On the face of it there’s not much to see, but a nice stickered screen and two interesting builds for instruments in this section make it worth paying attention to. It would be pointless to create any structure and complete lock out the dinosaurs – you want to invite the havoc inside, after all. Floating separate from the rest of the building, it is pulled in by the lower ground panels to create a large open plan area for the minifigures and most crucially the larger dinosaurs to easily fit within. In a LEGO universe that generally relies on large moulds for its dinosaurs, this sort of build is a nice reminder of what’s really possible with bricks. Alongside this sits a separate and substantially sized centrepiece build of a triceratops head, masterfully created from bricks. The ground floor is the most interesting area to the finished set, creating that museum vibe thanks to two large wall panels with what could be large paintings represented underneath, and raised walkways above. The build process may have you worried, as the first few bags see you build up and up for a very unstable and thin building, before you later add the side towers with Technic pins, and build forward the ground floor set-up.
The interior to the building is where the set finds more detail, albeit packed into a shallow grid of rooms that is built in a very similar style to the 3-in-1 Creator range’s houses, with plenty of doorframes and pillars used to divide four-stud deep platforms. The outside to the building is predominantly tan, with eight window pieces built identical – detail comes from subtle aspects to the build, and two large stickers, before the roof steals the show thanks to a skylight with collapsing play function. For an idea of the complexity of this build, it took 90 minutes start to finish. Further to this is a more detailed lower ground extension that, without the context of the film to compare with, is really reminiscent of a museum. The entire build is for creating this structure, and the end result is a nicely decorated exterior on the front side, and a grid of shallow, open rooms on the interior filled with various details no doubt relevant to the film. That unfamiliar setting is a large skeletal fascia to represent Lockwood Estate. In terms of pure play, disregarding the context that the film could offer, it places its two dinosaurs in a new, unfamiliar context.
Where every other set on offer presents island-based activity in the form of chasing down or being chased by various dinosaurs with vehicles, or within particular enclosures, 75930 is the first set in the LEGO Jurassic World universe presenting its dinosaur action in what appears to be an off-island, civilised setting. At least twice the price of anything else in the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom range and including the spoilerific main ‘bad guy’ dinosaur, the Indoraptor, 75930 actually takes a risk in also offering a notable change of pace. The centrepiece to the LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom range, 75930 Indoraptor Rampage at Lockwood Estate is an interesting set.
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