Tickets go on sale today for Brickvention 2025. Return to the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne for Australia’s Premier LEGO FAN EVENT. Use our link to enter a draw for a Brickvention Merchandise voucher, just for readers of the Rambling Brick.
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Tickets for the public expo are now available. Readers of the Rambling Brick who use this link to buy their tickets before December 15th, 2024, will be entered into a prize draw for a voucher to spend at the Brickvention Merchandise Stall.
Did you ever wonder how all of those letters to Santa got there? And how those letters from Santa made their way from the North Pole to hopeful children? Wonder no longer with the Latest Winter Village collection set, 10339 Santa’s Workshop. This latest addition to the annual Christmas holiday tradition goes on sale on the 1st of October, 2024 for $AUD169.99/€99.99 / $USD99.99 / £89.99. The set has 1440 pieces, and comes with 5 minifigures.
Also due for release on the 1st of October is the 40746 Santa’s Delivery Truck, with 224 pieces, and priced at $AUD32.99/ €19.99 / $19.99 / £17.99
If there is one thing that is bound to raise the hackles of many AFOLs, it’s the offer of removing a something that they regard as an intrinsic part of the experience. And yesterday’s survey on the topic of Digital vs paper instructions certainly raised a few hackles. And then, it was mysteriously removed.
Today, we have received an official response from the LEGO Group on the subject.
A Couple of years ago, the LEGO Group changed the nature of their printed instructions, in the name of sustainability: The duplicated box art was replaced by rendered images, the instructions began to included an avatar based progress marker, and they introduced a congratulatory starburst every time you successfully completed a sub-build. But this reduction in the amount of cover ink used (and in turn the amount of processing necessary to recycle the paper) came at a time when it felt like instructions were getting thicker than ever.
Edit 20th September: the survey appears to have been taken down.
Today, Lego insiders is asking your opinion on paper instructions, and using digital instructions, with a short, and possibly leading, questionnaire. you can find it here: https://www.lego.com/en-au/insiders/activities. It’s worth 50 Insiders points.
I might suggest you do the survey before rereading my editorial from the time. This was one of my slightly more crazy tinfoil conspiracy theories of the time. But let’s take a Quick Look at how some of these things might have come to pass – for better or for worse.
Next year is a big year for new LEGO Collaborations: a few weeks ago they announced a multiyear partnership with NIKE, and today they have announced a new strategic partnership with Formula 1, just in time for the events’ 75th anniversary.
The new arrangement will see LEGO-based activities around the track. It will also give all 10 current teams representation in the LEGO Portfolio, with sets for all ages.
Earlier in the year, the LEGO Group announced a collection of motor racing-based sets for this year, and it sounds like the company will be in overdrive next year.
The new LEGO® Wicked 75682 Ephaba and Glinda Figures set introduces a new type of buildable character—quite a change from the articulated figures that have been seen in the superhero era in recent times. I was quite intrigued by how they might be constructed, and so, when the LEGO Group kindly sent over the sets based on the forthcoming movie Wicked, I decided to start with these. All opinions are my own.
Set 75682 Elphaba and Glinda Figures goes on sale on October 1 2024, priced at $AUD99.99/UDS54.99/£43.99/€54.99. It has 558 pieces.
Aimed at kids aged ten years and up, will these figures revolutionise how character builds are executed, or will it fall flat? Let’s take a closer look. And just how do they fit in with the multitude of different forms of licenced character builds that exist in LEGO form?
Castle Nocturnia is a key location in both the first and second seasons of LEGO Dreamzzz and, on-screen, demonstrates the typical adherence to physics that might be considered to rival the combined works of Salvador Dali and MC Escher. With six large towers heading off at right angles to each other and an increasingly inconsistent application of the laws of gravity, it is truly a place of fantasy, especially under the guardianship of the ferocious manticore, Phil.
This is all well and good in a story set in the intangible Dream World, but how does this translate to the reality of being constructed out of plastic building bricks and constrained to the standard set of earthly physical laws before being subjected to a collection of younglings at playtime?
There is so much to sum up in this location of remarkable design that compromises will have to be made.
This set was provided by the LEGO GROUP for review purposes. All opinions are my own
As the D2C flagship set of the range, this set has a lot to achieve: let’s take a closer look. If you don’t want the building process spoiled, jump down to my Thoughts, where I shall try to sum up the experience. There might be minor spoilers for the series – in which case, watching through to the end of season 2 will ensure I won’t ruin anything for you. But I hope not many of them will be critical to the plot.
In which we look at the figures in the build a ministations, compare theme with their existing counterparts and speculate over the next colour of spaceman torso. I think the clues are all there…
While LEGO® Dreamzzz sets focus mainly on the Dream World, a significant part of the action takes place in the waking world: the schoolyard, the kids’ homes and other locations around LEGO Brooklyn. It has been a little frustrating, being unable to get the right minifigures for these settings, until now…
We are celebrating the final half of season 2 of LEGO® DREAMZZz by looking at themes, books and more that made a point of inspiring kids to combine sets of multiple themes in creative play. We have already looked at the 6000 Ideas Book and explored the adventures of Max Timebuster throughout the 1994 catalogue. Today we move on to one of the themes regarded as a spiritual predecessor to DREAMZZz, the 1996-97 Time Cruisers.
The LEGO Group has today announced a new collaboration with visionary artist and designer Pharrell Williams, inspiring everyone to unlock their creativity and unleash their limitless potential through LEGO Play.
Today’s announcement also sees the release of a new LEGO set designed in collaboration with Pharell. Over the Moon is a space shuttle with a golden canopy and a vibrant jet stream of colors. For Pharrell, the infinity of space was the first catalyst for his imagination, showing him that there are no limits to what we can explore.
