In our last review of the LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth sets, we check out the largest set in the wave, the Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission (76976). It has 984 pieces and retails for $159.99.
Minifigures
There are four minifigures in the set, Martin Krebs, Zora Bennett, Duncan Kincaid, and Dr. Henry Loomis. Martin, Zora, and Henry are the exact same minifigures as from the previous sets I’ve reviewed already so we won’t go into too much detail with them. Zora does have the Quetzalcoatlus tracker as an additional accessory.
Duncan Kincaid has on a black shirt with a green belt and gray pants. A black beret and brown backpack completes his look. His accessories include a machete and a flare gun.
Dinosaurs
The two dinosaurs in the set include the Spinosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus which makes up a lot of the price for this set. The Spinosaurus has a mostly dark brown color scheme with some tan on the bottom part of the body and tail. The arms and legs can move to an extent while the head can ratchet around.
The Quetzalcoatlus has a sand blue color scheme and it has even more limited movement than the Spinosaurus. The main thing here are the ratchet wings that can flap and fold.
Build
There are three builds to the overall set, the truck, helicopter, and the ancient temple. There’s nothing too special with the truck but it’s 8-wide and has a decent sized flatbed. It is decorated with a good number of stickers. They designate that the truck is InGen ‘s vehicle number 05. The flatbed holds another of the syringe containers that we’ve seen in other sets.
The helicopter is also fairly generic. There’s only room for one person in the cockpit and there’s a sticker tracker for the Spinosaurus although it’ll be fairly hard for whoever is driving it to see where it is while flying. The helicopter is labeled as 03 in InGen’s variety of vehicles.
The temple itself is the nesting site for the Quetzalcoatlus which is shown with the eggs in the middle. The temple creators also have claws throughout the top area for decoration. There’s a play feature here with the collapsing columns at the top when you push the back tree branch.
The cave opening right below the nest has a mouth with some large teeth carved in the rocks. There is another fun play feature here with the booby trap right when you go in the cave. To activate it, you pull on the chain next to the mouth and there are sharp axes that fall down.
To the left of the cave, there’s a waterfall that doesn’t look like the aesthetic of the rest of the build, mainly what LEGO used for the water. It uses a little sticker on the blue panel for the waterfall which looks off. It seems like that design is more suited for Friends, Ninjago, Monkie Kid, etc. I would rather have a brick-built waterfall which would have looked much better and probably lower the cost a bit.
The other side of the temple is just the face of the wall where the minifigures can climb up.
Results
Is the LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission (76976) worth it at its current price of $159.99, absolutely not. I’m not going to lie, the ancient temple is a decent build that could also fit into other themes like Indiana Jones. Yes, I don’t like the waterfall too much but the rest of it is not bad. The play features work well and the building techniques to get them that way is also good. The vehicles are your typical ones and they’re just nice throw-ins for kids to have more variety of play.
The dinosaurs, however, are good and bad. Good because we have more dinosaur in general but bad because the molds cost a lot to produce and hence the extremely inflated price of the set. The Jurassic World sets are usually more expensive compared to other themes but the $160 price point is way too much for a sub 1,000 piece set. Even if there’s a decent sale for the set, I feel it will still be out of reach for most.
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