Speed Champions

Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro and Aston Martin Vantage GT3

Two very different Aston Martins in one box, and one of them stole the whole show.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 76910 · 2022

Pieces595

Minifigs2

Year2022

Set number76910

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The verdict

The Vantage GT3 is the reason to buy this box.

It is instantly recognisable, the proportions sit right, and the printed headlights save you from the usual Speed Champions sticker marathon. The lime green Valkyrie next to it is the wilder shape but also the weaker model, a bit fragile and not quite as true to the real hypercar. As a two-for-one it still lands, especially at the price it sold for.

Best for: Speed Champions collectors who want the Vantage GT3 and treat the Valkyrie as a bonus

The full review

What it is

This is the box where LEGO put a track hypercar and a GT racer side by side and let you feel the difference between them. The Aston Martin Vantage GT3 is the one that got me. It is instantly readable as the real car, the 8-wide scale finally gives Speed Champions room to get the proportions right, and the whole thing has a planted, muscular stance that a lot of these little cars miss. Reviewers across the community landed in the same place, calling the Vantage one of the best Speed Champions cars of 2022, and after building it I understand why. It just looks correct from every angle. The lime green Valkyrie AMR Pro is the flashier shape, all wings and slits and sci-fi silhouette, and it makes a great contrast on the shelf even if it is the less convincing of the two.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the Valkyrie, because that is where the caveats live. It is a noticeably more delicate build than its shelfmate, it does not use the shared black floorpan piece that every other Speed Champions car is built on, so it leans on trans-clear plates to hold its angled panels together and it feels it in the hand. The wheels also read as too small for the body, which flattens the drama the real hypercar has in person. And the accuracy is looser than you would expect for a car this distinctive. None of that is a dealbreaker, but if you came for the Valkyrie specifically rather than the pair, temper the excitement. The minifigure printing is simple too, decent Aston stitching detail on the torsos but nothing you will frame.

Who it's for

Get this if you like Speed Champions and want the Vantage GT3 on your shelf, because that car alone justifies the box and the Valkyrie is a fun, colourful extra rather than the main event. It is also a friendly set for a nine or ten year old who is into cars, since two complete models and two drivers means twice the play out of one purchase. I would steer you elsewhere only if the Valkyrie was your whole reason for buying, or if you want a rock-solid swooshable build, because that half of the box is the fragile one. As a duo at its old $44.99 price it is easy to recommend.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this is a proper Speed Champions afternoon, two cars from one box, and the two halves do not feel the same to put together. The Vantage GT3 is the satisfying one, tight and confident, with brick-built curves that come together cleanly and printed headlights that spare you the fiddly sticker sheet this line is notorious for. The Valkyrie is the more experimental sit-down, using trans-clear supports to float its angled body panels rather than the standard black floorpan, which is clever to watch but leaves the finished model feeling more delicate than you want.

For parts hunters there is real interest here. The set brings recolours like the pointed 2x4 plates in lime green, and the headlight wedges arrive in two new colours, dark grey and lime green, with this being the only set to include the lime green pair unprinted. The Valkyrie windscreen is a 6x7 piece, effectively a longer sloped-side cousin of the familiar windscreen mould, and there are new-for-2022 trans-clear 1x2 horizontal clip plates in the mix too. Those angled black and red panels on the Valkyrie were otherwise only found in one Minecraft set at the time, so this box was a handy source for them.

Fun facts

01The Valkyrie is the odd one out in Speed Champions history because it does not use the black floorpan piece that every other car in the line is built around.
02This set was the only one to include the lime green headlight wedge element without any printing on it.
03It had a US RRP of $44.99, launched in March 2022, and retired at the end of 2023.
04The Vantage GT3 was widely picked by reviewers as one of the best Speed Champions cars of the entire 2022 wave.