LEGO CREATOR - 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5: the review

Anyone who has seen the James Bond films has wished to own at least one of the legendary gadgets that the British spy has used in his long career. The legendary Aston Martin DB5 is a place of honor on all the amazing technological devilries that came out of the Q laboratories. The link between Her Majesty's secret agent and the British car manufacturer has also been strengthened with other models, but the synergy between the Aston Martin DB5 and the different faces of the beloved spy has never been reached. So much so that LEGO has decided to celebrate this happy marriage with an exclusive set, the LEGO CREATOR - 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5.

The Bond-mobile par excellence becomes an unmissable LEGO set

Why, of all the James Bond cars, just this little gem? Probably because the first car is never forgotten. The LEGO CREATOR - 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 set is in fact dedicated to a symbol of the Bondian tradition, which came to life when Sean Connery sat behind the wheel, and passing through Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan he arrived until the last 007, Daniel Craig, who will also guide her in Bond's next adventure, No time to Die.

The elegant Aston Martin DB5 has accompanied Bond's achievements for decades, becoming a faithful companion thanks to the various gadgets installed on the car by Q. From the ejection seat to the rear bulletproof screen, from the retractable submachine guns to the revolving plate, all elements that could not be missing in a LEGO set that properly celebrated this cinema icon. Will the LEGO CREATOR - 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 set succeed in re-proposing the charisma of Bond's car?

A set of LEGO for our eyes only

With 1265 pieces available, LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 has tried to give fans manufacturers lovers of James Bond a fun priceless. The traditional packaging Lego invites to the construction, by showing the strong points of a car on the side of the rear, while the front shows the full model, accompanied by a very graphic bondiana, on which stand the two logos 007 and the Aston Martin. Simply, irresistible.

Open the box, there are the classic bags of the pieces, the more the installation manual. As is the tradition, faced with a particular set, the LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 can boast of a booklet, ad hoc, in which the initial pages are present for the historical details on the car, both for its creation and for its long-lasting association with James Bond. The graphics of the manual was conceived as a top secret document typical of MI6 , with the curious presence of the French language.

During the construction, also, there will be special pages that reproduce the style blueprint of the mechanisms that allow you to replicate the behavior of the gadgets seen in the cinema. Fans of set Technic will feel a certain familiarity with these images, which also represent an intriguing way to show both what we are going to build that operation.

within the supplied set LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 there are also the inevitable sticker. Well 8 are devoted to the mechanism of the license plate bill, while the others are divided between the radar compartment and the normal decorations of the Aston Martin DB5.

the construction of The set LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 is rightly recommended for a target defined as Expert. The reason is soon told: the mechanisms that we will build are precise and optimized to the millimeter , there is not the slightest room for error. Given the complexity of some of the trinkets of Q that are played in the set, we will be facing in the construction of long levers and mechanisms that interact on multiple levels.

From LEGO with love

it is Not a case that already from the first assembly of the set, that part from the platform of the car, you are using many pieces typical of the kit Technic . The size is rather generous of the Aston Martin DB5 finished are consistent with the presence of these complicated mechanisms. One of all, the movement system of the machine guns concealed, which is controlled by the shift lever, a complex system of levers and elastic bands that can be assembled in different steps of the assembly.

To assemble LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 is, therefore, required a certain experience with the world of colored bricks. Especially, because the creators of this set were clearly fans of the Bond franchise to the point of wanting to play as many gadgets as possible of the Aston Martin for 007.

do You have this screen, bulletproof rear? Thanks to a meticulous construction of the gears, by rotating one of the aggressive exhaust pipes, we can lift up the screen, usually well-hidden inside the trunk of the car.

Or, by pulling the rear bumper we can operate the mechanism leading to the ejection of the passenger seat. A feature of the set is the LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5, not indifferent, that also involves a dynamic that shifted the hood of the car to allow the ejection seat.

once completed, the LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 features all the citations that we can wish for a medium, which has marked profoundly the myth from the famous English spy.

The only flaw is a defect that was inevitable: the squared appearance of the finished model. The car that inspired the LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 was a triumph of soft lines and sinuous, that they could hardly be replicated in a model built with LEGO bricks. A feature which in some points is reaffirmed by a location a little happy to some long pieces, which tend to move in the not-so-pleasant.

net of The defects, the LEGO CREATOR – 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 remains a must-have for fans of the world of James Bond and the cars LEGO.