Today, LEGO released the Creator Fountain (40221) as a free set as part of a June 2016 promotion. It consists of 105 pieces and you can get it with purchases of $75 or more at LEGO Brand Stores and on , while supplies last. The contents of the box include two un-numbered bags and the instructions. There’s a female minifigure that is included in the set however none of the parts are exclusive since they’ve appeared before in a few previous sets. Her torso is a red striped jacket with a press badge printing while the legs are plain black. Her accessories include a 2×2 printed newpaper tile and a cookie. There’s also an extra cookie as a spare piece. The statue is technically a monochrome minifigure in light-bluish gray. It represents some sort of winged warrior who has a helmet, beard, and a sword. It also wears a bracket piece to hold the pearl-gold wing pieces. The statue is also interchangable as a female statue that carries a flag as there is also a female hair piece included.
There’s also a dog that has appeared before in previous sets also included with this set. The first part of the build is just a yellowish-orange bicycle. The bike in this color is pretty new as it has only appear in one other 2016 set. There are also two identical dark blue benches. The only difference between the two are the objects next to them. One is a dark red trash can and the other is a potted six-stem flower with lavendar and magenta petals. The main centerpiece of this set is obviously the fountain itself. It’s a small circular structure that actually has a lot of detail packed into it. There are some pearl-gold frogs surrounding the base and are facing the statue. Inside the base are four trans-light blue Chima CHI crystals with some bulbs to portray water coming out of spouts. In the middle is the aforementioned statue standing on top of a Roman-style column. Overall, the LEGO Creator Fountain (40221) set is a great set to be part of a gift with purchase promotion.
I feel this is one of the better set promos that LEGO has done in recent times. When the images of this set were released, people were excited as it does go along well with the LEGO City Fun in the Park – City People Pack (60134) although they are separated into two different themes. Again, the Fountain is free with purchases of $75 or more at LEGO Stores and on . This offer goes on June 15 or while supplies last but I’m going to take a guess that it probably won’t last that long. The Brick Fan Scoring SummaryDesign Playability ValueStud Bars have been a secondary collectible of the series. In each main level of the game, there are an inordinate amount of studs in each level. In each level, collect a certain amount of studs to complete the Stud Bar. Upon completing a Stud Bar, you unlock a piece of the Super-Kit in LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and LEGO Batman: The Videogame. In LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, and LEGO City Undercover you unlock a Gold Brick.
A Mithril Brick is awarded in LEGO The Lord of the Rings. And in LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, nothing happens. However, these Stud Bars help achieve 100% in all games except LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game which doesn't have an percentage counter. In LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy and LEGO Star Wars II only, there were two stud bars for each level; one for a collecting a certain amount of studs in Story Mode, and one for collecting a certain amount of studs, a larger amount, in Free Play Mode. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga had a different True Jedi requirement for each level than LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy to accord for the changes in the design. Stud Bars, like studs, are susceptible to stud-multiplying extras; they don't adapt to the increase in stud's worth and are thus easier to complete.This set inventory has been obtained from LEGO Customer Services replacement parts page.
Important note: We do not control this inventory and cannot currently make changes to it. Use it as a guide to the contents of the set, or to find out part numbers when requesting replacements. Download the inventory as a CSV file » inventory for this set »LEGO Marvel's Avengers is the second installment of the Marvel series and a follow up to 2013's LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. It focuses on six movies in the Marvel Universe including Captain America, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Thor: Dark World. It is the biggest LEGO game ever with 215 characters in the base game and up to 250 including the five DLC packs that will be released with the season pass. Even with 250 characters, the roster is limited to the Marvel cinematic universe. This means classics from the previous LEGO Marvel Super Heroes like Spiderman and any of the X-men are nowhere to be found. The DLC packs will include the following levels: • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Masters of Evil (Baron Zemo) The game returns from LEGO Jurassic World and its amber bricks to include the red bricks the majority of the games are known for. The hidden character is also Stan Lee in Peril, and he needs to be rescued in every level as well as spots in all six of the game's hub worlds. For the most part, the game functions just as its predecessors. A total of fifteen levels are included as well as the traditional side quests. The story pays homage to the movies it draws its inspiration from and of course, voice lines from the film are recreated in perfect harmony combining the accuracy of the film with the game's poetic license. Each character has his or her own super move and a team up move when a power meter is built up. Once your power meter is built up, and it does so quickly with each strike, you can move to another character to execute the team up move. What is unique about this new addition is that the move is different depending on the character you are controlling.
For example, if Iron Man walks up to Captain America, the power up will be different than if Captain America walks up to Iron Man. Of course, with 250 characters, only the major ones have their own unique moves while the remaining, less recognizable ones have a generic team up. After all, we can't ask that much of the game's programmers, right? In addition to the levels and open world Manhattan, the six hub worlds you can visit in the game are Sokovia, Malibu, Barton Farm, Asgard, Washington D.C. and South Africa. The 100% studs collected in each level is called "True Avenger" and just like LEGO Batman 3, you can collect character tokens in levels which you will be able to unlock for studs. Just as previous games, many of these will need to be unlocked in free play mode as you won't have the necessary characters at your disposal in story mode. The red bricks in the game also sport a fresh take with The Collector. This is a new character that provides quests for red bricks. Once you complete the quest and earn the brick, you'll need to activate it at Knowhere.
It's up to you to find it, though. All of these are great, but it doesn't hold a candle to my favorite new addition to the game: character transformation. All of the characters, Iron Man specifically, have their unique transformation sequence just as in Marvel Super Heroes. The Iron Man changes are the best thing in the game. When you change from one Iron Man suit to another, the change screen is what you see in the movie. The screen pans out and we see Tony Stark's face behind the Iron Man mask as it is in the movie while he talks to Jarvis. Not only was I happy to see such an addition, but the seamlessness to it was incredibly impressive. Character changes in Marvel Super Heroes could be a bit delayed and stutter, but that doesn't happen with anyone in Marvel's Avengers. The hub worlds become available as part of the game's storyline just as in LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. Once you complete the various levels, you will be able to travel to each hub world. Here, you will earn both gold bricks and new characters by completing missions.
There are so many new additions in the form of characters, worlds, abilities and enemies that I spent a lot more time than I needed to just experimenting with all of them. In total, the game's fifteen levels alone will take you about twelve hours just to complete in story mode. For those completionists out there, you will be looking at about 45+ hours easy in order to visit the 100% fountain. As alluded to earlier, the creativity of the development team really shows up in the cinematic cutscenes. Taken directly from the six films, each one provides its unique LEGO twist. They did a great job of adding in humor, specifically Quick Silver. Now, in the movie he obviously ran in front of a bullet and sacrificed himself as a result. In this game, however, it is an ice cream. Plus, Nick Fury sipping a milkshake while talking to Loki and holding the Tessaract in a briefcase is hilarious. There is simply so much to do in LEGO Marvel's Avengers, that even someone who's never heard of Marvel before will find themselves giddy with happiness.
The voice acting continues its mastery of both lines of dialog from the film and its own humor that it was hard to find too much wrong with the game. That didn't stop us from trying. We spent a lot of time testing out different characters under different circumstances. One of the chief complaints about Marvel Super Heroes were the flight controls. Attempting to maneuver in air often found your character turning around when you didn't want them to, as well as dropping from the sky without any explanation. Being this as it may, it's not any surprise that flight was the first thing we tested out in Marvel's Avengers. To our surprise and happiness,the flight controls seem to have been completely revamped. Everything seems to have been fine tuned and it increases the enjoyment of the game incredibly. You no longer have to worry about failing an air race simply because of some developmental flaw in Marvel's Avengers. The overall gameplay is enhanced dramatically because of it. The smallest things like just turning in air and improvement in the sensitivity of controls are immediately evident because of these changes.
I did find one flaw, and it seems to be a "fan favorite" so to speak as it pops up in every LEGO game. Too often will your character spawn into the game and be stuck in a certain area. If the character can fly, then it's no big deal as a simple button press gets you out of the jam. Other characters, like Squirrel Girl for example, got stuck a few times. She would simply spawn on a slope, fall off it and die only to respawn again on the same slope to repeat the process. I must note that this never halted, but only delayed my progress in the game. There are two ways to get out of the situation. One way is to drop out if you are playing with two players and then immediately join back in. This causes the character you were using to begin AI control in the playable area of the game. The other is to simply change to another character in single-player and move forward. The game's AI will automatically "push" the character back up to you. This is good as it's not a permanent flaw if you encounter it, but on the other hand it's a bit frustrating to keep seeing it pop up in every game.
At this point, I consider it part of the game but I'd like to see it removed. All things considered, I tried to find the perfect way to sum up all of what's included in Marvel's Avengers. It took me a while, but I came up with what I believe is the best comparison. You see, artists work their entire lives in pursuit of perfection. They refine and retool with each work, and each new edition improves on the previous while adding its own piece to the puzzle. All of these things amount to what is hopefully the culmination of the artist's work in their masterpiece. It's a version of perfection through their own eyes. That is what LEGO Marvel's Avengers is. After so many LEGO games, Marvel's Avengers is the completed version and life's work of the artists at TT Games. It's the perfect LEGO game which includes beauty that works hand in hand with its flaws. Everything included, LEGO Marvel's Avengers is the best game in the franchise and amounts to everything the development team has aspired to so far.