I suppose that these could represent the teeny daggers she was so fond of tossing around.

Whether that's what Lego intended or not, it's still nice to be able to get the power blast piece in black. It's odd that Lego showed the blasts as red in one of their pictures when red blasts don't even exist (well, they do exist but they're not available in any set right now). Hela's legs are plain black.

Now last, but certainly not least: Thor, the god of thunder!...or...lightning...or both. Let's just go with both.

Anyway, I want to get my one major nitpick out of the wat first: Thor includes his helmet but no hair. Don't get me wrong, I love this new helmet and I'm happy to get it in this set even if it's not accurate to this scene. However, the lack of hair is a huge oversight. Lego was very thoughtful and included hair for Hela so why not Thor? The spikey hairpiece (part #6163633) would work or the original Star-Lord hair (part #6082516). Luckily I had one that I could steal from Star-Lord when he isn't using it, so I'm good to go, but other people may not have one readily available.

While we're on the subject of the helmet, let's take a closer look at it.

The piece is molded in gunmetal gray and has very intricate details that come solely from the molding itself. The wings on the side look excellent, but they cannot fold up and down like it could in the movie. I'm okay with that though since the folding feature could have potentially compromised the sturdiness of the thing. The superb molding continues over the entire helmet...except for on the insides of the wings.

I understand that it would have been difficult to achieve molding on the inside like that, but I still would have liked to see it. In the film, the helmet has some blue on it which is absent here, but I think it looks fine without it. Despite the lack molding on the inner parts of the wings, this is a top-notch piece that deserves a place of honor in your collection, probably on Thor's head since, you know, he has no hair. Thor's face has been redone for the two Ragnarok sets and it's by far the most interesting face yet. The first side shows a somewhat cocky smirk that looks very different when you put the helmet on.

Thor's beard is thinner here and slightly more scruffy, which I like very much. The second face is angry, but not just your typical angry face: Thor is ready to seriously kick some butt! Lightning is crackling out of his eyes, making them turn white from the energy while the lightning itself is a beautiful metallic blue.

I couldn't have asked for a better pair of faces! Well done Lego. Very well done! The box shows the white bit of the lightning as being light blue, but I can overlook that exaggeration. Thor's torso is a brand new design printed on gunmetal gray. The printing is of the highest quality: crisp, clean and has some real physical depth.

It seems to be decently accurate. Thor's trademark circle-things are present on this armor, but there's only four this time and their not as prominent as on his previous suits. In the film however, there were only two. He also has some type of strap crossing his chest. The excellent printing continues on is back, but the strap does not, which is a bit puzzling, since it did in the film. There's some armor printed on Thor's right arm (from the front) which makes him stand out from many of the superheroes minifigures, since the majority doesn't have arm printing.

Thor comes with what I first though was a shoulder-cape like Valkyrie, but after watching the movie, I found that it was actually half of his usual cape. It's a really neat piece that works quite well and is currently exclusive to this set. The fabric is the new spongy kind, so you don't have to worry about it crinkling up.

The instructions tell you to put the cape so it hangs over Thor's left arm (from the front) which is great but not entirely accurate. In the film it was very clearly on his right shoulder. The cape is designed so that you can hang it over either shoulder, however I prefer to take the less accurate route and keep it on his left shoulder. It covers the excellent arm printing when on the right side. Anyway, moving on to the legs. The legs are done in gunmetal gray, same as the torso. The printing lines up decently well with the print on the torso but the silver is noticeably darker and has an almost blurry quality, especially on the hips. It still looks good despite this and it's nice to finally get a Thor with leg printing. Overall I was very impressed with this figure despite the fact that he's not totally accurate and am happy to say that he makes it into my top 3 Marvel minifigures as #3 (Silver Centurion takes #1 and Civil War Spidey takes #2). Thor includes two power blasts plus one extra.

THE BUILD
My brother helped build this set, so it took us only about 15 minutes to complete. I was tasked with building the Fenris Wolf and since there is two instruction booklets we were able to build simultaneously. The wolf was a very build. Lots of SNOT plus some of the cool parts, like the glow-in-the-dark studs and the black Plate 2X3, Rock, No. 1 . The Commodore has some interesting building techniques as well. Definitely not a dull build!

THE COMPLETED MODEL
We'll start with the very smallest first: Hela's blade/stand thing. It's not much to look at but it does have a few neat pieces and it serves it's purpose.

In the film Hela summons giant spikes out of the ground. This is supposed to represent either the tip of a very large spike or a small one. Hela can stand on top and tilt forward or backward depending on how you place her.

Again, it's not much but it does add a little to the set plus it can make Hela a whole lot more intimidating than when she just is standing on the ground.

Next up we have the Fenris Wolf.

This is actually not the first Fenris wolf that Lego has made. The first one was in #7015 Viking Warrior challenges the Fenris Wolf (yup. That's the name). This wolf is definitely an improve over the Vikings one, but I still have mixed feelings about it. It has great poseability, excellent parts and building it was fun but...the colors. There's too many colors. Black, dark buish gray, light bluish gray, brown, dark brown and tan. That really breaks up the shape of the wolf and makes it look unreal, like a statue come to life.

If it were mostly black with a few dark bluish gray spots that would be great. The wolf looks awesome as some sort of statue come to life, but it's very hard to see it as a real wolf. The shaping of the head is superb though and the mouth even opens! Unfortunately there are no teeth. I don't know how they could have added teeth at that size. The eyes glow-in-the-dark, which is a nice touch. The head has has decent side to side and downward movement but zero upward movement. There are a few studs on the wolf's back so Hela can ride him.

The legs and tail have tons of articulation and you can get the wolf into some pretty funny poses.

If only the color was more cohesive. Then it would be perfect.

Finally we come to the Commodore itself.

At first glance, the Commodore seems to rely solely on large quarter circle pieces. I was not a fan of it when images were first released. It looked odd and juniorized. However, now that I have it in person I can see that it is by no means a juniorized build. It's actually quite complex in some areas. There are ten stickers scattered over the ship to give it more detail. Some of them are rather large so be prepared. The cockpit can fit only one minifigure and whoever pilots has to lean waay back . Because the canopy is so large it doesn't look too bad to have them basically lying down.

A 1x2 slope with a sticker is used as the controls.

On either side of the cockpit are dual stud shooters. This isn't entirely accurate since the Commodore had no weapons and when Thor added one, he mounted it in the cargo bay area inside. The stud shooters look good though and they add play value too. Plus, if you really just don't like them, you can very easily remove them.

One more important note about the cockpit: sometimes if you're not careful when loading a minifigure aboard, the lower part of the cockpit can pop off, so just be careful. Behind the cockpit you'll find a yellow 2x2 tile.

This is the trigger for a feature that we'll discuss in a minute, so remember it. Moving past the tile, there's a hinged spot that opens to allow access to the 'trunk' where Valkyrie's sword can be stored.

The engines are made with a combination of trans-purple studs and a sticker.

Taking a jump forward we can see some SNOT building that gives a bit of curve to the inner part of the circle around the cockpit. Various other tiles and stickers help complete the bright and rather haphazard color scheme and decorations that is the trademark of Sakaar.

Flipping the ship over, we find that the bright colors are somewhat subdued because of some dark bluish gray plates. We also see that there are 17 2x2 light bluish gray slider pieces! 17! This is the set to buy if you need some of those.

Now we get to see what that yellow tile on top is for. Directly behind the cockpit (on the underside) are some blue pieces and studs that seem to be facing the wrong way. Place Bruce Banner on these studs, flip the ship upright and press the tile. When you do so, you'll get an excellent re-enactment of the scene where Banner makes a spectactular leap from the Commodore to save the Asgardians from the charging Fenris wolf, fails to turn into Hulk during the fall and lands flat on his face.

Overall, I think Lego did a superb capturing the Commodore at this size.

OVERALL

I'm pretty happy with this set. It has amazing minifigures, five of which are exclusive, a cool main build and decent side builds. However, $50 is a bit steep for only 400 parts, especially since a good bit of that is used for the Fenris wolf. The fact that it doesn't include Hul is another downer. Gladiator Hulk comes in the arena set, but we didn't get a normal Hulk (if you can ever call Hulk normal) from Ragnarok, which is disappointing. The Age Of Ultron Hulk can work, but the pants are wrong and it would have been nice to get a different expression too. While this is a great set, I feel that Lego missed some big opportunities with Ragnarok. They could have made the Commodore Quinjet size, they could have filled some of the major gaps in the Thor minifigure lineup with characters such as Heimdall, Korg and Odin, they could have made a buildable Giant-Man style Surtur and so much more. "Sigh". At least they covered the basics.

PROS

Superb Minifigures
Lots of great parts
Decently movie accurate
Thor's helmet!
New capes
Bruce Banner, finally!

CONS

A bit pricey
Wolf has too many colors
No Hulk
No hair for Thor

This set is definitely the one to get if you only want to buy one of the Thor: Ragnarok sets (even if it doesn't have Hulk).
-Fowlerbricks out!