Showing posts with label Set review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Set review. Show all posts

19 May 2025

Review: 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft from LEGO® Icons

Posted by Thomas Jenkins

A new LEGO® Icons set has just landed! 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is a 2417-piece set that recreates the space shuttle Enterprise and the modified Boeing 747™ that was used to transport it between missions. While LEGO has produced a great number of space shuttle sets in the past, this is the first time to see this specific shuttle in brick form. This is also the first official LEGO depiction of the Boeing 747. 

various pieces from Lego set 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, includilng some stickered with NASA logos and American flags

Fasten your seat belts and check that overhead compartment because this jumbo jet is quite a ride!


18 May 2025

Review: 10351 Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook from LEGO® Icons

Posted by Eero

With the endless surge of adult-oriented sets, it is astonishing that Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective, has not officially appeared in a LEGO® form – not even as a Gift with Purchase, similar to the Jules Verne set. 

Lego Sherlock Holmes Book Nook set displayed on a bookshelf in between many books

Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock's influence in storytelling has been remarkable. Thus, it's brilliant to see that his LEGO debut is directly bound to books: LEGO® Icons set 10351 Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook is designed to be displayed among them.


16 May 2025

Review: 10352 The Simpsons™: Krusty Burger from LEGO® Icons

Posted by tobymac

The Simpsons™ is one of the most famous and longest-running animated shows ever, and is still going (strong?). The dysfunctional family has been captured in LEGO® form before, and now, after 10 years of silence (aside from a rogue LEGO® Brickheadz set), they are back for a snack – at 10352 The Simpsons: Krusty Burger.

Items from the Simpons Lego Krusty Burger set: the sign, minifigs and newly recoloured pieces

As I was still fully in my LEGO® Technic phase when The Simpsons LEGO sets came out, I’m eager to build the revival, now marketed under the LEGO® Icons umbrella, and discover its new pieces.


14 May 2025

Review: 76974 Brick-built Mosasaurus Boat Mission from LEGO® Jurassic World™

Posted by Kev Levell

a range of lego pieces arranged loosely

LEGO® Jurassic World™ sets have rarely contained brick-built dinosaurs, but the June 2025 offering 76974 Brick-built Mosasaurus Boat Mission depicts some new heroes on an adventure with a brick-built beast of impressive dimensions. The mosasaurus is not a dinosaur, it's a prehistoric marine reptile of epic proportions, so will the LEGO interpretation float my boat or leave me at sea?

10 May 2025

Set review: 75409 Jango Fett's Firespray-Class Starship from LEGO® Star Wars™

Posted by Tom Loftus

3 details: colourful lego construction, cockpit of Slave 1, jango fett minifig

Today we complete our analysis of LEGO® Star Wars™ 75409 Jango Fett's Firespray-Class Starship. In part 1 we examined set 75409's new moulds and recoloured pieces. In this article we'll be exploring the set's build techniques and minifigures, before concluding with a look at the impressive completed model and play features.

"Hang on son, we'll move into the asteroid field. And we'll have a couple of surprises for him"

09 May 2025

Review: 31216 Keith Haring Dancing Figures from LEGO® Art

Posted by tobymac
the 5 figures from lego set 31216 Keith Haring Dancing Figures on display on their individual white stands

Keith Haring was a famous American pop artist, best known for having created stylized figures and animals, often drawn in lines that were simple but nevertheless packed in a lot of energy and movement. That style is the subject of the latest LEGO® Art set, 31216 Keith Haring – Dancing Figures.

29 April 2025

Review + MOC: 10347 Petite Sunny Bouquet from LEGO® Botanicals

Posted by Eero
When I reviewed the LEGO® Botanicals "Four Gentlemen" sets, I was pleased to find that the company is able to release high-quality, adult-oriented sets with more affordable price tags. Available from this Thursday 1 May 2025, set 10347 Petite Sunny Bouquet continues the trend, taking the idea of a bunch of flowers without an included vessel and halving the usual price. What is the result?

closeup of the flowers from Lego 10347 Petite Sunny Bouquet

28 April 2025

Review: 76970 Baby Dinosaur Dolores Aquilops from LEGO® Jurassic World™ Rebirth

Posted by Kev Levell

For me, a highlight of LEGO® sets over the last few years has been some of the brick-built creatures that would have been unthinkable in the past. As part of their LEGO® Creator 3-in-1 line, they have now made all manner of brick beasts; crocodiles, giraffes, pandas and more have all been depicted in impressive style.

various lego pieces in warm earthy and reddish tones.

The recent range of baby dinosaurs have naturally found favour with my kids, and myself. The newest addition to this group, LEGO® Jurassic World™ Rebirth 76970 Baby Dinosaur Dolores Aquilops looks super-cute in all the official imagery so far released, so let's take a look at what goes into making her.

16 April 2025

Review: 21356 River Steamboat from LEGO® Ideas

Posted by Kevin J. Walter

a range of the lego pieces included in the lego ideas set 21356 river steamboat

Cast off! The steam engines are under fire! 

If you bought a ticket at the booth you may board the Amelia, LEGO® Ideas latest and biggest set. But now you’ll hopefully enjoy your ride on the “Ghost ship of the Mississippi” – we’ll get to that naming later. 

09 April 2025

Review: 5009157 Amelia Ticket Booth GwP from LEGO® Ideas

Posted by Tim Johnson

The biggest LEGO® Ideas set to date, 21356 River Steamboat, is now available to LEGO® Insiders and will be available to all from midnight Thursday 10 April 2025. In addition, until 13 April or while stocks last, those who buy it from LEGO Stores or LEGO.com will receive the Gift with Purchase (GwP) 5009157 Amelia Ticket Booth. Let's see what this 152-piece model has to offer!

finished model of lego Amelia Ticket Booth GwP


07 April 2025

Review: 10353 Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell from LEGO® Icons

Posted by Zachary Hill

Lego Icons set 10353 Williams Racing FW14B photographed outside

The turn of the 1990s brought immense technological innovation to Formula 1 racing, and with it fierce rivalry as teams competed for race car construction and driving dominance. 10353 Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell is the second historic F1 LEGO® Icons set from this era, showcasing an engineering marvel which finally put Team McLaren-Honda in Williams' mirrors again.

29 March 2025

Review: 43263 Beauty and the Beast Castle from LEGO® Disney™

Posted by tobymac

It’s been 34 years (pause to realize my age…) since Beauty and the Beast was released by Disney™, blowing audiences away with the vibrant story and visuals. The movie and its characters have become icons, and many LEGO® sets have been inspired by it. So far, all of these sets are either aimed at children in the LEGO® Disney Princess theme, LEGO® Brickheadz, or references in other sets like 43226 Disney Duos. 

a range of lego pieces, including printed ones with designs and characters from Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Now, for the first time, an 18+ set fully dedicated to the movie is being released: 43263 Beauty and the Beast Castle. Will it be as impressive as the original? Be our guest, and join us in exploring the mysterious castle and all its secrets.


27 March 2025

Review: 10354 The Shire from LEGO® Icons The Lord of the Rings

Posted by Thomas Jenkins

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, but a hobbit hole made of LEGO® bricks! Today we journey back to Middle-earth to recreate Bilbo Baggins' famous abode, Bag End, in set 10354 The Shire

various lego pieces from the bag end lego set

There's much to celebrate in this set; not only is it Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday but we finally get a LEGO Tolkien-based set that isn't prohibitively expensive. Plus, the set contains a treasure trove of new elements including 2 new moulds, 8 exclusive minifigures, and 13 recolours. Let's take a look!

 

24 March 2025

Review: 43272 Heihei from LEGO® Disney™

Posted by Elspeth De Montes

One of the most colourful sets released earlier this month is LEGO® Disney 43272 Heihei, a brick-built version of the idiotic rooster from the Moana movies. 

lots of lego elements in a gradient of rainbow colours

There's a new mould, a few recolours and a pile of rarer colours in this set, so well worth a closer look.

22 March 2025

Review: 31215 Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers from LEGO® Art

Posted by Eero

LEGO® Art has been a polarising theme among the generally praised 18+ sets. So far, only a small minority of the theme's 20 sets have been versions of well-known works of art – and of those, most have been pop art pieces or logos easily transferred into the plastic material and the well-defined colour charts of LEGO bricks. The most interesting departure so far has been 31213 Mona Lisa, reviewed by Jonas Kramm last September and, outside the LEGO Art theme, LEGO® Ideas 21333 Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night which I had pleasure to review in 2022. It's still my favourite set.

Whereas the bold blues of van Gogh's palette transformed delightfully into bricks, da Vinci's Renaissance idiom of thin, light layers resulted in a larger divergence from the original. The project was ambitious but the reception was mixed. 

van gogh sunflowers lego art set hung on a wall in a home

I wonder if the good performance of the Starry Night made the designers look back to van Gogh and produce 31215 Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers: he sure is an admired artist, but getting two among the very small number of painting-in-LEGO sets is not a small feat. With a quick look, the set seems to be very close to the original painting – but we'll have more than a quick one.

20 March 2025

Review: sets 42203, 42204 & 42205 from LEGO® Technic

Posted by tobymac

The March 2025 wave of LEGO® Technic sets consists of 5 vehicles. I’ve already looked at the 2 large F1 cars, and now I turn to the 3 smaller sets, where we find 2 fast cars and a dump truck.

a range of lego pieces, mostly technic, laid out

18 March 2025

Review: 21354 Twilight The Cullen House from LEGO® Ideas

Posted by Zachary Hill

minifigs of Edward, bella and jacob with jacob in wolf form, surround the building from Lego set 21354 Twilight The Cullen House in a forest

Stephenie Meyer started her writing career by breaking the mould, not realizing publishers expect shorter teenage novels than the author's debut manuscript. That didn't stop the voracious hordes of 2000s teen readers; once they had a taste of blood they wanted more of Twilight's supernatural love triangle. Five books, five movies, and twenty years later, the fandom lives on like some kind of immortal vampire, prompting fans around the world to support the LEGO® Ideas 21354 Twilight The Cullen House into production.

15 March 2025

Review: sets 42652, 42662 & 42663 from LEGO® Friends

Posted by tobymac

We have reached my final blog post covering the LEGO® Friends sets from the January 2025 wave. The last three sets have us building a treehouse, stylin' a new coif, and setting out on a camping trip. And of course, all these adventures will provide us with new elements.

colourful lego pieces on a surface including friends minidoll figures

14 March 2025

Set review: 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 and 42207 Ferrari SF-24 from LEGO® Technic

Posted by tobymac

Throughout 2025, The LEGO Group is releasing sets based on the Formula 1 races, which kick off in Australia this weekend. LEGO® Technic joins in with (among others) two large scale F1 cars: 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car and 42207 Ferrari SF-24 F1 Car. In part 1 of this review I showed you all the new elements found in sets 42206 & 42207, and now I’ll start building the two speedy vehicles – at the same time, for comparison!

Lego Technic F1 Car sets 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 and 42207 Ferrari SF-24 displayed on concrete path

11 March 2025

Review: 40762 Mixed Flowerpot GwP from LEGO® Botanicals

Posted by Admin

It's proving to be quite the year for LEGO® Botanicals! They've become their own line with their own logo, released some stunning sets with new moulds, taken over LEGO® House and had their first ever Gift with Purchase (GwP) – and now, here is their second already.

close up view of set 40762 Mixed Flowerpot GwP from Lego Botanical Collection

40762 Mixed Flowerpot
, now available worldwide, is a gorgeous model featuring a range of stunning LEGO flowers. If you are a fan of the LEGO Botanicals theme, you simply cannot miss out from adding this to your collection. If you have never built one, this is the perfect taster set to find out what all the fuss is about!