LEGO Nexo Knights Jestro's Evil Mobile Kit (658 Piece)

My son loves Legos and has done too many sets to count. My son is 9 and this set was not a huge challenge, but it is still one of his all-time favorites! It is really cool looking when it's done.

My 7 year old grandson was beyond excited to start building this set. Arrives promptly

Got this for the one figure inside (Jestro) and the set itself is actually pretty nice.

I bought this as a Christmas gift. It was as described and shipped in a timely manner.

This rating is actually 4.5 stars.Firstly, I’m very happy to finally get my favorite and second-favorite characters from the Nexo Knights cartoon show, namely the Book of Monsters and Jestro, respectively! Now, on with the review.This set contains two minfigures (Jestro and Lance), a book-accessory (the Book of Monsters), one buildable mech (Sparkks), one small build (Lance’s Hover-horse) and the main attraction, the Evil Mobile.Jestro is a fantastic-looking minifigure!Great printing on him. His face (both the sides) is very expressive. There is something very special about this minifigure. Maybe it’s because it’s the first time we have got an evil jester from LEGO!(Earlier, all the Jesters that we got, in different themes, were nice ones!). His staff is a very nice-looking assembled weapon. But I wish LEGO would have created a new accessory similar to the staff he uses in the cartoon show; then it would have been magnificent. Jestro’s cape is the hard paper-like material.Wish LEGO would have used the soft material.Lance minifigure looks fantastic. Great printing on him. His helmet and visor piece is very good.There are three Nexo powers in this set. Great accessories but my complaint is that only one of them is unique to this set whereas two of the Nexo powers are already included in other sets.I wish all three were unique. Moreover I wish every Nexo Knight set had unique Nexo powers.The Book of monsters is a book-accessory and it looks great! The print on the front/cover page is very good. But I wish that instead of a print, if LEGO would have used a mold/embedding to indicate the face of the book of monsters, then it would have been awesome! I know it’s impossible but hope LEGO does that someday in the future.Lance’s Hover-horse is just..awesome! One of the BEST (and creative and appealing) builds from LEGO I’ve ever seen! Seriously, it IS that good! This build is a perfect example of why people love LEGO. This build should be a standard for all LEGO designers to follow. In the six years that I’ve been into LEGO, I’ve seen a lot of redundancy in LEGO sets, but this one is VERY unique and MORE pleasing than most other LEGO builds. But I do have a small complaint about this build and that is the way the handles are built. It is very difficult to make a minifigure to hold those handles. This is one common issue that I’ve seen in a lot of other LEGO builds/sets.Sparkks is a buildable mech-like thing. I have quite a few mechs from LEGO and till today I have disliked most of them. But this one is just..magnificent! Not only does it look fabulous but the size is just right! But sadly, this mech suffers from the same issue that all LEGO mechs do..and that is flexibility. It’s arms and legs aren’t as flexible as they should be , because of the ball-joint system used. Hope someday LEGO develops a new system that gives a better flexibility to mech-builds.Now, in the cartoon show, Sparkks is NOT a mech, he’s an organic creature.Wish LEGO would have created Sparkks using big mold pieces, to give a realistic look. Though Sparkks looks good in this set, he is not as good as he looks in the cartoon show.Sparkks carries a assembled weapon which ,like most of the assembled weapons from LEGO, looks ridiculous. It should have been designed a lot better. In fact, it would have been great if LEGO would have used a single-mold weapon.Then it would have looked nice too.Coming to the main part of this set, the Evil Mobile. No doubt, it looks quite amazing! A very unique and appealing set! Definitely, one of the BEST-looking sets/builds from LEGO in a very long time!! (I have NEVER seen any LEGO set like this before) The build was fun and creative too. An excellent job by the designers. I especially liked how the wheels are built. A very creative idea from the designer(s). This is one of the few builds from LEGO that I enjoyed immensely while building! The front of the vehicle looks like the face of a jester-like monster, which is fantastic. The lower jaw of the face, goes up and down as one of the two wheels rotate, which is a great feature. The color scheme of the vehicle is also very good.Though this vehicle/build is extremely good, there are a few things which keep it from being perfect. They are:1) This vehicle should/could have been bigger. In the Nexo Knights cartoon show, this was a lot bigger. If the Sparkks figure/build/mech was NOT included in this set, then the Evil Mobile would have been bit bigger , by adding more parts to it and then it would have been the right size! And maybe even looked better! Also In the cartoon show, the Evil Mobile was pulled by two monsters (Sparkks and Burnzie). But in this set, the vehicle has provision to be pulled by only ONE monster. That’s bit disappointing.2) On the top of the vehicle there are a few Technic parts used (like , for the two catapults). Though Technic parts provide functionality to the build, I feel they spoil the look of the build because of lot of holes in them. It’s better if the Technic parts are hidden from view or else, they should be covered with other bricks. Just an opinion.3) Now, on the top of the vehicle, there is play feature where a ladder part is fixed horizontally so that when a minifigure tries to walk on it, it falls down into the jail-like room below. Whether this feature is good or not is irrelevant but what matters is that, IF instead of this ladder part, if one plate would have been used, then EASILY three to four minifigures could have stood there. And then it would have been awesome! Imagine Jestro sitting on top of the vehicle and a couple of his henchmen (well, from other sets) could sit below him.But sadly the Designers didn’t think that way. This is a COMMON problem with many LEGO sets wherein a medium or big sized vehicle/build will have hardly space for more than one minifigure. I think LEGO needs to address this issue. But, in this build, one good thing is that, you don’t have to be an expert LEGO designer to just remove the ladder piece and put/fix one (or maybe two)plates there. I will do that. Whenever I see any flaw in a LEGO set that I buy, I try to fix it. After all when I pay a lot of money for a toy, it should be at least satisfactory, correct?This set contains a lot of things we love about LEGO – fun, creative and great-looking builds (namely the Evil Mobile, Sparkks and the Hover Horse), fantastic minifigures (Jestro, Lance) and nice accessories (Book of Monsters) and parts.I’m sad to see only this many reviews in Amazon. Definitely this set is underrated. Now if this same set was in a ” Star Wars” or “ DC/Marvel Super Heroes” theme, then this set would have got hundreds of reviews! Anyway, guess many people are into LEGO because of their preferred themes. Not just because I’m into LEGO but because I like creativity, building stuff and good-looking , high quality toys, I can say for sure that this set is a winner. One of the best sets from LEGO. Enough said.

Good Xmas Gift.

For the price, I was expecting a smaller box!! To my surprise this is a big Lego set!! Santa knows what he's doing!?

My grandson is very happy - he assembled everything with no problems whatsoever. What else can grandma wish? We both are happy.