Greetings, readers! With the Jurassic World movie opening this past weekend, we will be bringing you a review of a LEGO Jurassic World set every day this week starting today! Up first is our review of 75915 Pteranodon Escape and we’ll be going up the price point ladder all the way through Saturday ending the week with 75919 Indominus rex Breakout. And while that movie just sucked, at least we get some cool sets out of it.
Ahhh…. price points. In some ways, you gotta love’em. Having sets hit a variety of price points gives everyone a chance to pick up a set based on their budget, be it for themselves or as a gift. The drawback is that there is a tendency for the lower priced sets to be lacking in quality because of the lower piece count. 75915 Pteranodon Capture is the cheapest set in the Jurassic World line (not counting the promotional polybag set, 30320 Gallimimus Trap) and unfortunately doesn’t deserve your hard earned dollars.
Let’s just get this out of the way: Pteranodon Capture resembles very little to the scene it’s inspired from. Yes, there was a helicopter; yes, Simon Masrani did pilot said helicopter; there was an ACU trooper; and yes, there was a pteranodon. It’s been a long established pattern that LEGO sets aren’t exactly the most accurate when recreating the scene from which the set is based on and thankfully LEGO is keeping that tradition alive. If you can just accept that LEGO extrapolated the basic elements of the aviary sequence to create this set, then they didn’t really do a bad job of it. So taking that into consideration, let’s go on with the review.
Warning: review may contain movie spoilers.