Well, this was unlikely. Ordinarily, you wouldn’t expect a LEGO polybag set that’s been given away at the LEGO Store for two consecutive months to show up for sale at mass retail. So when someone messaged me to let me know that they’d found the 30265 LEGO Legends of Chima Worriz’ Fire Bike set at their local Target store, I thought maybe it was a freak accident shipment. Nope! I strolled into Target this week and found a ton of LEGO Worriz’ Fire Bike 30265 sets myself. And since they were right in front of me, I couldn’t resist picking up an extra to review…

The Right:

Confession time: I already had a LEGO Chima Worriz’s Fire Bike polybag set that I got from the LEGO Store earlier this month. That said, that one was still sealed in the original LEGO bag, and faced with the opportunity to pick up an extra LEGO 30265 to open, well… I just couldn’t help myself!

Free sets are good, but getting polybag sets out to the masses–who might not necessarily be able to make a qualifying purchase at the LEGO Store–is always appreciated. Thumbs up, LEGO.

LEGO Worriz’ Fire Bike is a quick and easy three-to-five minute build for LEGO fans of all ages. The set itself is only 31 pieces, so there’s little room for error.

From the left-hand side of the 30265 LEGO Chima Worriz Fire Bike, the bike looks awesome. Both tires can real roll (as you would expect them to), the bike has a stylish red rear hubcap and side grill, and an articulated handlebars for allowing Worriz to hold on in comfort.

My favorite part of the bike, though, is what makes it a LEGO “Fire Bike”–the black flamethrower/exhaust port on the left side of the bike. Without this detail, the bike would look totally nonthreatening and benign. With it? This is one mean Wolf Tribe ride!

The set also includes a LEGO Fire Armor Worriz minifigure and a Fire CHI Crystal. Though this is just a polybag set that was largely given away as a free promo, LEGO didn’t cheap out on Worriz–he has a reversible head and printing on both the front and back of his torso.

I actually like to display my Legends of Chima LEGO minifigures sometimes with their animal head helmets off, as then you can really appreciate the head prints a lot more. I really love both the Worriz shy/pouty looking face print and the fierce, growling face print, and I think it’s a real shame that the wolf head add-on covers up both expressions.

The Wrong:

From the left side, the Worriz Fire Bike LEGO set looks stupendous. From its right side, well… not so much.

The right side of the LEGO Legends of Chima Worriz’ Fire Bike set is lacking all detail, making the bike look more like a dopey scooter than a fearsome motorcycle. The set looks totally unfinished from the right-hand side, and is easily one of the least-impressive items in the whole LEGO Legends of Chima toy line when looked at from this side. Really surprising, considering how well LEGO usually executes their polybag sets.

Also, I think that Worriz himself was a pretty uninspired choice to anchor this set. While Worriz is the main Legends of Chima Wolf Tribe member that we see in the Chima cartoon series, we’ve gotten him plenty of times in LEGO minifigure form. In fact, we’re even getting the LEGO Fire Worriz minifigure in multiple sets besides this one. Just about any other LEGO Chima Wolf Tribe minifigure would have been preferable to Worriz, just for some variety.

Overall: If you got this LEGO 30265 Worriz’ Fire Bike set for free at the LEGO Store, you got a great deal. If you paid $3.99 for this set over at Target, then… you probably overpaid by a buck or two. The LEGO Worriz minifigure itself is nice (if you don’t have a Fire Armor Worriz minifigure already), and from the proper angle, the LEGO Fire Bike itself also looks good. But from the opposite side, Worriz’s Fire Bike looks totally unfinished and cheap–not at all what I expect from LEGO. I love LEGO Chima and it’s hard to be too down on a $4 LEGO polybag set, but LEGO really should have refined this set more. Average.

GRADE: C+