After-Party Fest: Nathan Don's MOCs

Today we welcome guest Nathan Don (woomy_world), who is our final builder in After-Party Fest, our LEGO® building challenge using seed parts of interesting moulds released by LEGO over the last 12 months. Nathan's stunning work was selected for display until September 2025 at the prestigious LEGO House Masterpiece Gallery in Denmark, where Tim and Jonas met him at the time of installation. He then attended our Skaerbaek Fan Weekend building workshop, where these seed parts came from, and we sent him home to the US with a baggie to experiment with further!

What are the new LEGO® parts in December 2024 sets?

I've created a list showing all 43 new LEGO® elements added in late November and early December 2024, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in. For those of you who instead prefer our list of sets showing which contain the most new elements, click here.

Parts review: LEGO® Friends, LEGO® City and LEGO® Disney Advent Calendars

Welcome to December already! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, although the 2024 LEGO® advent calendars were actually revealed back in August. Stop reading now if you want to keep every aspect of your LEGO® City, LEGO® Friends or LEGO® Disney Advent calendars a surprise. Although we won't be spoiling the final mini-builds here, we have collected the new elements, new prints and rare elements from each of the three advent calendars to show you. 

There's some fun new elements amongst the usual fires with marshmallows toasting, ice hockey and Christmas trees!

Review: 10363 Leonardo Da Vinci's Flying Machine from LEGO® Icons

Humankind has been dreaming of taking to the skies ever since we saw birds and insects soaring. Many flying machines have been designed in the past, usually unsuccessful, and one of the most famous was sketched in the 15th century by all-round Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci. Today, we’ll build a LEGO interpretation of his designs with LEGO® Icons set 10363 Leonardo Da Vinci’s Flying Machine.

Pick a Brick: Black Friday 2024 price cuts

To everyone’s surprise, the biggest discounts on LEGO.com this Black Friday are on Pick a Brick! And only New Elementary has the list of what is discounted – you can’t even find this info on Pick a Brick itself. They don't show their sale prices, they simply change the price.

In addition to some discounts of up to 77% that already went live earlier in November, LEGO® Pick a Brick are also reduced their prices on Black Friday on a few hundred more popular elements from the “Last Chance” list of pieces, which are due to be deleted from the service on 3 December 2024.

The price changes are now live worldwide. Continue reading to see the lists.

LEGO® Black Friday Toy Deals

LEGO® Black Friday Toy Deals are underway, with even new sets like Christmas Table Decoration and the LEGO® Botanical Collection Wreath discounted. However the biggest discounts can be found in the Pick a Brick aisle!

Review: 40729 Shackleton's Lifeboat GwP for LEGO® Black Friday

A tie-in gift with purchase (GwP) of the Brick Friday 2024 release 10335 The Endurance, which I reviewed earlier this week, LEGO® Icons 40729 Shackleton’s Lifeboat is a minifigure-scale replica of the James Caird – which is the lifeboat that Shackleton used to save his crew, as we will see in the second half of this review.

Unlike the LEGO Endurance it comes with minifigures, making it a highly desirable gift with purchase for LEGO Insiders purchasing set 10335 from Friday 28 November to Monday 2 December... if stocks last that long!

Review: 40668 Captain America & Red Hulk from LEGO® BrickHeadz™ Super Heroes

LEGO® BrickHeadz™ 40668 Super Heroes Captain America & Red Hulk are tie-ins with the new Captain America: Brave New World movie due for release in February 2025.

These LEGO Brickheadz characters represent the Sam Wilson version of Captain America, portrayed by Anthony Mackie in the movies, and U.S. President Thaddeus Ross in his Red Hulk form, to be portrayed by Harrison Ford.

Best new LEGO® parts of 2024

The end of the year is typically a time for reflection, and for us New Elementarians, that means looking back at some of the coolest new LEGO® elements that were released in 2024!

Interview: 10363 Leonardo Da Vinci's Flying Machine from LEGO® Icons

Coming 1 January 2025, LEGO® Icons set 10363 Leonardo Da Vinci's Flying Machine is quite unlike anything you've seen before from The LEGO Group! 

We were present at the reveal of the set at Fan Media Days in Denmark in September 2024, where Antica Bracanov, Senior Designer (above) and Nathan Davis, Graphic Designer spoke about the product they helped develop.