75691: Glinda & Elphaba Bookends Set Review
Aug15

75691: Glinda & Elphaba Bookends Set Review

Last year, the LEGO Group announced a new partnership with Universal to bring the world of Wicked to life through a series of LEGO® sets. Wicked is a long-running musical prequel to The Wizard of Oz and recounts the unlikely friendship between Glinda and Elphaba. One of the disappointments with the first wave of sets was their focus on mini-dolls. Which is why the upcoming sets, inspired by the second Wicked film, have caused a ripple...

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76322: Avengers: Endgame Thor Vs. Chitauri Set Review
Aug15

76322: Avengers: Endgame Thor Vs. Chitauri Set Review

The LEGO® Marvel theme has been in a peculiar place these last few years. Despite a steady stream of new content such as Daredevil, Fantastic 4, Thunderbolts* and animated shows like Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man, the LEGO Marvel sets have mostly focused on the wider Marvel universe but mostly past endeavours. Whilst this has provided some interesting builds, it’s also continued to dwell on moments from the Infinity...

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71499: Mateo’s Spray Paint Truck Set Review
Aug13

71499: Mateo’s Spray Paint Truck Set Review

In a world where many LEGO® ‘fans’ are obsessed with holes in helmets and the lack of print on legs, some amazing sets from original themes are being overlooked. I’ve always had a soft spot for LEGO sets from themes unofficially dubbed ‘Big Bang’ or ‘in/out’. In basic terms, themes are not based on third-party IPs. The current ‘Big Bang’ is LEGO DREAMZzz, which pits a gang of creative kids who help defend the Dream...

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75417: AT-ST Walker UCS Set Review
Aug10

75417: AT-ST Walker UCS Set Review

Normally, when a new LEGO® Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series set is announced, a bigger deal is made about it. But when the AT-ST Walker was revealed, it was merely included with the other recently revealed sets. Despite its underwhelming reveal, a new UCS set should still offer some level of excitement. Especially for a Star Wars vehicle which has only ever been the subject of one previous UCS set. The last time the Imperial AT-ST...

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31167: Creator 3-in-1 Haunted Mansion Set Review
Aug09

31167: Creator 3-in-1 Haunted Mansion Set Review

In 2012, the LEGO Group introduced its latest ‘in/out’ theme centred around a team of supernatural hunters, dubbed the Monster Fighters. The team were in pursuit of a monstrous bunch inspired by classic monsters. Other monsters cropped up in various LEGO® Minifigures series. Now it falls to the LEGO Creator 3-in-1 theme to pay homage to bygone monsters with the Haunted Mansion. The newly released set lets you build a spooky house, or...

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72043: Interactive LEGO Mario & Standard Kart Review
Aug06

72043: Interactive LEGO Mario & Standard Kart Review

One of the core play features of the entire LEGO Super Mario theme is the interactive figures. When the theme launched in 2020, the Adventures with Mario set included the first interactive figure. Mario was later joined by Luigi and Princess Peach, who also appeared in their own Starter Course sets. Last year, all three interactive figures were repackaged in new Starter Courses, which included an interactive figure and various bits...

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77006: Team Sonic Command Truck Set Review
Aug05

77006: Team Sonic Command Truck Set Review

When Sonic and his friends aren’t speeding around taking on Dr Robotnik and his Flickies-powered forces, they like to chill out in their feature-filled motorhome. However, Sonic’s Motorhome doesn’t sound like an inspiring name for a set, so it’s given the flashier moniker of ‘Team Sonic Command Truck’. Unlike most of the other Sonic-themed LEGO sets, the Command Truck is a new creation not directly inspired by any...

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