The LEGO Art range has come a long way since the first Pixel art pieces were released a few years ago, stopping off via the Great Wave, and the Milky way, and more recently the LOVE Sculpture. Today, in association with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the LEGO Group has officially revealed. the latest model in this series: 31215 Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.
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One of the biggest challenges facing LEGO Fans who have been collecting for any significant period of time is one of storage and display space. I am excited to see that with the latest LEGO ICONS subtheme, Restaurants of the World, we are getting a detailed facade and streetscape, chock full of neat parts usage, yet limited to a depth of only 8 studs. I can smell the coffee from here.
The first set in the series 10362 French Cafe is due for release on March 1st 2025. It has 1101 pieces and will be priced at $AUD129.99/ USD79.99/79.99€/£69.99
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The Tale of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, as they seek for the One Piece Treasure, has been one of the most successful manga publications in history. The series has also been in near constant production as an anime series since 1999, with over 1130 episode produced to date. That’s a lot of lore to catch up on and explains why I will probably never fully understand Bionicle. However, a NETFLIX adaptation started in 2023, and with only 8 episodes produced so far, I have a good chance of getting up to date by the end of the weekend – leaving me ready and waiting for season 2 when it drops later in the year.
We don’t know much about any sets that we might be getting, but we have a short teaser animation…
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After a seemingly endless parade of Spaceships in 2024, throughout City, Technic, Friends, Classic and Dulplo, it seems that ICONs is trying to scrape through before the 2025 Formula One dominance kicks in. And what a way to go, with a reimagining of the 1987 classic, 6954 Blacktron Renegade. The original version cemented Blacktron’s Bad boy image by its blatant disregard for the symmetrical spaceship design that was the norm in LEGO Space to that date. The new one doubles down and embraces the legacy of the first iteration of Blacktron.
The set will be released on January 1 2025, and comes with 3 minifigures, a droid and 1151 pieces. It will be priced at $AUD179.99/USD99.99/€99.99/£89.99
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It’s that most wonderful time of the year: sure, Christmas is coming, and the advent calendars are opening day by day. But more importantly, the latest LEGO® modular building has finally been revealed.
Modular buildings have a special place in my heart: back when I discovered such as thing as an AFOL, the modular buildings were just taking off. This was a time when the Modular buildings were a cornerstone of the AFOL experience. With only a handful of adult-focused sets being released each year, the modular was the one purchase most people seemed to agree with, whether they were otherwise into cars, trains or Star Wars.
These days, we see sets focused on grown ups being launched every other week. It is almost routine and mundane. But still, the modular always feels special.
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LEGO and F1 are racing into 2025 with a slew of product reveals overnight in Las Vegas. On top of the Duplo, City and Speed Champions sets, more sets have been revealed:
First is the set 10353 LEGO® Icons Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell. The set has 799 pieces and will be released March 1 2025 with an RRP of $AUD129.99/ €79.99 / $USD79.99 / £69.99.
Next up is the 42207 Technic Ferrari SF 24 F1 – this 1361 piece Technic set will also go on sale on March the 1st 2025, with a price of $AUD349.99 / €229.99 EUR / $USD229.99 / £199.99 .
Both sets, along with the Speed Champions, are now open to pre-order in some markets. Unfortunately, not Australia.
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The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17 was probably the final expedition of the Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration. Led by third time Antarctic Explorer Ernest Shackleton, the goal was to cross the icy continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, via the South Pole. What actually happened was a feat of human survival that could be summed up in a single word: than name of the ship they had set sail on: Endurance.
Overnight, the LEGO Group has revealed a 3011 piece replica model of the Wooden Brigantine Endurance. This set will be released on 29th November 2024, priced at $AUD399.99/£229.99 / €269.99/ $USD269.99. There will be a gift with purchase at release featuring Minifigures of Ernest Shackleton and photographer William Hurley, along with one of the lifeboats used to ensure the survival of the crew.
I’m a little excited by this set…
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The new LEGO IDEAS set 21353 The Botanical Garden boasts over 3700 pieces, 12 minifigures as well as 4 birds and 4 other animals. But its main claim to fame is the fact that it includes 35 different species of plant. With some interesting recolours already available via the existing Botanicals Collection, I thought it might be worth scouring the images of the set, and matching up the flowers with a list provided by the LEGO Ambassadors Network.
Although… That list might not quite be complete…
This won’t be a comprehensive review, as I don’t actually have the set in my hands, rather a tour in search of the plants matching the description. Once we are done, we will take a quick review of floral elements appearing in minifigure scaled sets over the years.
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Plants are blooming for LEGO® Enthusiasts: since the introduction of the Botanical Range back in 2020, we have seen the arrival of 14 ICONs botanicals sets, 6 creator sets and two gifts with purchase. We have seen the 1000 piece LEGO Friends Botanical Garden, a set that was for many adults, their first Friends set.
Today, the LEGO Group unveiled 21353 – The LEGO Ideas Botanical Gardens. With 3792 pieces, this set has 12 unique minifigures. It has four birds, a dog, a frog, a bunny and a squirrel. It is two baseplates wide, 64 bricks wide, and it contains over 35 brick built species of plants. It will go on sale on November 4th (November 1 for LEGO Insiders), at LEGO Branded retail outlets, priced at $AUD499.99/ €329.99 / £289.99 / $USD329.99 / 429.99 CAD
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Its been rumored for some time now, and now it is finally here: 76294 The X- Mansion. The most iconic location in Marvel’s X-Men Universe and home to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, this is the fourth in the range of ‘Marvel Modular’ sets and only the eighth LEGO® set in the 12 year history of LEGO® Marvel Superheroes to feature the X-Men.
Priced at $AUD499.99/ €329.99/ £289.99/ $USD 329.99, set 76294 has 3093 pieces and comes with 10 minifigures. The new minifigures include Professor X, a new variation of Jean Grey, Gambit, Iceman and Bishop.
Unveiling the set at the 2024 Recognised LEGO Fan Media Days, Senior Designer Justin Ramsden described the set as “…our love letter to the X-Men Universe”
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