The latest series of Lego Minifigures is here, and this time around they’re all Disney themed. Released on May 1st, there are 18 to collect and each one retails for £2.50. They’re blind bags, which means you have no idea which one you’re getting until you open the bag – unless you can work it out from standing in the shop and giving them a good feel.

The 18 figures are…

• Mickey Mouse
• Minnie Mouse
• Donald Duck
• Daisy Duck
• Alice and the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland
• Peter Pan
• Captain Hook
• Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty
• Ariel and Ursula from The Little Mermaid
• The Genie and Aladdin
•  Stitch
• Mr Incredible and Syndrome
• Buzz Lightyear and Alien

We managed to get a hold of 5 bags a day early, and did a video of us opening them up and discovering what we got.

The Mickey Mouse figure was disappointing because he seems lacking in an detail at all, having a completely bare chest, but the rest of them were nice. We were unlucky to get two Alice’s, but that is the first time I’ve seen a skirt on a minifigure before (I’m sure it’s not, but they’re obviously rare enough that I’ve not had one).

Not sure we would attempt to collect the full set. At £2.50 each, you could buy 18 of them at £44 only to find you had a whole bunch of doublers and have to go back and buy more. But I have no doubt these will fly off the shelves.

Another Mighty Micros set for you today, this time it’s the Robin vs. Bane set from the DC Super Heroes side. This is a 77 piece set which has an RRP of £8.99, but is currently selling at Amazon for £7.95.

This is the smallest Mighty Micros set we’ve come across so far, and those pieces snapped together in just a couple of minutes with very little fuss. From the point of view of a kid building them, this has certainly been the easiest and least fiddly. If you’re buying this because you enjoy the building stage, then you’re probably going to be disappointed with a build that is so quick.

However, it’s not a very stable final model. The nose cone on the Bane tunnel digger is especially shaky, and it fell off a few times as we were trying to record the end of the video. This is certainly something we’ve started to discover with all the Mighty Micros as Noah continues to play with them. They’re great little toys, but the small size limits them to being connected by single blocks and small connectors, making them quite brittle for kids at the low-end of the 5-12 age range they’re targeted at (and to be honest, those are likely to be the age range most interested in them).

I still can’t find too much fault at this price though. Noah continues to love them, and is still playing with all of the other sets we’ve done videos for. I don’t think you can have a better recommendation than that.

Lego Mixels are probably the cheapest sets that Lego sell, coming in at just £3 each, for about a 60-70 pieces. They’re aimed at ages 6+, and there have been 7 series so far, with 9 sets in each series. If you can’t be bothered finding them all, Amazon have the full set.

As individual models, they’re bright, colourful, and easy enough to build even for younger hands. Noah managed one of the sets by himself, so the instructions are also easily enough to follow. The series breaks into three groups, police, medieval and music and the sets in each group can also be combined into a larger model. They’re all fun little creatures, with movable mouths and posable arms and legs,

Disappointingly, the larger models don’t actually use all of the pieces in the group, and you’ll still have a fair number left when you’re done. Not only does this mean you’ll miss out on the satisfaction of the table in front of you being empty, but it also means you’ll need to properly store the remaining parts if you ever want to build the separate models again.

Out of the larger models, Noah preferred MCPD Max, because you could open his mouth and put a minifig into the jail within his stomach. He was happy to play with all of them though, and the ball joints holding the limbs in place means that they’re strong enough to handle that.

Ultimately, it’s hard to complain about sets that are this cheap. These are pocket money toys, and far better than most things in that category.