I spent my weekend trying to recreate this Fabuland sticker from 71837 Ninjago City Workshops! Was it Worth it?

In which I get distracted by nostalgic content included on a sticker in a Ninjago set I don’t have, do some colouring in, review 3265 Sandy Seagull’s Aeroplane and 3697 Flour Mill and Shop, do some figure matching and ultimately spend the weekend trying to reconstruct that sticker in photographic form. Will I succeed?

I’ve been a bit busy away from LEGO® bricks recently. While I have dodged much of the upcoming March Madness preview season, I also failed to mention that the 71837 Ninjago City Workshops is being released on March 1 2025. Had I mentioned this at the time that it was first announced, I would have also most certainly highlighted the fact that the set includes a Fabuland Reference: One of the panels includes a sticker that highlights several Fabuland Figures, a couple of Fabuland sets with the word ‘Fabuland’ plastered across the middle of the poster in Ninjago script. While I don’t have a review copy of the Ninjago Workshops, I do have quite few Fabuland figures and elements lying around the place; accumulated over the years from various sources. Let’s take a closer look at what’s featured in the sticker and see if we can recreate the view in real life.

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Setting the Scene: Moving from Cardboard Cutout to Polystyrene

In which a long weekend craft project gets a little out of hand…

Its allegedly early Autumn here in Melbourne. We just had a long weekend. Associated with three days in a row where the temerature was 38ºC /100 F. So I set about a little craft project. I have found my attempts to review the last few LEGO Space have been stymied somewhat by the lack of space. In particular, the Command Rover and Lifting Crane, along with the Space Bace and Launchpad are both substantial sets.

My Current Cardboard Cutout Planetary background

If you have been following The Rambling Brick for a while, you will have clued into the fact that I enjoy using a bit of cardboard cutout scenery for themes such as Town, castle, Space… and even extending more recently to Ninjago and City.

This time, I am ready for something a little larger. So, for the public holiday, I took on a little project…

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