Lego 40649 - Scaled-Up Lego Minifigure

This was a Christmas present last year and done over a weekend in May.

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

I foolishly looked at the back of the box to photograph it, which spoilt the surprise!

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

You build the torso first

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

The legs are articulated so this is their mounting

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

Detail of the right leg

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

Right leg attached

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

Both legs attached

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

Arms and hands.  The hands are super flimsy and fall off if you look at them funny and disintegrate when you try to reattach them.  Pretty poor design.  But the arms do move around and stay in place, not like the big original one years ago.

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

The round slopes for the head.  With smiley!

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

This is the surprise!  Inside the hat is a cockpit for a minifig to control the big minifig!

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

The whole hat.  Because they had to mount an opening dome, the back of it sticks out further than it should.  And the front isn't nicely rounded.  And it also doesn't actually match the design of the minifig hat that comes with it.  It's closer to the old flat-billed caps.  

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

Complete!  With minifig!

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

The minifig controlling the minifig!  You can see here how the cap styles are different - you'd think they'd have given the little minifig an older style flat-billed cap.

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

View of the back

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

A few more of the pair

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

As always, there's pieces I've never seen before

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

Lego 40649 Scaled-Up Minifigure

So yeah a couple of little issues with the design, but overall it's a super cute model, I enjoyed it :):)