EPIC LEGO Nether Portal Ambush Review 2024

Hello there everyone Ashen flash here and welcome on into a Lego Minecraft 2024 set review today we are looking at set number 21255 this is the nether portal Ambush Set uh this is going to be retailing for $37.99 USD or $49.99 Canadian uh this was sent to me early by

Lego Land to do a review for you can see here on the side the not for sale sticker and the gas coming on through you’ve got the mobs and skin up there at the top nothing interesting there on the back on the side I mean and then over

Here on the back you can see some of the Play features which you will see right now all right so here it is all built up uh this is the whole nether section we’ve got sort of two biomes I guess going on here we’ve got the Crimson

Forest over here and then we’ve got a bay salt uh little biome over there which uh yeah I think that this is a new biome we’ve never gotten before but we have gotten that so this is pretty exciting and of course the nether portal friend Center there but let’s go through

This so starting over here in the Crimson Forest the huge fungus looks great this is not something that we’ve gotten before like I said and I like the two sizes I think that’s really cool uh this coming down here as well and how they’ve built that to be on hinges down

There and then attach up there onto this plate I think looks really really great and you’ve also got up here a shroom light which is easily detachable and it’s just sitting on those two studs but this is a pretty cool build here to get and again I believe this is for the

First time so yeah I love when Minecraft pushes uh the sort of portfolio forward is what I like to call it um when we get new blocks and new official builds um speaking of this is the second time I believe we’ve gotten the Crimson uh root

There this is just a regular Bush piece it recolored in dark red which is a pretty new thing I think that only appeared in the last nether set that we got actually might have been the one before but anyways uh yeah this whole biome here oops a bit of a spoiler for a

Play feature you’re going to see but yeah over here in the back you could see when we come to the back you’ve got a couple of blocks that you can remove that are sitting on all of these plates and and that reveals a little block of ancient debris so it’s cool that they

Decided to include that and also just hide it in there really well uh you could see a little bit there sticking out so maybe that little block should be one higher but uh the fact that they did include that I think is pretty cool and

Look how easy it is to cover on up and I didn’t even know that was in the scent all right back over here to the front we’ve got a little bit of like a lava pool and you’ve got some magma blocks there which I have always really appreciated the build that they’ve done

For that got some gravel and different things and of course the portal which I think is really cool what they’ve done here they’ve added some of the Warped fences there that’s so cool I love how that looks just adding a little bit of detail I think maybe they could have

Added like one more plate it’s just sort of like you know in your world sometimes you just want to you know that’s your nether portal you want to go a little above and beyond decorated a bit I think that’s that’s really fun uh the nether portal this is a very sort of unique

Play feature here for this one you could see like all the obsidian represented by uh the these little purple studs throughout this but you’ll notice as I move it it’ll fall out and no that’s that’s not a bad design play feature it’s actually specifically meant to reference something jumping ahead with

The gas here when you shoot the blast you can knock out the nether portal so deactivating it that which happens sometimes which I think is just so fun that Lego went ahead and included that play feature here by just making it like Loosely sit inside there so just to show

You if I spin it around here on the back you can see it’s just it’s all flat so what you do is you just put that inside Loosely so that when the dish hits it it knocks out and deactivates it because of course the set’s called the nether

Portal Ambush so you’re ambushed when you walk through the portal over here uh the sort of Base salts Deltas biome here that you’ve got going on you’ve got all the pillars which I think look really cool and you’ve got a little bit of a transparent orange bit there to just add

To uh sort of the lava texture which by the way there’s another another little plate down there uh that’s actually a if this opens up you can see that’s actually a 1ex one brick but yeah cute little biome not much going on there and this is probably the thing that excites

Me the most the gas in this set personally and I’ll tell you why because I had the original nether set that came with the gas that thing was so small it it’s it’s shot a stud and then they came up with that really cool version with

The the nether portal set and so the fact that it’s back here it’s been a bit like it it’s really been a while I’m very happy about it so the way that this works is first of all you build it upside down you build from the uh top up

There which is really unique um because all those plates are inverted so anyways the face like look how detailed that is like none of that’s printed that’s all made out of studs I think it just looks really well really creepy I look at this and I can hear the creepy Screech but

You saw the play feature before all you do is you push this for forward in the back there and it will shoot out one of these this is a 2X two tile with a fireball I’ve been needing this and dying to get this this is one of the few

Items that I never had in my collection cuz I didn’t have that set but you actually get two of them included which is so so cool someone like me who played a lot of bedw wars and Hunger Games and survival games I’m so happy to have this

Like cuz that’s sort of like an item that you can hold in your hand sometimes so yeah really surreal to finally have this and all of like the sort of tendrils and tentacles here on the bottom they can be angled if you don’t want to have them all going the same way

You could sort of you know move them a little bit there but you might be noticing what’s up with the one there to show you you can go ahead and take that and attach it right there and have the gas flying over can we just all stop for

A second and just show the Lego Minecraft team like a huge round of applause and appreciation for actually listening to criticism and coming back and fixing it like the hogland while it was so great to finally get something from like the nether update in those sets the fact that the colors that they

Picked were just so so far off and wrong was really frustrating but now they’ve come back they’ve fixed it and I think that it looks so great using these colors like even just the textures that they’ve got going on here with the dark orange the darker skin color and even

Like the medium uh nougat there it’s so great the tusks in the front as well uh in tan look amazing this new uh 2×3 tile in the front it’s just remarkable I love the feet the legs and everything here there is actually a play feature which

All you do is you push down on the back part there and it’ll move the head forward so that’s a really cool little play feature that they’ve kept here but I am so happy about this thing including the set are two little magma cubes there uh no they can’t actually attach to each

Other I’ve just sat them on top there but yeah it’s great to be getting these two uh you know sort of just additional like you’re already getting two pretty big mobs and the skin so I like this and here is the orc Warrior and you know me

I love when we get a new skin instead of just like Alex and Steve this is amazing I love it a lot you’ve got like some sort of uh shoulder padding there and some strap going on down in behind the belt I like the texture really great you

Can see the back torso’s got a little bit of like uh that shoulder padding there as well the face looks great too I don’t know if that’s a smile the mouth is open screaming shocked because of the ghast I’m going to assume like the eye color as well I feel like that’s quite

Unique I do have a diamond pickaxe and an enchanted bow included as as well not quite the gear I would be coming through the portal with but uh yeah really awesome all right so I just want to look at the instructions really quickly to show you something here in the back if

You don’t know there’s a couple of sets this year uh that are launching on the first there are seven sets in total but a couple of them can actually be combined you can see these two are supposed to be combined which we’ll do in another video but uh these here

Specifically this set and the Armory can be combined to make that so yeah like I said we’re going to do that in another video and I just think that because they both have Nether Portals having built this set now I kind of understand a little bit more of the story of that

Other one I guess there you have it everyone that is my review of the nether portal Ambush set I think that uh it’s a lot of fun I think that this is just you’re getting a lot here you’re getting uh one new skin a new version of the

Hogin the two magma cubes and a gast which it’s it’s been so long and the new biome it’s really great too and I like the play feature with the portal that’s a lot of fun so yeah overall really solid addition to our nether collection

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