From what I can tell, the LEGO Movie 2 was released on 8 February 2019 in the US. Is that right? Well it’s the end of March and I have yet to see it. I’ll get there, don’t worry. And you don’t have to worry about spoilers in this post if you haven’t seen the movie either.
From the last movie I wasn’t a huge fan of the sets that came out. I bought a few, but that was it. With this movie, there really haven’t been any sets that I saw and immediately wanted to add to my collection. That was until I saw #70841-1: Benny’s Space Squad. I was a huge LEGO space fan as a kid. I collected some of the Classic sets and then some of the others like Blacktron, M-Tron, and Space Police. Some really great sets… those were the days…
Well the LEGO Company knows that there are suckers like me out there who miss our kid days and would love to see more LEGO space. In the first movie we had #70816-1: Benny’s Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! This time around we have Benny’s Space squad. It was released in the US on 10 January 2019. It contains 68 pieces and has five minifigures (well four and a droid). At $9.99 that makes it $0.147 per piece which is pretty steep… As I mentioned, I’m a sucker for space so I bought into the overpriced set.
With only 68 pieces in the box, it’s a pretty small box. The front shows the set while the back shows the features. It also names the characters. Kenny (yellow), Benny, Lenny (pink), and Jenny (white). I can’t wait to see MOCs appearing with a bunch of pink Lenny minifigures and spaceships made of LEGO Friends colors. The pink is a fun addition to the yellow, blue, and white space minifigures. I think I have red and black from back in the day and if you bought the Exo-Suit (#21109-1), you have green too.
The contents are two small parts bags and an instruction booklet. Nothing special considering it’s such a small set.
It’s a pretty simple build. There is a small ship that is built in the Classic Space colors. There is also a small dune buggy type vehicle that two of the minifigures can ride on. There is a droid this you get to build as well. The minifigures each come with an accessory. I assembled them for the picture based on the instructions. Some interesting things about them… the metal detector is different from the old space line. The detector portion itself is flat versus having a stud and hole like back in the day. Also the radio that Benny is holding has a different design on the one side. It’s indented versus flat. That’s the first time I have seen one like that.
Benny is the only minifigure with two facial expressions (happy and sad). The rest of the figures just have the old fashioned two dots and a line for a mouth.
Overall it’s a minifigure pack. I bought the set because I liked the minifigures. So if you’re interested in the minifigures like I was, then go for it. Otherwise, don’t bother. There isn’t much of a build involved and not a ton of great pieces or just pieces in general.
I haven’t seen this one on sale yet, but hopefully it’ll catch at least $1 off at some point. Maybe before next Christmas?
Happy building!