New for winter 2023, we have a brand new Lego Friends advent calendar, which you can use to count down to Christmas.
The set consists of 231 pieces, 2 minifigures and 7 animals. In the set you will receive 24 festive builds. The names of the models and characters are below.
Leo and Autumn are the minifigures. The builds include a train, a Christmas tree, a snowman and a campfire, as well as lots more.
In my own opinion, there have definitely been better Lego Friends advent calendars.
This set released on September 1st alongside the other advent calendars.
New for winter 2023, we have a brand new Lego City advent calendar, which you can use to count down to Christmas.
The set consists of 258 pieces and 7 minifigures. In the set you will receive 24 festive builds, even featuring a new Mrs. Claus minifigure. The names of the models and characters are below.
The minifigures are Mrs. Claus, a carol singer, an ice hockey player, an ice sculptor and a social media fan. The builds include a sleigh, a reindeer, a Christmas tree, a clock and lots more.
This set released on September 1st alongside the other advent calendars.
New for September 2023, we have a new Lego Ideas set, this one being based on some insects.
The set consists of 1111 pieces and was created by fan designer José María Pérez Suero. In the set you are building three insects: the Blue Morpho Butterfly, the Hercules Beetle and the Chinese Mantis.
Starting off with the Blue Morpho Butterfly, we noticed it uses a lot of plates to create the wings, and it looks very nice. At the bottom there is a stand with lots of plants and a bee, which comes from the original design.
The Hercules Beetle is a very nice build, which uses several good building techniques and a lot of yellow and transparent orange pieces. I think the shell uses pieces in yellow for the first time. The stand also looks very nice and has a ladybird from the original design on it.
The Chinese Mantis is made out of bricks and has lots of long legs. The front legs have a sword piece that I think is a new recolour of a Ninjago piece. The other thing that we noticed is that it is very long and also has the wing piece in light green.
Based on the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special, we have a Millennium Falcon diorama set, which gives us our first sequel trilogy set in a few years.
The set contains 282 pieces and 5 minifigures, with the build being the iconic table inside the Falcon.
The build itself is very nice and gives you a lot of room to put minifigures on. It features lights, a tree and a table with a huge turkey on it. If you want to display this set without the Christmas items, you can remove them easily and replace the table, although this does make it more boring.
Another thing is that it has a bed and a lightsaber compartment.
The figures in the set are Rey and Finn in exclusive Christmas jumpers, Chewbacca, BB-8 and a porg.
This set will release on October 1st and will only be available until December 31st.
Celebrate back to Hogwarts with the brand new Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
The set consists of 4801 pieces and 13 minifigures. In the set you are building the iconic bank and dragon.
The Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon is from The Deathly Hallows Part 2. It looks like a very nice build, uses a rarer head piece and has huge wings. Its joints also move, making this part of the set more child-friendly.
For those who do not know what purpose the dragon has, it is used to guard the vaults at Gringotts. It is also used by Harry, Ron and Hermione to escape after stealing one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes.
The upper part of the bank is where the goblin tables are, and this uses some nice building techniques and stickers. There is also an upper floor to the bank, where there is an extra table and more gold.
The only thing that I and lots of other people won’t like is the Gringotts Bank sticker, which is spread over 2 pieces. This means you will have to do some work to get it to look right.
The best part of the set is probably the vaults, which use rollercoaster pieces to create the scene from the last film. The vaults in the set include Harry Potter’s vault, which has lots of gold studs in it; Vault 713, which contains the Philosopher’s Stone; and finally Bellatrix’s vault, which has a play feature where you can turn something and lots of goblets will come down to recreate the duplicating scene where they try to get the cup.
In terms of minifigures, you get lots of them. Here are their names below:
Harry Potter
Hagrid
Harry Potter
Ron Weasley
Hermione Granger/Bellatrix Lestrange
Death Eater
Griphook
Bogrod
Ricbert
Goblin
Goblin
Guard
Guard
This set will release on September 1st for Lego Insiders and September 4th for everyone else.
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