The Aston Martin DB5 is the car James Bond used in several films, the first being Goldfinger. The car used in Goldfinger was sold back in 2010 for $4.6 million but you can pick up a regular one for about a half a million. You just need to sell off a couple of your houses, right. Lego had just released their version and it looks stunningly poor.
To me it looks like it was designed by Cold War Era Soviet designers. The elegant lines of the real car are gone. Mind you I often find LEGO versions of real cars to suck the big donkey dick. I get that there's a lot of work going on here, moving parts, etc, and that's fine. Good work. It's just the parts don't lend themselves to sophisticated curves and the cars often look terrible. I'm lacking any real need for speed, as in getting down to the LEGO store to buy one. I might take one for half price, the full price is $149.99 for just over 1200 parts, but then again, it's almost all gray parts that I don't really need.
I would buy this in an instant,had the designers not spent so much time on the working features with so little attention to trying to capture the elegant lines and curves of the real db5. This looks absolutely terrible and Lego should be absolutely ashamed of itself to release such an abomination. Lego is not getting my hard earned money for this poorly executed set that needs to be completely retooled.
Posted by: George Liu | August 10, 2018 at 09:45 PM