![]() His minifigure version comes in a Kill-Bill style tracksuit with a snappy straw hat. And, if you somehow didn’t notice, he also has one green and one brown eye. Bob is a much smaller creature three bricks shorter than Kevin and a brick shorter than Stuart. The first thirty-two steps are identical between Kevin and Bob, but then things diverge a decent amount. If you want to know why I bring this up, let’s just say Stuart is more cheerful in some of my photos than the instructions mandated. As it stands, you have to mostly dismantle the entire head if you want to change the mouth. Speaking of that: The printed mouth panels are great, but it would have really nice if they had designed the big Minions so that the expressions could be easily swapped out. When you’ve completed his model there are a handful of extra parts to keep track of. I added a few bricks to extend the knob and make it easier to turn for the image here.Īs mentioned earlier, Kevin is part of a 2-in-1 build. The gearing is obviously a little different as it spins two eyes instead of one, but again it’s solid and should hold up to play. Kevin’s eye roll works similar to Stuart’s, with the knob at the top of the interior driving the motion. (The smaller wheel shows up in red in 43179 Mickey & Minnie Mouse Buildable Characters.) Both parts will likely be in high demand in the future, and both are unique to this set in grey. The second is a 5x5x2 Technic wheel from Stuart’s eyepiece. First is a 4x4x1 round-rimmed System element from the Kevin/Bob build. But let’s start off by looking at the two winners in light grey. Well, “tons” if you’re building things in a yellow or blue color scheme, anyway. One of the big draws for this set is the tons of new and useful parts it offers. Particularly for any set over the $30 mark. LEGO has been starting to put the manuals/stickers into shrink-wrapped bags in other sets I hope we see that happen more often in the future. There’s also a sticker sheet that luckily arrived without damage. Both are loose in the box, and my Stuart-book was a bit worse for wear. There are two, a thin 60-page book for Stuart, and a square-bound 124-page book for the Kevin/Bob 2-in-1 component. The instruction books are also a little off-standard. I also had a small issue where a smaller interior part bag was heat-sealed into the edge of one of the larger “2” bags, but that was likely just a fluke. Interestingly they’re not numbered 1-5 but rather grouped into two batches of “1” and “2”s. Inside the box are five sealed part bags. (I’m sure LEGO is going to get similar calls with the “you can build ONE image” art sets, even with the big disclaimers on the front of the box.) Having all three big Minions shown on the front would probably have lead to some irate calls to customer service when they couldn’t all be built at the same time. I think it was a good call to “hide” this feature on the back. The back of the box showcases that you can rebuild Kevin into a third Minion, Bob. Brick-built Stuart and Kevin “big Minions” are shown, along with the three minifigure-scaled Minions. The box art is pretty straightforward, leaning heavily into the blue and yellow Minions color scheme. That sounds pretty good on the surface…but is it? Let’s find out! But what about the other currently available offering? 75551 Minions: Brick-build Minions and their Lair retails for US $49.99 | CAN $69.99 | UK £44.99 and spans 876 pieces including three Minion minifigures. We’ve already taken a hard look at 75549 Minions: Unstoppable Bike Chase and found a lot of problems there. We’ll have to wait until July 2021 to see Minions: The Rise of Gru in theaters, but in the meantime we can at least play with the LEGO sets.
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