More from Lego isn’t just for kids: the latest news for nostalgic adults and adult budgets
The Lego Group’s running an online survey (via Jay’s Brick Blog) that starts out a tad boring, but soon reveals fun merch ideas!
Do note:
The designs showcased in this survey are purely conceptual. They represent imaginative ideas and creative exploration, but they do not guarantee or imply that LEGO® will produce them as actual products.
Remember Lego Masters Australia finalist Nick Lever’s amazing custom Nintendo Game Boy MOC? I built one to personally confirm its excellence.
But Lever wasn’t done: his new v7 instructions lets the D-pad move, the contrast knob spin, and reduces the bill of materials. Enough to justify opening mine up again, I’d say.
Oh, BTW... he’s now got Lego Game Boy Color MOCs too! Check one out at the end of my gallery below.
Maybe not the GOAT, but it comes with a goat... and you can put a cheesemaker, shieldsmith, town guard, weaver, carpenter, minstrel, and barkeep to work in their own little shops and posts. Then rob them blind with the thief or the tax collector. Hey, somebody’s gotta pay for that castle, right?
The buildings are hinged like the castle, too, opening up for play. $229.99, coming March 1st.
They’re all still available for the moment, but the Mountain Fortress in particular is going fast... Update: That’s one’s sold out. More about these unofficial official Lego sets in my story. You’ll need a BrickLink login and a Lego login to snag one. Checkout seems to be working: I successfully nabbed a Parisian Street.
The new sets celebrate the 25th anniversary of Lego Star Wars and most notably include a 9.5-inch-long Millennium Falcon and a 12.5-inch-long Tantive IV. Despite bringing the sets down in size, the Millennium Falcon still costs $84.99, while the Tantive IV is priced at $79.99.
There’s also a new R2D2, Invisible Hand, and Tantive IV diorama set. They’re available for preorder on Lego’s website and will start shipping on March 1st.
Here’s my video TL;DR on the new Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep set and how it compares to the real thing! And here’s my exclusive story about how Lego designs such a set.
A Polish website appears to have leaked a listing for a Lego Polaroid camera, as reported by Jay’s Brick Blog.
Based the photos and the (machine-translated) description of the listing, it doesn’t seem like the camera can take real photos, but it apparently can spit out Lego-ified photos if you load them up.
Here’s some photos from the listing.
I kid you not: if I had to pick just one Lego set ever made, this epic transforming castle packed with clever details and play features would be the one. I sold off my airsoft guns to afford the $400 set at launch — now, Lego has it on backorder for $300 alongside the awesome Loop Coaster (also $300) and UCS Razor Crest ($420). I’ve never seen this one on sale before.
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If you’ve been sleeping on Lego’s incredible $240 Atari 2600 replica... good! You can now nab it for $192 from Lego or $202 from Amazon. I love the pop-up diorama.
The massive 21-inch tall Hulkbuster is also just $385 right now (normally $550), and the best Luke Lego Landspeeder yet is $168 at Amazon (normally $240).
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Lego has leaked its own Orient Express train set — as part of a truly excellent online catalog of its most detailed sets for adult tastes and budgets. Will those adult tastes extend to murder? It does include a well-dressed man with a walking stick — perhaps Poirot.
Here’s the fan set that inspired it; leaks suggest it’ll cost $300 for 2,540 pieces, and that it may have been delayed to 2024.
Thorston Bonsch has been building incredible Lego vignettes based on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings for years, and he’s now capped it off with an incredibly detailed version of the famous Hobbit-house with the round green door where Bilbo and Frodo lived.
I particularly love the pantry and dining room — can easily imagine them full of singing dwarves! (via The Brothers Brick)
but it is Lego’s biggest Star Wars set of the year. Officially unveiled by Lego today, this UCS Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser clocks in at a massive 5,374 pieces, is 43 inches long and 22 inches high, and will set you back $650.
Lego did the DeLorean right in 2022 — with light-up flux capacitor, wheels that flip into hover mode, a tiny Mr. Fusion with a banana to throw inside, and much much more.
It’s $160 at Amazon and Walmart, the best price I’ve seen — $10 cheaper than its pre-inflation pricetag. $170 at Target, too.
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Lego VIP is now “Lego Insiders,” unifying other accounts in the process. It’s still a free signup to get first dibs on new sets and collect points.
But now, you can get points for existing sets — just 20 per instruction manual QR code you scan with your phone, which seems a tad stingy — and there’s an AR treasure hunt where you can scan a brick to potentially win $9,000 worth (in nine countries), tho it’s not working for me right now.
On July 7th, SleepyCow’s bike finally hit 10,000 supporters on Lego Ideas, which means Lego’s gotta decide whether to produce it. While most Ideas are based on existing IP, we do get some mechanical gems like the Typewriter or working Fresnel lighthouse.
Bikes aren’t just our nostalgic past, though — they’re the future too! But almost every “bike” Lego sells today is a motorbike, and it only recently began including bike lanes.