60306: LEGO City Shopping Street Set Review
Ever since I played with LEGO® sets as a kid, some 30 plus years ago, many of them used large studded sheets more commonly known as baseplates. These much-loved LEGO pieces have remained an important part of LEGO play and more so display, ever since. That was until this year. Introduced alongside many of the new LEGO City sets is a brand-new road system. In place of the large baseplates is a smaller, sturdier and modular road system....
LEGO 2021 Polybags Review Part 2
LEGO® promotional sets, recruitment bags or as most of us know them – polybags, offer a selection of interesting builds inspired by current LEGO themes. Here in the UK, they were mostly obtained via newspaper giveaways or from various LEGO GWP promotions. In recent years, they haven’t been the easiest things to locate, but they have started to appear in various magazines, sold in supermarkets, bundled with stationery...
LEGO 2021 Polybags Review
One of the yearly LEGO® highlights has to be polybags. These little tasters of various themes crop up in all sorts of places, from promotions run by in LEGO stores or online, at LEGOLAND stores, supermarkets and even magazines. Admittedly they aren’t always the easier things to track down but many of the sets being released this year, in whichever form, have already been revealed. I’ve found a few on eBay and thought...
60291: Family House Set Review
When we aren’t being ‘treated’ to various Police and Fire sets, the LEGO® City range offers up something different with sub-themes. In the past, these have seen sets based on construction, mining, ocean exploration and trying to get into space. For 2021 things are a little different, the sub-theme is focused on a particular area instead is focused around the new raid plate system and is collectively known as...
60287: LEGO City Tractor Set Review
There have been numerous LEGO tractors over the years, most notably from the 2009 farm-focused sub-theme of LEGO City. Even so, it’s been a while since we’ve had an agricultural focused tractor. With each new wave of LEGO City sets, particularly those released at the start of the year, we get a selection of vehicular sets known as Great Vehicles. One of this year’s additions is a tractor. What’s interesting...
60271: LEGO City Main Square Set Review
It may have changed names over the years, but the bustling cityscape of LEGO® sets has been delighting LEGO fans for a while. Now known as LEGO City, this theme has offered a wide range of sets and has become a popular draw for LEGO fans young and old. Last year the theme had a little character injected into it, thanks to an animated companion TV show called LEGO City Adventures. This introduced a number of crazy characters, who have...
LEGO 2020 Polybag Sets Review
Who doesn’t enjoy a polybag? These small sets give you a taster of what to expect from various LEGO® themes. This week Lidl UK started selling a selection of LEGO them. But some of these polybag sets are also available elsewhere. The NINJAGO set can also be found in Asda and one of the LEGO City sets and the Friends set is being given away in LEGO Stores. The cheapest way to get them all is at Lidl, but however to go about...
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