What kills me is that in the past few years, multiple excellent Corvette models reached 10,000 supporters on Ideas, mainly a C2 and C3, which Lego ultimately didn't approve. Then here comes along an official Lego Corvette set, where they picked the most difficult Corvette to build and it unsurprisingly looks terrible! They had good potential Corvette sets handed to them on a silver platter! Why on earth is THIS the Corvette set we got, of all things? It makes no sense.
Lego ideas has many weird choices made by them. Can someone explain to me how BTS Dynamite set was approved despite having so many better choices? This dynamite is an abomination of a set.
@@oskarskalski2982 BTS Dynamite was likely approved because of the huge popularity of the boy band; they may not be our kind of music taste but they're huge in Asia. The music video the set is based on has 1.7 BILLION views, while their official RUclips channel called BANGTANTV has almost 76 million subscribers. The fans of the band are crazy in that they'll buy anything with BTS on them; the BTS Dynamite set is terrible value and certainly not for majority of Lego fans but from Lego's point of view, as cynical as it may be, it makes sense why they went for that set. Lots of income of course from new Lego customers but also high potential of those customers to not just buy the BTS set but other sets in the other ranges also. So even if only say 1% of those 76 millions subs buy the BTS set, that's still a ton of income.
I really wish all of these larger cars were like the defender, with suspension. It would just add so much, at least for me. I appreciate it would be hard to implement, but it would definitely make the set more attractive, at least in my eyes.
Great honest review as always Sariel. As inaccurate as it seems, at least we can clearly tell from the outset what car it is, with the contrasting colours and lines on the side (white red). I like that! Im just getting a bit sick of the repeating same same style of car, Mustang, Camaro and now this. Time for something new and unique.
Not every form can recreated with Lego. There are restrictions of what can be achieved using bricks. Lego should maybe restrict themselves to building cars that can be built better. There are enough blocky cars out there - like the Ford Lincoln Continental Mk III / IV or V
What about even more curvy Corvette C3 - it was made as a C Model of Porsche 10295 by Firas Abujaber. It's really hard to design good looking curvy models using bricks, but it's not impossible.
I disagree, it's hard to make actual curves with Lego but approximating curves and tricking your eye into seeing curves there is very doable. Just because Lego is blocky doesn't mean blocks can't look like curves. Just look at the models in Legoland, they manage to make recognizable and curvy-looking vehicles out of mostly basic plates and jumper plates. The problem with the Corvette set I think is that the designer was obsessed with smoothness, which IMO is not as important as approximating the actual shape as close as possible. If the general shape is close enough, you'll see it as smooth even if it isn't. But this car's shape is all wrong, so it looks like an ugly uncanny valley Corvette.
I would love to see Lego collab with Mazda on a Creator Expert model, Miata, FC or FD RX-7, RX-3 would be an interesting one, they have quite a few choices to go with if they ever do
To me it feels like the designers of the recent Icons cars don't have the genius touch with parts that Mike Psiaki brought to the line. It feels like the designer of this set gave up on trying to shape the front and just accepted the flat appearance. It's disappointing. P.S. Great song choice to open the video. Definitely gives it an early sixties open road vibe.
Until you mentioned it I never realised how much I want a 300 SL as a lego set. Though hopefully at a larger scale, I feel like the gullwing doors wouldn't work at all on this scale.
I'd say Lego would figure out a way to get the doors to look accurate and open. And before someone mentions 10300, they could add some pieces or a manual lever to hold the doors up
Until this picture of this dark red 300 SL I never realised how much I want a real one ;) Jokes aside, this curved beauty of a car wouldn´t end up looking good as a lego set, I suppose much worse than the Corvette or even the Aston DB5. The Mustang or the Camaro have just the right amount of straight and cornered shape to look good as a lego set. And it´s a miracle the Porsche looks as good as it does in lego form, with all it´s subtle curves. But even the Porsche, I feel it has some very wrong shapes. Everything blockier would translate better into Lego, what about a Toyota Landcruiser BJ4, or an early Lotus Esprit?
@philp8872 DB5 was only "aesthetically challenged" because of it's James Bond movie functions. Lego should try a Countach at this scale, preferably white with a red interior like the SC one
@@Danse_Macabre_125 Yes, Countach should be able to look accurate and good as a Lego Set. But DB5, even without the gimmicks is not the car Lego parts are made for, just look at all those subtle shapes of the original.
Completely feel the same when I first saw the images. I was expecting it to be an MOC or a predict image. The front just looks completely different from the c1, and the side looks as if the designer just grabbed a random Lego piece to describe the curve and called it a day.
I don't get why they went for the face-lifted C1 instead of the original one, though I'm guessing it's because the original ones came with the Blue Flame straight-six instead of a V8 and LEGO wanted to put something nice in that engine bay... Still, the lines on the front end of the original one were much better and cleaner, and the rear was great too, with the exhaust routed through the rear "jet engine" trim pieces.
Next to the Mustang it's hard ! The Mustang broke the game. Ok, here the hinge for hood and trunk. But the doors of the Mustang was really impressive too ! You haven't show it but it's look like the Corvette's doors can open 180°, isn't it ? The best word to goes with this set is has you said Corvett-ish
Despite price, and inaccuracy which is unfortunate in how authentic most of the other cars look I feel it fares a lot better in the shaping than the DB5 Biggest issue to is the proportions of that car are completely wrong for the scale while the Corvette here looks properly sized. The front end/hardtop could use a bit of trouble shooting/refinement but other than that like the basic functions, and how it displays next to the other cars. Would look great beside the classic pickup as it's in the same era but a real shame they both ended up red. Wonder if Lego will offer it in the rumored yellow at a later time.
My dad and grandad have a c3 corvette and I produces around 500 to 550hp which is a fair bit and it's a great drag car, but other than that great video
The corvette was also an odd choie of car as we got a chevrolet branded car last year in the form of the camaro.Even if lego had designed a c2 or c3 corvette the shape would be blocky as the curves of the corvette cannot be represented by square lego pieces.The lego speed champions set 76903 from 2021 had a 1968 c3 corvette whose shape was blocky even though it had the 8 stud wide design where cars can be more accurate and detailed
Normally I prefer coupes, but this just doesn't look good with the roof on. At first I thought the model looked very nice, and to me it still does, but wow I didn't realise how far from the source material it is. After the rather high price and cost cutting of the Camaro and the seriously higher cost of the Land Rover Defender, it was basically time to move away from the Icons cars, and this Corvette doesn't sway me. The value proposition of this range already looked bad over the past year, and it's made even worse with this Corvette as well as recent discounts of the Camaro (which is looking desperate as I've never seen an Icons vehicle get frequently and heavily discounted before), and other sets in other ranges, like the Technic Peugeot 9X8.
I get the news that lego is getting a really cool car or vehicle. I get hyped. I see the price...umh well at least it will be very big. I see the pictures. Well at least the design looks good. I see more pictures... I'm very dissapointed with the lego sets released this year. In the icons area they are really overpriced and with really big design flaws, like the camaro being black, the land rover with the wrong colour or a structure with things nobody asked about, and now this blocky corvette that looks like a chinese copy of lego. Last year they were amazing. I prefer to buy the pickup truck that this sad looking corvette screaming please kill me.
Yeah it's a shame that they chose a car that can't really be built well using standard LEGO bricks and techniques. Just like the Speed Champions DB5, it looks too flat. I feel like in the future they should put more thought into choosing cars
That was a lovely review. As much as I love Lego, I often wonder why they try to push such imprecise models of things that we can buy actual precise model kits of? However, saying that...maybe I should try explaining that concept to myself when I show my often inaccurate official Star Wars Lego sets to friends! I shall just keep quiet from now on and pretend that I did not say that. 🤣
I didn't pay too much attention to this set due to my lacking interest of cars, so I didn't even knew the shape differentiated so much from the original. This situation however reminds of a rule of thumb of mine: It does not have to look like the original, it just has to look like it does. This is a not an ugly car, but it doesn't really portray the curves of the real thing
@@searme C7 has engine in the front. It's C8 that has engine in the middle. Besides, moving engine to the middle was the best choice they could make, now Vette has great handling, the Z06 version is not far behind Porsche GT3 rs on the track. And this 5.5l flat-plane crank V8 sounds beutifully (and it is so because they copied from ferrari;).
As someone who grew up in the USA and was into cars, I don’t find the choice of the C1 as the subject of this model odd at all. It is the most classic and iconic of the ‘Vettes. In its original incarnation, the Corvette was not a muscle car; that happened later. Lego already did a couple of muscle cars (including another Chevy), so this stands out as something different. Sure is an ugly model though.
almost any other generation would have been a better choice then this one. I feel most of these licensed car sets are vanity choices based on old automotive executives' taste completely ignoring or trying to understand the customer base.
Not only is the C1 ugly, LEGO chose the uglier version of the C1, the one with the 4 headlights. The set itself is nice, but the front of the original car is so ugly I just can't. Same reason why I skipped on the ECTO-1. I just can't stand cars from the 50s.
You can always expect an honest review from Sariel. I appreciate that.
What kills me is that in the past few years, multiple excellent Corvette models reached 10,000 supporters on Ideas, mainly a C2 and C3, which Lego ultimately didn't approve. Then here comes along an official Lego Corvette set, where they picked the most difficult Corvette to build and it unsurprisingly looks terrible! They had good potential Corvette sets handed to them on a silver platter! Why on earth is THIS the Corvette set we got, of all things? It makes no sense.
Lego ideas has many weird choices made by them. Can someone explain to me how BTS Dynamite set was approved despite having so many better choices? This dynamite is an abomination of a set.
@@oskarskalski2982 BTS Dynamite was likely approved because of the huge popularity of the boy band; they may not be our kind of music taste but they're huge in Asia. The music video the set is based on has 1.7 BILLION views, while their official RUclips channel called BANGTANTV has almost 76 million subscribers.
The fans of the band are crazy in that they'll buy anything with BTS on them; the BTS Dynamite set is terrible value and certainly not for majority of Lego fans but from Lego's point of view, as cynical as it may be, it makes sense why they went for that set. Lots of income of course from new Lego customers but also high potential of those customers to not just buy the BTS set but other sets in the other ranges also. So even if only say 1% of those 76 millions subs buy the BTS set, that's still a ton of income.
Fr tho, C2 and C3 are probably the most recognizable and classic models of the Corvette. Why did they chose an old jalopy?
You got me with this model color change. I was like: wow, there are other color versions?!
Great choice of music, it fit's the car. Didn't expect that coming from you 😉
Glad you liked it!
I really wish all of these larger cars were like the defender, with suspension. It would just add so much, at least for me. I appreciate it would be hard to implement, but it would definitely make the set more attractive, at least in my eyes.
Kinda wish lego would make an Icons Classic Car with pop up headlights now, like a Ferrari or something
There is already a f40 a Countach would be cool
Or a Japanese icon such as the Mazda Rx7, or even the squarish and very 80's performance car, such as Ferrari Testarossa for something more unique.
Great honest review as always Sariel. As inaccurate as it seems, at least we can clearly tell from the outset what car it is, with the contrasting colours and lines on the side (white red). I like that! Im just getting a bit sick of the repeating same same style of car, Mustang, Camaro and now this. Time for something new and unique.
Looks wonderful! I love the mechanisms inside! Now for the next step, an icons car with a working technic transmission inside!
Yeah, that will never happen except in MOCs.
shame they didn't use chrome pieces for the detailing. Having those parts in chrome would be incredibly useful and it would look way better
Not every form can recreated with Lego. There are restrictions of what can be achieved using bricks.
Lego should maybe restrict themselves to building cars that can be built better. There are enough blocky cars out there - like the Ford Lincoln Continental Mk III / IV or V
What about even more curvy Corvette C3 - it was made as a C Model of Porsche 10295 by Firas Abujaber. It's really hard to design good looking curvy models using bricks, but it's not impossible.
I disagree, it's hard to make actual curves with Lego but approximating curves and tricking your eye into seeing curves there is very doable. Just because Lego is blocky doesn't mean blocks can't look like curves. Just look at the models in Legoland, they manage to make recognizable and curvy-looking vehicles out of mostly basic plates and jumper plates. The problem with the Corvette set I think is that the designer was obsessed with smoothness, which IMO is not as important as approximating the actual shape as close as possible. If the general shape is close enough, you'll see it as smooth even if it isn't. But this car's shape is all wrong, so it looks like an ugly uncanny valley Corvette.
I would love to see Lego collab with Mazda on a Creator Expert model, Miata, FC or FD RX-7, RX-3 would be an interesting one, they have quite a few choices to go with if they ever do
To me it feels like the designers of the recent Icons cars don't have the genius touch with parts that Mike Psiaki brought to the line. It feels like the designer of this set gave up on trying to shape the front and just accepted the flat appearance. It's disappointing. P.S. Great song choice to open the video. Definitely gives it an early sixties open road vibe.
Thanks, that what I was aiming for.
They need Firas, what he did with the Porsche blocks to make a c3 was pretty great imo.
Excellent review, and excellent production set design too.
01:56 I would’ve liked a ‘71 vette in Gold! Like the Apollo astronauts had! 😂
Until you mentioned it I never realised how much I want a 300 SL as a lego set. Though hopefully at a larger scale, I feel like the gullwing doors wouldn't work at all on this scale.
I'd say Lego would figure out a way to get the doors to look accurate and open. And before someone mentions 10300, they could add some pieces or a manual lever to hold the doors up
Until this picture of this dark red 300 SL I never realised how much I want a real one ;)
Jokes aside, this curved beauty of a car wouldn´t end up looking good as a lego set, I suppose much worse than the Corvette or even the Aston DB5.
The Mustang or the Camaro have just the right amount of straight and cornered shape to look good as a lego set. And it´s a miracle the Porsche looks as good as it does in lego form, with all it´s subtle curves. But even the Porsche, I feel it has some very wrong shapes.
Everything blockier would translate better into Lego, what about a Toyota Landcruiser BJ4, or an early Lotus Esprit?
@philp8872 DB5 was only "aesthetically challenged" because of it's James Bond movie functions. Lego should try a Countach at this scale, preferably white with a red interior like the SC one
@@Danse_Macabre_125 Yes, Countach should be able to look accurate and good as a Lego Set.
But DB5, even without the gimmicks is not the car Lego parts are made for, just look at all those subtle shapes of the original.
Completely feel the same when I first saw the images. I was expecting it to be an MOC or a predict image. The front just looks completely different from the c1, and the side looks as if the designer just grabbed a random Lego piece to describe the curve and called it a day.
I love early C3s, my favorite Corvette variant, sadly Lego Speed Champions version of it leaves much to be desired.
10321 making history in this channel. Lowest score in Icon car series. 😄
I don't get why they went for the face-lifted C1 instead of the original one, though I'm guessing it's because the original ones came with the Blue Flame straight-six instead of a V8 and LEGO wanted to put something nice in that engine bay... Still, the lines on the front end of the original one were much better and cleaner, and the rear was great too, with the exhaust routed through the rear "jet engine" trim pieces.
Next to the Mustang it's hard ! The Mustang broke the game. Ok, here the hinge for hood and trunk. But the doors of the Mustang was really impressive too ! You haven't show it but it's look like the Corvette's doors can open 180°, isn't it ? The best word to goes with this set is has you said Corvett-ish
Yes, the doors can open all the way to the front.
@@searme Thank you for the answer :)
Despite price, and inaccuracy which is unfortunate in how authentic most of the other cars look I feel it fares a lot better in the shaping than the DB5 Biggest issue to is the proportions of that car are completely wrong for the scale while the Corvette here looks properly sized. The front end/hardtop could use a bit of trouble shooting/refinement but other than that like the basic functions, and how it displays next to the other cars. Would look great beside the classic pickup as it's in the same era but a real shame they both ended up red. Wonder if Lego will offer it in the rumored yellow at a later time.
Good song
Such a shame, as you mentioned C4 would be a much better option.
My dad and grandad have a c3 corvette and I produces around 500 to 550hp which is a fair bit and it's a great drag car, but other than that great video
They should do a Mercedes S123 (T-modell) - much easyer to replicate. Nice review though!
"Sorry I don't do flat faced car, even though I'm a flat faced dog" 😏😅
The corvette was also an odd choie of car as we got a chevrolet branded car last year in the form of the camaro.Even if lego had designed a c2 or c3 corvette the shape would be blocky as the curves of the corvette cannot be represented by square lego pieces.The lego speed champions set 76903 from 2021 had a 1968 c3 corvette whose shape was blocky even though it had the 8 stud wide design where cars can be more accurate and detailed
"go ask the hamster", hah
I missed a scathing review. Lego really dropped the ball on this one.
We just need c2 c4 c5 c6 lego is halfway there but a c3 would look good in this scale
Hi,Sariel.
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Thank's
Before the end of this month, I'm not allowed to say exactly.
Normally I prefer coupes, but this just doesn't look good with the roof on. At first I thought the model looked very nice, and to me it still does, but wow I didn't realise how far from the source material it is.
After the rather high price and cost cutting of the Camaro and the seriously higher cost of the Land Rover Defender, it was basically time to move away from the Icons cars, and this Corvette doesn't sway me. The value proposition of this range already looked bad over the past year, and it's made even worse with this Corvette as well as recent discounts of the Camaro (which is looking desperate as I've never seen an Icons vehicle get frequently and heavily discounted before), and other sets in other ranges, like the Technic Peugeot 9X8.
so were 0-2 for accurate corvette sets
I get the news that lego is getting a really cool car or vehicle. I get hyped. I see the price...umh well at least it will be very big. I see the pictures. Well at least the design looks good. I see more pictures...
I'm very dissapointed with the lego sets released this year. In the icons area they are really overpriced and with really big design flaws, like the camaro being black, the land rover with the wrong colour or a structure with things nobody asked about, and now this blocky corvette that looks like a chinese copy of lego.
Last year they were amazing. I prefer to buy the pickup truck that this sad looking corvette screaming please kill me.
Thanks for a nice review! Did the windshield pieces come separately packed in order to avoid getting scratched in the box?
Yes, evidently.
Yeah it's a shame that they chose a car that can't really be built well using standard LEGO bricks and techniques. Just like the Speed Champions DB5, it looks too flat. I feel like in the future they should put more thought into choosing cars
i dont understand why lego don't give us some chrome parts =(
Mustang still the best
That was a lovely review. As much as I love Lego, I often wonder why they try to push such imprecise models of things that we can buy actual precise model kits of? However, saying that...maybe I should try explaining that concept to myself when I show my often inaccurate official Star Wars Lego sets to friends! I shall just keep quiet from now on and pretend that I did not say that. 🤣
Pug owner complaining that something looks like it hit a brick wall face first...
I didn't pay too much attention to this set due to my lacking interest of cars, so I didn't even knew the shape differentiated so much from the original.
This situation however reminds of a rule of thumb of mine: It does not have to look like the original, it just has to look like it does.
This is a not an ugly car, but it doesn't really portray the curves of the real thing
It turned out to be a very weak set for a replica model, work and work on the design!😉
C1 and C3 are too organically shaped, they should have done the C2, C4, C5, or C6... Even C7 is pushing it on that nose...
C7 doesn't count as a real Corvette until they move the engine back to the front ;)
@@searme C7 has engine in the front. It's C8 that has engine in the middle. Besides, moving engine to the middle was the best choice they could make, now Vette has great handling, the Z06 version is not far behind Porsche GT3 rs on the track. And this 5.5l flat-plane crank V8 sounds beutifully (and it is so because they copied from ferrari;).
Not very beautiful, but at least better than the Aston...
But the Price is ridiculous!
The most beautiful Corvette in RL is C2, no arguing about that
As someone who grew up in the USA and was into cars, I don’t find the choice of the C1 as the subject of this model odd at all. It is the most classic and iconic of the ‘Vettes. In its original incarnation, the Corvette was not a muscle car; that happened later. Lego already did a couple of muscle cars (including another Chevy), so this stands out as something different.
Sure is an ugly model though.
An E for Effort. Let's see what car Lego will mess up next. I would propose the Jaguar E-Type
almost any other generation would have been a better choice then this one. I feel most of these licensed car sets are vanity choices based on old automotive executives' taste completely ignoring or trying to understand the customer base.
Not only is the C1 ugly, LEGO chose the uglier version of the C1, the one with the 4 headlights. The set itself is nice, but the front of the original car is so ugly I just can't. Same reason why I skipped on the ECTO-1. I just can't stand cars from the 50s.
For 150 dollar i think i'll pass
Another one for very old-cars enthusiasts. I lose faith in Lego every year more and more :/
The front looks atrocious
Pretty disappointed with this set as well.
I was way more excited about the Porsche 911 and Delorean.