This week's vintage set is 213 Airplane ride, released during 1977. It's one of 8 Building Set with People sets produced that year. It contains 48 pieces.
It's owned by 243 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Today's random minifigure is cas332 Fantasy Era - Crown King with Cape, a Castle figure that was first produced during 2007. It can be found in 2 sets.
Our members collectively own a total of 12,002 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $23.70.
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Today's random part is 36010, 'Bearing, No. 1', which is a System part, category Functional Elements.
Our members collectively own a total of 5,080 of them. If you'd like to buy some you should find them for sale at BrickLink.
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The next of our polls examining the popularity of different LEGO colours focuses on shades of tan and brown, many of which have been produced within the last decade.
Choose your favourite below...
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LEGO Insiders can in theory avail themselves with healthy discounts on a number of exclusive items from today.
Discount codes for individual sets can be obtained from the Insiders rewards centre in exchange for 0 points.
Unfortunately, but perhaps predictably, the page is currently broken so it's not actually possible to do so. Perhaps you'll have better luck than me later on!
The following sets are available at reduced prices:
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Today's random set is 8240 Slammer Stunt Bike, released during 2001. It's one of 9 Technic sets produced that year. It contains 152 pieces, and its retail price was US$15/£9.99.
It's owned by 681 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $22.20, or eBay.
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Avengers Tower remains the most recognisable setting from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and offers huge potential for a large-scale recreation, populated by as many characters from the films as possible. The striking 76269 Avengers Tower surely delivers in that regard!
A remarkable 31 minifigures are supplied, more than any other set. Beyond the original six Avengers, this selection contains revised versions of Ultron MK1, Vision and Falcon, with multiple characters appearing for the first time. Given their sheer quantity, the minifigures alone warrant their own review.
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Weeks after LEGO itself inadvertently leaked pictures of the Orient Express, here is the press release for the 52nd LEGO Ideas set:
21344 Orient Express
2,540 pieces, rated 18+
$299.99 / €299.99 / £259.99
Available from 1st December at LEGO.com
The LEGO Group today unveils the Orient Express – a beautiful brick recreation of one of the world’s most luxurious and legendary forms of travel. Known as a ‘rolling palace’, the Orient Express was the world’s first international luxury train that carried thousands of passengers across Europe to Istanbul from 1883 to 1977.
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LEGO has kindly sent us three Insiders rewards to examine: a 'nightmare' art print, a cap, and the Christmas bauble that'll be available from this weekend in the Rewards Centre for 1,800 points.
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All of the Super Mario sets releasing on January 1st have been added to LEGO.com, giving us our first images of 71432 Dorrie's Sunken Shipwreck Adventure. The set contains 500 pieces, and retails for £39.99 / $44.99 / €44.99.
You can view images and details for all five sets in the database.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments!
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It is exactly twenty years since the change from the original light and dark grey colours to bluish shades was discovered and the modern colours appear beside black and white in our latest poll.
Vote for your favourite after the break...
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On this day 20 years ago an alarming discovery was made when the first 2004 sets started to appear in the shops in the USA. It was so shocking that it prompted many AFOLs to question whether they wanted to remain engaged in the hobby.
I am of course talking about the change to light and dark grey pieces. The colours were adjusted to remove the yellowish tinge, making them more neutral, or bluish as was subsequently coined. Brown was also changed, to look more reddish.
The reason that people were so upset was because they felt that the change effectively rendered their collection of the old colour pieces obsolete, and they would not be able to add to it. Plus, using the two colours together in the same model looked terrible.
The backlash prompted LEGO's Community Liaison manager at the time, Jake McKee, to post a message on Lugnet in May 2004 explaining why they were changed, how the company hoped "that the change would go fairly unnoticed" and to "apologise for our poor implementation".
It was shocking and upsetting at the time, but in hindsight, it was a change that needed to happen: grey pieces were becoming more prevalent, particularly in Star Wars, and the old colours looked unappealing, dirty and faded, although that was not apparent until they were compared with the new ones.
It's a shame that white was not adjusted too, because it still has a yellowish tinge to it, something that is particularly noticeable after applying white stickers to white parts.
For a couple of years after the change, I quarantined all the new grey pieces I acquired in sets and would not use them. It was not until 2006, when Exo Force was released, that I decided to make the switch to the new colours in my MOCs, primarily because of all the new elements that were being made in them. At that point, I quarantined the old ones, and I've only just recently sold them in bulk to a BrickLink seller.
You can read the initial post by Joe Meno containing this picture, and the subsequent furore, on Lugnet, the prevalent LEGO forum of the day.
Were you around at the time? What did you think about the change?
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2023 started with the arrival of 40580 Blacktron Cruiser, an homage to 6894 Invader, released in 1987. 40601 Majisto's Magical Workshop will be available later in November and revisits another memorable model from the past, 6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop.
This set seemingly adheres closely to its original equivalent from 1993, which is reasonable given the distinctive appearance of the earlier model. On the other hand, remaining too faithful to past sets sometimes restricts the potential for improvement. I hope 40601 Majisto's Magical Workshop strikes a suitable balance between classic charm and modernity.
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Traditional Christmas markets at which local artisans sell their wares in wooden huts during the festive period are prevalent across all of Northern Europe at this time of the year.
They have featured in several Winter Village sets, most notably 10235 Winter Village Market, and soon the largest one to date, 40602 Winter Market Stall, will be a gift with purchase later this month.
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