That’s why we essentially know squat about the exact story at this point and will have to judge this just on how well it captures some generics from previous movies. We’ve already taken a hard look at 75549 Minions: Unstoppable Bike Chase and found a lot of problems there. So let’s see if the LEGO Minions Brick-built Minions and their Lair ( 75551) would be worth your time and money. LEGO® building bricks meet the highest industry standards, plus the LEGO Group’s own quality criteria. While the outcome is satisfying enough, I found the way to get there unexpectedly difficulty and riddled with small hurdles.

Each LEGO® Minions set encourages creative fun as children role-play scenes from the Minions: The Rise of Gru movie. As it is, overall sales therefore have been somewhat slow, though the first wave of this particular set last year sold out relatively quickly, regardless. They therefore released them despite the movie being pushed to later dates again and again so they would not clog up their own storage and logistics. Then they can turn the models around to reveal the room playset inside, complete with accessories, plus Minion figures for role play. The Minions of course have a very distinct pill/ capsule shape, which in and of itself is part of the appeal and quite ingenious even from the viewpoint of a 3D animator.Kevin’s eye roll works similar to Stuart’s, with the knob at the top of the interior driving the motion. Gather your friends and engage in an imaginative and fantastic role play by building Stuart and Kevin with the Brick-built Minions and their Lair 75551 set. As with quite a few of the more recent themes based on animated movies, the Minifigure characters look a little different to their usual counterparts. Some LEGO® sets contain small parts that are NOT suitable for and may pose a hazard to children under 3 years of age. That is in a way true, given how few sets LEGO actually designed, but of course in light of the movie being unreleased we don’t know anything about future plans.

So I photographed him here without it, as I was feeling generous, and as it looks pretty stupid with it. It is also worth pointing out that in those other sets the recurring characters have different prints, so if you want to collect them all you may have to spend quite a bit of money one way or the other even if the general design is always similar. As you can see, the shape of the cross section is not actually round but rather an elongated rounded corner block. I had some of the Mega figures from two or three sets I bought back then so this was easy enough to do.If you don’t know all that much about them (like me) you can still enjoy the fact that these things are just adorable. Which is the basis of the set, a pair of brick-built Minions characters, which also double up as playset-style lair.