hello this is the Lego monkey kid monkey
king warrior mech set I have a
suggestion for something to help you
establish better context for everything
that I'm gonna show you and talk about
here in this video grab a ruler or tape
measure and measure out vertically 13
inches or 33 centimeters approximately
that is the height of this mech at the
head not including these height
enhancing and tassels up here so right
there 13 inches 33 centimeters and
consider the fact that this costs one
hundred and fifty dollars in the u.s.
two important facts and figures that
should help you with framing everything
that I talk about and show you in this
entire video the set includes six
minifigures three side builds that are
terrain or structures and then also this
miniature mech for bad guys and a small
cloud for the Monkey King to float in on
I'm not gonna string you along though
let's get straight to the main thing
that you're here to see the mech has
almost 120 drum lacquered or fancy way
of saying painted gold pieces it's the
largest number of that type of coated
piece that Lego is ever included in any
set there are relatively just a handful
of the traditional molded gold pieces
and that makes this a little bit extra
special with its appearance because in
my personal opinion that drum lacquered
gold color or painted gold color that
Lego does is excellent it's not 100%
shiny it's not chrome like but it's a
very good hue and makes for some very
premium looking parts this also has its
own exclusive Cape piece as you saw on
the back and it has all these vinyl
parts which are gold backed they shine
very nice and they have a good level of
detail and they're not too difficult to
apply
unlike stickers of which there are a
fair many here in universe this is
definitely a mech it is not an enlarged
version of The Monkey King himself it is
a physical mechanical thing that
somebody sits inside of to operate it as
a Lego build well it's very proper it is
made of a bunch of
small medium-sized pieces with almost no
large pieces so you really do get to
assemble absolutely everything here with
small details a lot of studs on the side
construction some upside down
construction they use some of the
classic character and creature building
system sized large ball joints to
connect some things they use clips in
some places there are large ratcheted
joints I'll show you how the
articulation works for this there are
some mixels style smaller medium small
sized ball joints for some parts and
overall MEA it's a proper building
experience and it's it's an advanced
building experience I will tell you that
it is exciting to get two steps that
have a lot of those painted or drum
lacquered gold pieces
not because Lego makes a big deal about
it but because it's just a really
good-looking thing and when you put a
bunch of those parts together it just
feels fancy let me try to demonstrate
the articulation that's possible with
this model and unfortunately having the
staff in its hands really really limits
it they have these ball joints that they
use for attaching this that in theory
should give it the maximum amount of
reasonable pose ability but it just
doesn't work out that well with these
ball and socket pieces the way that
they're arranged so I'm just gonna take
this off for now because it's well it's
just much better to do so and I can
actually show you how this thing works
so the head is able to turn from side to
side it also has a little bit of
up-and-down motion or movement and
that's on a ratcheted joint so you have
three clicks available there the hands
are able to rotate so it has working
wrists to rotate around each finger can
articulate in and out these also have
anti studs on them the thumb is able to
rotate around in various different ways
because it's on a ball joint then you
also have elbows and the elbows do work
properly they've got just ball joints
that are side by side there's a little
bit of limitation there I can get you a
little bit more extension mm but I think
it's I think it's a fair amount we've
been nice
to get a little bit more flexing out of
that at the shoulders there are several
things that you can do first of all out
at this joint at this level right here
you can bring this up and I'm just
moving some pieces out of the way so you
can go up and down right in there and it
also has rotation so I can bring these
in between parts back together to help
take up some of that gap right there but
has rotation we just slowed down by a
geared mechanism that just uses axle pin
parts on either side to reduce the
ability for this to move so it's still
able to move but it has some extra
friction on it which is exactly what you
want now you're not able to bring the
arms down any farther than that so they
can go up but they can't go down any
farther than that so that's just the
limit there so all that is definitely
limited fair amounts but that's the
mechanisms look nice they go together
well they just don't give you all that
much pose ability the legs are able to
splay and come together they don't splay
out too much but it's definitely
important to have a little bit of extra
stability from doing that reduces the
total height just a bit but works much
better when they are split apart
technically this does not have working
knees although it does have the option
of extending knees I mean there are
joints in there you can open this up you
can pull it apart there are some mixels
style ball joints at the back this if I
can do this
safely just took one little piece off
don't worry there we go
so that lets you see how that's actually
built one big ball joint here which
technically could just be loosened up
and allowed to to be used by itself then
they have these additional mixels stall
style ball joints at the back that do
get locked in but if you want for the
sake of posing I don't know if you're
just going to be playing with it or
trying to do some some stop motions you
can just leave those back ones unlocked
to have some virtual knee movement now
it doesn't it doesn't flex very much but
it does extend and if that little bit of
movement is valuable to you it is an
in there and it's not too difficult to
use that however once you get it locked
back in by locking those two little
mixels ball joints into place that's
just going to keep everything so that
well basically it'll stand up much more
easily than if those are kept if those
are kept loose now the legs are able to
extend forward quite a bit and they're
able to come back just somewhat not as
much as you would like and then down at
the ankles you have just a tiny bit of
movement though they're ratcheted to go
forward and back just like that they're
also able to lean side to side so that
when you have the legs splayed apart you
still get that nice flat contact with
the ground with just a tiny little bit
of tire that sticks out on the other
side for the sake of friction so this is
not going to slide around too easily and
it's not going to want to accidentally
do the splits when you don't want it to
so basically as long as the feet are on
the ground then it's not going to be
moving around you can also rotate those
feet in and out for what that's worth
I'll tell you it's not worth all that
much but I guess it's more the thought
that counts than anything
ultimately that right there is about the
best that I can get out of this for a
walking pose so technically one leg is
in front of the other so it does have
some sort of dynamic movement appearance
to it and you know move one arm forward
and one arm back maybe extend that out
just a bit more this arm will not go in
any further than that's what's it's not
it's not a great look by any means but
you know it's something which is better
than than normal but I don't want to
give it too much credit because it is
limited now granted this is rather heavy
it is rather tall and it does have to be
able to be made by kids it needs to be
able to be assembled by kids so there
are a lot of restrictions involved here
I'm just being realistic about you know
it being a walking thing and generally
people like to play with their walking
things in walking forums or to pose them
in walking form so it is limited in that
that way but at least it does always
want to stand up it's difficult to get
it into a pose where it's going to fall
down and break pieces off we're be
frustrating for you you also have the
ability I forgot to mention to move
these little tassels up and down so
those are on those are on ball joints so
those can be moved around a bit and
monkey king warrior mech here has a tail
even though it's a mech still added a
tail on to it so bringing this out of
the way you can see that's just a bunch
of ball joints so that can be rotated
around curled around any kind of way
that you want it's not necessary to have
this on the ground at all for the sake
of balancing and you know there's not
much weight here it's kind of awkward to
me that this is a mech and it has a tail
and it's so thin as it is but there it
is it kind of is attached in a weird way
you don't want to see any of this below
or beneath the the cape here just leave
the cape on and it's useful also all of
these these vinyl pieces are pretty
fancy again you know there's Shanee they
do they do their job I'd say definitely
a shame about the staff though this is
large enough that a lot of kids would be
able to actually wield it around
fortunately it does have some strength
to it but not too much they do have the
ability to shrink this down you know in
universe the story goes that it's able
to you know shrink to tiny sizes and
expand to huge sizes so they let you do
that just removing the center section
from it to make it smaller that's that
the driver or operators compartment of
this mech is in the chest so I went
ahead and put the monkey kid figure in
there and you just open that up by
bringing the entire chest assembly down
that's actually very extremely nicely
apportioned and set up in there but
there are a whole bunch of stickers for
consoles and things most of which you're
not able to see you can see this one
right here in front and he has a couple
of control sticks one on either side so
that's all good but there are all these
controls in there that you just can't
see that are on those cheese slope
pieces and that's that's too bad you
you miss out on that once the thing is
complete see look at that with the
figure removed there's one thing on that
side there's another over there and then
up above one there and one there
now you can't put a second figure in
there one facing towards the rear like
this it's rather cramped and awkward
looking but you know the other figure
can be facing towards us in the normal
operators position that I showed you
before however that does restrict which
figures you can put together which
figures can team up to work the neck
based on their headgear or their hair
pieces if the hair or headgear pieces
stick out too much to the rear then they
will interfere and the other one won't
fit so there are some limitations but I
think this is the general idea that they
are gone for a two-person cockpit just
not well implemented I also want to
point out that there are a number of
things on this model that can be
accidentally knocked off like if you're
not careful opening or closing the
compartment there just because these are
rather large pieces to be only attached
with two studs you get a lot of leverage
on it you can easily pop those off you
already saw me accidentally earlier pop
off and now this is misaligned
there we go that goes in I popped off
one of the one of these pieces these
spoiler or wing pieces down at the ankle
that's extremely easy to do because it's
just in the way the same thing can
happen here if you're not careful with
the middle one that's attached with just
a single small like minifig scaled robot
or skeleton arm inside of there there's
just a number of things that are
attached in semi precarious ways let me
just get you some additional angles of
this so you can see some other bits of
its construction because it really was
interesting to put together with a lot
of interesting part usage a lot of
unexpected types of connections that are
made throughout the eyes are indeed
printed we'll see one of those
individual print pieces up close a
little bit later on but again the drum
lacquer pieces those are nice I don't
think we got to see around the backs of
the arms all that well these are
actually
together pretty well except for some of
the smaller bits like these little
tassels can be knocked off fairly easily
there you can see the ball joints behind
there nice inclusions have a bunch of
these teal colored heart pieces all
throughout the arms are built all the
way around and fairly equally detailed
no matter what angle you look at them
from even the lower legs are made with
some level of care around the back so
you do see some undersides of parts but
they have some inverted tiles that are
used in good places some additional
stickers used so they did put care into
this from many angles the small building
build is actually really really nice it
is small I mean it's on an 8 by 8 base
but most of the building itself is 8 by
6 and the stickers on this are really
important I think they add a lot to the
display value of this and just the
immersiveness of it this is a little
franchise outlet for a pig Z so this is
where people can go up and order some
food to go
it's got this menu up there got the
signage up above an AC unit as well just
a small one outside and there's even
just a little bit of detail on the
inside of this not too much because they
didn't want to allow minifigures to go
inside but there's a stove and oven back
there and there's a sticker inside to
show that it's all greasy and everything
they even have a venting hood above it
they had a fire extinguisher over here
in case everything goes wrong in in the
rush of morning or midday orders or
something and then this is an apartment
up here I'm assuming that this is the
monkey kids apartment judging by a
couple of the pictures depicted on
stickers in here again just a very small
thing but a nice space this even has an
action feature built into it so if the
monkey kid either needs to break out or
gets broken into from above maybe by a
bad guy mech of some sort and a wall
gets popped out there's some fish
getting dried up here so that's probably
going to be pretty stinky probably be
some jokes made about that and probably
some nearby neighbor
will not be too happy about it and up
top for the very freshest vegetables
I've got a small vegetable garden that's
grown with a planter here and I even
like the sign you know it's the
billboard but so many cities they have
billboards so this totally makes sense
it looks cool here's how that looks
around the back there's another side
build it's just an electrical pole so
I've got a couple transformers up there
we call them telephone poles in the
States usually I've got a sign on the
side for big Z that's lit up on the side
for his business and this is an arcade
machine that's built down here it's a
very similar build to one that I've seen
they go use before it just has brand new
stickers for it does have a sticker on
the other side at the cabinet as well a
little tan thing with the printed clear
tile on top I'm being told by viewers is
supposed to represent a takeout box I
thought it was just a menu but it's also
from pig Z so if you've not seen that
before there's the front of it I don't
read the language feel free to include a
translation in a comment down below what
and let me know whether you think that's
more of a menu or a takeout box and then
finally over here
this is what's called flower fruit
Mountain I don't know if this is
intended to be a tiny version of
something that would actually be a
mountain in in the show in the universe
or if flower fruit Mountain is actually
just a tiny thing and there's like a
legend of it and you go there and it
turns out it's actually just really
small that has the flower fruit on it
which is showing the heart-shaped
peaches so one there and around the back
there is another one that you can pick
from the thing where is it there is
here's a demon bull clone mini mech and
pretty much what you see here is what
you get it has a stud shooter on one
side which is hooked up to a stud and I
won by one cylinder piece which makes
for a more interesting projectile
additional projectiles are included in
the shoulders you can see those as
rocket launchers if you want though just
break those entire sub assemblies off
there inside of pieces that were
originally used as metal beards beard
you'll see that same piece used
throughout a number of sets in this
series this
could be a weapon or it could just be a
basic shield or a shield and a weapon
because as spike on the end of it this
thing looks like it's super articulating
it's not you know it has mixels style
ball joints but the upper legs are very
bulky which limits just the total of
what you can do with this but it's way
more poseable than the Big Mac
ironically but not a particularly
uncommon situation got the banner back
here has a single bull horn on it as
well and just to finish the look at this
around the back there's not much to see
The Monkey King proper not the monkey
kid but the Monkey King has a cloud to
move around on and that's its own
separate little build with a little
clear stand to go with it and it looks
appropriate you know it's scaled well to
the figure yeah it wobbles around
because it's only attached with the
smallest piece but I mean it does what
it's supposed to do it's elevated well
above the ground and it looks like it's
in motion and it looks like a cloud
here's the new Monkey King figure which
is mostly new compared to the
collectible minifigure series version
the hairpiece is the same the tassel
piece on top is the same and I believe
the Cape piece is the same but torsos
new head's new legs are new and the
staff is now made with the new piece the
new hilt piece that's longer at the ends
with the drum lacquered finish on the
back you can see some additional detail
for the torso which is printed up really
nicely the legs are dual molded as well
so this is really good and he has an
alternate face so this one makes sense
but it might not be the most common
expression that you think of when you
think of The Monkey King this is a
little bit better you know funny wacky
having fun there's just a reminder of
how different the figures are between
the two versions and this also makes it
very clear that you're seeing different
stages of The Monkey King here like even
if this was intended to be the same
exact character they are just at
different parts of the story so the one
on the right has his restraining band
around his his forehead there it's just
at a completely different time
here's this sets version of the monkey
kid with some face paint on there to
make him look a little bit more monkey
ish but still fully human obviously or
at least mostly human I don't know if he
has any monkey in him whatsoever I think
he's just think he's just human was
taking on the spiritual mantle from
Monkey King but we'll see how that ends
up working in the show and it does have
an alternate face as well that does not
have that paint on it these are both
demon Bowl clones but the one on the
right is named growl and the one on the
left is special it's general ironclad so
a clone yet at a higher rank and you
know that gives him the right to have
some special stuff so he's got the great
colored horns and he also has the
shoulder armor and a little bit of a
little bit of cloth not necessarily a
full-on cape but like a like a half a
cape and also his arm colour is
different so that makes it a somewhat
unique figure even though the torso is
the same and the headpiece is the same
and underneath you have no expression
for the head no print on there it's just
plain
I personally don't yet know who these
characters are or what they're going to
be doing but they do have names on the
left is on and on the right is yeah and
it's striking to me that we have here a
male character and a female character
with identical facial expressions yet
they're not just basic smiles that's not
something that you see very frequently
and I feel like that's just valuable
it's nice to get those expressions in
both forms and in one set at that so I'm
happy about that it's just a fan of
stuff that can be used for customizing
figures and characters at anytime in the
future here are all the spare or
leftover parts including the printed eye
piece for the main neck and an extra
projectile for the mini Mac and finally
here's the spent sticker sheet so you
can see I wasn't kidding when I said
there are a lot of stickers in this set
fortunately for my wife and I I am NOT a
hoarder but unfortunately for you that
means that I don't have all the Lego
things I don't have a bunch of mechs to
compare this to so I don't have much to
show you for
size comparison but again it's 33
centimeters taller about 13 inches so
just take out a tape measure or a ruler
and put it next to whatever thing that
you already own that you would like to
compare the size of this to and you see
clearly what it looks like here that
will put things in context for you in
person the price of this again 150
dollars us let me see if I get the box
around closer to yet that's not working
out that well at least you can see a lot
of it there yeah kind of yeah
$150 u.s. sixteen hundred and twenty
nine pieces price part ratio looks very
good considering especially the fact
that this has all those sweet sweet drum
lacquered gold pieces on it get out of
my hand box also this has the wonderful
Cape back here which I didn't make a big
deal about but it's a nice flowy
material even though it came folded up
in the in a bag inside of another bag in
this big box like it's it's nice and it
looks and and I didn't do that to it you
know so it's good material good heavy
stuff
the vinyl pieces here and I was super
nice all those pieces are worth more
than your average normal piece when you
look at a price support ratio you have
to consider what parts are actually in
the set what size are they and what type
are they so all these things I think add
to the value of this and yes it is
really big I personally am most let down
by the lack of articulation and the lack
of durability of this build given how
much goes into it it ends up being
something that you you don't want to
play with too much I think you don't
want to pose around too much like you
want to set it on display kind of bring
it on to a scene but you're not gonna be
you're not gonna be active with it it's
almost it's it's more statue like in my
opinion I don't want to go all the way
saying it's it's essentially a statue
like it's not useful for anything it
obviously has some pose ability and it's
designed and intended to be played with
but I feel like it doesn't play all that
well because of its limitations on on
movement and because it has little
things that can be messed with
popped off accidentally or put into
strange states that are a little bit
awkward to put back into better states
you know so ultimately I feel like this
is mostly a statement piece more than
anything I think that this is great this
is just great I'd love to see Lego make
just an entire series of sets like this
like even to this exact scale it's just
it's so charming you just imagine having
a bunch of these lining a street like an
entire series literally could be made of
things like this they just fit next to
each other and yeah I didn't make a big
deal about the fact that it has Technic
bricks with the holes on the side and
then this has Technic pins sticking out
the side a lot of people make a big big
deal about that like that adds so much
value but ultimately if it didn't have
those you could still put these two
side-by-side you know so it's not that
big of a deal but it's it's it's a nice
add-on that that they include that
they're this mech is a disappointment to
me even though it's a little thing
oftentimes Legos little mechs are really
nice and very very playable very very
usable this one is playable just not as
much as as usual mostly because those
upper legs are limiting the movement of
the whole thing the selection of figures
is nice and I very much like the monkey
Kings little cloud there that's done
very nicely and to have a stand I always
loved clear stands to hold figures up or
rolled anything up so those are nice
pieces it's interesting that the dish
piece down at the base is one of the the
old ones all poly-carbonate ones that
they're not making anymore so that's an
old batch I'm assuming even this little
build over here is is decent not not the
best but it's decent and I like this I
like a little tree like it's a handful
of pieces but it's charming and the
little printed fruit pieces are nice as
well so there's a lot good here it's
just not as good as I thought it was
gonna be
is it worth $150 u.s. I think you have
to decide that for yourself because
ultimately it doesn't matter what
some random person on the internet is
saying if you want this you're gonna get
it and if you get it I think you're
gonna enjoy it I think you're going to
just like the builds process and be
happy when it's done you know and it's
just gonna be like BAM it's there oh
yeah
probably the number one disappointment
for this for me is that you can't hold
the staff the large golden staff for it
in different ways you need to do some
customizations to make that work and
they don't make it that easy for you to
just customize in let's say to put one
of these ball joint or ball socket
pieces in the middle or something so we
can just hold it on you'll hold it in
one hand like that because ultimately
all this here all this inside is one
long axle the longest of Technic axles
that the company makes so yeah there are
a number of things that just aren't
quite there I almost feel like this
didn't go through the same internal
review processes as most sets usually do
almost feel like it was done more by the
the core designers and then the the
review process the internal review
process was very short for this so they
weren't a lot of adjustments made after
the initial main design but yeah it is
what it is
hopefully this was useful to you if
you're watching this review quickly
after it came out then you may not be
able to get access just yet to the the
pure build for this the full real-time
build but it will be out soon we're just
waiting for YouTube to do its thing to
get it ready for you to see on replay I
did all that live and also the speed
build will be coming out so if you don't
have the hours to watch this or don't
care to just hear the pieces being put
together for hours in the background and
you can just see the whole thing in a
single sitting via the speed build thank
you very much for watching I look
forward to your comments your thoughts
about this set here I'll talk to you
soon
