March 16, 2025 • 30 mins
On this episode we get to break down the newest Icons build, the Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell race car. Get yours today!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shut up and sat down.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where I'm gonna beinge
your ear about Lego, review those amazing bricks and plastic,
and discuss what is new and up coming around the
Lego world.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm your minifig host, map Let's spout on it. Welcome in, everybody.
How are you doing today? Doing quite well myself this
lovely day here in early March, and well we uh,
we're gonna kick things off here with something new, something fun,
and something just in time for the season to kick
(00:49):
off here very shortly for Formula one. And we're going
back to nineteen ninety two. Nineteen ninety two. Dear God,
had so long time ago. I know where I was. Okay,
I cannot vividly recall at that point in time, but
at least the Dallas Cowboys are on their way to
(01:09):
winning a Super Bowl that you're ah disc tisk. Anyway,
we're not talking about football. We are talking about F
one today, and specifically we are talking about the Williams
Racing FW fourteen B and Nigel Mansell Lego set. The
set number is one zero three five to three comes
with seven hundred and ninety nine pieces and yeah for
(01:34):
the cool price of eighty bucks. I think this is
a solid, solid price point. Now, the partnership that Lego
is having with Formula One moving forward is a major deal.
I mean, so many products have already come out, more
products are being announced, more products will be coming even
more so, we still haven't even gotten an opportunity to
(01:55):
get to all the speed champions that are sitting behind me.
I've slowly been working through them AnyWho. So this car,
my goodness, what a sweet looking build. Now. If you
recall last year we got the Ayrton Senna McLaren, I
think it was the MP Oh goodness, I can't remember
MP four Dash twelve. I cannot remember for the life
(02:15):
of me which model it was back then. However, we're
getting this one with Nigel Mansell. Now, if you're a
Formula one fan, I'm a giant Formula one fan. Ninety
two saw Williams absolutely dominate the field with this car.
And I didn't watch Formula One back then, but I've
gone back years and watched complete seasons. You can find
(02:38):
them on YouTube and other places like that. You know
people that have uploaded them, and I hardly encourage you
to do so. If you're a racing fan anyway. With
that in mind, this vehicle absolutely dominated and one of
the big things that I noticed as I started doing
a little more research about this, especially it's on the
little placard here, which you'll you'll come to find out
(03:00):
when you build this thing, the sticker sticker to placard.
Adrian Newey was the main car design guy here, main aerodynamicist. Now,
if you've heard that name or that that name you
know tickles in the back of your brain. It's because
Adrian Newey is one of racing's most highly respected, well known,
(03:27):
highly intelligent creators when it comes to aerodynamics. You can
go back to all kinds of different racings series. Right now,
he's working with Aston Martin and in World Endurance Championship
in Weck. I believe their Valkyrie, it's their their hypercar,
it's their inaugural year in Weck, and it's you know,
(03:49):
it's a new experience there. But the guy is a
frigging genius, all right, just straight up incredible, incredibly talented,
smart man. Just the way that he has I guess
it's just the way that you can see how a
car comes together. Anyway. Most people will remember him from
Red Bull days when he was at Red Bull Racing
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with F one and those years where Sebastian Vettel just
just dominated everybody, and then even after he was still
a part of that program, but it was the way
that he was able to design cars that just he
was so above everybody else that no one else was
within the ball park of this guy. He had a
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step on everybody and this car, the FW fourteen B,
was night and day. Now Williams has a very proud
history of racing in F one. It's been it's been
a rough go of late, a very rough go. Now.
You know, hopefully this season will be a little bit better.
I mean, they've been down in the doldrums in the
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in the past few seasons. Last year wasn't too bad
and they have some talent there, but my goodness, it's
been a rough go for them, to say the least.
So jumping back to ninety two, that year Nigel Mansel
won the F one World Championship, I believe he had
eight or nine wins. I don't have that in front
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of me anymore, but they just absolutely dominated the championship
that year. With that in mind, this car, if you
built the Ayrton Sene car completely different, completely different in
the sense of the build, the colors, obviously, the stickers
which actually for stickers. I was really expecting more stickers
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and the sticker sheet itself. When it came out, I
was like, my gosh, this looks like a lot, but
you really don't feel it on the car. I was
honestly suspecting it was going to be probably another ten
fifteen more stickers, and my suspicions were completely wrong. However,
we do get new wheels on the car. They actually
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are emblazoned. We'll go with emblazoned the good year logoing
on the side. You have smaller tires in the front,
skinnier tires and wider tires in the rear for that
year car, so that is as cool. This was the
model of car that had the active suspension, which was
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a game changer for them as far as the championship
and stuff like that goes. You got some flex there
which we can get to here in a moment, but
nothing wild and crazy. So the car comes with or
the set comes with the car. It comes with the stand,
and it comes with your little podium stand with Nigel
Mansel and his trophy and a little placard, which we'll
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get to here in a little bit. But the car
itself is really slick. It sits really nicely on the stand.
It sits at an angle, really really nicely done in
the way that that was built just to be able
to give it that racing appeal. And believe it or not,
the front tires actually kind of lean to the side, uh,
you know, so that they're not sticking straight on. So
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that kind of does it on its own. But starting
in the front of the car, here we have our
cannon logo, cannon, the actual brand cannon, and some goodyear stickerage.
Here on the nose cone we have the the sticker
has Reno ELF, the number five which was the number
for that year, Magnetti Morelli, and the Williams. The logoing
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as well. On the side on the end fence is
I think the infences in the back anyway, the front
of the wing. On each side of the wing you
have the bull logo b U L L with is
like a green tree. I was looking at a lot
of material. The thing that I noticed is majority of
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the stickers are here. One that is definitely not is
the bat sticker because it was it's an alcoholic beverage
or was I don't know if it is anymore. So
that is definitely not going to be on a lego set.
So completely understandable there. But as you move on this nose,
the way it's done, the the in fences where it goes.
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If I'm getting terminology wrong again, you know, don't don't,
don't beat me. But the en fences look really nice.
The nose cone is really solid in a way that
that is done with the wing, and then you have
these sweeping elements that go under the front suspension for
the car, so that is kind of nice. The front
suspension does turn, it does attach to this hearing wheel,
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which is good so that you could play with it
if you really wanted to. And this thing actually does
go together pretty well. There's really not a whole lot
of issues as far as where I would look at
it and be like, oh that's going to break. Oh
that's definitely gonna snap off the minute you go to
use it. Playability here for sure, for a kid, for
an adult, or just display purposes completely up to you.
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But we do have the front tires here, solid rubber
of course, and like I said, they have the Good
Year eagle logoing on the side and they are skinnier
than the rear. We have those new suspension elements which
we've seen, so we do have those here, but you
do have a little bit of play in the suspension
with the up and down travel here, which is really
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good to have. As we move back towards the cockpit area,
what we have is another Williams logo on the very
top center of the car, and then just behind that
we have some sloped bricks more like slope tiles here
that have the Williams written out logo of Williams written there,
and then just underneath that we have the Williams Active
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suspension on each side of the car in a bluish
blue and white sticker. Then we get back here, we've
got our radiator intakes on the side, which are nicely done.
We've got some grill pieces that are inside, so it
actually feels like that's exactly what it should be instead
of it being kind of like a big black hole
that we have seen in cars from time to time,
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different vehicles, you know, things that lego was built over
the time. You're kind of like, well, that's supposed to
be an idea of an intake or an exhaust. No,
it's actually it actually looks like it should be there.
Your mind doesn't have to pretend. The cockpit is really nice.
The little fuselage, I guess, well, cockpit not a fuselage.
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You got mirrors, the driver mirrors on each side that
are just clipped into place here. The steering wheel just so,
the standard black steering wheel. Nothing that we haven't seen before,
and like I said, allows you to turn the steering
wheels and a good movement in the steering wheels. One
thing that I that I noted, and this is a
common thing with all I would say with ninety nine
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percent of Lego car builds, there's just a lot of play.
I'm sure it has to do with the constraints of
the plastic and everything like that. But to me, and
it's only an eighty dollars model. If this were one
hundred and eighty dollars, I would probably I would probably
expect to be a lot less play than what there
is in here. But it's okay. You do have some
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dead stick as far as you will, as far as
when you turn the steering wheel, it just ever so slightly.
It takes a second to engage that gearing on the inside,
but down inside of the cockpit here, no shifter or
anything like that, but you do have the logoing for
the seat belts on each side. Get your head rest
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here in the back you have mantle Renau stickers on
either side of the cockpit as well, and you also
have a one by one square tile that is half
blue and half white cut across at a triangle here.
Moving back across the side of the cars here above
the radiators and all of that kind of technology that
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is in here, we have a lot of tiling and
stuff like that. A few studs on top, but not
too many. The lines look really good on this really
kind of clean, feels very very aerodynamic. Cannon stickers on
the far side of each side of the the just
to the rear of the cockpit here, and then where
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the driver's head is like the headrest, where you've got
your I guess your other air intake towards the engine,
you've got your Williams logoing in writing in actual spelling
it out the W logo and then Goodyear. We have
some more ELF decal stickers along with Reno that run
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along that section as well. Then as we run to
the rear. We've got our kind of our well, we've
got the wing area and stuff like that. The wing
is really unique when you get to that point of
building it. What ends up happening is you you kind
of build one side of the wing, the end, and
then you attach or build the wing and then attach it,
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and then build the other part of the wing and
attach it. It's it's just kind of weird in the
way that it floats there. Your wing does not move, okay,
but you do have two different cannon stickers here. Know
the sticker that you have that is, you know, only
a partial cannon logo is not broken. Don't call lego
and say, oh, there's something wrong with it. Is intended
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to look like that is when the you know, they
have these wings and stuff like that that are able
to move. I don't know if the ninety two wings moved.
I don't believe so. But anyway, it's supposed to look
like the car back then. Anyway, big old balky wing
and you have the number five on each side of
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the endplate of the rear I guess end fence of
the of the wing, which is really really nicely done.
The entire wing assembly part of I shouldn't say the
entire wing assembly. The wing assembly itself though, is also
clipped in to the rear base of the car, which
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is actually cool give you some more stability. That was
one of the things when I was going through building it.
My concern was, how is this thing going to you know,
sustain a bump, you know, from an elbow, from an
arm being knocked accidentally with you know, a hand across
a desk, And that is a way that they manage
to do that. In the rear you have your rain light.
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One of the things that I really hate about this
design is you see the ball joints in the back
that attach the ball joint into the socket that attached
the wing, the upper wing section to the lower wing section.
I wish there was a way that would have been covered,
another way to orchestrate that is, some other form fashion whatever.
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Just bothered me a little bit. That is probably the
that is really my only issue that I have with
the car. You know, it's just that unsightliness. Just don't
look at it from the back, I guess, you know,
somebody would say to me or something like that. But
anyway back into the car, pretty bland, boring, really not
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too much to see. There's not really much to see
on the back of a Formula one card to begin with, anyway.
But then you have your rear tires back here, thicker,
wider tires, big chunky rubber, which again, the fact that
this is only an eighty dollars set is kind of
surprising to me. Very interesting though. So one of the
cool highlights of the car from the car itself is
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you can pull off of the section and look down
inside the engine and the rear. We have some Reno
F one stickers that are in here for the engine
on each side of the engine. You can see the
valves and stuff that are in there. They just use
a technic technic plate if you will, that is in here.
We use some whips. There are some blue whips that
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are used in here for your electrical wiring hose well,
not electrical wiring, your hydraulic hoses, you know, hydraulic cars man.
But you kind of then get an opportunity to see
how the side panels and stuff are like and the
rest of that kind of stuff was put on. It's
just a really kind of fun little whoops. It just
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pops something off it shouldn't come off. It's just a
nice little way of just kind of getting too experience
that you can always just you know, you could build
your own stand and just kind of have it sitting
up if you want it or not. You know, I
don't know. Everybody's a little bit different. It's just one
of those things that's hidden. It's kind of a fun
little hidden thing, I believe it or not. There was
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a build that I was working on today. There is
going to be coming on to another show here that
has something hidden that you would never know is there
unless you build it. So I'm really excited to talk
about that build here, hopefully soon whenever I'm allowed to
say that specifically. So that covers the car, that covers
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the car for the most part, I'm a big fan
of it. Man, this is one cool car. But we've
got to take a quick break. We'll be back in
a moment. I really love the way that it looks,
the way that it feels. It is suiable. You can
put it in your hand. You want to go overhand grip,
you can. You can do that. You want to go
underhand grip, you can do that. You can hold it
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from the rear with the wing. It's fine. I wouldn't
really do so much of that with the front with
the front wing, but there's a lot of opportunities that
you have to be able to grab this thing manipulate it.
It almost feels like and I know it's going to
be a little bit, it's going to be a bigger scale.
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But when I was a kid, I used to collect
the one sixty fourth scale NASCAR cars, race cars and
and Andy cars as well. I also collected I believe
it was one Oh my goodness, was it one thirty second? No,
I think one thirty second is too small. I believe
it was one thirty second or one twentieth or something.
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It was something like that of the same kind of cars.
And it almost feels scale wise like that. It's it's
not one hundred percent there, it's not that yet, but
it definitely has that feel to it. So again, something
to be able to play with, have some fun with.
I would tell you what if I got if Lego said,
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you know what, here's what we're gonna do. We have
your speed Champion size cars, okay, which is which is
not the one sixty fourth scale. Those are whatever one
whatever bigger than that, but still small enough. If they
came out with, you know, modern era F one cars
in this scale of this Nigel Mantle car, I would
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be ecstatic because you have something completely different, a bigger size,
and you could go the whole range. You could do
past champions, you could do unique cars. With the one
that I cannot my goodness, had had the six wheels.
I can't think of the name. It starts with a T,
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the team name had four front turning wheels and then
your rear wheels. Is it Tyree? It's like Tyree or
something like that. I cannot remember. But have have some
of those unique cars, some of the pass cars, some
of the future cars, not future, more present, you know.
Give me, give me a Michael Schumacher Ferrari the V tens. Yes,
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give me an opportunity to add a sound component to it.
Oh my god, it'd be great. Give me the twenty
thirteen Sebastian Vettel, you know F F one champion gar
you know kind of stuff like that. Give me mid
mid Mercedes or McLaren. You know, a different McLaren than
what we already got with the center. But you get
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my point, right, There's so many opportunities, there, so many
iconic vehicles, so many iconic builds, so many unique designs
throughout the years. With F one alone, I would I
would really love to see that. So anyway, great car playability.
You can't drive this thing around if again, I have
small hands, I got little girl hands. I will, I
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will say that until the day I die. But you
can put your hand on top and I can use
my index finger and I can steer the car as
I'm pushing it forward backward. So it adds, you know,
that playability, that play feature there, and just just something fun,
something different. So the last two things that come with this.
Firstly is your stand. Your stand is a build of
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its own, little build bag of its own. I believe
it's the last, the last one, if I'm not mistaken.
And we have a little placard here with the sticker
it says Whims Reno FW fourteen B nineteen ninety two
Formula One World Champion Driver constructor, Whims Reno. The chassis
carbon fiber and aluminum honeycomb Monocoq with stressed engine. I
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don't know what stressed engine means. Maybe it was used,
I don't know. The engine. The Reno R S three
c h R S four weight five hundred and five kilograms,
designers Patrick Head Adrian Newey. Another one that I had
to actually find out about Patty Low. Patty Low has
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been with mclarn and Mercedes for a long time, was
on Lewis Hamilton's team for the longest time. I'm not
sure if he's still there or not. I haven't really
looked because the season hasn't kicked off yet at the
time of this recording. Anyho. So sixteen Grand Prixs, ten wins,
fifteen pole positions. I don't know if that says enough
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or not. Like I said he had eight or nine wins,
I think he had nine because I believe in reading
Petrasi had won. So you had Nigel Mansell and and
Ricardo PETRASI. Now, fun fact for those of you now
Formula one drivers and I want to say, I don't
know at least the last ten years have been able
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to choose their number, right Lewis Hamilton forty one or
forty one. Somebody's just yelling at the screen at the
whatever Lewis Hamilton number forty four. There's iconic numbers. The winner,
you know, gets to choose the number one plate. How
it used to be. Let's say, I don't know. You know,
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Max Verstappen was the champion last year, right number thirty three.
He can wear the number one placard if he wants
again this year. How it used to be, the winner
would get the number one for the following season and
the winning teammate would get the number two, and then
you go down in team standings from there, so the
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winning champion team and then you have the next team
which would be numbers three and four, then the Williams team,
thus Nigel Mansel with number five and number six with
Ricardo Patracy. So that is how that used to work.
It does not work that way anymore. Kind of glad.
It's one of those things that f one changed years back,
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I'm sure for you know, ease of bringing in more fans,
not just the hardcore fans and stuff like that. Anyway,
I'm off on a tangent with the silly little fact
that you probably don't really care about AnyWho. The Nigel
Mancel minifig. He's got a little podium stand here, got
his little trophy, which is kind of cute in a
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way that that is done. The only thing is it
does not have a stud well, it has a stud
on the bottom. But you've got this cool little trophy
for him to hold up AnyWho, his little placard with
the little sticker of him holding his helmet and his signature.
You don't become a champion by doing what is easy.
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You become a champion by constantly pushing your boundaries and challenging,
challenging yourself. Almost made it the whole way through without
tripping over my tongue anyway, So big deal there, good
words from a very wise man. So his minifig suit
here is all blue and and he's got some you know,
lines that resemble the stitching that is on the suit
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with black and some a little bit of white black
stripe across the middle of it has his number and
then the elf the elf logoing on the front. On
the back, it's just a black line across the back
and then the stitching as well. His helmet. I really
love the way that his helmet is done here. It's
similar to his helmet. Obviously it's not gonna be the
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real thing, but it is a white base of a
helmet with a clear shield. And then he's got some white,
red and blue lettering and design that is on top
of it. His minifig face. You get two. You get
one that's a little more intense and one that is
just kind of smiling. He's got some a little bit
of an older feeling face with some smile lines almost
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kind of going on around the eyes and what are
his crow's feet whatnot. But you get the iconic mustache
in here, so that is a big deal. You definitely
need that to have your Nigel mantle. So with all
that in mind, by the time you're hearing this, this
will be available. You can get it anywhere, but Lego
dot com obviously is the place to get it, I
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guess first and foremost, because that is who is making this,
building it, well, not building it, but selling it to
you so you can build it. Like I said, the
car is a solid, solid car. Let's give it some
scores overall build for quality, I'm gonna give it a ten.
I'm absolutely gonna give it a ten. I think it's solid.
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I think it plays really well. So that playability score
probably a nine right there, Definitely not a ten, just
because you know there's always there's only so much a
playability you can go with something like this because you're
always going to take a possibility a chance of you know,
smashing off on the nose of these things, even on
speed champions. We've seen speed champions in the past where
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things just are just kind of wonkily done. That is
definitely not a word, but put on in a sense
that it's like the minute I touched this is gonna
fall off. And we saw, you know what is a
year year and a half ago with the McLaren that
we had the design to this. I thought it was
really fun. Playability, like I said, is really good value.
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Value for me is at a ten value because a
ten because where you're standing at eighty bucks for this
new wheels, Okay new wheels. These are brand new, not
done before printed wheels here with the goodyear and lettering
and stuff like that. That is how you know they're
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going to be more coming. I'm telling you there've got
to be more coming. They don't just do this right,
They don't just do this just for one they have
with some things, I don't foresee that happening, especially with
the partnership that they have going with F one, I
just don't see that happening. So as a whole, I'm
gonna go with a nine and a half. I know
some people are gonna be like, what, that's insane. I
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love the color scheme, I love the build, I love
what comes with it. It's not too much, it's not
too little. Your minifig tucks in just nicely into the
cockpit in there. The only thing that could have sold me,
probably more so on it was an opportunity to have
like a real seat belt come down over his shoulders,
Like there's that's not gonna happen, But my god, that's
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about it. Not not really sized for this car, but man,
you can't. You really can't go wrong here. He's not
really meant to sit in the car and play with him,
but I guess you could. It's meant to be a
display piece. So like I said, for me, it's a
it's a solid nine, pretty darn solid nine and a
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half as a whole. And I would I would really
love to see more of these done to this quality,
to this scale, and just have that opportunity to have
that collection. You know, somebody like blesh and raising in
Racing Brick who has everything car under the sun that
Lego was made, I would love to see a collection
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of his and others that are out there with like
twenty of these different you know, different cars from different
time periods. You know, we've already got the field of
Formula one cars for speed champions, but give me, give
me more of these. I would really like to have
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more of these. So that's going to wrap it up.
I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you check this out.
If you're an F one fan, you definitely need to
add this to a collection. If you're a racing fan
or just a car model fan from Lego, this is
definitely something you should look into price point alone. Maybe
you want to wait on it right, Maybe it's fairly new,
(28:43):
you want to wait. Maybe you wait six months, Maybe
you wait for a double points VIP weekend or something
like that. Maybe you wait till the holiday and get it,
you know, twenty percent off or you know, ten percent
off something I don't know, but you should definitely, really,
you know, earmark some money towards this. If you're just
a casual Lego fan. The building this was fun, you know, symmetrical, yes,
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because you're building a left and the right side of
the car, but it was still fun. There's some cool
design techniques that go in and there there's some cool
opportunities to be able to see things as you build it.
The engine, specifically the suspension and others, this steering linkage,
in the way that it is done. The wing I thought,
I thought the wing was really cool in the way
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the rear wing assembly, in the way that it was built.
So there are design ideas here that really, you know,
intrigue the mind. You know, they really kind of make
you like, huh, I could And it's nothing that's way
over the top. It's something that you could be like, oh,
I could do that. I could learn from this, and
I could try and build or I could build my
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own car like this. I could build another car similar
to this using similar techniques, build your own F one car.
Maybe it's going to be on the grid for twenty
twenty six, you know when the rules change come in
twenty six, twenty twenty seven. I can't remember. I always
get it mixed up between that and Moto GP because
they're both like a year apart. Anyway, So check it out.
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Let me know what you think. Let me know if
you say odd of the things a hunk junk, I hate it.
I'm gonna smash it against the wall, the wall, the floor.
Don't do that. So I hope you're all doing well.
That's gonna wrap up the show, so until we meet again,
I'm your minifig ghosts. Matt Let's built on it.
Shut up and sat down.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where I'm gonna beinge
your ear about Lego, review those amazing bricks and plastic,
and discuss what is new and up coming around the
Lego world.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm your minifig host, map Let's spout on it. Welcome in, everybody.
How are you doing today? Doing quite well myself this
lovely day here in early March, and well we uh,
we're gonna kick things off here with something new, something fun,
and something just in time for the season to kick
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off here very shortly for Formula one. And we're going
back to nineteen ninety two. Nineteen ninety two. Dear God,
had so long time ago. I know where I was. Okay,
I cannot vividly recall at that point in time, but
at least the Dallas Cowboys are on their way to
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winning a Super Bowl that you're ah disc tisk. Anyway,
we're not talking about football. We are talking about F
one today, and specifically we are talking about the Williams
Racing FW fourteen B and Nigel Mansell Lego set. The
set number is one zero three five to three comes
with seven hundred and ninety nine pieces and yeah for
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the cool price of eighty bucks. I think this is
a solid, solid price point. Now, the partnership that Lego
is having with Formula One moving forward is a major deal.
I mean, so many products have already come out, more
products are being announced, more products will be coming even
more so, we still haven't even gotten an opportunity to
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get to all the speed champions that are sitting behind me.
I've slowly been working through them AnyWho. So this car,
my goodness, what a sweet looking build. Now. If you
recall last year we got the Ayrton Senna McLaren, I
think it was the MP Oh goodness, I can't remember
MP four Dash twelve. I cannot remember for the life
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of me which model it was back then. However, we're
getting this one with Nigel Mansell. Now, if you're a
Formula one fan, I'm a giant Formula one fan. Ninety
two saw Williams absolutely dominate the field with this car.
And I didn't watch Formula One back then, but I've
gone back years and watched complete seasons. You can find
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them on YouTube and other places like that. You know
people that have uploaded them, and I hardly encourage you
to do so. If you're a racing fan anyway. With
that in mind, this vehicle absolutely dominated and one of
the big things that I noticed as I started doing
a little more research about this, especially it's on the
little placard here, which you'll you'll come to find out
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when you build this thing, the sticker sticker to placard.
Adrian Newey was the main car design guy here, main aerodynamicist. Now,
if you've heard that name or that that name you
know tickles in the back of your brain. It's because
Adrian Newey is one of racing's most highly respected, well known,
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highly intelligent creators when it comes to aerodynamics. You can
go back to all kinds of different racings series. Right now,
he's working with Aston Martin and in World Endurance Championship
in Weck. I believe their Valkyrie, it's their their hypercar,
it's their inaugural year in Weck, and it's you know,
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it's a new experience there. But the guy is a
frigging genius, all right, just straight up incredible, incredibly talented,
smart man. Just the way that he has I guess
it's just the way that you can see how a
car comes together. Anyway. Most people will remember him from
Red Bull days when he was at Red Bull Racing
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with F one and those years where Sebastian Vettel just
just dominated everybody, and then even after he was still
a part of that program, but it was the way
that he was able to design cars that just he
was so above everybody else that no one else was
within the ball park of this guy. He had a
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step on everybody and this car, the FW fourteen B,
was night and day. Now Williams has a very proud
history of racing in F one. It's been it's been
a rough go of late, a very rough go. Now.
You know, hopefully this season will be a little bit better.
I mean, they've been down in the doldrums in the
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in the past few seasons. Last year wasn't too bad
and they have some talent there, but my goodness, it's
been a rough go for them, to say the least.
So jumping back to ninety two, that year Nigel Mansel
won the F one World Championship, I believe he had
eight or nine wins. I don't have that in front
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of me anymore, but they just absolutely dominated the championship
that year. With that in mind, this car, if you
built the Ayrton Sene car completely different, completely different in
the sense of the build, the colors, obviously, the stickers
which actually for stickers. I was really expecting more stickers
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and the sticker sheet itself. When it came out, I
was like, my gosh, this looks like a lot, but
you really don't feel it on the car. I was
honestly suspecting it was going to be probably another ten
fifteen more stickers, and my suspicions were completely wrong. However,
we do get new wheels on the car. They actually
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are emblazoned. We'll go with emblazoned the good year logoing
on the side. You have smaller tires in the front,
skinnier tires and wider tires in the rear for that
year car, so that is as cool. This was the
model of car that had the active suspension, which was
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a game changer for them as far as the championship
and stuff like that goes. You got some flex there
which we can get to here in a moment, but
nothing wild and crazy. So the car comes with or
the set comes with the car. It comes with the stand,
and it comes with your little podium stand with Nigel
Mansel and his trophy and a little placard, which we'll
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get to here in a little bit. But the car
itself is really slick. It sits really nicely on the stand.
It sits at an angle, really really nicely done in
the way that that was built just to be able
to give it that racing appeal. And believe it or not,
the front tires actually kind of lean to the side, uh,
you know, so that they're not sticking straight on. So
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that kind of does it on its own. But starting
in the front of the car, here we have our
cannon logo, cannon, the actual brand cannon, and some goodyear stickerage.
Here on the nose cone we have the the sticker
has Reno ELF, the number five which was the number
for that year, Magnetti Morelli, and the Williams. The logoing
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as well. On the side on the end fence is
I think the infences in the back anyway, the front
of the wing. On each side of the wing you
have the bull logo b U L L with is
like a green tree. I was looking at a lot
of material. The thing that I noticed is majority of
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the stickers are here. One that is definitely not is
the bat sticker because it was it's an alcoholic beverage
or was I don't know if it is anymore. So
that is definitely not going to be on a lego set.
So completely understandable there. But as you move on this nose,
the way it's done, the the in fences where it goes.
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If I'm getting terminology wrong again, you know, don't don't,
don't beat me. But the en fences look really nice.
The nose cone is really solid in a way that
that is done with the wing, and then you have
these sweeping elements that go under the front suspension for
the car, so that is kind of nice. The front
suspension does turn, it does attach to this hearing wheel,
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which is good so that you could play with it
if you really wanted to. And this thing actually does
go together pretty well. There's really not a whole lot
of issues as far as where I would look at
it and be like, oh that's going to break. Oh
that's definitely gonna snap off the minute you go to
use it. Playability here for sure, for a kid, for
an adult, or just display purposes completely up to you.
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But we do have the front tires here, solid rubber
of course, and like I said, they have the Good
Year eagle logoing on the side and they are skinnier
than the rear. We have those new suspension elements which
we've seen, so we do have those here, but you
do have a little bit of play in the suspension
with the up and down travel here, which is really
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good to have. As we move back towards the cockpit area,
what we have is another Williams logo on the very
top center of the car, and then just behind that
we have some sloped bricks more like slope tiles here
that have the Williams written out logo of Williams written there,
and then just underneath that we have the Williams Active
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suspension on each side of the car in a bluish
blue and white sticker. Then we get back here, we've
got our radiator intakes on the side, which are nicely done.
We've got some grill pieces that are inside, so it
actually feels like that's exactly what it should be instead
of it being kind of like a big black hole
that we have seen in cars from time to time,
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different vehicles, you know, things that lego was built over
the time. You're kind of like, well, that's supposed to
be an idea of an intake or an exhaust. No,
it's actually it actually looks like it should be there.
Your mind doesn't have to pretend. The cockpit is really nice.
The little fuselage, I guess, well, cockpit not a fuselage.
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You got mirrors, the driver mirrors on each side that
are just clipped into place here. The steering wheel just so,
the standard black steering wheel. Nothing that we haven't seen before,
and like I said, allows you to turn the steering
wheels and a good movement in the steering wheels. One
thing that I that I noted, and this is a
common thing with all I would say with ninety nine
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percent of Lego car builds, there's just a lot of play.
I'm sure it has to do with the constraints of
the plastic and everything like that. But to me, and
it's only an eighty dollars model. If this were one
hundred and eighty dollars, I would probably I would probably
expect to be a lot less play than what there
is in here. But it's okay. You do have some
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dead stick as far as you will, as far as
when you turn the steering wheel, it just ever so slightly.
It takes a second to engage that gearing on the inside,
but down inside of the cockpit here, no shifter or
anything like that, but you do have the logoing for
the seat belts on each side. Get your head rest
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here in the back you have mantle Renau stickers on
either side of the cockpit as well, and you also
have a one by one square tile that is half
blue and half white cut across at a triangle here.
Moving back across the side of the cars here above
the radiators and all of that kind of technology that
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is in here, we have a lot of tiling and
stuff like that. A few studs on top, but not
too many. The lines look really good on this really
kind of clean, feels very very aerodynamic. Cannon stickers on
the far side of each side of the the just
to the rear of the cockpit here, and then where
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the driver's head is like the headrest, where you've got
your I guess your other air intake towards the engine,
you've got your Williams logoing in writing in actual spelling
it out the W logo and then Goodyear. We have
some more ELF decal stickers along with Reno that run
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along that section as well. Then as we run to
the rear. We've got our kind of our well, we've
got the wing area and stuff like that. The wing
is really unique when you get to that point of
building it. What ends up happening is you you kind
of build one side of the wing, the end, and
then you attach or build the wing and then attach it,
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and then build the other part of the wing and
attach it. It's it's just kind of weird in the
way that it floats there. Your wing does not move, okay,
but you do have two different cannon stickers here. Know
the sticker that you have that is, you know, only
a partial cannon logo is not broken. Don't call lego
and say, oh, there's something wrong with it. Is intended
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to look like that is when the you know, they
have these wings and stuff like that that are able
to move. I don't know if the ninety two wings moved.
I don't believe so. But anyway, it's supposed to look
like the car back then. Anyway, big old balky wing
and you have the number five on each side of
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the endplate of the rear I guess end fence of
the of the wing, which is really really nicely done.
The entire wing assembly part of I shouldn't say the
entire wing assembly. The wing assembly itself though, is also
clipped in to the rear base of the car, which
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is actually cool give you some more stability. That was
one of the things when I was going through building it.
My concern was, how is this thing going to you know,
sustain a bump, you know, from an elbow, from an
arm being knocked accidentally with you know, a hand across
a desk, And that is a way that they manage
to do that. In the rear you have your rain light.
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One of the things that I really hate about this
design is you see the ball joints in the back
that attach the ball joint into the socket that attached
the wing, the upper wing section to the lower wing section.
I wish there was a way that would have been covered,
another way to orchestrate that is, some other form fashion whatever.
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Just bothered me a little bit. That is probably the
that is really my only issue that I have with
the car. You know, it's just that unsightliness. Just don't
look at it from the back, I guess, you know,
somebody would say to me or something like that. But
anyway back into the car, pretty bland, boring, really not
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too much to see. There's not really much to see
on the back of a Formula one card to begin with, anyway.
But then you have your rear tires back here, thicker,
wider tires, big chunky rubber, which again, the fact that
this is only an eighty dollars set is kind of
surprising to me. Very interesting though. So one of the
cool highlights of the car from the car itself is
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you can pull off of the section and look down
inside the engine and the rear. We have some Reno
F one stickers that are in here for the engine
on each side of the engine. You can see the
valves and stuff that are in there. They just use
a technic technic plate if you will, that is in here.
We use some whips. There are some blue whips that
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are used in here for your electrical wiring hose well,
not electrical wiring, your hydraulic hoses, you know, hydraulic cars man.
But you kind of then get an opportunity to see
how the side panels and stuff are like and the
rest of that kind of stuff was put on. It's
just a really kind of fun little whoops. It just
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pops something off it shouldn't come off. It's just a
nice little way of just kind of getting too experience
that you can always just you know, you could build
your own stand and just kind of have it sitting
up if you want it or not. You know, I
don't know. Everybody's a little bit different. It's just one
of those things that's hidden. It's kind of a fun
little hidden thing, I believe it or not. There was
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a build that I was working on today. There is
going to be coming on to another show here that
has something hidden that you would never know is there
unless you build it. So I'm really excited to talk
about that build here, hopefully soon whenever I'm allowed to
say that specifically. So that covers the car, that covers
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the car for the most part, I'm a big fan
of it. Man, this is one cool car. But we've
got to take a quick break. We'll be back in
a moment. I really love the way that it looks,
the way that it feels. It is suiable. You can
put it in your hand. You want to go overhand grip,
you can. You can do that. You want to go
underhand grip, you can do that. You can hold it
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from the rear with the wing. It's fine. I wouldn't
really do so much of that with the front with
the front wing, but there's a lot of opportunities that
you have to be able to grab this thing manipulate it.
It almost feels like and I know it's going to
be a little bit, it's going to be a bigger scale.
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But when I was a kid, I used to collect
the one sixty fourth scale NASCAR cars, race cars and
and Andy cars as well. I also collected I believe
it was one Oh my goodness, was it one thirty second? No,
I think one thirty second is too small. I believe
it was one thirty second or one twentieth or something.
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It was something like that of the same kind of cars.
And it almost feels scale wise like that. It's it's
not one hundred percent there, it's not that yet, but
it definitely has that feel to it. So again, something
to be able to play with, have some fun with.
I would tell you what if I got if Lego said,
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you know what, here's what we're gonna do. We have
your speed Champion size cars, okay, which is which is
not the one sixty fourth scale. Those are whatever one
whatever bigger than that, but still small enough. If they
came out with, you know, modern era F one cars
in this scale of this Nigel Mantle car, I would
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be ecstatic because you have something completely different, a bigger size,
and you could go the whole range. You could do
past champions, you could do unique cars. With the one
that I cannot my goodness, had had the six wheels.
I can't think of the name. It starts with a T,
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the team name had four front turning wheels and then
your rear wheels. Is it Tyree? It's like Tyree or
something like that. I cannot remember. But have have some
of those unique cars, some of the pass cars, some
of the future cars, not future, more present, you know.
Give me, give me a Michael Schumacher Ferrari the V tens. Yes,
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give me an opportunity to add a sound component to it.
Oh my god, it'd be great. Give me the twenty
thirteen Sebastian Vettel, you know F F one champion gar
you know kind of stuff like that. Give me mid
mid Mercedes or McLaren. You know, a different McLaren than
what we already got with the center. But you get
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my point, right, There's so many opportunities, there, so many
iconic vehicles, so many iconic builds, so many unique designs
throughout the years. With F one alone, I would I
would really love to see that. So anyway, great car playability.
You can't drive this thing around if again, I have
small hands, I got little girl hands. I will, I
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will say that until the day I die. But you
can put your hand on top and I can use
my index finger and I can steer the car as
I'm pushing it forward backward. So it adds, you know,
that playability, that play feature there, and just just something fun,
something different. So the last two things that come with this.
Firstly is your stand. Your stand is a build of
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its own, little build bag of its own. I believe
it's the last, the last one, if I'm not mistaken.
And we have a little placard here with the sticker
it says Whims Reno FW fourteen B nineteen ninety two
Formula One World Champion Driver constructor, Whims Reno. The chassis
carbon fiber and aluminum honeycomb Monocoq with stressed engine. I
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don't know what stressed engine means. Maybe it was used,
I don't know. The engine. The Reno R S three
c h R S four weight five hundred and five kilograms,
designers Patrick Head Adrian Newey. Another one that I had
to actually find out about Patty Low. Patty Low has
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been with mclarn and Mercedes for a long time, was
on Lewis Hamilton's team for the longest time. I'm not
sure if he's still there or not. I haven't really
looked because the season hasn't kicked off yet at the
time of this recording. Anyho. So sixteen Grand Prixs, ten wins,
fifteen pole positions. I don't know if that says enough
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or not. Like I said he had eight or nine wins,
I think he had nine because I believe in reading
Petrasi had won. So you had Nigel Mansell and and
Ricardo PETRASI. Now, fun fact for those of you now
Formula one drivers and I want to say, I don't
know at least the last ten years have been able
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to choose their number, right Lewis Hamilton forty one or
forty one. Somebody's just yelling at the screen at the
whatever Lewis Hamilton number forty four. There's iconic numbers. The winner,
you know, gets to choose the number one plate. How
it used to be. Let's say, I don't know. You know,
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Max Verstappen was the champion last year, right number thirty three.
He can wear the number one placard if he wants
again this year. How it used to be, the winner
would get the number one for the following season and
the winning teammate would get the number two, and then
you go down in team standings from there, so the
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winning champion team and then you have the next team
which would be numbers three and four, then the Williams team,
thus Nigel Mansel with number five and number six with
Ricardo Patracy. So that is how that used to work.
It does not work that way anymore. Kind of glad.
It's one of those things that f one changed years back,
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I'm sure for you know, ease of bringing in more fans,
not just the hardcore fans and stuff like that. Anyway,
I'm off on a tangent with the silly little fact
that you probably don't really care about AnyWho. The Nigel
Mancel minifig. He's got a little podium stand here, got
his little trophy, which is kind of cute in a
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way that that is done. The only thing is it
does not have a stud well, it has a stud
on the bottom. But you've got this cool little trophy
for him to hold up AnyWho, his little placard with
the little sticker of him holding his helmet and his signature.
You don't become a champion by doing what is easy.
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You become a champion by constantly pushing your boundaries and challenging,
challenging yourself. Almost made it the whole way through without
tripping over my tongue anyway, So big deal there, good
words from a very wise man. So his minifig suit
here is all blue and and he's got some you know,
lines that resemble the stitching that is on the suit
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with black and some a little bit of white black
stripe across the middle of it has his number and
then the elf the elf logoing on the front. On
the back, it's just a black line across the back
and then the stitching as well. His helmet. I really
love the way that his helmet is done here. It's
similar to his helmet. Obviously it's not gonna be the
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real thing, but it is a white base of a
helmet with a clear shield. And then he's got some white,
red and blue lettering and design that is on top
of it. His minifig face. You get two. You get
one that's a little more intense and one that is
just kind of smiling. He's got some a little bit
of an older feeling face with some smile lines almost
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kind of going on around the eyes and what are
his crow's feet whatnot. But you get the iconic mustache
in here, so that is a big deal. You definitely
need that to have your Nigel mantle. So with all
that in mind, by the time you're hearing this, this
will be available. You can get it anywhere, but Lego
dot com obviously is the place to get it, I
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guess first and foremost, because that is who is making this,
building it, well, not building it, but selling it to
you so you can build it. Like I said, the
car is a solid, solid car. Let's give it some
scores overall build for quality, I'm gonna give it a ten.
I'm absolutely gonna give it a ten. I think it's solid.
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I think it plays really well. So that playability score
probably a nine right there, Definitely not a ten, just
because you know there's always there's only so much a
playability you can go with something like this because you're
always going to take a possibility a chance of you know,
smashing off on the nose of these things, even on
speed champions. We've seen speed champions in the past where
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things just are just kind of wonkily done. That is
definitely not a word, but put on in a sense
that it's like the minute I touched this is gonna
fall off. And we saw, you know what is a
year year and a half ago with the McLaren that
we had the design to this. I thought it was
really fun. Playability, like I said, is really good value.
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Value for me is at a ten value because a
ten because where you're standing at eighty bucks for this
new wheels, Okay new wheels. These are brand new, not
done before printed wheels here with the goodyear and lettering
and stuff like that. That is how you know they're
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going to be more coming. I'm telling you there've got
to be more coming. They don't just do this right,
They don't just do this just for one they have
with some things, I don't foresee that happening, especially with
the partnership that they have going with F one, I
just don't see that happening. So as a whole, I'm
gonna go with a nine and a half. I know
some people are gonna be like, what, that's insane. I
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love the color scheme, I love the build, I love
what comes with it. It's not too much, it's not
too little. Your minifig tucks in just nicely into the
cockpit in there. The only thing that could have sold me,
probably more so on it was an opportunity to have
like a real seat belt come down over his shoulders,
Like there's that's not gonna happen, But my god, that's
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about it. Not not really sized for this car, but man,
you can't. You really can't go wrong here. He's not
really meant to sit in the car and play with him,
but I guess you could. It's meant to be a
display piece. So like I said, for me, it's a
it's a solid nine, pretty darn solid nine and a
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half as a whole. And I would I would really
love to see more of these done to this quality,
to this scale, and just have that opportunity to have
that collection. You know, somebody like blesh and raising in
Racing Brick who has everything car under the sun that
Lego was made, I would love to see a collection
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of his and others that are out there with like
twenty of these different you know, different cars from different
time periods. You know, we've already got the field of
Formula one cars for speed champions, but give me, give
me more of these. I would really like to have
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more of these. So that's going to wrap it up.
I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you check this out.
If you're an F one fan, you definitely need to
add this to a collection. If you're a racing fan
or just a car model fan from Lego, this is
definitely something you should look into price point alone. Maybe
you want to wait on it right, Maybe it's fairly new,
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you want to wait. Maybe you wait six months, Maybe
you wait for a double points VIP weekend or something
like that. Maybe you wait till the holiday and get it,
you know, twenty percent off or you know, ten percent
off something I don't know, but you should definitely, really,
you know, earmark some money towards this. If you're just
a casual Lego fan. The building this was fun, you know, symmetrical, yes,
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because you're building a left and the right side of
the car, but it was still fun. There's some cool
design techniques that go in and there there's some cool
opportunities to be able to see things as you build it.
The engine, specifically the suspension and others, this steering linkage,
in the way that it is done. The wing I thought,
I thought the wing was really cool in the way
(29:26):
the rear wing assembly, in the way that it was built.
So there are design ideas here that really, you know,
intrigue the mind. You know, they really kind of make
you like, huh, I could And it's nothing that's way
over the top. It's something that you could be like, oh,
I could do that. I could learn from this, and
I could try and build or I could build my
(29:47):
own car like this. I could build another car similar
to this using similar techniques, build your own F one car.
Maybe it's going to be on the grid for twenty
twenty six, you know when the rules change come in
twenty six, twenty twenty seven. I can't remember. I always
get it mixed up between that and Moto GP because
they're both like a year apart. Anyway, So check it out.
(30:09):
Let me know what you think. Let me know if
you say odd of the things a hunk junk, I hate it.
I'm gonna smash it against the wall, the wall, the floor.
Don't do that. So I hope you're all doing well.
That's gonna wrap up the show, so until we meet again,
I'm your minifig ghosts. Matt Let's built on it.
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